1 . When Warrick Dunn was a sophomore(大二学生), he led his team to the state championship. When he was a senior, his mother _______, leaving Warrick to care for his five brothers and sisters.

It’s a lot of _______ to put on a young man’s shoulders, but Warrick _______ it well, still graduating from high school and earning a scholarship to Florida State. _______, Warrick had to grow up fast and take on adult _______ while still charting his own course. He used his mother’s life insurance to fulfill one of his mother’s _______: to buy a house for the family. And as a freshman, he led Florida State to a national championship.

His _______ paid off with a NFL contract, and in his first year for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Warrick not only _______ to take care of his siblings(兄弟姐妹), but he also began Warrick Dunn Charities to help single mothers achieve first-time homeownership. He spent 12 years in the NFL, even though many thought he was too _______. Perhaps being underrated (低估) drove him, or maybe it was the need to provide for his family that made his mother ________. Whatever his motivations, Warrick achieved rare ________ as an athlete and as a human being.

________ conditions come in many forms. Warrick’s ________ and example not only help single mothers but also ________ them to continue their upward journey. Over 90% of them are still in their homes, working hard, getting an education, and ________ for the start that Warrick Dunn gave each of them.

2 . Zhang Shangbao, 62, has worked as a “village doctor” in Hehe Town of Shilou County, North China’s Shanxi Province, since the age of 16. He has _________ more than 1,000 farmers in five villages deep in the mountains, and _________ to work even after losing his right hand in an accident in 1995. The five villages are located in a valley along the Hehe River, where it was difficult to _________ healthcare in the past. Many elderly farmers didn’t even _________ the urban part of Shilou County.

One of Zhang’s biggest _________ is that despite the government building roads _________ the villages with the outside world, he cannot ride a motorcycle to reach the villages because he _________ a hand in the accident. So he has no _________ but to walk to the homes of his patients in order not to _________ the illness.

After graduating from Lyuliang Health School in 1978, Zhang __________ a post in the city, but he chose to __________ to the village to serve the farmers. Whether in the summer heat or winter cold, Zhang has always been on __________.

Zhang Fengjun, Party secretary of Tietou Village, said: “For so many years, whenever the farmers from the five villages have fallen ill, their first thought has been Doctor Zhang, because he is quite __________ every time asking about illness in detail.” He __________ the hearts of the villagers.

Zhang has continued to work and provided treatments whenever a need is __________.

3 . On my first day in America, I was excited, but nervous as well. It was my dear neighbor Susan who helped me   _________ my new life far away from home.

There was a knock at the door. When I _________ it. Susan came in with a homemade apple ple. She hugged me and said, “Wow, you   _________ be the precious (珍贵的) Chinese dull (娃娃)!”

With a big smile, she   _________, “Alice, I am sure you have never tried a home-made apple pie before! You are going to _________ it so much!”

To be honest, I was greatly surprised by this welcome from a _________. And the apple pie made me _________.

Susan was very helpful to me.

When I was thinking about the clothes to wear on Halloween, she suggested I _________like a traditional Chinese girl. “I happen to have a traditional Chinese dress and guess _________, I’m a great make-up artist!” She said. Susan did not hide (隐藏) her excitement, when she pushed me to the __________ to examine our work after an hour of hard work. The clothes fit me perfectly! I am sure that I stood out from the crowd that Halloween, and I am __________ for her help.

My first Thanksgiving was another highlight (亮点). __________ the festival morning, I was surprised to find a gift box in my front yard. There was a note on it: “Hello Alice, I’m the Thanksgiving bunny (兔子)! Enjoy your __________!” I looked around and caught Susan looking at me from her porch (走廊). Seeing that she had been __________, she hurriedly picked up a newspaper and pretended (假装) to __________ it. I couldn’t help __________. When I walked up to her, she said, “ __________ was not me. It was the Thanksgiving bunny!” Susan is such a __________ person; She is the American above all others I need to thank.

I saw that the spirit of the Chinese saying, that “Neighbors carry more__________ than distant relatives”, is alive and well in America. Susan filled my heart with   __________ and joy, just as angels do.

4 . Being in the right place at the right time can mean the difference between life and death. A ____ named Zhu Keming despite the bad weather pulled six runners to ____ in a 100-kilometer cross-country race in China’s Gansu Province.

The day of the race started with mild weather. Zhu was ____ his flock (羊群) as usual. Then in the space of a few moments, everything ____. As the temperature dropped quickly and freezing rain and snow began to pound the land, Zhu took ____ in a small cave he’d been using for years to ____ emergency supplies.

It was from this point that Zhu ____ that one of the runners appeared disoriented (迷失方向的) and in pain. Zhu brought the man back to the cave to ____ him up. After lighting a fire, Zhu returned to the mountainside, ____ five additional runners to the cave. There’s little ____ that he finally saved their lives. ____ for the sudden change in the weather, most racers were wearing lightweight clothing that was no ____ for the coldness. The threat of hypothermia (体温过低) was all too real.

“I want to say how ____ I am to the man who saved me,” runner Zhang Xiaotao posted on Sina Weibo. “Without him, I would have been ____ there.” While Zhu is being praised as a hero in his homeland, the ____ shepherd doesn’t see the reason for all the fuss. He says he’s just an ordinary person who did a very ordinary thing.

5 . It takes a village to raise a child. People in the High Point community have stepped up in a big way after a young boy experienced _________. Ronald White is 11 years old. He knows the emptiness that comes with tragic _________ at that young age.

“Ronald’s _________ passed away two years ago. She went to help someone on the side of the road and a truck _________ her,” said Shauna Greene of Anointed Cutz Barber Shop. Since then, Ronald _________ with his grandparents.

Being a(n) _________ young man, he tried to get a _________. “He wanted to help his grandmother pay bills and he also wanted to _________ a bike,” Greene said. So he asked his barber if he could _________. “I sweep. I take the trash out,” Ronald said. He’s been doing so __________ in his work that the owner, Shauna Greene, praised him and __________ Ronald’s story on Facebook. The story has got more than 1000 likes. “They sent money, and here we are today with the bike,” Greene said.

“I’m so __________ that I don’t know what to do,” he said with a surprise when seeing the bike. People with big hearts are making a big __________. “His mom has passed away, and she was no longer here, but the village is __________ here, and we’re going to keep him __________ and do whatever it takes,” Greene said.

6 . A family tradition is recreated year after year. It adds to the family _________, making every family more distinctive. The tradition in my family is _________ in my mother’s kitchen to make various desserts for the New Year. It’s a good time with much joy.

Family traditions _________ family and personal well-being. Families sharing in their traditions provide security for their members, especially children. Children love _________ and consistency(一致性); a family tradition provides this. Moreover, it gives them something to _________. With traditions that are celebrated year after year, family _________ are created and strengthened.

Of course it’s _________ to make some changes to _________ the family’s needs. In recent years my family has added time to make _________ with our relatives who work overseas, for their jobs __________ their reunion with us. This gives us a chance to stay __________ as a family, even if we can’t be together for the holiday __________.

Family traditions don’t have to be formal, or to be fancy. What __________ is that you have something for all family members to expect each year. Traditions help create warm, positive __________ and __________ family members back to one another year after year.

7 . Even though I’ve never lived in Chicago, I have a soft spot for the Cubs. My father grew up in the Windy City and loved the _________ his whole life. And I loved my dad. So I loved the Cubs too. Two decades after my father’s death, I am still a (an) _________. Every time I watch the Cubs on television, I think of him and have a (an) _________ with him in my head about the _________.

Perhaps baseball _________ you as too trivial (不重要的) a thing for father and son to connect over. But that is exactly what makes it ideal for _________ relationships. And this brings me back to the Cubs, the team that _________ me together with my dad, and that still brings me happy _________ of the love between us long after his death. We had nothing to _________ as we watched them play, except for the satisfaction of __________ the games together as father and son. The Cubs were the “place” where we __________ to enjoy our bond (联结).

I __________ the Cubs could bring my dad back. In February, I gave a __________ about workplace happiness to the Cubs front-office staff at Wrigley Field. Afterward, I __________ what my dad would have said. “Did they say anything about their pitching?” he would have asked instead. “A lot of the young arms this year could be great!”

And just like that, we were __________ all over again.

8 . It was a freezing winter day when a space heater caused a fire in a high-rise apartment building. The fire was small, but it _________ huge heavy smoke. Because a broken fire door was left _________, it took just minutes for the entire building to become a death _________ for the people inside.     

Before firefighters’ arrival, people _________ to evacuate the smoking building. Single mother-of-two Kristin was one of the hundreds of people _________ to get out of the building. As she tried to carry her two young children down the crowded _________ from her apartment, a stranger appeared out of nowhere and asked if she needed _________. The man is Francis, who lived on the building’s top floor. He was running for his _________ and when he saw Kristin and her daughters he _________ that he couldn’t just leave them there to struggle for themselves. __________, he picked 3-year-old Kween up and took off down the stairs quickly. __________ helped Kristin and her other child __________ it out not long after Francis and Kween got out. Kristin couldn’t __________ what could have happened if Francis hadn’t stopped to help.

Many people might have been so __________ by the fire that they might just care about themselves __________ danger, but this man kept his eyes open and didn’t hesitate (犹豫) to lend a hand.

9 . One day Bella, a future psychiatrist (精神病医生), visited a clinic with her teacher. While the teacher was _______ his business, Bella was invited to wait for him in the art room. Walking in, Bella looked with _______ at everything around her. Suddenly a young man _______, talking loudly to himself. He threw a quick look at Bella and _______ the piano in the corner. Stopping at the window, he _______ to speak. Bella assumed he was a patient because she found clear signs of _______ in his voice and the waving of his arms. After a while the young man _______ the piano and started pressing the keys randomly. Bella thought the young man might break it.

Bella found herself facing a _______ patient when one orderly (护工) appeared. The orderly asked if there was much work to do with the piano. The young man replied that he had already _______ it up. Then Bella noticed a headset sticking out of the man’s ear and she was terribly ________. He was a piano tuner. At this point, the young man ________ asked the orderly whether it was normal to leave a patient ________ at the clinic. “I’m a visitor, not a patient!” Bella protested. Bella was terribly ________. Not only was she a future doctor, unable to tell the ________ between a healthy person and a patient, but she herself was considered crazy!

Hasty (草率的) conclusions too often turn out to be ________ and put one in a foolish position. Avoid them.

10 . A single tremble shook beneath my feet. The trees above me began to sway(摇摆) hard. Then came the deadly_________that could only mean one thing, destruction. Every house and object was now_________. My vision blurred (模糊) even more when I saw the remains of my house. The house that used to_________all the happiness in the world was now_________a pile of ruined pieces. I_________all the times I played with my little brother and sister. Images of them were_________in my mind, so I let the darkness sweep over me completely so I could see them vividly one last time. I regained a bit of my_________after lying on the ground for some time. My eyes viewed different things, but I walked on mindlessly, with no_________to anything around me at all.

Years have passed since the disaster that_________me years ago. I never thought I would be okay again after this__________event.

Today I am going on a trip to California to help__________of a recent earthquake. Then, I see her. A young girl is weeping into her arm. I walk toward her. Losing family was__________, but because of my life changing experience, I am strong, and I can__________the lives of those who are suffering as I was. When I reach the girl, she stares at me with sad eyes, and I gently stick out my hand for her to hold to. One day, she may__________others the way I did for her. She holds my hand tightly, and together, we look for a brighter future where we can help those around us and__________the world starting with one disaster at a time.