1 . A daughter complained to her father about how hard her life was. She was ________ and wanted to give up.

Her father filled three pots with ________, and placed them on the fire. The daughter looked at him in a strange way, ________ what he was trying to do. He then put carrots, eggs and coffee beans in each pot respectively (各自) without saying a word. Half an hour later, he ________ the fire. He pulled the carrots and eggs ________ and placed them in two bowls. Then he poured the coffee in another bowl.

He asked his daughter to feel the ________. She did and ________ that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and ________ it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to ________ the coffee.

She frowned at the strength of the coffee.

________, she asked, “What does it mean, Father?”

He explained, “Each of them ________ the same 100 degrees of boiling water. ________, each reacted differently.”

“After going through the boiling water, the carrot, became ________. An eggs is easy to ________ But now its inside has become hardened. The coffee beans were ________. After they were in the boiling water, they became stronger and richer.”

Which are you? When adversity (厄运) knocks on your door, you should act like the coffee bean.

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 . 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 ________.

5 . 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.”

6 . 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. ”

7 . 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.”

8 . 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.

9 . “I couldn't survive without music,” says fifteen-year-old Steve. In the morning, Steve wakes up to his favorite _________ radio station. He listens to rock on the radio while he eats his _________.He puts on his personal stereo before he leaves the house and listens to cassettes on the bus to _________.

“Last week I put my headphones on in the maths _________,”admits Steve.“The teacher was really _________. She took my headphones away and I couldn't use them for a week. It was _________.” At home Steve does his homework to music—loud music.

“My mother _________ shouts ‘Turn it down!’,” says Steve.“She can't _________ how I can work _________ music on, but music __________ me to fix my attention upon my studies.”Steve would like to make music himself.“I'm learning to play the guitar. __________,it doesn't sound so good at the __________.But I'm going to keep Practicing!”

For __________ like Steve, music is a very important part of __________.Music is social. It brings people together at discos, parties and concerts. Fast, __________ music is full of energy. It helps people to forget their problems and have fun. Music talks about love, freedom and imagination. There are always new songs and new styles.

But Steve's mother agrees that music brings some problems.“Steve is a sensible(明智的)boy.” she says.“I don't think he would ever take drugs hearing rock. But I do worry about his hearing with all that loud music. And it drives me crazy!”

10 . 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.”