1 . Renée and her roommate were living thousands of miles away from their hometown. They often travel back home to _______ their friends and family.

One day at the airport, her roommate couldn’t _______ her passport (护照). She looked for it everywhere. And then she became _______.

“I felt _______ because my roommate is easily with a bad mood (情绪),” Renée said.

Renée tried to ask her roommate where she had last _______ it. And then her mood took a turn for the worse.

“That’s when she shouted at me,” Renée said. “I don’t even _______ what she said, but it was loud and sharp.”

Out of nowhere, a man got close to them. The man _______ asked if she had checked the _______ on her backpack. There it was. Her roommate responded with shyness and her _______ became quiet.

“And it was such a ________ moment. It was seconds. But the man stepping in, it just immediately defused (缓和) the situation,” Renée said. “The man’s gesture of ________ made my roommate realize her own rudeness and impoliteness. And she ________ an apology (道歉) to me.” “He was my hero. It is because of his little gesture that my roommate realized her bad manners, and after that our ________ made deeper. And I truly ________ him for that,” Renée added.

Now, Renée is in a good ________ with her roommate.

2 . In my early twenties, I was battling with depression that had started during my teenage years. My mother ________ to move into my bed. This surprised me and I thought it was ________. How was her sleeping in my bed supposed to ________ me? But I didn’t ________ . Still, it mattered. I didn’t ________ what my mother was doing for me until almost a ________ later.

I was a (n) ________ of a newborn baby girl. She was ________ all night long. As I was awake one night, trying to calm her down, I ________ my mother. The memory of her, lying next to me during my time of struggle, was extremely ________. I realized that just like her, I was co-sleeping with my child. In the face of ________, she had chosen to be there, even if all she could do was ________ next to me. And it did help. Her _________ made me feel loved and secure.

As I ________ my daughter, I promised her that I would do everything in my power to ease her ________ and sorrow. If all else failed, I would be there for her, ________ like my mother did for me. I hope that even when my ________ have no visible effect, my love may still ________ her in some way in her future years.

Over the months, there have been easier and harder nights. However, remembering the ________ I made to my daughter on that difficult night always brings me some peace. There will be new ________ ahead, but I am ready. I know that my love and presence will be her safe haven (避风港), just as my mother’s love was mine.

3 . Growing up in the “City of Lakes”, Udaipur, India, my passion and love for animals grew with each passing day. I often _____ the harm of animal suffering in my own community and nearby villages. My heart ______, but because I was young and without means, my actions were _____. I longed for the power to make a bigger _____ and wished I could help every suffering animal I saw along the roadside.

As I matured, I could no longer stand idle, resigned (屈服的) to a passive role. I decided to _____ the Animal Protection Society in Udaipur, an organization to protect and rescue animals _____. Presenting the idea of an animal _____ organization to my family proved challenging. Their ______ of support mirrored a negative attitude towards animals in our society. I recall a time when I encountered an injured dog on the street, and instead of receiving ______, I was met with criticism. Despite these discouragements, I ______ forward, with positivity as my guide.

I sought inspiration from others who had experience ______ in animal protection. Their ______ advice guided me through the most difficult decisions.   Slowly but surely, a compassionate team began to ______, consisting of individuals who shared my determined love for animals. Vishal Hiloriya, our co-founder, emerged as a pillar (支柱) of ______, along with a host of others who offered financial aid and volunteered ______ for our cause. Their dedication transformed our dreams into ______.

Each time we rescue a sick or injured animal, there is a celebration in our hearts. When you save a life, your soul feels so ______. I wish for a time when every human being extends empathy (共情) and ______ to all living beings. I call for each person to deepen their ______ to animals, each other, and every living thing. In doing so, we will ______ and strengthen our loving experience on this planet.

4 . In 2020, Daya Brown was just in her second year of high school and was taking classes online. So she didn’t have much to do and had_______time to research which universities and colleges she might like to attend after _______ from Westlake High School in Atlanta,Georgia._______ , she came up with a list of about 70 schools.

When it was time to _______college, she spent three hours a day over four months filling out applications. When her email box filled up with_______, she was very surprised. She was _______ by 54 of 70 schools. What’s more, she _______ more than $1.3 million in scholarship (奖学金).

“It was a great _______, because I put in a lot of hard work,” said Brown. She was then a senior at Westlake, where she was the Student Union president.

Brown finished high school on May 17,2021. She had another _______ before she went to Duke University. She wanted to tell other teens how she did it. Her ________ for students was to start early. They should focus on schools with top programs for what they want to ________ and apply for many scholarships, even small ones. “There are no shortcuts to doing the work, so spend time________what’s out there,“ she said.

“But most importantly,” she said, “students should ________colleges with a good idea of who they are.” For Brown, she ________ her poetry, her stage performances and her leadership, which________ her to create a production company and a podcast (播客) for teens.

5 . It was wintertime 30 years ago. I was a young father with 3 little children to support. My college education, however, didn’t ________ me a good job. Now I was working in a sawmill (锯木厂) for just above the minimum ________. Every day before I went to work, I would ________ band-aids around my fingers. Working 8 hours a day in the cold dry air had ________ cuts and scars.

That day was harder than normal. We were ________ of workers and the machines kept breaking down. We could see our ________ as the heaters weren’t working. When the day finally came to an end, I ________ my legs to my car. There I took off my work ________ to see my aching fingers. The cuts were worse than ever and ________ leaked through again. As I made a (n) ________ to fix it, my bad back cramped (抽筋). I had never felt that ________ before. I finally started my car back home and ________ fought back the tears. I wondered why life was so hard and how ________ I could keep doing this.

As I opened the door, I ________ a weak smile on my face. But it soon became ________ as my daughter screamed a sweet “Daddy”. When she threw her little arms around my neck, my heart ________ with love. All my aches and pains disappeared in her ________! In that second I remembered again I was here for ________ and I knew I could move on.

In our lives, we all have ________ fingers and band-aid days. But with love we can survive.________, work may give us a living, but love gives us a life.

6 . It’s never easy being the new kid in school, especially when you look a little bit different from everyone else. Aside from the usual ________ about not knowing anyone at Henderson High School in Tennessee, 15-year-old Sergio Peralta worried that people would pick on him for his ________. Sergio’s right hand didn’t form fully at birth.

It turned out that his fellow students were a lot more open-minded than he ________. In fact, when the school’s engineering teacher noticed Sergio’s ________, he suggested the students in his class should be able to ________ him.

The school is ________ with online modeling software and a 3D printer, so the teacher suggested a real-life application that would ________ both Sergio and the other students. Several engineering students ________ began working on a prosthetic (假肢) for their new ________.

Students ________ with Sergio to get the prosthetic right, and when it was ________, it went beyond all expectations. Sergio was now ________ to catch a baseball in his right hand for the first time in his entire life.

Beyond the practicality of having a(n) ________ prosthetic, Sergio felt something even more powerful: He ________. Rather than being laughed at for his difference, he was celebrated and helped. “They ________ my life,” said the grateful teen.

7 . I lost all my hair at age two due to alopecia (脱发症). I wore a wig (假发) and was _________ for it. Children at my age would call me “bald” or say, “Lindsay has no hair.” They were right. I felt like I _________ it, as if losing my hair due to the disease were my _________.

Fortunately, sports became my _________, and I was grateful to have natural _________ ability. I’d race home every day and shoot baskets for hours. I started to gain _________ from others. I became known as a girl who was good at basketball. In high school I broke countless school records and received a scholarship to play in college. However, I still rarely _________ my alopecia.

Afterwards I wanted to run the marathon in my town. I barely trained and thought it was just running. It turned out that I was _________. I wasn’t _________ at the time that this 26.2-mile run would __________ my life and attitude in more ways than I could have imagined. I’ll never forget the feeling of crossing the finish line and the way everyone __________ with me. I fell in love with the __________

The more I ran, the more __________ I felt. Then one day, during a training run, I took off my __________ hair halfway. I couldn’t believe my __________. But, for the first time, I felt strong, beautiful, and brave, and I knew that I didn’t __________ it. Two weeks later, I ran my first marathon bald and set a personal record. Tears welled up in my eyes. I was __________ Lindsay.

Alopecia has been the __________ gift I never knew I needed. I know now I’m beautiful and truly __________ it. It’s not what I look like that makes me beautiful, but being a good person, being kind, and always __________ a smile and a helping hand to someone in need.

8 . The moment I boarded the plane to China will probably haunt (萦绕心头) me for the rest of my life. I was leaving my best _________ in Germany. A feeling of anxiety rushed through me. They tried to make me _________ that we would meet again. But the truth is that I was leaving and they were staying, _________ I was missing them forever.

When I set _________ in my new class on a cold winter morning, I didn’t feel excited. Staring at me were 40 pairs of curious eyes. My face turned red at once. A lot of people talked to me on my first day, but I was _________ to look at them in the eye, I felt that _________ I made new friends I would be betraying(背叛) my old friends in a way.

Things _________ on a sunny afternoon. I was busy with my Chinese homework and had no _________ but to ask my classmates for help. I thought they wouldn’t be nice to me as I had kept my distance _________ them before. To my surprise, however, they were quite friendly. __________, I started to make friends with them, and we’ve had countless great memories since then.

I still __________ my old friends dearly, but I don’t feel that I’ve abandoned (抛弃) them. I know they’d feel happy for me. True friends are never __________, maybe in distance but not in heart.

So don’t be afraid of losing __________. Just let it go. During the process, you’ll discover that you __________ really say goodbye to it. __________, it becomes a part of you, helping and guiding you in life. Trees lose their leaves, but those leaves fall to the ground and help the trees grow. Let our lives grow as trees do.

9 . A Texas community came together to celebrate a birthday party for a little girl who had a deadly illness.

“My little girl has been ________ the day to come,” Mom Lex Fitzgerald said. “She’s been so ________ to celebrate with all her classmates and friends. Despite Willa’s excitement, the guests she had invited ________ to arrive.

In a last desperate (孤注一掷的) act, Lex posted on website page in the ________ that a few families in the community could ________ them and turn the day around for her daughter.

“If anyone is looking for something to do right now, welcome to ________ at my daughter’s birthday party,” she wrote online. “Maybe it’s her last party. We’d love to ________ with you.”

“The ________ was life changing,” she said. Families ________ what they were doing, chose gifts, and rushed to the ________. Within minutes, families were showing up ________ to share the day with Willa. Lex said, “At first, there was not a(n) ________ person at her birthday table. But later, there was not a single table empty in the restaurant. Lex posted a video on the Internet that showed Willa posing for pictures in front of a table full of ________.

“I just want to ________ all of the people who came today to be with us,” Lex said. “You not only showed up for my little girl, but for me as well. You picked me up and encouraged me forward when I felt like I had failed as a ________. Thank you.”

10 . As a child, I was fascinated by the world of theater and began taking classes at the age of 7. Throughout my teenage years, I actively _________ plays, television shows, and movies. _________ provided me with an opportunity to explore and _________ things that I may not have had the courage to attempt in real life. One of the most significant _________ of acting was the ability to step outside of my comfort zone and transform into someone else, _________ and bold on stage.

Despite this, in my everyday life, I was often plagued (困扰) by _________ and hesitance. Acting allowed me to explore different time periods and _________, as I donned (穿上) various costumes and immersed (投入) myself in different eras and worlds. I played a variety of _________, ranging from aliens to ringmasters, and _________ a diverse set of skills along the way.

Performing was an excellent way for me to __________ my shyness and inhibitions. I gained a newfound confidence in myself and learned to be more __________ and daring. __________, after a while, I grew tired of living inside someone else’s __________ and was ready to forge (打造) my own path. I was fortunate to have received unwavering __________ and guidance from my family, who had always __________ me of the importance of education and self-worth.

Looking back, my time as a __________ actor was a period of significant self-discovery and __________. Through acting, I gained __________ insights into myself and the world around me. I will always be __________ for the experiences and lessons I __________ during my time in the spotlight.