1 . Louie, a pet parrot, saved a whole family. He ______ the sleeping Klein family in the middle of the night as flames swept through their home.

“Louie is a true ______,” Barbara Klein recently told news agency South West News Service(SWNS). “If it hadn’t been for him, I probably wouldn’t have been ______ at that time. He started shouting ‘Fire’. He had never said that word before in my ______. When I woke up, the fire was starting to spread across the living room floor.” Unluckily for the family, Louie didn’t ______. Barbara said, “He was like our babies, so it’s ______.”

Barbara took her five-year-old granddaughter ______ and ran out of the house. Her husband Larry also made it out, but was severely wounded when escaping from the burning building. “He ran to the kitchen and tried to ______ the fire out with water,” Barbara told SWNS. “After we left, he ran back into the house and insisted on ______ the pet but with no ______.” The Kleins suffered great ______ in the fire. Their house was in ______ along with its contents and the parrot Louie passed away.

“People have ______ with clothing and someone donated an apartment for three months,” Barbara said. “The man who donated the apartment also ______ us with a baby parrot. We call him Louie Jr to _____   Louie.”

2 . My family went to London for visiting specialists. The day before we _______ the ship, Father said goodbye gently to his five-year-old “friend”, an Australian cattle dog, Spider, who was loved by us all. Father’s friend Sandy kept him _______ while we were overseas.

Six weeks later, a _______ arrived from Sandy, giving my father the news that Spider had _______ just two weeks after we had sailed. I will always remember my father’s face _______ and his eyes filled with sadness as he read the letter. Sandy has _______ constantly on ABC radio and other local newspapers. _______ , the dog was never found later. Spider seemed to decide to _______ us elsewhere.

Finally, we made a _______. We sailed back and did everything that we could do ________ waiting. Several months passed but there was still no news concerning. My father took the ________ and kept looking for him.

One cold morning eight months after, my father had a call from an old lady who said she was putting food out “for a very old dog”. My father’s eyes were lighted up with ________. That was enough for my father to ________ immediately. When we arrived at the old lady’s house, she showed us the dog. It was Spider! My father did his special whistle (口哨) for Spider. “Woof!” he barked. Spider was capturing (捕捉) the ________ feeling that occurred when he first locked eyes with my father. To Spider, our ________ and love are the inspiration.

3 . A few years ago, LaQuista Erinna’s seven-year-old son, Jackson, suffered ______ autism. One of the most difficult thing was getting a haircut. He’d get so ______ that he’d start kicking and shouting. Erinna had to change barbers ______until they met Ree.

At first, Jacksonn didn’t want to get in the barber chair and started running around the shop. Erinns was about to give up and call it a day. But Ree ______ her to give it a few more minutes. Erinna said, “Well, the next thing I saw was that she’s cutting his hair.” Ree had made the hair cut into a ______. She would shave a little hair off Jachson’s head, ______ it off and then run to a new ______ in the shop. “He doesn’t like the hair to get on him so it was a good ______ for him. And she was able to kind of cut his hair,” Erinna said. When the haircut was complete, Jackson was smiling, saying, “Well, can we come back tomorrow and play the game?”

It ______ a lot to Erinna that Ree took time to ______ a way to give Jackson a haircut. “She was the only person who showed patience and ______ to him. Most people would get ______. They don’t______ want to deal with a kid when he is in a mood. However, I can totally ______ Ree and I know she’s going to ______ my son down and make sure he’s looking the best,” Erinna said.

5 . When I was young, Dad often asked me to watch _________ games with him. Slowly, I became interested in the sport. Then Dad started to teach me _________ to hit the ball. Quickly, I became a pretty good hitter （击球手） and began _________ games.

Every time Dad came to my game, I would try very _________ to impress him. I spent too much energy making him happy and paid too much attention to his feelings. _________, I would perform poorly sometimes. Dad also realized he had influenced me negatively. Then one day, he told me that he was _________ with work and couldn’t come to any more games that year. Though I was disappointed, I respected his _________.

In the following games, I managed to perform well. But Dad never got to see them in person. In the final game of the year, I still did well. _________, when there were only ten minutes left in the game, I saw Dad secretly looking out from behind the stand （看台）. _________ after I made a perfect shot and looked for him, he was already gone.

After the game, Dad came up to me and asked me how I did. “Dad,” I said, “I saw you behind the stand.” “Wow, did you?” he said. “What a good shot （击球） you hit! That was the best one you’ve hit.” At that moment, I __________ Dad had been there every time. He secretly watched me and gave me the best chance that I could ever have to do my best.

7 . In 2005, Rachel O’Neill, of Rockwood, Michigan, was working full-time as an assistant in an engineering company. While _______ in a local charity, she’d never done any global volunteering. But after a travel in Africa for her fiftieth birthday, followed by a trip to Malawi, she said, “I felt I had to do something more.”

She was struck by the heavy work done by girls to _______ their families. “I wanted a way to honor them,” she says. She _______ a few women at her local church to make 1,000 simple _______, which were _______ to girls in Malawi.

Rachel _______ her goal that first year. As word spread, donations _______ in. “Dresses started coming every day from all over the country!” Rachel says. In 2008, without any _______ , she started a nonprofit organization called Little Dresses for Africa, with a goal of getting simple homemade dresses for girls(and pants for boys)in _______ communities, where people hardly change their ________ for a year.

So far, more than 10 million dresses have been donated to children in 97 countries, including the United States, though Africa remains a focus. The nonprofit runs a distribution center in Malawi and works ________ with community leaders there to distribute donated dresses and pants, which have proven the key to keeping girls in school.

“Nearly half of Malawi’s population is under age 14,” Rachel says, “We are ________ meeting their needs. For dress designs and donating information, go to littledressesforafrica.org. We only ask people to make high-quality, colorful clothes. ” She also asks for money to ________ shipping costs, estimated at $2 a dress. ________ donations have allowed Little Dresses for Africa to address other needs, including building more than 85 wells and two primary schools. “I couldn’t have done any of this on my own,” Rachel says, “But when you step out in ________ , miracles(奇迹)may happen.”

10 . I’m in the park, between my parents. They are full of ________, encouraging me to get ready. I hear the daily countdown (倒计时), getting ________ now, and off we go. My dad has sped ahead and with his hand he ________ me to keep up. Behind me is my mum. I can’t go anywhere. They are both watching me and I will have to ________ this run. Later on my dad will encourage me to do skipping, and Mum will let me walk. This has been my exercise ________ for the past six months. Who needs personal trainers when I can ________ Mum and Dad?

Last year I found a lump (肿块) on my neck. It was a(n) ________ when I was told it wasn’t fatal (致命的). Unless I lose weight, or I have surgery, it could get worse. My parents said to me: don’t get surgery, let us ________ you and you’ll get better. I know how well my parents ________ to look after their health. They have never taken any sick days from work. I realized what a great ________ they could be.

My dad designed my daily routine. It has been ________ — sometimes I feel like I am in the army. Yet training has brought us closer. On the whole I would say they’re strict, but in a ________ way. Now I can feel the ________. The lump disappeared and I ________. I was in a dark place before I started exercising, being unhealthy. I needed to ________ my mental health, and my parents were my light. Through this training plan, I have a sense of direction in my life.