1 . SpoGomi is a sport involving litter-picking by teams of three. You’re given an area of 1.5 sq km, and have to _______ as much litter as possible within an hour. The litter is then _______. The team with the most wins.

We _______ the first SpoGomi world cup last August. _______ we were drawn to taking part because of a free trip abroad. Upon arriving, we walked around the competition area, and thought about the _______ of people who drop litter：probably typically people who were drinking. That helped us narrow down where to go. Another _______ was that we were young and physically fit. We like the _______ element of the sport, whereas people from other countries are _______ more by environmental interests.

With 21 nations participating, the competition was _______. After the first half, we were second. My muscles were ________ and I felt completely exhausted from the summer heat, but we had this feeling of being on the edge of something ________. We had to just keep ________. In the second half we pulled ahead because we ________ an area no one else had been to. We ended up coming first with 57kg of rubbish collected.

Without the competition, I wouldn’t have been someone who would have picked up litter off the street before. Now we are just much more ________ of it. Once you’re drawn into SpoGomi, your attitude towards litter and how you ________ completely changes.

2 . I am one of the healthcare assistants in our neighborhood charity organization. Our _____________ is to support families and the individuals who are in the end-of-life stage. We do whatever they need us to do. We can’t change the inevitable, but we can make a   _____________   .

Working for the charity, we operate every single day of the year, and I find myself _____________even on holidays. You might assume that helping to _____________   a person facing death would be a sad experience. But what may _____________   you is that it’s not. The families make the most of the time they have _____________   . They remain _____________ . Everyone knows what’s coming; they understand that their loved one is _____________ , but it’s not a time for   _____________; it’s a time of togetherness and warmth.

I remember one particular family with three sisters and the fourth who was in the end-of-life stage. When I arrived, she was   _____________ , and I knew she might not   _____________ it through the night. But sitting with the sisters, talking about their childhood and sharing photos, it was a special time for me. The patient had asked for _____________ earlier that day, and they made sure she got them. She went to sleep, and we lost her that night. The sisters   _____________ it, they thanked me, and it was a(n)   _____________ experience. I’ll always remember the sweet and bitter peaches!

There are some heartbreaking situations, but when we are there   _____________ the end, making the affair easier for the families, love outshines darkness.

3 . On February 17th, the Clermont County Animal Shelter, Ohio, shared a story. A woman met with her missing dog Will again.

While ________ the shelter’s Facebook post forwarded by friends in her community, Hannah saw a dog named Rome that was to be available at the shelter’s weekend ________ event and that dog looked quite ________.

Hannah explained in her Facebook post that Will, a six-year-old went missing from her home in 2019. Although her family looked everywhere, they couldn’t ________ their missing baby.

A shelter volunteer said, “Just yesterday we ________ a message accompanied by photos with a detailed description of Will’s ________ in the hope that the dog brought to our shelter and renamed Rome was ________ Will!” But Rome was scheduled to be at the Take Me Home event today! Learning this, the volunteer, in a bit of ________ quickly sent a message back that Rome would be at the event! “We would love this family to be ________ and we just had to ________ whether this was Will after all these years!” It turned out a big yes. The volunteer continued, “The ________ story serves as a reminder of the incredible impact that the Internet can have in bringing communities together, especially in times of ________. Thank you all for ________ Will’s post.”

It was nothing short of a ________ and we are sure Hannah and her family are ________ to have their dog back!

4 . At the beginning of my journey of learning Peking opera, I had_________ that I could manage to perform it outstandingly. Later I found out I was_________.

The most difficult part is that a singer has to first understand the _________ of a character. Once, I acted as Lin Chong, the hero of Outlaws of the Marsh. It was hard for me to understand his emotions when he was _________ for Liangshan on a snowy night. I couldn’t sing or perform as if I _________ was Lin, and so I felt very frustrated.

My teacher seemed to recognize my_________.One day, she approached me, and said with great _________, “The future is like the sea full of chances. There will be a long way to go before you can _________. Wipe the tears away from your eyes and keep _________.!”

After hearing my teacher's touching words, I suddenly felt __________. I bought a copy of Outlaws of the Marsh and began to read it at once. While reading one part of the novel, I understood that Lin was recalling his life while he was on the way to Liangshan，__________. in the cold moonlight. He had to leave his family, his job and so on. After I finished reading the novel, I spent a whole evening __________ his life story. After that, I spent more time practicing, and I__________won the award at the city competition.

This experience has further strengthened my beliefs and __________ the meaning and value of life for me. As long as we catch the __________ and take full advantage of it, we will succeed.

6 . I have new company these days as I go outside. Every time I go out the door Miss Alice is sitting at my front door, waiting to be ________. And when I finally return home, there she is asking for ________ again.

It wasn’t always this way. The very first time I saw Miss Alice she was ________ under my house, having just had a litter of kittens (一窝小猫). When I looked under, I got a clear ________ that I was in for an attack if I got near. It took a lot of ________, love, and cat food from my daughter to ________ her. At first, she didn’t want to be touched at all. Then she would only allow a(n) ________ petting. Now my daughter can carry her like a little baby.

It still makes me ________ to see how my daughter’s loving spirit made this once ________cat as lovable as a most playful dog. I guess that is the ________ of love. It can save a hurting heart and uplift a(n) ________ soul. It can even turn her into a ________ dog in a cat suit. ________ the love into your own life then. And let your own love ________ everything you think, everything you say, and everything you do. You will be delighted at the joy you will find, the good you will do, and the lives you will ________. You will be amazed at how much your life will change.

7 . “Found something!” Susan Baur, a swimmer, ducks into the water. She ______, holding a pair of swimming goggles (护目镜). These are passed to a kayaker (皮划艇桨手), who waves them ______, like a prize, before throwing them in a basket. When the team returns to ______, the women are smiling and cracking jokes about the ______ and their pull.

Since 2017, Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage (OLAUG), which accepts _____ older women as members, has made it its mission to ______ trash from ponds across Cape Cod.

Many outsiders have expressed their ______ to OLAUG for cleaning up the ponds; a number, however, have ______ why they refer to themselves as “old ladies”. “You should call yourselves the Mermaids (美人鱼) Against Glitter Litter.” Others have said she should open the group to all ______, and even to men.

______ they admit that it wasn’t ______ a conscious choice, they now believe that the “old lady” ______ is a crucial part of what the group is about. “Women over 65 tend to feel the restriction of aging,” Baur says. “Part of the goal of OLAUG is to ______ that older women can do a lot more than people might think.”

Criticism ______, the most common response is “I want to join you”. And after that first dive, the new application excitement is ______ with a lot on the waiting list to be one of them.

8 . Mica came into my life in 2012. When I heard that a _________ dog had been dumped by her family at a shelter, I turned to Iske. “Look,” I said, “a dog your age, _________ at the shelter. Can we adopt her?” Iske’s tail thumped (击打). Her approval _________ a lot.

After all, I may have adopted Iske, but actually she’s the one that rescued me—through a heartbreaking _________ and single parenthood, Iske had been my rock. _________, I learned from Iske, is a two-way street. And now it was time to _________

A few e-mails and a transport miracle later, Mica arrived. Unlike Iske, Mica had a tough time adjusting—She refused to be _________, walking away from all affection. She missed her family, _________ as it was. We loved her and hoped her heart would _________ enough to let us in.

After a few weeks of training and bonding, I decided to take her for a short hike. She had __________ her name and came when I called her, so I weighed the risk against the joy hiking might bring her. I made the decision.

As soon as I took off the leash (狗绳) in the forest, she __________, leaping over logs along the trail. At the lookout, she posed upon a rock and __________ the layers of hills dropping away towards New Jersey and beyond. Obviously, hiking gave her joy to be __________ and running free.

After that, we committed ourselves to completing the highest 35 mountains in the Catskill region. It would have been amazing for any dog to hike at this level of __________, but Mica bravely conquered those mountains at age twelve. From a pitiful creature on the end of a __________ to barking upon the summit of Mountains, Mica’s spirit has shown me just what a miracle is.

9 . In a crowded migrant (移民) camp in Tijuana, Mexico, a three-year-old girl wandered ________ toward the exit. She was steps from a busy road. Estefanía Rebellón was the only person who ________ her. The writer had just driven from Los Angeles with a group of friends to drop off food and clothing to a(n) ________ organization.

It was December 2018, a time when the US-Mexico border was seeing migrants from Central America ________ violence and poverty. Rebellón rushed over to the child and took her ________. “Where are your parents?” she asked anxiously. Eventually, she and her friends found the girl’s ________ father, who had stepped away to ________ for food.

Back at home, Rebellón gathered a group of volunteer ________ via social media, and using a thousand dollars from her ________, set up a school at the Tijuana border. In five years, the pilot program has grown into the non-profit Yes We Can World Foundation, which has ________ three school buses into classrooms and established two schools.

________ by donations, the foundation’s teachers have provided a bilingual education to more than 3,000 kids. The schools ________ an official curriculum (课程) from Mexico’s education ministry. They also offer ________ courses, which help kids understand more about migration.

Rebellón has received numerous ________ for her work, including Outstanding American by Choice. As more than 6.6 million people still live in refugee camps around the world, she says she’d like to ________ the foundation’s influence and support migrant children globally.

10 . I was cleaning the roof of a customer’s house when the stroke (4 XI) happened. Laid up in the hospital bed, I was depressed, mind _________ with concern. I was the _________ of the family. I made the money. I was worried about our future.

I came home in a wheelchair. It was like waking up in a house after a storm, everything familiar yet _________ in some way. I was left unable to   _________, with problems with my hands and vision issues. Thankfully, my family was my _________ ready to restore with me. Gradually, I worked on _________to walk and using my hands again.

My son would move my walker a step forward, _________ me to walk further. And my wife was always my balance.

While focusing on my   _______I wanted to provide for my family to make sure they had a home even if I wasn’t here. Not to worry about rent. One night, I _________ a thought with my wife, “What about making our own house, a safety net for you and the kids.” She __________ worry in her eyes, but she believed in the dream and nodded in agreement.

After buying an old house with most of our savings, I started a blog online called Making a Home to __________ our journey of redecoration. People, once strangers, started __________ us. They comforted us when we were __________and celebrated our victories with us.

Now, we have moved into our home. We may continue to face many challenges. Still, together we’ve __________this far. Life throws storms our way, but we have the power to __________, and to rise again.