1 . My son Nile has left for university. Even Mother seldom _________ now that her grandchild is no longer around. My home has become so _________ in less than one month.

As a concerned mother who had little to do, I _________ Nile whenever I could. At first it was through emails. Occasionally I _________ the page of the university to learn about Nile’s campus life, and was filled with _________ to see his greetings: “Hi, Mum! So you’re on the net as well!” Since then I’ve been visiting the website regularly hoping to _________ my child.

Recently, our communicating way had another _________. Nile sent me all kinds of articles through instant messaging: novel, modern, funny... I read them _________, like a well-behaved pupil. Meanwhile, I had _________ feelings about that. The kid was __________ to learn something from me not that long ago, but he now becomes my teacher! After __________, I responded with the following email:

“Thank you, my son, for all interesting articles, though I feel confused about the change of our __________. Despite that, I’ll take it as a loving son’s __________ of his mother. He must be thinking his mother is still young and __________ enough to accept new things. That makes me feel proud.” Now in this way we share ideas, with the instant messages __________ each other.

2 . Egyptian table tennis player Ibrahim Hamadtou didn’t win a medal, or even score a victory. But he has become one of the most_________stories at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Hamadtou lost his_________ in a train accident when he was just 10 years old. But that did not_________his love of sports. He used to play both football and table tennis. After the accident, he felt lost and stayed _________at home for three years. Then he went back to football, but football was too_________ for him. With no arms, he couldn’t protect himself when he fell!

After several _________, he found that he could play table tennis with his mouth. It took him nearly a year of_________to hold the racket (球拍) with his mouth and make the _________with his feet.

He first competed at the Rio Paralympics, and was finally able to fulfill his lifelong _________of competing in Paralympics. He lost his first two matches, but did _________ the respect of other players like David Wetherill. “He’s a legend in table tennis,” said Wetherill. “I know I won today but I think he has_________ far more skills than I have.

In Tokyo, he lost to a Chinese player and a player from South Korea,_________all the competitions at his second Paralympics. However, he has a(n)_________ for the world about what disability really means, in his eyes.

“I want to tell everybody that nothing is _________, and everybody should work hard for what you love and what you think is good for yourself,” he said. “The _________ is not in arms or legs; it is not to stick to whatever you would like to do.”

3 . Last term, I read the book The Book Thief. It is a story about a 9-year-old girl named Liesel Meminger and her _________in Nazi Germany in 1939. In this book, Liesel’s father is taken away by the Nazis. Her mother___________and never returns and her brother dies. Then she is sent to a foster family (寄养家庭) in a poor area of Munich.On the way,she _________a book named The Grave Digger’s Handbook, which becomes the first book she “steals”. It’s her___________foster father Hans who helps Liesel to read, and the 14 books she steals provide her with___________comfort. She manages to___________the war and___________helps the people around her who are also _________.

As I _________each page, I found myself absorbed in the____________created by the author. The light but lingering (绵长的)__________made me hold my __________, as if I had the same experience as Liesel.

Every time I __________this book, what comes to mind is not the __________of the Nazis or the despair in the face of a very difficult and unfavourable situation. All I can think of is the resilience (韧性), sincerity and kindness of__________in such a(n)__________cruel period.Despite the fact that it is not easy for foster parents to __________themselves, they still choose to foster Liesel when she is__________. They also save and hide a Jewish girl in their basement when the Nazis start to kill the Jews.

All these details make me feel that __________we keep the most __________thing inside our hearts, even in despair, we still have the ability to walk toward the brightest future in front of us.

4 . Bob Charland used to work as a nightclub security guard. He was beaten so severely in the_________ twice by people he’d kicked out of the bar, most recently in 2015, and it _________ his and severe headaches. “My doctor said my brain looked as though it _________ to a 70-year-old man,” said Charland.

There was no way to _______ he disease, the doctor said. _________ it would take his life. He thought about contacting Death With Dignity. He didn’t want to be a _________ to anybody, he said.

But then, he received a call from an advisor at an underprivileged (社会底层的) school wondering if he had some extra bikes he could _________. He, in fact, did have some extra bikes. “That _________ my thought,” said Charland. Some people with a _________ disease set out to __________ and see the world. Charland decided to devote whatever time he had __________ to giving bikes to underprivileged children.

Since the spring of 2017, Charland has spent more than $ 1, 000 of his own money __________about 1,000 bikes for __________. He works with police officers to help deliver the bikes and __________ to local schools, adjust seats and handlebars and give children bicycle safety lessons.

Many of the children he brings bikes to live in high-crime neighborhoods, and their only previous experiences with police have been __________, he said. He often takes extra time to connect with them and is now known in some neighborhoods as “Bob the Bike Guy”.

“To spend time with these kids and see their smiles is an amazing feeling,” said Chardland, “Sometimes, for the first time in a long time, they see that somebody __________”

He devotes every Tuesday night to turning shabby into functioning, pretty noes. Chardland said he thinks he chose bikes as a way to help kids because the years he’d spent riding a bicycle as a boy in his hometown of Alplaus, NY, were among the __________ of his life. He was raised by his stepfather who “worked many extra hours in construction to __________that bike,” Chardland said, “Every kid should have one.”

“My brain will continue to get __________ and at some point, I will die,” he said, “But I’m not there yet. Why not __________ doing what I love?”

5 . “What would Ms K do?” was in my playlist of the top 10 questions as I was taking books and files in my office. Reports had been_________over the last few weeks about the growing_________of COVID-19. My husband, a physician,_________me that I should make plans to begin working from home. But who was Ms K? Why did I_________of her when faced with a global_________?

Ms K was a(n)_________education teacher. She taught my daughter, Dorian, for 3 years. Dorian_________from autism (自闭症). When I met Ms K, Dorian was in kindergarten, and in spite of our efforts to_________her in a regular classroom, it was_________.

Dorian’s multiple__________-ranging from hearing, speaking and mental problems-left us all__________at the end of each day. Most of all, they left Dorian with an inability to__________her needs. For Dorian, her__________way of interacting with others was pictures. It was Ms K who __________the communication puzzle for us all. Ms K and her instructional assistant both were__________in sign language and taught Dorian and__________the rest of the family how to__________.Within three months, Dorian’s sign vocabulary greatly improved, and she started to sign three-and-four-word sentences.

Our world changed greatly because of the three years__________with Ms K. I firmly believed Ms K would__________herself to the problems in the COVID-19, and develop ways of distance learning for students and families in the same__________-with a positive attitude, patience and a mass of resources.

6 . While I was in hospital for back surgery (手术) recently I was looked after by a nurse called Deitrich. She worked the _______ shifts (轮班) and took very good care of me.

One night things were _______ and when Deitrich came in to take my blood pressure we started to talk about our family situation. Then she asked what I enjoyed doing most. I _______ that I liked helping people and doing _______ work. Deitrich said she thought she would _______ doing that kind of thing too, perhaps with her church.

The day I was discharged (出院) we _______ and she gave me a kiss on the cheek. In _______ I gave her a smile card and ten dollars. She didn’t want the _______ but I told her to read the card and _______ her the money was from my heart.“Now you have the ________ to do something for yourself or make a(n) ________ for someone else,” I said. She paused and ________ the offer in the end. We hugged and she told me she ________ give the money to a woman she knew from ________ who was having medical problems.

Deitrich gladly thanked me for my ________ and with that ten dollars bought five lottery tickets in her church’s name. As ________ would have it one of the tickets won a hundred and fifty dollars which she ________ to the church’s food pantry. She ________ me a week later and told me what had happened. She ________ asked if I had my more smile cards! The people in her church all ________ one!

God bless Deitrich and her church and all the people who want to make a difference for the better in this world!