1 . Exercise and healthy eating go together to produce a healthy lifestyle! Many of us have internal (内心的) ________ why we can’t do either one! We have all once felt ________ for planning an activity but failing in the end! We are busy. We don’t have time to drive to the ________, the weather is too bad for that promised walk, and it’s too hot or cold out, or any other number of excuses!

The good news is that any exercise helps increase our ________. Fifteen minutes of activity a day, or 90 minutes per week, is enough to cut your risk of death by 14%, compared to ________ people. That is a healthy ________ to develop.

Please take the time to add ________ to your life. Start slow, if you are out of shape. You do not need to be a (n) ________ sportsperson. Fast walking is enough to help control diabetes (糖尿病)! ________ by adding a 10-minute walk to your daily life! Even adding 5 minutes to your walk each week can make a(n) ________ difference.

Try to ________ for at least 30 minutes per day. You can break it up into three 10-minute ________ if you need to. It all makes ________. Just get moving! Moreover, some apps on your phone can help ________ your steps. You do not need an expensive gym membership either. To ________ your health, just walk out the door!

2 . Travel during the holidays is both fun and challenging. One of the biggest difficulties is the ________ about your baggage (行李) — maybe losing it. However, this past holiday season, some travelers got a little help from a kind soul who happened to ________ their struggle.

A teacher named Brittany Loubier-Vervisch from Tampa, Florida was ________ her lost baggage in what seemed like a never-ending cycle when she had a(n) ________— Why not do more than ________ caring about her own baggage?

While her husband was at the Southwest Airlines’ customer-service counter, Brittany ________ her search, but she also decided to help others who had been ________ from their baggage, too.

“I was circling through the baggage claim as stuff was coming off the line and being piled up (堆积) and if there was a tag (标签) on it with a(n) ________ I sent a text,” Brittany said. In fact, Brittany was so helpful that people thought she was a(n) ________ at the airport! She sent between 70 and 80 texts to people, letting them know where to ________ their baggage.

Taira Meadow, one traveler who received a text from Brittany, ________ Brittany’s behavior. “Thank you to the ________ person who texted me that my suitcase was in fact in Tampa,” Taira wrote on his social media. “You are a life saver! Especially since there was no way the Southwest Airlines could ever ________ me. ”

________, after the impressive search, Brittany and her husband did find their own baggage! A simple text might seem like a small gesture, but it certainly made a ________. Some have even given her the nickname of the “Baggage Angel”.

3 . In present times, stress is one of the major causes of mental illness and physical illness. Stress is no _________ to us. Everybody has met and experienced it. It lives in our homes, workplaces, and _________ follows us wherever we go, in some form or other. But do you know why you can’t _________ it?

You get stressed because you _________ to get stressed. This is ridiculous (荒谬的), you might say. You’re right. Who would _________ that stress is a choice that we make? And why in the world would we choose stress? Well, it is because we do not realize that we’re doing that. It happens _________. Choosing stress is easy, but the other way around is a _________ task.

Most of us would take the easy _________, the path of minimum efforts. We’re under stress at times _________ we don’t do anything that we should do — just because either we’re __________ or we don’t have __________ in ourselves. When you don’t complete your task on time, and the __________ draws near, stress envelops you.

If you did your task or carried your __________ as it should be, then you would not be stressed. Choosing not to get stressed is like swimming against the tide. Initially (最初), it __________ effort because you are used to going with the flow of your __________ behavior. So we need to overcome our laziness and self-abasement to be stress-free.

4 . Do you have a sister or a brother? Do you get on well with each other? The film Sister tells the story of a 24-year-old girl named An Ran played _________ Zhang Zifeng. There was the one-child policy(政策)when An was a little girl. Her parents _________ that An was disabled so that they could have a second child—her little brother. After the boy’s birth, her parents seemed to give almost all of their love to their _________ son. An became an “unwanted” child and she felt very sad. And she didn’t_________ much time with her brother because of their age. Thus she made up her mind to live a good life by herself.

Unluckily, when An was preparing for an important exam, her parents were_________ hurt in a car accident and then _________. She became the only family of her brother. She was really stressed because she faced a difficult choice _________ pursuing(追求)her own life and raising her younger brother. At the beginning, An wanted to go to big cities to pursue her dreams and decided to send her 6-year-old brother to a foster family(寄养家庭), _________ some of An’s relatives didn’t agree to her opinion. They thought An should stay at their hometown and raise her brother. After several months, An _________   to be together with her brother and she could also feel the love from the only family. At last, the film has an open ending and nobody knows An’s final decision.

The film has brought tears to many people’s eyes. Many people begin to think about__________ role girls or women should play in a family.

5 . As a child, I would sit through movies I loved over and over. I dreamed of someday having the ability to create ______ .

But school was difficult for me for many reasons, so becoming a screenwriter seemed ______. When I was fourteen, I was shocked when my ______ were made into a brochure that was ______ to every student. For a week or so, I was treated very ______. Previously invisible, I was now “a published poet” receiving   praise and slaps(拍打) on the back. But an already deep-seated lack of ______ prevented me from having any serious hopes for a career in literature. I felt like those things only happened to other people. ______ I would look at thousands of books and ask myself, “Are all these people ______ than me, or did they just ______ harder?” So, I kept reading, writing and watching movies not only for ______ but to analyse how great stories are told.

The lack of confidence that annoyed me early in life took decades to ______ .

I had a job that paid well, but I ______ it. Suddenly, the company went out of business, ______ me to choose between getting yet another job I didn’t like and finally being committed to a career as a writer. My ______ was copyediting, which wasn’t writing exactly but almost.

I spent more years swimming in a sea of words, loved it and finally became a ______ as I had wished.

6 . The email hit me like a punch in the gut. It came from my ________ and when I saw it had several paragraphs, I frowned. Quickly scanning for the vocabulary of bad news, I discovered words like “________”, “I’m sorry”, and “end”. Sure enough, my column—Science Careers was being canceled.

But despite my________ shock, I wasn’t as sad or mad or ________ as I might have been in the past. Previously, when I have been ________, I embodied (表现) the loss by ragging on and thinking________ about myself: “They” don’t value me because I don’t have value. And indeed, when I got the message about the________, my instinct was to immediately blame myself, dumping me into the familiar hopeless desert of ________.

But then, I surprised myself by quickly ________ to a new mindset. It wasn’t actually a failure, was it? Instead of letting the disappointing news start________, I was able to take a positive ________.I set out to make this not the day I was fired, but the day I was fired up and________to move my career to the next level.

Sometimes life sucks and things happen, and we cannot ________.Business decisions often impact our careers and yet have very little to do with our outputs. This decision wasn’t a ________ of me and my value. So when I heard that the column was a ________, I knew I was going to grow.

7 . Suri was a sweet boy and he was fond of elephants. However, he never had a(n)_________to see real elephants. All those he saw were only on televisions._________, when he was 25 years old, he got a chance to join a club of wildlife lovers. He asked whether they would take him to_________the elephants. And they said yes.

As they_________a beautiful village, one from the team said that the village had more than 100 elephants and Suri could enjoy the whole day. He was_________to see the elephants and screamed (尖叫) happily.

After spending two to three_________just seeing the elephants, Suri was surprised. He found those elephants were tied (系，绑) by_________ropes. He knew the strength of elephants, but_________can they be tied by such thin ropes? The trainer replied, “We used to tie them with a strong rope when they were babies. A few elephants would try to break the rope,_________we could not set them free. So as they grew, they developed a wrong belief (信念) that the small and thin ropes were too strong to break, so they continued to get tied by their belief.”

In__________lives, we sometimes may be held back by the mistakes we have experienced in the past just like the elephants, but we should have the courage to try to break them and live a free life.

8 . Many years ago, my teaching colleague Margie and I just finished reading the last book about Midwest pioneer life to our third graders. We started to ________ what project to do next with the students. But then she said to me, “Why don’t you ________ all those places we read about?”

I was a homebody and ________ didn’t possess any of that pioneer spirit of taking off into the ________. Besides, that long ________ would take much money. Unless someone paid for all those necessary items, Margie’s suggestion wasn’t ________ for me.

Not long afterward, by the teacher mailboxes, I noticed an advertisement for a teacher creativity ________ for the summer holiday. I read over the application form and the ________ for the program, each of which would be funded with $7,500. One of the examples ________ the visits to many locations to study literature and history. Not expecting any success, I ________ and mailed my application. Two months later, I learned I was one of the eighty ________ from hundreds of applicants.

With a smile on the outside and ________ on the inside, I waved goodbye and hit the road with the books my ________ had read with me. I eagerly ________ a notebook that Margie had given me before I started. On the front cover, she had written, “For the teachers and students at school, you are our feet, and we will go with you in ________ wherever you go!”

9 . My son, daughter and I all needed new glasses this year. After searching for an optometrist (验光师) we scheduled a(n) _________. The exams went well and we all_________ our new glasses. The_________ was enough to make my wallet weep, though.

When the new glasses arrived, we all tried them on and_________ seeing clearly again. Like I always do, I put the_________ ones in an old shoe box, which was full of glasses_________ stored. I felt bad about all of them just sitting there_________ dust. My daughter soon found a company that accepts second-hand glasses and then gives them to those who need but can’t_________ new ones.

As we packed all the_________ to mail out, my mind went back to a time when I was the one in need. I can still remember____________ my broken, plastic glasses’ frames(镜框) for the twelfth time because we couldn’t afford new ones. I didn’t know why we____________ so much when my young family didn’t do anything wrong. It was one of those questions I asked but never expected to get a____________.

At present I think I____________ know what that answer is. The truth is that we all____________ pain, struggles and suffering in this life. We can use them to grow selfish and bitter or we can use them to grow loving and kind. May you always choose____________ . May you always choose love.

10 . A mother with cancer has been moved by the kindness of a stranger as she fights with the terrible disease. Jerina Edwards and her family were _______ at a Chinese restaurant when a customer offered to _______their bill.

In a touching note written on the bill for the meal, the _______ explained the inspiration behind his Christmas kindness. The kind­hearted stranger who offered help _______ how his own life had been affected by cancer five years before. “I lost my _______ to cancer five years ago,” he _______ on the bill. “I know how _______ it can be going through this. My children lost their mother. Your meal is on me.”

Ms Edwards _______ the kind stranger alongside a photo of the bill posted on the Love What Matters Facebook page. The widely­shared _______ has since been viewed more than 35,000 times. “We went out to eat last night at a little Chinese place after church. Right as we were getting ready to ________ our ticket, the waitress brought us this instead，” she said. “Someone in the restaurant had paid our bill and left us this ________. More than anything, having cancer has shown me that there are a lot of ________ people in this world and that I am ________ for my own family.”

Although her diagnosis (诊断) was not terminal (致命的), Ms Edwards said cancer had ________ her family and herself so much. “It has been hard,” she said. “I have fought; I have been sick; tears have been shed; I have missed out on things; I have lost my hair, but I will live. My parents will ________ have their daughter; my husband will have his wife; my children will still have their mother.” She ended her emotional post with a personal message to the stranger at the restaurant. “Whoever you are—thank you.”