1 . It was a hot summer evening. Kevin and his brother Alan were _________ soccer in the backyard. After a while, they decided to drink some orange juice and watch TV in the house. _________ the TV was off. Alan tried to turn it back on, but _________ happened. They soon realized that there was no electricity（电）. What could they do? Kevin suggested going outside to do some _________ watching. Without streetlights, the stars were bright and _________ to see. Lying on the grass, they saw different kinds of stars _________ they even saw the planet Mars. Kevin and Alan had never realized_________ fantastic the night sky could be.

After watching the stars for an hour, the boys _________ the house. It was very dark except for a few _________ that their parents had lighted. The family spent the night playing cards and telling stories by candlelight. Kevin and Alan had never thought of having such a night __________ electricity like that before. They really enjoyed watching stars.

2 . I deliver (派送) meals on wheels every Friday. A week ago, I had the pleasure of _________ one of my customers. She was in her eighties and was very _________ and I always brought her lunch on Fridays. She looked _________ when she opened the door one day. She told me her phone was_________ and that she couldn’t receive the call from her doctor. She went to her neighbors, _________ they were not at home. She had _________to ask the mailman to help her, but he didn’t come for several days. She was _________ .

Having heard _________story, I took matters into my own hands. I called the phone company_________and made sure they knew that getting this phone__________was urgent (紧急的). I took down her phone number and her __________ just to make sure I could __________ later to see if the phone had been fixed.

She was so __________ that she was in tears,__________me for my help. I called the __________twice that day. They told me they had checked the phone line and got the phone__________. After that I called her every day to make sure she was__________ and didn’t need anything.

Just being able to help her in her time of__________filled my heart with such__________and happiness. It does not take much time or __________ to help a neighbor. Sometimes, all that is needed is a smile, a hug or a helping hand.

3 . I almost died when I feel into the boiling water at the age of three. The ________ left me with serious burns and scars (伤疤) all over my body. I spent many years in hospital having hundreds of ________, which meant years and years of skin grafts (移植).

In my teens, I realized that I was ________ to my friends. They were all beautiful young ladies and I had these terrible scars under my clothes which made me feel ugly. ________, swimming helped me a lot. I can’t ________ that I was burned in the water and yet it also helped to ________ me. In the water I was at my happiest.

I was a competitive swimmer for many years and then was ________ to be a swimming teacher for the local swim club. Even though ________ in a gym is difficult for me, swimming is much ________ as I can sweat in the pool.

This year I swam from Asia to Europe alongside the talented physical sports expert Professor Greg. I swam close to Greg asking for his ________ in a swim challenge and he agreed to help me out. When I climbed out, I broke down and wept and just couldn’t control my ________. I was told afterwards that I ________ in one hour and 28 minutes. I couldn’t believe it as I kept stopping wanting to ________ but Greg really inspired me all the way to the finish.

I was doing this for all those people who had ________ years of self body hating, severe depression, low self-confidence and of course my wonderful families. ________ women are survivors of life.

4 . The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure originally ______ in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.

The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851, and more than 14, 000 ______ from around the world gathered to ______ examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution. ______ by Joseph Paxton, the Great Exhibition building was 1,851 feet（564 m） long, with an inside height of 128 feet（39 m）. It was three times the ______ of St Paul’s Cathedral.

The introduction of the glass sheets method into Britain by Chance Brothers in 1832 made ______ the production of large sheets of cheap but strong glass. Its ______ in the Crystal Palace created a structure with the greatest area of ______ ever seen in a building. It ______ visitors with its clear walls and ceilings that did not ______ inside lights.

It has been said that the name of the building _____ from an article by the playwright （剧作家）Douglas Jerrold. He wrote in a magazine called Punch about the coming Great Exhibition, ______ to a “palace of very crystal”.

After the exhibition, the palace was moved to an area of South London known as Penge Common. It was rebuilt at the top of Penge Peak next to Sydenham Hill. It stood there from June 1854 until its ______ by fire in November 1936. The nearby residential（住宅的）area was ______ Crystal Palace after the landmark. Crystal Palace Football Club was founded at the site in 1905. The club still ______ Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’s Crystal Palace Dinosaurs which date back to 1854.

5 . Judy Pugh was an elderly woman sitting in her home when a tornado hit. A ________ fell on top of her, and the rest of her house was sucked up into the twister (龙卷风). Neighbors called her name and ________ the wall off her. Luckily, she was only slightly ________.

Pugh had three pet cats, and her only ________ after the storm was finding them. She ________ to find two of the cats soon after. But ________, she could not find her third cat, Cadie. Her family ________ that the10-year old cat was carried away in the twister. Despite the ________ that over a month had passed since the storm, she did not give up ________. Pugh continued to ________ to the ruins of her home and search for the cat every single day. A local TV station found Pugh standing there and ________ her. In the middle of the recording, Cadie the cat silently ________ out of the remains of Pugh’s house. He found his way home ________.

Cadie was ________, dirty, and could not even gather the strength to meow (猫叫声). Pugh walked over to him, holding him into her arms. “I have ________ in the world, now.” Pugh said as she began to cry. She gently held her pet close to her chest.

6 . One warm spring day, a small creature followed my girls home after school. She was so _______that my girls begged me to keep her.

So we named her Molly and she_______everywhere my girls went. But one day, a particular ad caught my attention and my heart_______ at what I read. Someone was searching for a lost puppy near our grade school.

I wanted to ignore the ad. However, my conscience was _______me. With _______feelings, I picked up the phone. Secretly I was praying no one would_______, but a woman did. As I described the dog to her in detail, her voice shook with_______. and she wanted to come right over._______ minutes I heard a vehicle pull up at the driveway and some _______ stop at the door. A thousand thoughts_______ my mind: I could pretend I wasn't home or tell her,“I'm sorry, you have the wrong address." But it was too late: the bell rang and Molly was _______.

Opening the door, I saw a woman with a little girl sitting in a small wheelchair. When looking at Molly, the little girl's face_______.“Here,Lucy,”she yelled,“Come here!”Molly instantly obeyed,wagging her tail wildly. Seemingly sensing my feelings, the woman explained that Lucy(Molly) was more than just a puppy to her daughter. Suddenly I felt _______.God has blessed me with so much,I thought. As they pulled out of the______,I smiled, knowing I had done the right thing - that puppy was_______where she belonged.

7 . I teach in a low-income, urban high school. After I began _________ , I wanted to start a Culture Club at my school.

About eleven years ago, a reporter came to my school to _________ me. A few days after the resulting article   _________ , I got an email from a woman named Jeanne. She said she _________ the work

I was doing at my school, and asked me if I _________ funding for an extracurricular activity or club.

I have always seen the _________ of extracurricular activities, so I decided to give Jeanne a call. I told Jeanne about my _________ in a Culture Club. It turned out Jeanne was _________ .

Less than three days later, I received a check for $ 5, 000 to start the _________. She later connected me with a grant (资助金) that has since __________ the club for the past eleven years. To say I'm __________, particularly for the doors this has opened for my students, would be an understatement.

My Culture Club members have since __________ plays, ballets, operas, dance performances, and museums. They write essays that are __________ all over the US, and their art is featured in projects both local and national. We engage in community __________ , taking part in local beautification projects and raising funds for great causes. All those extracurricular activities give students a chance to show their intelligence and students have __________ strong bonds with one another.

I have __________ first - hand the impact extracurricular activities have on students. __________ a Culture Club at your school is a great place to start. Even if you don't __________ a benefactor (捐助者) like Jeanne the way I did, you can still find plenty of events and activities that are __________ or low - cost. It is definitely __________ it.

8 . Once there was a farmer with a wife and two sons. He became quite________through hardworking. He wanted his children to have a(n)________life, so he and his wife did all the work and________made them do anything.

After some time, his wife died and________he didn’t want his children to________, so he did the field labor and all the housework. But as time went on, he became old and________, and started to worry about his________when he died.

So he thought about this for a long time and he________his sons and said, “Look, my inheritance (遗产) to you is a lot of gold. I’ve________all my gold in the fields, so it’s up to you to plough (耕作) them and________the gold.”

And he called his neighbors and said, “I’m going to________and my children don’t know how to________themselves. So please cook for them until they can take care of themselves.”

So the neighbors provided them with________for some time.

Certainly the brothers didn’t want to be robbed of the________so they did the digging themselves. They________one field after another and after they had dug all the fields, they found no gold.

So the brothers sat down and one________the other, “Do you think our father________us?”

But the other brother said, “No, I think our father was saying that the________is a golden profession. And if we dig up all the________we can become rich.”

So like all the other________, they sowed wheat in the fields they had dug and became very rich in the end.

9 . After years of homeless, I was ready to give up. I had lost hope that life could get _________. But what happened next was that instead of me finding hope, it _________ me — and its name was Jay.

Jay was part of a homeless outreach program at Catholic Charities Fort Worth (CCFW). I truly don't know where I'd be if CCFW hadn't _________ me. For the first time in years, I knew that someone had my back. CCFW _________ with me every step of the way. Because of the help, I was able to get on my feet and move into my own _________.

For me, volunteering and giving back to the community that helped me is _________ because I know the _________ these programs can make in the lives of others. One of the most rewarding ways I have been able to _________ is right in my backyard — a soccer field I helped to _________ for my poor neighbors.

In less than two years, I've gone from having __________ to lay my head down at night to being able to __________ and help others. And __________ as I am to have a home, it's not the __________ I give back or even the most valuable thing I've been given. The most life-changing gift I received was hope, and the true __________ of hope is hard to fully grasp until you know what it's like to __________ it.

10 . “Ladies and gentlemen, the time train has arrived at the terminal!” It felt like I had woken up from a dream, ______ soon discovered I had come to 2035. Suddenly, I heard a strange ______ calling my name. I turned around, only to find a robot ______ to me enthusiastically. “I'll _____ you around the city in 2035!” I nodded immediately, ______ what the city would be like.

Once I walked out of the train station, many crossed air lanes came into view. The robot, seeing how ______ I was, explained the new traffic system to me. The system was put into place by many famous engineers using highly ______ technology. In fact, it eliminated (消除) the issue of traffic jams entirely.

Next we made our way to a ______ nearby. Just as I ______ that there was no menu, a waiter began to scan my body with a special ______, which gave me a big fright, so I ______ out of my seat immediately. The robot explained it was just a machine that was able to figure out ______ our body needed and chose the recipe (食谱) that ______ us most. The waiter then introduced me to the electronic ______ that allowed me to choose the environment according to my ______. I pressed the “beach” button on the screen and ______ I felt a sea breeze. I couldn’t help but ______ at how rapidly technology had advanced.

We ______ returned to the train station. Just as I ______ the train, I heard a familiar voice calling my name. I opened my eyes to see my mom standing over me. What a ______ dream!