1 . Born into a poor farmer’s family in Meixi township in 1960, Liang Ruirong suffered polio (脊髓灰质炎) when he was a child. This physical disability ______ his life.

After failing the college entrance examination, he made a ______ working in fields. After about a year, Liang seized the ______ chance to become a full-time employee at a _____ factory in a neighboring town. Modest and ______, he was promoted to workshop director after five years. Over time, the idea of ______ his own company began to take shape. “I didn’t have the money,” he said. “I had to ______ it from friends.”

During the first few years, Liang traveled with the delivery truck to ______ customers with the bamboo products in person. “To save on ______, I often slept in the truck at night,” he said.

Liang never forgot about the ______ he had gone through. As company chairman, he created jobs on the processing lines, which do not require much physical ______. To make sure that as many people as possible could ______ his success, the company establishes a charity which ______ 250, 000 yuan to Meixi township.

Liang’s company is now well-known for environmentally friendly bamboo products. For Liang, the company has   ______ to the world, showing that it is possible to ______ the right balance between economic development and environmental protection, making money and benefiting society.

2 . When I was seven, my father gave me a watch, Timex. It was my first watch. I loved it, wore it for years, and haven’t had another one since it stopped clicking a decade ago. Why? Because I don’t _________ one. I have a mobile phone and I’m always near someone with an iPod or something like that. All these _________ tell the time — which is why, if you look around, you’ll see lots of empty _________; sales of watches to young adults have been going down since 2007. But while the _________ men have realized that they don’t need them, others _________ are spending total fortunes on them. Brands (品牌) such as Rolex and Philippe command shocking _________, up to £250,000 for a piece.

This is _________. These days all watches tell the time as well as all other watches. Expensive watches come with extra _________ but who needs them? How often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea or need to find your _________ in the South Pole? So why pay that much of five years’ school fees for watches that allow you to do these things? If justice were done, the Swiss watch industry should have __________ when the Japanese discovered how to __________ accurate watches for a five-pound note.

Watches are now categorized as “investments”. A 1994 Philippe recently sold for nearly £350,000, while 1960s Rolexes have gone from £15,000 to £30,000 plus in a year. But a watch is not an investment. It’s a(n) __________ for self-satisfaction, a matter of fashion. Prices may keep going up. But when fashion moves on, the __________ of that £350,000 beauty will __________ find his pride and joy is no more a good investment than my __________ Timex.

3 . Chloe Smith is a girl aged 6 from Atlanta, Georgia. One day, while taking a walk with her father near their home, she________something shiny under a pile of rubbish. She picked up the ________ to take home, as she often did on her treasure-hunting walks. Chloe was later ________ to discover she had found a stolen Olympic gold medal.

The medal belongs to former canoeist (划艇运动员) Joe Jacobi, who won gold while ________ for Team USA in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic games. The medal, along with other personal belongings, was ________ in May of 2016 when someone broke into Jacobi’s can. Though police managed to ________ some of his stolen items, they hadn’t been able to find his ________ Olympic medal. It may have been lost forever, if not for a 6-year-old girl’s treasure-hunting ________ .

Chloe’s dad had seen Jacobi’s story on the news, and ________ realized it was his stolen property. He found Jacobi’s email and sent him pictures of the treasure. After________ the medal, Jacobi was astonished, just speechless.

Chloe was ________ to give it back after speaking with Jacobi on the phone. ________, Jacobi promised to speak to her class when school begins again this fall. The ________ of this little girl reuniting an Olympian with his beloved possession is ________ . When we talk about character and doing the ________ thing, Chloe represents the Olympic values in every sense of the word.

4 . I was sixty-eight years old and retired when our church (教堂) joined a prison service group. We went on a tour of the women prison (监狱). The metal doors gave me a sense of ________. I knew I couldn’t stand being locked behind those doors, ________ as a volunteer who knew she was getting out.

Then Margo, a young but experienced volunteer in the prison, ________ me to be her partner. She felt she could ________ the women by speaking to their needs. Her positive attitude slowly built my ________, and I accepted her invitation.

Later, Margo and I scheduled our first visit. ________, when we arrived at the prison, the women ________ to come out as they were watching TV. And when I arrived the next week for the second visit, I was told Margo couldn’t ________! How was I supposed to deal with them when she was absent? Waiting alone ________, I almost jumped at the sound of the door unlocking. One by one, the women in orange entered the room. I saw daughters, mothers, and grandmothers. They had all once made bad decisions but they wanted to ________. Suddenly, I felt no fear and couldn’t wait to share ________ words with these women. Before I knew it, our meeting had ended and the women were ________ me.

Fifteen years have passed now and I ________ to go weekly to the prison. The greatest ________ is to hear them say “thanks, Granny Bev,” as they follow the guard back to their rooms, and I go through the ________ doors that once brought me fear.

5 . Have you seen the incredible guitar playing of man born with no arms? The musician who was born without arms is being _______ for his greatest guitar-playing skills in a short documentary (纪实的) video which shows him playing the instrument with his _______.

Mark Goffeney, 46 of San Diego, who is _______ as “Big Toe” because of the way he plays the guitar, shows how he became a talented performer despite his _______ in the inspiring video. “I first _______ the instrument when I was nine, after my father brought home a beat-up _______ with only four strings. My first guitar came from some place like a landfill (垃圾场),” says Mark, who adds that he became “_______” about becoming a musician at age 12.

Mark devoted every waking hour to searching his town and trying to join a _______, but ran into _______ because of his disability. Therefore, he started his own rock band, called Wicked Misfit, and began booking gigs (特约演奏) in California.

Things were ________ professionally for Mark because of his disability. But everything ________ when he started playing music from the heart. “When I ________ pursuing this fantasy dream of being a rock star and just started playing music to make whatever milk money I could to support my family, everything started feeling good and ________ out for me,” he shares.

Today, Mark ________ with his band, Big Toe, and also becomes a street-performer in California, where he makes quite good money ________ by passers-by.

10 . Diana Herbert was running late for school on Friday morning so she decided to take a shortcut(近路). Little did 16-year-old Herbert know this would make a big difference in her life. While Herbert was walking _______ to try to get to school on time, an elderly gentleman _______ her, and asked Herbert to tie his shoelaces(鞋带) for him. At first she was a bit _______ but then she saw that the old man was _______ to use his hands properly and had a walking stick. She realized that he could not really help himself so she _______ to do that for him.

After she finished tying the man’s lace, the man thanked Herbert. Then she continued on her way to school, _______ thinking of the situation.

What Herbert did not know is that a woman named Nadine Ribeiro _______ the whole thing. Ribeiro stopped her car and took a photo. She then _______ it on her Facebook and wrote about the situation. _______ , the photograph on the social media spread quickly — more than 3,000 people liked Ribeiro’s photograph while 6,000 more ________ it with their friends.

Herbert, however, did not know what was going on until the principal told her that she became some kind of Internet superstar. Herbert said she couldn’t understand why people were so attracted by the ________. The following Monday, Herbert was ________ by the school for her kindness.

“I was not ________ that much attention, but it felt nice to get ________ for something good,” Herbert said. “I believe in karma(因果)—once we do nice things it will in some way benefit us ________.”