1 . Katie Ortman Doble suffered from a rare form of cancer. Doctors said she had 16 months to ________. But her father, who was a physician himself, was ________ to find a clinical (临床的) trial that could ________ her life.

So Katie flew to New York to see if she would ________ for the trial. She had been there for two days. ________, it was time for her to meet with the doctor to find out if she was qualified for the ________. As she went through a series of tests, she found herself ________ her mom, who passed away when Katie was a teenager. On particularly ________ days, her mom would offer what she called an “energy ________”.

As she ________ in waiting room after waiting room, Katie ________ one of those special hugs. At that time, she ________ a girl who looked to be about her age ________ her head in her mother’s lap (大腿). Soon, a nurse came out and ________ the girl to get her test. And when Katie turned her head back around, the ________ was standing right in front of her. She said to Katie, “You look like you want a mom hug.” With ________ in her eyes. Katic nodded and said ________.

“It was just one of those moments in life when somebody ________ and gave you something that you ________,” she recalled. In the summer of 2023, Katie and her family celebrated her first anniversary (周年纪念) of being ________ free.

2 . “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.

4 . Liz Woodward worked as a waitress at the route 130 diner in Delran, New Jersey. One Thursday morning around 5:30 am, she was ______ two firefighters,Young and Hullings. Quite ______, she heard that they had been up all night putting out a ______ warehouse fire. It took 12 hours to get the fire under ______.

Liz decided to honor these two ______ by paying their bills and writing them a heartfelt ______ of gratitude (感谢). It read, “Your breakfast is on me today — thank you for all that you do, fueled by fire and driven by ______. What an example you are! Get some rest!"

The simple act of ______ meant so much to the exhausted fire fighters. The firefighters were ______ deeply and thanked her before leaving the ______.

To return the young lady’s kindness, upon his arrival home, Hullings posted a Facebook update to ______ his friends to go to eat at the diner, which was quickly ______ more than 3,000 times.

______ it was not until afterwards that they ______ Liz was really the one that was in need.When they found out that Liz was trying to ______ money for her paralyzed father to get a wheelchair-accessible van (面包车),Young posted with a ______ to a GoFundMe page for Liz’s dad. Then the support ______.

The total donations reached $60,000 and went beyond Liz’s wildest dreams. She had never ______ that her small gesture would, be paid in such a(n).______ way.“ To be honest,I’m truly.______ for what they have done for me,”Liz Woodward said on Facebook.

6 . Robin Hughes, 60, is a special education teacher at SouthShore Charter Academy in Riverview, Florida. She was reading a book about snow when she noticed that some of the children looked _________.

When she asked how many of them had_________snow before, only two of them raised their hands. Hughes, who grew up in Louisa, Kentucky, was shocked. “It’s hard for kids to _________the concept because they don’t have the relevant knowledge.”

_________to show her students snow for the first time, Hughes reached out to her sister, Amber Estes, who lives in Danville, Kentucky. She asked her to make a snowman and_________ it overnight to her, but Estes didn’t think it would be possible.

“I said to her, ‘We haven’t had a considerable amount of snow.’ I was making every excuse in the world,” Estes told The Washington Post. “In the end, I accepted the _________hesitantly because I knew that I would never have to live up to it anyway.”

But in January, after Danville was_________with 10 inches of snow, Estes went into her backyard and made a snowman, _________with blueberry eyes, a carrot nose, and sticks for arms.

She then packed it into a container filled with _________ packs and sealed the box__________ . It cost $78 to overnight the snowman to her sister’s __________ through the U. S. Postal Service. Estes named the snowman “Lucky” in the hope that he’d make the 800-mile journey to Florida without__________.

So Hughes’ students met Lucky__________. The kindergartners__________gathered around the box to look at the snowman, and some couldn’t resist__________ him.