1 . When preparing for a training run in Smyrna, Georgia, 24-year-old amateur (业余的) boxer Bilal Quintyne noticed an older woman sitting in a wheelchair by the side of the road. The chair was ________, and she could not move.

“She kind of had a(n) ________ look,” Quintyne recalled. “I just asked her, ‘Are you okay?’”

The woman, 67-year-old Belinda Whitaker, told him that she had been there for 45 minutes since her wheelchair motor stopped working. But ________ a passerby who had helped her back into her chair after she was thrown to the ground by the initial jolt (颠簸), no one had offered ________.

So she asked Quintyne, “Would you call someone to help?”

“I’ll do you one better,” he said. “I’ll ________ you home.”

Whitaker’s home was a 30-minute walk, and the wheels on the 360-pound chair had seized up(卡住)， making it harder to push for the first part of the ________ . Along the way, Quintyne’s trainer, Tony Willingham saw what was going on and started ________ it.

By the time Quintyne got to Whitaker’s home, he was ________. Whitaker hugged him anyway, and he went on his way.

Then Quintyne ________ Willingham’s video on his Facebook page, and it became a ________ immediately. It gained 3.4 million views, and he got calls from all over the world.

Quintyne said, “I don’t see myself as a superhero. I’m ________ a moral man doing what I can do.”

To Willingham, Quintyne’s act offers a ________ for the whole neighbourhood and the community. “There are still such things as being a good neighbour, there are still such things as sacrifice (牺牲), there are still such things as caring, there are still such things as sending a(n) ________ out saying, ‘I’m not too busy,’” Willingham said, “I thought that message was worth ________ with other people. The world should know that Bilal Quintyne exists, and that might ________ people to pay it forward, to say, ‘Hey, I want to do that for someone else.’”

2 . Back in 2019. I had the pleasure of traveling to China. My friend who was accompanying (陪伴) me on this trip and I ______ our flights and hotels online, excited about the adventure we planned for weeks. During our trip, we had so many exciting ______ . A week later, it was time to ______ home, and this is when my anxiety started to kick in. My friend’s flight was a day before mine, which ______ I had to go back home alone.

By the time I ______ my way to the airport, I was tired. Carrying my luggage and making sure I didn’t get ______ , I just wanted ______ to accompany me during this journey. Then the ______   happened. I got on the wrong train to the airport. This made my ______ even worse, and I started crying.

It was at that point a (an) ______ approached me. As I was trying to ______ how I got lost, he sat down next to me and ______ if I was a traveler. I told him I was a traveler going back to the United States and ______ the wrong train to the airport. He told me he knew ______ where I was going and asked me to follow him.

We finally reached the ______ stop. And to my unpleasant surprise, more stairs were in front of us. This was when he ______   my luggage and heavy suitcase up the stairs. It was at that moment I knew he was an angel. We ______ our goodbyes, and I expressed my ______ to him for helping me. After having a moment to myself, a sense of appreciation came into my mind for what I just ______ . Three years later, I still look back on this experience and the ______ that stranger showed me will never be forgotten.

3 . Let’s face it, studying is hard work. But if you’re honest with yourself you know that all the effort will _________ in the end. Doing well in school will mean you have a _________ chance of getting the career you really want. Okay, so you knew that already.

_________ did you know that someone who studies harder is far more _________ to become a better person too?

Here is a real story for students to read.

The story becomes special when you see what troubles she overcame.

She had a _________ childhood. She was once stabbed (刀刺) in the face by the young gang(帮派)member, and at times eating only ice because her family couldn’t afford _________.

You can conclude that she lived in a poor neighborhood where _________ was a common thing.

On top of that she was very bad in school, _________ at math and chemistry. That didn’t stop her from going on to graduate in the top five of her college class with a degree in _________.

After the __________ in which she got stabbed, she __________ to a new school. But she couldn’t afford to move to a(n) __________ neighborhood. Now she was two hours away from her new school, going every day through two very __________ areas.

She was interested in the people in her new school. An interesting fact is that her English was “good” __________ to kids in the new school. She meets mentor (辅导老师) that teaches her math so she could get __________ grades. Through this process, she __________ how actually smart she is and the only thing that was stopping her was fear.

To make the story __________ she started to teach math and later she got an offer to work for NASA on real rocket design.

The only thing that stops you is the __________ of unknown. __________ is that hard that you can’t learn or overcome. I __________ you to check her book called Mathaphobia: How You Can Overcome Your Math Fears and Become a Rocket Scientist by Olympia LePoint.

4 . Not long ago I wasn’t doing very well in exams and I was full of disappointment and negative thinking. While on the _______, I met many new friends, but one in particular _______. His nickname is Colorful Day and we _______ on the Web. He told me he lost his _______ at age 15, and felt the whole world had closed its door to him.

He was _______ so fast that I couldn’t believe he was blind! But he continued to _______, “Five years ago, I realized it was time to change my life. I had read about Helen Keller and understood her life and _______. So I developed a website about her life _______ mine called Three Days to See.”

I visited his website which was well _______ and vividly presented.

I asked, “How did you __________ to build such a website?” He said: “Owing to the new technology, I can use software specially __________ for the blind. __________ I point the cursor (光标), it will just read it out to me. We can do far more things and __________ more information than we could before.”

I then asked: “Didn’t you have great difficulty with it?”

He hesitated and then began his __________ with a smiling face, “Yes, but I have faith in myself to __________ my colorful day, and modern technology gives me this medium and __________ to do it.”

His __________ attitude towards life made me believe that our fate (命运) offers, not the cup of despair, __________ the cup of opportunity. I returned to my lessons, and this time with a smile on my face and with __________ of a colorful future.

The Internet, which opened to me to experience __________ lives and cultures, has an attractive power you couldn’t find in another wise non-virtual world.

5 . Once upon a time there was a thief in the Ruby (红宝石) Palace. No one knew who he was. People only knew that he _______ in the palace, and that they should always _______ their jewels in the palace.

The King decided to _______ who he was, and he asked for help from a dwarf (小矮人) who was famous for his _______. The dwarf spent some days there, watching and listening, _______ there was another stealing. The following morning the dwarf made all the palace people gather together in the same _______. After inspecting them for the whole morning, without _______ a word, during lunch, the dwarf started asking them what they knew about the _______ jewels one by one.

Once again，it seemed that no one had been the thief. But then, suddenly one of the _______ began coughing, rolling with pain，and finally he ________ the floor. The dwarf, with a smile, explained that the food they had just eaten was________，and the only antidote (解毒药) for this poison was hidden inside the ruby that had been stolen the previous________before yesterday. And he explained that he himself had exchanged some________rubies for the genuine(真正的) ones. He expected that only the thief would be able to ________ his life since the poison was particularly quick-working.

The coughs and groans (呻吟声) spread around the room, and terror took hold of all people________except one servant. He quickly ran to the place where he had hidden the ________ and from where he took the ruby. ________，he was able to open it and drink the strange liquid inside to save his life.

In fact, the gardener was one of the dwarf’s assistants, and the poison could do ________cause a few strong pains for a short while. And the servant then was found out and________by the guards and taken immediately to________. He was soon given a heavy punishment there.

6 . When it comes to experiencing other cultures, there’s no doubt that traveling is one of the most effective ways. ____, if you don’t have the time, money, or energy to ____ a trip abroad, you have other choices. In fact, you probably don’t even need to ____ your hometown to ____ other cultures!

Given the great ____ of America today, chances are that even the people you meet every day represent a ____ range of cultural heritage and experiences. Your friends, neighbors, and co-workers may ____ people of different national, religious, or ethnic backgrounds, all within arm’s reach. Take the ____ to get to know more about them. You might be ____ at the variety of people living right next to you.

Other types of cultural exploration can be ____. Consider spending a weekend learning about a different culture by ____ some activities such as visiting your local museum, reading a book and trying new cuisine.

In the ____, you can learn about works of art from other countries, look at archaeological finds from distant lands and think about how they may have ____ particular cultures. Read a book that explains the history of different societies and how they’ve evolved (进化) into the culture they are today. That can help you ____ how their customs, traditions, and food got to be the way they are today. Even food offers chances to ____ cultural variety and how it is expressed through cuisine.

7 . Family rules are positive statements about how your family wants to look after and treat its members. Household rules let everyone in the family know how to behave. They help family members achieve a balance between getting what they want and ____ the needs of others. They can also help children and teenagers feel safe and secure. ____, everyone in your family can get along better, and live a peaceful life.

Who should be ____ in making family rules?

It's important to involve all members of the family as much as possible when developing family rules. Children as young as three can help with the rule making, although parents,   undoubtedly, still play a(an) ____ role. As children get older, they can take a bigger part in deciding what the rules should be, as well as the ____ for breaking them. Preteens and teenagers get a lot of ____out of being involved in making rules because it gives them the chance to ____ the responsibility for their own behavior. And it is more likely for them to observe the rules made with their full involvement -this is a chance for them to know what ____ is.

What should the family rules be about?

Choose the most important things to make rules about — ____, a rule about not physically hurting each other would be a must for most families. You might also develop rules about safety, manners, politeness, daily____and respect for each other. Rules ____ from family to family. The standards you create will be influenced by your beliefs, ____ your situation and your child's maturity and needs.

What types of family rules can be made?

Rules come in different shapes and sizes. But all good rules have something in ____: they are specific and easy to understand.

"Do" rules are good teaching tools, and they’re best in most situations because they guide your child's behavior in a(an) ____ way. Here are some examples: Sit down to eat; speak in a(an) ____ voice; fasten your seat belt in the car. It's better to have more “do” rules than "don’t" ones.

8 . When spring arrives, it’s a custom for my family to clean up the last winter’s dust and dirt. This year, I decided that it would be a(n) _______ cleaning and we tried to _______ our house of years’ of accumulated (堆积的) stuff.

The stuff was _______ in our house, lining the walls, filling the shelves and _______ the closets(壁橱). I couldn’t remember how I got some of it, but I knew I wanted it _______ now. The stuff was messing up not only my home but also my _______, not bringing me any bit of _______.

Then we got down to cleaning. It turned out to be a _______ job. Twenty-year-old bills and receipts were _______ in the trash bin. Outdated ________ were cleared from file cabinets. Broken bowls and damaged handcrafts also found their ________ straight to the trash as well. Unworn clothes and unused pans were packed up to be ________ to the local charity. Old books were ________ up to be passed on to others to read and enjoy.

In spite of days’ hard work, it ________ that I was able to walk through a much tidier home. More importantly. I felt mentally ________ than ever before, which was beyond my ________. Cleaning is like the metabolism (新陈代谢) in the body, we need to ________ keep what works for us and push out what doesn’t.

Therefore, we need to take ________ off our minds and bodies from time to time and to just focus on what really ________ to us. We can regain a free life by cutting down material things and adding ________ ones.

9 . Oscar is a homeless young man in Portland. I _______ him years ago online by chance. I wrote to him last spring to see how I could help him. He has an autoimmune disease (自身免疫性疾病) and lost his_______ during COVID-19 and then his home.

It was months before he finally _______. He hoped to have a fan to keep _______ in the hot summer. We sent him one quickly. Later he said he _______ on concrete (水泥) and needed a ground mattress (床垫). The next month we got him that. He later _______ how wet it is in Portland so I found him a pair of waterproof (防水的) pants. He said that summer was like Christmas as he _______ so many things.

I _______ I could do more. My heart breaks for him. I told him how my son Ben was _______ and how he used to use the name Oscar in a game. “I’m sorry for that. But I’m not your ________,” he said. “I know. But I hope wherever he is, if he is homeless too, a ________ person is helping him.”

The other day I got a ________ from Oscar on the phone: “I have found a job and I just wanted to thank you for your generosity.”

________, most people we had helped for years found homes. One of those, John, leads a fulfilled (充实的) life. And I even plan to ________ a story about his excellent performance. I hope Oscar will find a ________ too. We’ll do whatever we can to help him until he does.

10 . Lectures. Exams. Grades. Pressure was everywhere at college. I felt like a heavy _______ on my shoulders. I _______ whether I would find time even for sports on Sunday.

I drove my _______ route to my parents, hoping the familiar sights would reduce the _______.

Up ahead was the old house that always stuck in my _______. The old man who lived there was sitting out front. His black dog was _______ in the tall grass at his feet as usual.

He was holding his book again. Once I had even heard him _______ stories to his black dog! “How _______ can a person get?” I said to myself.

“Come and sit a while,” he said, moving over to _______ me.

“You live alone?” I asked.

“My wife and most of my friends are __________ from this world, ”said the old man. “But I’ m never alone because I have my __________.”

“Do you believe in New Year?” he asked. “No matter what maybe happening in our __________, happy or sad, New Year is coming. You can __________ that.”

The next day when returning to school, I saw the old man reading again. This time, however, at his feet were some kids from the neighborhood. His faith had __________ rid him of loneliness.

I now have belief that the __________ days at college would pass. After all, New Year was at hand.