1 . On 20 December, in Newdale, a series of huge waves caused by an undersea earthquake raced across the ocean near Goldshore. Worse still, it ________ thousands dead. Goldshore Beach was the only local beach to ________ the disaster without any loss of life. A 10-year-old girl, Sabrina Andron, helped around 100 people escape ________ with her knowledge of tsunamis.

The day began like any other on Goldshore Beach. People were walking, running or simply sitting on the sandy beach, ________ the warm sea air and enjoying the soft ________ that brushed their hair. Sabrina was one of the happy tourists until she noticed something ________. “The water was like the bubbles (气泡) on the top of a beer,” she later explained. “It wasn’t ________ and it wasn’t going in and then out. It was just coming in and in and in.” It struck her that these were the ________ of an upcoming tsunami, which Sabrina had just learnt about in a Geography lesson.

Sabrina was _______, but she soon kept her head. She ________ her parents of the danger though at first they just thought she was joking. However, Sabrina was certain that a terrible ______ was on its way and kept asking her parents to talk to a safety ________. To her great relief, the officer________ realized the coming danger. The beach was rapidly ________ of people, just before the huge waves ________ into the coast.

3 . Considering Grandma Joy was 85, Brad knew it was impractical. In order to ask her for ______, Brad knew he felt it ______, but he ______ called his grandmother. To get to the park, they would have to drive 500 miles through the night and it would be the first time in her life she’d ______ and slept outdoors.

In the long silence that followed, Brad expected, for all the right reasons, that it just wasn’t ______. But the old lady ______ him by asking, “When do we leave?”

They arrived at the campground at around 1:30 am in the middle of a rainstorm. Brad tried to set up the ______. Finally they climbed inside ______. It reminded him that when he was young, his grandmother did everything hard with him together.

The skies ______ the next day, and they set off. When they crossed a ravine (溪谷), he would held her hand to avoid ______ on the wet path. She moved carefully with the ______ of an 85-year-old woman. They walked slowly. When some people passed her, Brad asked if she wanted to turn back.

“I won’t give up even if it is ______ for me,” she told Brad. When they finally ______ the top, the hikers gave her a big round of applause. That night Brad made a campfire. He and his grandmother sat next to each other, feeling the warmth and looking at stars. Brad and Grandma Joy opened the box of their ______. They talked about families, about loss, pain and regret and about what had happened.

“Here I had the ______ to communicate with my grandson,” she said. “I thanked him. I had tears in my eyes. But they were good tears.”

4 . A 35-year-old Australian mother makes around $ 58,000 a year by hugging strangers. “As human beings, one thing we often ___________ in our daily life is the physical touch. Without it, we can fall into mental health problems. To ___________ this need, I’ve become professional in hugging treatment,” said Jessica.

Jessica says that her hugs can ___________ those who are suffering from loneliness or low self-confidence. A year ago, Jessica was a popular masseuse (女按摩师). She noticed that when she ___________ her customers during treatment, they became relaxed and ___________ her more. “I could see their tension disappear. Then I could get to their heart and do what I could to ___________ them,” Jessica said. “Everyone has a ___________ different story. But the most common ___________ are loneliness, depression and anxiety. They all just have that desire to ___________with someone. I believe my hug helps me and my ____________ connect on a mental level.”

Jessica says most of her customers are male, ____________ she has a surprising number of female customers ____________. Though many people think she must be crazy to do such work, Jessica is confident that she’s made the right ____________. “It’s so much more rewarding (值得做的) than just working as a masseuse,” said Jessica. “In today’s digital age, many people are ____________ than ever before. For people whose lives ____________ physical interaction, hugging therapy (疗法) can have an obvious effect on their mental health.”

5 . Last night my husband and I were walking when we saw a man bending (弯腰) over on the ground, crushing (碾碎) something with a rock. He was so focused on his ________ that he didn’t look up at anyone passing by. We kept noticing him and ________ what he could be doing. I thought he was crushing stones to make sand, but why would he do that?

________, we decided to go up and ask him. He was crushing pieces of left-over bread that he had ________ to prepare food for the birds that come there early morning. The large pieces of bread would be ________ for the birds to eat so he crushed them into powder. Every ________, after coming home from his job as a tailor, he goes ________ the villa (乡间别墅), collecting left-over bread from all his neighbors. He then eats a quick meal and comes here, and spends the next 1-2 hours carefully crushing each piece and makes a neat pile for the birds. He has been doing this for the last 3-4 years, which ________ us a lot. When we told him that we took an interest in this, he felt ________, since for him it wasn’t a big ________.

When we asked him what encouraged him to do this act of ________, he said, “It’s just something ________ I do, so that the left-over bread doesn’t go into the rubbish and the birds get food.” We ________ his story with the hope that it would ________ us to be aware of leftovers too and that it might ________ someone to start something similar in their own area.

7 . Four years ago, I felt great joy after freeing myself from one of those 2-mile gym fitness runs. I once _________ running with a passion; it was just something that never came_________to me. At that time, I never _________ that I would one day run a marathon.

Things began to _________ when I met my new neighbor Mrs.Gray. She was fifty years old, going through cancer, and still _________ to run 30 miles a week. I _________ myself that if Mrs.Gray could run 6 miles at a time, I could run at least one or two. In February, I started to walk a 2-mile _________ and would try hard to run for a few minutes. Two months later, I finished the whole route, _________, for the first time. I felt _________, but I felt great.

Over the next several years, I continued to push each run for a few extra minutes. Those last few minutes would often be __________, my mind fighting against my body, saying it was time to __________. The fight between my mind and body never stopped, __________I loved every minute of these runs.

A(n) __________ was born; my heart was in it completely. I didn’t need to compete against other runners. For me, the most important competitor was myself.

Slowly, I started entering some local road races. After continuing to __________ myself and finishing two half marathons, I __________ I would train for the Detroit Free Press/Flagstar Bank Marathon. My summer was filled with many long 6 AM runs to __________ the summer heat. I loved my __________. I knew I was finally on the road to success.

Race day finally came, and I was filled with __________. It was hard, but the experience ended up being __________. As I crossed the finish line, I experienced the strongest sense of __________ I’d ever had in my life.

8 . In life, we always feel as if our bad circumstances will never change. However, when we meet troubles or problems in our lives, we are eager for a _________ that tells us everything will be _________ and get better.

When in this mindset(心态), I think back to a _________ I once heard about a family having dinner at a Chinese restaurant. At the end of the meal, everyone _________ their fortune cookie and read their _________ out loud. _________, the youngest child did not, she went to get another fortune cookie. This _________ several times before the mom _________ her and asked, “What are you doing?” The little child responded, “I am looking for a cookie with the _________ fortune for me.” The mom said, “There is only one thing you need to __________ and it’s not in a fortune cookie. That is where there is a will, there’s a way.”

When __________ are not going our way, we may __________ the “right fortune”. We seek the hope for our __________ so that it will be better than the present. Once the Israelis were expelled(驱逐) in a foreign country against their __________. At that time, everything was __________for them, but they didn’t lose hope; instead, they __________ to their new environment positively. Years later they returned to their homeland as they had __________.

We need to __________ action and hope and believe that nothing is __________ to a willing mind in life. It does prove that good things do come out of bad and difficult __________.

9 . That holiday morning I didn’t have to attend school. Usually, mother ______ me to sleep in on holidays. And I would certainly take full advantage of it. On this particular morning, ______,   I felt like getting up early.

I stood by my window overlooking the ______ having nothing better to do. But as it turned out, I was soon to learn about something ______ in life.

As I watched several people go by, get into their cars and go off, I ______ an old man on a bicycle with a bucket(木桶) on its ______ and a basket of rags and bottles on its back-carriage(后座). He ______ from one car to another, washing and cleaning them. From the water on the ground, it seemed that he had already ______ washing and cleaning about a dozen or more cars. He must have begun to work quite early in the morning. Several thoughts ______ my mind as I watched him work. He wasn’t well-dressed. He had on a pair of shorts and a(n)______ T-shirt. The bicycle he rode was not by any means the kind modern ______ would want to be seen riding on. But he seemed ______ with life. There he was working hard at his small business, ______ at passers-by and stopping to chat ______ with elderly men and women on their way to the market nearby.

There was a noticeable touch of ______ in the way he seemed to be doing things ---- ______ the windscreen(挡风玻璃), then standing back to admire it; scrubbing(擦净)the wheels and ______, standing back to see what they look like after the scrub.

It was a ______ to learn, I felt. At no age need one have to beg for a living if one has good health and is willing to work hard. For a while I felt ______ of myself. Young as I am — just sixteen,there was this old man who must have been usefully engaged(忙碌的) perhaps before the sun appeared above the ______.

10 . It was raining hard and nearing dusk. I was driving for a(n)________in a nearby city that I________only from finding it on GPS. But now my phone had died. I couldn’t________clearly because it was raining so hard. I couldn’t figure out how to ________ where I was going or how to let my partner know I was likely to be ________ for the appointment.

I pulled over at a McDonald’s in a poor town and ________up to what appeared to be a mother and her teenage ________. “Excuse me, may I use your phone to look up a ________and then call the place to tell them I’m ________?” She handed me her ________ and said it was lucky that she had her phone. She was about to be stopped from using it because she didn’t have enough ________to pay the bill.

The________girl and the mother seemed to be clinging (依偎) to each other and________ together as I made my phone call, not ________ paying much attention to me as the people I was speaking to on the phone asked me to continue, and then told me ________ to get to their location.

As I stood to________ , I reached into my wallet where I don’t usually have ________ and pulled out all I had, a $20 bill. I ________ it into the mother’s hand. She was crying and her daughter said to me, “You have no idea how much you just ________ us.”And yet, they were the ones who had helped me. We each didn’t ________ how helpful the other person had been!