1 . Alice Brown was teaching when the floor began to shake. The reaction of her _______ was quick and correct — they moved under their desks, head first, and _______ to the legs of the desk. At the same time, Miss Brown _______ opened the classroom door, _______ it became damaged during the shaking and could not _______. There were loud crashes of glass breaking and things falling to the ground, but the students remained _______ and waited calmly and quietly.

The moment the _______ stopped, Miss Brown sensed it was the best time for the class to make their _______. She signaled to her students to exit the classroom in an orderly line covering their _______ with their hands. Within one minute and twenty seconds, the whole class went down the stairs and rushed to the ground. Meanwhile, students from other classes arrived too. After a roll call confirmed that all were ________ and sound, they relaxed, laughing, crying and hugging each other.

4 . Sammie Vance, 14, knows there’s nothing worse than feeling left out. For years, she’s been helping kids who feel lonely _______ friends. What she was doing was running the Buddy Bench program. The _______ was that anyone at school who was feeling lonely could sit on the “buddy bench”. That let other kids know someone needed a friend. “It’s really helpful to have other people be able to _______ you,” Sammie says.

Sammie got the idea for the Buddy Bench program at summer camp in 2017. She thought it would be _______ to have a buddy bench in her school, so when she got back, she _______ the idea to her principal (校长). Getting approval for the project was just the first _______.“There have been a lot of small challenges, like money,” Sammie says.

To reduce _______ and be eco-friendly, Sammie decided to make the bench out of recycled material. So she asked her community to gather bottle caps. Word of the project _______, and soon Sammie was getting caps from people all around the country. She even got them from people in other countries. In the end, she _______ more than 1,200 pounds of bottle caps. A company called GreenTreePlastics was able to make these into three benches.

Before long, Sammie was helping other schools acquire benches. Her work continues to ________ kindness far and wide.

5 . When I was thirteen years old , a girl gave me an important gift. It was a _______. It was the early autumn of my first year at a new school. No one _______ me. I was very lonely. Every time I heard the other students talking and laughing, I felt even more _______. I could not talk to anyone about my_______, and I did not want my parents to worry about me.

One day, my classmates were talking with their friends, but I sat _______. At that moment, a girl entered the classroom,_______ me without a word and gave me a bright smile._______, I felt the touch of something bright and friendly. It made me feel _______. It was like a hidden treasure. That smile   _______ my life. I started to talk with the other__________. Day by Day, I learnt to__________people, and they included me in their circle of friends. The girl with the __________smile has become my best friend now. One day, asked her __________ she smiled at me that day. She said she could not remember!

Now I believe that the world is what you think it is. If you __________ that you are lonely, you might always be alone. My __________ is : smile at the world and it will smile back.

6 . The next day would be Christmas. Jim was shopping for a gift for his wife Della. With an income of twenty dollars per week, life was really _________ for the couple, but Jim wanted to buy a perfect gift for Della. He thought of the beautiful set of _________ Della had wanted for so long in one of the shop windows on Broadway. Tomorrow, Jim decided, he was going to make Della’s dream come true.

Jim and Della _________ two things they were both proud of. One was Jim’s gold watch, and the other was Della’s beautiful _________. Jim looked at the gold watch that had been his father’s and his grandfather’s. _________, Jim knew what he had to do: he would sell his watch.

That afternoon, Jim _________ the watch, went to the shop for the combs (发插) and returned home with a package in his pocket. He was sure that they would be the most wonderful gift for Della. He was _________ about what Della was going to think when she saw the gift the next day.

The door opened and Della walked in. Jim looked at her with a puzzled _________. “Jim,” Della cried, “don’t look at me that way. I sold my hair to buy you a watch chain. Give me your watch. Let me see how it looks on it.”

Jim smiled. “Della,” he said, “I sold my watch to buy you a gift.” Jim _________ the package from his pocket and __________ it on the table. Della opened it. There lay the set of combs that she had always wanted. Now they were hers, but her hair was gone.

8 . Alice was at her home on Christmas Day when she heard someone shouting on her street. When she looked outside, she saw a man _______ for help in the cold. She brought the man, 64-year-old Joe White, into her home to _______ but she feared it was too late. His hands had frostbite (冻伤) and his body was looking worse and worse the longer he stayed in her home.

In search of _______, Alice took to Facebook Live. “We gotta get some help,” she said on the livestream. “He’s going to lose his fingers. I don’t know what else to do. I have fed him. I have _______ him.” “I’m going crazy because I’m scared. His body has changed rapidly every _______.”

Alice said she made a(n) _______ call but due to the snowstorm, emergency workers were unable to respond to calls for hours over the weekend. Ambulances (救护车) were getting _______ in the thick snow.

_______, her request was answered. A group of men arrived and took Joe to the hospital on Christmas night.

Joe is now _______ in the ICU with fourth-degree frostbite, his sister June said. June has expressed her thanks to Alice. “We were all trying to help each other and it was ________,” June said. “He was in a mess. And Alice clearly saved his life.”

10 . It was a cold and snowy morning after the winter vacation. Actually, it was my first day at my new school. I felt very nervous and was _______ about lots of things. A girl on a bike passed me and _______ fell off her bike a few steps in front of me. Without thinking, I went over and helped her to stand up. She said, “Thank you,” with a _______ and then rode away. The _______ “Thank you” warmed me greatly. This _______ event made me feel less nervous about my new school.

Finally, I got to school. The teacher led me to the _______ and asked me to sit down beside a girl. I was _______ again. Soon the first class started. I couldn’t find my textbook. As I was wondering what to do, a _______ appeared in front of me. “Let’s _______,” the girl next to me said. I looked up. It was the girl I helped that morning. What a surprise! From then on, we became good friends. __________ her also helped me find a friend.