5 . The e-mail request came into Ekiben restaurant in Baltimore late on a Thursday afternoon: broccoli (花椰菜) topped with fresh herbs, diced onion, and vinegar. The man who sent the e-mail didn’t actually want the food itself. He was writing on behalf of his _______, who _______ the dish and was now in the final _______ of lung cancer at her home in Vermont and he was hoping to get the _______ to make it for her there.

Steve Ben, one of the Asian restaurant’s co-owners, read the e-mail and quickly _______ with an alternative suggestion. “Thanks for reaching out,” he wrote. “We’d like to meet you in Vermont and make it _______ for you.”

Brandon Jones, the son-in-law, was _______. “I e-mailed back, saying, ‘You do know that this is Vermont we’re talking about, right?’” says Brandon. “But Steve responded, ‘No problem. You tell us the date, time, and _______ and we’ll be there.’”

That Friday after work, Ben _______ his truck with a hot plate and a cooler filled with ingredients (配料) and then headed for ________. As soon as Ben and his team ________ the parking lot, they got to work. After neatly ________ everything up, they knocked on their customer’s door.

“As soon as she opened the door, she recognized the smell,” Brandon says. “It was amazing.” As for Ben, he couldn’t help remembering his ________ customer. “It was an honor to help ________ the family’s wishes,” Ben says. “This is about her, not us. There was a lot of good, positive ________ in doing this.”

7 . In 2020, 13-year-old Adcola Olagbegi caught a rare illness, and had a successful operation. _________, Adeola is now out of hospital. While he was _________, he found out that he was qualified for a(n) _________ to ask for a dream wish from Make-A-Wish Foundation. While many teens would choose a Disney trip or meet a favourite figure, Abraham _________ chose to feed the homeless.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation is famous for brightening the lives of children _________ illnesses by realizing their wishes, A wish always includes having something or going some-where. However, Adeola’s wish to give came as a _________ to the organization, as Adeola’s_________ wish was the first of its kind in the organization’s 35-year history.

“When he so easily offers to help others, you just have to say, that’s a(n) _________ young man.” said Linda, an official of the organization. She was _________ with the teen’s kindness and sense of ______________.

Adeola thinks his past experiences ______________ with his family in their community are what______________ him to make the giving wish. When deciding what to do with the ______________ chance, the one thing that was the most important to him was that his wish had a long-lasting ______________.

“My mom always says it’s lucky to be someone ______________, so I just wanted to do something for other people to make it last longer.” Adeola explained.

8 . I was getting more excited as we got off the train at beautiful Grand Central Station. After a tour at the Museum of Modern Art, we _______ Radio City Music Hall and the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. In one of the _______ in the area, I found a tiny boxed set of Peter Rabbit books, perfect for my _______. Was there anything like Christmas in New York? Having experienced an exciting and tiring tour, we called a _______ back to Grand Central Station.

On the way home I realized that my handbag was gone—lost or _______, I had no idea. All the magic of this special day _______. I glumly(闷闷不乐地) imagined a crowded Department of Motor Vehicles and all the phone calls that I’d have to make to get my _______ cards replaced with new ones. And I’d never _______ all those precious photos of my daughters.

The days slipped by while I got rides to college and _______ going to the DMV(车管所) at such a busy time of year. Then I got an unexpected ________, a box with the return address of Radio City Music Hall. ________, I opened it and shouted in a joyful ________.

There was my old handbag, with everything ________ good inside—license, cards and photos—and one thing that hadn’t been there ________, a handwritten note, saying, “I found this handbag lying under the seat of my taxi by ________. Merry Christmas!”

9 . Alexis Lewis, a 7-year-old girl, set out with her family on a trip to explore different parts of the country. During the hours on the road, her grandfather, a rocket scientist, would _________ cool ideas with Alexis about science. Eventually, everything her grandfather said _________ Alexis to become an inventor.

Fast forward to the 2019 Kid Inventors’ Day event _________ on January 17th in Brooklyn, New York, Alexis, 14, was one of the seven kid _________ who attended the event. With an audience of 200 people in _________ and more than 500 others watching on Facebook Live, Alexis talked about her award-winning invention, the Bamboo Travois (雪橇). It is a lightweight device made of bamboo, a net rope _________ wheels. A person can use the travois to carry someone else while walking long _________.

Alexis also _________ another one of her inventions: the Emergency Mask (面罩) Pod. It is a football-shaped canister (小罐) that _________ a smoke mask and can be thrown through the window of a burning building. People inside the building can put on the mask to __________ themselves from smoke inhalation (吸入). __________ firefighters helped her test the invention by throwing it hundreds of times into the second storey windows of buildings.

The world __________ new thinkers like Alexis and other young inventors who __________ the event. Kids are the ones who can solve the __________ that the older generation creates. It’s our job as adults to show kids the possibilities of __________ they can make and create.

10 . It was my 28^th birthday, and I was seriously depressed.

I was a newly divorced mom, ________ two small children on my own. My six-year-old son, Nicholas, was in ________. I had taken three months off, because my five-month-old daughter, Maya, had been very ill.

I hadn’t lived in Utah (犹他州) long and I was still ________ cold and snow. That January was one of the most unpleasant in years. The day before my ________, I was in a bad mood. A cloud of ________ hung over me as I made the bed for the kids that night. My little Nick wrapped his ________ around my neck and said, “Tomorrow is your birthday, Mommy! I can’t wait!” His ________ blue eyes shone with excitement.

The next morning, I awoke before the kids and began to make breakfast. I heard ________ in our tiny living room. I thought Nick was up, so I waited for him to come in to eat. Then I heard him telling Maya to “make Mommy ________ today.”

His words suddenly ________ me： I’d been so absorbed in my sadness that I hadn’t realized how it was ________ my children. Sensing my unhappiness, my little boy was doing his best to do something about it. ________ a smile on my face, I went into the living room to hug my children. There ________ Nick on the floor, Maya on the blankets next to him, and ________ them was a pile of ________.

I looked wide-eyed and open-mouthed at the presents. “Happy birthday” my son cried. “I ________ you, Mommy, didn’t I?”

I hugged my son and daughter and told them how ________ I was to have them in my life. The ________ gifts, each ________ with kindergartener’s pocket money, were the best I’ve ever received. The final gift was Nick’s personal favorite: a wax birthday cake with words “I love you” ________ across the top.