1 . A professor was teaching his class. All the students were listening to his _______ with great interest. But there was one student whose_______ of mind showed he was in a bad mood.

The professor took notice of this student on the first day but did not say anything. But when this _______ for a week, he asked. “You are _______ in spirits all the time. What is the matter? Have some trouble?”

“Sir, that...” the student said. “... something has happened in my past, _______ which I remain troubled. I don’t know what to do.”

The professor was a(n) _______ good person. He called the student at his house in the evening.

When the student _______ the professor’s house, he was greeted with a _______ welcome. The professor went to the kitchen and started making lemonade for his student. He _______put more salt in the lemonade.

__________ the student had a taste of it, his mouth became sour. __________ this, the professor asked, “Did you not like the lemonade?”

“No, sir, this is not the __________. Just a little more salt in the drink,” the student said. “Now it’s useless. I will throw it away.” The professor __________ his hand to get the glass of drink from the student. But the student refused, saying, “No, sir. If you add more__________, the taste will be fine.”

Upon hearing this, the professor became serious and said, “You are right. That’s what I want to__________. Just as salt cannot be taken out of the lemonade, those bad experiences also cannot __________ life. Adding more sugar can change the taste of lemonade. In a(n) __________way, sweetness has to be dissolved (溶解) in life to forget bad experiences. I want you to take the sweetness in your life into __________ now.”

To his relief, the student __________ him and decided from then on he would not be troubled by the __________.

2 . Driving on a freezing morning, I passed a teenager with just a shirt and a cardboard with “ANYTHING HELPS” on it. This teenager was visibly _________. Remembering that there was an old blanket in my car. I stopped in _________, asked him if he needed a blanket and he _________ his head. So I handed him the blanket and slid back into my _________ car with my heated driver’s seat. I will never forget the look of _________ on his face.

I wondered how many homeless youths were _________ on the streets at that very moment. My family lived on a(n) _________ income, but my parents always taught me to give what I had. In that moment “The Blanket Project” was born.

I visited my parents at the retirement center and talked with the director _________ making blankets and scarves for the homeless. She loved the _________ and said the seniors wanted to help and be __________ in meaningful projects that weren’t complicated and could be __________ completed. Later on, the project __________ and more and more people became involved in it. One day, I was looking for places to __________ our scarves and was talking to a teacher whose students were from very-low-income homes. I asked her __________ she thought her students needed the scarves. She answered, “Yes, but let’s have them __________ some. The students could make a blanket or scarf to __________. ” Then the students worked in teams and made lots of scarves and blankets for a women’s homeless shelter.

When the students __________ me with their scarves and blankets, they were very __________ of what they had produced. I told them that everyone can make a(n)__________, no matter how much money they had. The __________ was dozens of proud smiles on the faces of the students who knew they had helped keep someone a little warmer and made the world a little better.

3 . Mrs. Smith is elegant and fair-skinned, with an oval face and beautiful long hair. Her eyes are not only big but ________ and clear, like the autumn ________. Her shining smile never ________ from her mouth.

________ and funny, Mrs. Smith’s French class was my favorite. As soon as she entered the classroom, the dull atmosphere would always disappear and a ray of sunshine would make ________ way in.

Whenever I made eye contact ________ her in class, the ________ in her eyes inspired me. When reading beautiful and authentic sentences, her eyebrows ________ slightly, which showed her ________ passion.

She is really a ________ teacher. I still remember the first time I took part in a national French contest. My body ________ as I walked into the meeting hall where ________ from all over the city gathered. At that moment, my phone screen ________ with the message sent by her. “Don’t worry. Be confident. They’re not ________ better than you.” These words were like a powerful hand, which lifted me from the ________ of the water. With her encouraging words echoing in my ________, I calmed down and became ________ my competition. Eventually, I ________ the competitors and won the first place.

Mrs. Smith is really a close friend. When I had trouble learning French, she would try everything within her ________ to improve my grades.________ I met with setbacks, she would always encourage me. I get along well with Mrs. Smith. She encouraged me to study French and inspired me to major in French in college.

4 . When my little sister Indi turned six,she started _______my every move. She would repeat whatever I said or did,which got me annoyed（恼怒的）.

One afternoon my friend Mareya and I were making bracelets（手链）."What are you doing?"Indi asked, _______down next to us at the table."May I make one too?"I_______ but Mareya said yes. Indi squeezed（挤）in so _______ to me that I could hardly see what I was doing.I asked her to give me more _______ but she said she was trying to see my move clearly."You don't have to see what I'm doing. You can make your own design!"I told her in a(n)_______ voice."I can!" she said. But she was still using _______ the same thing as I was using.

Later.Mareya suggested playing the guitar.I didn't want Indi to _______ me so we went to the backyard._______ ten minutes later,Indi turned up."You are always following me,and I'm________it!"As soon as those words came out of my mouth, I wished I had never said them. Indi was surprised and her eyes started filling up with ________. She ran away________I could say another word.

I disliked the shadow（影子） that didn't belong to me，but I also felt________about what I said."It's worth trying to________the way you see the situation.She acts like your shadow because she looks up to you."Mareya said to me.

Now I till remember Mareya's words and feel less bothered by Indi's behavior. Anyway, she should be treated with________and kindness.

5 . 21-year-old Joe McGrath received a strange Facebook message. Someone asked if he ________to go on holiday to Spain with a group of________for free! McGrath thought it was a ________.

But it turned out the________was legitimate （合情理的）. A group of friends were looking for someone to take the place of another mate, who shares the same________with Joe McGrath and had dropped out of a pre-booked holiday, to take a mad________to Majorca.

The message read: “Hi Joe. Would you________coming on holiday with a group of nice strangers if they had already arranged（安排）flights for you and an all-inclusive hotel?”

“It’s our friend Nathan’s 30th birthday and we ________to throw him a surprise holiday   break in Majorca.   Unluckily, our friend Joe McGrath   can’t ________, but we have   already   booked it all up for him.”

Although they ________15 other Joe McGraths on social media, the 21-year-old from Manchester, England, was the only one to reply and finally ________ to go on the paid-for trip.

“At first I was ________ the holiday,” McGrath said, “After speaking to Dan, one of the     group, on the phone, I realized he was a(n) ________ person and the friends were real, and this holiday was ________.”

In the end, McGrath decided to leave for the moment and drove to Bristol to ________ the nine strangers. “When I turned up at Dan’s house and it was all dark I was a bit ________ but as soon as I met him it was_______. There was no awkwardness（尴尬）really.”

“They were a lovely group of people! I ________ every minute of it.”

McGrath said he is already ________ to visit his new friends again and has invited them to Manchester, where he lives, to take them on a night out to express ________ to them.

6 . In the past, many people regarded people living around them as their close friends and even relatives. And there was a need to _______ one’s neighbors. But nowadays, people do not _______ with those who live close to them as they did decades ago. _______, these people are now living lonelier lives and they are living in a neighborhood of _________.

To begin with, there are several reasons for this _________,which may help the understanding of why this is _______. Firstly, people’s lives are generally _______ today than in the past, as they have much more work to do, which leads to interacting with their _______ instead of their neighbors. Secondly,the lives of the general public are more mobile these days. _______ frequently causes them to develop a more superficial(表面的) relationship with local residents. Lastly, in some ________, there may be cultural differences between neighbors, which makes communication almost non-existent.

________ these reasons, there are also a number of ________, which may help deal with this problem. First of all, the local council(委员会) could ________ community events, to improve relations between local people. Moreover, people should ________ themselves and invite their neighbors to dinner or a casual barbecue, in order to ________ a relationship with each other. Finally, ________ people ought to attend local council meetings so that ________ of the community have the opportunity to communicate with each other.

________, many different solutions are available to help start introductions and communication among ________ such as community events, social gatherings in one’s home and council meetings. And it is in my opinion that it is up to the ________ to do something first. What about spending next weekend with your neighbors in your backyard?

7 . Acts of kindness are wonderful in so many ways. They_________the recipient and they're also a great reminder of all the_________acts that are taking place in the world. With the media full of CO VID-19-related_________, these selfless acts are increasingly important. This was just the_________when Steve Farmer shared a recent uplifting event on his Facebook page that_________him.

Farmer posted how he'd gone to work after the quarantine(隔离)was lifted and had forgotten his work pass. _________, he had to lock his bike just outside an underground station next to his office. When he returned for his_________in the evening, he found just his lock that had been cut and the bike was_________

The London worker thought he'd never_________his bike again. However, as he went to ask at the station about any potential__________that had filmed the robbery, a rail worker, Abdul Muneeb, rushed over to him and asked him to unlock the__________bike lock to prove he was the__________. Farmer. then explained how Muneeb said "I have your bike" with a__________he would never forget.

With the lock undone, Muneeb told Farmer how he'd__________someone cutting the bike lock earlier on during his shift. He stopped the man from__________the bike and then wheeled it to a__________place. Muneeb__________four hours after his shift had ended so he could see the bike__________to its rightful owner.

As Farmer quite__________posted, “The world needs more Abduls, who is a legend(传奇)of a man and a__________to his employer.”