1 . I loved my first grade teacher, Mrs. Gross. She had such a sweet smile and a ________ way about her, I wasn’t sure what her age was at the time but she already ________ very grandmotherly. She was soft-spoken and had a very gentle ________ of humor. Unlike some teachers she never ________ at or punished her students. To me it felt like having a second grandmother as my teacher. Every day I arrived at her classroom and sat ________ at my desk with a big smile on my face. Throughout all my years of school I always ________ the time in her classroom the most fondly.

One such memory is still with me to this day. We were doing math problems that were ________ on the blackboard while Mrs. Gross walked through the classroom ________ our work. I finished first and lifted my head up just as Mrs. Gross walked up behind me. She looked at my work and ________. Then she said, “This is rally good work, Joe. You are a very ________ boy.” As she walked on, she ________ touched my shoulder and I felt ________ in my heart. It felt so good to be ________. It felt so good to be appreciated (欣赏). From that moment on I always tried my best. I always ________ my study. I always wanted to be as smart as she ________ I already was.

2 . Even to this day, I still remember the very moment when I first waved my ping-pong paddle in primary school. At that time, I was _________ and few classmates would like to talk to me. I felt _________, always wandering on the playground. On a bright Sunday afternoon, I _________ a coach playing ping-pong with some children on the playground. He walked towards me and said in a caring tone, “Hello, boy, may I ask why you are in low spirits?” What he said was actually an _________ to my heart, for it was the first time that I could feel _________. Knowing my circumstance, he asked, “Would you like to learn ping-pong?” I originally thought it was at least a good idea to take up this sport to _________ time during my lonely days. So I joined his team without _________. However, never could I imagine that the practice process was indeed a _________.

I spent all my _________ time learning skills of playing ping-pong and sometimes even got __________. More than once I wanted to give up, but my coach kept encouraging me. Much to my __________, my team members saw my efforts and never looked down upon me. I didn’t let my coach and my team down either, winning the champion in a national competition after six years of practice. Now, in high school, I am still the shortest, but most __________. My classmates regard me as their role model and I don’t feel lonely anymore.

But for my coach’s help, I would not have got rid of loneliness. Walking on the __________ again, with the words of my coach “No __________, no sweet” echoing in my mind, I have decided to __________ his kindness to brighten more lives.

3 . On a Sunday morning, Tim Abernathy walked off the dance floor at the Barn Dance and sat down in a chair to rest with his wife, Rachel. Then something felt wrong. His _________ got tight, then tighter. He grabbed Rachel’s hand, then _________ to the floor.

“His eyes had _________ back,” said Rachel. “His lips were getting darker.” The band stopped playing. People started yelling, but nobody _________ to act.

Someone _________ did. It was Johnny “Digger” Tucker. He swiped (挥动) his fingers through Tim’s mouth, thinking he could be choking. He started beating on Tim’s chest and began mouth-to-mouth. More _________ . More mouth-to-mouth. Then finally, Tim _________ a breath. The paramedics (护理人员) came, and Johnny quietly left.

“If Johnny hadn’t been there, I would be _________ my husband now, “said Rachel. Folks say Johnny Tucker is the type of man you’d call at 2 a. m. Maybe it’s because he knows more than most how _________ life is. Every day, he faces __________ .

Johnny is a gravedigger. He has dug the final resting places for about 20, 000people, each grave __________ a half feet deep in __________, frozen ground. “I treat everybody as if it were my family I’m burying,” he said. He is so respected that funeral directors arrange their schedules around his __________ .

So maybe it’s not __________ that Johnny often finds himself in a position to lend a hand. That night Johnny and his wife were __________ when the band played an old song. They turned around for one more slow dance. Minutes later, the gravedigger saved a life.

4 . When Brian and Lauren got married last November, one very important person was missing: Brian's 91­year­old grandmother, Peg. After breaking her ankle, she was unable to _______ it to the couple's special day.

Peg was living for this wedding. _______ being at the hospital, she dressed up in an amazing outfit that day. About 2 hours before the ceremony, the couple decided to visit Peg. I, as their photographer, asked them if they wanted me to _______ them. At first, I really felt that it was their personal _______ and I didn't want to _______ in any way. But they wanted me to come and _______ the moment.

When they walked into that room, Peg was so _______ to see the couple. She kept saying “I can't believe you're here! ” I was closely following Lauren and Brian into the room，_______ I didn't miss Peg's every _______. Upon seeing them, her face just ________. There wasn't a dry eye in the room.

This is what ________ are all about — family and love. On their big day, the couple spared time to visit Peg and made her the ________ grandma in the world. This was ________ an amazing moment and I'm thankful to photograph them.

Just a month later, Peg ________. On that day, I realized what I had done was really special for this family. Being able to give the family something that they can look back on, I am ________ with the occupation I have chosen.

5 . Yesterday, my daughter had to go to work earlier than usual. Since the gym where I work out is not far from her ___________, I decided to take her to work and then go to the gym.

At quite an earlier hour, the gym was ___________ full of men and women of all ages, working out. I ___________ go to the gym at this early hour, and was ___________ to see so many people. It seems that many go to the gym before going to ___________. Some want to lose weight, others want to ___________ their body, and a great number of people like to build their muscles (肌肉). I know how difficult it is for most people to start exercising. Most people know it is good for their body, ___________ they are too lazy to go to the gym, ___________ in the morning. They ___________ to spend an extra hour in bed before starting their ____________. In the afternoon, they are too ____________ after work, and want to stay at home or go out to meet friends.

If you’re one of them, you need to overcome (克服) your ____________. If you ____________ going to the gym and exercising, you will start to ____________ it. This usually ____________ when you see you’re losing weight, that your body is getting into a better shape, and that you feel stronger.

It is the same in every other area of life. Everything becomes easier if you have great motivation.

6 . A US bus driver is being praised for the way she helped a passenger get some needed assistance (帮助). In October, bus driver Natalie Barnes started talking with a passenger named Richard. He told her he had been _________ for a week, since there was a big fire in the place where he had been living and his house was _________.

When he asked if he could _________ along for the night to stay out of the_________ , she agreed. “At some point in our lives, everybody needs help,” Barnes said, “I want to do what I could to help Richard in some way.” At one point during her shift, she took a _________, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and offered to get her passenger something to eat. Richard was _________. “Now I don’t know what to say but to say thank you,” he said to Barnes and promised to _________ her back somehow.

She refused, saying,“I want to help you.” But one act of kindness wasn’t_________for Barnes. During another break, she turned to a friend for help, who helped get Richard into temporary (临时的)_________.

Barnes and Richard became ____________ during that six-hour bus ride. Now he has her cellphone number, and they keep in____________.

Helping others comes second nature for Barnes, who has received lots of praise for ____________service since she worked in the MCTS two years ago. She ____________takes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on the bus to share with people in____________.

In fact, Barnes did what we all need to do to ____________ homelessness: to look out for each other, to care for each other and to work together.

7 . Over the past 38 years, Mr. Wang has pretended to be someone else many times,and has even learned to ________ different dialects (方言), leading to him being described as an “Oscar-winning actor”.

The 60-year-old is not an actor, but a ________ However,he is more devoted to his “________ ” than any real actor.

In the 1990s, a group of thieves often sold stolen goods with the help of some beggars. To look into the ________, Wang disguised (伪装) himself and ________ the beggars. Dirty shorts and old shoes gave him the ________ of a real beggar and his convincing dialect soon won him the ________ of the beggars.

“I often ________ them to drink alcohol. Once they were ________,they began to talk a lot,"Wang said. “I'd then ________ myself to use the toilet, ________ what the beggars said, and send the ________ to my teammates.”

Wang, who is often in ________ situations, is also a judo (柔道) master.   “As long as I get close enough, no criminal can ________ from me,” he said.

Wang's ________ won him several honors, including a National May Day Labor Medal and 11 Citations of Merit.

8 . It was on March 11. The family’s dog, Jobe, _______ Teresa Wiederin’s wrist in his mouth, and led her to the living room. Her son, Dominic, 19, lay in a_______under an allergy attack and gasping for_______. His father quickly drove him to the _______ from the chair.

The first time Dominic saw Jobe, he had_______idea how important the dog would become to him. Driving home from his summer job two years ago, he noticed a weak-looking_______dog along the road. Without thinking too much, he_______ his car and let he dog in.

Dominic asked his parents to_______the dog. But they didn’t agree, especially_______a vet said the dog’s was in bad condition. However, after the vet reassured that the dog’s problems were________, they accepted the black dog. Their son named it after Job in the Bible and________ him back to health.

Jobe would soon have the chance to return the ________. Dominic had his first allergy attack four months later,________he was with friends at a barbecue restaurant. It was later determined that the reaction was________ by spices in the barbecue sauce. He was________to the emergency room. The teen soon learned that some food can make________difficult to breathe.

Now Jobe watches ________ his owner. The dog is gentle, sensitive, and ________, staying close to Dominic day and night. “I can be at peace,” his mother says, “knowing that Jobe is on________watching Dom.”

Her son puts it more ________. “I saved him,” he says. “Now Jobe saves me.”

9 . When I was a little boy, my parents and brothers would often play cards in the afternoons. It was a (n) ________ way to pass the time and after watching countless games, I started to ________. I was only five but I learned________ and was soon winning as often as I lost. When I started school, I found out the hours of playing cards had made me good with ________. I was getting full marks on my math tests until high school when I ________ they had a thing called Algebra   (代数) . I was ________to see letters mixed in with the numbers and I struggled to ________ it. Then one day I opened a Calculus (微积分) book. One look was all to know that I would not major in math.

Instead I found ________ studying literature, history, psychology, and philosophy, which all put me on a path that I am ________on today: it is a journey of learning all I can about life and________ . One thing I did learn was that love has its own unique math that isn’t logical yet makes________. In the Calculus of Love the more love you________, the more love you have. Sharing sorrows means subtracting (减去) them. Sharing________means multiplying them.

Love like life is often more than we can ________. But our soul can. May you choose it, share it, and learn it. Only then will your life add up ________.

10 . Yesterday I drove to the grocery store with my son. In front of us in line was a little girl with her mother. The little girl was asking her mother for a box of Smarties. The polite way she was asking almost broke the mother’s _________, “I’m sorry, Honey, but we just can’t afford it.”

My son was watching that _________. By the way, he had been raking (用耙子耙) leaves in our garden to raise himself some money to buy a bike. As he watched the mother and the daughter leave the store, he ran to the candy counter (柜台) and _________ a box of Smarties.

My son _________ placed the Smarties on the conveyer belt (传送带), _________ his money and bought the Smarties. He turned to me and I just _________. So he ran out after the little girl and her mother and gave them the Smarties.

I was so excited that I _________a pack of Smarties for my son. I told him that I was _________of him, and that for his act of generosity he _________ his own Smarties. I continued to tell him, “__________ you do something nice for someone, you shouldn’t expect to get anything __________, but when you do get something you should be very __________.”

On my way home we passed the mother and her daughter walking home. I stopped and offered them a __________.   In the car we talked happily. I found out that __________ many other families in our town, they had lost their income when the local mill shut down. We made friends and I have learned that I was __________ my son to be a thoughtful and caring individual.