2 . Growing up, singer-songwriter Trevor Martin knew his childhood was a little different from those around him.

When Martin was born, he wouldn’t ________ bleeding (流血). When he was two days old, he was ________ in an ambulance to a hospital, where he was diagnosed (诊断) with severe hemophilia (血友病). Speaking to Martin now, he remains ________. Having hemophilia was a ________ that would set the stage for his approach to life.

Martin was 8 years old when he ________ his love for singing and performing. He sang a song with a local orchestra (管弦乐队), his first time singing for an audience of a thousand, and he got a standing ovation (热烈欢迎). It ________ his eyes. By the age of 13, he had ________the guitar and was writing his own songs. Now, at 25, he’s an up-and-coming pop-country ________.

Music has always been a ________ personal expression for Martin, and living with hemophilia has ________ some of his songs. “The first single I ever ________ was written and produced with the father of another boy with hemophilia,” he said. “That was really ________to make that connection in the hemophilia world and put that music out there.”

As a (n) ________ voice in the hemophilia community, he’s feeling positive about the future. Right now, he’s working on more songs to release later this year. “I’m so honoured that I have the ________ to show others that the difficulties in our lives don’t have to hold us back from pursuing (追求) our ________.”

3 . Draper was the owner of a secondhand bookstore. One day, when he was sorting through a pile of old books, an envelope _______ from one. Inside was an undated letter and a faded photo of a woman holding a little girl on her lap. The letter said if Bethany was _______ it, it meant the author had died.

Tears were welling up in Draper’s eyes. These were a _______ woman’s last words to her child. He had to _______ Bethany. “Whoever it is will keep this.” he thought. “You wouldn’t throw away a letter like that.”

He supposed if the book ended up in his shop then Bethany was likely from around Bishop Auckland. And he thought he would _______ the little girl’s face. Even if she’d since left the area, there might be someone in the town who would recognize the picture.

He started with the local newspaper. The Northern Echo ran the story of the _______ letter.

Meanwhile, Bethany Gash, now 21 and a(n) _______ herself, was on Facebook about 10 miles away when a close friend messaged her to check out the _______. As she read her mother’s _______ which she thought had been lost forever, she said she thought she must be ________.

Bethany was only 4 when her mother ________. Five years later, her family moved to a new home and the letter, put away in the pages of a book for safe keeping, was unintentionally ________.

She remembered unpacking and looking for the letter, and then ________ searching through everything in the hope that it was there. “That’s when I realized it was gone and I’d never see it again,” she said.

Draper ________ the letter in person. He also brought her a children’s book for her son. Bethany was greatly moved to have the letter back, and also touched by the stranger’s ________.

6 . It surprised me — every time I saw Joe, he was smiling. It didn’t ________ whether he had to stop at a stop light, or if he were the seventh person in ________ at the bank, and the service stopped just before he got there. Joe always smiled. It made me wonder why he seemed so_________ every day.

Having observed Joe with other people, I ________ something else also. Joe asked people how they were doing, and really seemed to listen to their ________. If someone were hurting, he had ________for him and kind words, and offered to ________in any way he could.

It made me think. What if I tried to smile more? A(n) ________of sorts began when I went to the grocery store. I smiled as I went up and down the aisles, and people I didn’t even ________smiled back at me. Some even ________! The little kid in the cart (购物车) who was giving his mother a ________time saw me smile and ____ talking, and, you guessed it — he made a shy little attempt at a smile.

As I drove home, I was smiling. I________ what I had just learned, and when someone passed me and gave me a(n) ________, I smiled at him.

Now I know a smile is a small thing, but what if we were all to try to smile a few more times each day? Nothing in my life had changed, but maybe it had. What I had learned was that such a small thing could ________not only my spirits, but also the spirits of those around me. So smile!

7 . One day there was a lady and a boy in a plane. It was a very sunny day when the plane ________from the airport. When the plane was in the middle of its journey, thunder, lightning and heavy winds began. Great________ were felt inside the plane. Passengers were afraid and________ . The lady then quickly grabbed her seat. However, the boy was calm and still playing his ________. The lady was surprised why the boy was just________ and wasn’t afraid of what would happen next. The boy suddenly________up and went to the rest room and went back to his games happily jumping and smiling. She asked the boy, “Hey! Aren’t you afraid of what will happen next?” The boy just________ her, “No, I am not.”

The lady was________ . Then the lady asked him, “We are in________. Why aren’t you afraid?” The boy then answered the lady calmly with a________ on his face, “I should not be afraid and will not be afraid, because the one who is flying the plane is my father.”

Sometimes in life we are afraid of what will________ to us and we tend to forget that someone is in control of all the________ that we experience. Sometimes, we don’t believe in the one who can________ all that is happening. We need to be like the boy in the story. We should stop________ because everything is under control. We should not lose faith in the person who can make things________ for us.

8 . Emily Bhatnagar is a shy girl who has always loved reading. She says, “The books sort of became my best friends when I didn’t have one.”

When Bhatnagar was 16, her father was diagnosed (诊断) with cancer. The news was________for the family. Books became an even bigger ________, and she started thinking about families in similar situations. When her father recovered, she ________a plan to help others. “The idea came from not just great thanks that the doctors were able to ________such a miracle (奇迹),”she said, “but also a little of ________ that there were kids who were ________ the same battle.”

Bhatnagar started a ________ in her hometown. The goal was to collect books and give them to kids being ________ for cancer in local hospitals. Since the start of the book drive, which she called For Love & Buttercup, Bhatnagar has ________ more than 10,000 books.

Bhatnagar had no idea how much ________ her work would get. She started by posting on social media, asking people in her area to donate. “I was expecting maybe two or three ________ from neighbors,” she said. But it ended up blowing up, ________ when news stations began reporting it. “The public response has been super great,” her father said.

Bhatnagar continues to run the book drive, with a little help from her parents. She hopes to expand the project to ________ more kids one day. The memory of the first time she visited those children who’d ________ her books sticks with her. “It was the best ________ of my life,” she said. “I realized I wanted to do this type of work forever.”