1 . I was travelling on an overnight bus. The bus - an ordinary, non-air-conditioned one -was more than packed. The passengers seated comfortably by the windows wore happy expressions as they _________ outside world. The people seated by the aisle (过道) cursed (咒骂) the standing ones, who _________ leaned on the seat corners.

After around two very long hours, I was so _________ that I kept shifting my body weight from one leg to the other to manage the _________. I suddenly sensed soft hand tapping my elbow, asking for attention. Turning around, I found middle-aged man with a kind smile looking _________ at me. He suddenly stood up and said I could take his seat for some time. I was pleasantly surprised and _________ accepted his offer. After about 20 minutes, I _________ him to take back his space. A man, who was sitting by the window on the other side of the bus, had _________ our exchange.

Just then, something _________ happened. Our observer voluntarily stood up and offered his seat to another standing man. Out of the blue, this __________ of seat-sharing spread through the bus like wildfire and, before long, almost all the __________ got a chance to be seated. People __________ started chatting with each other while exchanging positions, and soon began sharing jokes and singing. Needless to say, the rest of the journey was quite __________.

This extraordinary experience has stayed with me even after all these years. It revealed to me an important __________ - that we can all share what we have, __________ our burdens (负担), and help our co-passengers in this journey called life.

2 . I live on Canada’s west coast and my son lives on its east coast. He has visited his mother and me a number of times and we have visited him there with some ______. We also talk online each week. However, because of Covid-19 travel restrictions and the long ______ between us, we hadn’t seen him ______ for more than two years. His mother is ill so we had talked about a possible future visit with him coming to us but nothing had been decided yet.

Then, one day, there was a knock at the door and when I opened it, in walked my son carrying a pot of flowers. He hadn’t told us he was coming and seeing him was a wonderful ______ and I was in tears.

I think that, as parents we tend to think of our children as being young and being in need of ______ even when they have reached adulthood. ______, though, the ______ appearance of my son and his month-long visit let me see him in a whole new light. My wife needs a lot of ______ these days and our son stepped up to help. There were some repairs and he helped to make them happen. He is a homeowner and is therefore skilled at fixing and ______ the things. He helped to prepare food, to help his mother get ______ when she had to move around, to make some repairs that I had been ______ and, in general, he took from me a(n) ______ I was carrying. I found I was working under his direction because of his outstanding skill. Through it all I could work shoulder to shoulder with this ______, confident man that I loved and admired. It was a wonderful and surprising experience.

My son left recently for his home and again I was in tears but it was ______ somehow. When he arrived I was crying because I was so happy to see him and so ______ to have someone help me take care of his mother. When he left, I shed tears of pride that such a wonderful person is my son and he honors me by calling me “dad”.

3 . This Father’s Day certainly seems different to me. My _________ as a father during the pandemic (大流行) has taught me something new and special about fatherhood.

I’m a person who takes photographs as a job and have to travel frequently._________, living in isolation brought me closer to my son Diego. We _________ every corner of the house together: reading on the sofa, watching movies in the bedroom and grilling on the roof. Now _________ always yelling. “Mommy, Mommy,” my son screams, “Daddy!” That makes me _________. I’m so thankful for this unexpected gift of a deeper _________ with my son.

On our first day of freedom after two months of isolation, I discovered Diego had lost his familiarity with _________. While visiting a park in the city, I noticed that he was even _________ of ants. So my wife and I arranged a trip to the _________. My father joined us and, for a couple of days, three __________ — my father, my son and I — found ourselves walking in the woods.

The pandemic allowed me to take the time to __________ on what it means to be a father, with the honor and duty to __________ my parents’ teachings to my son. Of course, I really __________ the time I spent working in the field. But I’ve __________ a lot of time with my family, especially with my son. I used to think that without __________, I was nothing. Now I see that, without love, I am less than nothing.

4 . Ten years ago I adopted my dog Rudy from a shelter just days before they were going to euthanize(使安乐死)him. We’ve had a special _________ ever since.

As a single woman in my 50s, I’ve found his _________ really meaningful. We do everything together. Every night we have a little bed time snack and then I get in my bed and he gets in his doggy bed right next to mine. But a year ago suddenly Rudy _________. Every night when I got in bed he’d jump up on my bed and start licking(舔)my face. I’d _________ make him get off but the next night he’d _________ the same licking.

I was considering taking him to obedience(驯服)school when it suddenly _________ me that he was licking the same spot on my jaw over and over again. I _________ my jaw and it seemed okay but it was so _________ for my dog that I decided to just trust him.I went to see a(n) _________ to clear my doubt but still felt silly telling her why I came. The doctor agreed to do some __________. It turned out I had a tumor (肿瘤) in my jaw. It couldn’t be felt from the __________ but somehow Rudy knew it was there. Though I’ve go much __________ now, the doctors said if I’d __________ until the tumor was big enough to be felt, it’s likely would have __________ . I saved my dog’s life and now he’s __________ mine!

6 . What do you do with an orchid (兰花) after its petals have fallen off? _______ you’re an expert on growing these plants, you may find that they never bloom (开花) for you again.

Just like most things rare and beautiful, they don’t _______ forever. They all have their own life cycle. And it’s always a little sad when the petals _______.

I can’t _______ just throwing out orchids. I usually put the green leafed plants outside, and I’ve even tried putting them in the ground a couple of times, but in vain. After so much trial and error, I was almost convinced that they would never re-bloom.

This year, _______ my lovely wife had other ideas.

A few of the plants were moved to a table in the living room, and some others were _______ on the kitchen window. I happily gave up _______ what to do with my flowerless orchids, and let my wife take over trying to help them.

At some points in life, even the most magnificent events come to a(n) _______. Life and love are only the two most typical. Actually, _______ we ever create or get involved with has its own life ________.

Sure, you can ________ hope. It was certainly easy to believe that those orchids would never flower again — that is, until my wife decided to come to their ________.

My wife kept moving the plants around the house, looking for the right light. ________, the orchids stayed alive. Tiny new stems (茎) grew from the old ones a year later. And now, nearly all of them are flowering.

Yes, you can ________ everything you think is important — your beauty, your wealth, even your family — but as long as you are alive, you can find new life within something you thought was never going to bloom again. Never lose hope on finding new life, even if the chance is ________.

9 . Martha and Sandy have been running a tech charity ---pass IT on ---for 15 years. Pass IT on is a charity that repurposes old tech, such as computers and tablets, for people with _________ who cannot access public computers.

Sandy and Martha _________ that no matter what your health, social or financial circumstances, everyone should treated _________and participate in society. Today, that means making computers _________.

Their charity, pass IT on, _________ computers and IT equipment for disabled people in Edinburgh. Each computer is _________ to the requirements of the individual and the team help with _________ an internet connection and installing the equipment in the client’s home free of charge.

One of their clients, Callum, is 12 years old and has autism（自闭症）. After Callum _________ a free adapted computer, his father _________ to pass IT on saying that his son’s “manual skillfulness has __________ and his communication skills are much better.” Callum is just one of the many people whose lives have been __________ by Martha, Sandy and pass IT on.

To thank Martha and Sandy for their__________ , their local community have come together to __________a surprise party.

Former trustee Allan Wilson said: “I can’t think of more deserving people for this surprise party Martha and Sandy.” Another__________: “It’s lovely to be able to do something like this for them.” The pair were described as “__________ heroes”.

10 . Sea turtles are considered a national treasure in Sri Lanka. However, in recent years, the sea turtles have faced great _________.

Growing up on the beach, Chamara Indika, 35, was _________ about it. In the beginning, he _________himself to the protection of sea turtles as a volunteer. He gave his spare time to raise _________ of caring for sea turtles and caried out sea turtle protection and rescue missions.

Later, he decided that this was not a long-term _________ . “One person’s abilities are very _________ and I wanted to make real changes,” said Indika._________, Jack Xiao, the founder of Chinese YIK International Volunteers (YIKIV), reached out to Indika and offered his help to protect sea turtles. With his assistance, Indika set up the Nil Manel Foundation in Sri Lanka.

The organization _________ professional training and guidance for the volunteers, spreads knowledge of turtle and carries out conservation activities. Volunteers can then work to spread their new knowledge to more people.

At first, the volunteers’ main job was to rescue and care for _________ turtles locally. Then they found people and animals eat turtle eggs on the beach. So volunteers started __________ eggs to a protection center with artificial cultivation. It __________ higher survival rates.

Thanks to their efforts, the survival rate of newborn turtles has reached new highs, and conservation awareness has also increased. Many volunteers now __________ to use straws and plastic bags which cause many turtles to die accidentally.

“It made me feel that all my work had __________. But it was not enough to rely on myself and the current volunteers. It would be important to __________ this knowledge down to future generations,” said Indika. With persistence and hard work, Indika firmly believes they will make a(n)__________ to the sea turtles.