1 . When I was a child, there was nothing I loved more than painting. It was my. ________ of joy. I could spend hours being lost in my ________ , bringing to life the images in my mind.

However, after graduating from college, the ________ of work took hold. The hobby that filled my childhood with happiness ________ faded away (逐渐消失).

One sunny day I found myself ________ in a nearby park. I. ________ a group of children sitting together, their eyes. ________ wonder and their hands covered in paint. They were laughing describing their dreams on ________ , and at that moment, I was transported back to my own childhood.

________ those kids, I realized that I had lost something precious (宝贵的) along the way. It was time to reconnect with the ________ within, to rediscover the world of colours and imagination. Despite the ________ life, I decided to pick up my brushes and ________ to the world of art.

Painting has become a way to ________ the beautiful moments of my life, whether it is a golden sunset, a beautiful flower, or a lazy afternoon. I paint not to become a famous artist, but to ________ the joy of my childhood, to ________ the simple pleasures of life, and to hold onto the magical world of imagination.

2 . Vel Scott is known for creating a bustling (热闹的) nightlife for Black Clevelanders in the 1960s. But now this grandmother has changed her life’s work into helping others change their eating habits and creating a(n) _______ lifestyle.

In 1963, Vel and her husband Don Scott _______ a nightclub. They brought in all kinds of performances from around the country to _______ people and served food and drinks. While the _______ husband-and-wife team continued to thrive (兴旺) _______, some alarming news was revealed about Don’s health. He was diagnosed during the 80s with heart problems and they knew they had to make some _______.

Vel took it upon herself to _______ new dishes. The things she learned helped her husband reverse (逆转) some of his health _______ in just a few short months. In 1998, she started Vel’s Purple Oasis — a community-based urban _______. It’s the place where people of all ages learned how to grow and eat healthier ________.

Dionne Thomas-Carmichael, a friend of Vel who suffered from cancer, said, “Vel has really helped to ________ me to eat really more fruits and vegetables.”

Vel brings the farm to the ________. And she brings residents to her community kitchen and gives them cooking lessons.

“The Black community has the highest rates of cancer and the highest rates of diabetes (糖尿病). It’s up to us to change our ________ and our eating habits,” Vel said.

Like Carmichael, many people have ________ Vel with helping them to take back their health, ________ at the kitchen table.

3 . That day Bill Price was attending a reunion for a summer program. He remembers standing outside after the reunion, _______ with friends. Eventually, everyone said their _______ — leaving Price standing by himself.

“Sometimes when you’re _______, it’s fine,” Price said. “But sometimes when you’re alone, you feel _______. And that’s the way I felt then.”

Nearby, another group of teenagers stood laughing and _______. “I found myself wishing so much to be a part of them,” Price _______. One of the teenagers was a person named Wendy Westman. She and Price had only met in another summer program a few months earlier. As Price stood there, feeling _______ lonely, Westman turned around and _______ him if he’d like to join them.

“My life was transformed at that moment,” Price said.

Westman’s kindness _______ a realization in Price: He could offer that same ________ to anyone, at any time. “It’s so easy to see someone who seems left out and alone and ________ them, say hello to them, be kind to them,” Price explained. “And I realize that is a gift that everyone can ________.”

Price became a psychiatrist (精神科医生). His job is being kind to his ________, listening to them and being attentive to their ________. Price attributes his understanding of the importance of kindness to that ________.

4 . Just 5 days before Christmas, I picked up my 3-year-old child from daycare at 6 p.m. Then we ________ to the local mall to let him. ________ Christmas gifts for himself.

The mall was crowded with people, with long ________ and hot atmosphere. It was like a battle and my son just wanted to pick out tractors for himself and wouldn’t. ________ in line. We finally made it through three stores, tired and hungry. The bag was heavy and my son kept asking me to go home and eat supper. I was on the edge (边缘) of breakdown when I heard a ________ from behind us, “Excuse me”.

________, I was thinking what this person would need from me at this point. But I turned around to find a mother and her two ________. They each had large bags of wrapped gifts and big warm smiles. “Would it be okay if I gave your little boy a Christmas gift? It’s age appropriate (适龄的) and might make your evening a little ________.”

I could have cried. Her ________ look said it all — she knew, and she had been me some 10 years ago. I ________ to get out a “yes” and she ________ my excited child his gift. He immediately said thank you and she and the girls wished us a Merry Christmas. I ________ them and we wished them the same.

I was so ________ that I just wanted to say to the kind strangers, “Thank you so much. You have helped a ________ mom, and showed me there are good, loving families left in this crazy world, helping in teaching my son about ________.”

5 . Senior high school began with meeting new friends, which was the most exciting part of that period. However, I noticed the ________ from junior school right away since students around me were trying their best to get good ________.

It was surprising for me to ________ that my friends were no longer willing to meet very often after school. This made me ________ that perhaps I failed to know the true meaning of these ________ years. I should state that it became especially ________ after I talked to my best friend. He told me that he was really ________ because I seemed to have no plan when it came to ________ for college. To be completely honest, he was right.

________, my best friend was wise and able to explain his point of ________ to me. Also, he offered to spend time studying with me and getting me ready for the test to make sure I did not ________ anything meaningful from the textbook. This was surprising for me since I was ________ that activities like reading textbooks could not be enjoyable. I was wrong, and this ________ taught me that having fun in high school does not just mean going to parties or spending time in cafes. Instead, you can have a(n) ________ experience that will also be worthwhile for your future.

I am glad that I was able to learn from this situation. Now, I am studying harder to ________ more knowledge and try to understand which subjects I am most interested in to find out what I want to study in the future.

6 . Tracy Hodges is a teacher who teaches first-grade students. One day, she faced a do-or-die moment when she _______ became ill in the classroom. According to Hodges, her vision suddenly got blurred(模糊的), and she couldn’t even _______ the three children who were sit-ting in front of her.

The children could see something was _______ with her but they couldn’t understand exactly what was going on. “Mrs. Hodges was shaking and we thought she was just _______. Seconds later, she fell out of the chair and hit her head,” said student Dalton Widener. Before she lost _______, Hodges told the children to get _______. However, she wasn’t sure if they _______ her completely. Surprisingly, the kids got her message. Some went out to _______ the principal while some went to get the nurse. Their efforts were _______ as Hodges awakened and found herself surrounded by teachers and medical staff. The school librarian tried to ________ the children and later, Hodges was taken to the ________.

The school informed the parents and students about what had happened at the school and told them that Mrs. Hodges was doing fine. Hodges is ________ that her young students saved her life. The students were called “Hodges’ Heroes” and were ________ with certificates and medals from community leaders for their ________. Two weeks later, everyone from the parents, students, to the staff is ________ to see Mrs. Hodges well and back in the classroom.

7 . The trainers in my gym are mainly students, working alongside their studies at the local sport and health university, so most of them are fairly young. As one of their older_______, I often offered an open ear especially when I_______that some of them were uncertain about something. I “_______” a couple of them when they had to make_______or had problems with work etc. Usually I don’t hear back if it_______.

But today my trainer told me that he had a_______for me from another trainer who recently _______working at the gym. She had quite a long commute (上下班路程) and we _______her staying, leaving, another job, how to explain it to her_______boss etc.

So today I learned that she________and went to get another job with a________commute, but the boss wasn’t angry to her. She________me a short handwritten note,________translating into: “Thank you for the help in making up my mind and especially for helping me to________ the right words for my boss.” It made my day! I am happy she could leave without ill feelings. That’s absolutely lovely and how________of her to leave me a thank-you note!

8 . Last week when coming home from work, I decided to go to the supermarket. I ______, ran inside and spent about 45 minutes looking and trying to shake the work pressure away. Having filled the cart (购物车), I went to pay for my ______ only to find my wallet was not in my pocket! Wondering where my wallet had ______, I put down the foods and hurried to my car, surprisingly finding the door was open and things were ______ all over the ground. Had I forgotten to ______ the door? Or had the car been ______ into?

A few steps ______, I saw a tall man stood there. He asked if it was my ______, explaining he’d been in his car opposite me when I had left. After I closed the car door, the seat belt got ______. He was about to close it ______ he saw a wallet had been on the ground, with credit cards ______. He decided to stand there guarding it, ______ no one took anything and he had been careful not to touch anything. If he hadn’t been such a(an) ______, the mistake could have destroyed my whole life, as my driver’s license, credit cards, ATM cards and some money were all there. I was ______ to him and thanked him 100 times. He just kept smiling, saying it was nothing. I told him he was my angel and he said, “Just ______ it on.”

9 . Born with a serious brain disease, Wesley Wee, a middle-aged man finds it difficult to   control most of his muscles. He is _______ in a wheelchair due to the language barrier and inability to dress or feed himself, so writing a book seems out of the _______.However, as you can imagine, his_______disabilities didn’t stop the ambitious man from spending five years _______every letter in his inspiring book, Finding Happiness Against the Odds, with just his big right toe.And the book will be _____ later this month.“With my story, I want to tell others with disability not to _______ hope. If I had given up hope, I wouldn’t be here today, ”he said.

Growing up, Wesley faced _______ from his own family who were embarrassed about his condition.His mother would hit him and say, “You are good for _______.It is better you die.”His father forced him to do a one-hour _______ every night, in an attempt to make him walk normally.At one point, life became too much to ________ for Wesley, and he attempted to take his own life not once but four times.

________, his grandmother loved him.She cared for him on weekends and ________ he received an education at the Spastic Children’s Association even though his parents thought it would be wasted on him.

Now Wesley has bigger dreams ________ earning just $1, 000 a month and he refuses to apply for government aid. He wants to ________ his own shoe business and hopefully after making profits he can adopt a disabled child.For now, he is focused on publishing his book and ________ others.

10 . Carter Ries is 16 years old and has been running the non-profit organisation, One More Generation, with his sister Olivia since 2009. Together these two young change-makers are working to ___ youth around the world to stand up, be heard, and ___ the planet.

Carter said in a 2017 interview, “My sister and I have been doing this for the last eight years and not once have we wanted to ___ One More Generation. There have been arguments and stress, but the reason we continue to ___ is that we motivate each other.

“Olivia and I go around the world ___ youth groups about the need to save our planet — and so far we have ___ shown many of these groups that anything is possible if you are ___ to work at it.

“We have created many campaigns — such as our Plastic and Recycling Awareness Week program — where we teach students how they can learn to help our environment. Another ___ is our Rhino (犀牛) Letter Writing Campaign, where we got over 10,000 kids from around the world to ___ letters to the South African government, asking them to ____ rhino poaching ( 偷猎). Not only did this show the South African government that people around the world ____, it also showed the youth that they had a voice of ____ and can use it on the go. The most ____ thing, however, is getting them to believe that.

“We recently launched a global OneLessStraw Pledge Campaign — highlighting the effects of global straw ____ on animals and the environment. We want to deliver a strong ____, ‘Anybody can make a difference ... if we can, so can you!’”