1 . My work started in 2003 at my local animal shelter’s Adoption Department. It seems like such a long time ago. In the 13 years that have ______, more than 50,000 animals have passed the doors of the ______. Most of them, I do not remember. But ______ there are animals who stand out. Tabby was one such ______.

Tabby was one of the many ______ dogs. What’s more, she was blind and deaf. Tabby’s ______ to be adopted seemed small. But one day a woman ______ Loretta came to the shelter. Her son, Gary, who ______ epilepsy (癫痫) had seen Tabby’s picture ______ the shelter’s website. They were ______ in meeting her! Most boys would want a puppy, a dog who could ______ with him and run through grassy fields on summer days. Tabby would never be able to do that. But as they say, “love is blind.” After meeting her, they decided to ______ Tabby!

If Tabby’s story had simply ended with her ______ adoption, it would still have been something very ______ indeed. But it was ______ happened after her adoption that some might label as “magical”. They became inseparable. They got along well with each other so that Tabby could sense Gary’s seizures(疾病发作)before they ______, giving his family a ______ that one was about to strike. What’s more, Gary seemed to be having fewer and fewer seizures since Tabby’s ______.

How could it be? There are some things that challenge logic and understanding in this world. Sometimes the best that we can do is to accept a ______, which we couldn’t attempt to explain. Because when you try to ______ it, you lose the beauty and miracle of it all.

2 . Sometimes life can seem challenging (挑战的) and we usually get the feeling of “the grass on the other side is always greener”! We usually feel ______ with the troubles that life throws at us.

The best thing to do at that point of time is to ______ our eyes and start counting of all the ______ in life that God has given us.

If we think ______, our life is full of blessings that we hardly ______. Listening to the singing of birds early in the morning, we realize that there are many people who spend their life in a world that is ______ while many others spend their lives in a world that is dark and may have never ______ a rainbow or the setting sun.

When you go out for a drive, pull down the window and look at the poor ______ standing under the hot sun, begging for filling his hungry ______. We get three ______ a day without realizing its importance. Isn’t that a blessing?

Whenever you are sad, look at the eyes of your parents and family filled with love and ______ for you. There are many people who have never ______ the love of a family. Isn’t that a blessing?

As Mother Teresa once said, “We don’t need to do ______ things. We need to do small things with great ____”.

The key to a happy life is when we ______ others problems to be our own and try to help them. When we love people without any ______ and help them, our heart is filled with a ______ of happiness and peace seeing the ______ on their face.

So the next time whenever life ______ you down, close your eyes and…start ______!

3 . A 35-year-old Australian mother makes around $ 58,000 a year by hugging strangers. “As human beings, one thing we often ______ in our daily life is the physical touch. Without it, we can fall into mental health problems. To satisfy this ______, I’ve become professional in hugging treatment.” said Jessica.

Jessica says that her hugs can ______ those who are suffering from loneliness or low self-confidence. A year ago, Jessica was a popular masseuse (女按摩师). She noticed that when she ______ her customers during treatment, they became relaxed and ______ her more. “I could see their tension disappear. Then I could get to their heart and do what I could to ______ them,” Jessica said. “Everyone has a totally different story. But the most common ______ are loneliness, depression (沮丧) and anxiety. They all just have that desire to ______ with someone. I believe my hug helps me and my ______ connect on a mental level.”

Jessica says most of her customers are ______, but she has a surprising number of female customers ______. Though many people think she must be ______ to do such work, Jessica is confident that she’s made the right ______. “It’s so much more rewarding (值得做的) than just working as a masseuse,” said Jessica. “In today’s digital age, many people are ______ than ever before. For people whose lives ______ physical interaction, hugging therapy can have an obvious effect on their mental health.”

4 . Jennifer works for Plato’s Closet, the clothing chain that buys and sells used clothing and accessories. When she performed a routine _______ on a coat that was _______ by a man earlier that day, she _______ $7,000 in $100 bills inside a pocket.

No one was _______, since Plato’s Closet’s employees checked clothes all day long. And _______, the man who brought the coat didn’t _______ where he had left the money. Some people would have _______ the “opportunity”. But not Jennifer. She said, “It wasn’t mine, so I didn’t get too _______ about that thick wad (沓) of cash.” _______, she safely stored the money until it could be ________ to its rightful owner.

Sure, Plato’s Closet has ________ on sending back personal items found in the clothing, but what Jennifer did ________ her character. It wasn’t the result of outside pressure. “It’s just about integrity,” she said. “You just have to make sure that you’re ________ and that you do the right thing.”

Reputation is easy; character is hard. Doing the right thing when others are watching is easy. ________ public integrity, resolve or sincerity often results in recognition and praise. Doing the right thing when no one is watching is hard. Your nonpublic integrity gains no ________ or applause. Doing the right thing is also hard ________ it often runs against our best interests. The true test of ________ is what you do when people aren’t watching. Maybe ________ is Jennifer’s main character and maybe it’s not, but that doesn’t ________. The fact that she ________ to do the right thing is more important.

5 . Recently I had an experience of eating dinner at a “dark restaurant”, where people eat in complete _______. Diners eat their whole meal in total blackness and have to _______ the waiters’ guidance if they need to go to the bathroom. I wanted to understand the experience of being _______. Then I found out eating was a really _______ activity.

It was a special meal. Because we couldn’t see where anything was, my friend and I knocked down glasses and _______ food. Even though my senses of taste and _______ became more sensitive (敏感的), I had to eat more slowly, trying to _______ what I was eating. _______ water was undoubtedly difficult, and I even kept drinking from my friend’s glass.

After failing to _______ any food with a fork for five minutes, I decided to use my __________. I reached down, expecting rice and vegetables, but instead I stuck my hand into a bowl of warm, thick soup. “Ahh…!” “it’s best to use a __________ for this soup,” the waiter said into my ear. It was __________ but much too late. Even using a spoon, most of the soup ended up on my shirt. I felt __________ even though no one could see me.

Our waiter advised us to lift the plates and bowls close to our faces. Only in this way was I able to eat something.__________, when I left the restaurant, I still felt __________. Anyway, through this special dining, I was much more aware of the challenges that blind people face.

6 . One cool morning, my mother and I went to several garage sales to find something that our family might want. We finally _______at a pleasant house in the woods. The elderly _______ told me that he and his wife were retired teachers. As we were searching, I heard the gentleman’s wife say her _______to someone, and I immediately _______ who she was. She looked at me and said. “You’re Lisa Miller.” I looked at her _______, for it had been nearly thirty _______ since I had been in her class.

My mother immediately said sorry to her for any_______I might have made. She did that again after learning that I wasn’t the sweet little child. She thought that if this woman_______ me after so many years, I must have done something_______. My teacher looked at my mother and_______said. “Oh, no. She was very good.” My teacher_______ that during the last week of school, I _______her a plant from my mother’s garden. It was a lamb’s ear. She took us to her garden where she planted the lamb’s ear. Over the years it _______. As I looked down her driveway with lamb’s ears on both sides, she said, “Every day when I leave my house and drive up the driveway, I think of you. And when I come home they_______me, I think of you.” Tears _______ my eyes. There at her home was a piece of my life that she had raised.

At that moment. she taught me more about_______than I could imagine. We give pieces of ourselves every day_______ thought. We seldom imagine the effects that we have on others ‘lives’. That piece may grow and spread, becoming a(n)_______part of a life. In the end it isn’t the big things that matter, _______ the small things that make all the_______ in the world.

7 . We’ve become part of the Lendaer Group, an eco-village in Denmark. After studying environmental science I was _________to change my lifestyle. I wanted to live_________the land and to provide our own food and__________ . We also wanted to live in a community with_________people around us. It took us 10 years to_________it.

Now I live in a roundhouse made out of straw (干稻草). It is not what I would call low-cost housing. The cost is your_________. You have to have great willpower. We had to_________everything because we had no spare money when we moved here.

I think we’ve done what I_________to do: grow our own food and provide our own resources. We have hydro (水电) power and solar panels and we feel like we’re not_________the planet’s resources.

We__________produce such as eggplants, peas and carrots. We have nut trees and apple trees. We have 9.5 acres of land and keep sheep. I earn about 20,000 a year. Most of my__________comes from shearing (修剪) our sheep, and using the__________ to run willow-weaving (纺织). If we have spare fruit, we__________ them too. But we reinvest (再投资) most of the money in the__________, and animal care.

Organic clothes are very__________but I do choose them. We might spend about 150 a month on eating out as a family. We always try and shop local produce__________it’s more expensive. We don’t go holiday a lot but when we do we try to travel by train. It takes a long time but for me it’ s about the__________ , not the destination.

Looking back, I’ d argue being organic is__________for anyone. It costs you next to nothing—just time and____________If people want to be healthier and__________ for themselves, they can do it.

8 . If life were a book and you were the author, how would you like the story to go? That is the question that _______ my life forever.

One day I went home from the training of snowboarding with what I thought was a flu, and less than 24 hours later, I was in a _______ on life support with less than two percent _______ of living. It wasn’t until days later that the doctor diagnosed (诊断) me with a _______ blood infection (感染). During the course of 2.5 months, I lost the hearing in my left ear and both my legs below the knee. When my parents _______ me out of the hospital, I _______ that I had been put together like a patchwork (拼缝物) doll and I had to live with _______legs. I was absolutely physically and emotionally broken, _______ running down.

But I knew in order to move forward, I had to let go of the Old Amy and _______ the New Amy. It was at that moment that I asked myself the important ________. That is when it hit me that I didn’t have to be five-foot-five anymore, but I could be as tall as I wanted. And first of all, I can make my feet the size of all the shoes. So there were ________ here.

Four months later, I was back upon a ________. And this February, I won two Board World Cup gold medals, ________ me the highest ranked snowboarder in the world.

So instead of looking at our challenges and our limitations as something ________ or bad, we can begin looking at them as a wonderful ________ that can be used to help us go further than we ever know we could go.

9 . Dad was not only my best friend, but my compass. While he was alive, he ______ me with his actions and advice. He taught me one important ______ “Believe in yourself.” If there was one phrase my dad ______ liked to hear, it was “I can’t.” He never got to finish high school and ______two jobs to support his family, but he never complained. Through education and years of hard work, my dad became an excellent journalist.

When I was in high school, I had a ______time with math. He tried to help me, but I ______ struggled. So my math teacher suggested I meet with him at 7:00 each morning before school for ______ help. I told my dad, “That’s ______ ! I can’t do that!” He replied, “You’re doing it. I’ll sent you to school.” Every morning at 6:45 a.m., we’d leave the house. Despite working 12 hours every day, Dad never once ______driving me to school.

After months of learning, I was facing the final exam. I was so ______. On the day of the final, my dad hugged me and said, “Luke, ______yourself. You can do it.” His words made me realize I needed to trust in my ______and in the hours of work I’d put in. When I got my ______proudly, the first person I called was Dad. He screamed, “Yes! You deserved it!”

Even now, whenever I worry that a task is too much for me, I think back to that exam. No matter how ______something is, if you’re willing to work, you can succeed. I’m forever______to Dad for that lesson.

10 . 23-year-old Taleigh Loven walked downstairs to her graduation party last October. She was ______ balloons, treats and congratulations from her family. What didn’t cross her mind was her ______ wearing the same graduation cap as she did. ______ him carrying a certificate (证书) with his name on it, she instantly burst into tears.

Mike Loven, 47, decided four years earlier that he was going to restart his study in Grand Canyon University, the ______ school his daughter had just been ______ to. A few weeks later, Mike was taking his first______ course while Taleigh was getting settled in her dorm — with no ______ that Mike was a fellow freshman.

“There was no real reason for ______ it a secret from the family—I merely thought the _______ would be fun,” Mike said. “I work a lot and I’m always on my computer, so no one ______ knew that I was working on stuff (材料) for ______ all those years.”

The ______ part about the whole thing, Mike said, was during ______ midterm seasons when his family would constantly ask him for help with tricky (棘手的) school-related issues. He had his own ______ as well, but he couldn’t tell them. That, he said, ______ many late nights at the computer.