1 . Dad was not only my best friend, but my compass. While he was alive, he _______ me with his actions and advice. He taught me one important _______: “Believe in yourself.” If there was one phrase my dad _______ liked to hear, it was “I can’t!” He never got to finish high school and _______ two jobs to support his large family, _______ he never complained. Through education and years of hard work, my dad became an excellent journalist.

When I was in high school, I had a _______ time with maths. He tried to help me, but I _______ struggled. So my maths teacher suggested I meet with him at 7:00 each morning before school for _______ help. I told Dad, “That’s _______! I’m tired! I can’t do that!” He replied, “You’re doing it. I’ll send you to school.” Every morning at 6:45, we’d leave the ________. Despite working 12 hours every day, Dad never once ________ driving me to school.

After months of ________ I was facing the final exam. I was so ________. On the day of the final, my dad hugged me and said, “Luke, ________ yourself. You can do it.” His words made me realize I needed to trust in my ________ and in the hours of work I’d ________. When I got my ________ proudly, the first person I called was my father. He cried, “Yes! You deserve it!” Even now, whenever I ________ that a task is too much for me, I think back to that exam. No matter how ________ something is, if you’re willing to work, you can succeed. I’m forever ________ to Dad for that lesson.

2 . Owura Kwadwo Hottish teaches computer science in a school. It is a normal school except for the fact that it didn’t have______

Owura became famous after he posted photos of him on the Internet. In the picture. people could see he was teaching his students by______ an entire computer on the blackboard.The photos showed the______level of education for children in Ghana. People were______ that Owura made sure each button was drawn correctly. He would come to school half an hour ahead of______every day. He drew the computer on the blackboard, but at the end of his class, it was______off to start the next class, so he had to______it the next day! Owura’s efforts______when Microsoft took______of his act. They first took him to an international educators’ meeting in Singapore. He made a______about his teaching methods at the meeting and ______a standing ovation(欢呼) after the speech.

______,Owura got the thing he always wanted for his students—some companies______computers to the school. Not a single child in the school had seen a real computer in their lives. Thanks to their teacher’s______the world took care and treat them with ______

3 . As a young boy my family was very poor. I would often help do something for the neighbors to ________ a little pocket money.

One day I ________ on the door of an elderly woman and asked ________ she needed me to clean the yard. She asked why I was not in ________ and I showed her my worn ________, which no longer kept me warm. She ________ me to work in the yard. When I finished, she looked at me and said, “I suppose you want to be ________ now.” She then ________ a jar filled with dollar bills and said, “I’m glad you’ve done a ________ job today but that is not something you should be doing again. I want you to ________ new clothes and get back to school. I also want you to come back to ________ me with your report card and I will ________ you when I see you have worked hard and have some good ________. Now reach our your little hands and take out as much ________ as you can.”

I put my hands in the jar and ________ so much money that it was ________ for me to buy what I badly needed. Later, I returned several times to see the woman and she did just as she ________. She looked at my report card and gave me a handful of dollars and some delicious food every time I ________ her that I had an “A”.

I was twelve years old when I moved from that neighbourhood. I will never forget the huge ________ this wonderful lady made over my life with her ________. This is something I hope to do myself in this lifetime over and over again.

4 . Michael felt extremely hot. Why was it so hard to breathe? They had rehearsed(排练) the play, and Michael knew his part. But he was still nervous. ________ filled his head:

What if I say the wrong thing? What if I trip(绊倒) and fall?

Michael tried to think of ________ things. Tomorrow he’d enjoy a delicious dinner with his family. But first he had to get through today, with a roomful of strangers looking at him. His family was in the audience. He tried to imagine that the family were all ________ around the dining table right now. That always made him feel ________ .

Michael ________ the play. It was the story of how the early Pilgrims had survived in the new land with the help of the people who lived there.

“A piece of cake,” Jake had said. “Jake, you’re right,” Michael thought. “Nothing to be worried about.”

“You have a(n) ________ role to play,” Mr. Murray, the play’s director, had told him. Michael felt as if the whole ________ depended on him.

“Everyone in place,” said Mr. Murray.

Michael found that the theater was ________. He was very nervous.

Michael felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Serene giving him a(n) ________ smile.

“You can do it”, she said.

The play began.

“This is not a plant I’ve ever seen before,” said Jake.

It was Michael’s turn to ________ something. But his mouth went dry. The audience was ________. But he was awkward and frozen in place. And then he heard Serene say, “How will we survive if we don’t grow food?” Wait. That wasn’t Serene’s ________. She must have made that up to ________ him to remember what he was going to say.

“We must ask for help with the plants,” said Michael.

He took a deep ________, and started to focus. Serene and Jake wanted to help him. He wasn’t in this before. But he survived the rest of the play. Michael felt ________ for his friends’ help.

5 . The books in David’s schoolbag felt like bricks as he ran down the street. What he wanted to do was to play basketball with Eric, ________ his mother told him he would have to return his sister’s books to the library first.

He had never set foot in a library and he wasn’t about to do so today. He would just ______ the books in the outside return box. But there was a ________: it was locked.

He went into the building, only a few minutes ______ closing time. He put the books into the return box. And after a brief ________ in the toilet, he would be on his way to the playground to ________ Eric.

David stepped out of the toilet and stopped in ______— the library lights were off. The place was empty. The doors had been shut. They ________ be opened from the inside; he was trapped — in a library!

He tried to__________a telephone call, but was unable to ________. What’s more, the pay phones were on the outside of the building. As the sun began to set, he searched for a light and found it.

________ he could see. David wrote on a piece of paper: “_________! I’m TRAPPED inside!” and stuck it to the glass door. Surely, someone passing by would see it.

He was surprised to discover that this place was not so unpleasant, __________. Rows and rows of shelves held books, videos and music. He saw a book about Michael Jordan and took it off the shelf. He settled into a chair and started to __________.

He knew he had to wait, but now, that didn’t seem to be such a __________ thing.

6 . After the earthquake hit northeast Japan on March 11, many moving stories that I saw with my own eyes happened around me.

I had to walk home since all the ________ had stopped after the earthquake. On my way home I ________     an old lady at a bakery shop who was giving out free bread, which made my heart ________ . A man was holding a sign that said, “Please use our ________” He was ________ his house for people to go to the washing room.

My friend wanted to ________ others. He stood in the cold with a sign “If you’re okay with a motorcycle, I will ________ you to your house. ” And then I saw him take one gentleman home, all the way to a far-away place!

Then next day I drove to ________ my car with gas. There is a lack of ________ now and many gas stations are either closed or have very ________ lines. I got ________, since I was behind 15 cars. Finally, when it was my ________, the man smiled and said, “ ________ this situation, we are only giving $ 30 worth gas per person. Is that alright?” “ ________. I’m just glad that we are all able to ________ .” I said. His smile gave me so much comfort.

I saw a man at the evacuation center ________ when people brought food to him. It was the first time in three days that food was brought to their center. However, after he wiped the tears, his next ________ surprised me. “I am very ________ that we are provided with food. But people in the city next to us haven’t ________ any food at all. Please go to that center as well. ” And when hearing that, I realized there is a bright future on the other side of this ________.

7 . Aiding local community

Benjamin Franklin said that, “If you want something done, ask a busy person.” That's how Manny Abreu ________.

Throughout his four years at Kellenberg Memorial High School in the US, Abreu made community service an important part of his ________.

“I don't know where he finds the ________ to do everything,” said Erin Ronan, Abreu's math teacher. “He's truly an outstanding student.”

As an honors student, Abreu, 18, ________ different volunteer activities after school, during weekends and summer holidays. These ________ helping staff at the public library, do landscape work at Kellenberg and ________ customers at a local restaurant.

Because he was ________ with a limited number of hours in a day, Abreu ________ his library job last summer to start working as an emergency ________ technician-a role that ________ his passion for making a(n)________ in other people's lives.

“My appreciation for service has guided me into ________,” said Abreu, who is setting his mind on becoming a doctor. “It's such a(n)________ feeling to help someone.”

During his years at high school, Abreu ________ between 40 and 50 hours of his time each year to volunteer work-more than double the school's annual ________ of 20 hours. For all his hard work, Abreu was welcomed into a leadership club that ________ fellow students' volunteer activities.

Abreu thanked his parents for ________ him to do the right thing, saying they are “the most ________ people I know”. He remembered that when he was about 6 years old, his mother invited a ________ neighborhood boy to have dinner.

Upon observing the boy's happiness, Abreu began to have a sense of how he wanted to live his own life—“I won't only focus on my own ________. I will help as many people as I can,” he said.

8 . I've always been crazy about running. Ever since I was a boy, running has made me feel free and _______. But when I was a young adult, I became _______ accidentally. I had to give up running for years. Then I _______ about running with human guides, and I decided to give it a _______. I was even able to enter the New York City and Boston Marathons five years in a row. In 2019, I _______ the first half-marathon with the help of guide dogs.

But I know it's not _______ for everyone to have a clever, caring guide dog like my Blaze. I founded a(n)_______ called Guiding Eyes for the Blind, to help the blind _______ running guide dogs that can help them live more active and _______ lives.

In the fall of 2019, I asked a similar question to a group of ________ and technologists at Google. I wasn't expecting much more than an interesting ________, but by the end of the day they had built an application that ________ a phone to recognize a line taped to the ground, and gave audio cues（语音信号）to me while I ________ with Blaze. Within a few months, we tested it on an indoor ________   on my own and found I was able to run eight laps. It was the first unguided mile I had run in ________ .

After months of ________, the team was finally ________ to test the tech outside for the first time. I'd been ________ 30 years to run outdoors on my own. When I arrived at the finish line, I was ________ overcome with emotion（情绪）. For the first time, I didn't ________ a blind man. I felt I could take charge of my own life.

9 . Years ago I began to learn to drive in a driving training center. It was many miles away from where I _________, you know. I had to get up early at home and _________ a bus on the roadside to get to the center. The bus ticket was not expensive but you had to have small _________ for there was no conductor or any automatic paying system to be _________ on it.

One day, I was in a hurry before I _________ to the bus stop. When I stepped on the bus, I began to feel my _________ to find some change, which made me completely _________. I _________ searching but it seemed that there was none, and I began to feel _________. At the same time, the bus door was already __________ and it was moving.

I __________ to the driver and said I would __________ at the next stop though I should get off at other __________ to reach the training center. Just at this time, a lady beside me told the driver that she would pay for me.__________, I didn’t know the lady.

But before I started to express my thanks, the driver said, “In that case, just __________ it.” And then he said, “If you meet people who forget to bring the fees with them, just pay for it.”

Now, I hold the belief that a small positive action can be printed in my heart as long as I live.