1 . A few days ago I landed at the Bombay Airport and took a taxi to my scheduled destination in South Bombay. I was enjoying the busy traffic with people _______ in every direction, and we got stuck at a busy crossing.

As we _______ the signal to turn green, my eyes met up with a poor young boy, about 12 years old. He removed a piece of bread from his pocket and took a _______.

As he was about to take his next bite, a _______ dog wagged his tail (摇尾巴) looking at him. Without hesitation, he put the bread on the _______ for the dog to eat.

The dog smelled the bread and walked away. Then, he _______ the bread and ate it!

My heart cried and wanted to walk up to the boy, but before I could open the door the _______ turned green and our car drove away. At dinner, I _______ I was thinking of approaching the boy but _______ did. I could have walked up to him as long as l had stopped the ________.

All I did was thinking and this poor little boy who had only one piece of bread shared it with the dog, though he himself seemed to be very ________.

I learnt one of the biggest lessons the boy taught me without a(n) ________. He taught me to share love and happiness. I am so ________ to have learnt this lesson from my “little unknown master”. It is my moral duty to share this ________ with all my friends, since I believe they are as ________ as the boy.

2 . I, Amy, am always proud of my frankness and honesty. However, I found myself tangled in a web of _______ emotions recently. My friend, Lucy, eager to establish herself as a (n) _______ was preparing to present her work of art to the public. I knew her passion, but in my eyes, she was still _______ her artistic skills. As the day of exhibition drew near, Lucy, obviously _______ asked me, “Amy…what do you truly…think of my painting?” I looked into her _______ eyes, _______ between honesty and not upsetting my friend, managed a smile and said, “Lucy, this is definitely your _______ work yet. The color combinations are the most creative!”

During the following days, I was uneasy, but I _______ myself with the idea that it was a “white lie”, with the _______ to protect and encourage her. Unexpectedly, I also saw a great ________ . Lucy indeed threw herself into her craft! Her paintings progressed obviously and her skills ________ like a tree branching out. I realized that my little white lie had unlocked ________ within her. Lucy’s artwork ________ shone like a star at the exhibition.

Lucy put her arms around me. The most beautiful words reached my ears, “Your warm words ________ me.” I freed myself from the guilt at that moment. While honesty is important, it is the warmth behind the words that ________ more.

3 . When former librarian Jean Armour Polly first introduced the idea of having computers in libraries in the early 1980s, she was met with pushback. People ______ her and said, “Why would you go to a library to use a ______?” “But I just knew it would be a ______ thing. Students could use computers in schools, but what about the lifelong learners? And adults and seniors?” Polly said.

She got ______ in the potentials of ______ early on. In the mid-1970s, Polly had ______ free computer classes when she was a graduate student in library sciences. In 1981, Polly ______ to secure an Apple II Plus into the small library where she was working in N. Y. At the time, there was only one other library in the nation that ______ public computing.

“We had to hold training courses because nobody ______ how to use a disk drive (磁盘驱动器),” Polly said. Since the Internet was ______ to use back then, the ______ was subject to local librarians, who would help library-goers take their baby steps online.

In 2019, Polly was ______ as the people who brought the Internet to life by the Internet Hall of Fame. When asked what she hoped for the ______ of libraries, Polly expressed ______ because a growing number of people lost interest in books. However, she remained positive. “Libraries have always been like a bastion (堡垒) and they’re coming under a lot of fire,” she said. “But they will ______. I think they will.”

8 . 17-year-old Addison Bethea had her world turned upside down in late June when she was bitten by a shark while playing near Keaton Beach, Florida.

Addison is a cheerleader and a tennis player. And she is also quite young to experience such a serious _________ and crisis. However, Addison has a _________ attitude, and she will be just fine!

As a native of Florida, Addison knew that if _________ by a shark, her best way was to hit the fish in the nose. But she did hit _________ in the face and tried to _________.

Addison’s elder brother, Rhett Willingham, was swimming nearby when he heard his sister _________ loudly. He quickly came to Addison, struggling to get the shark off from her, putting her into a _________ on the water and wrapping her bleeding leg with a tourniquet (止血带). Addison was instantly rushed to a hospital. Luckily, the _________ she received from Rhett, who is a firefighter and EMT (内科急救专家), might very well have saved her life.

About her brother, Addison said, “He’s always been kind of _________ a hero to me. I knew once I was in __________, he would help me out. Furthermore, he made a promise.” That is a wonderful brother-sister __________!

The injuries in Addison’s right leg were extremely serious. __________, the surgery(外科手术) was a success, and Addison is doing well in her __________. She has __________ her sense of humor and her faith to get through the hard times. Michelle Murphy, Addison’s mother, said, “God blessed us by allowing Addison to __________ and we will never lose focus on that gift.”

9 . Growing up, Juleus Ghunta could hardly read. Ghunta and his three sisters lived in a rural (农村的) part of Western Jamaica. They were ________ by a single mother. “Life was very ________ for us,” he recalled.

When Ghunta went to school, he couldn’t catch up on his reading skills. By the time he entered the sixth grade, he still couldn’t ________ words or read with understanding. “I ________ in school with a deep sense of ________ ,”he said.

When Ghunta was about 12, a young teacher decided to ________ a special reading program for struggling students. Ghunta was the first student to ________. That teacher would become the person who ________ his life.

“The teacher was very ________ to me,” he said. “She did not ask me anything, just telling me that I should work hard and believe in myself.” With her ________, Ghunta’s reading skills ________ started to improve. “She had left me with the gift of literacy (读写能力),” he said. “and with a deeper appreciation of my personhood and ________ as a human being.”

After that, Ghunta’s life took a new ________. He graduated from his primary school with a number of academic (学业的) awards. He went on to middle school, and later, college.

Today, Ghunta is a published children’s author. He said, “I would like her to ________ the significant impact that she has made on my life, and the ways in which I have carried this ________ of her hope with me.”

10 . When Alex Walker was four, she had to stay in the hospital to get some tests for her epilepsy (癫痫). Her dad had given her a stuffed animal, Sky Bear, which kept her ________. But when she saw other kids in the hospital without stuffed animals, she felt ________.

Alex had ________ up some money that she had ________ to use at Chuck E. Cheese. ________, she used it to buy stuffed animals for the other ________ on her hospital floor. They were so happy to receive the gifts that Alex decided to ________ even more. She called her project Alex’s Fluffy (绒毛的) Buddies and began ________ money by growing and selling tomato plants and flowers. “I love growing things,” she says. “And I know people love to eat tomatoes because they’re really good.”

As people heard about Alex’s Fluffy Buddies, they wanted to ________. They sent her stuffed animals and money to buy more. In the last six years, Alex has ________ almost 8,000 Fluffy Buddies to hospitals, shelters, and other programs. “People are ________ to help so that I can make kids happy,” she explains.

Alex also raises ________ for Canine Assistants, the organization that recently provided her with a service dog. “I want other kids to have a friend to help them through ________ times too,” Alex says. “I still give away Fluffy Buddies and donate to Canine Assistants. I want to help as much as I can! If you want to help others, look for something people ________ but they don’t have, or look for a way to ________ someone’s day. See how you can help.”