1 . The summer after my freshman year college, I had to get my first job. This was probably one of the _________ tasks I have ever had to do. I had never held a job when I was in high school because my parents wanted me to put all my _________ into my studies.

At first, it was very hard. I filled out dozens of _________ but got no calls back in the first two weeks. It made sense because I had _________ no job experience. All I could _________ was that being a high school graduate and a year of college.

However, halfway through the third week, I finally got a call back from one of the places I _________. We had set up a meeting time, and after my _________, I was more than ready to start working the following Monday. I was _________ at the chance of working for my wages.

When I started, it was very clear that I was not _________. I made mistakes with orders and often __________ sales promotions (推销). My parents made a bet I would not __________ the first two weeks, and I would be back looking for more __________. However, I stuck with it.

After working a while, I got better at orders, and always __________ the cheaper options for customers. A couple of weeks later, I had been told by the manager that I had __________ the award of the best employee of the month. It taught me a lot about responsibility and gave me the __________ of working.

2 . I’m not a good traveler. Without curiosity to get out and ________, traveling has never been my strong point. Sightseeing is not an experience that I find ________: when it’s too hot, I’m uncomfortable; when it’s too cold, I’m uncomfortable. Not knowing what the food will be like at new places has always made me ________.

It would be kind to say that I have a low sense of ________. So, I was ________ about doing a travel show that centered on pushing my ________. But it just goes to show that we’re never too old to ________ ourselves.

South Africa was the biggest surprise. I had never really ________ to go on safari (观兽旅行) and was not excited about the prospect.

Once I was ________ there, all of a sudden, I knew why people say it’s exciting. I started to develop a great ________ for the animals. We visited a rhino conservation park (犀牛保护公园), where rhinos which have been badly injured by hunters are taken good care of. I even bottle-fed these beautiful babies. The most memorable part was the people I ________.

I’ve always been a very ________ person. But the experience of meeting so many new people has been ________, allowing me to ________ some of the cobwebs (蜘蛛网) that have formed for many years. Seeing the world has helped me ________ my natural cynicism (悲观情绪) and turned me into a more outgoing and positive person.

3 . My family always had some sort of animal around, but none of them were truly mine. My parents didn’t permit me to _________ my own until I was seven years old. Finally, I was _________ to have my own _________, a fish called George. I said it was my responsibility to _________ it.

Every Friday I would clean out his bowl. I found myself _________ invitations to go somewhere immediately after school, because I would have to feed my fish first. Every day he would remind me that I was _________ and that I had someone depending on me.

One day, I came home from school and headed to my room to _________George. I found a _________ thing had happened. I _________ my bag and ran over to the bowl. I saw my best friend George floating around lifeless.

My mom walked into my room. I turned around as tears started to well in my eyes. “Mommy, George d…d…died.” With that __________ word I started crying uncontrollably. My mom came to my side as I hid my face in my pillows.

Suddenly, I realized that George hadn’t just __________ me. He had taught me what __________ meant. I learned it through feeding him and cleaning his bowl. This made me feel __________ . To my seven-year-old self, this was a great __________ . Slowly, a smile crossed my face. George was gone.__________ , the lessons he taught me would forever be carved into my memory.

4 . Rumeysa Gurbuz was at home asleep on February 6 in the city of Iskenderun on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast when a magnitude 7. 8 earthquake attacked the region. The quake caused ________ damage in Iskenderun. Fortunately, her beloved pet cat Leyla woke her up 15 minutes before the earthquake ________, enabling her to ________. When the quake hit, Gurbuz jumped out the window of her home, only ________ her legs.

“If I hadn’t woken up, I would have been in the ________, Gurbuz said in comments provided to Newsweek by animal welfare nonprofit Humane Society International (HSI). ”I ________ her a lot. We are alive, and there is ________.”

After being injured in the quake, Gurbuz was ________ to a hospital. But she posted an article on the Internet in a desperate attempt to ________ Leyla. HSI saw the ________ and began searching for the cat but finally was ________.

Kelly Donithan, HSI’s director of animal disaster response who was helping to ________ Leyla, asked Gurbuz to send her a voice message calling the pet’s name in an attempt to ________ the cat out. After a lot of ________, the trick worked and the ________ pet finally emerged from the ruins.

5 . “When one door closes,” the saying goes, “another door opens.” For one _______ dog, it appears that saying is also suitable for doggy doors.

A dog named Sheldon took part in a program to _______ a service dog. Unluckily, he couldn’t quite make the _______. Whenever he would _______ something interesting, Sheldon’s concentration flew out of the window and all he wanted to do was _______ the source.

But the very thing that made him a failure as a service dog meant he was likely _______ for another dog job. Sheldon was sent to the State Farm Arson Dog Program, where his sensitive (灵敏的) nose soon put him _______ the class for detecting the accelerants (探测肋燃剂) used to light illegal fires.

_______ John Tadlock of the Saginaw fire department, after his _______ Sheldon went on to become the department’s best accelerant detection dog.

In his first ________, Sheldon and his partner Tadlock were called to a car shop to look into some cars that had been ________ under suspicious (可疑的) circumstances. After three days, no one had been able to figure out how the fire got started — but the cause wasn’t ________ to Sheldon. “I put him to ________. It took him about 30 seconds to give me an alert (警报),” Tadlock said. Sheldon found the evidence with no ________.

For a dog with a super sense of smell, we guess whether you’re tailing bad guys or hunting for a job, it’s always best to follow your ________.

6 . Salvador Quijada is now an eighth-grade math teacher at Philip’s Academy Charter School. When he _________his own journey into maths, he gives credits to one high school math teacher who pushed him to take on AP calculus (微积分). Quijada said his teacher’s belief that he could succeed allowed him to challenge himself in ways he might not have otherwise _________.

Now, Quijada brings that _________ into his lessons. Last year, seeing many students who did well in maths, he thought they might need an _________ push in terms of their maths. So he wanted to bring an accelerated version of the eighth grade curriculum (课程) for them to _________ more easily. He brought up the _________ to Philip’s headmaster, Yasmeen Sampson, who encouraged him to move forward with it! Thanks to the right curriculum he found, the students were _________ enjoying the class. They were cooperating, _________ and working hard during the class. They’re now making great _________.

When asked what he has done as a teacher that he’s especially __________ of, “I create a classroom environment that __________ respect and learning,” he replied. “I always want my students to feel comfortable and __________, even when making mistakes. In my first year as a teacher, I had a student who always __________ me and made it difficult to teach. I had to really learn how to work with him. Once I was able to build a __________ with him, it became much __________ to teach him. Now, seven years later, I still keep in touch with him.”

7 . Zac Clark was doing yard work with his mother this past weekend. They ______ heard their neighbor’s wife calling for help. She told them her husband was ______ underneath their car.

Zac didn’t ______ to rush over to their house to help. “Instincts (本能) kicked in and I just ran over there. I guess the jack (千斤顶) broke or ______ and the car fell on top of him,” Zac said. “The only thing I could see was his legs and he was ______ .” Then, without any ______ , Zac came up and used all his strength to ______ the car off his neighbor a little bit. Then his wife and Zac’s mom could ______ him out from under it. Immediately the ______ neighbor got rushed to the hospital.

“He had a couple of broken bones and his face was messed up pretty bad, but the doctors told him if I wasn’t there, then he’d be ______ ,” Zac said.

Zac’s football coach Dave Carroll said he was ______ when he heard about what Zac had done. “He has just a ______ heart,” Carroll said. “Here’s a young man who’s been ______ sadness himself with his father passing away last summer, but he had no hesitation in saving somebody’s life.”

Zac said he was thinking of his late ______ as he lifted the car and wanted his neighbor to be able to spend his life with his family.

The lucky man is now ______ at home.

8 . Harry Burleigh headed into the woods for a camping trip with his fishing equipment. A few days later, his wife Stacy grew _________ when he didn’t come home as planned.

Stacy called the _________ to report her husband’s missing. Search and rescue teams _________ began their work and went on for days, but there was no _________ of Harry anywhere. Everyone was worried — the temperatures were quite low some nights, and it had even snowed.

On May 15, the rescuers finally caught a break when they _________ a shelter and his fishing equipment. They _________ support from over 16 rescue organizations, and they explored every possible _________ but with no luck. Therefore, the rescuers _________ him a lighter and a note telling him to make a _________ and they would be back. Two days later, a team found another __________, but this time, Harry was nearby and heard his name called! It turned out he was __________ along the path with minor pain.

__________, the crew radioed for a helicopter to take him to the hospital for a complete evaluation after spending 17 long days out.

“This was the __________ we all have been looking for in this case,” a rescuer said. “It is our __________ search and rescue teams and the partnerships we have with other teams that helped __________ Mr. Burleigh and his family.”

9 . In the summer of 2018, I decided to do a solo expedition (独自探险) across Antarctica. To get some ________, I did a two-week training course. I learned all the ________: how to camp in the snow, how to pull a sled and what clothing to wear. In October, I flew to Antarctica from Punta Arenas. I’d allowed 70 days, which would make it the longest ________ one-way expedition across Antarctica

I only took ________. I didn’t even take a hairbrush. The first few days were ________. The winds were about 60 mph, and my sled weighed 120 kg. Even if the visibility is good, you can’t ________ much — it’s a white horizon. I was on the move for 13 to 15 hours a day.

Then, I found the conditions to be much worse. There was more sastrugi (雪脊) and it felt colder. The last 40 hours were really hard. I ________ about 14 times every two hours. As a result, I fell behind ________. In the end, I ________ 922 miles and fell more than 100 miles short of my goal. Towards the end of my trip, a helicopter flew to pick me up. The ________ I felt when I saw the dot in the distance was unbelievable.

It took me a while to be ________ of what I’d achieved, because I had failed to reach my ________ goal, but I’ve learned it’s ________to move the goalposts. I don’t agree with the idea of conquering (征服) somewhere. You treat places with ________ and hope they’ll allow you ________ passage.

10 . It’s really easy to feel all alone in life, especially when going through hardship. But sometimes the _______ thing we can do is allow ourselves to ask for _______ , like Erin did.

Erin worked at a McDonald’s in Michigan. But her pay wasn’t enough to _______ rent and she and her twin girls ended up _______ . She wanted to sleep in her car which was _______ right outside of the girls’ school. However, she wasn’t sure what she was doing was _______ .

So, she asked police officer Heather Kolke if they could stay there. But the _______ didn’t stop there. Heather, also a mom, knew she had to _______ . She and her fellow officers found Erin and her daughters a temporary place to stay. That wasn’t all though: They even got her an _______ and went with her to offer moral ________ . Luckily, Erin got that job.

Heather also planned a birthday party for Erin’s daughters, with local businesses ________ balloons, cake, and pizza.

The whole community ultimately got ________ , raising $2,300 in cash, as well as clothes for the kids, items for their new ________ , gift cards to help them make ends meet.

“It ________ warms my heart to know that there are people out there who ________ . It is a reminder that there are good people in the world,” shared Erin.