1 . Bill Sumiel, 71-year-old, was dealing with kidney failure and had been on dialysis (透析) 30 miles from home.

He had _______ diabetes over 20 years before, which led to his kidney problems. He was on the transplant list, but no matches had yet appeared. So he _______ his current treatment.

Timothy Letts, a Uber driver of 31, was _______ north when his phone rang. Uber _______ Sumiel’s ride-hailing order to him. Letts could see that the older man was weary-looking but in good _______.

“Sumiel really _______ the trip with positive energy.” says Letts. Over the 40-minute drive, Letts shared that he was an Army veteran. Sumiel mentioned that he’d _______ volunteering at his church and in his community. But he was doing less these days, because the dialysis treatments left him _______.

Sumiel revealed that he was _______ a kidney donor. Letts joked that he’d be a good donor candidate, given that he didn’t drink or smoke. Sumiel agreed, though he didn’t think much of it as they kept driving. Letts, ________ , couldn’t stop thinking about it.

About a quarter-mile away from Sumiel’s house, Letts said, “I’d like to see if I could be a ________ to give you a ________.”

After the initial excitement, Sumiel started feeling a bit less ________.

Sumiel was touched by Letts’s ________ , though he wondered if it had just been an emotional moment. Letts was ________ to his word, and he got in touch with Sumiel a few hours later. After a months’ screening ________, the results were ________: Letts was an ideal donor, and they were a perfect match.

On Dec. 7, 2021, 14 months after the ride, they had their ________ successfully. Being ________ today, Sumiel is volunteering full time remotely. Letts has moved to Germany to work with the Army’s family. They look forward to the day they can ________.

2 . I have a love-hate relationship with 8 o’clock classes. I like to get started that _________. Most students do not. They _________ in late and many otherwise bright ones look so sleepy at that hour.

One day, I was _________ about the topic, but no one else seemed to be. I wrote things on the _________. I moved around the room. I told stories. I got theatrical. I _________ humour. It was useless. The _________ looks didn’t seem to change. I was upset.

I lost track of time. I was about to _________ a major topic when I glanced down at my _________. I was already two minutes past the _________ end of class. So I just ended __________ and the students picked their book bags and headed out the door on their way to another class. Watching them retreat (退出) out the door, I __________ my own books, notes and papers and __________ out into the hall. I was tired and a bit __________. I had put everything I knew how to do into that classroom __________ and it had seemed for naught. Then, as I started crossing the hall to my nearby office, a student __________ from the back door of the classroom I had just been in and caught up with me.

I __________ he wanted to ask why I didn’t have those test papers graded yet or maybe he wanted permission to __________ a late paper or…

It was none of that. With his __________ full of sparkles (闪光), Randy said, “This is the first time I’ve not wanted a college class to end.” The __________ lifted. Randy would never know how much his __________ meant to me.

3 . Short bursts of exercise can make you fit in the long term. To prove this, Gillen’s team randomly assigned participants to three _________. One rode an exercise bike at a moderate (中等的) level of _________ for 45 minutes, three times per week. A second group did three times _________ the 10-minute high-intensity workouts. A third group _________ a control and did nothing.

After 12 weeks, both exercise groups had _________ their insulin (胰岛素) resistance and also increased their _________ (as measured by their capacity to use oxygen during exercise) by about 19 percent. The gains were _________ between the groups, even though the group doing _________ workouts with high intensity intervals had spent only about 22 percent as much _________ as the group doing traditional longer workouts. But people in the second group do find these __________ interval exercise programs enjoyable enough to __________.

Turning to shorter workouts is not just a way to __________ time. It can also help you continue to make fitness __________ even when life gets in the __________.

“Let’s say you have exams coming up or your job is __________ and you only have a couple of hours perweek to exercise,” Androulakis-Korakakis says, “__________ feeling like your strength and muscle will __________, turning to a minimum-amount __________ can still help you continue __________ your body.”

“It’s hard to __________ that you don’t have 10 or 15 minutes that you can find. That’s just not checking your email one more time or getting off social media,” de Lannoy says.

4 . We will all experience pain, disappointment, and almost certainly loss and sickness. Yet some people ________ by rising to the challenge, while others sink under the weight. What’s the difference? I ________ clinical psychologist Dr. Robert Puff, host of the Happiness Podcast, who speaks ________ about pain and suffering. He explains that ________ is an unavoidable physical feeling. ________, suffering comes from the thoughts we have about the pain we are experiencing-for example, “Why is this happening to me?” or “I’ll never feel good again.” These ________ are what cause suffering, and we can choose to ________ them.

John O’Leary is the host of the Live Inspired Podcast. When he was just nine years old, John suffered ________ burns over his entire body and doctors told him that he had one percent chance of ________. No one expected him to ________. However, after dozens of surgeries and years of treatment and deep inner work, he is a fairly happy, ________ man with a beautiful family. He inspires others through his ________ as a motivational speaker, author, and life coach. He feels that what happened to him was his greatest ________: the realization that, regardless of our personal and professional challenges, we can navigate and overcome to reveal a ________ vision. In John’s words, “You can’t always choose the path you walk in life, but you can always choose the ________ in which you walk.”

5 . The arrival of spring always means a trip to the bamboo forest for Kaitlyn Hennacy and her family, followed by an afternoon making bamboo buns (包子). This ________ started when Hennacy’s mother and grandmother discovered ________ bamboo growing near the University of Maryland, where her mom was studying in the early 1990s. Hennacy said her grandmother immigrated to the U.S. from Zhejiang, China, where she ________ cooking with bamboo often.

The trip to ________ bamboo usually happens in late April. Each person in the group has their own bag to ________ as they get each bamboo shoot out of the ground. However, no one picks more bamboo than Grandma. The entire ________ of picking the bamboo and making the buns reminds Hennacy of how ________ her grandma is — and it ________ her own work ethic. “She turned 80 this year and still hikes up a hill,” Hennacy said.

To make buns, the bamboo has to be cut into small pieces and ________ with other fillings. Hennacy learned how to make the buns by ________ her grandma, but she had to work to measure everything and write it down because her grandmother cooks from ________.

Hennacy said she and her family are ________ to have Grandma living with them. She ________ everyone’s favorite foods and routinely ________ healthy meals. “That’s how ________ a person she is.”

Hennacy said. “She shows her love through cooking.”

6 . What would you do if you won the lottery (中彩票)? For many, the first thing to do would be to quit their jobs and retire _________. But one Canadian man named Pierre Richer, who recently won $50 million, didn’t _________ doing that.

Pierre Richer works as a driver and head of shipping at a catering company. On October 6, he _________ a lottery ticket at Super C supermarket in Montreal while _________ with his daughter for Thanksgiving. “With the _________ being on sale at the Super C, my _________ went in to get them and I got the ticket for $10,” said Richer. Had the pie fillings been _________, he said he wouldn’t have been to the Super C.

Several days later, Richer’s wife and his daughter _________ he had won $50 million. His daughter _________ so loud that the family thought she had seen a spider (蜘蛛). When Richer __________ the room, he was told about the __________. To all the excitement his daughter and wife felt, he __________ reacted. “OK,” Richer said and then walked out, __________ his work routine. The winner appeared __________ to the sudden wealth.

Considering that he is already in his 60s, people __________ he would resign and take __________. But much to their __________, he showed up for work at 4:30 a.m. the Monday following his win as if nothing had __________ over the weekend. “I can’t leave them alone in the dark. The shipping department will __________ in my absence,” said Richer, whose __________ to work deeply touched his employer and colleagues.

7 . Austrian biologist Johannes Fritz has dedicated his career to helping northern bald ibises (鹮). This rare species of bird was _________ in the wild 50 years ago; however, through careful _________, he’s been able to “rewild” 277 ibises in his home country. To ensure that they survive the _________ of the winter, Fritz even _________ young birds a new migration path from Austria to _________ with the help of a flying machine.

Fritz guided the first group of ibises in 2004. _________, that path has already been affected by climate change. After noticing that three _________ failed to make the trip, he and his team _________ the birds and drove them where they needed to go. This was only a/an _________ solution, of course. Soon afterward, Fritz was designing a new __________ for the ibises which would help them __________ the dangers of the Alps.

Using a three-wheeled vehicle, Fritz __________ with the birds. He taught them a new migration path that __________ about 2, 5000 miles, which is about three times __________ than the old route. Rather than go to Italy, the ibises now ________ to Spain’s southern Atlantic coast. It takes Fritz and the birds six weeks to make a __________ trip.

Some may wonder how Fritz is able to teach the birds in his flying machine, and why the ibises __________ to follow him. The answer is quite __________. Fritz and the Waldrapp team have taken care of the birds their whole lives — __________ them and supporting them. So they __________ follow him, despite not knowing their new destination.

8 . An elephant was rescued in southern India after falling into a well in the village of Dharmapuri. It took more than 12 hours, but the elephant has been _________ finally.

The elephant came from a _________ forest. The well in the village was hidden by bushes. And there were even no barriers _________ around it.

People from the village _________ told the local officials when they saw the trapped elephant. They dropped some banana _________ down the well for the elephant to eat, as rescuers worked throughout the whole night to free it.

The officials brought in a crane (吊车) to _________ the elephant out. As the crane lifted the elephant to safety, it was fastened by some belts and _________ upside down. Doctors helped rescuers sedate (给……服镇静剂) the elephant when it _________ pipes they were using to pump water out of the well. After the rescue, the elephant was monitored by the _________ government for about three hours. It was found to be __________ and active in the end.

The people in the village have some __________ saving trapped elephants because two other elephants have fallen down wells before. And the uncovered wells there have already __________ a threat to the elephants.

The elephants need more __________ land to survive as they need to walk around to look for food and water. Open wells in their migratory routes (迁移路线) are huge __________ for them. What we must do is to cover the wells or set a barrier around them so as to __________ these elephants.

9 . Britain’s toughest grandmother cheated death three times to become a champion powerlifter and is still pumping iron in her 70s. Pat Reeves has _________ two terminal cancer diagnoses and a high-speed car crash.

She _________ weightlifting in 1982 when she was 36, after receiving her first terminal diagnosis due to a brain tumor (肿瘤). She _________ a plant-based diet and began running marathons and _________. She hoped that it would _________ her slow-growing tumor. She was encouraged by her bodybuilding _________ to try powerlifting and fell in love with it, quickly breaking records and _________ titles at competitions she entered. For 10 years, she traveled the world, _________ in national and global events.

But in December, 1993, she was _________ by another terminal cancer diagnosis; this time she was told she had bone cancer. Reeves __________ to let it defeat her and continued with her healthy and __________ lifestyle in an attempt to make the tumors __________, and was declared cancer-free in mid-2016.

In September, 2018, she was involved in a high-speed __________. The accident left her with crushed lungs and led to a(n)__________ disease that occurred when lung tissue was __________. She was told she only had three months to __________ in June, 2019. But she survived again. However, she said, “It does still __________ me, but I’ve found a way to train and I still do powerlifting even with my setbacks.” She has broken around 200 __________ and can lift up to nearly 300 pounds.

We may meet many __________ in life. However, as long as we have a positive attitude, we can __________ overcome them.

10 . Peter worked at a grocery store. Recently, he _______ a second job to help pay for his sick friend Dan and his own son’s _______.

Although the job was boring, there were times Peter especially _______. At that time the supermarket was _______, being full of customers. One day, a young woman named Angela caught Peter’s _______ when she turned to her two children, “Sorry, babies. Mommy can’t _______ to get your sweets and snacks, so please put them back, okay?”

The children began to cry and Angela tried to _______ them. Then Peter quickly swooped (接近) in, _______ to help her to pay for the _______. Peter was glad to see the children happy and Angela a little at ease.

The next day Angela returned to the store and explained to Peter, “Thanks for your kindness. It really ________ a lot. I’m a single mother and lost my job, so things are a bit ________.”

“Well, I am ________ aware of your situation. I need help with my friend’s medical bills and my kid’s college. Nothing comes cheap.”

Angela was grateful for Peter’s help. Peter’s actions and ________ touched Angela, and she thought to herself, “This man had his share of ________, yet he was still kind enough to________ and help me. I should pass this kindness on.”