1 . A poor boy wanted to study medicine from a well-known master. The master asked him, “What can you do?” He answered, “I have no______except that I once learned to play chess.” The master said,“ Good. Now let’s play a game of chess. If you _____me, I will accept you.” The boy was confused. He couldn’t______the two — medicine and chess.

Then, the game started. At first, the boy made some _____in moves. However, he focused completely on the game later and______the dangerous situation. When the boy came close to a winning level, he thought,“ The master is a highly respected and well-learned man. It’s______for him to win the game. If he loses, it will______him a lot.” So the young boy took a _____step on purpose. And he lost.

____, the boy was about to leave. Then the master said, “You make it.” His words greatly______the boy. Then the master explained, “I played chess with you in order to _____you. Now I have found two points. When you were losing, you turned your _____to the game rather than the ____ . And when I was about to lose, you had pity on me. You______to lose the game. These two points are ____ for a good doctor.”

The boy nodded. And he felt so lucky to have such a great teacher.

2 . I am Ali. I have always had confidence in myself. My parents taught me to be _______ and that l could be the best at anything. I remember _______ my neighborhood boys to see who could jump the highest and run the fastest. Of course, I knew when I made the challenge, I would win. I never even _______ losing.

I started my boxing _______ when I was 12. In senior high school, I was sure I have the _______ to be the champion of the world. As part of my training, I would run down the street. I would rush in and out of shops to _______ them I was training for the Olympics and I was going to _______ a gold medal. I never thought of failing but only glory (光荣) that was going to _______ when I won. When I said I was going to be the “Greatest of the Time”, I _______ myself. And I still do.

But I didn’t know that my will would be ________ when I retired. In 1996, I was asked to ________ the cauldron (圣火) at the summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.

When the moment came for me to set fire to the cauldron, I realized I ________ the eyes of the world. Then I heard an extremely loud ________. I was reminded of my 1960 Olympic ________ in Rome, when I won the gold medal. I remembered those 36 years between Rome and Atlanta and ________ that I had come full circle. Nothing in life has defeated me. I am still “The Greatest.”

3 . One day, Franz Kafka saw a young girl crying in the park_________she had lost her favorite toy bear. She and Kafka_________the toy bear but they didn’t find it. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day.

The next day, they looked again, but_________didn’t find the toy bear. Kafka gave the girl a(n)_________ “written” by the toy bear. It said, “Please don’t cry. I have gone on a _________ to see the world. I’m going to write to you about my adventures.”

When they_________, Kafka read aloud his carefully written letters of the toy bear’s adventures. The girl found them quite_________and laughed a lot. Finally, Kafka_________her a new toy bear. “This doesn’t look like my toy bear,” she said. Kafka handed her another letter. It said, “My trips have_________me.” The girl hugged the new toy bear and took it home with her.

Many years later, the grown-up girl__________a letter in the toy bear by accident. It said, “Everything you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.”

4 . When Guo Xiaoyu was born just days ahead of the Opening Ceremony in August, his grandpa Tao Zhenguo was very busy with his volunteer work for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The grandpa was very happy to _________ his newcomer.

Fourteen years later, the 77-year-old Tao is even _________ because Guo has also become an Olympics volunteer. “He is _________ an Olympic boy now,” Tao says. Both grandfather and grandson are volunteering at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. They are helping with garbage _________, traffic guidance and information inquiries (查询).

Guo says he learned a lot from his _________. He listened to Tao’s volunteer _________ when he was a little child, and began doing community work. But Guo is not just _________. He’s now also teaching his grandpa English.

Tao doesn’t speak English, but he is _________ that “as an Olympics volunteer, I have to learn it to at least be able to communicate a bit with foreign guests”. “It’s never too late to learn,” Tao says. “I don’t _________ to become an English-language master, but I hope that I can at least say Welcome to Beijing when I ____________ foreign athletes and guests.”

5 . Most kids have nothing to worry about except homework and basketball matches. But things are ______for the kids who have lost their parents. _____ these is Milly Bell, a nine-year-old girl from Exeter, England. She is doing something to make life _____better for children like her.

A few years ago, Milly’s father ____ a serious disease. Milly was very sad and thought that only bad things happened to her. Her mother told her that ____ a lot of kids like her, however. So Milly began to think, “_____can I help other children if they are also losing someone?”

Sadly, Milly’s father   ____ since 2006. Then, Milly found a way to help other children. She has written a book _____My Daddy is Dying.

“Although I’m still sad and often think of Daddy, it_____ easier as time has gone by. I know it’s important to speak out and cry about my feelings _____when I feel sad.” Milly said. “I hope this helps other children get through the same thing, and lets them know that they are not the only ones.”

6 . An old saying goes, “When in Rome (罗马), do as the Romans do.” I learned the meaning of this when I studied in Russia.

One day I ______ some of my Chinese friends to a famous local restaurant in Moscow. My guests and I were excited from visiting Red Square and happy about our meeting. We chatted ______ until the waiter told me that we were talking too loud. We turned our voices lower. But this didn’t last long. The waiter came over to us two more times with the same ______.

How bad an impression (印象) we must have left on the local people! In China, it’s natural and ______ for a host (主人) to make a lively atmosphere (气氛). However, in Russia and western countries, having a meal in a public place means you must ______ your voice low. You need to be polite to others.

I felt ______ about this. Even though we tried our best, it’s very difficult to form a new habit. Russians have their own special habits. My Russian friend, Andrey always looks around and thinks for a while before leaving home. I asked him ______ he did this. “Aha,” Andrey said, “In Russia, people always spend about a minute ______ things and plans in their minds before leaving. So they won’t leave ______ necessary behind.

Finding the differences between ______ is very interesting. I’d like to keep my eyes and mind open.

7 . I’m David and my wife is Sally. We’re from Germany. Last month we went to Sichuan to enjoy the fantastic mountains and we felt so________. But two days later, we faced a difficult situation. While traveling by car in the high mountains, the car________working after making a strange, loud noise.

The driver was a local man and he could only speak________. We tried communicating with him but we________. He used his body language to tell us that he was going to get help and then he left.

We were in a lonely place and we could see________houses around. We started to hear the cries of wild animals. Sally was very afraid. It was getting darker and colder, but we didn’t have much food or water. Should we leave the car? Would our driver return? Was he a________man? We were very worried.

We had to stay in the car for a couple of hours and time passed so________. Suddenly the lights from another car appeared in the dark. A man came out of the car.________ he found us, he kindly let us gets into his car.

The man________his phone number on a piece of paper and put it on the window of the car before we left. Then he drove us to his house and his cousin could speak English. Later that evening, the phone rang. It was our driver. He told us that he had fixed the car.

I will never forget the warmth we received on that day because we________a stranger for help.

8 . “The first thing that came to my mind was, ‘They re having a worse night than me,’ and so that’s when I offered to help,” Landry Scott said.

Recognizing how _________it was and realizing he had better _________in his car, Landry approached Randy Head and asked if he needed any assistance (帮助).

Randy, who lived in a tent in a wooded area, _________ the last of the money in his pocket to put air in a young woman’ s spare tire (备胎). He said that there was “nothing amazing about the generous act; it was just “the decent (正当的) thing to do” . He said, “I haven t cured cancer. I’m not Superman. I just _________a tire, I was simply helping out another in _________.”

The 61-year-old said he thought of his daughters when he noticed the female driver get out of her car, and how he hoped someone would _________ them if they were in trouble. Having done hard labor for over 30 years before becoming homeless last year, Randy said he was _________to get his hands dirty once again.

The woman offered him $20 for his help, but Randy politely _________ the money.

Landry _________ the story online, along with two pictures of Randy helping the woman. The post has since been shared nearly 3, 000 times. Strangers who saw Landry’s post reached out to him and __________how they could help, so the next day Landry __________ the homeless man and asked him what he needed.

Randy responded that he wouldn’t mind somewhere to __________from the cold and windy weather. Landry then__________Randy a room at the Red Roof Inn for five nights. Also, Landry has already__________ $2,850 for Randy.

“I m still the __________nobody I was before Monday night,” Randy said.

“But if one positive thing can come out of all of this, I hope to re-establish common decency and common respect because neither of those things is that common anymore.”

9 . As I was walking along the river one day, enjoying some hot chocolate with the sun shining down on me on a nice spring day, I was in the mood to do something nice for a ________ and started looking around for an opportunity. Not long after that, I found I was ________ by a complete stranger and he started talking to me aggressively. I could tell he was probably ________ due to a strong smell of alcohol, so I just stayed calm and kept walking ahead. There were hundreds of people ________ around nearby, so I wasn’t that worried.

As I tried to change my ________, he kept following me. At one point, he literally cornered me near the rail next to the river. I got really ________, praying that one of the many people nearby who watched this whole episode unfold would be ________ enough to help me out of the situation.

________ later, a couple passed by me and had seen everything happen. Just when I felt completely helpless, the lady came along, linked her arm into mine and said, “Darling, why don’t you come with us?” and started ________ me away from the guy. ________, her husband stayed between us and the guy and gestured for him to walk in the other direction. The guy started swearing and getting angry, while the sweet lady ________ me, saying don’t worry. Finally, once he left, she said, “Why don’t you carry on walking where you were going and we’ll make sure he goes away and leaves you ________.” As I rushed away, I was still badly shaken, but at the same time had feelings of immense ________ for this random couple who chose to ________ me. Here I was, thinking I was on a mission to do a random act of kindness, when instead, I ended up on the ________ end. I guess it is equally important to learn how to receive and to feel grateful for the kindness of others.

10 . A few weeks ago I was traveling by train to visit a friend. After a few stations, the food supplier came around to _________ hot meals and drinks. Just behind him rushed in a little girl who put out her hand to _________ some food. The man was _________, throwing her out of the coach (车厢) and shutting the door.

Something in me, maybe the pleading (恳求的) look on the child’s face, made me _________.I stepped outside the door and saw the child still standing there. I took her hand and said I would _________ her some food. We walked back to the coach. The passengers there had a(n) _________ expression seeing the little girl with me. I asked her to choose whatever she wanted.

_________,there was so much food and I was _________ how her little stomach could eat all that food. While I turned to the cashier to pay the bill, she ran away. The cashier shook his head and said the girl must be laughing for having _________ me into believing her misery (悲惨).

The cashier’s words __________ on my mind and I started __________ if the little girl had really fooled me, __________.I decided to follow the__________ she had taken to see what she was up to. When I walked to a deserted (废弃的) __________, I saw her sitting in a circle with two other little boys. The girl had put all the food in the __________ and was putting food into the hand of a young boy. When they sensed my __________ they went quiet. I bent down to the young girl, smiling and asking them to __________ eating.

I realized that I had received far more than I gave. This little girl taught me that there is more joy when you __________ and that even in poverty (贫穷) one can __________ his/her kindness. Above all, kindness springs from our__________ and not the richness of environment.