1 . I was 11 years old standing outside in just my underwear while I watched the house that I grew up in rapidly burn to the ground.

A few minutes earlier I had been in bed when a _________ woke me up. A fire had _________ in my grandma’s room and awakened her. _________ hearing her, my brother had jumped into _________, running from room to room quickly waking everyone in the house. _________ we could do anything, the fire consumed it. We all barely _________ it outside before the flames had taken hold of every room.

I stood there _________ while the fire destroyed my books, clothes, and toys. I watched _________ while my mom cried and my dad sighed. I wondered what was going to happen to us _________ we had lost all of our things.

As I looked around, though, I ____________ something for the first time: The things that ____________ aren’t things. I saw my brother running across the swinging bridge by our house to get help. I saw my grandma and dad wrapped in each other’s arms and my mom ____________ our little dog. I realized at that moment that we were all ____________. Everything that was ____________ had survived the fire. Our life would ____________. We would survive without the “stuff” that was ____________. We would all be around to love each other for many years to come. And that was all that mattered.

I still think of that fire in the night. It helped me to become who I am today. It showed me for the very first time what was ____________ valuable in this life. It helped me to learn that the ____________ we share is far more important than the things we own.

Live your life for the things that matter, not for the things you ____________. Love your family. Love others. Let the fire inside of you make this world a ____________ place. Let your soul shine bright.

4 . When you are stuck on a problem, sometimes it is best to stop thinking about it—consciously, anyway. Research has shown that taking a break or a nap can help the brain create_________to a solution. Now a new study_________on the effect of this so-called incubation（潜伏期）by using sound cues to focus the sleeping mind on a targeted problem.

When humans sleep, parts of the brain replay certain memories, strengthening and transforming them. About a decade ago researchers developed a technique, called targeted memory reactivation（TMR）, aimed at further enhancing_________memories: when a sound becomes associated with a memory and is later played during sleep, that memory gets_________. In a study published last November in Psychological Science, scientists tested whether_________the memory of a puzzle during sleep might also improve problem-solving.

About 60 participants visited the laboratory before and after a night of_________. First, they_________spatial, verbal and conceptual puzzles, with a distinct music clip repeating in the background for each, until they had worked on six puzzles they could not solve. Overnight they wore electrodes（电极）to detect slow-wave sleep, which may be important for memory enhancement—and a device played the sounds _________to three of the six unsolved puzzles. The next day, back at the lab, the participants attempted the six puzzles again.（Each repeated the experiment with a different set of puzzles the following night.） All told, the subjects solved 32 percent of the sound-stimulated puzzles compared with 21 percent of the _________puzzles.

The researchers "very bravely went for quite complex tasks that involved a lot of complex processing, and remarkably they found these really strong effects in all of their __________." says Penny Lewis, a psychologist at Cardiff University, who was not involved in the research. "These are supercool results. Now we need to go out and try to understand them by firstly replicating（复制）them and secondly trying to __________the component processes that are actually being influenced."

Beyond providing new evidence that humans restructure memories while sleeping, the research may have __________implications. "In a futuristic world, maybe TMR could help us use sleep to work on our problems," says lead author Kristin Sanders, who was a graduate student at Northwestern University during the study. Sleep-monitoring technology is increasingly accessible—and even without devices, prospective solvers can focus on important problems before __________.

Still, sleep is not __________; people need to do their homework and load their heads with the puzzle pieces involved. "I'm not going to solve cancer with this technique," Sanders says, "because I am totally __________cancer research."

5 . It has been difficult to sit on the bench most of the time, watching my team from the sideline. I always _______ why I am not good enough to be on the floor. After endless hours of work and devotion, _______ myself through drill after drill, the last thing I want is to be a cheerleader. The feeling of being _______ is sometimes too much and drives me to _______ on the spot. I often feel as though my _______ are wasted and my time is eaten away, devoted to _______ . It is heartbreaking to be a spectator(观看者) for the game I love, knowing that no one has enough faith to give me the chance to _______ on the floor. Tears well up (涌出), but I _______ them back. I shouldn't be so _______ over something so silly.

Away from the game, it's easier to put my thoughts together, rather than letting my______________ drive my reasoning. I consider ____________ I am where I am. I have played basketball my whole life. I have a strong ____________ for the sport and always have. There is nothing like the ____________ of playing: the swish (嗖嗖声) of the net, the sweat rolling off my cheeks, even the bruise (青肿) are battle wounds worn ____________ after every game.

Even if I don't play much, I participate in every game. I am part of a team of girls who ____________together like a family. I am there for them, ____________ they are for me.

Should I move on? Or should I stay with my team and continue playing basketball ____________great passion just a little longer? The ____________ isn't difficult when I consider the joy that being a part of a team ____________ me - not just any team, but my team. I love basketball and my teammates. When I think about that, my ____________ from the bench really isn't so bad after all

6 . When you lose your wallet somewhere, you can pretty much kiss that wallet and anything in it goodbye. But 20-year-old Hunter Shamatt had a _________ person watching out for him.

Hunter was _________ on his visit to his sister's wedding in Las Vegas. However, it was far too _________ when he realized that he had lost his wallet on his _________ from Omaha the next day. That wallet had his ID, $60 in cash, a debit card and a signed paycheck (付薪水的支票).

But just a few days later,after Hunter had flown back home， he _________ a package sent by a stranger. Inside it was his wallet together with everything he had _________ along with it, as well as a little more _________. The package also _________ a letter comforting Hunter with only initials. Through the return address on the package, and with the _________ of a news station, Hunter and his family were able to __________ Todd Brown, the kind man who returned Hunter's wallet.

Hunter's mother, Jeannie Shamatt, __________ this on her personal page: “I personally want to __________ Todd Brown and his wife for __________ faith that there are amazing people out there and the __________ is not as grim (阴沉的) as it's being made out to be. It is __________ with love.”

8 . Unchangeable Love

One day I visited an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting.

I was expecting a quiet_______of the splendid artwork.

A young_______viewing the paintings ahead of me_______nonstop between themselves. I watched them a moment and decided the lady was doing all the talking. I admired the man’s _______for putting up with her_______stream of words, _______by their noise, I moved on.

I met them several times as I moved _______the various rooms of art. Each time I heard her continuous flow of words, I moved away___________.

I was standing at the counter of the museum gift shop making a _______when the couple approached the__________. Before they left, the man __________into his pocket and pulled out a white object. He____________ it into a long stick and then tapped his way into the __________to get his wife’s jacket.

“He’s a __________man.” the clerk at the counter said. “Most of us would give up if we were blinded at such a young age. During his recovery, he made a promise his life wouldn’t change. So, as before, he and his wife come in ____________there is a new art show.”

“But what does he get out of the art?” I asked, “He can't see.”

“Can’t see! You’re__________. He sees a lot. More than you and I do,” the clerk said, “His wife __________ each pointing so he can see it in his head.”

I learned something about patience, __________and love that day. I saw the patience of a young wife describing paintings to a person without __________ and the courage of a husband who would not____________blindness to change his life. And I saw the love shared by two people as I watched this couple walk away, hand in hand.

Ida Nelson and her sister were relaxing and enjoying themselves in the sauna (桑拿室) when she heard a series of long low sounds from a small airplane _________ the nearby airport.

It was 11:30 at night in the Alaskan village of Igiugig, population 70,and, as she told the reporter, “Any time a plane flies over that _______, you know something is wrong,"

Nelson and, her sister leaped out of the sauna, ran to the window, and saw the problem: The airport’s runway lights were ___________.

Nelson _________ some clothes, jumped into her ATV, and floored it to the airport, where she found a local pilot trying to turn on the _________ manually.

_______ , if someone pushed the button 10 or 15 times, the lights would just light up. Not this time. Meanwhile she and the pilot learned of the plane’s _________mission: It was a medevac (医疗救护直升机), there to _________ a seriously ill local girl to the nearest hospital, 280 miles away in Anchorage.

Nelson had a plan. Driving her ATV to the end of the runway, she _________ her headlights for the plane to follow. Great idea, but it wasn’t enough. __________ light was needed, so a neighbor called nearly every home in the village-32 of them.

Within 20 vehicles arrived at the airport, many of the __________ still in pajamas (睡衣). Following directions from the medevac pilot, the cars lined up on one side of the runway.

The medevac made its final __________ and, guided by the headlights, __________ safely. The young patient was loaded onto the aircraft, and the plane immediately took off again. Her illness was never publicly revealed, but she has since been released from the hospital.

In a world filled with __________, the little community’s positive activism was a __________. Not so much for Nelson. As she told the reporter, in Igiugig, coming together “is kind of a normal deal”.