1 . “Mom! I found one! I found a rock!”

I heard those words again and again last summer as I sat on the porch (门廊)of my home, which _________ a park in the small town where I live.

The Kindness Rocks Project, which was started a few years ago by a mom in Massachusetts, has _________ around the world. Kids and adults of all ages are taking part — painting rocks, hiding rocks, and finding _________ rocks all over the place. Some post photos of the rocks on social media, and others _________ move the rocks for someone else to find. Some take the rocks home and then _________ them with new ones that they created and hid.

Nine-year-old twins Harry and Hannah De Vrieze have painted hundreds of rocks with their _________. Most evenings, the family and their small dog walk around with a wagon (手推车) full of _________ that they hide as they walk.

“It’s a fun family activity,” Hannah says.

“We will do it in the winter too,” Harry adds.

Ben Burinsky, aged nine, and his brother, Luke, aged seven, were _________ relatives when they found their first painted rock in a park. They were so _________ that they went home and painted their own rocks, then hid them for others to find.

“My boys love finding the rock in the park, __________ since it is a superhero.” their mother, Judy Burinsky, says. “I love how something so small can bring a(n) __________ to my children’s faces. __________, they learn the value of giving back to others.”

Kadyn Kinney, aged nine, and his seven-year-old brother, Jayce, have also painted many rocks. They love to hide rocks and __________ rocks with their mom and dad. Last week __________ their grandmother visited, they gave her painted rocks to take home and hide in the Florida town where she lives.

When asked how many rocks he has painted so far, Jayce says, “__________ me! I’ve painted more than 30.”

2 . Chad and I spent about 15 years celebrating our anniversary in the old-fashioned way. He’d give me flowers, I’d give him a card and we’d go out for dinner. While we both enjoyed it, I _________ admitted that I didn’t even like red roses, and his card _________ in the garbage can.

We invented a new _________ called the Every Other Year Anniversary. We alternated (交替) years planning a surprise for each other. A celebration of a marriage should be _________, and we intended to make it so.

I was perfectly willing to go first, planning a weekend getaway to Hiawassee. I chose all the activities — it was _________ for Chad to think of anything. As for Chad, the mystery added to his _________.

The next year was my turn to be _________. Chad, though traditionally not a romantic person, came through _________, planning a weekend in Nashville. We enjoyed each other’s _________ more than ever. For once, I didn’t have to make any decisions. I could __________ Chad had put a lot of thought into where we went and what we did.

We __________ at this point that the new __________ would be topping (超越) each other the following year. Astonishingly, we __________ to do it every time.

The Every Other Year Anniversary has made our __________ loving, complete and, above all, fun! I can’t wait to see what’s __________ next year.

3 . “You can do whatever you want.”

I ever moved out of school because of my _________ social abilities. But at the end of the school term, I had to move back to _________ for my exams. During that time, I felt _________ about almost everything. I was afraid to _________ my tests and let my parents down. I also _________ that I would always be an unpopular person.

One day, I stood at the walkway in front of my _________, looking up at the night sky and thinking about who I was. Suddenly, someone walked out of the darkness and _________ stopped about three feet to my right. We had seen each other a few times before but never spoke.

“Hey.”

I _________ to make sure he wasn’t talking to someone else.

“Hey,” I said in a low voice.

“You look _________. What are you doing out here?”

“Just …thinking,” I muttered (低声地说).

“About what?”

“A lot of things. Just not sure what to do with my life.”

“__________, you can do whatever you want.”

I turned back. He was smiling, probably at my surprised __________.

We talked for hours, about our studies, personal relationships and family expectations. He encouraged me to rethink my __________ about myself and helped me realize how much power I had to __________ my situations. And most importantly, he made me realize that I __________ to truly understand and value myself if I wanted to solve my problems and control my life.

I was so __________ and thankful that our paths (道路) crossed.

7 . A rabbit is running into its hole. You will ask, “What has this to do _________ language?” Well, when a rabbit sees something _________, it runs away. Its _________ moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see this, they run too. They know that there is _________. The rabbit has told them something _________ making a sound. It has given them a _________.

Many _________ animals use this kind of language. When a bee _________ some food, it goes back to its home. It cannot tell the other bees _________ the food is by speaking to them, __________ it does a little dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.

Some animals say things __________. A dog barks (吠叫), for instance, when __________ comes near. A cat purrs (叫) when __________. Some birds make several different sounds, each __________ its own meaning.

But human beings have something that no animal has — a large number of words which have the meanings of things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information, to tell or inform (告诉) other people __________ we think or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things that have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this.

No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow (然而) he learned to make them. As centuries went by, he made more and more new words.

8 . When I was a little boy growing up, I would always change out of my good clothes after church and run outside to play for a few hours. When I came back inside, the house always smelt ________. It was my Italian Nana ________ our Sunday dinner. There would be freshly cooked Italian bread with butter. There would be noodles covered in red sauce (调味汁)________ cooked for hours.

I remember we would all ________ the old, metal dining room table. Then we would ________ with smiles, laughter and joy. I always felt so ________ and safe there. We always ________ the table with full stomachs and happy hearts.

As I got older and became an adult myself, I ________ to make smaller types of Nana’s Sunday dinners. I got the ________ of making sauce from Dad. Often I would get very close to making a dinner like Nana’s but it was never quite ________.

There finally came a point when I ________ what I was doing wrong. I was trying to get back a ________ while what I really wanted to do was get back a feeling. It wasn’t just the ________ food that made those dinners so wonderful, it was also the feeling of ________ that was there.

Nana always put her love into her cooking and her life as well. Since then I’ve tried my best to do the same. No matter what I am cooking or what I am doing, I always try to ________ it with love.

10 . Last year I ruined my summer vacation by bringing along a modern convenience: the iPad.

Instead of looking at nature, I _______ my e-mail. Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading _______newspapers each morning. And that was the problem: I was acting as if I were still in the office. My body was on vacation but my _______ wasn’t.

So this year I made up my mind to try something _______: getting away from the Internet. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, _______ I’m not good at self-control. But I was _______. I started by handing the iPad to my wife. Then, a stroke of luck: The mobile phone _______ at our cabin was worse than in the past. I was _______, forced to carry out my plan. Largely cut off from e-mail and my favourite newspaper websites, I had little way to _______ the world. I had no ________ but to do what I had planned to do all along: read books.

With determination and the strong support of my wife, I succeeded in my vacation struggle against the Internet. I finally ________ that it was me, of course, not the iPad, that was the ________.

I knew I had ________ when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “Don’t need it,” I said. ________, as we return to work, a test begins: Can I survive when I’m back at work? I don’t plan to ________ my iPad completely. But I hope to resist the temptation (抵抗诱惑) to use it every five minutes.