1 . 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 ________.”

2 . When I began planning to move to Auckland to study, my mother was worried about a lack of jobs and cultural differences. Ignoring these ______, I got there in July 2010. Soon after I arrived, I realized the importance of getting a job for my living expenses. Determined to do this ______, I spent several weeks going door-to-door for a job, but found little response.

One afternoon, I walked into a building to ask whether there were my job. The people there advised me not to continue my job in that manner. As I was about to ______ a man who had been listening approached me and asked me to wait outside ______. Nearly ten minutes later, he ______. He asked me about my plans and-encouraged me to stay ______. Then he offered to take me to Royal Oak to ______ job.

I was a little surprised, but had a ______ feeling about him. Along the way, I realized that I had ______ resumes (简历). Seeing this, the man ______ at his business partner’s office to make me fifteen ______ copies. He also gave me some ______ on dressing and speaking. I banded out my resumes and went home feeling very ______. The following day, I received a ______ from a store in Royal Oak offering me a job.

It seems that the world always ______ to you when you need it. And this time, it was a complete stranger who turned out to be a real blessing.

3 . Shirley Allen loved to sing and play the piano. She studied music in college and her ________ was to become a concert pianist or blues singer. Everything ________ when she was 20 years old. She became sick with what doctors ________ was typhoid fever (伤寒) and she almost died. Doctors gave her medicine to help her get well, but the medicine ________ her to become ________ deaf. She could no longer hear the music which she had always ________

Shirley would never give up playing the piano, ________ she did decide to change ________. She went to Gallaudet University and studied English. In 1964 Shirley graduated from Gallaudet and looked for ________. She wanted to be ________ and work full time.

For three years, Shirley worked as a clerk in Washington, D.C. ________, in 1967 she was asked to work at Gallaudet University as a dorm supervisor (宿舍监管员). Shirley supervised young women who ________ in the university during the school year. She also taught English. Somehow she found time to ________ graduate school at Howard University in Washington. D.C. In 1972, Shirley received her M.A. degree.

Always ________ a new challenge, in 1973 Shirley became a professor at National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), which ________ deaf and hard-of-hearing students technical and professional training.

This amazing woman became the first black deaf female in the world to receive her Ph.D. She made history in 1992 when she received the highest degree in education from the University of Rochester in New York.

4 . A lot of people fear getting old, because ageing is often linked to loneliness. But Terry, 75, in Green Bay, knows _______ what to do to keep sadness from seeping (渗入) into his _______.

Terry, an animal lover whose heart has a very soft spot for cats, _______ drops by the animal shelter in Green Bay to hold the _______ cats close and take a short nap with them.

The pleasant _______ of the old man taking a short sleep while surrounded with cats _______ the workers. It had such a beautiful _______ that the workers always found themselves taking _______ of Terry and all the cats and posted them on the Facebook page.

_______ one photo with the cat, Lois, attracted the followers of the page, and ________ over 47 thousand likes and was shared by about 25 thousand! In fact, in less than a day, Lois was ________ by a new family.

Terry has become popular on the Internet. But more than the ________, the old man is very happy to know that his love for cats is bringing a lot of help to the animal shelter by ________ a lot of people to contribute to the shelter.

Terry is happy, the ________ behind which is not difficult to understand. His story just goes to show how a small ________ can make a big difference.

5 . My wife and I moved into our home two years ago. We had a yard with a lot of ________. Very often when we have flowers, Denise or I would plant some between the rocks, just to add some ________ to the area.

Last summer, I found a tiny little plant in the yard that I could not immediately identify. I knew I didn’t plant it and Denise said she didn’t either.

We decided to let it ________ growing until we could find out what it was.

Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the ________ plant, it appeared to be a sunflower. I decided to ________ the weeds (杂草) around it. As I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds, I noticed something ________.The sunflower had not ________ where I saw it begin. It actually had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the ________.

That’s when I ________ that if a tiny little sunflower didn’t let a big rock stand in its way of developing, we too have the ability of doing the same thing. If we ________ ourselves like that little sunflower, we can reach where we ________ to go and get what we need for growth.

We need to believe in ourselves knowing we have the ________ to achieve our goals. Like the sunflower, it knew it had the ability to get over the rocks because it had ________ in itself that it would succeed. Stand tall like the sunflower and be ________ of who and what we are, and then the environment will begin to ________ us. We will find a way to go under or around any “rocks” in order to reach our goals.

6 . Children model themselves largely on their parents. They do so mainly through identification. Children identify with (“把……和……联系起来”) a parent when they believe they have the qualities and feelings that are_______of that parent. The things parents do and say — and the_______they do and say to them—therefore strongly influence a child's_______.However, parents must consistently behave like the type of_________ they want their child to become.

A parent's actions _______ affect the self-image that a child forms through identification. Children who see mainly positive qualities in their _______will likely learn to see themselves in a positive way. Children who observe chiefly_______qualities in their parents will have difficulty seeing positive qualities in themselves. Children may_________their self-image; however, as they become increasingly _______by peers’ group standards before they reach 13.

Isolated events, even dramatic ones, do not necessarily have a permanent __________on a child's behavior. Children interpret such events according to their established attitudes and previous training. Children who know they are loved can, ________, accept the divorce of their parent's or a parents early ________.But if children feel unloved; they may interpret such events as a sign of rejection or punishment.

In the same way, all children are not influenced ________by toys and games, reading matter, and television programs. ________in the case of a dramatic change in family relations, the ________of an activity or experience depends on how the child interprets it.

8 . Debra Ferrell got the standard well wishes on Facebook on her 53rd birthday, but she got some __________ messages too. One was about a family in Minnesota who had just lost their four-year-old son to cancer. His older brother, autistic (自闭症) and nonverbal, was especially __________. Could Ferrell help?

That message and the 30 or so others like it were __________ what Ferrell was looking for. She wanted to __________ 53 random acts of kindness by the end of her birth month, and she needed information on people who could   _________ one. When she got the __________ about the Minnesota family, she _________ a wind chime (风铃) with the message “Listen to the wind and know that I am near”. It now hangs in the four-year-old’s bedroom, where his brother can go to listen to it whenever he wants.

This is not the first time that Ferrell has decided to give __________ for her birthday. For her 47th, in 2014, she founded Love with Skin On, an organization devoted to doing good __________ near her home in Roanoke. Virginia, and beyond. Its motto is simple: Be Love, Do Stuff.

Over the years, Ferrell has _________ and touched well over 100 __________, some found via Facebook callouts, others with help from her grandkids. In another act of __________, she shares her favorite inexpensive and creative gift ideas on Pinterest for others to use.

Ferrell __________ for everything herself: gift cards, pay-it-forward purchases at drive-throughs, and care packages, as well as the gas it takes to play fairy godmother. Her family often gives her some __________ birthday cash with a warning not to spend it on anyone else, which she __________ ignores. “I got a couple of Amazon gift cards for my birthday this year.” It’s Ferrell’s party, and she’ll give if she wants to.

9 . Jade lives in Australia, a country famous for kangaroos, but not for snow. Yet at12, she_________ to ski at the North Pole.

Despite the lack of _________ training space, Jade still built her _________ at the gym. She ran with giant tyres attached to her waist to _________ what it was like to pull a sled (雪橇) across ice. By the age of 14, Jade was _________.

The far north is not a blank carpet of soft snow, but Jade _________ the tough conditions. Even though every part of her body was _________ , she never thought of giving up. In April 2016, Jade made _________ , becoming the youngest person to ski to the North Pole.

When talking about her _________ , she stated that every human body is __________ whether you are a man or a woman. But when the talk was posted online, some Internet bullies (霸凌者) wrote __________ comments like “Make me a sandwich” to make her feel __________.

To prove women’s place is far beyond the __________, Jade and her team pushed onto the South Pole and made it. Holding a plate with a sandwich, Jade __________ had her photo taken and posted online. She dared the bullies, “I made you a sandwich. Now __________ 37 days and 600 km to the South Pole, and you can eat it.”

10 . Entering the drama room I am immediately surrounded by the familiar sights, smells and sounds. Streaks (条纹；线条) of light cast by the blinds of the tall _________ send shafts (杆状物) of light through the dusty air. I take a deep breath and the concrete and paint _________ tickle my nose. I _________ everything about this room.

Some of the best times of my life have been spent here. It’s ironic (讽刺的), but the _________ is the only place where I feel that I don’t have to _________ to be someone I’m not. Like many teenagers, I almost _________ think that people are judging me, but when I act, that feeling disappears. People only look at your acting ability, not your clothing, money, choice of friends, or any of the other ways people are usually ___________.

When I’m on stage, everything else vanishes (消失). All the worries and   _________ of the outside world are put on hold. Nervousness is still present, but it’s the excited and tingly kind, not the queasy (不稳定的) ___________ of being different and alone.

I __________ love to work backstage and on lighting. I __________ you could find another girl who would work on a ladder __________ her elbows in cables and dust and love every second of it. It makes me unique and gives me a sense of __________ to know that I succeed in an area where few others — and virtually (事实上) no girls — do.

High school is a difficult atmosphere, to put it __________. Like others, I’m often insecure (不安的), not __________ who I am or where I’m going in life. Wherever that may be, I will always have the confidence I get from theater.