1 . A video about a homeless man went viral. Johal, a video-maker known for his social ________, decided to give a homeless man some money and ________ his reaction.

In the video, approaching a ________ homeless man, Johal carefully places some money on his bag. Minutes later, when the man wakes up, he’s surprised to see the cash and looks excited and grateful. The man walks to a store, steps out with a bag of ________, probably to face the cold nights, and returns to his bench.

Johal sits beside the man, talking on the phone with a friend, asking if he can borrow some money for his daughter. The homeless man ________ listens to Johal. After he hangs up, the man asks if he’s okay. Johal explains he’s getting his daughter some ________ while having a hard time financially.

In a(n) ________ turn of events, the man asks Johal to ________ his bag and leaves with the shopping bag. He returns ________ after returning the items and offers the money to Johal, who is a total ________, comforting he can go by without a blanket but the girl needs the treatment. Touched with the homeless man’s kindness, Johal ________ the experiment, offering $500 to the man, who instantly starts crying in ________.

________ but true, the result proves sometimes, those with less are the ones ________ most. Not all heroes wear capes. In fact, heroes are the ones with a ________.

2 . A 23-year-old woman has achieved an unbelievable feat that many of us dream of -visiting every country on Earth.

Lexie Alford was born into a family of travel agents, which gave her the opportunity to ________ places such as Cambodia,Dubai and Egypt during her childhood, according to Forbes magazine. She began saving up at age 12 to ________ her goal of visiting all countries. By her 18th birthday, she had travelled to 72 nations. In October,2016 she realized she could see the ________ nations on her list in time to set an official record. Many people ________her travel on social media platform Instagram, so she decided to chase the world record partly to ________ others. “Honestly，in the beginning, I ________ wanted to push the ________ of what I thought I could do with my life and see as much of the world as possible in the ________,” she told Forbes. “It wasn’t until things started getting really________ that I realized I was inspiring people around me, especially the ________．”

I also loved visiting Northern Pakistan, for the natural beauty of the mountains and kindness of the locals were astonishing,” Lexie Alford said. “The most pleasant surprise about travelling to all these misunderstood areas of the world was that the countries that I had the________ expectation for ________ being the most incredible.”

“My ________ for young people is to believe that you can do anything you set your mind to do. If you want to travel, you have to ________ sacrifices to travel around the world. And it’s only a matter of ________ until you can make it a reality.”

3 . Last week, Tom and his mother went to a restaurant to celebrate his fifth birthday. When he and his mother were talking there, a waitress _________ curiously from a distance. Eventually, the waitress realized that the mom was talking in sign language to her little boy who also had _________ aids in his ears.

When the waitress _________ that it was Tom’s birthday, she decided to give the boy a special gift. She went to the Internet and _________ how to say “happy birthday” in sign language. She quickly got all the rules down. Then, she went up to Tom’s table and _________   to him, “Happy birthday to you!” Tom and his mother were really _________

Later, Tom’s mom said this was the first time he had _________ in sign language with people other than her and his teacher. It was a simple phrase _________ it was an important gift for Tom.

She added that the _________ from the waitress made her very moved. “Thanks to the __________ waitress, his fifth birthday is one that we will __________ for a lifetime,” the mom said. “My boy was always worried that he would appear very __________when he was talking in sign language. Today, he saw that someone __________ tried to talk to him in his   __________ language. It’s very __________ for him. ”

5 . 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.

6 . 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.

7 . When smoke was found coming out of the back of the school bus early Tuesday morning, the bus driver, Teresa Stroble, immediately knew what to do. Thanks to her ________ thinking, more than 50 students’ lives were ________

While ________ a group of 56 students to their middle school in Duncan, South Carolina, on Tuesday, Teresa Stroble noticed the heavy ________ rising from the back of her bus. She ________ pulled the bus over, evacuated(疏散)the students, and asked ________ to call 911. Firefighters arrived at the scene shortly after the fire began and quickly ________ the fire, which was so ________ that people driving by were able to feel its heat inside their cars. Parents of the children on the bus were ________ the fire, but thanks to Teresa Stroble, the news they received was all ________: not a single child had been hurt.

Since then, Teresa Stroble, who has been a bus driver for seven years ________also works as a teacher’s assistant (助教), has been ________ for her brave actions. “We are so ________ of our bus driver,” headmaster Scott Turner told local CBS News. “She was ________. She also kept the students calm. She made sure they were safe. She didn’t leave the bus ________ they all left. She is our hero today.”

8 . A mother was criticizing (批评) her daughter because the girl was not good enough to compete at a championship level in the gymnastics camp.

The scene reminded me of my ______ of the day when one of my own gymnastic performances put me to tears.

My mother became seriously injured when she was young, and she has______ a wheelchair ever since. But she never let that ______ her. She raised five children and had a career.

One day I joined a gymnastics program at a nearby park. Before long, I was totally ______in it. By 1972, I was on the National Gymnastics Team for the Olympic Games. I couldn’t think of anything else but ______ a gold medal.

Before the competition, all in my mind was ______ not to disgrace (使……丢脸) my country and myself. But, though I tried my best, I didn’t win a gold medal. I was so ______. When the winners were receiving ______, I joined my parents in the stands, and we all cried. “I’m sorry. I did my best.” I said.

Mother said nothing but ten words I never ______, “Doing your best is more important than being the best. ” Suddenly I understood her______than ever before. She had never let her handicap(残疾) ______ her from doing her best.

Now I approached the crying girl and put a(n) ______ around her. “Honey, ” I said. “I know you have done your best, and doing your best is more important than being the best. I’m ______ you. ”

She ______ me with tears in her eyes. Maybe somewhere, someday, she’ll ______ those words along.

9 . The taxi driver was a man in his late thirties. He picked me up and ________ me to my place. I usually like to have brief ________ with people no matter where I come upon them and this situation was no different.

I started by asking him how ________ was. He told me briefly that his business was just________ but the cost of gas was really hurting his ________ line. We then got around to discussing the job environment. He told me that he had difficulty getting another type of work because of his________. “I used to be a con (罪犯),” he said ________. “People look at my record and then I’m ________, but you know I’ve turned my life around and have been ________ for several years. You don’t seem to be at all worried that you are riding with a con?” As we parked at my place, I thought about my ________ for a few seconds. “It is never easy to start a new life,” I said, “but I’m glad you are starting. If you don’t want to drive taxi for the ________of your life, then you can move down to some other job you may be ________.”

The driver seemed to be quite ________ as he took my money. “What you said to me makes a lot of ________,” he said. “I will remember your ________ and that you were real easy to talk with―I hope to see you again.”

10 . Imagine loving someone so much that you’d swim more than 5, 000 miles to see him or her. Dindim ____ swim that far every year to visit his friend Joao. This is ____ , not only because of the love between the two friends, but because Dindim is ____ a penguin. Joao found Dindim covered in oil, barely alive on a beach near his home. He picked him up, cleaned him off and brought him to his house where he ____ him and got him healthy again. Joao named him Dindim.

After a week, he brought the penguin back to the beach and tried to release him, _____Dindim refused to leave Joao. They lived together for the next eleven months. Then, Dindim disappeared. ____, Joao thought he’d never see his friend again. But just a few months later Dindim was back. He found Joao ____, and followed him home. Each year he ____ four months to live with other penguins. For the other eight months, he lives with Joao. Joao says that each time they meet again, Dindim seems ____ to see him. He says he loves the penguin ____ he were his family. He feels certain that Dindim loves him in the same way. Ecologist Carl Safina says that animals can and do love humans. He writes and speaks a lot about animals and their ____ . According to Carl, it’s clear that animals feel love for humans. What’s less obvious is whether or not humans love animals enough to ____ them. Hundreds of thousands of animals are killed by the same oil that____ Dindim when Joao found him.

Fifty percent of ____ has died out in the last 40 years because of humans’ ____their habitats. Scientists say we’re in a new mass extinction period. In the next two generations, they predict that we’ll lose 75 percent of the remaining species on earth.