1 . There was a time I had to count every single penny I spent. I had to keep a _______ in my head while shopping. I would stand there and _______ things up over and over again. It was during the holidays when I was _______ at Trader Joe’s because it had the most gluten-free (无麸质的) food and I had a little child _______ diagnosed with celiac disease (脂泻病). I stood in the frozen food area adding everything up.

The total was too _______. I couldn’t buy everything. I didn’t want my credit card to be _______ . I looked through everything trying to _______ what to put back. I _______ everything everyone else loved, but put back the one thing I loved, which was a simple frozen _______ of chicken meat. But it was what put the total over __________.

I __________ the feeling of not being able to __________ that $3.29 package of chicken. But that was life and I __________ and forgot about it. It was what I had to do.

That night our __________ rang. It was __________ because it was extremely cold and late. I went to the door, opened it, and on my front steps were bags of __________ On the top of the first bag, I saw the chicken meat, the __________ kind I had put back hours ago.

I still have no idea who put all of that food on my doorstep. I cannot describe the feeling of realizing that even in __________ I wasn’t alone. My kids were so __________ about all the delicious food. My heart was filled with the feeling of __________. At that moment I knew I was not alone.

2 . Leonardo was born with an undeveloped left hand. He couldn't use his left hand for________tasks like grasping objects.________, an incident during his childhood aroused his________in building things.

A few years later, he built his first prosthetic hand(假手). It was a simple________, but it allowed him to grasp objects. That was only the________, as he soon worked on another one, but it was not as good as he expected.

While________online, he learned the story of a French boy who became the first one to receive a 3D-printed robotic hand. He also found a foundation that________them for disabled kids. He got in touch with the foundation and________one. Unfortunately, it was too large for him to use________.

Despite all the difficulties, Leonardo never________his dream. He decided to create his own robotic hand.________by the given one, he designed his own robotic hand which________strings that pick up the movements of his wrist and transmit(传送)them to the fingers.

________countless efforts, Leonardo finally had an advanced hand that fits him properly. Tough it's not perfect, it allows him to do things that he________dreamed of. And best of all,________advanced bionic(仿生的)hands end up costing around $15,000, he only spent $ 100 on his. It's________for anyone who can't afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars.

Leonardo's amazing story has already made him________, and he has even received several________for robotic hands. He built one for a 7-year-old girl, but usually he________commercially available models, because his is not as strong as he would like. He also decides to________himself to building advanced robotic prosthesis.

3 . Rarely do teachers know whether they have a lasting influence on students, but I know. That's because it happened to my mother, a retired _________ .

I was visiting my parents when my mom came out of her room with a(n) _________ look on her face. She'd heard an interview with the _________ of a bestselling book on the radio. The woman's name was Tamora Pierce, and a student she had _________ nearly four decades before had the same _________.

My mother said, “Could this be my student? ”. “Well, ” I said, “the Internet should be able to tell us. ” I found the author's _________ quickly. She did study in Burlingame Junior High School, where my mom had _________, and when I found that my mother had taught a now-famous writer, I felt _________ and delighted.

Within days, my dad had _________ all the books of Tamora Pierce at the local library, and we found a book dedicated to(献给……)“the teachers who __________ my life”. In the book, Pierce __________ four names, and one was Mary Jacobson, my mother. Pierce wrote in the book that she was __________ for my mother because it was my mother who found Pierce interested in writing and __________ a fantasy book to her. Since then, the book was cherished by. Pierce and led her to the road of writing. Pierce __________ other specific memories. My mom also told her to keep everything she wrote, helpful advice that Pierce still __________ now. Pierce ended the book with “A great teacher is above all other treasures.”This __________ brought a blush(红晕)to my mother's cheeks. She was very __________ and joyful to know she'd made a difference to her students.

This story made me see my mom __________. Now she is no longer a strict teacher, but a __________ one, who is able to discover her students' __________ and teach them accordingly.

4 . My grandpa was not tall. But to me, a five-year-old child, he was a giant. We would sit side by side, watching the sun go down behind the gas station across the busy street, a street that I was never _________ to cross _________ accompanied(陪伴) by an adult.

One day we sat _________ the traffic, counting cars and trying to guess the color of the next one to turn the corner.

Suddenly Grandpa asked, “_________?"

"Yes," was my reply." How would you like to run over to the gas station there and get _________ a bottle of Coke?"

I couldn't believe my _________. Had I heard right? Was he talking to me? On my family's modest（卑微的）income, Coke was not a part of our diet. A few sips(小口抿) was all I had ever had, and certainly never my own bottle.

I replied shyly, "Okay," already wondering how I would get across the _________. I thought Grandpa was going to go with me._________, after he gave me a dime(硬币), he said to me, "Okay, I'm going to stay _________ and tell you when it's safe to cross. You go over to the Coke machine, get your Coke and walk back. __________ me to tell you when it's safe to cross back."

I was very both excited and nervous when Grandpa __________ my hand tightly. Together we looked __________the street and down, and up again. When he told me it was safe to cross, he __________ my hand and I ran. I ran faster than I had ever run before. The street seemed __________. I wondered if I would __________ it to the other side. Reaching the other side, I __________to find Grandpa still standing exactly where I had left him,__________ proudly.

……

Coke in hand, I proudly marched back out into the early evening dusk, seeing Grandpa was waiting __________.

"Stop right there!" he yelled(喊). One or two cars sped by me, and once again, Grandpa yelled, "Come on now, run!" At last I crossed the street safely. "Don't ever do that __________," he warned.

One long swallow(吞，咽) of the cold Coke cooled my sweating body. I__________ felt so proud.

5 . It’s the seaside birds that deserve at least part of the blame for getting Nick Burchill blacklisted at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, Canada.

Burchill was _______ at the hotel on business and planning to _______ some friends in the area. They had asked him to _______ some pepperoni (辣香肠) from back east. So he _______ a suitcase full of pepperoni. As he was _______ that it would be too warm, he _______ it out on the table near an open window. He thought his pepperoni was _______ and well chilled (冷却) and he _______ .

That’s when things went _________ “I remember walking down the long ____________ and opening the door to my room to find an entire flock of seagulls,” Burchill said in a recent letter of ____________ to the 4-star hotel. “The seagulls immediately went ____________. They rushed to the window, 30 or 40 birds all trying to ____________ at the same time, and pepperoni—everywhere. The curtains were falling down, the lamps were falling down, It was a real ____________.”

Older and wiser now, Burchill chalked up the incident to youthful indiscretion (莽撞).

“I have ____________ and I admit responsibility of my ____________,” he said in the letter. “I come to you, ____________, to apologize for the-damage I had ____________ caused and to ask you to ____________ my lifetime ban from the hotel.”

His letter ____________. Banned from the hotel since 2001.Burchill is now welcome to come back, the Fairmont said.

6 . Gabi has always wanted to do more than people expect of her. The ________ 21-year-old with Down syndrome(唐氏综合征) has dreamed of ________ a coffee shop. While in high school, she looked forward to ________ money by working during the summers. But she quickly learned that nobody wanted to give her a ________.

Unfortunately, Gabi’s story isn’t unique. It’s very ________ for people with disabilities to find work, and Gabi and her friends are no ________. While Gabi did bag groceries at a local store every Saturday, she ________ more. Her mom, Mary, offered to help Gabi to make her dream a ________. They went further than ________ Gabi a job. Besides, the mother and daughter are warm-hearted and want to help people like Gabi,________ they decided to open Gabi’s Grounds, a coffee shop, which will ________ people with disabilities. They didn’t have enough money, so they started small, partnering with Larry’s Coffee, another coffee shop.

Gabi has been busy ________ coffee in her small booth at local events. Mary runs their Go Fund Me page, ________ donations for their future big shop. They’ve raised over $50, 000 out of their ________ of $60,000 so far.

The pair haven’t been able to ________ the shop yet, but with all their work and the ________ from their community, it’s only a matter of time. Gabi is already planning on employing her friends.

“From coffee to dance parties, Gabi’s shop will be a ________ place for the community to come together,” Mary wrote. We can’t ________ for the day when Gabi’s Grounds opens its doors. This determined young lady won’t just be serving great ________. She’ll be giving people with disabilities a chance to live ________. Her great determination will make her successful.

7 . I’ve been into voluntary work since childhood. As a girl, I volunteered at animal _________ , played music at nursing homes, and _________ with community clean-up after tornadoes. In college, I volunteered _________ at a large conference every year for young adults, which is where I _________ my husband-to-be, who was on my team of co-volunteers. Since getting married in 2013, we’ve been _________ in Beirut, Lebanon.

Volunteering has been a way of life for me for a very long time, and I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t _________it. I can tell stories about special moments when I really _________ I was making a difference. Back when I was a junior in _________ , a group of friends and I volunteered to _________ to a distant nursing home which had only a few elderly members on a weekend. The building was in disrepair and the yard __________ attention. We stayed in the home of one of these old ladies that   __________ so we could clean and repair the nursing home. I’ll never forget how new life shone in her eyes as she ________ her house for us and brought a steady stream of frozen peach smoothies. She couldn’t   __________ broken doors or pull weeds, but she loved us like nothing else. It __________ my heart to remember this old lady smiling with joy for such small efforts that we __________ . Sometimes, volunteer work is __________ not because of the actual job you get done, but because of how your presence __________ the people around you.

Volunteering makes me a better person because it gets me __________ of myself. It puts my   __________ on others. It makes me   __________ for what I have.

8 . One day a man was traveling on a train. All of a sudden, he felt very ________ and got off at the next station to look for water. No sooner had he reached a(n) ________ when he heard the train whistle. He ran back but ________ the train.

He waited and waited for another one to come. It was getting ________, and he decided to spend the night at the station. The next morning he asked about the next ________. He was told that there would not be another one until the next ________. He decided to find a place to ________ for the night. He went to a nearby ________ to ask for a room, but they were full.

________ he reached a small house belonging to a local villager. He asked the owner of the house whether he could stay for a day. The owner readily ________. That day the owner ________ him food and gave him a room and did not ask or expect anything ______.

At 7 pm that night the man heard a knock on the door. When the owner ________ the door, there was a man dressed in colorful, fancy clothing. He entered the room and _____     that the villager pay his debts immediately. The man ________ that his host was in desperate need of money. The next morning he left a(n) ________ on the table in the room and left.

When the villager found the envelope, he was ________. He looked inside and found a note with his name on it. The note read, “Yesterday you ________ me when I was in need, and you asked for nothing in return. I would like to show you how ________ I am.” Much to the villager’s ________, money fell from the envelope. He smiled and sighed with relief.

9 . For many of us, it takes a long time to build good exercise habits. However, with gyms _________ across the country, many people have seen their exercise routines disappear. A _________ gym owner in Illinois anticipated that, and did his part to make sure that _________ stay active and meet their _________ goals.

Drew Whitted, _________ of the Be Strong Gym in Bloomington, Illinois, allowed his members to _________ more than $ 40,000 worth of workout equipment to _________ at home, free of charge, during the state’s stay-at-home order. He said that he didn’t want people to _________ their workouts — and he’s glad to see how it’s bringing families together. “Now I see a whole _________ , getting through this shelter in place, getting through this __________ time doing these workouts together, bonding together, becoming   __________ , and happier together as a family,” he told CNN.

About 80 members took him up on the offer, signing out __________ ,but Drew held some back, so he could hold online training sessions every day. The small business owner has __________ to retain and pay all eight of his employees, and has offered members a free month when the quarantine (检疫隔离) is __________ . Gym member Paulette Cocco was blown away by the __________ : “He had recently put a lot of __________ into getting new equipment,” she told CNN. “I mean, his equipment is really beautiful, so it was a __________ sacrifice.”

She added that she would personally be paying him for the __________ month, anyway. The rest of Paulette’s family has recently started working out at home with her, and they are __________ to join the gym when it reopens. Whitted has __________ no worries about the equipment making its way back to the gym when it reopens, saying that members will be excited to work out together again.

10 . Recently, I’ve seen friends posting that they are taking a break closing their social media accounts. In a time when it’s so ________ to stay connected with people, this makes me sad. I ________ social media as it helps me stay connected with friends around the world. On the other hand, I see the ________ side. With so much going on in the world, it feels as if there’s a lot of negativity on it. But that’s ________ about negativity! For today, let’s focus on simple things that spread ________!

Last week, my daughter and I went for a ________ on our neighbourhood trails (小径). We had seen a few________ painted with positive messages and how they ________ our life. On our walk last week, we took a different path and were________at what awaited us.

We didn’t just ________ one or two painted rocks. There were dozens of them! We found lovingly-painted rocks underneath ________ every tree. Apart from being colourful, most of the rocks included simple messages of ________.

As I ________ to take pictures, a man walked by and said, “They really bring a smile to your face, don’t they?” It was ________. They sure did! In addition to the rocks, someone had painted ________ on wood blocks and placed them at the foot of many of the trees. As I ________ them, I imagined fairies(精灵) living in the trees and entering through the doors. Again, something was so simple but it really ________ my spirits!

I hope whoever took the time to ________ and carefully placed those treasures knows how much they ________ to people walking along the trail. It’s easy to think you can’t have a(n) ________ but every kind word or positive act makes a difference for someone.