1 . A man was driving when he found a lady needed help. So he stopped. When he was coming up to her, she was worried______nobody had stopped for hours. Besides, he didn’t look safe as his appearance was so ugly and ______. He could see how scared she was, so he tried to ______ her, “I am here to help you. Don’t worry. My name is Bryan Anderson.”

The car______, so he had to crawl(爬)under the car to repair it. When the job was done, she asked how much she should ______him for his help. Bryan smiled, “If you______want to pay me back, the next time you see someone who needs help, ______the person help. And think of me.”

Several days later in a small ______, the lady saw a waitress nearly eight months pregnant(怀孕的). The waitress gave her a friendly smile although she was______after spending the whole day on her feet. Then the lady______Bryan. The lady paid for her meal with a﹩100 bill. When the waitress got______and came back, the lady had gone. She______a note on the napkin(餐巾纸), “You don’t owe me______. Somebody once helped me, ______like now I’m helping you. If you really want to pay me back, don’t let this chain of______end.” The waitress found four more﹩100 bills under the napkin.

That night the waitress came home earlier, ______ how the lady could know how much she and her husband needed money when the ______would soon arrive. She knew her husband worried about that, so she was very ______to tell him the news. Then she kissed him and______, “Now everything will be all right. I love you, Bryan Anderson.”

The help you give to others shall always get back to you, so please don’t______to offer a helping hand whenever someone needs help.

2 . I was visiting Costa Rica when I found myself in a bad situation: all my bank cards weren’t _______ abroad, and I only had $5 and a return ticket in two weeks. Back then, there were no cellphones or Internet. It was _______ who came to my rescue to get me home.

I thought the city dangerous and decided to find kind people in the _______. With my remaining coins, I _______ to the bus station and found a countryside that I could _______. Five hours later, I arrived at Santa Rosa. I went knocking door to door, _______ my situation with my very poor Spanish, but everyone pointed me to another _______.

Finally, I _______ a Chinese restaurant. The owner was extremely _______. She heard my story and felt ________ for me. She said her son had a similar ________. At that time, some other people were very kind to him, and she remembered how ________ that made her feel. She invited me in, gave me food, and called the Red Cross to ________ me. I spent my remaining days in Costa Rica with the head of Red Cross.

I realized that being able to receive kindness is a ________ for other people as well. And kindness ________ more kindness in small ripples(波纹).

3 . The most important lesson I learned in high school came at graduation several minutes_________I left school.

I was rather shy back then, content to hang around with my few friends and to concentrate on my _________. I was doing so well that by the end of the senior year I had perfect_________and enough credits to go to college.

But my good record soon became a fear to my well-being. The headmaster asked me to give a leave-taking speech at graduation. I looked at him, my heart_________fast. This was the reward for my hard work?

I was_________about the decision, though finally agreeing to take up the task. I would _________ the honor with five other students. Still, I was uncertain whether the task was beyond me.

Graduation day soon arrived and, as_________, I was nervous. I'd been practicing my speech for days, and I had it_________in my mind clearly. But I had_________been so frightened in my life. The first half hour of the __________finally passed, and then my__________ came. My name was announced. I__________to reach the stage without falling down. But within minutes, I finished my speech, __________back to my seat.

Now I still have the__________of that speech. My voice trembled（颤抖）a little, but__________it was clear and strong. I'm proud of that tape. I achieved__________I'd never dreamed—I spoke in front of hundreds of people. The successful completion of that speech gave me the __________ to participate in class at college, to give oral reports, and to eventually break free from my__________.

I never would have chosen to give a speech at graduation. But I'm__________I did. I know it may well__________to be one of my shining moments.

4 . I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be _________ Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d _________?” Just when I started to _________ that there would not be a Christmas gift that year, three women _________ at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of _________ that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t _________. Somebody had thought _________ of me to bring me a gift.  

Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my _________ Christmas there special and memorable, I _________ remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of __________ for as many children as I could possibly reach.  

So I __________ a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans(孤儿)at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colourful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, __________ with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were __________. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I __________ them that they couldn’t open their presents __________ every child had come forward. Finally the __________ they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles __________ up the room. The __________ in the room was obvious, and __________ wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling — the feeling I knew __________ that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.

5 . I moved to a new city and took a job in marketing. I didn’t really know whether it _________ me. I enjoyed doing things that I felt had _________ — I could see their benefit and feel their impact. As the months passed, I felt it just wasn’t for me. I needed to find a way out.

A job advertisement for a(n) _________ for a new youth magazine came at exactly the right time. I applied and was _________. My role was to help teams of young people edit their _________ and help them with their work. I had thought the _________ would be a mixture of games and boring reviews, so I was _________ when one of the first pieces written was about social welfare(福利). _________, I found something I was interested in.

I felt a _________ in me straight away. I had a purpose again. Days were spent in discussing hot topics and __________ the words of readers’ strong voices. __________ this world, I could see myself making a __________ to the team’s writing ability. As our website’s hits(点击)__________ and the work changed to reflect what our __________ wanted, I developed a greater __________ of what young people might want to read.

The biggest change the job brought, __________, was to my real happiness. It is fantastic that you find yourself in a job you love and willing to __________ each day. I was content in this __________ environment, inspired by the talented young people I was helping to __________ their careers. Now, I realize that there are jobs that will keep you __________, passionate and inspired.

7 . Three years ago, Liu Mama was an unknown middle-aged farmer from the Dongbei region, in northeastern China. Then she started _______ her life on the social-media platform Kuaishou. Liu Mama’s son-in-law _______ the live stream(视频直播) to her, and worked as the_______ of her trusty cameraman. They _______ to try it out for laughs. The first videos, each less than a minute _______, showed Liu, short and fat, dressed in a red cotton jacket — _______ on the kitchen chair. She was eating pork bones and fish heads while creating _______ rhymes(押韵诗歌) about the happiness of countryside life. Liu Mama’s funny live streams showed quite a _______ from other popular Chinese video-sharing platforms where the videos _______ famous people, fashion and urban life.

People were __________ attracted by the loud-mouthed and red-cheeked farmer. Within months, the number of __________ to Liu Mama’s channel(频道), “Liu Mama’s Everyday Life,” __________ from dozens to several thousand. Liu Mama began showing herself __________ corn, skinning potatoes, and driving a tractor(拖拉机) around __________. A few years later, Liu Mama __________ fourteen million followers on the Kuaishou platform.

Liu Mama’s __________ is one of many stories of live streamers in China. In the past five years, live stream in China has developed into a main __________ activity — more than half of the nation’s Internet users have given it a __________. While live stream is still __________ as an unimportant culture in other parts of the world, Chinese industries __________ from education to news to daily shopping have hugged it as a business tool.

8 . A lady wanted a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had liked a beautiful _________, and knowing her husband could _________ it, she told him that was all she wanted. On the morning of the _________, her husband told her how _________ he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He _________a beautiful gift package (纸盒). She opened it and _________ a Bible. _________, she raised her voice and said to her husband, "With all your money, you give me a Bible?" She was so _________ that she left him.

Many years passed and the lady was very_________ in business. She owned two large companies. She __________ her husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to __________ him. But before she could, she __________ a letter telling her that he had died, and gave all of his possessions (财产) to her. She needed to come back and __________ things.

When she arrived at his house, sadness __________ her heart. She saw the still new __________, just as she had left it years before. With __________, she opened it and began to turn the pages. A ring __________ from the Bible to the floor and a __________ could be seen. She picked it up and found it was the ring she wanted in those days. And on the card was the date of her birth, and the words "LOVE U ALWAYS".

__________ your gift is not packaged the way you want it, it's because it is better packaged the way it is! Always appreciate little things; they usually lead you to bigger things! The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched for they must be felt with the __________ .

9 . A Toronto man is offering a free round-the-world air to the right woman. But _________ apply. You must be named Elizabeth Gallahgher and have a Canadian _________.

Jordan Axani, 28, said he and his then girlfriend, Elizabeth Gallagher, booked heavily discounted round-the-world air tickets in May, but their _________ ended and he did not want her ticket to _________. The ticket had a strict no-transfer (不可转让) _________, but since passport information was not required when _________, any Canadian Elizabeth Gallagher can _________ it.

“I just want to see the ticket go to good use and for someone to _________ a lot of joy,” said Axani. He posted his _________ on a social networking website, and received thousands of e-mails, including thirty from actual Elizabeth Gallaghers with the __________ passports, “More __________, there are hundreds of Canadians who are interested in __________ their name to Elizabeth Gallagher, Axani said. “It was absolutely out of __________, thousands of e-mails, people around the world __________ their stories of travel.”

Axani wrote in his post that he is not __________ anything in return and that the woman who uses the __________ ticket can choose to either travel with him or __________ the ticket and travel on her own.

The __________ is scheduled to start on December 21 in New York City and continue on to Milan, Prague, Paris, Bangkok and New Delhi before __________ in Toronto on January 8. He said the __________ woman will be announced on the website and the trip will be shared online.