1 . When I was a primary school student, I didn’t like doing housework at all. I thought I was a little child and that I just needed to study hard to get good grades. So I didn’t do any_______at home.

One day, my mother_______back home from work. She found that I had made a mess (乱七八糟) in the house. My books and clothes were everywhere. She was annoyed (恼火) and said to me_______, “From now on, you must do some housework every day!” Hearing my mother’s _______, I felt unhappy. But I still did as she said.

Doing housework was more difficult than I had expected. I began to understand that life was not _______ for my parents. They had to do a lot of housework after they came back home_______work. So I decided to do more housework. I tidied my room and _______my clothes. I helped my_______cook meals in the evening. My parents praised _______for my changes.

Now I realize that doing housework can not only reduce our parents’ burden (负担)________also help us to learn many basic life skills.

5 . Spreading Kindness, Rock by Rock

“Mom! I found one! I found a rock!”

I _________ those words again and again last summer as I sat on the porch of my home, which faces a park in the small town where I live.

The Kindness Rocks Project, which was started a few years ago by a mom in Massachusetts, has _________ around the world. _________, families, and adults of all ages are taking part — painting rocks, hiding rocks, and finding painted rocks all over the place. Some _________ photos of the rocks on social media, and others simply move the rocks for someone else to find. Some take the rocks home and then _________ them with new ones that they create and hide.

Nine-year-old twins Harry and Hannah DeVrieze have _________ hundreds of rocks with their parents. Most evenings, the family and their small dog walk around with a wagon full of _________ that they hide as they walk.

“It’s a fun _________ activity,” Hannah says.

“We will do it in the winter too,” Harry _________. Ben Burinsky, aged nine, and his brother, Luke, aged seven, were visiting relatives when they __________ their first painted rock in a park. They were so __________ that they went home and painted their own rocks, then __________ them for others to find.

“My boys loved finding the rock in the park, __________ since it was a superhero,” their mother, Judy Burinsky, says. “I love how something so __________ can bring a smile to my children’s faces. In return, they learn the __________ of giving back to others.”

7 . Christmas is a time for giving and receiving. However, is it ________ for close family and friends? Do we even spare a ________ for those in need? Our children receive so much throughout the year.

As parents we want our daughters to be ________ for what they have and to think of those who don’t. That’s why my husband and I want them to ________ the spirit of giving back from a very young age.

Through their school, the girls have a charity which they ________ . Every Tuesday they take two loaves of bread to the school food bank. Twice a year they donate ________ clothes, toys and books to shelters. They also volunteer on weekends. As my husband is a regular blood donor, the girls ________ to donate as well. Unfortunately they are too ________ as the start age is 16.

Children mirror the ________ of their parents and if you often reach out to others by giving generously, they will ________ . Christmas is the perfect time to teach them to give back to those less ________ .

Teaching the gift of giving back not only promotes personal growth, it also ________ them a sense of belonging and pride. It will create ________ that they are making a difference in someone else’s life no matter how small the ________ . It teaches them love, kindness, patience and so on. These ________ will help them carry it forward in their adult life.

8 . 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.

9 . 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) ________!

10 . 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.