1 . For the past 17 years, Raquel Radford Baker has been a school bus driver for the Dallas Independent School District. Last month, Baker saved the life of a 7-year-old boy who had a _________ moment on his way to school when he accidentally swallowed (吞咽) a coin and began to choke.

The _________, which was caught on tape, took place on September 29. Preston, a first grader, was sitting in his seat on the bus, when he suddenly sat up, _________ that the coin he had been holding above his open mouth had _________ his throat. He got up and walked to Baker at the front of the bus and tapped her for _________.

Initially, Baker thought Preston was sick, but _________, she heard him say something about a coin and she sprang into _________. She grabbed him from behind and carried him off the bus. When she got to a bench in front of the school, she told a nearby parent to call 911 as she started _________ first aid, which she’d _________ during the company’s training sessions. ____________ that moment, Baker, getting teary, said the only ____________ running through her mind was, “I have to save this boy. I have to save him.”

Thanks to her ____________, the coin was removed from Preston’s throat. Before that, however, Preston had gone ____________ and his face was turning blue. Baker continued first aid. That was when Preston said, “Miss Raquel, I’m okay. I can ____________ ” Baker said that moment brought great ____________. She immediately hugged him tight. Preston promised to never put coins in his mouth again.

2 . A little library was built in our neighborhood to encourage people to “take a book, leave a book”. While taking a walk, Ayla, my eight-year-old daughter, was _________ and asked many questions about it.

Long after we got home, I found her in her bedroom, seated on the floor, surrounded by her _________, all of them. She _________ expressed that she was trying to find a（n）_________ book for the tiny library. Not much later, I saw Ayla standing at the front door, holding a book in one hand and a little _________ in the other, which she _________ in the bathroom when she brushed her teeth. She needed it to look into the _________.

I was _________ to know what book Ayla had picked. When we reached the library, she carefully set down the chair and _________ up. She opened the glass door slowly, with too much __________. Then she paused（暂停）, looked down at the book in her hand, and slid it inside. It was her __________ book. The “take it” part took Ayla a long time to look through the children’s books one by one and carefully examined them, like a jeweler（宝石匠）__________ the perfect stone. At last, she found what she __________.

Once we got home, I asked Ayla why she put that book in the little library. She __________ if every kid left their favorite book, there would be plenty of favorite books to __________.

3 . It was a sunny afternoon. My husband Dave and I had just arrived home from hospital. I parked the car in front of the house. Dave was so tired that he leaned against the door and waited for me to open it for him. When I opened it, he _________ out of the car onto the ground. He was too _________ to raise himself. I tried to lift him, but my _________ ended fruitlessly. I looked around in all directions for someone to help us but nobody was _________.

I turned to run into the house to make a _________. Just then, a man dressed in white walked toward us. I couldn’t _________ how he appeared suddenly as I’d seen no one seconds before. He looked at Dave on the ground and asked if we needed _________. I nodded, adding that my husband was very heavy and _________ to move.

“Let me _________,” he said. He put one hand under Dave’s arm. As if Dave __________ no more than a feather, the man lifted him. He put Dave’s arm over his shoulder and put his own arm around Dave’s waist to keep him __________.

As I __________ the way into the house, the two men walked up our front stairs and into our home together. The man lowered Dave onto a little sofa. He smiled as Dave tried to thank him and said he was __________ to help. As he turned to go, I thanked him __________. He just smiled, said goodbye, and walked away.

I’ve never seen that man again, but I’ll always __________ him as our angel of light.

4 . I was annoyed that my mom had even scheduled the appointment with a doctor for me. As doctors so often do, when he arrived he went straight into the basic small talk about my _______ history.

But then he _______ a question that took me off guard. “So Robin, what are you going to do after high school?” He wrote something at his notes, with not even a glance in my _______. “I don’t know,” I mumbled(嘟哝). I was seventeen. I had no _______ what I was going to do after high school. My high school guidance counselor told me that I wasn’t “college material” and I believed her. Education wasn’t exactly _______ in my family.

“You don’t know? Well, why don’t you go to college to become a _______ like me?” He smiled as he glanced at his watch. I thought he was _______ for even suggesting it. No one in my family had even graduated from college, let alone become a doctor. “I’m not smart enough to be a doctor.”

He looked me straight in the eyes when he _______ said, “Let me tell you something; you don’t have to be smart to be a doctor. You just have to be persistent(坚持不懈的).” Then the doctor hurriedly gathered his things and _______ to his next appointment.

I ________ to think about it when I was at school. What would I do after high-school? Even though I wasn’t college material, that doctor made a(n) ________ on me. I applied to a college and soon found myself walking in the ________ as a new student. I often questioned what I was doing there. Maybe I wasn’t smart enough for college, but I could be persistent.

I was ________ to find that with each individual achievement came newfound ________ in myself. I graduated with a master’s degree in September 2014, two decades after that ________ with my doctor.

5 . I live in Sarasota, Florida, where sudden and terrible rainstorms can often come out of nowhere. People who are not from around here will never_______ to bring an umbrella with them every_________day.

One beautiful afternoon, my mother and I were heading for our_________in her car after taking my cat to hospital. Suddenly, as so often_________, a heavy rainstorm blew in.

While waiting at a red light, we noticed a_________over to the side of the road. Someone was crouching (蹲着) at the bus stop. Looking_________, we came to clearly see this was a young woman, crouching low to_________ her young daughter as they waited for the bus. She got wet all through.

As traffic began to move, my mother felt_________but was unable to think of what she could do. At the very next light,_________going home, she turned to the left and then circled back around the block to__________.

As they came into view__________, the young mother still covering her child with her own body, my mom__________.She grabbed her umbrella and ran over to them. Not saying a word, she__________handed the young mother the umbrella, smiling, and ran back.

I’m so glad I witnessed this__________on my mother’s part. I’m following my mom’s__________, always ready to warm someone else in need.

8 . I was working as a mechanical engineer, doing designing and product development at my company. I was really having a good time.

However, one day, I got a message for a _______ from my manager at 4:45 pm. I went into his office, and I saw someone from HR sitting beside him. My manager said,“Your _______ is not up to the mark. You always need help from others to complete your work. You aren’t working _______ . So this will be your_______day.” I had_______my hardest in the last 3 months and to hear something like that_______my confidence. I tried to convince him but the_______was final.

In this situation, I had two_______. To feel sad for myself or to leave everything behind and go get what I was worth. I told myself that I_______a job. I started________a new job actively. Putting in maximum effort, I got________. I made a record of 12 interviews in a week! I________several offers and accepted a new job! I was really________and proud of myself.

I just want to say that no matter how much you________, you can always get back up. I am proud of myself that I stayed________and got a new offer within a few weeks.

10 . Just a couple of days ago, I sold a book to a friend of mine. She paid the amount I charged and asked, “Is that ____? It doesn’t seem like it will cover shipping.”

To be honest, I didn’t calculate the shipping costs ____ and I barely broke even(收支平衡) on sale of the book. I ____ that I had learned my lesson and that the next time she could ____the difference(差额). Thinking nothing of it at the time, I received a(n)____ from my PayPal account that this particular friend had paid a(n)____sum to more than cover the charge of the book and shipping. I was so deeply ____by her act of kindness and desire to encourage a passion for writing by ____ the sale of my first book. It nearly brought me to tears. Happy tears!

This is just one recent ____ of everyday kindnesses I often take for granted. I could name so many more. Often ____, or less valued, these small acts of service, friendship, and human care are what it takes to make the world go round. They are the fuel that won’t ____ our love banks, but rather puts the positive ____forward ten times.

With illness surrounding us and some countries at war, people are ____ more than we can imagine. As the everyday ____ often make the life journey feel mostly uphill, these small gestures of goodwill can easily light a spark of kindness that can easily ____ like wildfire, erupting into a flash of peace and love this old world is eager to know.