1 . My son had just turned five. My husband and I were _________as to which school to send him to. We started _________ and visiting schools. Still, we felt _________ about which school to choose. So I called my friend Shannon. She’s the one I lean on most when I struggle with parenting _________. Having a son ten years older than mine, she’s gone through all the _________ I’m still going through.

“Jeanette, I know you have _________ it to two choices, both good schools. Your love and _________ in your kid’s life is more important than the _________ about which school to attend,” Shannon said.

“I remember when I was doing some late night grocery _________, worried about my __________ I was stuck between two can of beans. One can was twenty cents less than the other. It finally __________ me that either can of beans showed my care for the family.”

Shannon made me laugh so hard that I almost cried. “Now, because you are good parents, whatever school you pick is the right school. And, besides, you have a(n) __________ if one doesn’t fit.”

I felt a lot better after I __________. We were able to pick a good school for our son. __________, it’s just a can of beans, and you have to just __________ and make your decision. And if it turns out to be the wrong can of beans, you can always go back to get a different one.

2 . In 2016, I started working for the local company here in the community. I had to admit that the first day I walked into the office, I didn’t know what to expect, I was really_________. The waiting area was dark and dusty. I remembered sitting in the chair and feeling breathless with the_________of files and paperwork all over. I was worried about my_________.

One day, my boss asked me what I thought could be done with the scenery outside next to the office window. I paused for a while,_________what I could do with it. Then I had the perfect idea. I’d plant_________there if that was okay. He told me it was up to me. So, I got to work.

It took me a good week to_________the field, getting rid of the weeds. And I had to choose which type of sunflower to grow, as there were many different varieties. That was when I learned about all the different_________of sunflowers! I planted different ones.

It only took about a week for the sunflowers to sprout (发芽). I made sure to_________them every day and give them all the love I could. Before I_________it, the sunflowers had grown big, some even bigger than me. Watching them grow big and follow the sun throughout the day filled me with__________. I think part of my happiness is that I’ve grown them and help get them to be such beauties.

Every year, my sunflowers grow bigger, and so do my__________. Eventually, I have fields of sunflowers and an excellent__________in work. And it all__________with just a seed. Well, a packet of seeds. Dreams are like seeds; we could plant them, nourish them, and then watch them__________. Dreams has the potential to become something__________.

3 . Pedicab(三轮车)operator Sarah Grant and street violinist Anna Roznowska live in the same community. When they realized in March that their livelihoods and lifestyles were _________ by New Orleans’s stay-at-home order to_________ the spread of COVID-19,they were at a loss at first. Then they decided to take their_________ on the road.

The two have named their_________ the Mobile Music Box. Grant rides the pedicab that carries Roznowska as she_________,and the performance winds its way through New Orleans neighbourhoods.

Strict limits on gatherings have_________ concerts, parades and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which would have brought hundreds of thousands of people_________ late April.

Now Roznowska’s freestyle melodies(旋律)on her_________ run through the New Orleans streets.

“It’s_________ and uplifting. Live__________ is what we miss most right now, and it brings everyone out and makes everyone feel like it’s a__________ day,”said resident Elsa Kern, who stopped to__________ as the women rolled past.

Based on their performances so far, it certainly puts smiles on the faces of the residents they pass.“Fantastic, it is something to__________ the neighbourhood,” said resident Willie Anderson.

Roznowska and Grant don’t have a regular schedule or route(路线).“We don’t make money. It is something that was definitely born out of__________ and probably has a bit of a life of its own,”Grant said. “So there’s no real__________ except just to keep doing it.”

4 . Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Rakesh. He studied and lived in a boarding school (寄宿学校). Every night he jumped over the wall and played outside. He_________returned before dawn (黎明) and lay on his bed again, so no one knew that he went out at night.

One night as usual, Rakesh found_________asleep. He decided to play outside again. He went into his teacher—Mrs. Green’s room_________and saw her_________on bed. Then Rakesh walked out towards the wall. Near the wall, there was a_________. He climbed up the ladder and_________over the wall. But in fact, at that time his teacher was_________and saw him walking out.

She got up and_________the ladder from the wall. A few hours later, Rakesh _________. In the__________, he tried to climb down from the wall. Sadly, there was no ladder. Instead, Mrs. Green was standing where the ladder was and waited for him. Rakesh was very__________to be punished. But to his__________, she just helped Rakesh to get onto the ground, and said, “Rakesh, at least__________warm coat with you when you go out at night.” Mrs. Green’s__________made Rakesh know that he did wrong. He apologized (道歉) and never went out at night again. It is the best__________that he has ever had.

5 . Dr. Karen Sciascia has delivered thousands of babies. But this week, she helped deliver another life from danger, as she and her friend Seth McLean ________ a baby moose (驼鹿) that was separated from its mother when crossing a ________ .

Sciascia and McLean were fishing when they ________ a cow moose and her baby. The two moose were having trouble ________ a spot on the river where a violent ________ is created by two channels. After ________ back and forth in the water, the cow moose made it to the far river bank. When her baby tried to ________, it was swept downstream. With its nose ________ above the water, the baby was too ________ to ever fight the current. Realising the baby was in ________, Sciascia and McLean set off after it in their boat. After Scioscia ________ the little creature from the river, McLean rowed them upriver a bit, to the ________ where the cow moose had landed. Quickly after pulling to shore they ________ the baby and Momma was soon there checking her baby over. Once ________and satisfied, Momma led her baby into the woods.

“Having delivered so many babies, it was like every other day to me, though it was a ________ modality (形态),” Sciascia tells The Missoulian, “It was cool to be in the right place at the right time.”

6 . Ben was bothered every time he went through the kitchen. It was that little metal contain on the shelf above his wife Martha’s cook stove, which he had been repeatedly _________ never to touch. The reason, she said, was that it contained a “secret _________” from her late mother, and since she had no way of ever _________ the container, she was _________ that if Ben picked it up and looked inside, he might accidentally drop it and spill its _________ contents.

Ben never saw Martha cook a dish without taking the container of the shelf and sprinkling (洒) _________ a little of the contents over the ingredients. Whatever was in that container, it surely _________ Anyone who ever ate at their house felt Martha was the best _________ in the world. Looking into that container became increasingly _________ for Ben, but he never allowed himself to do so.

Then one day Martha became ill and was kept overnight in the hospital. Feeling lonely and bored in the house after returning home, Ben __________ the kitchen, and then the container on the shelf immediately came into view. It __________ his eyes like a magnet, and he quickly looked away, yet his curiosity brought him back again. He carefully took the container off the shelf, and opened it. Ben became __________ when what was inside came to I his sight. The container was empty, except for a little folded slip of paper at the bottom. He carefully picked it up and slowly __________ it under the kitchen light. Ben immediately __________ the handwriting as that of Martha’s mother. Very __________ it said: “Martha to everything you make, add a dash of love.”

7 . After an 11-year career, Philadelphia-based barber Brennon Jones decided to give back to his community. Without a_______of his own, Jones offered free haircuts to the_______on sidewalks and street comers. With a “daily mission of giving back and_______love,” Jones completed as many as 20 haircuts a day, and_______traveled to homeless hotspots like Camden, New Jersey.

One day in April 2017, a man named Sean Johnson_______Jones while he was out cutting hair and asked him what he_______to do during the cold winter. Jones replied that he would_______have to put off Haircuts For Homeless (HC4H). A few months later Jones received a call from Johnson_______him to meet at his newly redecorated barbershop. He_______him the keys and said, “If you like it, it’s yours.”   

Completely________by the stranger’s kindness, Jones named his newly opened shop Phenomenon Perfection.

Believing that “the greatest joy in life is being able to________others, “Jones will continue to host haircuts for the homeless during weekly “Makeover Mondays” where________can also enjoy a free meal. “To us it’s just a haircut, ________to them it’s so much more. It’s a sense of self-esteem,” says Jones.

The homeless________is often overlooked, but now there’s hope for them. Brennon Jones might have been like an angel to the homeless, but Sean Johnson ended up being an angel as well. With his________gift, Jones can now continue to help those who need help the most.

8 . As the saying goes, “Interest is the seed of everything”. Since childhood, Cantero had been living with football that had a _________ effect on her. She had always loved football as well as art, and fortunately she found a way to _________ the two things.

Lili Cantero prepared a new colorful show of her works to take to the World Cup in Qatar. The 29-year-old artist was famous for _________ soccer shoes for stars. Her new artworks included shoes and balls with pictures and designs. Many of them were _________ by the Middle Eastern nation, Qatar, and especially its capital Doha brought her lots of _________ ideas. The city welcomed national teams from the world to _________ in the World Cup.

Cantero _________ sent a pair of shoes to Argentine star Lionel Messi. The shoes had fancy details with black and white image of the _________ and his family. She didn’t know if Messi would even receive the shoes. But _________, she received a photo of Messi holding them. That marked a turning point in her__________. Then her colorful designs __________ other stars. She even met a famous former Brazilian star and gave him a pair of __________ and a football showing a kiss his mother had given him after winning an award in 2005.

In Qatar, Cantero planned to show eight footballs with designs that showed her __________ for eight countries winning the World Cup, thinking that they were __________ of the admiration of all. Finally, the footballs were the centerpiece of the World Cup exhibition, while the boots were presented within three-dimensional __________ looking like the stadiums that Qatar built for the World Cup.

9 . One day, Marga asked if I would join her in hiking to Base Camp at the foot of Mount Qomolangma to celebrate her 60th birthday. I _________ the opportunity.

We met our guide Achut Pandey in Kathmandu. He was a man of joy and _________, who had been to Base Camp over 100 times.

When we left Namche Bazaar, we took the Three High Passes route, which is less-traveled, longer and more _________. The temperatures ranged from the teens to below 0°F. We were nearly _________. When we were done with dinner, we _________ ourselves to our sleeping bags. While we _________ were able to down a couple of eggs and a piece of toast, the higher we went, the less we _________. Eventually, it was a lot of _________ to just eat a bowl of rice. The altitude _________ us in other ways too. As our appetites slowed, so did our ____________. Renjo La Pass, the first pass, was supposed to take eight hours. It took 12.

Achut’s faith in us was never ____________. He greeted us each day with a ____________ “good morning.” Before we ____________ Base Camp, he carried our packs and skillfully negotiated our moods and capabilities. We trusted him as he ____________ us, confident and strong, up and down icy, ____________ and sometimes narrow paths.

Thanks to Achut, I made it, at 65.

10 . I was cleaning out a cupboard the other day when I made an amazing discovery. Inside I _________ the manuscript (手稿) for a novel. It included an outline of the _________ and a pile of typed pages telling a story. It was written, to my _________, by my father who has been dead for more than 50 years. It isn’t _________, as novels go, perhaps fifty or sixty typed pages, but without my _________ it has somehow accompanied me through my years of _________, several jobs, a marriage, the birth of my children and grandchildren, retirement and even a relocation across the country where I live.

Yet there it was, resting under a lot of paper to be recycled. I might have _________ my father’s legacy (遗产). I was truly _________ by my discovery.

I’m in the middle of reading another book _________ my dad’s novel has a place on my bed-side table. I want to have some __________ time for it so I haven’t __________ examined it yet. I’m going to spend a whole afternoon to give it the __________ it deserves. As yet I don’t know what the story line is about and I don’t even know if it is complete but I __________ a highly emotional process of finding out.

I find it fascinating to think that this could happen; that after more than fifty years my father could __________ his only son through the mists of time. It’s one of those things that we don’t see coming and that make life so __________.