1 . A little girl created a perfect gift for her mother’s birthday. It was a drawing of a _________ on white paper with the words “For mom: love, love, love” decorated with hearts. She folded (折叠) her letter, but then she _________ it.

For most people, that would be the _________ of this story, but this story had a different result. James Carrell _________ the letter. He had just called his mother, wishing her a happy birthday. After he hung up, Carrell saw the _________ on the ground outside of a hardware (五金器具) store in Manvel. “I realized it was a gift,” said Carrell. “I _________ it up and saw the flower and hearts. It really _________ me.” Carrell thought the letter would brighten someone’s day and that maybe he could find the _________, so he posted it on the Internet. The message moved a lot of people, _________ one man.

“I was sitting at my friend’s house and saw a man’s reply,” said Carrell.

The comments included one from Robert Alvarado. He wrote, “I can’t __________ you found my baby’s letter.” Carrell reached Alvarado to __________ the letter. It took a few days, but the men finally __________ on Thursday night, one day after Alvarado’s wife’s birthday.

“__________ the letter made it home,” said Alvarado “We are thankful for what James Carrell did.”

We often forget the power of __________ things, but for this family from Alvin, Carrell’s small act left a(n) __________ impression.

4 . I was given the book Running on Faith written by Jason Lester as a birthday gift last month. After I started ________, I really couldn’t keep my eyes off it. It is always ________ to read a story of someone who has gone through difficulties to reach his ________.

Jason Lester is a ________ extreme athlete. When he was twelve years old, a fast car ran a red light and ________ him. Then he was sent into the hospital with twenty broken bones and a(n) ________ injured arm. Jason had always ________ to become a famous baseball player, but at that time that dream was ________.

However, Jason loved sports and he still wanted to be a good ________. He began running and ________ duathlons (铁人两项比赛) in high school. Years later in 2004, he decided to start ________ for the Ironman (铁人), and has competed in many extreme ________ since then. In 2008, Jason became the first disabled athlete to ________ the Ultraman (320 miles of biking, swimming and running), and it led him to an ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete with a Disability in 2009.

If you are in a bad ________ and don’t know what to do now, Running on Faith is a good book for you. If you love running and want to reach some race goals, this book is good for you, too. Anyway, this book is ________ reading for everyone who loves reading and wants to turn dreams into reality.

5 . The clock had just struck eleven when I first heard a noise coming from the lift. I opened the door of our room and listened: someone was _________ against the door of the lift and calling out at the same time.

“What’s wrong?” I shouted. “The door has been stuck (受阻) and I can’t _________.” The _________ came back. The voice came from several flights below.

My wife had now _________ me and she went off directly in search of the night porter (守门人). After calling to the girl that help was on its _________, I went back into our room to get some _________ to rescue her. Then I hurried _________ the stairs until I reached _________ the lift was stuck.

I tried my hand at forcing to _________ the lift door, talking all the while to the girl trapped inside, __________ my tools were of no use for this purpose. Very __________, however, my wife returned. __________ to find the porter, she had called the police, who agreed to send an engineer. __________, she had got in touch with the fire service.

In a short time, the engineer appeared. Almost immediately the fireman arrived too. With his __________ equipment it took the engineer only a short while to get the door open. In spite of her horrible experience, the girl was in good spirits. “I’m hungry.” was her only __________ as she stepped out of the lift.

6 . The idea of donating mosquito nets (蚊帐) to millions of Africans came to Katherine Commale’s mind when she was only five years old. She _______ a documentary about Africa, which _______ that on average, every 30 seconds one child died of malaria (疟疾) there, which can be caused by mosquito bites. This made her astonished, but it also _______ her to do something to save their lives. _______, Katherine started raising money for mosquito nets so that Africans don’t have to _______ malaria. She sent nets to Africa through an organization called Nothing But Nets. By making hand-decorated _______ with her family and giving them to those who donated money, Katherine inspired people to join her. Her _______ was posted on the website of Nothing But Nets. People were touched by her _______, which went beyond age and race. _______ were pouring in from around the world.

However. Katherine still seemed ________. She and her friends wrote letters to the ________ who were on the list of The World’s Billionaires hoping they could contribute money. After receiving the letter, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ________that it would donate three million dollars to Nothing But Nets. ________ , to have more people know Katherine’s deeds, the foundation invested (投资) in filming a public welfare documentary.

Thanks to Katherine, the frequency of children’s death ________ from malaria in Africa has been decreased to one person every 120 seconds. Katherine’s kindness influenced the world even though she was only a little girl. She showed that no one is too ________ to change the world into a better place.

7 . I first met Paul Newman in 1968, when George Roy Hill, the director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, introduced us in New York City. When the ________ didn’t want me for the film — it wanted somebody as well known as ________ — he stood up for me. I don’t know how many people would have done that; they would have listened to their agents or the studio powers.

The ________ that grew out of the experience of ________ that film and The Sting four years later had its root in the fact that although there was a/an ________ difference, we both came from a tradition of theater and live TV. We were respectful of craft (技艺) and focused on digging into the characters we were going to ________. Both of us had the qualities and virtues that are ________ of American actors: humorous, aggressive, and ________ each other — but always with an underlying affection. Those were also at the core (核心) of our friendship off the screen.

We ________ the belief that if you’re ________ enough to have success, you should put something back — he with his Newman’s Own food and his Hole in the Wall camps for kids who are seriously ill, and me with Sundance and the institute and the festival. Paul and I didn’t see each other all that ________, but sharing that ________ brought us together. We ________ each other financially and by showing up at events. I ________ saw him a few months ago. He’d been ________ and out of the hospital. He and I both knew what the deal was, and we didn’t talk about it. Ours was a friendship that didn’t need a lot of words.

8 . My car slid easily into the school lane. I turned around and glanced at the back seat as my ten year old daughter_______. My daughter’s words started to spill, “Momma, Jenny_______all the girls in the class to attend her birthday party except for Heather and me. I_______I was her friend, too.” The air was filled with her_______.

As tears ran down my little girl’s face, I felt_______. As an introvert (内向的人), I often breathe a sigh of _______when I am not invited to a large social gathering. I prefer_______with a few friends who get me. _______, I don’t extend my preferences to my daughter’s social life. Since the age of four, rather than_______just a few, I’ve invited all of her classmates to her birthday parties. That’s because I am________to the need for young girls and boys to feel________.

I understand that at some point all of us are excluded from something and that this is a________children will eventually learn. But why does it have to happen when they are so________?

As soon as we got home, I hugged my still upset daughter and wiped away her tears. As I________her, I thought of her own approaching birthday party. The invitation would go out to all of her________.