1 . My 23-year-old son Dan packed, ready for the journey to work abroad for a year. It was a milestone, _________ the transition from his school days to adulthood.

I looked _________ at his face when we were to say goodbye, trying to remember every feature, meanwhile, _________ to say something that had long buried deep in my heart. However, not a sound came over my lips.

This wasn’t the first time I had let such an opportunity _________. On his first day in preschool, I accompanied him to the bus stop. His _________ and curiosity filled all the way. But even still, he boarded the bus and disappeared, I was _________. There still were many other _________ like this.

Now I stood in front of him, trying to recall all the times I had let go of. How often has that not happened to us all? A son graduates or a daughter is married. But at those ceremonies, we don’t seize the _________, telling them what they _________ to us.

Here and now, I knew it really mattered; but I still found myself nervous and uncomfortable. Why does it have to be so __________?

I gathered all my courage. “Dan,” I __________ stammered out (结巴地说出), “If I had the choice myself I would have chosen you.”

I was not sure whether he __________ what I meant. But then he stepped __________ me and put his arms around me. For a short while the world and everything was gone, there were only Dan and me.

What I told Dan was clumsy and commonplace. Yet it was __________.

Then he __________ the airport with his girlfriend in a taxi.

2 . Amy was a 3rd-grade student. Ever since she started school, someone teased (讥笑) her about her speech or her limping (跛行) every single day. Amy was _______ it and the teasing made her feel all alone.

One morning _______ she rounded the corner across the hall, she knocked into a 5th-grade tall boy.“_______ it, fool!” The boy shouted, and _______ the way Amy limped.

Back home at the dinner table that evening, Amy was _______. Her mom knew that things were not going well at _______. That’s why she was eager to have some exciting news to _______ with her daughter.

“There’s a _______ competition run by a local newspaper,” Amy’s mom announced. “Write a letter to the editor, my dear; you might win a prize.”

Amy smiled and started _______ about what she wanted most by now. An idea came to her. Out came pencil and paper, and Amy went to ________ her letter.

My name is Amy. I am nine years old. I have a ________ at school. Can you help me? Kids laugh at me ________ the way I walk and run and talk. I have cerebral palsy (脑瘫). I just want one ________ that no one laughs at me or makes fun of me.

Love, Amy

A week later, a picture of Amy and her ________ made the front page of the local newspaper. The story spread quickly. Amy ________ did get her wish of a day without teasing at her school.

Amy was not teased any longer.

3 . After winning gold with three perfect scores in the women’s 10-meter diving on Thursday, the 14-year-old girl, Quan Hongchan, has won the nation’s heart with her innocent and honest talks at news conferences. When asked about what was her _______, she replied, “I don’t know. Some people say my splash (水花) into the water is even _______ than the splash they make when they throw a dumpling into a pot. I don’t know and I never _______ them. I just dived every day. Each day, I needed to _______ about seven hours, and some days I did for 10 hours.”

Quan was born and _______ in a poor village in Zhanjiang City. When she was still in primary school, Chen Huaming, the diving coach at Zhanjiang Sports School, _______ that Quan jumped much higher than the other kids. After giving her a _______ on a diving board, he _______ knew he had discovered a true talent.

Chen suggested to the youngster that diving could be the _______ to her family’s financial problems. Quan immediately made up her mind to become the best in the sport.

“My mom was ________ then. I really wanted to make money to help her ________ better treatment,” Quan admitted at a news conference.

After four years at the sports school, Quan was ________ for the Guangdong provincial team. In October last year, she won her first national title, presenting her with the opportunity to ________ her country.

Her participation at Tokyo 2020, ________, was only made possible by the postponement (延期) of the Games ________ the health crisis, which let the teenager pass the competition’s minimum age limit.

4 . I grew up in Michigan and have loved boats since I was young. I’d go out on my dad’s fishing boat, and every birthday I’d get a miniature boat with a viewing window. In Michigan, we’re _________ by lakes and I soon discovered that I loved diving and _________ skipped school days for the beach.

Three years ago, I _________ put forward an idea of running glass-bottom boat tours to an investor. It started in 2018. At present, My sons _________, manning the deck(甲板)and phones. We head out on the Cheboygan river and Lake Huron. We sail past lots of places of_________, with a historian on board explaining the history. We often scan the river to see what we can find.

One weekend this year, I met a _________ client. I thought I should find something to show him and managed to find a giant shell. Then I saw a green bottle. I swam to my boat, took a photo and then opened the bottle. It was full of water and had a paper inside. I _________ the paper and saw the date —November 1926. We were all amazed. The note_________: “Return this paper to George Morrow.” I was so excited to have found it.

We made sure to keep the paper safe. Before leaving the harbor, I posted a picture on my Facebook page and didn’t expect what followed.

The next morning, my phone _________ with messages. While I was driving home, I got a phone call from Michele Primeau. She told me she was George Morrow’s daughter. I didn’t believe her __________. She said her dad would float notes in bottles when he went on vacation or __________ them in walls when redecorating. She __________ he had posted this one on his 18th birthday.

In autumn, Michele came to visit. She brought some of his writing and the handwriting matched. She __________ I keep the message and the bottle.

It now sits in a display case in my shop. That Facebook post now has 87,000 __________. In a hard year, the discovery has brought purejoy.__________a Scuba diver(水肺潜水员), this feels like a lifetime achievement.

5 . During most of human history, people spent much or all of the daytime outside, farming, or hunting. Only fairly recently has this changed, and today many people in the United States spend almost 90 percent of their time _________--a lifestyle change that apparently affects us in unforeseen ways. It _________ that we need sunlight in order to stay healthy.

The bright light from the sun affects our sleep patterns, our internal biological clocks, and our energy level. _________sunlight helps our bodies process food and produce vitamin D3, a substance that is _________ calcium and phosphorous absorption. Sunlight is necessary for the formation of melanin, the pigment that darkens the skin and protects it from excessive light. The light that enters our bodies through our eyes is _________ the production of serotonin, which regulates the constriction (收缩) of blood vessels, and the production of the hormone melatonin, which affects energy levels.

The _________, wavelength, and time of sunlight all govern how it affects us. The intensity of light outdoors on a cloudy day is about 10 times greater than the most intense indoor light, and on a sunny day it is much _________ than that. Most artificial lights have wavelengths that are limited mainly to visible light. _________ sunlight includes light that has both higher and lower wavelengths than visible light does. These wavelengths are crucial to the production of melanin, melatonin, and serotonin. Plus, some research shows that exposure to morning light is needed to _________ sleep patterns.

Doctors have recently recognized Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) as a condition that is __________ sunlight exposure. The symptoms generally include depression, irritability, temporarily __________ eyesight, overeating, lethargy, short attention span, and withdrawal from social activities. The __________ the days are during the winter, the more likely people are to suffer from SAD. Researchers have found that 10 percent of the people in New Hampshire experience its symptoms, __________ only 2 percent of the people in Florida do.

The signs of SAD typically appear in the fall and continue through the beginning of spring. Many people may have these symptoms to some degree, and for some people they are so severe that they__________ the ability to lead productive lives. Get outdoors as much as possible during the winter months and when indoors, to sit near windows or bright lights. __________, the disease may not be combated.

6 . That winter night, I was standing at the cash register, ready to pay for my bananas when I found my wallet was lost. And I could only have _________ it at one place: the G9 bus, from which I had _________ minutes earlier.

Two hours after I realized my wallet was _________, back at my house in Brookland, I heard a knock on the door. My husband _________ while I sat in the dining room on the phone with a credit card company. “Does Jennifer live here? “I heard someone say. In her hand was my _________, in fact with not a penny missing. She left _________ I could even make it to the door, much less offer my gratitude for her _________ good act.

After I tweeted the story, I heard from her _________ who identified the good citizen as Erin Ball, a 30-year-old working for a trade organization. Unbelievably, here’s how they met: He left his bag behind at a bar one night. Ball found it and _________ him—and they’ve been married for five years.

Once I __________ who she was, I called her. She said her kid went to my son’s day care so she recognized my face in a __________ which was in my wallet.

Ball had gone beyond what almost anyone would have done, finding my house on a bitterly __________ night and for that I was extremely __________.

The next day, as I was pushing my son in his stroller down the block, I looked at him and __________ realized that—I hope I am raising him to help others and that someday, when he finds a wallet on the __________ he knows what to do.

7 . 17-yearold Sebbie Hall from Staffordshire, England, has a rare chromosome anomaly(染色体异常). However，he's so kind.________one of his friends didn't have an iPad, he________to give up his own.

However, his mom, Ashley Hall, wanted to________him and said, “What if you find a way to raise money to buy a device for your friend and for other people________as well?”

After thinking hard about how he could do that, Sebbie________figured out what to do. “I can________my kindness,” he said.

He hoped to raise ￡1,000 by doing ten________acts of kindness in 10 days, Once he met that________, he donated every penny to charities and bought his friend a device. He could have________there, but Sebbie didn’t. “I’ll raise more money to help more people,” he_________

Sebbie is suffering from a rare disease, so it’s________for him to speak to random strangers. But his kindness kept him going. Sebbie has________over 1,600 acts of kindness. He reached this impressive number through various________, including walking neighbors’ pets, washing cars, and so on.

The________teen has drawn great attention, raising over ￡28,000 on his Crowdfunding page With the________, he’s helped plenty of good causes. For example, he’s set up an arts club for people with disabilities.

8 . When my father and I traveled to Paris, Notre Dame was our first stop. But when we arrived at Notre Dame, we saw a long line outside it. Even so, we didn’t want to _________. We decided to go to the back garden of Notre Dame where there were few tourists.

Immersed in the beautiful natural scenery, we wanted to take some _________ photos. As we tried to find a photographer, a tall, slim Frenchman _________ toward us and showed us he was willing to take pictures for us.

Trying to get the perfect shot, he kept changing the _________ of the camera. However, after a few _________, he didn’t return our camera. His behavior confused us. But after a while, it became _________. He asked for 10 euros as payment before he would return our camera.

At that point, I was so angry that I _________ to argue with him. But my father stopped me and paid the money, with a(n)_________ expression on his face, the man walked away quickly to search for his next _________.

Later, my father __________ to me: There’s no such thing as a free lunch. So it’s __________ to ask for a payment after taking photos for us. But if someone offers to help you, never __________ the kindness just because of this particular event. Most acts of kindness are pure and without any __________ intention.

__________, we met a lot of warm-hearted locals who guided us and lent a hand when we needed them. So just remember, we can’t throw away the __________ because of its core.

9 . Last week, I wrote about how I had no idea how important the social aspect of my life was until the pandemic (疫情) hit. That made me _________ just how much I valued my face-to-face conversations and wandering with my friends. It also hurt that our annual _________ to Europe and other countries was gone. We’ve _________ so many wonderful people and made so many new friends on those trips as well.

Most of us take too much for granted and aren’t as _________ as we should be for what we have. But when one of those great things in our lives is suddenly _________, we certainly notice how much we appreciate those things when they are gone.

Something I took for granted was my _________ long walk. I have given myself a minimum _________ of 20,000 steps a day. I use a super great _________ my wife gave me, a Fitbit, which counts each step I take and gives me weekly _________. That little device has helped me stay fit, even now as the __________ age of 80 approaches.

Last week, I had a fall and hit my right knee so hard that I could __________ walk for many days. That is when it __________ me that I’ve taken the ability to walk without pain totally for granted. I think all of us should take time to __________ all the great things in our lives that we are just taking for granted. I __________ now, that all of us consider making a list of that kind so we have time to enjoy and appreciate what we have while we have it. Doing so has the potential to make us more __________ as we begin to truly recognize all the great things we have in our lives.

10 . First the sky darkened. Then came the ______—for three straight days.

Inside her ______in Zhengzhou, the capital city of central Henan province. Wang Ana ______the doors with sand bags in an effort to stop water from sweeping in. When it didn’t work, she shouldered her son and ______made it home through the chest-deep floodwater.

But those ______inside the mile- long Jingguang traffic tunnel（隧道）, which was just a few hundred feet north of Wang’s restaurant, were less ______. Nearly 200 cars inside became stuck in several feet of water. At least two passengers never made it out.

“I felt incredibly ______, ” Wu Qiang. a driver who was briefly stuck in the tunnel, told Chinese media later. He and two other passengers ______by climbing through their vehicles’ roofs and ______the pipes fixed to the ceiling of the tunnel.

Thirteen people were also killed in a rain-filled subway line. Some passengers ______desperate goodbye videos for their loved ones while they stood in chest-high water inside the subway cars waiting for rescuers.

Rescuers, near and far, were rushing to help even when the storm was still pounding the city. ______the news on TV from his home in Xi’an, a city about 300 miles away, Wu Chao ______loaded his car with rescue equipment. By the next morning, he joined the massive rescue operation led by both the military as well as volunteers to bring the people to temporary rescue centers and send much-needed food and water to the ______communities.

“The water was so deep in some places that it was impossible for machinery to ______them, so some of us jumped into the flood without a second ______, ” he said.