1 . My new birthday tradition is a big hit today. I ______ it a couple of years ago. It goes like this: I put the ______ number of one-dollar bills as my new ______ into my pocket and surprise strangers around town.

I know, $25 isn’t much but that’s my attempt (努力) at spreading kindness. I ______ strangers at local shops including McDonald’s, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Blenders, Kyle’s Kitchen, Yogurtland, along with ______ tips (小费) to some of the folks behind the counter.

Reactions (反应) were wonderful as I ______, “It’s my birthday and paying for this is my gift to you.” I would ______ the money and leave. Recipients (接受者) and even people working at the shops were astonished and excited.

I love it when people tell the story of the ______ guy with the Batman mask who paid for their coffee or burgers.

The ______ one of all was the last one at a restaurant. I paid for a young man’s ______. He was shocked and delighted. When I left and got into the car, he ______ me and told me I had made his day. Besides, I got the news that his ______ was in three days and we’re both Capricorn (摩羯座). So I told him that he can fill 25 ______ in his pocket and make people ______ the way he felt right then.

He wished me a happy birthday and a Merry Christmas, and I drove off ______ with my Batman mask on.

What a great birthday!

4 . It was the first night of a tiring seven-day 250km race across the Gobi Desert a year ago. Mr. Leonard___________a little dog going around his camp trying to ___________herself.

“Cute, but I’m not giving you any,” Leonard thought. Like all ___________, he had packed just enough for the whole ___________. He’d been running competitively for three years, and he had a___________ to win.

The next day, at the starting line, the dog ___________ him again. He waved her away, worried that she might be stepped on by the runners. ___________, the dog followed him all the way until the day’s race ___________. That night the dog snuggled (偎依) up to Leonard and even___________ to get a little food from him. By then, he was determined to name her Gobi.

The pair went on to finish the seven-day race, with Gobi____________ a distance of 125km on her own, and winning Leonard over, enough for him to make a____________ — he would take her home to Edinburgh. “Seeing Gobi on the race ____________my attitude to things. It made me think more about stopping and helping her, rather than just focusing on winning, ” said Leonard, who finished second. “It also made my running more enjoyable , giving me a lot of pleasure.”

As Leonard was preparing to get Gobi home, she was missing. With a group of 20 local volunteers coming to his ____________ , he finally found her. After that, Leonard never let Gobi out of his____________. Now Gobi’s favorite activity is still running, and she__________ does at least 8km a day with Leonard up the hills.

6 . 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.

7 . 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. ”

8 . 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.”

9 . My mom is an awesome human being just like all other moms. She knowingly and unknowingly ______ me a whole lot of things about the world. The incident which I’m going to share today determined the way I ______ everybody.

I was four years old. One fine afternoon, my mom and I were staying outdoors, she reading and I watching a line of ______. I was never a naughty kid; in fact I was known for keeping quiet even when things were not going my way. So I don’t remember why I did this but I disrupted (使中断) the lines of ants and I liked it when they looked so ______ . I even went ahead and stepped on a couple of them! My mom saw this and she wasn’t ______ with me but she said something I still ______ today. She said, “You should never be ______ to anybody however little they are. Everybody is different and we shouldn’t treat them ______.”

I got upset when I heard this because I thought I had ______ my mom. Also my little heart started ______ the family of ants I had killed. It has been more than 25 years now and I’ve ______ so many things that have happened in my life; however, I still do my best to be kind to everybody.

We should teach our young kids to never be mean to anybody. It makes a ______ when people praise other people for their efforts and when instead of being envious, we’re proud of people achieving their goals however ______ they may be. When you’re kind to other people, it’s a ______ that goes on. It’s the kind of chain reaction that uplifts the whole world one heart at a time. I believe in the magic of______!

10 . Two-year-old Nancy is deaf. However, that hasn't stopped her from being a(n) _______ little girl trying to “chat” to anyone she meets. As soon as she goes out into town with her parents, she starts _______ in the hope that the person she is talking to knows sign language too.

Normally, hearing loss is a social _______ for those who don't know how to use sign language. Anyone Nancy tried to talk to _______ this and felt so sorry they couldn't respond. They wished they could _______ her and say something back, but they found themselves completely at a loss.

Then, something amazing happened. Instead of causing a _______， this barrier brought the community together. Determined to _______ sign language so that they could talk to Nancy, her _______ hired an instructor on their own, and now they are devoted to taking classes together. The teacher _______ that this is really remarkable because, quite often, even the parents of deaf children don't bother to learn the language. But here Nancy has a full community that is signing and communicating with her, and it is a ________ story.

The teacher also says that this level of inclusion will make a huge difference in Nancy's ________. It almost certainly guarantees that she will be a happier and more ________ individual in the future. Nancy's parents are already noticing a ________ in their daughter and they have no words to express how ________ they are to their neighbours.

With a little girl and a lot of love, the neighbours ________ make the neighbourhood a community.