1 . Biar Kon, a 17-year-old student, whose parents were working in neighboring Sudan, moved to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, to attend school. Once he _______, he needed to get some documents from the Sudanese embassy(大使馆). But when he went to look for the embassy, he couldn’t find it. He asked a few people for _______, and no one knew where it was. Then an older woman tapped him on the back.

The woman told Kon that she had seen him asking questions of multiple people as they _______, and she wondered if he needed money for food, or a place to stay. Then Kon realized that the woman thought he was _______.

They cleared up the _______, and the woman was able to offer her help. The woman’s _______ left a deep impression on Kon. And it inspired him to _______ five years later, when he moved to Boston, Massachusetts. One day, outside a coffee shop, he _______ a man who was begging for change. Kon _______ that moment five years earlier, when the woman in Nairobi had ________ him for a homeless person. So he went up to the man to see what he could do. “He told me why he was on the street—because he made a（n） ________ mistake when he was in high school, and he couldn’t get a ________ now,” Kon recalled. Kon bought the man some breakfast, and gave him a little bit of money.

Today, it’s an encounter he ________. For him, it is a ________ that you never know what people are going through unless you talk to them ________ — the way the woman in Nairobi made an effort to talk to him.

2 . I am a student. I go to school from Monday ________Friday. In ________ morning I get up at ten to six. Then I wash my face. I have________breakfast at six o’clock. After breakfast I go to school. I usually take a bus to school. ________ if I get up so late, I will go by car. I begin class at eight. I have four ________at morning. At noon, I have ________ time to go home. So I ________ my lunch at school. At two o’clock, I play ________football with my friends. My classes________over at four thirty. ________ that I go home and get home at twenty past five. I have supper with my parents at six. I often eat meat, ________, and some vegetables. ________ I eat dumplings. After supper I do the ________. Then I do my homework or ________ to the pop music. I go ________ bed about ten thirty.

3 . Without three key players, including the former captain, how did 55-year-old Jenny Lang Ping and her girls spent the 20 days before winning against Japan with 3-1? Getting the world title at the 2015 FIVB Women’s World Cup is _______. The three players, namely, former captain Hui Ruoqi, Yang Fangxu and Xu Yunli, all _______ a lot to Chinese national women’s volleyball team. Hui Ruoqi and Yang Fangxu helped the country win the silver _______ in last year’s World Championship, while Xu Yunli helped China win the third _______ at Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Facing this, Jenny Lang Ping, who is called “Iron Hammer”, never _______ in her weak team and prepared for the coming competitions at the 2015 FIVB Women’s World Cup by _______ the confidence of her girls. Head coach Lang Ping and her girls met their first _______ after failing to beat US women’s volleyball team on Aug 24, 2015, two days after the start of the 2015 FIVB Women’s World Cup. The girls couldn’t help crying in the face of the _______, but Lang Ping _______ them around and said: “Calm down, girls, it’s still too ________ to see who will win, since we can learn lessons from this failure”, after analyzing Chinese team’s problems during the game and thinking about the ________.

________ encouraging words and smiles, the head coach watched the video of that game until late night and just had a two-hour light sleep. But the 55-year-old did not fight ________. Her girls returned with ________ to fight until the end. And finally, they ________ it.

4 . 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!

5 . I live in Sarasota, Florida, where sudden and terrible rainstorms can often come out of nowhere. People who are not from around here will never_______ to bring an umbrella with them every_________day.

One beautiful afternoon, my mother and I were heading for our_________in her car after taking my cat to hospital. Suddenly, as so often_________, a heavy rainstorm blew in.

While waiting at a red light, we noticed a_________over to the side of the road. Someone was crouching (蹲着) at the bus stop. Looking_________, we came to clearly see this was a young woman, crouching low to_________ her young daughter as they waited for the bus. She got wet all through.

As traffic began to move, my mother felt_________but was unable to think of what she could do. At the very next light,_________going home, she turned to the left and then circled back around the block to__________.

As they came into view__________, the young mother still covering her child with her own body, my mom__________.She grabbed her umbrella and ran over to them. Not saying a word, she__________handed the young mother the umbrella, smiling, and ran back.

I’m so glad I witnessed this__________on my mother’s part. I’m following my mom’s__________, always ready to warm someone else in need.

6 . Tommy hated school and was always looking for excuses not to go.

If he sneezed, he _________ his mother to write a note to tell his _________ that he had a cold. If he had a headache, he asked his mother to take him to the doctor _________ school hours.

He spent _______ time at home than he did at school. On the days that he did go to school, he _______ for excuse to come home early.

One day he came home from school in the middle of the _______.

His father was _______.

“You are home early,” he said. “Is the school closed today?”

“_______, Dad,” Tommy said. “It’s open. I came early.”

“_______ did you do that?” his father asked him. “ What did you ________ to the teacher?”

“I told her that I had a ________ baby brother and that I had to come home and help ________.” “But your mother has had ________,” his father said, “a boy and a girl. You have ________ a baby brother and a baby sister.”

“Yes, I know, Dad,” Tommy said. “I’m ________ up my baby sister for next week.“

7 . 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.

8 . 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.

9 . 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.”

10 . Perhaps the only test score that I remember is the 55 I got when I was in high school.

The test was the final for a course. I remember waiting _________ as my teacher Mr. Right passed out our papers one by one. It was a rather _________ test. I heard my classmates groaning(叹息), and I could tell by the groans that the scores weren’t looking _________.

Mr. Right put my paper on my desk. There in big red numbers, circled to draw _________, was my score, 55!

I lowered my head, and _________ the score up quickly. A 55 is not something that you wanted your classmates to see.

“The scores were not very good, none of you _________,” Mr. Right said. “The highest score in the class was a 55.”

A 55. That’s me!

_________ my sad look didn’t look so bad. I had the highest score. I felt a lot better.

I walked home alone that day with the low but high score. My father knew that I had a big _________ that day and asked me as soon as I got home, “_________ did you do in your test?”

“I got 55,” I said.

A __________ now stood on my father’s face. I knew I had to __________ immediately. “But Dad, I had the highest score in the class,” I __________ stated(陈述). I thought that explanation would make a difference.

“You __________!” my father replied.

“But it’s the highest!” I __________.

“I don’t __________ what scores others had, you failed. What __________ is what you do!” my father firmly(坚定地) said.

For years, my father was __________ that way. It didn’t matter what others did, it only mattered what I did and that I did it __________.

We often don’t understand the __________ of good parents until we ourselves stand in the parents’ shoes. My father’s __________ have carried me throughout life.