2 . A senior has been reunited with his long lost brother and sister after more than 20 years, which is incredible. It was owing to the ________ he received when his dog and he picked up litter. 80-year-old Alfie Kitson and his five-year-old Spanish Podenco ________ in a video just before Christmas with the dog Millie tidying up ________ and putting it into the bin.

Kitson and Millie was a ________ sight on the streets of Hereford, because they had that for a few years. It was after the filming that Alfie was ________ by his sister’s husband as Millie was helping ________ the streets. The family was then ________ to track down Alfie to the village of Ulingswick, where he lives with his wife Judy.

________, Alfie has reunited with brother Dave, who’s 84, and 71-year-old sister Anne for the first time in more than two decades. Alfie had ________ from his siblings after moving to Coin in Málaga two decades ago. Alfie said, “My brother ________ to London years ago and my sister went elsewhere too.”

“I received a ________ recently from my granddaughter. On the phone she said my sister Anne was ________ to find me, I was only eight miles away.” I came back home one day and ________ there was my sister. She then got in touch with my brother Dave. “We all ________ up in Hereford, and now we have all been reunited,” Alfie says. “It has been ________.”

7 . When Kellie Barker welcomed her third child into the world, she noticed he behaved differently. Baby Oscar wouldn’t wave or say ”mama“, and he’d ________ hurt himself.

Then at the age of two, Oscar was diagnosed with autism (自闭症) and later extreme anxiety and ADHD(多动症). But that didn’t the ________ parents’ love for him. ________, they just regard being parents of an autistic child as ”the most challenging but ________ job“.

”Oscar is severely autistic and strongly ________ by his nerve system. He can be in a very anxious state when he wakes up for no reason, and he prefers to see people in ________ moods, “Kellie explained. To create a better ________ for Oscar, Kellie and Brendan always have to ________ joyfully. They often sing to each other to prove they are happy and when there is ________, they even quarrel in a high-pitched sing-song voice.

”Oscar ________ us every day. He has a ________ for languages and he can now speak Spanish, Russian and Korean, “Kellie said.

But strangers haven’t always been so ________— when Oscar was young, one man saw him and said, ”I’d give him a ________ if he were my child. ”

________ by the negative feedback, Kellie ________ her own clothing company, which produces T-shirts printed with slogans like “be kind, I have autism” to ________ people that the kids need ________. The clothes are now popular among thousands of families with autistic children.

“Autism is a beautiful thing. Our little boy wakes up most days ________ like it’s Christmas morning. I believe we are heading towards a ________ in perspective(看法)and we still need to work together towards a common goal of greater ________ and understanding, ” Kellie said.

9 . Hurricane Ian hit Florida in October and brought with it flooding, winds, and a record high storm. Many residents like Karen Lauder _________ to leave their homes because they _________ the intensity of the storm. Karen is 84 and relies on a wheelchair to _________ because of a missing leg. Her son, Johnny Lauder, tried repeatedly to get her to _________, but in vain.

Johnny had to stay but he and his family lived in another district. They kept in _________ touch with Karen. When Karen _________ that the water in her house had reached her waist, he knew he had to take _________.

Johnny jumped out of a window and began to _________ to his mother’s. As he made his _________ through the water, Johnny stopped occasionally to snap selfies(自拍) to show his __________ family that he was okay.

Johnny was racing against __________. He only had a short period of time to get there before the water rose above Karen’s __________. It took him 40 minutes to swim four blocks. Karen’s yell sounded like __________ to his ears! She was still alive! But Johnny saw Karen __________ like a leaf, so he found some clean sheets and wrapped her up on a table to get __________.

Everyone in Johnny’s family is now __________. They’ve all lost everything they __________, including their houses, but they’re __________ just to be here.

“I didn’t lose hope. So we’re still here. __________ is like a computer. There’re two buttons: There’s a reset and a power — and __________ it was just a reset button that got hit and not the power,” he said.

10 . When Randy Smalls found out that his daughter, ReOnna, was in a group of students who bullied(霸凌) a girl at school, he couldn’t bear to sit back.

As someone all-too-familiar with being bullied, he felt they should say sorry to Ryan Reese, the girl who was getting picked on. And in doing so, he also found a way to teach his own daughter a lesson. He decided to help Ryan buy brand new clothes. ReOnna was upset, especially because she is into fashion. So Randy asked her to come with them and help pick out Ryan’s new clothes. Randy also took Ryan to get her hair done at asalon (美发厅). Randy’s generosity became inspiration. Several local salons also offered to help keep her looking beautiful in the months that followed.

Upset as Re’Onna was at first, the more time she spent with Ryanthe more she began to truly understand the importance of not bullying. Not only because it’s not okay to hurt others but because you never know what someone else is going through. For Ryan, that included losing her dad, grandpa, and aunt in a short period of time. “I wasn’t expecting it,” Ryan said. “I just started to cry. It really took me deeper down in my depression.”

“As parents, we have to take responsibility for what our children do,” Randy said. “We can teach our children, but when they go and are around other children, something terrible may happen. When situations like this happen we have to take action and be the parent and not the friend.”