1 . It was July 2019 and Mum had taken me on a 120-km mother-and-son walking holiday as a treat for my birthday. Although I was still on my first special ________, I’d love to see some ancient civilisation.

“Why don’t we go to Egypt?” I said. “It sounds ________, but I’m not paying for it,” Mum smiled and replied.

“I’ll save up my pocket money, and get a ________,” I said. I started saving my $10-a-week pocket money and washed my parents’ car for ________ cash.

In 2020, we moved to Perth. One day, I ________ a brochure in the letter box which was advertising a job delivering catalogues (目录). I applied for the job, and ________ I got it a week later.

On a Monday, a mountain of catalogues were ________ at our house. It took me nine hours to sort through them, and then I ________ them to 430 houses. At first, I used my bike and ________ the catalogues in my backpack, but this wasn’t very ________ so I bought a trolley (手推车) which improved my speed. As time went by, people started ________ me and saying hello on my rounds.

After three and half years, I’d ________ a massive $6,500, and in January this year I flew to Egypt. I had a good time visiting the powerful pyramids at Giza, ________ local food and sailing down a river. I fully ________ that nothing can stop a person from following his ________.

2 . I was halfway across Indiana headed home to Kentucky when my car broke down. My phone was ______, too. I managed to get to a gas station, but it was Sunday in the early fall, and there was no ______ on duty. I was working my way through university then and had little money for ______ the car.

I sat alongside my car for several hours trying to ______ the heat when an older gentleman ______ to fuel his car.   He asked about my car, and I ______ my predicament (困境). To my ______, the gentleman told me that he had a daughter my age, and then he opened his trunk and ______ a tool set.

Right then and there, this total ______ examined my engine, explaining as he worked that my spark plugs (火花塞) hadn’t been charged for so long that they were ______ to function.   After about an hour, he ______ that my car was safe to finish the trip.

______ came at the hands of a stranger. ______ his clothes, working on a hot September afternoon, this man ______ a college student from disaster, just because she could have been his ______ .

3 . I had spent some time in the morning talking to my granddaughter about being “generous”. She had a lot of chocolates. I asked her if she had thought about how she was going to ________ her good fortune with her sister? “No!” she said.

That’s why I ________ her to share, and why it’s good to be generous. Not sure if she was convinced, we then ________ out on the town, in Sydney. I wanted to show her Chinatown and shop at the markets.

After shopping I took her to a ________. She is a fussy (挑剔的) eater. She was having a good time and even tried some new ________ while I taught her how to ________ chopsticks.

I noticed a man sitting near me having lunch. Then he got up to ________ and upon leaving he paid for our ________. The shop owner checked with us if that was OK. I was so ________. Then he was gone before I really had ________ to thank him. My 9-year-old granddaughter was really ________ by this. We were then also gifted dessert by our waitress. Good ________ came in pairs.

Upon leaving I ________ them $5. Then I said to my granddaughter “we don’t really need a ________ lunch, do we? So now we have to pay our good fortune forward to someone else.” She got money ________ and was looking for a homeless person.

4 . It was late July and except for a few thin, white clouds the sky was a bright blue. The sun was ________ on the green grass giving it a golden colour. Birds were ________ flying to and from their homes feeding their ________ growing babies. The air was full of the smell of freshly-cut grass and the sweet smell of ________. In the field behind my house, I could see sheep ________ grass by the edge of the woods.

Our black cat, Alice was sleeping under the shade (阴凉) of our Maple tree, without noticing the little rabbit that was ________ along in the field behind my home. I could see the trees, flowers, and plants along the side of the ________. All of this beauty was here for me just as I ________ outside. Filled with all this, my heart felt so ________. I breathed in the sweet, cool, morning air and walked without ________ in the grass, experiencing nature. I knew that a heat wave was on the way so I wanted to enjoy the comfort of the morning and ________ all of these wonderful gifts of nature creation.

Just then a lovely, yellow butterfly flew down and ________ on a flower right in front of me. It beat its ________ and I smiled. It flew up, circled my face and then was blown away by the gentle ________. A peace filled me as I received the message of nature. And I ________ nature for this beautiful day, this beautiful world, and this beautiful life.

5 . Three years ago, I spotted a video of someone making resin (树脂) art. He _________ poured and mixed colors together. I couldn’t _________ thinking about its beauty for nights. Less than a month later, I ordered a beginner’s resin kit to _________.

When I was a kid, my artist grandmother taught me to _________, and I’ve always enjoyed getting _________ and making things with my hands. The resin art videos _________ me to relight the childhood creativity that I had lost while working in London.

But it’s more _________ than it looks. Resin s a heavy liquid that when applied can’t be completely controlled. It was in those tougher moments that I _________ my artist grandmother, and our valuable moments spent painting together. Resin art was a _________ for me to honor her.

After I first ________________ a picture of my work on my phone, my friends began ________________ me for resin art. So I had an idea to make my artworks to be sold to the public and developed a resin art website. After ________________ the first ones, I quickly sold out of them. Within a year, I had made over $2,600 ________________, which I donated to charity. I even had my first display in Devon. I never thought it would turn into a life-changing ________________.

As long as there are people who’d like to buy my work, I’d like to make it. I pour colors from memories of beautiful places into my art, and I hope my grandmother would be ________________ that I chose a life filled with more creativity.

6 . Joseph Salmon, 17, was practising ice fishing with his mom on a lake in Iowa. Suddenly, Salmon saw a jeep, driven by an old man, Thomas Lee, ________ off the ice and into the water. As soon as Salmon saw it a short distance away, he called 911 and ran over to help. For a(n) ________, he was right standing on the ________.

Then another young man waved at Lee and tried to ________ to him to get out of the jeep. However, it seemed that Lee, ________, didn’t really know what to do next, just sitting on the seat. ________, he couldn’t move at all.

Things looked extremely ________. As Salmon and the young man became ________ in face of the emergency, more people came. Then someone found there was an animal in the jeep. Salmon immediately jumped into the ________, got to the jeep and tried opening the back door. It was locked, and he had to ________ the back window and ________ to get Lee out, whose foot was ________ because of being caught between the center console (控制台) and the seat. So Salmon gently pushed Lee back towards the front. Just then, four more passers-by ________ over to help pull Lee and his dog to safety.

Finally, the rescue workers arrived. Lee was transported to a nearby hospital. Neither he nor his dog was injured while Salmon was only treated for a minor ________ from the broken glass. How ________ they were!

7 . My 5-year-old daughter Kai walked around a bus stop, picking up candy wrappers and plastic bottles and throwing them in the waste bin. We were a visiting family here, but she was cleaning the sidewalk, which didn’t shock me, nor was I _________ when strangers looked at us.

Our cleanup project began when we drove past an empty field one day and Kai _________ the field was covered by _________ balloons. We had read about how animals could _________ balloons for food. “Stop,” Kai said, and I _________. Surprisingly, we found the field was full of much trash _________ the balloons. “Can we come back and clean it?” Kai asked. Then each Friday, we returned to have a(n) _________ cleaning.

However, it seems we can never _________ the trash completely. I feel something close to _________! Why are we making kids clean up our __________? It has everything to do with the planet we adults are leaving for kids. Plastic pollution is globally distributed and microplastics have even been discovered in human blood. It is not a __________ story that we have created trash but our next generation cleans up them.

Now Kai hopes to become a marine biologist to protect sharks one day. She still has many years to __________, if adults get serious about solving plastic pollution. We shouldn’t leave our next generation a __________ planet and expect them to save it.

The last time our family was at the beach, we still picked up plastic bottles. Most __________, though, we saw an octopus (章鱼) playing around our feet, a __________ of a harmonious habitat worth protecting.

8 . I am a teacher and I love children. I set up a classroom library of books that I bought_______my own money. The library looks beautiful, like a _______. And my students _______ it very much.

I read the children a story. It is about a girl who is _______ poor that she wears the_______ dress to school every day. But she says she has a hundred dress _______. The other girls laugh at her until she goes away. _______, her classmates discover she really has a hundred dresses – a hundred beautiful drawings of dresses. Oh, God, every child_________when I close the book.

_______ a moment everything is quiet. Then a boy________in my ear, “I have to tell the class something.” He shows me that he has half a finger________ .

I turn him towards the class and put my________ on his shoulder. He is a bit ________ . “I …I only have nine and a half fingers.” He ________ his hands. “Please don’t laugh at me about it.” The students become ________. Then one boy calls out,

“Anybody who makes fun of you, I’ll kick them.”

“Me, too,” says another.

When the boy sees the class become united (团结) , he is very happy 60 and smiles at me .

9 . When I was a child, my family went to the beach often. However, we _________ played in the sand or swam in the ocean. Nature was to be _________ far away, with the car windscreen in between. We would wave to the sea from our _________, watch the sunset and drive home. My parents were _________ in crowded and polluted cities. Their upbringing made them think maybe it was _________ for kids to stay inside. Without knowing it, I was _________ by their attitudes.

It was my own children who led me to another _________. They liked observing earthworms and jumping in mud. Their such _________ about the natural world allowed me to see it in a _________ way. On beach trips, I found myself __________ to dig into the sand with them and __________ its cool graininess (颗粒感) as they buried me in it.

Last summer, my love for __________ led to us buying a house in a farming town near a mountain. It’s something I wouldn’t have __________ as a city girl. I’ve found a deeper connection to nature and I’m grateful for it. There are miles of tracks around us that I __________ every day. I walk through snow, mud and rain, __________ my boots — which I bring straight into the house.

10 . On sunny and warm days, I love to wander through high mountains. I also love it when fog goes down and _______ me in a state of quietness.

One day while I was visiting a mountaintop, the fog blew in. I was _______ because I’d gone there to take some photos and needed a clear shot of the mountains in the _______. Instead I was _______ the middle of a gray cloud. I carried my camera and made my _______ back to the car to wait, hoping the fog would _______.

As I sat there, I began to see things that I’d never _______ before. I spied an old tree with rough branches of interesting _______. I observed the cliffs behind me. All this new­to­me scenery _______ me back out of the car, and soon I was happily ________ a part of this landscape I’d never seen before.

As I ________ home, with a camera full of images and a heart full of ________ for the nature, I thought about what had happened.

The nature has used those times when everything around me seemed like ________ to show me things I wouldn’t have seen ________. I experienced that especially when my son was in the military. Often the weight of what he was facing covered me with ________. It was in those times that nature revealed itself most warmly.