1 . Jaxon Carter, a 6-year-old boy, lost his mother very early. Her passing away left the little boy and his dad in _________. Soon after that, Jaxon had to move to a new _________ to study, which proved to be a great _________ for him.

Jaxon has been an outstanding and _________ student, despite his sadness over losing his mother. Jaxon recently had his graduation ceremony where he _________ a valedictory (告别的) speech. However, a normal speech everyone expected _________ an emotional and heart-breaking one as the boy paid tribute to (致敬) his late mother.

“When I started kindergarten here in August last year, I was a little 5-year-old boy who had lost my beautiful mother a month before. My kindergarten year helped me grow braver, smarter, more kind-hearted, and more _________,” he said in the _________. He thanked his teacher, who he _________ as someone with a “big heart”. “When I was __________, she used to tell me it would be all right.”

Lastly, he dedicated his speech to the person he __________ missed his mother. “I dedicate my speech, good grades, all school awards, and my kindergarten graduation to my beautiful mommy, who I will always __________ and miss so much,” said Jaxon. “I know she will always be with me in my __________.”

The audience __________ him as they were all brought into tears by the boy’s beautiful and heartfelt __________.

2 . Tiffany Hammond and her son Aidan communicate in some familiar ways, like hand gestures and body language. But when Aidan wants to ______ himself with words, he uses a tablet (平板电脑).

Aidan is autistic (患孤独症的) and does not speak, so when his mom asks ______ , he can press a button on the screen to answer them. The family has designed routines around his autism, but people outside the household don’t ______ .

“Every single time we go outside the house, there’s something bad happening. There’s a______ , and there’s a mean stare,” Hammond said. “And he feels lonely a lot.”   However, that loneliness and those reactions from outsiders ______ Hammond to find a way to ______the ways in which people with autism can express. They just communicate in a(n) ______type of way. The result of this experience is a children’s book from Hammond titled A Day With No Words. The book followed Aidan through a regular day, showing his ______routines.

Hammond also wrote about the ______ of the book to want people to give kindness and the goal she hoped to ______ with the writing.

In an interview, Hammond said,   “I want to ______ all the things that I see in him. He loves being outside and swings, and he loves life. He is ______ like other people. I want to______ the regular life that I have with my son, and it is supposed to ______ a loving letter to him.”

______, a day with no words can be full of meaningful communication.

3 . Childhood should be full of friends, play, and happiness. But when children are _________ and without their peer group, they may _________ a helping hand to get back on track. That’s why schools in India are teaching _________.

Actually, it is important to _________ kids to be resilient (有弹力的). They needed a(n) _________ that could train students to identify emotions and ways to channel them.

The happiness course was _________ started by the Indian government in 2018. It _________ mental health, well-being. It also encouraged _________ peer connections for elementary school children. The course included storytelling and teamwork activities.

“The happiness course is a(n)_________, and schools should welcome it. The objectives include developing self-awareness, mindfulness, critical thinking, and helping children __________ life skills to deal with stress,” said Shikha Banerjee, the principal of the Seth Anandram Jaipuria School in Kanpur.

“Mindfulness is the cornerstone of the happiness course and its biggest __________ is that every day 1.6 million children in Delhi start their studies in school with mindfulness. It has __________ as a turning point in the lives of students studying in Delhi schools and has relieved (缓解) children from stress and __________ their focus in studies,” deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said during the Mindful Education Awards 2021 program.

The award is an initiative to __________ the efforts of schools in creating a mentally and physically healthy __________ for the development of children through teaching mindfulness.

4 . Everyone gets angry sometimes, but being angry doesn’t really solve much. Your goal is to calm yourself down. This is _________ for some people. Instead of calming down, they might get more and more upset _________ they explode like a volcano. Some people might say they have trouble _________ their temper. Sometimes angry feelings can be hard to _________. So what do you do if your temper is like a volcano?

Well, the good news is that people don’t keep making the same mistakes over and over again. You can _________ your temper. Here are steps you can take at any time.

Get a lot of _________ activities. Exercise can be good because it is a way of _________ energy and stress. You can dance around your room to your favourite music, too.

Talk to your mum or dad. If you’re having trouble with your temper, tell your parents you’re trying to do a better job of controlling yourself. Let them know you are going to ask for their help.

Put _________ into words. Get into the habit of saying what you are feeling and why. Using words might help you manage your strong feelings and behaviours.

Take a break from the _________. If you are in a(n) __________ with someone, go to another part of your house. You can just say, “I want to be __________ for a while so I can calm down.”

Go into a timeout. If you feel angry and think you need a timeout to calm down, don’t __________ until your parents tell you to take a timeout for yourself. Let your family know that when you’re taking a timeout — they need to __________ your space and leave you alone. While you are sitting in your chair, try to take a deep __________.

Learn to shift. The idea is to shift from a really angry mood to a better mood. After you __________ the angry feelings out, you have to start thinking about other things. You can say, “I lost my temper, but I’m going to get myself under control now.”

5 . In 1980, Dad was diagnosed(诊断) with a serious disease. The disease _________ his memory and expression. Dad couldn’t think or process information as fast as he _________ to. He grew to repeat the same words, which drove Mom _________. On one of my visits home, Dad was sitting in his deck chair. I reached down to _________ and kiss him. “What’s new? How are you?”

“Oh, you know, dear, the same. They treat me like a mushroom around here. They keep me in the dark.” He laughed, proud of his _________.

As I walked through the kitchen, I stopped to hug Mom. She _________ her head. “I heard your dad and those words! It’s not his will. He just can’t _________ himself.” She stopped for a while before _________. “He always says he’s just like a mushroom…” She took a _________ breath and laughed. “Goodness,” she said, “I’m going to be __________ the adversity(困境) for a long time.”

__________, Dad never became difficult, or had personality changes. I often felt grateful for that. Dad loved and __________ everything Mom ever did for him as well, no matter how big or small.

Care-giving comes at a __________. Mom was annoyed with Dad, but there was lots of love between them. Through the 21 years of care giving for Dad, there was __________ and tears, as well as weddings and babies. Without __________, I’m not sure what would have happened to us.

6 . Cope With Loneliness or Depression

My grandmother, Margaret lived to be 104, spending the last 16 years of her life in a nursing home. Although ______ kept in a wheelchair from severe arthritis(关节炎), she was mentally sharp until her ______. In fact, she was one of the very few residents there who could still think clearly. ______ the passing years, friends and family members died. Yet, when I had the ______ to visit her, she never seemed to be despondent or ______ of being lonely. After my visits, I ______ left thinking “If I lived that long, would I have the same ______? Was there something special or different in the way she thought that prevented her from becoming ______ ?”

By our very nature, human beings are relational. As social beings, we need some sense of ______ to the world around us, whether it’s through people or the ______ world. In what appeared to be the very ______world of my grandmother, she had ______ close relationships with the nurses on her floor. I’ve ______ a lot on the example my grandmother provided during her ______ years. I’ve asked myself many questions about aging and how to ______ a sense of well-being as our world ______ to narrow from the death of family and friends or major health issues. Perhaps what I’ve ______ will help you, too.

Being alone. What does that ______ bring into your mind? The way we feel about being alone has something to do with the way we frame it. For example, you ______ be in a large group of people and still feel very lonely. Yet, some people seem to recharge and actually energize by taking the time to be alone. Once your thoughts and feelings change, it will be ______ for your behavior to change as well.

7 . I didn’t believe in ghosts (幽灵). However, my mother reminded me many times that I had the_________ . It was all because of a_________ I told when I was 4. One night I ________ to get ready for bed, so I lied there was a ghost in the bathroom. Mother was_________ to learn that.

After that she often_________ anything unusual—a sudden wind, a vase that fell and got broken. She would ask me,“Is she here?” She ________ my grandmother, who she said died in a car accident. When I was 14, my older brother was seriously ill. My mother ________ me to ask my grandmother to save him. When he died, she asked me to talk to him as usual. “I don’t know ________, ” I said. When my father died six months after my brother, mother asked me if they still loved us. I spelled out the answer which I_________ she wanted to hear: “Yes， always.”

When I became a writer in my 30s， I wrote a story about a woman who killed herself by eating too much opium (鸦片).

________ the story, my mother got shocked, ________ its exactly how my grandmother died. For some reason, mother didn’t tell me the truth. Now she had ________ : My grandmother had talked to me and told me her true story. She asked me, “Is she here now?” I answered ________, “I don’t know.”

Over the years, mother always asked me some ________ questions. Sometimes I really got ________ of them. And I began to ________ whether there was something wrong with her ________. Ten years later, my mother left me forever. Suddenly I felt sad and ________. It seemed that I had lost everything. That night I ________ about her and she was laughing at my surprise. When she reached me, I felt as if I had been ________ in the chest with something: love, but also joy and peace. “Now you know,” my mother said.

8 . Cheng Jing, a 46-year-old Chinese woman, recently lost her grandmother, but for the last 13 years of her life, she tried her best to make the old woman believe that her daughter was still _______. Jing’s mother had died in 2003, but considering that letting her grandmother know the news would _______ her, she didn’t want to _______ it and decided to employ someone to _______ her mother’s voice and _______grandma regularly to avoid _______ the old woman’s heart.

Jing’s mother, Cheng Congrong, and her grandmother had always been very _______. Knowing that she developed cancer and didn’t have much time to live, Congrong _______ dozens of voice messages and asked her children to play them back to their grandmother so she wouldn’t be _______ about her. Cheng Jing ________ her mother’s last wish and after her death, she kept playing the recordings.

Cheng Jing soon realized it was only a matter of ________ before her grandmother realized the messages were pre-recorded. Then she made the ________. After hearing Cheng Jing’s story and feeling ________ for the old woman, Chen Weiping decided to help. Weiping would call the old woman as often as she could, offering all sorts of ________ as to why she couldn’t come visit her. Cheng Jing and Weiping ________ to hide the truth for 13 years until the old woman passed away.

9 . I am a medical student from Zimbabwe, studying at Gannan Medical University. As a(n)________ living in China since 2016, I have ________ firsthand the country’s rapid economic growth and have learned a lot about reducing ________. Such a programme should be ________ by the world, especially Africa, where many countries are still underdeveloped. Governments need to work together with ________ people. The development of a country is not the government’s ________ alone. Its citizens also need to ________. As a concerned citizen of Zimbabwe, I want to contribute to my ________, using the wide ________ that I have gained in China.

In 2020, I decided to play my part in boosting my country’s ________ by starting my own business. ________ the fact that I live in China where the prices of materials are relatively low, I decided to start a brand of women’s shoes, which are ________ in China and sold both in my country and here in China. I have learned a lot from the Chinese shoe factory. It is my ________ to open a shoe factory in Zimbabwe, where my Chinese partners come to ________ us and help build the factory.

Using the ________ accumulated over time, I have been able to give back to my community. I founded a ________ organization, Patience of Hope Foundation, which aims to pay school fees for poor children in ________ parts of Zimbabwe. Through the organization, we have ________ many children and provided food for poor families. I am so ________ to China, which I consider my second home, for giving me the chance to learn and contribute ________ to my country.

10 . No Time

With a broad smile on her lips, 15-year-old Sirin rushed to her mom to show off her new painting. But Mom spoke in an _______ tone, “No time, baby. Right now, I am busy with an important talk. Just wait for some time, OK?”

Holding her oil painting, she frowned(皱眉), and then _______ her dad. “Dad, see what I have done,” Sirin announced aloud in a thrilling _______. Her dad turned around while adjusting his tie, smiled at her, and showed his thumbs up! Immediately, Sirin replied _______ , “Dad, you haven’t seen it yet.”

“No time, baby. I will see it _______ .” He just patted her back lovingly, kissed her forehead, and rushed for his office.

Sirin was not a kid to be _______ with simple gesture or smile. She stood there for a few seconds, and then stormed off to her own bedroom. “Why is everybody so busy?” She _______ thousands of incidents that hurt her in pre-school, middle school and even in high school too! She assumed at least her own family members would give some values to her thoughts, but they were no _______. Unconsciously, her eyes were filled with tears.

When it was time for dinner, Sirin deliberately came late to join them. She kept silent and didn’t look at anyone, scratching the table mat with her nail. Her mom was _______ at the unusual behavior. Confused, she asked, “Honey, did I do anything wrong?”

Hearing this, Sirin could no longer ________ her anger. “Why is everybody so busy? I hate you!” she roared, grabbing the painting on the table and ________ it into pieces. So shocked was Mom that she rushed to hug Sirin and said “Baby, I am so sorry! I promise we will try our best to make it right.”

When back from school the next day, Sirin was ________ to see her beautifully-decorated painting on the wall. It was beautifully framed(装裱), ________ by the touching words: “We are so proud of you, our little angel!” On seeing it, Sirin burst out crying. Recalling her parents’ stress from work and daily life, she ________ her previous behavior. She looked up with watery eyes and apologized to her parents. In a family, it was proper attention and mutual(相互的) ________ that help build a strong bond.