1 . I was heading home after giving my colleague a lift. I took a _______ as the snowstorm was approaching.

Then the snow started and was coming down _______. Within minutes I was in a whiteout.The windows were _______ and getting covered with snow, so I slowed down and rolled down my driver's side window, thinking I could better _______ the road edge and keep to a straight line. But really, I had no _______ where I was. I stopped and kept the car running to stay_______. I called 911.The operator told me to wait things out for the night.

The call left me in _______. Breathe, I told myself. An idea occurred to me. I _______ my location online and explained what I was _______, wishing for anyone to come to my rescue. Soon enough, people started chiming in on my post. I got a ________ from someone who was going to put me in touch with people nearby. I had never been more ________.

Then I saw a big ________ in the dark. He had walked about 500 metres to get me, ________ the wind and snow each step of the way. “You’ll be OK. Follow me.” He turned around and started to trudge through the snow, sure of the ________. I drove slowly behind him. When we reached his house,I burst into tears of ________.

2 . Being part of a community can help people feel less lonely in life. Oliver Johnson is only 7years old, but he sometimes feels lonely and abandoned.

As Oliver’s birthday drew near, his mom Katherine Johnson ______ to do something to make her son feel ______ in society. Knowing Oliver loves ______ more than toys and video games, and always wants to sit behind the wheel, Katherine shared a simple post on Facebook ______ if any truckers would give her son a ______ in their trucks for $50. She hoped just one trucker would see the post and ______ . Later, Barry, the owner of a transportation company, saw Katherine’s ______ . Unexpectedly, Barry appealed to the truckers of his company to turn up for a truck rally (集会) in honor of Oliver’s birthday. Thirty-four truckers ______ right away. However, on the big day, more than twice that number ______ . Barry was very grateful for his staff members showing a lonely child what a ______ community looks like. “When it comes to kids, these truckers will always come out,” Barry said. Oliver was ______ surprised by the truck rally, and he couldn’t have been more ______ . “We all could sense he was surrounded by happiness,” said his father, Simon Johnson. “To be perfectly honest, the big day meant more than we could have ever ______ ,” he added, “‘thank you’ just doesn’t ______ what’s happened.”

None of the truckers accepted a cent for their time or expenses. It’s an act full of ______ ! Thanks to everyone who made this happen to the special kid.

3 . My mother came from a traditional Catholic family and was a teacher before retirement. In short, she didn’t do crazy _______. That all changed a few years ago.

When she turned 75, she _______ us she’d booked a seven-night trip to Turkey. Alone. Of course, that was _______. She paid no attention to us. Off she went. When she returned she excitedly told us it had been _______.   As it _______ , she had barely spent any time alone after _______ Mustafa, a carpet seller, who showed her around Istanbul for several days. She bought some carpets. Mustafa had taken her address and _______ to ship the carpets home. Mustafa and my mother apparently _______ quite a friendship and she had told him to please drop by if he were ever in our town. We couldn’t believe how _______ she had been and explained that she had been cheated. ________ , some weeks later, her carpets arrived. As did a lovely note from Mustafa. To our even greater ________ , the following year Mustafa himself arrived and visited.

Still, this year, she decided to get a tattoo (纹身) as her 80th birthday ________ to herself. My brother and I ________ each other. Was she joking? Six days later, she had a tasteful butterfly on her left ankle.

Mum ________ straighter than most of us. Her absurd behavior seems to be thoughtfully based on a ________ that life is to be lived, and when there’s relatively little of it left, it needs to be lived now.

4 . On August 23rd, my son was out mountain biking with his teacher and friends. As usual, we were waiting at home ________ lunch ready. At 12:15, he still hadn’t ________. Then, we got the call that he was badly hurt.

We ________ up the mountain in the car. He was in the kind of ________ you never want to see. We got him to the hospital for X-ray s to be told his collarbone (锁骨) was broken. Collarbones are especially ________ to treat, as you can’t just put them in a cast (石膏). Children his age are moving all the time, ________ how we would be able to stop an active 8-year-old boy from moving for a minimum of 5 weeks was a ________.

We got him a “figure-of-8” support that keeps both his shoulders aligned (成一条直线). It was the best ________ for making sure the bone grew back straight. Sleeping was very painful for him, and in the next few ________ everything came crashing down. No sports. No activity. ________ birthday party plans. We got into a new normal at home. We found other things for him to do that weren’t ________, such as reading and making artwork. It ________ his world from being the strong, active kid to not being able to do what he loved. However, he gradually adapted to his new life.

I would never ________ an-injury on anyone;yet, it is a direct way to learn how to be patient with life, with the body, and with each other. My ________ lesson has been that my child may have learned more from this injury than anything else he’s gone through this year, and, ________, it will serve him for life.

5 . I don’t usually keep houseplants. They get either overwatered or underwatered. But after I got a terminal (晚期) brain cancer and needed a major operation, I ________ the idea of having something green around.

My friend gave me a lucky bamboo plant, which I told my wife I wanted to ________myself.

Caring for the plant gave me a sense of ________ when I felt useless. The disease ________my ability to walk. As a doctor, I was used to being the one who offered ________, not the one who received it. ________ the plant, as small an act as it was, connected me to a main part of my old identity.

Over the next few months, I recovered from my ________ and returned to work. And the plant had doubled in height and its leaves were ________ and healthy. Both the tree and I were thriving (旺盛). Then, ________, whatever I did, the leaves kept browning and dropping. I grew more and more ________.

“If my lucky bamboo dies, I might die too.” I couldn’t shake the feeling that the plant had become a(n) ________ of my health until I realized I had ________ connected my good care for the plant with my own survival. When my cancer unavoidably ________, I no longer thought it was any failure on my part. And as my anxiety ________, I began to learn how to better care for my plant. I put it to a larger pot (花盆), giving it ________ to grow. Gradually,we both began to thrive again.

6 . Myrtle is a small sleepy town in Missouri. There’s no bank or restaurant here, but a small stone_______right next to the state highway. Half of it is a post office. The other half is a one-room_______.Rachel Luster took over this library four months ago with the_______of connecting the community to the outside world and creating a _______center for the kids.

Her first task was_______the books she felt every library must have: The Odyssey. “I looked and looked. But we didn’t have. No library in our system had one,” Luster said. So she started to use social media to_______money from people around the state and has already _______about 1, 000 new books to the library.

“While the Myrtle library_______taxpayer money, it gets only $200a month for books and supplies,” she explained. “But the library is a _______for the community because many people here do not have ________to the Internet at home and the library is the only place that people can connect to the outside world. I want to bring a sense of ________to the community.”

Luster’s library is open only three days a week. One of her ________visitors is 10-year-old Blake Brooks.

“Before________this library, my favorite activity was watching TV,” he said. “Now, as soon as I step off the school bus, I come here to________.I like to________.I’m in the books I read.”

7 . One day,Jake Shaffer and Aidan Arie were walking along the shore on Huntington Beach in California.Unexpectedly.they _______ a small plane crash into the ocean nearby.The junior lifeguards _______ jumped into action.Aidan ran to the shore where the plane was.grabbed a board and quickly paddled(划)out into the _______,while Jake got his board and _______ behind him as fast as he could.When they _______the plane,they got the pilot onto Jake’s board.Jake noticed a small cut on the pilot’s head and kept _______ him if he was OK.

“His face paled(变苍白)with fear.Obviously,he was too_______to talk.We were also trying to learn information about the person and what had _______.But he was sitting on the board in _______,“Jake told NBC.

They were then joined by other teenagers who ________ in the rescue, helping the ________carry the pilot to shore. The pilot, who was the only one on board the plane, was thankfully OK and brought to the ________ where he was treated for minor ________.

He is definitely lucky to be alive, as this crash could have been much worse. The outcome could have also been much ________ if the junior lifeguards were not there to help the pilot so quickly after the crash. Both lifeguards may be young. but they’ve already proven how brave they are at rescuing those ________ in the water.

8 . A passion for sewing has been in my family for several generations, and with a few lessons from my grandma and brother, I became pretty _________ about it. So I decided to give scrunchies (布发箍) a try! My first _________ was a disaster, but I kept on trying until I eventually _________ the art of scrunchie-making.

When I was first _________, I would sit at the machine for hours on end, just managing to _________ an item I was eager to sell. I didn’t get bored or _________; I was just so determined to complete and _________ get it on the market.

I began selling my items to my friends, and now I’m selling dresses as well! My _________ have won me a reputation, for each item was _________ with great love and care.

My family and friends have offered me their constant __________ and feedback (反馈). They helped me learn how to run, __________ and plan a whole business. Most of the time, their feedback is __________, but they’re not afraid to tell me if I could have done something better. I’ve also had to __________ negative feedback, which cables me to be more __________ when something doesn’t work out the way as I planned.

My advice for anyone looking to start up their very own __________, would be to start small and build yourself up. Enjoy, and trust in the journey!

9 . Troy Kotsur is the second deaf actor to be nominated (提名) for an Academy Award. In his Oscar-nominated performance in Child Of Deaf Adults, Kotsur ________ just one word using sign language.

The movie star, Emilia Jones, acts as the only hearing ________ of a deaf family. To encourage Emilia acting as his daughter to go after her ________ of singing and attending college, Kotsur says, “Go!” “I hope that young people who ________ to be deaf or hard of hearing can get an increased ________,” Kotsur said. “I want those kids to trust themselves more.” The movie has made Kotsur ________ and made history for the deaf community. Kotsur is also the first deaf ________ ever nominated individually for a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Kotsur’s road to the Oscars ________ in school. As a child, Kotsur loved cartoons like Tom and Jerry. He would_ ________ the stories for his deaf ________ on the school bus. He later ________ acting at Gallaudet University, a university for the deaf in Washington, D.C. After graduating, he performed with the National Theatre of the Deaf. With few roles in film ________ for deaf actors, Kotsur had to find ________ in stage acting. Beginning with Of Mice and Men in 1994, Kotsur has acted in twenty productions in Los Angeles.

Kotsur wants ________ to change their wrong ideas about what deaf people are like after seeing the film, “We’ve been waiting for so long to recognize deaf actors and it is our hope that deaf actors will not have to ________ so long to be recognized on this level,” he said.

10 . Without school, organized activities, and camps to keep them busy last year, many children and teens have been feeling unhappy. But 14-year-old Macaire Everett and her 9-year-old little brother, Camden, found a special way to ______ themselves and also to brighten up life for their entire ______ during the COVID-19 pandemic.The kids from Illinois ______ wildly imaginative large works of sidewalk art for 100 days. Macaire was the ______ in the team and Camden ______ a living, breathing subject in the chalk images (画像) .

Once a doodler (涂鸦手), Macaire never had enough time to ______ her artistic skills. But after COVID-19 put a(n) ______ to her last year in middle school, she set a ______ for herself: to create sidewalk art every day for 100 days and make her little brother ______.

“If you look back at pictures of some of the older chalk art, you can see how much I’ve ___,” Macaire said. “The drawings got a lot cooler. At the ______, Camden didn’t really go places, but later he went all over the world, as I got better at art from ______ this every day.”

And as the images kept coming, neighbors would come by too, to check out the ________project. The teen artist said, “It put a _______ on people’s faces.” Macaire also posted her art on the Internet, which spread the joy ______.