1 . Everyone deserves healthy meals. However, unfortunately, not everyone has ________ to fresh foods, ________ those in poor communities.

A teenager named Lauren Schroeder ________ this when she volunteered at a community food nonprofit. All vegetables for families in need came in cans and boxes, rather than straight from the fields. ________ to make a change, Lauren set out to grow produce so she could donate it to ________ families.

“I wanted people to get the nutrition they needed from fresh vegetables,” Lauren said. This ________ her to start a garden on her parents’ farm. While her mom was supportive, she made her ________ of how much work it would take-still, the teenager ________ the challenge.

To kick-start her project, Lauren got economic ________ from the National FFA Organization, which ________ agricultural education, to pay for seeds and gardening supplies. Then, the ________ work began. Since the summers in Iowa are very hot and dry, she had to water them daily. Lauren added, “I did a lot of research online and every day, it took about two or three hours.”

But all her efforts ________. Her first harvest resulted in 40 pounds of produce. “It was really good to know that anyone who wanted fresh vegetables would be able to get the ________,” Lauren said, “I knew that I wanted to keep going.”

So far, she has spent over 1,000 hours working in the garden, producing 7,000 pounds of vegetables. “I want to ________ community members. It makes a(n) ________ when you help other people out. That’s what makes me happiest,” Lauren said.

2 . Your kindness to others can save them and make them spread the kindness to help more people. Thea Rhiannon was driving her old car down a road. When she rolled down the ________ to let in some fresh air, the sun visor(遮阳板) was blown off onto the floor.

She was about to pull off and ________ down to grab it when she found the oncoming ________ accidentally pulled the steering wheel(方向盘) and was driving to her. In panic, she pulled the wheel ________ in the other direction. The car ________ over three times, and Rhiannon was thrown out. When she ________, she found herself lying in the middle of the ________, and bleeding from injuries. Rhiannon remembered a young man ________ her. “The young man stayed with me until the ________ got there,” she recalled. “He covered me with a blanket and ________ me first aid, including putting a tourniquet(止血带) on my left arm, where I was ________ badly.”

An emergency room doctor spent hours removing all the ________ glass of windshield from her arm, and gave her three dozen stitches(缝线). The next day, one of the doctors told Rhiannon that without the ________, she would have probably bled to death before the doctors arrived.

Over years, the hero may not realize his ________ on others, but Rhiannon has spared no effort to ________ his kindness.

3 . It was just before Christmas that my brother Jeremy and I were ready to watch a Nationals baseball game. We_________it very early that morning. With his brown beard to his chest, Jeremy was in a bright Nationals-red shirt and pale khaki shorts, in the_________of baseball.

On the subway, Jeremy caught the_________of a five-year-old girl. She stared at him, trying to_________the world’s greatest mystery.

Jeremy is always_________with children, and in his deep, charming voice said, “Hello!” The little girl could not contain her_________. She cried, “Santa!” Jeremy leaned down to her and _________ , “How did you know it was me?”

“Oh, it was the _________. No one has one like that but Father Christmas!” The little girl said. She_________ “Santa” up and down. “But, why isn’t your beard__________?” she asked.

Jeremy was__________. “Before Christmas, Santa goes undercover. I dye my beard brown so that people won’t__________it’s me.” he explained, “Now you know my secret so you can’t tell anyone.”

The little girl nodded with__________ , her eyes never leaving “Santa”.

As the little girl hopped off the subway, Jeremy called out. “I’ll see you at__________! Be good!”

“I will! Your secret is__________ with me, Santa!” she called back.

4 . David hoped to be a teacher when he was young. “The minute I walked into my university, I knew _________ what I wanted to be,” he says. “The teachers were so _________ and welcome.”

As an education major, he was excited to learn his classroom _________ would begin during his second year of his university. “That was very important to me because I didn’t want to _________ until I was a student teacher to get into a classroom,” he says. David was also _________ by his university’s short-term study abroad program and the opportunities it offers to students to be adaptable to the university.

David quickly adapted himself to the university. He was _________ freshman class president and joined many organizations, all about children education. He also held several campus_________, took on several leadership positions and was accepted into a leadership development program. “These _________ allowed me to learn things outside the classroom. I built my _________ in leadership and teamwork,” says David. “These are real life experiences that I can ________ to the classroom.”

By the end of the second year of his university, David had __________ two practicums (实习课) at elementary schools, including a special education internship (实习) focused on students with reading __________. He went on to finish two __________ practicums and a student teaching task over the next two years.

Two months before graduation, David was __________ a full-time position as a special education teacher at Millstone River Elementary School in the West Windsor—the same school where he completed his junior practicum in spring 2017. “It is such a relief to be hired so early. I feel all my hard work __________,” he says.

5 . “Hi! Ms Brooks!” It was Sunday morning, my daughter and I were visiting a model home when I heard a(n)_________ voice. Standing in the yard was a boy. “Evans! What are you doing here?” I cried, feeling surprised and a little annoyed. “I’m helping my father grow flowers,” he answered _________. Looking at his happy appearance, I stood there, _________.

Then my daughter pulled me away, but Evans stayed on my mind for the rest of the weekend. Evans was a _________. He was very fond of plants and animals. _________ he struggled with his reading, he never once complained.

Evans’s grades showed no sign of _________ despite his determination. So I sometimes _________ whether he would be able to pass the exams. It was not until we studied the life cycle of plants together that I changed my _________. Evans behaved attentively. I had never seen him so _________ in the classroom.

In a class project, I __________ a task to each student. That was planting a sunflower seed in one container. Sowing the seeds was __________ for many of the students, but the growing part was much less so. Except Evans, they all lost interest and forgot to __________ their sunflowers-to-be. Every afternoon, he __________ the plants in his container. Some time later, few seeds successfully fully sprouted (发芽) because of too dry soil, but the __________ in his container were about four inches tall. At that moment, I saw that special seed planted inside him. And one day, he would __________ just as his sunflower.

6 . When I was growing up, every evening before bedtime my father would tell me stories of his childhood. He’d tell his stories with morals, or sometimes just tales without a particular _________but for pure entertainment ___________.

He’d tell me___________of his adventures growing up in New England with his two brothers and their___________Dickey Ellis, who was the butt (笑柄) of all the jokes. Despite always being underestimated (低估) and_________, Ellis managed to be victorious alongside the Vankevich brothers in their achievements—They defended the___________groups against Butch, who often bullied (欺负) the weak, and ___________authority figures when they were being unjust.

It was only when I was creating a televisual series on storytelling that my father___________me a secret. The majority of the stories he told about his_________didn’t actually happen. I was astonished but then __________. I realized it didn’t matter that they were____________. What has mattered to people most is that stories offer____________to their questions about where they come from, why the world is as it is, and how they should lead their life.

My father’s stories taught and ____________the moral map through which I ____________the world. Now, I’m ____________the tradition—I tell my son, aged 3, a story every evening before bed.

7 . Tina often discussed with her parents whether they should get a pet dog. However, they always ________ that training a dog would be too distracting for Tina, and they couldn’t ________ the vet (兽医) and food bills with their low income.

One day, when they were walking along a narrow path to look for mushroom, a painfilled howl (嗥叫) rang through the trees. Tina and her parents got ________.

“That’s a dog.” Tina headed off in the ________ of the wolf.

“Wait, Tina!” Her dad reached for her arm but ________. “It could be a wolf.”

“Even if it is, it’s still hurt,” Tina said as she headed deep into the forest. “We’ve got to help it.”

Tina’s parents ________ her, but Tina was soon out of ________. When they caught up with her, she was kneeing down beside a hunting dog. It was obvious that he was ________ in a trap. Tina’s dad bent forward to ________ the dog and found the trap closed over the dog’s paw (爪). Later, Tina’s dad took out his knife to ________ the trap. ________ the trap didn’t break any bones.

Tina’s mother had grown up in a family of hunters and was well ________ that the dog was well-trained.

They took the dog home, and Tina’s dad treated his ________. Although Tina’s parents initially intended to send the dog to a ________ where there would be kind people taking care of him, the family quickly grew to love him, so they ________ their idea. Tina named the dog Rocky and he became a family member.

8 . We had had the homeless dog since he was just a few days old. My husband, Phil, had brought him home from the street. He seemed weak. He rested his head on my ________ so I remained seated and didn’t ________ to raise my leg for fear of disturbing him. “Stop it,”I laughed as he drank from a bottle I held.

As the little dog looked up at me, his helpless eyes________ my heart. Do I have him as our________ or let him go? His eyes ________ my thought of driving him away. “I’m not ________ to leave him alone,”I said to Phil. “Well, just ________ him,” he responded. So we drove him to a pet hospital to have a ________. Luckily, he was healthy except for a little hunger.

Then the little dog ________ our family. I liked him even more as he ________. He was so friendly. He always greeted us by wagging his tails and played with our baby. We were ________ to him, so we called him Honey. We got so attached to Honey that it was hard for us to ________ ourselves from him.

When he was one year old, he was attacked by a terrible   ________ . I spent long nights nursing him, and ________, he recovered from the serious illness. I breathed a sign of ________. Honey turned into a big dog, and he was strong enough to overcome the illness.

9 . I was out shopping with my kids doing my best to budget (谨慎花钱) the last of my paycheck. I saw a lady sitting beside my car with a sign that she was________and needed help. I had a few dollars I could.________and a couple of bottles of water in my car, so I handed her the bottles and the_________

The next day I was down to about $ 12 and________day was one day away. On the way to picking up my son from school, I tried to do something________with my 12-year-old son. We stopped by our favorite________for the amazing cow cookies and the chocolate chip cookies. I let the baker know I had to________it under $ 12.25.   When she rang it up (把款项记入收款机), she said, “Oh, it’s $12.43.” I told her, “Sorry, I’ll have to split the payment between my card and some loose________I have in my wallet.”

________, she rounded it down to $12. After I________her and went walking out, she told me to stop and handed me an/a________chocolate chip cookie and two more cow cookies. It was a small________but made me feel so happy to receive. When I told my son about this, he________on how when we do one act of________it gets multiplied by three, I believe that and I know in my heart it always feels good to________and do the right thing.

10 . I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria.I was a(n) _________reader, and what I read were British and American children’s books.I began to write when I was seven.I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my _________ were white and blue-eyed. They played in the snow. They ate apples, and they talked a lot about the _________，how lovely it was that the sun had _________.

What this demonstrates is how _________we can be influenced by what we read, particularly as children. Because all I had read were foreign books, I had become _________ that books had to have _________ in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify.

Things _________ when I discovered African books. There weren’t many of them available, and they weren’t quite as easy to _________ as the foreign books.

But __________ writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye I went through a mental __________in my view of literature.I __________ that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate,could also __________ in literature. I started to write about things I recognized. What the __________ of African writers did for me was this: It saved me from having a __________ story of what books are.