2 . “Look, Mum, he paints like me!” Eight-year-old Alexandra Nechita had just discovered Pablo Picasso’s artwork for the first time. The art world _________ and began to call Alexandra the “Petite (小的) Picasso.” This _________ artist has been turning heads in the art world ever since.

Even at age two, Alexandra spent nearly all her time on her coloring books. _________ that their daughter spent too much time alone, Alexandra’s parents took her coloring books away. They _________ she’d start to jump rope or play with dolls. But taking away her colors was like taking the air out of her life. Alexandra began to color on paper which her mother _________ home from office.

When Alexandra was four, her parents began to notice the figures she _________. They were abstract and looked like Picasso’s work, with four eyes and two faces. She _________ painting with watercolors and then with other paints.

Alexandra’s classmates would sometimes _________ her paintings. But her primary school teacher saw talent in her drawings. She helped eight-year-old Alexandra organise her first _________ at a local library.

Within a year, Alexandra had several other exhibitions. By then, she had __________ more than 250 paintings. Her exhibition at the famous Mary Paxon Gallery brought her to the __________ of national art critics (评论家). She began to appear on television, in news and talk shows around America.

Today Alexandra __________ paints in her special style. Admirers have spent a large amount of money buying her paintings. But the __________ doesn’t seem to have affected her negatively (消极地). Through various charities, Alexandra shares her wealth with those __________ around the world. And as Alexandra continues to paint, the world will be blessed to experience more of her __________ for life and art.

3 . I was getting more excited as we got off the train at beautiful Grand Central Station. After 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) pictured a jam-packed 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!”

4 . A 15-year-old student has been praised a hero. Because he had _______ the life of a man who had suffered a heart attack. Sheng Xiaohan hadn’t told students and teachers the story until the man _______ at the school to thank him.

Sheng said he was _______ home at 9:00 pm. after working late at school, when he saw people surrounding a unconscious man on the ground, with a man making _______ to pat (轻拍) on his back.

Then Sheng measured the man’s pulse (脉搏) and found it was _______. “I had learned first _______ since primary school. And the latest time was during military (军事的)_______,” he said. He thought the old man might have_______ a heart attack. Then he tried cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). He pressed down on the man’s chest _______, while asking another man to help with artificial respiration. Sheng kept doing CPR for about six minutes without nervousness until the ambulance ________, and sent the man to the hospital.

“I can’t stop or ask others to replace me in case of any ________,” he added. “During the process, he started to breathe again, which made me ________ to go on.”

Sheng said he didn’t feel tired during the ________, but afterwards his arms were ________. After the experience, he didn’t ________ it as an unusual thing, because he was always ready to help others.

6 . It was a rainy day, and I had no desire to drive up the winding mountain road. But my daughter Carolyn had _______ that I come to see something at the top of the mountain. So here I was, _______ making the two-hour journey through the fog. By the time I saw how thick it was near the peak, I’d gone too far to _______.

After parking the car, we walked along a path that was _______ with pine needles (松针). Gradually, the peace and silence of the place began to fill my mind. Then we turned a corner and I gasped (倒吸气) in _______. From the top of the mountain were _______ of flowers flowing across valleys. A mass of color-from the palest pink to the deepest yellow to the most vivid red-shone like a carpet before us. It looked as though the _______ had spilled gold down the mountainside. Who _______ such beauty? How? As we _______ the house in the center of the field, we saw a sign that ________ “Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking.” The first answer was: “One ________ - Two Hands, and Very Little Brain.” The second was: “One Plant at a Time, Started in 1980.”

I was so moved that I could hardly speak. “She started over 40 years ago,” I finally said, “probably just the beginning of a (n) ________, but she kept at it.” The ________ of it opened my eyes to the world of the possible. “Imagine,” I said, “if I’d had a vision (愿景) and worked at it, just a little bit every day, what might I have ________?” Carolyn smiled. “Start tomorrow,” she said, “________ yet, start today.”

10 . The Adams family home has been taken over by origami (折纸) in all sizes and shapes. No one seems to _________ though. Those paper creations are _________ clean water projects around the world and saving lives. A messy home is a small price to pay _________.

In 2011, Isabelle Adams and her sister Katherine learned that every five seconds a child died from _________ of clean water and that girls of their age couldn’t go to school _________ they were fetching water all day for their families. They _________ to do something.

“So we took something that we loved doing — folding origami, with the _________ goal to help fund a well in Ethiopia,” explains Katherine. _________, they ended up selling out and raising far more than that to fully _________ the cost of the well.

Katherine, now 13, adds, “It just snowballed, ____________ the founding of the project Paper for Water.” In eight years, this project has ____________ more than 2 million dollars for over 200 water projects in 20 different countries.

Now, the rest of the Adams family are also ____________ it. But at the heart of it, beneath countless paper decorations sit two bold sisters hoping to ____________ other girls and boys. “Kids have an incredible ability to make a real ____________ to the world if they’re just given the chance,” Isabelle says, “and if people ____________ them in their efforts.”