1 . Ma Li is a dessert shop owner in Yinchuan, Ningxia. On a cool morning, she received an online _______, but it took an hour for her to wait for the deliveryman (外卖送餐员).

When the deliveryman came, Ma was a little _______. “It is too cold outside and my motorbike didn’t work,” explained the deliveryman. After she heard his words, her anger was _______. She invited him to sit for a while and offered him a cup of hot water.

At that moment, Ma noticed the deliveryman’s face and hands were dark purple _______ he was working outside for too long. She felt sorry for him. While they were talking, Ma knew that the deliveryman wanted to buy her daughter a _______, but he thought it was a little expensive.

After the deliveryman left, Ma _______ what happened just now on her WeChat Moments (微信朋友圈) with two photos of the deliveryman.

Heartwarming comments (评论) poured in, such as “life is not easy but _______ of us give up!”, “Thumbs up(点赞)for hard-working people” and “Showing understanding to deliverymen.” Some _______ offered money for a cake.

The next day, Ma got in touch with the deliveryman and invited him to her shop. When they met, Ma expressed people’s kindness to him and gave him a cake for his daughter’s birthday. The deliveryman was _______.

Ma received more than 600 yuan in donations ________ her friends and customers. She said she would use the money to offer some help to people in need.

2 . The next day would be Christmas. Jim was shopping for a gift for his wife Della. With an income of twenty dollars per week, life was _______ for the couple, but Jim wanted to buy a perfect gift for Della. He thought of the beautiful set of _______ on show in one of the shop windows on Broadway. Della had wanted those combs for so long. Tomorrow, Jim decided, he was going to make Della’s dream come true.

He and Della _______ two things which they were both very proud of. One was Jim’s gold watch, and the other was Della’s beautiful _______. Jim looked at the gold watch that had been his father’s and his grandfather’s. It was very precious. _______，Jim knew what he had to do: he would sell his watch.

That afternoon, Jim _______ the watch, went to the shop for the combs and returned home with a package in his pocket. He was sure that they would be the most wonderful gift for Della. He was _______ about what Della would think when she saw the gift the next day.

The door opened and Della walked in. Jim had a puzzled _______ on his face. “Jim,” Della cried, “don’t look at me that way. I sold my hair to buy you a watch chain. Give me your watch. Let me see how it looks on it.”

Jim smiled. “Della,” he said, “I sold my watch to buy you a gift.” Jim _______ the package from his pocket and put it on the table. Della opened it. There lay the set of combs that she had always ________. Now they were hers, but her hair was gone.

3 . There’s an old Hebrew saying that if you “save one life, you save the world entire.”

Brooke Lacey, a 22-year-old university student from New Zealand, printed 600 stickers with an up-lifting _________. “Please don’t take your life today,” the stickers _________. “The world is so much _________ with you in it. More than you realize, stay.” Since Lacey had to deal with a lot of mental issues herself, she _________ quite well what a message of _________ could mean to someone like her.

To help those who may be _________, Lacey placed the message around the city. She also got it done as a bumper (保险杠) sticker which she _________ to her own car. While many may have overlooked it, it _________ saving a person’s life.

One day, Lacey _________ her car in her university’s lot and when she returned to her vehicle to leave, she __________ a note was attached to the windshield (挡风玻璃). Thinking she was in for a __________ over poor parking technique, she was instead surprised to find the note __________ meant to thank her for saving the writer’s life.

Lacey was a little lost and __________ for a brief moment, then she remembered her __________ bumper sticker. “I had these made so long ago, put one on my car and __________ about them, until now,” she posted. “Whoever you are, I am so __________ you chose to stay today.” You never know who needs this __________.

There’s no doubt that Lacey’s sticker was __________, because it inspired someone to choose life. Lacey’s story reminds us that one simple, thoughtful __________ can help save or __________ someone else’s day or even life.

4 . Four months earlier, I woke one morning with blinding back pain. A quick Google search ________ a kidney infection. I went for a checkup and was told I had to have a donor who was a ________ match.

My life depended on ________ my brother, Johnny. A(n) ________ mother and an alcoholic father created an extremely unpleasant ________ for both of us. After high school, Johnny moved out. We communicated infrequently. I encouraged him to give up the job carrying the ________ of prison. But he believed I judged him ________. That was our last ________, 30 years ago.

I knew I needed to stay ________, but a part of me felt a glimmer of hope. My friend Anne knew all of this ________ family history and was at my door the next morning to ________ over some print-outs. I would be the one to make the ________.

I dialed the first number... and the second.... I did the same for almost every number — same ________ I went to bed thinking we’d ________ a dead end. The next day, I got up my ________ and looked over the list again. The lone number on the last page ________ out at me from the whiteness. I dialed, just to be done with it. The phone rang and rang. No ________.

Just one more time, ________ told me. I redialed.

“Hello!” It was my Johnny. My palms were damp when I explained why I’d called. Johnny didn’t ________ before agreeing to help. The hospital sent him a testing kit. My brother was a(n) ________!

5 . How about a heartwarming story that turns out to be a happy moment of holiday embarrassment?

When Mary, decided to do a good deed for a stranger in a gas station convenience store, she had no idea that her most ________ moment would be viewed by millions on Facebook. It all started when the writer and mother of two children was ________ time at the Wawa, a local gas station and convenience store, before ________ her kids from school. She had just been reading a story on Facebook about how everyone is so ________ over the holidays and how the spirit of giving ________ everyone's mood, so she decided to pass along some of that ________ to someone else. The woman behind her in line was just buying some bread, so Mary ________ to pay for it. It was a simple but lovely act of kindness, the woman was ________ , and holiday magic was made. Mary left the store to go back to her car, full of the Christmas spirit, and found a man cleaning her windshield (挡风玻璃) . Still delighted in the magic of the holidays and the ________ of strangers, Mary walked up to the man, gave him a huge ________ and told him how much she loved humanity and the magic of Christmas. Only one problem — it wasn't her car, it was his. Oh. It was (a) real ________.

Don't be ________ if you watch the video over and over again. The Facebook Live video has already been ________ nearly 100,000 times in just a few days. "I think people love it because people long for holiday magic in these times. This one moment has returned so much encouragement and ________ to my life," Mary says. "Humans miss ________ interactions, even if they are a little strange."

6 . Adonis and Hassan were two businessmen. Adonis was a cheerful person, while Hassan was a very ______man. One day, they went to the city of Touria together.

They arrived at a forest. So tired, they sat down and ______. Later Adonis woke up, sat up laughing, and told Hassan he had a ______dream. An old man asked him to dig around the pine tree! Adonis believed it and started ______. Adonis said to Hassan, “I found a big pot full of gold coins. I had never in my life seen so much______! In fact, I would never take a dream seriously.”

“A dream like this ______has a meaning. If you do not want to dig, I will try instead. ______your dream to me.” Hassan said. When Adonis heard Hassan say so, he suddenly became very happy and ______sell his dream for the sum of 300 coins.

“Never have I made such a business ______. So much money for a simple dream of no value.” Adonis said.

Hassan then started to dig. And Adonis was amused to see that Hassan ______hard with heavy sweat.

Hanssan uncovered an earthen pot full of gold coins and then six more pots! Seeing this, Adonis started to ______the business deal.

Having so much gold, Hassan lived as a rich and satisfied man until his ______. When Hassan was alive, Adonis often came to visit him and greeted his friend with the ______, “Well, I have come to see what has happened to my dream.” And then they ______each other on the back laughing. But every time Adonis returned home ______, for he knew that he could never buy back his dream.

7 . A young man was about to go to the office when he received a phone call from a nurse who told him his father was injured and in hospital. So he ______ to the hospital by taxi. He had gone into the hospital when he found he ______ his cell phone in the taxi. What’s ______, he had forgotten to ask the nurse which ward his father was in. He had to run hurriedly around in the hospital ______ his father. Seeing a nurse, he asked her with ______, “My father is in hospital. He...”

The nurse ______, “Oh, my God. It’s you. Come with me!” She ______ the young man to the bed side of an elderly man. “Your son is here,” she ______ to the elderly patient several times. The old man was too weak to stay awake, only to look ______ at the young man standing beside him.

Throughout the night the young man ______ to the old man, holding the old man’s hand and offering him words of love and strength. The dying old man said nothing. The nurse ______ the young rest for a while but he ______ her advice.

Sunrise ______, the old man peacefully died. The young man placed the lifeless hand on the bed and informed the nurse. After the nurse did what was ______, she just found the young man had left, leaving a letter ______ “Thank you, lady! My father is fine. I knew right away the old man was not my father. But I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn’t here. So, I stayed.”

8 . Joe and Della were a new couple. They were both interested in art--one in painting, the other in music. They lived in a small flat. They loved each other and they were happy.

But one day they found that they had spent all their money. One afternoon Della told Joe that she had found a _________ and was to give her three music lessons a week. For that she could get fifteen dollars a week. But Joe was not _________ because he didn’t want to stay at home, playing with his art while Della was at work. He wanted to earn some money too.

Every day they parted in the morning and _________ in the evening.

A week _________ , Della brought home fifteen dollars, but she looked a little _________. Joe took eighteen dollars out of his pocket. They were both _________ to have so much money at hand.

The next week, Joe _________ home another eighteen dollars but Della came home with her right hand in a bandage (绷带). Joe asked Della what was the _________. Della said, “It was because of an iron-- I mean a plate of soup spilled on my _________.”

“What do you do every day, Della? Do you __________ give music lessons?” Joe asked. “Tell me the __________!”

Della cried. She told Joe that she was working in a laundry (洗衣店), __________ shirts. A girl accidentally __________ an iron on her hand and she got a __________ burn. But Della asked Joe how he had guessed that she wasn’t giving music lessons.

Joe told Della that he worked in the engine-room of the same laundry where she worked. They both let out their __________ and laughed.

9 . When I was in middle school, I had a classmate named Alice. She liked to tell me my shortcomings (缺点).

One day, Alice said to me,“You are too short and too proud!” Hearing this, I felt very sad and _______. I ran home to tell my father _______ it, with tears in my eyes. My father said nothing. He just _______ me carefully. Then he said to me, “Are all the shortcomings Alice has told you true? You can write them down and check whether they are true or not.” After _______ them down, I was surprised to find that about half of the things were true. For some of the things, I couldn’t change them. But for many of the things, I could _______ them. For the first time, I knew about _______ better than before.

Later, I showed my father what I had written down, _______ he didn’t read it. “That’s just for you,” my _______ said. “You know about yourself _______ than any other person. If something that is said about you is true, you’ll find it useful. Listen to others patiently, but hear the truth only.”

My father’s advice came to my mind at many important moments. It is the best ________ that I have ever had in my life.

10 . Anthony was excited to hand out invitations to his graduation from the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) to his family on Monday. To his surprise, however, he wasn't the only one, as his mother, Gray, followed with a letter that had the _________ information for the UHD ceremony with her own name and degree.

“Her picture was on an invitation saying that she'll be graduating from the university the same day,” says Anthony, “I was _________.” Without any sign that his mother was attending the same school at the same time, Anthony ______how it was possible that she was admitted.

Gray just ________ how she kept it that way. “I knew Anthony's schedule. So I knew what time he would be there and what time he wouldn't,” says she. “So I never ________ him at school.” She made sure to keep her secret just between herself and her husband.

She says of why she kept her return to school _________. “I didn't want to start something and then everyone expects me to complete my education and then it may become a disappointment. I was ________ because you're talking about an older lady competing against younger students in one class. You can imagine how ________   it was.”

The mother explains that she used to think of _________ her family. However, it was always a _________ of hers to go back to school. “I met a friend the other day, he spoke a word to me, ‘If you are still breathing, then it's not too _________.’ And I just thought of those words and I attended _________.”

On Saturday, Gray and Anthony will be graduating together in a virtual (虚拟的) ceremony held by the school. ________ it isn't the graduation that either of them expected, it might be even better. “There are people who may have a dream, but don't quite have the __________ to complete the dream. And I just want to __________ them,” Gray adds. “Don't stop, go forward and make sure it becomes a reality.”