2 . I don't remember how many years ago it was. However, I'm pretty ________ that it was a while back because I still had a cassette(磁带) player at the time. I had much housework to do. I was ________ of television and was in the mood for music. Then I pulled out one of my favorite cassettes and put it in the player. It started to play but before long the music ________ slopped. I opened the player and saw the tape in the cassette was all pulled out and twisted(缠绕). I ________ the old pencil rick to get the tape back in place but it was already broken beyond ________. I didn't want to ________ another of my cassettes with a tape-eating machine, but I really wanted some music. Then I ________ my ancient record player in the corner. I walked over and ________ off the top of it. I pulled out an old record of my mom's that my dad had forwarded me after her ________. I turned on the record player and a beautiful melody(旋律) from my childhood filled my ________. The sweet songs I grew up on slowly started to stir my ________. I felt the music within coming out of me. My spirit felt like singing so I started to sing, letting my voice ________ in merrily with the songs. At that moment I could feel the ________ of the universe all around me.

We all have music within us just waiting to ________. Don't let your music die within you. ________ your song with the world.

4 . The Japanese Macaca monkey has been studied in the wild for over 50 years. In 1952, on one small Japanese island, scientists dropped some ________ with dirt for the monkeys. The monkeys liked their taste, but they found the dirt ________.

One clever 18-month-old monkey found the way to ________ the problem by washing the sweet potatoes in a nearby river. She taught this to her mother. Her ________ also learned this new way and they taught their mothers too.

All the younger monkeys ________ learned to wash the dirty sweet potatoes to make them ________ to eat. But many older monkeys found it very hard to learn this and still ate the ________ sweet potatoes.

Then something very surprising________. In the autumn of 1958, scientists found that the monkeys on other nearby ________ began washing their sweet potatoes too. Scientists still don’t fully understand how this knowledge was________ from one island to another.

5 . 78-year-old Nora Langdon has become an inspiration to people of all ages. She _________multiple days a week at the gym training for three hours at a time.

At 65, Langdon was determined to live a _________lifestyle. In 2007, she weighed over 210 pounds and often struggled to catch her _________while going up the stairs. She knew it was time to _________

“On the first day I started, I told myself that I’d give up because it was too _________for me.” Langdon told Good Morning America. “Then I heard my _________saying from within, ‘go back.’ So, I went back and here I am today.”

After joining the gym and watching her trainer prepare for a powerlifting meet, she _________his competition and decided to try it herself. She began with the basics — using a broom (扫帚) as a barbell before _________moving to weights. It wasn’t long before she discovered _________was her love.

Langdon has __________19 world records and quickly became one of Michigan’s best in her age range. Although Langdon has some world records under her belt, she shows no signs of __________. Her next __________? To powerlift a total of over a thousand pounds!

Langdon wants others to know that with__________and strong faith, anyone her age can get into __________. “You were __________to continue until the Lord takes you away,” she said.

7 . Ronald Handel lived on a farm in California. He owned two Great Pyrenees mountain dogs who ______ his eight goats. It was their ______ to protect the goats from wolves in the California mountains. In 2017, when the wildfires in the distance were ______, Handel hurried to get his ______ and the dogs into the car so they could evacuate (撤离).

One of the dogs, Odin, ______ to ignore his doggy duty. He ______ down with the goats, and stared at Handel, as if to say, “I'm not _______.” Handel waited as long as he could for Odin to come around, but they had to go, because they ______ that parked cars a few yards behind them were filling with flames, and heard explosions from oil tanks.

After the flames were put out, Handel and his young daughter did not ______ to find anything when they returned to their _______. But to their surprise, Odin was ______ there. He and the goats were slightly _______. Odin managed to bring them all to _______, despite the fact that everything else around them was completely destroyed by the fire. Odin was limping (一瘸一拐), and very ______ , so Handel knew that Odin had been on an adventure of his own to save his ______. If only dogs could talk.

8 . The other day, I was in the local shop with my five-year-old son. He is outgoing and _______ dealing with strangers when he is with a safe adult. That day he greeted a young kid began a _______ . This kid was wearing the uniform (校服) of the school my son will be _______ at next year so I pointed that out to him. When we finished our shopping and were _______, the other kid said, “See you at school next year!”

As I was _______ my car with goods later, the mother drove up behind me and promised to _______ me a bag of uniforms that no longer fit her son. For nothing! I went and _______ the clothes the next afternoon.

This may seem like a small kindness to some people but for me it is _______! I have been worried quite a bit about the _______ of uniforms for school next year. We are planning to start a ________ for a living but we lack money. I also suffer from a few diseases and have had a really bad year this year, ________ in my life.

I cannot even begin to explain how ________ I was for this “small” gesture from a ________. It has taken away a bit of ________ from my shoulders and is very much appreciated. You never know when the small kindnesses, even ________ a smile in the street, can be a great encouragement to others.

9 . When my daughter was five months old, I began to notice that her socks lost their mates from time to time. At first, I thought it resulted from my ________, but it soon became clear that something else was to blame (责怪). I would play with my daughter on the floor. Our dog, Mojo, never ________ us, I thought he loved the ________. In many ways, he was the most human-like dog I’d ever met. In other ways, ________, he was just a dog. Often, he ________ apples for food and ate them one small bite at a time.

One day, as I went about the task of ________ a smelly diaper (尿布) , something caught my eye. I could see Mojo carefully stretching (伸) his neck toward the ________ I’d left on the sofa. I didn’t think much of it, so I continued my task. After I ________ taking off the smelly diaper and set my daughter down to play, I saw Mojo ________ his neck out again, open his mouth, and carefully ________ a loose sock in the pile of clothes. Swallow (咽). Down it went.

“Mojo!” I shouted in ________. After a quick call to the doctor, she told me that he would pass the sock soon and that I could call her again if he acted ________.

“Stranger than eating socks?” I asked.

________ came and went in our little town, and the snow melted. I ________ a back yard with grass that was ready for spring and about two dozen ________ that Mojo had “passed” throughout the winter.