1 . My life is full and active taking care of my grandson. But weeks ago, he headed for an overseas holiday, I was left feeling _______ and lost. I needed something extraordinary to lift my _______.

Then one day, I entered the Coffee Club near my home and _______ a cup of coffee. I settled into a comfortable sofa, _______ tasting the delicious drink. After a while, I approached the waitress and handed her my _______. She smiled and said, “That’s already been paid for.”

I looked at her in _______. “Really?” Then she said the words I’ll never forget. “It was a _______ of kindness, and it happens a lot.”

I was shocked. I never really _______ these things though I had heard about them. Today, I _______ it firsthand. Good, kind people are out there in the world. And they ________ when you need them most. I left home this morning feeling, somewhat lost. I returned with a ________ in my step, excited about sharing my story and ________ the kindness.

Two weeks later, I paid for a girl in the Coffee Club. The only thing is, this time, the Coffee Club did it ________. The waiter pointed me out. She couldn’t believe it and ________ me. I simply smiled, explaining that I was passing on the ________ I’d received not long ago.

3 . A family of six is happy to be back home in Quebec after spending a year traveling the globe. Edith Lemay and Sebastien Pelletier organized this ________ to give their kids as many visual memories as possible — memories they can ________ long after losing their eyesight.

The Canadian couple ________ their first born daughter Mia, now 11, had vision problems when she was just three years old. After years of ________with specialists, the parents were told Mia suffered from retinitis pigmentosa (视网膜色素变性), a ________ condition that causes vision loss over time. ________, two of their sons were soon diagnosed (诊断)with the same incurable disorder. One specialist recommended Lemay help her kids create unforgettable ________ memories. That was when the couple had the ________ to show their kids the world.

The family set out in March 2022, ________ Africa from Namibia to Tanzania and touring some Asian countries. Aside from ________ beautiful sights, the parents also patiently taught their kids how to ________ to new situations, wishing them to be strong despite the ________ that may come later in their lives.

When things don't go as ________, many people tell themselves they are born unlucky enough to ________ taking responsibility to make changes in life. Yet this couple and their children have been facing life ahead ________. With such a positive state of mind, you can overcome anything.

4 . Neerja wakes up at 7 o’clock. She finds that she has a birthday cap over her head. She’s both ________ and confused. “Is it my birthday today? But it is in August …” She ________ her phone. It shows August 27, her birthday.

Things are getting more and more ________ for her. In a few seconds, her family ________ the room with a huge cake box. She is almost ________ about it.

She comes forward to ________ the cake, and as she opens the box, everything becomes ________ at once. The box has a joker mask with “April Fool!” written on it. With loud laughter, they make her ________ that she’s been tricked (欺骗). Now Neerja owns the title of “FOOL OF THE YEAR”. And if she doesn’t want the ________, she has to pass it to someone else.

On her way to school, she continuously ________ about how to add a member to the “fool’s chain (链)” till she sees Hari. A(n)________ comes to her mind. She says, “Hello, Hari! The class teacher called you to her office. She wants you to be the new class monitor (班长).” After some time, she sees him coming back ________. She realizes that she has made a huge mistake.

She goes to him and says, “I’m really sorry. I just ________ to pass the title ‘FOOL OF THE YEAR’ to someone else”. “‘FOOL OF THE YEAR’... what’s that?” he asks curiously. Neerja can’t help ________ his innocent (天真的) question. Hari laughs too. Though they are both now members of the “chain of fools”, they are happy that this chain is the beginning of their ________ too.

7 . Smith brought his three-month-old son out for breakfast one day. He was playing with his son and tending to him while eating, and just doing his _________ thing.

But then he noticed a _________ staring at him. He was _________. “What is going on?” “They kept _________ at me,” he wrote in a post.

As it _________, the strangers were just happy to see a dad spending time with his son, and they felt inspired while watching the _________. Smith had no way of knowing that until he paid for his meal. He was given by the waiter a _________ from the couple, saying what a great father he was and that they would like to leave some _________ for his meal.

“Today your meal is on my wife and me,” it read. “_________ that baby as long as possible. The Masons.”

For Smith, it was a happy moment of reassurance (认可) and feeling __________. He was touched by the generosity and noted that he didn’t have a father figure growing up, so spending this time with his son is super __________ to him.

He wrote that he’ll share this __________ with his son when he’s older and that he wants to teach him kindness and about the __________ of giving back.

“I make sure I’m __________,” Smith wrapped. “I get blessed — I want to __________ someone else.”

9 . When DeJuan was in fourth grade, he didn’t have the money for school lunch. “I wouldn’t have made it without generous help from others,” said DeJuan, now 15. This year, DeJuan _________ money on the Internet. “I wanted to do something to _________ other kids get the help needed.” DeJuan’s _________ was to collect $200 to help parents in his community pay for their kids’ school _________. In less than two weeks, he received $400. He went back to his _________ school, McCurdy Elementary and _________ the head teacher with a check.

Now DeJuan is raising money to _________ the entire Hazelwood School District, which _________ more than 30 schools. “Sometimes, school lunch is the only meal a kid can _________,” he says on his GoFundMe page. “Food __________ is a huge issue, and I am doing what I can to __________ it.” As of September 23, donations totaled nearly $10,000.

Besides taking care of other kids’ meals, DeJuan also keeps himself __________ by running Team Tech Boy, a business he started to encourage kids’ interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). And he has __________ two STEM-themed comic books based on his own understanding of STEM education.

“__________ really warms my heart,” DeJuan says. “The fact that I’ve been able to __________ others’ lives positively gives me a really good feeling.”

10 . George saved every coin for twenty years and used all that money to build a house on his farm for his family. ________, his house was built and ready. After that, an auspicious (吉利的) date was ________ to move into his new house with his family.

But just two days before that day, a (n) ________ happened and George’s house was completely destroyed. Upon ______ the news, he went to buy sweets before going to the ________ where his house was built. There, many people gathered and expressed their ________ for him, because he lost his house before he could even get to live there. Some people tried to ________ him.

However, George took out the ________ and started giving them to everyone, which made them ________, wondering why he did so. Seeing this, one of his friends said, “Are you ________? Your newly-built house has collapsed (倒塌) in the earthquake, your lifetime ________ has been wasted and here you are happily ________ sweets!!”

George smiled and said. “You only ________ the dark side of this serious event, so you are not able to pay attention to the ________ side. It’s good that the house collapsed today. If it had collapsed when I lived in this house, my wife, my children and I all would have been ________! How big a loss would have happened then! So whatever happened, happened for good only.”