1 . Last week I went shopping in the supermarket. I got to the front of the _________ and put my groceries on the checkout. I was about to pay, when I _________ that I didn’t have my bank card with me. I _________. Then I remembered I left it at home when I _________ something online. All I had was a $20 note and some coins in my wallet. I was short _________ at least $25, and I needed to buy most of the items.

I started to _________ to the checkout lady. “I’m sorry, I stop the queue. Can I put these things back? And I think I’ll _________ these. Oh, no, need that.”

An Irish lady was _________ behind me, next in the queue. “Excuse me, dear,” she said. “Oh, I’m so sorry,” I replied. “I’m _________ you up.” “Of course not. I know __________ you feel. This happens to all of us at some point. Now please use my __________ to pay the bill and you can be on your way.”

I was astonished by her kindness, __________ even. No matter how I insisted, she was __________ to help me. Afterwards I asked for her telephone number to __________ and pay her back. “No,” she said, “rather than paying it back, you may do a good deed for the next person in need.”

By helping others, can we start the chain __________ of positive feeling and charity that can benefit our whole society?

2 . I first discovered Café Gratitude several months ago. My friend Heather invited me to ___ her for lunch. Heather had just moved to Los Angeles, and we would discuss the project we were doing. As we sat down and were ___ the delicious vegetarian menu, the server who came to take our order asked us the question of the day. What are you grateful for? I felt a familiar stir(震动) in my chest, and my eyes began to water. ___ a pause, Heather ___ her hand to me and said that it was with me. I expressed my gratitude to be with her ___, enjoying this moment of our shared ___ and her new start in Los Angeles. After a delicious lunch, I decided to stay a while longer as the question had inspired me to meet the co-owner, Ryland. Pauses or delays in life are a very good time to listen to what’s ___ inside of our hearts. 

When Ryland came over to my ___ with his big smile, his title of Chief Inspiration Officer seemed very ___ for his personality. He gave me his ____ attention as he opened his heart to listen. I told him how I wanted to help him open more ____ so there could be more places to eat and help spread this message of “being generous and grateful every day”. Since that ____, Café Gratitude has been my favorite place to eat. 

What a rewarding and meaningful experience! And I’ve since learned that Café Gratitude ____ business through what they call Sacred Commerce where they “provide inspired service and express ____ for the richness of our lives”. A simple question that day ____ me down new paths and gave me new friendships.

3 . Many nursing homes all over the world are locked down to protect their residents from the COVID-19. Group-f is a ______ company in Belgium, whose employees wash the outsides of tall buildings, using platforms that are lifted by cranes (起重机). When the COVID-19 hit Belgium, Group-f’s business ______ . The cranes sat ______ . But one day, company manager Bosch saw a man standing on the ______ and shouting up to his mother who was looking down ______ from her window on the third floor of a nursing home. This gave Bosch a perfect______ .

Bosch realized he could put the cranes to good use. Ever since, he has been ______ them to nursing homes. There, a family can ______ a platform that a crane operator will lift up to the window of a loved one.

Eve Putseys came to see her 88-year-old aunt, who lives in La Cambre, a nursing home. Before she______ the platform, Putseys didn’t know what to expect. “It’s been seven long weeks that I haven’t been ______ to see her,” she said. But when Putseys returned to the ground, she was ______. “I finally got to see her. She looked very happy to see me,” she said.

Officials at La Cambre helped organize the crane-operated ______ . “It’s been hard work but quite ______ ,” director Thibaut Chevrier says. Bosch ______ that operating the machines costs his company money. But he has no ______ . “It’s a great honor to help people,” he says.

5 . Stephen Hawking not only changed the way people thought about science, but he also changed the way people viewed ________ . Diagnosed(诊断) with motor neurone disease in his twenties, many of his scientific discoveries were made while his body was ________ .

When Hawking studied at Oxford University, he had a ________ for being lively, humorous and popular. ________ , during his final year at Oxford, he fell over for no particular reason. When noticing his speech began to be ________, Hawking sought medical help. It was then that he was diagnosed with the disease. Doctors at the time gave him less than two years to ________.

Luckily, he survived. However, after his diagnosis, his ________ failed quickly. Throughout the 1960s, he required stick to walk, ________ a wheelchair for many years. It was only by the end of the 1960s that he ________ accepted he would need a full-time mobility aid.

Despite Hawking's poor health, he made some important scientific ________. It was in 1974 that he discovered what now is ________ as "Hawking radiation". Later, in 1988, Hawking published his book A Brief History of Time.

It was his ________ —focusing on what was possible rather than impossible—that defined (定义) his public image. His books made science easily ________ to a wider public. Hawking once said, "My advice to other people would be: ________ things your disability doesn't prevent you from doing well, and don't ________ the things it interferes with(干扰). Don' t be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.”

6 . If you think your woman would never lie to you, guess again. From little ____ lies to the more serious variety, most women will hold back the ____ at some point in a relationship. Her motivation ____ lying can stem (起源于) from wanting to protect your feelings or, sure enough, to save her own butt (抵触).

One day, when a seamstress（女裁缝师）was sewing ____ sitting close to a river, her thimble（顶针）fell into the river. When she cried out, the Lord ____ and asked, ‘My dear child, why are you crying?’ The seamstress replied that her thimble had fallen into the water and ________ she needed it to help her husband in making a living for their family. The Lord dipped his hand into the water and ____ a golden thimble set with sapphires(蓝宝石).

‘Is this your thimble?’ the Lord asked. The seamstress replied, ‘No.’The Lord again dipped into the river. He ____ a silver thimble.

‘Is this your thimble?’ the Lord asked. Again, the seamstress replied, ‘No.’

The Lord ____ down again and came up with a leather thimble.

‘Is this your thimble?’ the Lord asked. The seamstress replied, ‘Yes.’ The Lord was pleased with the woman’s ____ and gave her all three thimbles to keep, and the seamstress went home, much ___ .

Some years later, the seamstress was walking with her husband along the ___ , and her husband fell into the river and disappeared under the water. ____ she cried out, the Lord appeared and asked her, ‘Why are you crying?’ ‘Oh Lord, my husband has fallen into the river!’

The Lord went down into the water and came up with George Clooney. ‘Is this your husband?’ the Lord asked.

‘Yes,’ cried the seamstress. The Lord was ___. ‘You lied! That is a(n) ___ !’ The seamstress replied, ‘Oh, forgive me, my Lord. It is a ___. You see, if I had said ‘no’ to George Clooney, you would have come up with Brad Pitt. Then if I said ‘no’ to him, you would have come up with my husband. Had I then said ‘yes,’ you would have given me ____. Lord, I’m not in the best of health and ____ be able to take care of all three husbands, ___ THAT’S why I said ‘yes’ to George Clooney.’

The ____ of this story is: Whenever a woman lies, it’s for a good and honorable reason, and in the best interest of others.

7 . They tell the story of a mountain climber who, desperate to conquer the Aconcagua, started his climb after years of preparation. But he wanted the _________ all to himself, therefore, he went up _________.

He began climbing and it was becoming late. He did not prepare for _______, and decided to keep on going. Soon it got dark. Night fell with heaviness at a very high altitude. Visibility(能见度) was _______. Everything was black. There was no moon, _______ the stars were covered by clouds.

As he was climbing a ridge at about 100 meters from the top, he _______ and fell. Falling rapidly, he could only see marks of darkness that passed. He felt a terrible sensation of being _______ in by gravity. He kept falling and in those painful moments, good and bad memories _______ his mind. He thought certainly he would die.

But then he felt a jolt(震动，摇晃) that almost _______ him in half. Yes! ________ any good mountain climber he had supported himself with a long rope ________ to his waist. In those moments of stillness, hanging in the ________, he had no other choice but to shout, “Help me, God! Help me!”

All of a sudden he heard a ________ voice from heaven, “What do you want me to do?”

“Save me”.

“Do you really think that I can save you?”

“Of course, my God.”

“Then ________ the rope that is holding you up.”

There was another moment of silence and stillness. The man just held tighter to the rope. The ________ team says that the next day they found a ________ mountain climber handing strongly to a rope … TWO FEET ________ the ground.

As the story suggests, sometimes you have to have some ________.If you cut the rope and ________ the result might be out of your __________.

8 . My husband and I were on our way home to Adlaide after holidaying in Queensland with our   three children. It was late afternoon as we were heading for Narrandera, where we ______ to stay the night.

The car became difficult to control and we ______ we had a flat tyre (轮胎). It was quite ______ by the time we'd ______ all the camping equipment and ______ the tyre. Then, not long after getting back on the road, another tyre ______ . But now we had   no ______.There was no traffic on the road and only farms along the way.

Just as we were debating whether to sleep in the car or ______ to the nearest farm for help, car headlights ______ in the distance. My husband walked to the middle of the road to flag it down, ______ the children and I sat in the car with the inside light on so the driver could ______ we were a family and not a threat.

______， it was a lovely couple and their three children who lived on a nearby______ farm. We all piled into their car, and a short drive later we ______ their farm. They suggested we spend the ______ on the floor of their sitting room.

The next morning, after cooking us a great ______， the farmer took my husband into the nearby town to buy new tyres. Our two ______ got on so well that they ______ us to stay on for another day to learn about the workings of the farm and watch their daughter ______ ride one of the huge pigs.

We finally continued home to South Australia,   very ______ for the kindness this family had shown us.

9 . It gives me a great pleasure to join you for this important initiative(倡议) as the UN _______ its 70th anniversary.

Education is very _______ in my heart. My father _______ in a very small village in China. In those days, not many villagers could read. So my father opened a night school to teach them how to _______.

As his daughter, I know what education _______ to the people, especially those without it. After generations of hard work, China has come a long way in education. I myself am a beneficiary(受益者) of that progress. _______ I would never become a professor of musical.

I am following my father’s _______ by teaching at China’s Conservatory of Music to help _______ China’s success story. I want to thank Director-General Bokova and UNESCO for _______ me the Special Envoy(特使) for Women and Girls Education. I am truly honored to work with the UN and do something about Global Education.

Education is about __________ and girls. It is important for girls to go to school __________ they will become their children’s first teacher someday. But women still __________ over half of the world’s poor in population and 60% of adults who can’t read.

Education is crucial (of extreme importance) in addressing such __________. In China, Spring Bud Education Program has helped over 3 million girls go back to school. Many of them have __________ university education and they are doing well at work.

Education is about equality. In poor countries and regions the number of school dropouts is __________. We call for more educational resources to these places.

Education is about the young people. Young people are the __________. Education is important because it not only gives young people knowledge and skills but also helps them become responsible citizens. As the UNESCO special envoy and the mother myself, my __________ to education for all will never change.

Many years ago my father made a small __________ in his village. Together we can make a big difference in the world. I was once asked about my Chinese dream. I said I hope all children especially girls can have __________ to good education. This is my Chinese dream. I believe one day Education First will no longer be a dream. It will be a reality __________ by every young woman on this planet.

10 . Kobe Bryant, a super basketball star, announced that he would retire at the end of the 2015—2016 season via a letter poem. In the letter, he _______ the moment he started rolling his dad's tube socks and shooting _______ game-winning shots, indicating his deep love for basketball.

“This season is all I have left to give,” the 37-year-old wrote. “My heart can take the pounding. My mind can _______ the grind(苦差) but my _______ knows it's time to say goodbye.”

As the only son of Joe Bryant, a former NBA player, Bryant was crazy about basketball and started _______ in at 6, and his favorite team growing up was the Lakers. Bryant earned national _______ during an amazing high school career and his basketball skills would have ensured _______ to any college he chose, but he decided to go directly into the NBA. He finally made it and was _______ out of high school in 1996 and was then traded to the Lakers, for which he has played his entire career.

_______, Bryant played limited minutes, but as the season continued, he began to see some more playing time and in his second season, he began to show more of his abilities as a talented young guard. The 1998—1999 season ________ Bryant's appearance as a premier guard in the league. ________, even at an early stage of his career, sports writers were comparing his skills to those of Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson.

There are always different interpretations of Bryant, making him the most ________ figure in modern sports, a combination of hero and villain(反面人物). He received criticism for getting his ________ in the games, completely neglecting his teammates; he was suspended ________ deliberately breaking rules; he was even charged by the court with sex assault. ________, with 17 NBA All-Star selections, five NBA championships with the Lakers, two Olympic gold medals, Kobe has brought his fans ________ memories. His best days are long ________ him indeed, but the way he approaches the game as well as life is always glamorous.

We've always known, and ________ are mentally prepared, that one day Kobe Bryant will not be ________. Yet his retirement note still caught us off guard. It simply ________ when farewell words are uttered(说出) from one of the all-time greats in basketball.