2 . For many young Canadians, planting trees is more than just a job. It's a way of _________— and it could be catching on, thanks to a popular _________ by Leslie. While working for a logging company, the 29-year-old filmed herself using the _________ method that allowed her to plant 4,545 trees in a single day. She said that the work is truly _________.

Planting trees is not easy work, according to Leslie. Not only is it _________ tiring, but it also exposes laborers to the bad weather. "It could start the day off _________ and then minutes later, it will just be raining or snowing. You never know what to _________," she described. "There were some days that we were planting through a heat _________, so we had like 37-to-40-degree weather for several days straight and that was really _________."

So far, Leslie has planted a total of 372,290 trees in the past few years.__________, she's still nowhere near beating the Guinness World record. That honor __________ Kenny Chaplin, who once planted 15,170 trees in 19 hours. After 35 years on the job, he says he'd __________ it to anyone.

"I think every parent in Canada should __________ their kid out tree planting because it will turn them into a worker," he __________. "They'll learn how to work, they'll have __________ and they'll have money in their pockets."

4 . 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!

6 . 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.”

7 . A little girl created a perfect gift for her mother’s birthday. It was a drawing of a _________ on white paper with the words “For mom: love, love, love” decorated with hearts. She folded (折叠) her letter, but then she _________ it.

For most people, that would be the _________ of this story, but this story had a different result. James Carrell _________ the letter. He had just called his mother, wishing her a happy birthday. After he hung up, Carrell saw the _________ on the ground outside of a hardware (五金器具) store in Manvel. “I realized it was a gift,” said Carrell. “I _________ it up and saw the flower and hearts. It really _________ me.” Carrell thought the letter would brighten someone’s day and that maybe he could find the _________, so he posted it on the Internet. The message moved a lot of people, _________ one man.

“I was sitting at my friend’s house and saw a man’s reply,” said Carrell.

The comments included one from Robert Alvarado. He wrote, “I can’t __________ you found my baby’s letter.” Carrell reached Alvarado to __________ the letter. It took a few days, but the men finally __________ on Thursday night, one day after Alvarado’s wife’s birthday.

“__________ the letter made it home,” said Alvarado “We are thankful for what James Carrell did.”

We often forget the power of __________ things, but for this family from Alvin, Carrell’s small act left a(n) __________ impression.

9 . Serena was walking to her class slowly. She worried about the ________ test she would have to take that morning. As she was reaching the classroom, a piece of paper suddenly fluttered (飘落) down and ________ near her feet. As Serena ________ the paper, her heart nearly missed a beat. It was the history test paper complete with ________!

Serena’s very first ________ was not to tell anyone what she had found. She would ________ all the answers and do extremely well in the test. After some hard thinking, however, she realized that it would be a very ________ thing to do. Besides, it would be ________ to her classmates. In the end, Serena ________ the paper to her history teacher, Miss James.

“Thanks, Serena. I have been ________ for it everywhere,” said the teacher. “Sorry, Miss James. I’ve read all the questions already.” Serena said.

Miss James told her not to ________ as she would think of new ________ for the test. Serena’s heart sank. She was half hoping that the test would be cancelled (取消). However, she did her best in the new test later that day.

A few days later, the test papers were returned to the class. To her pleasant ________, Serena discovered that she had scored eighty marks.

“You know,” she told her friends, “I could ________ have got full marks if I had cheated. But I wouldn’t be as ________ as I am now with the eighty marks I got.”

10 . One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods_______she realized that she was lost.

Sitting on a rock and _______what to do, she began crying. After a while. She decided to walk along a wide path lined with tall trees and thick bushes.When it was getting dark, she saw a small, dark wooden house. She opened the door and _______ stepped in. Suddenly, she heard a strange noise, and she ran out the door and back to the _______. Cold and tired, she fell asleep near a _______.

The girl’s parents were out and her dog, Laddy, was at home. Laddy _______ that his mistrees（女主人）was in danger. He jumped _______ a window, breaking the glass. He looked in the fields. But he couldn’t find his mistress anywhere. However, from the ground came a familiar scent (气味) as he lowered his head. He followed the scent and walked across the grassland. Barking _______ into the air, the dog _______ through the woods until he found the ________. But the girl was not there, so he headed back to the woods. Much to his ________ , he saw his mistress’ blue shirt in the distance. He ________ over some bushes and saw the little stream, where the girl was ________.

When she opened her eyes and________ her dog standing beside her, the girl said, “you ________me, Laddy, ” and she kissed him several times. Seeing their daughter and dog coming back, the parents burst into tears of relief . That night Laddy had a heror’s supper: a huge meal of steak