1 . In a heart-warming display of kindness and sympathy, 10-year-old Catalina Campos, founder of the nonprofit Circul KC, set about a mission this Mother’s Day. Its _________ is to ensure every mother felt _________. Circul KC, a nonprofit _________ by Campos herself, is devoted to _________ senior citizens and other local nonprofits in need by providing _________ supplies and support. It wants to _________ youth to serve their community, do what’s right, and _________ love for the country.

On Mother’s Day, Campos and her team _________ with one goal: to make mothers feel special and loved. _________ with flowers, they visited senior living facilities and got into Kansas City’s Loose Park, where they delighted mothers of all ages with __________ gestures of kindness.

Reflecting on her __________, Campos expressed her joy at seeing the smiles on mothers’ faces, knowing that their simple __________ of giving could brighten someone’s day. “It was __________ to see them smile because sometimes mums don’t have... the kids don’t come and give them stuff.” Campos said.

As the flowers found their way into the hands of mothers throughout Kansas City, they carried with them not just petals and stems (花瓣和茎), but a __________ of love, appreciation, and the power of small acts of __________ to make a big difference to someone’s life.

2 . About two weeks ago, I was in a supermarket. I had rushed in to ________ some raw sugar. Standing in the queue I was second in ________ to be served. I wanted to get my money out to be ready to pay and unconsciously ________ a small scream. I had ________ my purse in my car.

Silly me. A lady beside me looked and I laughed and said, “I’ve just been rushing and not ________ too much and I have to go to my car to get my ________.” The lady stood in my way, held up her arms and said, “Oh no, you only have some ________. I will pay for it.” I ________, “There was no need. I ________ had money. It was just in the car.” But she wasn’t letting me out. The lady and her husband paid for my sugar. I was moved and ________ them a number of times.

I realised they had a sense of ________ and felt good helping out. I walked over to them ________ and with permission gave them both a hug. I went home and told my husband how ________ the packet of raw sugar for his coffee is.

I’m going back with flowers this weekend to see if I can ________ them. I’m also going to forward the ________ and do something for a stranger.

3 . It's late—my wife and I are exhausted and covered in mud. There's an old woman shouting at us in Vietnamese, refusing to let us leave the house. Behind is her ______, who I'm desperately trying to stop from taking her shirt off. It's chaos.

Helpless and ______, I wonder: how did it come to this?

We were on a motorcycle tour of Laos and Vietnam. We just ______ the border into Vietnam smoothly. Then the trouble began: the highway. The road was under ______ and in its place ______ the slipperiest mud slide imaginable. We were reduced to such a speed that ____ the motorcycle and starting walking seemed a possible option. Exhausted and dirty, we were ready to ______. Cancel the trip? I doubted. It just wasn't worth it.

Seven hours later, at our lowest point, we finally reached tarmac (柏油路) . Too defeated to ______ the new-found road, we pulled into what appeared a restaurant, figuring we could ask for ______. There we were greeted by a teenage girl.

That brings us back to where we kicked off. The old woman is ______, not in a scary way ,but in an “I'm repeating myself louder and louder and you'll understand” kind of way. The teenage daughter keeps attempting to _______ in front of us. Desperately wanting to get to a hotel, we try to leave but the old woman pushes us back. We have no idea what we've gotten ourselves into, nor how the he’ll we are going to ______.

Then there's a knock at the door — a man is outside and we're told to follow him. It turns out that they've called him to lead us into town. The mother stopped us because of this and the daughter was just trying to ask us if we wanted to ______ our clothes.

The people were so unbelievably helpful. This ______ continued for our entire trip. It helped us find new strength — the confidence, no matter how ______ it gets, to just keep going.

4 . Cai Youxin had not seen her daughter Hu Jun for 23 years since Hu moved to another place for _________. When Cai asked a street cleaner for directions, she did not _________ that the person would be her long-lost daughter whom she had not seen for 23 years. The _________ story took place in a small city in Sichuan earlier in June, 2022.

Cai had recently _________ to know her daughter was in Langzhong city with the _________ of the police. While the police had arranged for the two to be _________, a day before the _________meeting, Cai saw Hu _________.

Hu _________ contact with her family after moving out of her hometown in 1999 to work at a factory. She was __________ to telephone home after she lost the paper with her family’s phone number. Later, she was completely __________ from them after her family moved out of their home to make__________ for the building of the Three Gorges Dam.

“I __________ sending them letters, but they were all __________ because the old address was invalid(无效的),” Hu said. “I’ve lost too much time with my mother. I ________ a promise to spend as much time as I can with her now,” she continued.

5 . I was scared of public speaking. But when I _______ my first novel ten years ago, I was invited to speak at a writers' festival.

The festival was held on a lawn. I arrived at the large tent set-up, _______ find two hundred faces looking at me. Five teenagers sat close in the front row, stretching out their legs.

I was sweating _______ I even opened my mouth.

I only had one book to talk about, and it didn't seem like any of the students had read it, or _______to. The five in the front row started heckling (起哄) and making jokes about some random cartoon characters, causing me to lose my place. _______ out of my depth, I started feeling nervous and _______ my words. I could feel the tears starting, and I didn't know what to do.

Then a teenage boy in _______ of tech for the tent took the spare microphone and began telling his own ghost story. The story was thrilling, full of fear and _______ , and better than anything I'd said so far. I used the five minutes he spoke to _______ and prepare: When he finished, I thanked him, knowing he'd ________ me. And I managed to bumble through the rest of the speech.

I knew I had to somehow learn to________ my fear. After asking other writers for their tips and advice, I added slideshows, readings and question-and-answers to my________ , I was still terrified, but the more I did, the better I ________the unexpected. I had five more that week, none as ________ as the first.

I doubt I will ever look forward to fronting up to hundreds of students, but sometimes I ________ myself by enjoying it more than I ever would have thought was possible.

6 . I had been interested in diving (潜水) for long, but first I had to learn how to swim. Last year, while on holiday, I decided it was time to _______ my fear of diving. I enrolled (注册) myself in swimming lessons and _______ the time in the class. After more than a month, I found that the feeling of being able to swim was amazing.

Now that the main trouble was out of the way, I enrolled for a _______ course. After four tiring days of theory sessions and limited water dives in the pool, I passed all the skill tests and theory exams with the help of very _______ classmates. However, I remained clearly _______ and unconfident underwater. My _______ asked me to come back before the diving season ended and do a few more dives with him to _______ my confidence.

I practiced with him though a little unwillingly. There was a huge _______ mismatch between what I thought I’d be doing and what the course _______ included. And all I desired by the end of the practice was ________, a drink, and some sleep. A while later, however, some rest refreshed me.

This week, I came back to the course to complete two dives with my coach. I finally overcame my fears of diving. I knew that if I didn’t ________ it another shot, I would always carry the fear with me and it would only get ________ with time. I realized the importance of being able to ________ my fear and overcome it. Going through this ________ experience that was far outside my ________ certainly brought me numerous life lessons.

7 . John and his friends used to go mountain climbing once every year. This time they have _______ to climb mountains in the Swiss Alps.

They reached the famous mountain _______ in the Swiss Alps and were surprised to see many people climbing the mountains. John and his friends started _______ all the mountain climbing gear (装备) and started climbing. In no _______, they reached the top of the mountain.

After _______ there, John’s friends decided to camp there. Then John saw another mountain where only a _______ of people were trying to climb it. He told his friends, “Let us go and climb that mountain too. It will be fun and _______ instead of camping here.”A friend replied, “No way! The path is difficult to climb.” People nearby hearing this said, “If it’s easy to climb, why are we sitting here doing nothing?” _______ them, John took that as a challenge and went alone towards climbing the peak.

Two hours later, he reached the top. John was _______ to have climbed the peak. He could see the beautiful views of nature from the top. He started a(n) ________ with people there and asked them, “While climbing this peak, I felt it was not so difficult. Then why only a handful of people are here? If people could climb the below peak, they can climb here too if they ________ some effort.” A veteran (老兵) replied, “Most people in the crowd right there are happy with what they find ________. They never think that they have the ________ to achieve more. Many of them do not show any ________, and they remain part of the crowd the whole life, complaining about the handful of courageous people and call them lucky.”

Hearing this, John ________ the veteran for explaining the importance of courage in our life.

8 . My mother was stricken with cancer. During the last hospitalization, I watched her mental condition ______ to the point that she began to get confused. Her kidneys (肾脏) didn’t ______, and tumors (肿瘤) had been found in her brain.

Several days after she was ______, I visited her only to have her ______ me angrily about not telling her the “real” reason why she was in the hospital. She went on to ______ that she was really in the hospital for her nerves (神经质), not because of her cancer.

I had never dealt with someone dying. I was ______. But then, my brother arrived for a ______. I wondered how he would deal with her ______. Calmly, he took her hand. As he held it ______ in his, he said softly, “Mother, you know you will not be leaving this hospital ______ .”

Tears welled up in my eyes, nearly clouding my ______. My mother covered his hands with her own, and in a moment of ______ clearly, she whispered, “I know.” They spoke of death as an inevitability (必然性) instead of something ______. Two days later, she died.

I’ve never forgotten the ______ I saw my brother gather that night. He had taken a difficult walk with my mother from her state of denial (否认) to the peace of ______. Sometimes truth isn’t pretty or pleasant, but it can set us free.

9 . Rodney started mowing (割草) yards for free in 2015 to help neighbors in his community, including senior citizens, single parents and individuals with disabilities. The idea _________ him when he drove past an elderly neighbor _________ to mow his lawn. Rodney _________ and offered to finish the job for his neighbor. He soon set a goal of mowing 40 lawns by the end of that winter, but increased that goal to 100 lawns as he quickly surpassed his _________ target.

“I’m _________ of cutting grass because I’m young and strong,” explained Rodney. Once he reached his 100-lawn goal, he realized he could _________ more people by creating a program that included youths as _________. He founded the Raising Men Lawn Care Service and began recruiting (招募) local youths aged 7 to 17, as he said, “Show them the importance of _________ their community.”

Rodney started the nonprofit lawn program while still in college. He now holds a master’s degree in social work and _________ his nonprofit organization full time. Children can get __________ by sending in a photo of themselves holding a sign that reads, “I accept the 50-yard challenge.” __________ participation, the organization will send the child a shirt, safety glasses and ear protection. Once the child completes the __________, the organization delivers them a brand-new lawn mower.

The program provides a valuable service for community members who have difficulty __________ mowing their own yards. The lawn challenge also provides an opportunity for youths to build a __________ with neighbors. The service is a __________ for the youth volunteers and community members.

10 . I was then in my early twenties. Even though I was armed with a degree in Education, finding a ______ teaching job was not easy. I had to try some temporary ones.

This year, when a golden opportunity ______ to teach 5th grade students in a local school. I ______ it and took things seriously. I ______ myself with lesson plans, taught with enthusiasm, and stayed ______ with the students. I had no hesitation in ______ the kids when they got the answer right, and encouraged them if they didn’t.

One day when the kids were _______, a girl approached and handed me a ______ before she went home. On it was a lovely drawing full of childlike wonder, ______ by the words, “You are the best teacher I have ever had!” It really amazed me that one of my kind comments had ______ that girl’s heart greatly. I took that note home and ______ put it in a folder, looking on it as a ______ because it was very important. Anytime I was feeling down I would look at it and it proved to be a ______ .

That experience showed me the ______ of just a single kind word. It encouraged me to continue to try my best each day to ______ love and kindness through my words and actions. Wish the same for others.