6 . The scary day of our diving(跳水)test in my Monday morning high school physical education class was here. My parents thought we were honored to have an Olympic-size swimming pool at the school. But I wasn’t so _________.

Not only was I terribly _________ in regular classes and sat in the back of the room, but also I’d not be called upon to read. Each Monday I would work my way to the back of the lane forming at the diving board so I would not have to _________ the dives.

My blood ran cold when the teacher _________ we would be graded for our final on the most difficult dive. I _________ as the line to the awful diving board shortened. As I watched, each student seemed to perform the difficult _________ effortlessly, and shortly I would have to _________ something I’d never even practiced before.

Then I remembered someone telling me that when you _________ yourself doing a skill over and over, it’s just as effective as _________ practicing that skill. So I watched carefully as each girl jumped at the end of the board once, added a jump for height, __________ her body in half to reach for her toes, and finally straightened out like an arrow for entry into the water. I think I was actually in a state of __________, because all of a sudden I saw these four steps as achievable.

Then it was my __________. With my heart pounding and knowing I was going to be embarrassed(尴尬的、难堪的)beyond belief, I __________ the board, jumped once and then again to get height, folded for the toe reach, and stretched(伸展)out just as I had pictured in my mind, entering the water straight as a(an)__________.

I received an A for the course. It was __________ to think that I had just learned my first dive.

7 . It was a chilly winter evening when I found myself stuck in an unfamiliar city. My car had broken down, and frustration was slowly replacing the initial _________ of my road trip. As I stood there on the sidewalk, feeling helpless, a stranger _________ me.

“Are you okay? Do you need any help?” he asked with genuine concern in his eyes. Taken aback by his kindness, I managed to explain my situation. Without hesitation, he _________ to call a tow truck (拖车)for me and insisted on staying until help arrived. As we waited, we started a _________, and I learned he was a local resident named David.

David’s _________ went beyond what was expected. He offered me his coat to keep _________ and even invited me to a nearby café for a hot drink. Gratitude overwhelmed me as I _________ how lucky I was to have encountered such a compassionate (有同情心的) stranger.

During our conversation, David _________ stories of similar encounters he had with strangers who had helped him in the past. He believed in the power of kindness and its _________ to bring people together, regardless of their differences. When I saw his __________ faith in humanity, my faith was also restored.

When the tow truck arrived and my car was being __________, I thanked David from the bottom of my heart. He __________ smiled and said, “We all need a little kindness in our lives. Pay it forward when you __________ the chance.”

As I continued my journey after that __________ encounter, a newfound sense of appreciation and awareness filled my heart. The kindness of strangers can truly __________ in someone’s life, serving as a reminder that there is goodness in the world, waiting to be shared.

8 . A 9-year-old boy is called a hero after he rescued his dad when a car fell on him. Brave J.T. Parker’s ________ thinking saved his father’s life.

________ dad Stephen Parker said that last July, he and his sons J.T., 9 and Mason, 17, were in the backyard working in a Toyota car when the ________ happened.

“ We were ________ the engines out of the car and, after we got it jacked (用千斤顶顶起) up, I climbed under there to take the parts off,” he said. “The one part came off pretty ________ but the other side was not coming off.”

At that moment, Mason had gone inside the house ________ he cut himself, but the dad ________ working. Suddenly, the car fell on top of him.

He said he _______ at J.T. to jack the car up but he didn’t think his young son would ________ it.

“ I couldn’t move at all,” Parker said. “I was totally ________ , and then I passed out. It was all in his hands.”

J.T., who weighs about 50 pounds, said he, too, didn’t think he would be able to   ________ the car off his father, but he started jumping up and down on the jack right away.

It took him   ________, but J.T. was able to save his father   ________. He then ran to get his brother out of the house. They called the   ________ immediately.

Parker was then sent to the nearest hospital with 13 broken ribs (肋骨). He was   ________ two months later thanks to the timely rescue from his young hero.

9 . It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the hospital. I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for all appointment(约会)at 9:30. The nurse had him take a _______ in the waiting area,_______ him it would be at least 40 minutes_________someone would be able to see him. I saw him_______his watch and decided, since I was_______busy—my patient didn’t_______ at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment. The gentleman said no and told me that he_______to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his_________. He told me that she had been_________for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be____________if he was a bit late. He replied that she __________ knew who he was, that she had not been able to __________ him for five years now. I was____________, and asked him, “And you__________go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?” He smiled and said. “She doesn’t know me but I know who she is”. I had to hold back __________ as he left.            

Now I __________ that in marriages, true love is____________of all that is. The happiest people don’t__________have the best of everything, they just__________the best of everything they have. ____________isn’t about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

10 . My father was born in a small town in the US. He wasn’t sure what he wanted from _______, but something told him to _______ and begin a new adventure.

He began that adventure traveling to cities in the US before going on to Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. He took my mother and us three daughters with him and went wherever the road _______ him.

It’s easy to feel _______ when you’re on the road. We made lots of new friends on our trip — most of them are mechanics, since we often _______ hours in repair shops. But that was a way much _______ than sitting by the roadside while waiting for the engine to cool off when it was 40℃ outside.

Getting along well sometimes seemed _______. There were always a lot of _______, especially among us back seat passengers about who had to sit in the middle. But even if it was hard, we learned a lot about tolerance (包容). When we were traveling in the Philippines, we drove to Quezon City one day. It should have been an hour’s drive but was nearly three thanks to bad roads and _______ traffic. “Did you put our suitcases in the car?” my father asked my mother as we arrived there. From the back seat, we saw her slowly turn toward my father. “No,” she said. “I thought you did.” That was how a seven­hour car trip turned into a 16­hour one, which was mostly spent in vain (徒劳).

On occasions like that, we had to learn to let go of our anger because we were ________ in a rolling box with the same people for the rest of the ________. Even if I sometimes felt like opening the car door and ________ one of my sisters out, I kept my feelings to myself.

This is why road trips were like ________   universities to us. We ________ our PhDs (博士学位)   in how to get along with other people just by traveling in our old car.

If we were ________ given a second chance at life, we would do it all over again. Only this time would I put the suitcases in the car myself.