The passengers on the bus watched with sympathy as Susan made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and then, using her hands to feel the seats,     1    (settle) in one of them. It had been years since Susan became blind. As the result of an accident, she     2    (throw) into a world of darkness. Susan’s husband Mark watched her sink into despair and he was determined to use every possible means to help her wife. Mark volunteered     3    (ride) the bus with Susan each morning and evening until she could manage it by herself.

Zhang Dingyu, head of Wuhan’s designated coronavirus-treating Jinyintan Hospital, was     1    (award) “the People’s Hero”, a     2    (nation) honorary title, for his extraordinary contributions in the fight against COVID-19 on Sept. 8.

    3     the awarding ceremony, tears welled up in his wife Cheng Lin’s eyes. Behind the honorary title, their love story has warmed the hearts of many people.

After meeting for the first time at the end of that year when Cheng rotated into Zhang’s department, they soon     4    (fall) in love with each other. “He was     5    (especial) fond of studying. He went home by bike to have dinner every day     6     then went back to the hospital to study late into the night,” Cheng recalled, noting that she felt her heart flip at the first sight of Zhang.

In 2008, after the devastating Wenchuan earthquake, Zhang led a medical team from Hubei province to help victims in southwest China’s Sichuan province.

In October 2017, Zhang     7    (diagnose) with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS 肌萎缩侧索硬化症),     8     incurable progressive neurological disorder which results in weakened muscles that will cause him to progressively lose muscle strength.     9     then, Cheng has always taken care of him.

As this hero doctor continues to struggle in the fight against this disease day and night, Cheng’s heart broke after noticing her husband’s health has worsened since the outbreak of the epidemic.

“I can’t share     10     pain. I can only spend more time accompanying him and taking good care of him. When he comes home, I will always be there,” Cheng said.

When a grandchild comes along for the first time, it’s important to have the right help. In our case, a lovely young couple seems    1    (absolute) perfect in bringing up our grandson. The new baby appears to really like them,    2    certainly takes away the worry for us grandparents.

Here’s the deal: we get the young couple to do most of the difficult work, like    3    (feed) the baby and changing nappies. He even lives    4    their house, which makes things a lot    5    (easy). We arrive for the good times, such as when the grandson is available to lie in our arms and glancing up at the world as if to comprehend its wonder.

Why, you may ask, would a young couple be willing    6    (do) all the hard work, while the grandparents enjoy the good times? It’s a fair question. When we arrive,     7    couple has usually been up, all night with dark circles. The grandchild, though, is full of energy. We, the grandparents, take    8    (turn) to rock him and he wriggles (扭动)in our arms. An hour    9    two later,when things are about to turn tricky, we hand him back to them and disappear down the steps.

Could these different work conditions really    10    (consider) fair? The young couple seems happy enough. The grandchild looks like them both, which may have helped.

25-year-old Wan Minghui is a girl from a small city of Zigong in Sichuan Province. When she was young, she grew up closely with her grandparents. Now her grandfather is 84 years old,       1    (live) alone after her grandmother passed away. During an unannounced visit    2    him one day in May, Wan noticed his loneliness,    3    made her sad. Then an idea came to mind that she would quit her job to accompany him and set out to help him realize some of his wishes on his bucket list.

However, neither her parents    4    her grandfather agreed with her decision to quit her job, afraid that it would harm her career development. To make    5    living after quitting,she got three part-time jobs,including writing advertising online. So they    6    (final) agreed. Wan began to record her grandpa’s life in videos, which were posted to Douyin (抖音). Recently，the short videos under the names “Fulfilling Grandpa’s 100 Wishes ” and “Taking Grandpa for Travel”    7     (view) more than 100 million times, receiving more than five million likes and a long list of    8     (comment), including praise for Little Wan, best wishes for her grandfather and discussions about the meaning of life.

Although Wan has to stay up late    9    (work) sometimes, she thinks it’s all worthwhile when she sees her grandpa smile more and more.“She wrote in the video, My grandpa accompanied me as I grew up and I will accompany him as he    10     (grow) old.”

I’ve loved photography since I was a teenager. My parents recorded many home videos of my siblings and me. Cherished family moments     1    (document). Revisiting them was like opening a treasure chest. I’m grateful for these visual records     2     showed our youth and growth. Film had a big influence on me. I love the emotions conveyed by the story on video. For a decade I worked as a freelance filmmaker and photographer. I recorded a wide range of genres, therefore     3    (collect) tens of thousands of images—both still and moving.

My son Zack suffered from autism (自闭症)when he was two. Watching a movie together was an important routine for us. On an ordinary spring day, we were enjoying one of his favorite movies that he     1     (see) many times before. I took his hand as usual. Suddenly he stood up and wrapped his arms around me in a big bear hug. You could imagine     2     excited I was. Although it was just a hug, it meant a lot to me,     3    (fill) me with great joy.

A HILLARYS resident has shaved off her long hair in support of a friend who has a hair loss condition. Kam Waihi shaved her hair on May 12 in recognition of her friend Kathi Tait, who has been dealing with alopecia areata (斑秃)    1     she was nine years old.

“It all happened very quickly. I started getting large bald patches and     2     no time I lost 40 percent of my hair. ” Ms. Tait said. “My sister passed away from blood cancer the year before, so it was an     3    (extreme) tough time. I managed to get through primary school. However, high school was a different story. It was terrible; I got bullied (被欺负) because of my alopecia. “

Ms. Tait     4    (wear) a wig (假发) for the first year of high school and her hair grew back, only    5    (fall) out again after a year and a half. This pattern of growth and loss was frequent until her 30s when most of her hair fell out and didn’t grow back.

A few years ago she shaved off     6     small amount of    7    (remain) hair, stopped wearing wigs and started living a life as a bald woman-calling    8    (her) the “bald warrior”.

Miss Waihi,     9     has known Ms. Tait for more than 12 years, said her friend still faced    10    (judge) every day. “I want more people to know about the condition and to send out the message that it is OK to be bald.

Big Sister’s Wedding

Three days before the wedding, Grand Aunt personally entrusted a special small package for Aunt Baba to hand to Big Sister. On     1     (open) the elegant leather case in Aunt Baba’s room, Big Sister found a lovely pendant (吊坠) made of ancient green jade hanging on a heavy gold chain. She immediately put it on and breathed with pleasure while she admired     2     in the mirror. Then she begged Aunt Baba and me not to mention Grand Aunt’s gift to a soul, obviously intending to keep the pendant     3     telling Niang.

The wedding was a formal and brilliant affair with a ceremonial dinner party for five hundred in the grand ballroom on the ninth floor of the Cathay Hotel,     4     (situate) at the border of the Bund and fashionable Nanjing Road and overlooking the Huangpu River. The room     5     (fill) with masses of fresh flowers, and the Chinese character for double happiness was outlined in red blooms against the wall. Big Sister was elegantly dressed in a beautiful pink Qipao and silver shoes     6     Samuel wore a tuxedo (燕尾服). Two professional radio comedians acted as masters of ceremonies.

I had nothing to wear but an old pink Qipao     7     had been handed down by Big Sister when she grew out of it.     8     I didn’t look particularly nice, at least I didn’t stand out and no one noticed me. My three older brothers, however, were having a horrible time. For this special occasion, Father ordered them     9     (have) fresh hair-cuts. My brothers’ heads were shaved cleanly, so not a trace of hair     10     (remain). They were wearing dark-blue, traditional, long Chinese clothes with high collars and cloth buttons. I thought the brothers would make a lot of unexpected things on the Big Sister’s wedding.