1 . When my son was very young, he didn’t like grocery stores. The bright lights, tons of goods and people would result in his ______of self-control. At that time I didn’t ______that it was because he had sensory processing disorder (感官处理失调症), and grocery stores could be very ______for kids like him.

One day, I had to ______a few things, and no one could help to ______my son. There were no other _______ I had to go with him. As soon as he was put into the cart he began to______. The only thing I could do was to finish shopping and ______the store as soon as possible. ______, I saw a woman in the distance waving her arms crazily at our ______. I looked behind us ______we were the only people there. I was ______. I pushed the “race car” cart and kept ______towards the woman and when we got close she slightly tapped her______into ours. “Oh, my goodness!” she said to my son. “What a crazy ______you are! You must be the fastest!” My son went from crying to laughing in a second. Then she showed me a look that I will never ______. It said, “It’s okay. You’re doing your best and I know because I’ve been there myself.”

It’s been many years since this happened, but every time I’m in that store I______that woman. I want her to know what her ______appearance did for me and my son that day. Now, whenever I ______a mom having one of those moments with her kid, I always______that look and help make their day a bit lighter.

2 . I deliver (派送) meals on wheels every Friday. A week ago, I had the pleasure of _________ one of my customers. She was in her eighties and was very _________ and I always brought her lunch on Fridays. She looked _________ when she opened the door one day. She told me her phone was_________ and that she couldn’t receive the call from her doctor. She went to her neighbors, _________ they were not at home. She had _________to ask the mailman to help her, but he didn’t come for several days. She was _________ .

Having heard _________story, I took matters into my own hands. I called the phone company_________and made sure they knew that getting this phone__________was urgent (紧急的). I took down her phone number and her __________ just to make sure I could __________ later to see if the phone had been fixed.

She was so __________ that she was in tears,__________me for my help. I called the __________twice that day. They told me they had checked the phone line and got the phone__________. After that I called her every day to make sure she was__________ and didn’t need anything.

Just being able to help her in her time of__________filled my heart with such__________and happiness. It does not take much time or __________ to help a neighbor. Sometimes, all that is needed is a smile, a hug or a helping hand.

3 . I used to watch her play basketball and laugh. The boys always tried to stop her but _________. No one could. At other times she would practice dribbling and shooting   _________ until dark. She desired to go to college and the only way was to get a(an) _________ by being one of the best players. _________, one day in her senior year, the coach told her that she would probably _________ get to play for a top ranked team for being too short----_________ less offered a scholarship.

She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat _________ as I sensed her disappointment. Her father encouraged that those coaches were _________. They just did not understand the _________ of a dream.“ If you really wished to achieve something, nothing could stop you except one thing---your own __________ . If the dream is big enough, the facts don't __________. Keep dreaming!" Then she smiled and ran towards the court to continue the __________ .

The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college __________ who was there looking at the opposing team. She was indeed __________ a scholarship. She was going to get the college education that she had __________ and worked toward for all those years. And that little girl had more playing time as a freshman and sophomore than any other woman did in the history of that university. All the teachers were __________ with her diligence and rapid progress.

Every time she wanted to __________ , she remembered her father’s words and she will continue to __________ her dream. After work she can still be found sometimes as the sun is __________, bouncing a basketball. And often I hear her tell others, "If the dream is big enough, the __________ don’t count.”

4 . I had been practising my speech for days, but I was still stressed out. I was in the first year of my PhD, and my ________ public speaking experiences had not exactly been successful. The first one had ended in a ________ because it was too long; during the second one, I had been. unable to control my ________ voice, which gave the audience the ________ that I was about to burst into tears. Now, I hoped I could get through this one without ________

When my turn to speak finally came, I focused on ________. I would have to speak fast to present all the information I had ________. Fifteen minutes later, I finally relaxed, ________ of finishing on time and speaking with a steady voice. I had no ________ whether the audience had learned anything.

I continued to view my. ________ this way until about a year later, when I made a presentation to a nonscientific audience. Their ________ made it clear that they had not gotten the message I wanted to ________ Suddenly, I realized these people probably felt the same way I did after watching a ________ presentation: The speaker was not ________ with the audience at all. And I realized that I didn't want to be that speaker. I wanted to do better.

Instead of trying to________ the audience with as much information as possible, I began to care about what people would take away from my presentations. I ________ advice, added pictures, removed text, wrote a script(讲话稿) to use as a roadmap, and ________ a lot.

My efforts rapidly ________, My audience started to appear energized and interested in what I was saying, and their questions showed that they had learned something. My ________ grew. Although I still feel some stress, I enjoy each minute of my talks- some practical ________ helped me get here.

5 . Rebecca, who I met at a business conference in Las Vegas, is one of the _________ people I have ever known. So sharp in mind was she that she made a deep impression on me. Even if you were around her for an entire day, you probably wouldn't notice her _________.

She was born with severe dyslexia—a slight disorder of the brain that causes difficulty in reading and spelling. _________ her learning disability, she had to be in _________ education classes for most of her elementary and middle school years. Despite the _________, she refused to let dyslexia _________ her life. Every day, she worked on _________ her disability with the help of her parents. Her dad would spend an hour every morning _________ her with math. In the evenings her mom would have her read books out aloud and then her mother would _________ her on the content.

__________, in her effort, Rebacca's hard work __________. By high school, she had __________ from special education classes all the way to honor classes. “When I was young, no one thought I could ever attend __________.” she said. Not only did Rebecca __________ going to college, but she graduated as the top of her class.

“I always had a vision,” says Rebecca, “of one day being a __________. But it seemed like such a crazy __________ that I never told anyone.” Today, Rebecca's vision is a __________. She graduated from law school and is __________ working her up in one of the largest law firms on the East Coast. Rebecca says: “I wouldn't change a thing. My learning disability __________ brings challenges to me now, but it also gave me the __________ to make my childhood dream come true.

6 . Once there was a farmer with a wife and two sons. He became quite________through hardworking. He wanted his children to have a(n)________life, so he and his wife did all the work and________made them do anything.

After some time, his wife died and________he didn’t want his children to________, so he did the field labor and all the housework. But as time went on, he became old and________, and started to worry about his________when he died.

So he thought about this for a long time and he________his sons and said, “Look, my inheritance (遗产) to you is a lot of gold. I’ve________all my gold in the fields, so it’s up to you to plough (耕作) them and________the gold.”

And he called his neighbors and said, “I’m going to________and my children don’t know how to________themselves. So please cook for them until they can take care of themselves.”

So the neighbors provided them with________for some time.

Certainly the brothers didn’t want to be robbed of the________so they did the digging themselves. They________one field after another and after they had dug all the fields, they found no gold.

So the brothers sat down and one________the other, “Do you think our father________us?”

But the other brother said, “No, I think our father was saying that the________is a golden profession. And if we dig up all the________we can become rich.”

So like all the other________, they sowed wheat in the fields they had dug and became very rich in the end.

7 . I live on the top floor of an apartment block overlooking the ocean. Just across the road is a bakery overflowing with fresh bread. It's_________how fond I am of this little bakery though there is nothing I can eat there. There are two things it_________me with other than the attractive smell, and that's borrowed Wi-Fi when our Internet_________and endless occasions for people-watching.

There's a_________man who spends the days talking to the pigeons just outside our_________. It's 35℃ here but I've never_________him without his thick leather jacket, all torn and_________. We always nod at each other and his_________has become a reminder to slow down on the_________street.

I'm sitting here at my desk__________a cup of Yorkshire tea. It seems like time has just returned to the past and__________me here on this island on the other side of the world.

Sometimes I love that I__________here alone and get to make all my choices on my own terms with endless adventures to be had. Other times, I'll be__________in the sea watching the__________with my mask and I'll notice the empty space beside me, which marks the transition (转变)from childhood to adulthood. My dad is not by my side to__________the rocks together and make funny faces under the water. So I__________funny faces at the fish but it's not the__________.

I always wanted to live by the__________in a hot country to swim, and travel the world. But something very important that I've__________is that even when living the dream,__________has unavoidable ups and downs.

8 . When NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, they marked the first successful rocket launch (发射) off American soil in nine years. However, it was also a first in their close ______ which has developed over their 20-year work at NASA.

“Being lucky enough to ______ with your best friend is some astronauts' wish and we're lucky enough,” explained 53-year-old Hurley.

The two astronauts had ______ the mission (使命), which saw them ______ land on the   International Space Station, over a two-year period. While they were friends before, in this time they could really see each other's weaknesses and ______.

And they're ______ that the experience made them even ______ together. So when they climbed into their space suits and the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, the two men were ______ not only in their technical skills, but in ______ that they'd have each other's backs.

Their close relationship has developed partly from shared ______ experiences. They both ______ women who played roles in space missions. Their ______ go beyond their wives' work. Both men ______ as they shared how their fathers were their first employers—and possibly their strictest ones. And the ______ of fatherhood is very important for both men: Behnken has a six-year-old son, Theodore, and Hurley has a 10-year-old son, Jack.

“My l0-year-old son thinks it's a cool spacecraft with a cool name. So I got the ______ from him and that' all that ______,” Hurley shared happily.

With the two astronauts living their ______ of heading into space as best friends, the mission will ______ end with the two of them landing safely into the cool waters of the Atlantic. After they ______ their work, they can share the ______ with their families together once they're back on Earth.

9 . It was 20 years ago. I was a young _______ with two babies under three. My parents had _______ us to their home for Thanksgiving dinner. Their tiny house was _______. There were my wife, myself, and our babies. My two brothers were also there with their families. The kitchen table was _______ and people were eating on TV trays with plates in their laps. We talked a lot. Old _______ were being shared with laughter and love. A dozen different _______were going on at once.

I sat off to the side, _______ drinking my sweet tea and taking it all in. Mom was _______ the pie for dessert with a smile on her face. My wife and sisters -in -law were talking in one corner. As I _______ it all, suddenly I had a __________in the center of my chest. It was a curious __________ of peace, satisfaction, love and __________. It made me feel full to overflowing（充满的） in my heart as well as my stomach. I __________ then what I was feeling: a moment of __________thankfulness on Thanksgiving Day.

So many years have gone by since then. Still, that moment lives on in my heart __________ it were yesterday. It wasn’t the food that made it so __________. It was the coming together as a family in love.

Thanksgiving isn’t just a holiday that we celebrate once a year. It is a way of __________. When we fill our hearts with __________ we open them to even more __________. When we fill our hearts with love we become the people we were always __________ to be.