2 . We were the only family with children in the restaurant. I sat with Eric in a high chair and noticed everyone was ________ eating. Suddenly, Eric shouted with ________, “Hi there.” His fat baby hands hit the chair, and his eyes were wide with excitement.

I looked around and saw why Eric was so excited. It was an old man with a ________ coat and his hair was unwashed. I was sure he ________. His hand waved. “Hi there, baby; I see you,” the man said to Eric.

My husband and I ________ our looks with each other. Eric continued to laugh and answer, “Hi, there.” Everyone in the restaurant noticed this. My husband and I were so ________ that we wanted to leave as soon as possible.

We ________ the meal in a hurry and ________ for the door. My husband went to________ the bill and told me to meet him in the parking lot. The old man sat________ me and the door. “Just let me out of here ________ he speaks to me or Eric,” I thought to myself. As I came nearer to the man, I turned my back to avoid the air he might be________, trying to keep my son from him. ________ Eric raised both his arms in a baby’s “________” position (姿势). Before I could stop him, he had________ himself to the man’s arms. With total ________ and love, Eric put his tiny head on the man’s shoulder.

His ________ hands full of dirt gently patted my baby’s back. I stood amazed. After a while, he ________ Eric to me and said, “God bless you, ma’am. You’ve given me the best Christmas ________.”

I had just seen a sincere love from a tiny child who made no judgement by appearance. The poor old man, ________, had made me realize what true love is.

3 . It was 1935, when I was 10 years old, and we lived in Brooklyn, New York.

A few days before _______ , my father was sitting on the chair, _______ , with tears in his eyes. The mailman was _______ our building and asked my father what was _______. I heard my father say that he had _______ his food and that the _______ was past due. He had tried to work as a _______ , but he wasn't a very _______ man, and the work had been too hard for him. "How much do you need?” the mailman asked. My dad said he needed $33 for the rent, and without _______ , the mailman took $50 from his wallet and ________ it to my father. My dad said, I don't know ________ I'll be able to pay you back." The mailman put an arm around my father and said it would be ________ if he paid him back or not. The mailman noticed me and said, "Isaac, things will not be this way forever. If you or your son will ________ this day, there will be times in the future when someone needs your help. Help them within your means and tell them what happened this day. This will be my ________. Merry Christmas.

As long as he lived, my father helped others when he could, and I've done my best to do my part in paying the mailman's ________ back.

4 . I am a girl, but I was born to be a rebel (叛逆者). I like games that can be _____ Some of the sports I like, even boys won’t play!

Wrestling (摔跤) is _____ seen as a sport for men, but I _____ to see if I could do it.

Every Saturday morning, I got out of bed early to go and watch my brother _____.From morning to night, I would sit watching the _____ have all the fun. Since then, wrestling has been part of my _____.

For three years, I _____ all the boys and became the best player in the team. My _____ memory of wrestling is when a boy walked off _____ because he’d lost to a girl.

My last ______ was at this year’s Girls’ State Wrestling Championships.

I was so ______. I was sure I would win. My heart was beating hard when the match started. I could see ____but my competitor. When the final whistle blew, I had ______ by four points. The cameras and ______ all turned to me: I was the new wrestling champion. I felt so ______. But after a few minutes of enjoying being a champion, ______ began to run through my knee. Because I hurt my knee, my ______ of being a national champion ended. Even so, I won’t lose heart and still ______ to wrestle next year when I go to college. I have   ___ that you can do anything you want if you stay positive and put your ______ into it.

5 . It was a few years ago, and I took a holiday-season job in a video store. One day, an elderly woman _________ my store, along with a young woman who I _________ was her daughter. The daughter showed _________, rolling her eyes, sighing and checking her watch every few seconds.

The elderly woman separated from the young one and _________ to search through the DVDS on the nearest shelf. I _______ and asked if I could help her _________ something. The woman smiled at me and showed me a title on a piece of paper.

Rather than rushing off to _________ the DVD for the woman, I asked her to walk with me _________ I could show her where she could find it. Looking _________, I think I wanted to enjoy her __________ for a moment. Something about her __________ movements reminded me of my mother, who passed away a few years ago.

As we walked along the back of the store, I __________ what was on the shelves: old television shows, action movies, cartoons, etc. The woman seemed ________ the unrushed company and casual conversation.

We ________ the movie, and I praised her for her choice. She smiled and told me it was one she had __________ when she was at her son’s age and that she hoped he would enjoy it as much as she had.

I ________ the old woman to the cashier and then stepped back toward the young woman. “Is that your __________?” I asked. She rolled her eyes and said, “Yeah.” Mind some __________?” I asked. “Of course not,” said the daughter.

“Cherish（珍爱）her,” I said. And then I answered her surprised expression by saying, “When she’s __________, it’s the little moments that’ll come back to you. Times like this. I know.” It was __________. I still missed my mom and remembered the times when I’d used my impatience to make her upset.

6 . In today’s world, it is nice to know a simple act of kindness doesn’t go unnoticed. When 15-year-old Dontarius Caldwell was taken in a ________ showing him helping a blind woman cross the street, he wasn’t doing it for clicks (点击量) or ________

“I was just trying to ________. I really didn’t think I would be on camera,” he said. A photo of the Aiken High School freshman became ________ on Tuesday, showing the young teen helping the woman at Hamilton Avenue in College Hill.

“I was just helping the elderly, ________ a helping hand. Everybody needs a helping hand,” he said. Like any other day, Dontarius was on his ________ and playing games while waiting for his school bus with his younger sister Diamond.

“Diamond was ________ music on the smart phone, too, then she looked over ________ and I looked over to see what she was ________.” Dontarius recalled. Diamond saw a woman

________ to press the button for the crosswalk sign, so she ________ her brother to do something. “I told Dontarius that I think she loses her ________, he should get up and go help her ________ the street while I waited for the ________ to come,” said Diamond.

“I asked, ‘Madam do you ________ some help?’ And she answered, ‘Yes.’ She gave me her hand and I ________ it,” Dontarius said. Dontarius said he didn’t do anything ________ He was just ________ to do the right thing in the family. “If you are ________, what happens to them happens to you.” Dontarius was given a key to the school as a ________ for his kindness.

A landlord in Maine announced he would not be collecting rent from his tenants (租户) in April due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak.

Nathan Nichols, of South Portland, wrote on Facebook that the tenants     1     (live) in the two units he owns are service and hourly workers, who may be out of work in the coming months.

“Because I am     2     (fortune) enough to afford it and I have the privilege of being in the owner class, I just let them know I would not be collecting rent     3     April,” Nichols wrote. “I ask any other landlords out there to take     4     serious look at the situation and consider giving their tenants some rent relief as well.

Nichols’ post has more than 22,000 shares and     5     (hundred) of comments praising his     6     (decide). In an update post on Facebook, he revealed that it had inspired at least one other landlord to do the same.

He added: “Every so often, however, there is a comment from a landlord who would like       7     (help) the tenants, but     8     (simple) can’t, or from a tenant who really wishes the landlord would help him, but     9     (doubt) whether they will. To these people, I say: I don’t know your situation and I don’t want to judge that a landlord     10     is still collecting rent is somehow a bad person.”

8 . Pennsylvania is full of mysterious places! One of those is an old turnpike （收费高速公路） _______ for decades. My dad loves history, and he learned it was open to the public. _______, when I was 14, we took a bike trip to _______ this road!

My dad chose a 16-mile _______ of the road for us to ride. Part of it included an old tunnel called Sideling Hill which is over a mile long! To _______, we checked our tires and made sure our lights had batteries. In the morning, we loaded our bikes into the car and set off. As we approached the tunnel, I felt _______ as it was absolutely black inside! But Dad encouraged me. He said he would be beside me. He reminded me to stay _______ and keep my light on!

When we _______ the tunnel, the sound of our bikes was heard through the darkness. I shined my flash light around and saw walls _______in graffiti （涂鸦）.And I felt like I was being __________! I was pretty scared, but __________ on following Dad helped me relax. After riding half-way through, I could see light coming from the other end, motivating me to keep going. And I was so delighted to ride out into the bright afternoon!

Whenever going through __________ in life, I remember this trip. It reminds me that my father is always beside me. He turns on the light of hope in my __________, as well as gives me __________ to keep riding through life's   __________ tunnels.

9 . Linda worked as a waitress at the Route 130 diner in Dover, New Hampshire. One Thursday morning around 5:30 am, she was _______ two firefighters, Young and Hulling. Quite _______, she heard that they had been up all _______ putting out a fierce warehouse fire, which took twelve hours to get under control.

_______, Linda decided to honor these two heroes by picking up their _______ and writing them a heartfelt message of gratitude. It _______, “Your breakfast is on me today. Thank you for all that you do... Fueled by fire and driven by _______, what an example you are! Get some rest.”

This simple act of kindness meant so much to the _______ firefighters. The firefighters _______ and thanked her before leaving the __________

To return the young lady’s kindness, upon his arrival home, Hulling posted a Facebook update __________ his friends to go eat at the diner, which was quickly __________ over 3,000 times.

However, it was not until afterwards that they realized Linda was __________ the one that could use the __________. When they found out that Linda was trying to __________ money for her paralyzed father to get a wheelchair-accessible van, Young posted with a __________ to a GoFundMe page for Linda’s dad, and the support __________.

The total donations reached $60,000 and went beyond Linda’s wildest dreams. She had never __________ that her small gesture would be paid in such a __________ way. “I’m truly blessed that those two walked through the doors today and __________ for the opportunity to be a part of something so positive and uplifting.’’ Linda said on Facebook.

10 . I was born legally blind. Of all the stories of my early childhood, the one about a______is my mother's favorite.

I was only two when the______occurred. We had just arrived home from a trip. Mom lifted me out of the car and _____to speak to the driver. I took advantage of my brief______to dash across the lawn (草坪) — and hit a large maple tree! I was running so fast that I bounced off the trunk and______on my backside. Mom______me to start crying, but I just sat there for a minute. Then I______myself up and kept right on going. Mom always______here that, as many times as I______across the lawn after that, I never again______into that tree.

Mom loves to use this story as an______. It reminds her that children don't enter life______to take risks or unwilling to______again when they fall down. She never wanted me to lose that______as I grew older. When I______my major life decisions，I was still that little girl tearing full-speed across the lawn. I studied abroad and later moved away from my parents' home to look for a______, Through years of______, I have become a respected teacher in a school serving high-need students.

We are almost certain to get______at some point during the process of achieving our goal. When that happens, don't sit in the grass and______. Just get up and keep on going. It will all be worth it______.