1 . Before I turned 10, I lost my parents. My siblings (兄弟姐妹) left Hyderabad after my relatives _________ them, but I insisted on slaying back to continue my _________. And I began to deliver newspaper to _________ myself. I would be up every morning by 5 a. m. and _________ five kilometers to the newspaper office. By 6 a. m., I would be _________ my copies of the Urdu Daily. The area I was _________ for spanned 3 kilometers. After distributing the _________. I would rush home, quickly eat and be off to high school.

One wintry morning in 1945. I got home after my _________ to find a boy of my age at my doorstep. He _________ himself as Afzal and said his father wanted to see me.

I was greeted at the door by Afzal’s mother, Nazeem. Afzal’s father, Mr. Kader, ____________ us as Nazeem served me tea and snacks. Nazeem gently asked me about my daily ____________ . I told her about my morning job and school. They were ____________ that I had to walk so much in one day. Later, as I was about to leave, Mr. Kader ____________into another room, and when he reappeared, he was ____________ a new bicycle. “This is for you!” he said.

It took a few seconds for this act of kindness to ____________. I didn’t realize that ____________ were rolling down my face. Mr. Kader said, “Your newspaper editor is a friend of mine. He gave me your ____________, so I knew you lived close by. Then Afzal told us more about you.”

I bowed, ____________ shook hands with them and left. The ____________ brought convenience to my life and taught me a life-long lesson: Help should always be need-based. Never try to ____________ a person who is dying of thirst.

2 . My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, an endless pursuit for expression, skill, and experience. _______was only a background to the great delight of lessons in music, dance, and dramatics.

Then one night at a high school dance, a remark, not intended for my _______, injured my youthful happiness: ''That girl, what a pity she is blind. '' Blind! A(n) _______word that implied everything dark, blank and helpless. _______I turned and called out, ''Please don't feel sorry for me. I'm having lots of fun. '' _______the fun was not to last.

In college years, I began to struggle with the problem of earning a living. Part-time teaching of piano and occasional giving concerts proved only _______sources of economic support. In terms of time and effort involved, the financial return was _______.

Self-doubt and dark moods sparked within me. _______to my misery was the repeated experience of knowing my sisters and friends dating excitedly. How _______I was to my piano, ________I could dissolve my frustration, accompanied by Chopin, Brahms, and Beethoven.

Then one day, I met a girl, an army nurse, whose faith was to change my life. As our acquaintance ________into friendship, she sensed my ________. She said, “Stop knocking on closed doors. I know your opportunity will come. You're trying too hard. Why don’t you relax? And have you ever tried ________?” The idea was strange to me. I had always believed that if you wanted ________, you had to go and get it for yourself. Yet, my sincerity and hard work had yielded poor returns, so I was ________to try anything else. Self-consciously, I performed the daily practice of prayer. I said, ''God, show me the ________for which You sent me to this world. ''

In the years to follow, the answers began to arrive, satisfying ________my most optimistic expectation. One of the answers was Enchanted Hills, where my ________friend and I had the privilege of seeing blind children come alive in God’s out-of-doors. ________are the sources of pleasure and comfort I have found in friendship, and most important of all, I ________closer to God and, through Him, to immortality.

3 . Jeremy Locke, 25, has his own roofing company in Bridgeport, Nova Scotia. For a couple of years before he began his_________, he would drive past the home of Jeanette MacDonald, noticing the_________state of her roof. He was_________—not just for the elderly woman but also for the children living with her. So Locke_________to lend a helping hand.

The young man knocked on MacDonald's door and_________to fix her roof for nothing, "I didn't know who the woman was, but I wanted to_________this for her and her grandchildren," he explained to The Chronicle Herald. However, despite his kind_________, the woman politely turned him down.

MacDonald and her_________left an impression on Locke. He saw_________between the woman and his own grandmother, and couldn't bear to see her in this__________. He had also grown up without much and felt that he should use his skills to__________.

A year after Locke set up his own roofing company, seeing that the roof was__________in a state of disrepair, Locke returned to MacDonald's home and asked MacDonald if she wanted to enter a raffle (抽奖) his company was doing for a__________roof. The 70-year-old woman__________the chance, but little did she know that there was no__________.

MacDonald's relief__________Locke's kindness is immeasurable, "I could win $1 million but it wouldn't make me as__________as knowing I'm getting a new roof on. Jeremy is__________something. He's a guardian angel (守护天使) sent from God."

The__________should cost about $ 9,000 in terms of materials and manpower. However, the only thing Locke wants in return is a home-cooked meal for his staff from the woman who__________him of his grandmother.

4 . Fourth-grade teacher Tori Nelson allowed one of her students to cut her hair in the schoolyard, after bullies (仗势欺人者) laughed at him about his own buzz cut (平头).

Ms. Nelson noticed Matthew Finney, a ______ boy of his class, was standing outside the classroom, ______ and wearing a winter hat.

Ms. Nelson could see the back of his neck had been shaved (剃，刮), and since Matthew usually had very thick curly brown hair, she realized that he’d had a ______ over the weekend. She asked him what was ______，and he said he’d gotten a buzz cut for the ______. But this morning, a fifth grader on the bus ______ him, and he didn’t want to come to ______ and get laughed at by other kids. Ms. Nelson tried to ______ Matthew to come inside, but since school rules ______ kids from wearing hats indoors he refused.

Finally Ms. Nelson said, “If you take your ______ off and come to class, I’ll let you give me a buzz cut too.” Ms. Nelson told Yahoo Parenting later, “I figured it’s just hair, and mine is already ______ anyway. I might as well get it shorter in time for the hot weather.”

Matthew excitedly ______ her offer, and Ms Nelson and another teacher ______ all the fourth graders together during break time. A school employee brought in ______ for Matthew to use. His classmates watched ______ as their teacher’s hair ______ down onto the ground in the schoolyard.

“It was a lot of ______ for the kids, and it helped Matthew feel better about ______.” said Ms Nelson. “You have to do what it takes to ______ children. Teaching isn’t just about reading and writing: it’s about self-worth and accepting ______.

5 . The Adams family home has been taken over by origami (折纸)in all sizes and shapes. No one seems to _________ though. Those paper creations are _________ clean water projects around the world and saving lives. A messy home is a small price to pay ________

In 2011, Isabelle Adams and her sister Katherine learned that every five seconds a child died from _________ of clean water and that girls of their age couldn’t go to school _________ they were fetching water all day for their families. They _________ to do something.

“So we took something that we loved doing - folding origami, with the _________ goal to help fund a well in Ethiopia,” explains Katherine. _________ , they ended up selling out and raising far more than that to fully _________ the cost of the well.

Katherine, now 13, adds, “It just snowballed, __________ the founding of the project Paper for Water.” In eight years, this project has __________ more than 2 million for over 200 water projects in 20 different countries.

Now, the rest of the Adams family are also __________. But at the heart of it, beneath countless paper decorations sit two bold sisters hoping to __________ other girls and boys. “Kids have an incredible ability to make a real __________ to the world if they’re just given the chance,” Isabelle says, “and if people __________ them in their efforts.”

6 . For much of our life, my mother and I hated each other. I spent most of my childhood ______ with her – or trying to avoid her, as well as her bitterness, unhappiness and endless smoking. I learned how to defend myself with ______ designed to hurt her. In turn, she vowed(发誓) I would have a ______ who would feel the way about me that I felt about her.

Many years later when my husband and I decided to have a child, I was ______ to have a girl. I couldn’t ______ the thought of a daughter who might not love me – or who would want to ______ me. As soon as I became pregnant, I was convinced I was having a boy. In the delivery room, on my doctor putting my baby into my arms, I couldn’t wait to tell my mother I had a ______, while “he” was a girl. At that moment, I couldn’t imagine wanting anyone but her.

____I couldn’t forget my mother’s teasing(耻笑的) vow, even after she died, I felt a little relived about it.______ my daughter got older, whenever we argued, I worried we were ______ the same awful path that my mother and I had gone down.

Last summer, my daughter ______ 18, the same age when my mother threw me out of her apartment for ______. However, I was with her, planning for her first year at college. When my husband and I dropped her off at her school in New York, I finally ______ to her my biggest fear that we would end up like me and my mother. “That will never happen.” she _______ me, kissing me goodbye. Six weeks later, my husband and I returned to the campus. I ______ myself arguing with my daughter about her messy room, not using the library and her mistake of choosing the room near the bathroom. I couldn’t stop myself. And then ______ came: “You’re just like your mother,” my daughter screamed. “I hate you.” And then she ______.

I finally heard the words I had always dreaded. But maybe that was because I ______ them. I had always worried the bond I shared with my daughter would ______. Later that evening, we picked my daughter up to a restaurant. We ate ______. But when we separated, I hugged her. The next morning, she called telling she loved me. There wasn’t anything to be afraid of anymore. There was just a relationship we should work on with each other.

7 . At an airport I overheard(无意听到） a father and daughter in their last moments together. They had announced her plane’s ______ and standing near the door, he said to his daughter, “I love you; I wish you enough.”

She said, “Daddy, our ______ together has been more than enough. Your love is ______ I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Daddy.” They kissed good-bye and she left.

He walked over ______ the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see he wanted and needed to ______. I tried not to interfere（干涉） his ______, but he welcomed me in by asking, “Did you ever say good-bye to someone ______ it would be forever?” “Yes, I have,” I replied.

Saying that brought back ______ I had of expressing my love and ______ for all my Dad had done for me. Recognizing that his days were ______, I took the time to tell him face to face how much he meant to me. So I knew what this man was ______. When I asked why it was a forever good-bye, he said he was ______ and her daughter lived much too far away. He guessed this departure might be the ______ before his funeral. When I asked him why they said “I wish you enough”, he explained that had been ______ from other generations. His parents used to say it to ______, by which they wanted other people to have a life filled with enough ______ things to support them.

“I wish you enough sun to ______ your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit ______. I wish you enough pain ______ the smallest joys in life appear much bigger. I wish you enough gains to ______ your wanting. I wish you enough “Hellos” to get you through the final ‘Good-bye’.”

8 . Ryan was 6 years old when a talk by his grade one teacher changed his life. She told the_______about people in Africa who had a very_______time getting clean water and access to wells. African people,_________children, can get sick and sometimes_______. Deeply moved, Ryan persuaded his parents to _______him to do extra chores and finally earned S70, which he thought was enough to drill a _________.

But WaterCan, a non-profit organization that provides_______water to poor countries, told him that it would need $2,000 to drill a well. Ryan didn't_______. He got very busy doing more chores and_______his fundraising. Several months later he________. collected the $2,000. He ________the money to WaterCan and in January, 1999, Water Can drilled a well beside Angolo Primary School in northern Uganda, with funds________by Ryan.

Since the first well was dug, Ryan's Well Foundation has raised over $800,000 to provide clean water to people in__________. And others have also________along the way, including his school, and The World Health Organization

In the past 18 months, Ryan has________across the world, like Japan, China, and England,making speeches, to________others to spread his "seeds of hope". His Ryan's Well Foundation has supported water projects that have been completed or are under________in many African countries.Ryan has met many________people and even been blessed by the Pope(教皇) but he________he is "just a normal boy". His mother Susan says, "In his heart we all make a________as long as we help the people in need."

9 . After working an inhuman 8-hour shift at a factory unloading (卸货) parts for cheap furniture, I got on the bus, dirty, tired and hot. I ______ that place every day looking like I worked in a coal mine. _____, I still felt a bit proud of myself as I had held this tiring job for 3months, which was extremely rare. So when I took my seat on the bus going home, I decided my ______ life would not lower my spirits today.

I was dreaming about a better and new life when I was ______ by our new passenger. She was a middle-aged woman with worn-out clothes and messy hair. She got on, aggressively and ______ pushed her way into a front seat, and then turned her glare and ______ on whoever dared to look her way.

All I could feel for this woman was ______. There was no disgust. Only pity and the familiar knowledge of being faceless, nameless, and ______ to no one. Suddenly, she turned her threatening eyes towards me and very loudly yelled, “Why you so ______ man?”

With a smile, I said, “I just came from work.” She then loudly asked if I worked in hell and broke out in laughter, so I laughed too﹣______ her and told her that was funny. Then I asked her her name as I ______ why I was so dirty. Her name was Karen.

In front of all of us on the bus that day, the power of ______ showed its beauty. In front of all of us this woman ______. Her language, her posture, and her voice, even the way she tilted (倾斜) her head when I spoke to her as a ______ changed.

As Karen was getting off the bus, she touched me ______ on the arm. With tear-filled eyes, she asked whether I’d be riding the bus the next day. I promised I ______. We waved to each other and then I got what my life had needed all along: affirmation (认可).

Everyone on the bus had been watching us and then an old woman spoke to me, “Sir, you just changed that woman with your heart. She will never forget how you ______ her. You are great.” Other passengers gave me thumbs-up signs showing their ______.

That day was the first day when I realized I am ______. People say I gave Karen something that day but actually she ______ me so much more. I now work in the field of mental health. I often tell the story of the power of kindness, and I talk about Karen and unlimited possibilities.

10 . Although my good job at a large company had made my parents happy, knew I wanted something different. The only place I could______working was Facebook, I______from New York to San Francisco and______at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto,______to find a job in Facebook

A friend who worked there had agreed to_______me to a few people around the office. But on the way back from a coffee break, I got ______. I ____ around outside the Facebook building by myself, trying to_______myself that I was able enough to work here. I told myself I had already flown across the_____ and now I just needed to go for it.

I sat in the hall of the building for what______hours. Finally, at the very end of the day, the director of PR walked out and introduced herself .An hour later, I left the Facebook office even more______about the company.

A few days later, the______I had spoken with called me and said, "We don't have a full time job_______. But we' re interested in a part-time job, you can come to work here tomorrow.

This was not______what I'd been hoping for. But I knew that I was passionate about the work and the company, so______flew from NewYork to San Francisco. A few months later I was ____full time job.

Now Facebook is 15 times bigger than it was six years ago. If I hadn't made it ____ my nervousness six years ago I would never have gotten the_____.

Nowadays whenever I'm nervous about_____, I think about waiting in the hall of Facebook and I encourage myself to be______.