2 . Dexter lives in Ouray, Colorado, where, for the past few years, the two-footed dog has been turning heads wherever he goes. His owner, Kentee Pasek, says ________ on two legs isn’t a trick she taught him. Rather, it’s a(n) ________ he made after a near-death experience.

When Dexter was a puppy, he escaped his yard, dashed into the ________ and got hit by a car. He lost his front legs. Everyone ________ he would need some kind of adaptive equipment to get around. He did use a ________ for a while until one day when Pasek set the dog at the foot of her porch (门廊) without it.

Pasek ran in to get a cup of coffee, came out and ________ found that her dog had climbed the stairs. She ________ her cellphone, put Dexter back at the bottom of the stairs and ________ him walking up the stairs on two feet without the wheelchair.

In the six years since, Dexter has become a full-blown celebrity, ________ in parades and building a group of social media ________, who now come to the dog’s hometown just hoping for a glimpse of Ouray’s most ________ “citizen”.

The whole thing isn’t considered as a ________ for many people. People praise Dexter for his option to stay ________. He shows where humans see ________, dogs sometimes beg to differ. And Dexter’s action has proven that sometimes getting ________ is the only way to see how tall you stand.

3 . Chloe Smith is a girl aged 6 from Atlanta, Georgia. One day, while taking a walk with her father near their home, she________something shiny under a pile of rubbish. She picked up the ________ to take home, as she often did on her treasure-hunting walks. Chloe was later ________ to discover she had found a stolen Olympic gold medal.

The medal belongs to former canoeist (划艇运动员) Joe Jacobi, who won gold while ________ for Team USA in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic games. The medal, along with other personal belongings, was ________ in May of 2016 when someone broke into Jacobi’s can. Though police managed to ________ some of his stolen items, they hadn’t been able to find his ________ Olympic medal. It may have been lost forever, if not for a 6-year-old girl’s treasure-hunting ________ .

Chloe’s dad had seen Jacobi’s story on the news, and ________ realized it was his stolen property. He found Jacobi’s email and sent him pictures of the treasure. After________ the medal, Jacobi was astonished, just speechless.

Chloe was ________ to give it back after speaking with Jacobi on the phone. ________, Jacobi promised to speak to her class when school begins again this fall. The ________ of this little girl reuniting an Olympian with his beloved possession is ________ . When we talk about character and doing the ________ thing, Chloe represents the Olympic values in every sense of the word.

4 . Diana Herbert was running late for school on Friday morning so she decided to take a shortcut(近路). Little did 16-year-old Herbert know this would make a big difference in her life. While Herbert was walking _______ to try to get to school on time, an elderly gentleman _______ her, and asked Herbert to tie his shoelaces(鞋带) for him. At first she was a bit _______ but then she saw that the old man was _______ to use his hands properly and had a walking stick. She realized that he could not really help himself so she _______ to do that for him.

After she finished tying the man’s lace, the man thanked Herbert. Then she continued on her way to school, _______ thinking of the situation.

What Herbert did not know is that a woman named Nadine Ribeiro _______ the whole thing. Ribeiro stopped her car and took a photo. She then _______ it on her Facebook and wrote about the situation. _______ , the photograph on the social media spread quickly — more than 3,000 people liked Ribeiro’s photograph while 6,000 more ________ it with their friends.

Herbert, however, did not know what was going on until the principal told her that she became some kind of Internet superstar. Herbert said she couldn’t understand why people were so attracted by the ________. The following Monday, Herbert was ________ by the school for her kindness.

“I was not ________ that much attention, but it felt nice to get ________ for something good,” Herbert said. “I believe in karma(因果)—once we do nice things it will in some way benefit us ________.”

7 . Our neighbors had a loud party last night. We weren’t _______ but this was one of those celebrations that I didn’t mind. They are a bunch of young, single guys and I would have felt out of place.

What _______ me was the way they behaved. Ono of the young men came over _______ in the day to “warn” us of the upcoming event and said it would be over at about 11 p. m. That was the first step. Even more _______ was what they did next. “Here’s my _______”, offered our neighbor _______ “Text me if it’s too noisy.” That was a level of _______ I had never experienced in all my years of being a neighbor!

And it really worked in their favor. My husband and I were so friendly that even when the event went past the _______ end time, even when the music reached high decibels(分贝), and even when we couldn’t get through to the phone number, we felt no _______. We knew they would stop and ________ to it eventually.

It takes such little effort to make people feel that they ________ and get people on your side. Everyone needs to ________ every now and then, especially in these uniquely tough times. But people who do it without disturbing others are few and far between. I hadn’t fully ________ my neighbors until this week. But now I see them in a new light and with greater ________ . They didn’t just bring the noise to the neighborhood; they showed us a good manner of ________ in life.

8 . He man Bekele was not atypical high school student._________spending his free time playing videogames, this 14-year-old was conducting experiments. His goal was to create a_________that could treat skin cancer, and make it affordable for everyone who_________it.

Growing up in Ethiopia, Africa, He man_________saw people getting sunburned by the hot sun working outside. He didn’t_________much of it when he was really little, but a she_________he realized how serious skin cancer really was.

Skin cancer does have cures and it is_______in most cases. However, the average_______of skin cancer treatment is almost $40, 000. When hearing the shocking_________, He man planned to create a more__________and accessible solution. He started doing experiments and working on different things, which turned into his bar of soap as a project.

His__________won him the prize in this year’s 3M Young Scientist’s Challenge, a competition that__________kids to think of unique ways to solve everyday problems. He man was so surprised and__________when he first heard the news of his award. “It’s__________to see that my ideas can be __________and seen by the science community,” he said.

9 . 28-year-old Jermaine Scott set up in business as a barber in Madison. He gradually noted the kids were _______ to tablets and cell phones when they came to the barbershop. It was _______ to cut their hair when they were focused on those. That led to the _______ of Scott’s “Barbershop Books Day” when kids could come and get a _______ haircut. What was required? They had to _______ a book while they got it.

He created “Barbershop Books Day” to help not only the kids, but also the parents. Madison has many low-income families and many are focused on just keeping their _______ on. For people in this community, $15 for a haircut per kid is not easy to _______ so in some way a reduction in the price can _______.

Scott began his initiative (倡议) by _______ five library books and putting them near his chair. Book ________ began pouring in when a local news station ________ what he was doing. Scott plans on taking his initiative a step further by __________ his “Barbershop Books Day” to an “Ice Breaker Book Tour” where he ________ to get kids excited to learn while also giving them ________ role models through motivational (激发性的) speakers. Scott said, “If I step outside my comfort zone and tell them school is cool, ________ it will guide them in the right direction.”

10 . Exercise and I have never had a good relationship because of my fear of sports.   From a young age, my dad __________ me into a dozen sports. I didn’t like any of them, __________.

When I entered University of Regina, my dad __________ telling me “You have to find a way to stay __________ ”or “You don’t want to get the Freshman 15, do you?” So I __________ to give swimming a shot, but I __________ managed to go to the pool twice during the fall semester (学期). Worse still, I was __________ to convince myself that “Yeah, that’s OK. ”

The spring semester came.   A friend of mine __________ me one day asking if I wanted to go to Zumba with her. All I knew about Zumba was that it was basically exercise dancing to Latin and pop songs. It didn’t sound too bad, but I couldn’t be __________ .

I went, and that was it. Zumba became my __________ of tea. The instructor would always say: “Don’t worry about the steps. Have fun. Do your own thing.” That removed my __________ about sports. I didn’t have to be __________. I didn’t even have to be good. I just needed to __________ the music and move. Zumba did __________ me from the Freshman 15, but it also did so much more. It let me make __________ with my unpleasant past with physical fitness, and enjoy staying healthy.