1 . It was the first night of a tiring seven-day 250km race across the Gobi Desert a year ago. Mr. Leonard___________a little dog going around his camp trying to ___________herself.

“Cute, but I’m not giving you any,” Leonard thought. Like all ___________, he had packed just enough for the whole ___________. He’d been running competitively for three years, and he had a___________ to win.

The next day, at the starting line, the dog ___________ him again. He waved her away, worried that she might be stepped on by the runners. ___________, the dog followed him all the way until the day’s race ___________. That night the dog snuggled (偎依) up to Leonard and even___________ to get a little food from him. By then, he was determined to name her Gobi.

The pair went on to finish the seven-day race, with Gobi____________ a distance of 125km on her own, and winning Leonard over, enough for him to make a____________ — he would take her home to Edinburgh. “Seeing Gobi on the race ____________my attitude to things. It made me think more about stopping and helping her, rather than just focusing on winning, ” said Leonard, who finished second. “It also made my running more enjoyable , giving me a lot of pleasure.”

As Leonard was preparing to get Gobi home, she was missing. With a group of 20 local volunteers coming to his ____________ , he finally found her. After that, Leonard never let Gobi out of his____________. Now Gobi’s favorite activity is still running, and she__________ does at least 8km a day with Leonard up the hills.

2 . A little girl created a perfect gift for her mother’s birthday. It was a drawing of a _______on white paper with the words “For mom: love, love, love” decorated with hearts. She folded (折叠) her letter, but then she _______it.

For most people, that would be the _______ of this story, but this story had a different result. James Carrell found the letter. He had just_______ his mother, wishing her a happy birthday. After he hung up, Carrell saw the _______ on the ground outside of a hardware store in Manvel. “I _______ it was a gift,” said Carrell. “I opened it up and saw the flower and hearts. It really _______ me.” Carrell thought the letter would _______ someone’s day and that maybe he could find the owner, so he posted it on the Internet. The message moved a lot of people, _______ one man.

“I was sitting at my friend’s house and saw a man’s ________,” said Carrell.

The comments included one from Robert Alvarado. He wrote, “I can’t ________ you found my baby’s letter.” Carrell reached Alvarado to ________ the letter. It took a few days, but the men finally met on Thursday night.

“Eventually the letter made it home,” said Alvarado. “We are ________ for what James Carrell did.” We often forget the power of ________ things, but for this family from Alvin, Carrell’s small act left a ________impression.

3 . Thousands of people online are involved in efforts to help an 8-year-old, cancer-stricken (患癌症的) boy from the United States to realize his dream. Dorian Murray of Westerly, Rhode Island, has been receiving_________from around the world in recent days.，

Dorian has been_________cancer since he was 4._________the disease had been brought under control after a series of_________treatments, a medical checkup early this month found that cancer cells (细胞) had_________to the boy’s brain. The family decided to_________treatment.

Dorian then told his father that before going to heaven, he wanted to be_________in China because it had the Great Wall, which he called “a bridge for people to walk on”. The_________between the boy and his father was posted on Facebook, where it was_________and commented on by thousands of Internet users, including many from China.

Some responded with____________taken at the Great Wall in Beijing, in which they held signs with words of____________, reading “D-Strong” and “You are very famous in China.” Some left messages below the post, saying “I hope you will____________soon.” or “We are delighted to make your dream come true.”

Dorian’s mother wrote that she was____________and deeply moved by the responses to Dorian’s____________. “Dorian has brought so much inspiration to people around the world! I couldn’t be more____________my son,” she said.

4 . I wanted to build rockets and airplanes. Ever since age 11, I had _______ to become an aerospace engineer. I even picked my activities and summer _______ in middle school based on that goal. It also helped me to _______ my high school. I went to Wheeler High School in Marietta, where there was a program that _______ science, math and technology. It was out of my school _______, so I rode the bus for an hour every morning from my home. But I knew that was the most _______ school for me and my goal. So I made it happen and so did my parents.

Wheeler offered an aerospace-engineering courses. Then, for college, I _______ attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which was especially _______ in aerospace engineering. That exactly fit my goal. They’ve _______ so many astronauts and even have astronauts as professors.

Along the way, my biggest ________ was that I didn’t truly believe in myself. It’s something that we all go through at some point in our lives. And it’s a ________ that I fought up until I attended MIT. Even though I was ________ , I always thought I didn’t have the ________ to achieve my dreams. I finally started to believe in myself and realised I was able to do this work. And I looked in the ________ and said to myself, “I believe in you.”

Today, I’m a ________ structural engineer at Boeing and have helped design vehicles that may in time shuttle(运送) people to the moon or Mars.

5 . Dad is a busy mechanic. Every Saturday he puts on his apron and produces delicious bread. I think he bakes to_______.

I’ve been feeling stressed out myself as I found out I didn’t_______for the swim team. Now I’ll have to wait a whole year to try out again. I think Dad knew how I_______, so this Saturday he invited me to help him bake.

Dad first got out everything needed, and then told me to_______the ingredients (配料) with a spoon. After that he showed me how to knead the dough (揉面团). It took only ten minutes but a(n) _______amount of energy to complete.

Next came the_______ part -doing nothing. We waited for the dough to_______swell up (膨胀), then punched (捶打) it down and waited for it to rise again. Dad said the waiting is always the hardest part as you have to _______the thought of putting the dough_______ into the oven.

While we waited, we sat and talked.________ is like the dough that rises and fills a room with emptiness________you punch it down with words. It felt good to listen and share our ________. As the flour dust quietly________, time seemed to slow down. The dough would rise at its own________. We could do nothing to make it rise faster.

I learned how to bake, and I also learned to________ the slowly ticking rhythm of time, to relax and let the bread rise.

6 . From the time I lined up my dolls on the sofa in play school, I wanted to be a teacher. “Open your books,” I would _____my teddy bear and dolls. Then I would de lightedly teach them whatever new things I had just______at school.

For me,dream was one thing,and____ was quite an other. My family was too poor to cover my tuition. Finally, with others’ help, I attended a state university. However, I____ needed more money to pay for my other expenses, so I found a part-time job,_______test tubes in the science department. By then I believed that every dirty test tube I washed meant I was one step closer to my______.

When working as a substitute (代替) teacher in the lo cal area,I learned they were planning to______the biology teacher I had substituted for. I was sure the position was meant for me. However,the principal (校长) said,“You’re too______. This last teacher had a lot of discipline problems because of his age. We want someone older with more______.”

I cried all the way to work, disappointed and______Suddenly, a stranger who I met by chance asked me what had happened. I told him how much I wanted to teach and how upset I was to be______because of my age. Then I also shared some of my thoughts with him. He______ me,“Never lose heart. I believe you can make it.” The next morning my phone rang. It was the principal calling to offer me the _____ position. I was totally confused and asked him why. He explained “You made quite an impression on the chairman of our Board of Directors. He______that you should have this position.”A few weeks later, I stood by the door of my classroom, welcoming my_____ on their first day of school. When they were settled,I said with a smile, “Open your books.”

8 . You may always hear about people who knew exactly what they wanted to do with their life from the time they were in kindergarten. I didn’t consider lots of career ________ when I graduated from high school. Like most students who earn good grades in maths and science classes, I found people ________ me to be an engineer. But all of that changed when I went to my ________.

I will never forget the feeling of walking into my very first Biology ________. I nervously found a seat and waited for the type of ________ you see in TV shows, old and strict. What I got was exactly ________ . Dr Espinoza was a caring and ________ teacher, and two terms of her classes made me fall in love with Biology. Her exciting classes made me realise that I had other choices besides being a(n) ________: heading for a career in biological research.

Due to Dr Espinoza, I found that scientists aren’t just what we ________ on the National Geographic Channel. They are real people who answer real questions and ________ real problems. This led me to seek out opportunities to do real science projects and see if I ________ it. While I was at university, I learned how to ask good questions, how to ________ experiments and collect data, and how to share what I learned with people.

Falling in love with ________ was a long process for me, but it led me to a job I love. Like the science itself, my journey towards being a scientist was ________, but helped along by many teachers and professors who ________ me the way.

9 . I went to hunt for a job in a magazine company. For merely five editing _______, there were over 300 applicants, and only 50 could enter the final interview after the written test. On the day of the _______, I got well dressed without having breakfast. The company _______us to draw lots(抽签) to determine the interview_______. I was the 23rd. Before me was the 22^nd candidate who was a short and plain-looking girl wearing light blue _______clothes without using any make-up.

I did not_______that two hours had passed_______only 10 candidates had been interviewed. As I did not have breakfast, my stomach started to ache. Half an hour later, I could hardly _______my book and large drops of sweat rolled down my forehead.

_______, someone patted me on the shoulder. It was No. 22. ________ I didn’t have breakfast and that ________came to me, she bought me a bottle of milk and a piece of butter bread! I felt considerably________all over my heart, because I had not________ she would be so nice to help me, her rival, in such a(n)________ situation!

Finally, I________among all candidates and managed to be an editor.

10 . My mom is an awesome human being just like all other moms. She knowingly and unknowingly ______ me a whole lot of things about the world. The incident which I’m going to share today determined the way I ______ everybody.

I was four years old. One fine afternoon, my mom and I were staying outdoors, she reading and I watching a line of ______. I was never a naughty kid; in fact I was known for keeping quiet even when things were not going my way. So I don’t remember why I did this but I disrupted (使中断) the lines of ants and I liked it when they looked so ______ . I even went ahead and stepped on a couple of them! My mom saw this and she wasn’t ______ with me but she said something I still ______ today. She said, “You should never be ______ to anybody however little they are. Everybody is different and we shouldn’t treat them ______.”

I got upset when I heard this because I thought I had ______ my mom. Also my little heart started ______ the family of ants I had killed. It has been more than 25 years now and I’ve ______ so many things that have happened in my life; however, I still do my best to be kind to everybody.

We should teach our young kids to never be mean to anybody. It makes a ______ when people praise other people for their efforts and when instead of being envious, we’re proud of people achieving their goals however ______ they may be. When you’re kind to other people, it’s a ______ that goes on. It’s the kind of chain reaction that uplifts the whole world one heart at a time. I believe in the magic of______!