3 . It was Mother’s Day and I was shopping at the local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were _______, we realized that only minutes earlier an _______ woman had fallen over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground. _______ was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock. _______ a lot of people stopped to help out.

While we were walking towards the scene, Tenyson became very _______ about what had happened to the elderly couple. He _______ to me, “Mom, it’s not much fun falling over in front of _______.” Seeing that there was a flower stall (摊位) at the front of the supermarket, he added, “Why shouldn’t we _______ the lady a flower? It will make her feel better.” I was _______ that he’d come up with this wise idea. So we went over and told the flower seller ________ we wanted. “Just take it,” she replied. “I can’t take your money for such a wonderful ________.”

By now medical staff (医疗团队) had arrived, and were ________ the injured woman. We gave the flower to the woman’s husband and I told him it was ________ my son. At that, the old man started crying and said, “Thank you very much.” He then turned to me, “You have a ________ son. Happy Mother’s Day to you.”

The man bent down and gave his wife the flower, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with love in her eyes and gave him a little ________.

4 . For long, a question disturbed a little boy. He couldn’t understand why his next-desk-pal (同伴) could rank 1st whenever he wanted to, while he himself _________to.

At home, he despondently asked his Mom, “Mom, am I more _________ than others? I feel I study as hard as him，but why do I _________lay behind?” Staring at him, she went _________, not knowing how to explain.

She felt an impulse (冲动) to say, “You are too _________. You are not really as hard-working as others...” .But she stopped, _________she knew her son was suffering from the pains of _________grades and rankings. She thought it cruel to add any additional burden to his son and was trying to find out a _________answer.

Time went by quickly, the son finished primary school. Although his studying was harder and better, he was still unable to _________his pal. To show her pride of him, Mom decided to take him to the sea. During the trip, she managed to give out an answer.

Now, the son no longer __________his rankings, because, with the 1st ranking, he was __________to Harvard University.

Back home in winter vacation, he was invited to give a speech to the students and parents in his high school. In the speech, he mentioned a(n) __________experience in his childhood. “When my mother and I were lying on the beach, she pointed to the front and said, ‘Do you see the seabirds flying for food over there? When the __________come near, little birds can escape quickly __________“clumsy” seagulls would take more time to complete the process. However, have you noticed birds that __________fly across the endless ocean are none other than “clumsy” (笨拙的) seagulls?’”

6 . In 2020, Nancy Ballard, a 60-year-old retired entrepreneur, went for a routine checkup at her doctor’s office that turned into something extraordinary. In fact, she was carrying a painting of a plant she’d done when she arrived there. “It would be great if we had _________ like that for our chemotherapy rooms (化疗室),” the nurse said. Ballard asked to see one.

She was shocked by _________ she found. The walls were grey and bare, and the paint was chipping. “_________, the patients here have nothing to look at while taking chemo drips,” she said, “I couldn’t imagine how anyone could even get healthy in such _________rooms like that.” She made it her mission to _________ the place.

She started by e-mailing 20 local interior _________. She wrote, “You don’t know me. But my heart _________ after seeing these rooms.” She then asked whether they would _________ their time and money to transform just one of chemotherapy rooms each.

Six of them leapt into _________ action and each designer chose a theme: The dragonfly room, for example, __________ bright artworks and dragonfly wall ornaments. Most rooms got new __________, lights, artworks, and furniture. When the transformation was done __________, Dr. Hufford was delighted. “All the patients feel __________ by it,” he said. He even noted that his own tone of voice was __________ in the rooms and that he was better able to connect with his patients. Ballard was so encouraged by the patients’ reactions, but when praised, she said, “What I did paled __________ the patients’ courage to fight cancer”.

8 . I was born legally blind. Of all the stories of my early childhood, the one about a _________ is my mother’s favorite. 

I was only two when the _________ occurred. We had just arrived home from a trip. Mom lifted me out of the car and _________ to speak to the driver. I took advantage of my brief _________ to dash across the lawn (草坪)—and hit a large maple tree! I was running so fast that I bounced off the trunk and _________ on my backside. Mom expected me to start crying, but I just sat there for a minute. Then I _________ myself up and kept right on going. Mom always adds here that, as many times as I _________ across the lawn after that, I never again crashed into that tree.

Mom loves to use this story as an _________. It reminds her that children don’t enter life afraid to take risks or unwilling to _________ again when they fall down. She never wanted me to lose that __________ as I grew older. When I __________ my major life decisions, I was still that little girl tearing full-speed across the lawn. I studied abroad and later moved away from my parents’ home to look for a __________. Through years of __________, I have become a respected teacher in a school serving high-need students.

We are almost certain to get __________ at some point during the process of achieving our goal. When that happens, don’t sit in the grass and __________. Just get up and keep on going. It will all be worth it in the end.

10 . High school senior, Jonathan Walker is unquestionably celebrating an amazing milestone in his life. The Florida teen has been _________ into 27 universities and received up to $4 million in scholarships.

“It was just a surprise to see that they wanted me to _________ their institution, and that they were offering me _________ …it was just a ton of excitement,” Walker said during an interview with ABC News’ Linsey Davis.

The 18-year-old Florida student _________ to colleges and universities that included Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and MIT. _________, the teen was very surprised when he was admitted to all of the universities. He told CBS Miami in an interview that, “That’s such a _________ thing to occur, but it did happen.” However, _________ he has been accepted to all of his choices, the teen is working on _________ the list down. “I’ll be able to make a pretty confident _________.”

As a matter of fact, Walker is also __________ in science club, the international Baccalaureate program, and the school football team. The amazingly __________ 18-year-old has also been working with a partner on a wrist device that __________ people who are blind and deaf to communicate better with people.

It is no __________ that Walker is thinking engineering as a __________ major alongside becoming an entrepreneur(企业家). “I’m mostly interested in engineering as well entrepreneurship, but I’m also __________ the possibility of creating my own major since I have a ton of different __________,” Walker said.

He continued, “My parents __________ me a chemistry set a couple of years ago…And then from there I really __________ that I could use engineering to help people. And so I just became super interested in creating __________ that could help disadvantaged communities and people __________ a challenging period.”