1 . Ten years ago when I was diagnosed with a serious illness, my first thought was, “Why me?” And this thought _______ me throughout my journey. It wasn’t until I was _______ enough to look back that I realized how much of my life was _______ by my illness not in a bad way.

Being _______ for our past experiences and _______ can be a hard thing to do. We sometimes wish events in our past could be _______ so we could start a new life. But without these events, we wouldn’t learn, change and grow.

The day I _______ this was volunteering with my boyfriend. A friend’s wife came up to me and asked me how school was, _______ I said I didn’t like it that much. She then _______ by saying, “Well, if you hadn’t gone, you wouldn’t have met him.” and pointed at my ________.

This really opened my eyes, and after I left I started seeing everything in my life in this ________. If I hadn’t gone to that school, I would never have met my future husband. If I hadn’t battled ________ the illness, I wouldn’t have found my true ________. At first I didn’t see how my illness could have ever been a blessing. But when I looked at it as an experience for me, I started to see that I had a lot to be thankful for.

I grew closer to my mother while ________. I gained knowledge about myself that I could ________ gain through struggle, and learned how to take care of my wants and needs in a way that made me happy.

2 . I have just finished my years in Colmar, in eastern France. I _________ in Leeds, a large city in the U.K.! I was _________ in Chester. I had lived there until I went to university.

I _________ in a secondary school in Colmar. I taught English to several classes and over a year I grew quite attached to my _________. I enjoyed preparing lessons that they would _________ and games that would make them laugh. Telling each class that it was my last lesson with them was _________ painful. It is likely that I will _________ see most of these students again. I didn’t want to _________ this beautiful town, nor lovely colleagues （同事） and students behind.

I attended university in Leeds. I _________ a house with six other people—it was great fun and I have some __________ memories of our time together. Within just two years, Leeds became my second __________. I knew where to go for many kinds of things, the nice places to eat and who I could turn to for help. It was a(n) __________ to leave the city.

Last but not least, I must mention Chester. I am __________ to have a group of friends from secondary school there. We still meet up when we’re back in Chester. Being in Chester also       ________ spending time with my family.

I no longer know which place to call home. However, when I’m in one place, I will __________ the other two — which makes me quite sad.

3 . “Dear students, school will start next week. Tomorrow morning, everyone can sign up voluntarily to clean up and welcome the new term with a clean environment,” the head teacher said in our WeChat group. I didn’t _________ to sign up, because I hadn’t seen my classmates for four months. I wanted to do something for them.

The next morning, I took buckets (桶), cleaning powder and other _________. After a(n)_________ COVID testing routine, I entered the school gate. The campus was full of vitality (生机). In the early summer campus, the tall trees were luxuriant (茂盛的), the air was filled with the light fragrance of flowers, and the _________ grassland had been paved into a green _________.

When I stepped into the classroom, a person _________ me face-to-face. Although he was wearing a mask, I _________ him as head teacher at a glance. He smiled and gave me a warm hug. Then, the other students in the class also arrived one after another. It had been a long _________, and we were very happy to meet again. We smiled and clapped.

Then we _________ tasks and put our enthusiasm into cleaning up the classroom. Some students wiped the blackboard and took out rubbish, and others swept the floor or __________ the tables and chairs. Everything was being put in perfect order. I wiped the glass up and down several times with a piece of __________. The students from the other class also joined our team, helping us to __________ water and mop the floor. Although it was hard, no one __________. Sweat __________ made everyone’s clothes wet, but two hours later, when everyone saw the classroom clean and bright again, we all laughed happily.

Although we’ve experienced many challenges during the pandemic, there is still constant __________ between teachers and students. As long as we work together, we will be able to overcome all kinds of difficulties in the warm family of our school.

4 . For one young man who wants to be a farmer, a terrible disease could easily have destroyed his dream. But a 12-year-old won’t let his disease _________ him rolling up his sleeves and getting dirty.

John Ray was born with muscular dystrophy (肌肉萎缩症). “When he was born, the doctors said with much love they didn’t _________ him to live this long,” said John’s mother, Trina Reid. However, John has proved the doctors _________ by living his life to the full, so much that he’s able to _________ his father, Donny Ray, who is busy with farming work.

Young John used to be brought to a specific area of his father’s small farm to _________. But due to his _________, he was restricted in his _________ and how much he could help. His regular wheelchair was _________ for farm life, so his parents tried their best to adapt to his needs.

One day, Donny _________ an all-terrain (全地形) wheelchair, the Action Trackchair. However, the family couldn’t ____________ the expensive chair. ____________, Trina spotted a second-hand one for ____________ and the couple managed to buy it from the seller.

John wasn’t told about the new chair. The couple ____________ to get it up and running before they showed it to John. Donny made a few ____________ so John could help with the feeding in the barn (谷仓). Over the next two months he’s been out in the ____________ helping with the potato planting. And the improved equipment even allows John to start a grass-cutting ____________.

So with the love, support and ____________ of John’s family, the boy’s future farming career looks ____________. And as his mother shares, “If John has ____________ me anything, it is perseverance (坚持不懈). There is ____________ he says he can’t do.”

5 . A woman was reunited with a wallet she lost 46 years ago after Tom Stevens, an employee working on rebuilding Southern California’s historic Majestic Ventura Theater discovered it inside the theater.

Tom Stevens told Ventura County Star he then went on _________ media to try to locate the owner based on clues in the wallet, including old photos, a 1973 Grateful Dead concert _________ and a California driver’s license for Colleen Distin that expired (过期) in 1976.

“Does anyone know Colleen Distin?” he asked on the theater’s Facebook page. “_________ doing some maintenance (维修) we found her _________. There are a bunch of pictures of people in it. So if you are, or if you know Colleen, drop us a line and we will have it here for you!” After thousands of _________, word got back to Colleen Distin, who grew up in Ventura and _________ a resident there. She said she heard from a lot of people online and _________ a call about the post. On Friday Distin went to _________ the red wallet, now brownish with age, and said it was like _________ a “time capsule”.

Distin said she __________ the wallet in 1975, when she was in her early 20s, at what was then a movie theater. At the time, her wallet __________ a $200 check and family photos.

“It’s really __________,” Distin said in an emotional voice. She was __________ unwilling to talk publicly about her experience but she said there was such a positive response that she finally gave in. “People are looking for a human story and something to __________ good,” she told reporters. “People need to see the __________. There’s so much other negative stuff, but I think this is what touched people.”

6 . Peter,a 5-year-old boy,showed such great interest in sea shells that he often picked them up with his 3-year-old sister, Shirley. For Peter, sea shells lay shinning on the ________beach, waiting for him, just like stars twinkling in the sky.

One day,the two were hanging about in a ________ when Peter found his younger sister was not ________   He looked back and found Shirley ________ in front of a toy shop,with her eyes fastened on a beautiful doll.

Holding his younger sister's tiny hand, Peter entered the shop. He tiptoed(踮起脚尖）to ________ the doll and handed it to Shirley. The sister was very happy to hold tightly the doll,wearing a smile on her ________ face.

Peter went to the ________ and asked the shopkeeper, “How much does this doll cost,Sir?”

The shopkeeper looked at the boy with interest, asking,“Well, what can you ________?”

Peter took out the money that was ________ for their breakfast, gave it to the shopkeeper and asked, “Sir, is it enough?”

Shaking his head ________， he replied, “My boy, I am afraid it seems not enough. ”

The kids were so disappointed. Watching his sister's smile ________ ，Peter frowned.

Without hesitation, he ________his shells on the counter, and asked the shopkeeper ________ ,

“Is it enough now?” Without ________ counting them, the shopkeeper replied, “These are ________the cost. ” Saying so, he kept only two and returned the ________ shells and the money.

Peter left the shop with Shirley very happily,leaving an assistant in that shop ________ .

He asked the shopkeeper, “Sir! You only charged them for 2 shells? !” The shopkeeper said with a smile, “For us these are shells, but for the boy they are ________. His love for his sister is the most precious. When he grows up, he will remember he ________ a doll for his sister with the shells. He will cherish love and warmth in life-cherish every little ________ sea shell in his heart. ”