1 . When Deirdre Taylor was preparing to leave her Virginia home to fight Covid-19 in New York, she made sure to   ________ a possession that she kept for over thirty, ________: a front-page newspaper article.

This article ________ Taylor’s rescue from a burning New York City apartment by a ________ in 1983. She was only four then. The picture on the front-page article shows a young Taylor with the man who ________ her, Eugene Pugliese.

“I always knew I came ________ to losing my life that day,” Taylor told CNN. “I could have a second chance at life ________ him.”

Today, Taylor, 41, is an emergency room ________ with a happy family. Ever since the incident, she wondered what ________ the firefighter who saved her, coming up empty when she ________him online. ________ to spend two months helping in the ________ against Covid-19 at NYU Langone Hospital, Taylor saw this as a(n) ________ to find him.

During one of her shifts (轮班), Taylor gave an ________ of her experience to a fire fighter her. He called the current captain of New York City Fire Department (FDNY) in Manhattan, who ________ knew whom Taylor was looking for.

Taylor gave Pugliese a(n) ________ right after her shift and was very happy to hear his voice on the other end. “I wondered about him on 9/11 and hoped I would get the chance to thank him, and I finally ________,” said Taylor.

Now 76 years old, Pugliese was ________ when he got the call from Taylor on Friday.

“We just sat there crying on the ________,” Pugliese told CNN, “________ that he’s had the same article framed on his wall for 37 years now.”

3 . There are many brands of chocolate. If you love it, you can’t forget Dove —the most famous chocolate brand. But do you know what the meaning of DOVE is?

Dove chocolate is born because of ______. One day in 1919 Princess Bazaar of Luxembourg’s royal family first met the royal kitchen helper Leon. Many nights Leon slipped into the kitchen and ______ various ice creams for Bazaar. They soon fell in love. Unfortunately owing to their quite different social ______, both of them had to ______ the deep feelings in heart.

Afterwards Bazaar was made to______ an arranged royal marriage against her wishes. For many days, Leon could not see Bazaar, and he was burning with______. Finally Bazaar turned up at the table a month later. While serving desserts, Leon ______ the letters “DOVE” which is an   abbreviation of DO YOU LOVE ME with hot chocolate on Bazaar’s ice cream. Leon ______ that Bazaar could understand his feeling.

A few days later, Bazaar got______. Leon, broken hearted, could not ______ the mental suffering and left for America, where he and his own family   ______ a candy store years later but lived unhappily. Many years later, they met again before Bazaar’s death. Bazaar ______   that she did eat the ice cream that afternoon but didn’t see the   ______ letters and also didn’t receive any   promise from Leon and she had to ______   to her fate and missed him all her lifetime.

Hearing this, Leon broke down in tears. If that chocolate had been ______, those letters would never have melted and he would not have lost his last ______. Leon decided to create a solid chocolate which can   ______   a long time.

After lots of research, he succeeded and each piece of chocolate was ______ engraved (刻) with the letters — DOVE. It is a ______   of the love between Leon and Bazaar.

Nowmore and more people fall in love with this chocolate. Giving someone DOVE means sending the______ of love: DO YOU LOVE ME?

5 . It was the first night of a tiring seven-day 250km race across the Gobi Desert a year ago. Mr. Leonard _______ a little dog going around his camp trying to _______ herself.

“Cute, but I’m not giving you any,” Leonard thought. Like all_______, he had packed just enough for the whole _______. He’d been running competitively for three years, and he had a_______ to win.

The next day, at the starting line, the dog_________ him again. He waved her away, _______ she might be stepped on by the runners. _________, the dog followed him all the way until the day’s race _________. That night the dog snuggled (偎依) up to Leonard and even __________ to get a little food from him. By then, he was determined to________ her Gobi.

The pair went on to finish the seven-day race, with Gobi __________ a distance of 125km on her own, and winning Leonard over, enough for him to make a ________ — he would take her home to Edinburgh. “Seeing Gobi on the race__________ my attitude to things. It made me think more about stopping and helping her, __________ just focusing on winning,” said Leonard, who finished second. “It also made my running more________, giving me a lot of pleasure.”

As Leonard was preparing to get Gobi home, she was ________. With a group of 20 local volunteers coming to his ________, he finally found her. After that, Leonard never let Gobi out of his ________. Now Gobi’s favorite activity is still running, and she __________ does at least 8km a day with Leonard up the hills.

6 . Our room was on the second floor but you could still hear the roar of the ocean and see the stars at night. I used to take long walks along the water. The food in town was wonderful and the people were very friendly. The area was very quiet, peaceful and fairly deserted (空寂无人的).

The last evening of our vacation, however, we all heard strange footsteps following closely behind us as we were walking up to our room in the holiday center. We turned around and noticed a fairly young man moving very rapidly across the beach and getting close to us. He was tall and wore a baseball cap. We couldn’t see his face and he was approaching (接近) us very rapidly. The man’s actions made my dad very anxious. Dad warned us that we’d better try to make it to our hotel room as quickly as possible. I didn’t like my dad’s voice. I could hear anxiety in it. It was late and we were all alone. We didn’t have any cellphones on us. I never saw Dad as anxious as he was then and I knew that something was terribly wrong. The sense of fear started to overwhelm Mom and me. We had had such a good time in town. Now, the night was rapidly turning into a dangerous situation.

We could hear the man’s footsteps getting closer. Dad’s face was almost pale. The so-called intruder (侵入者) had moved nearer and nearer when all of a sudden, the nearby vending (自动贩卖) machine started going crazy and spitting out cans of soda! The noise actually scared the intruder and he ran out of sight. My parents were shaking, but we all turned around to see who had put money into the vending machine downstairs, and actually saved us, but no one was around at all. Not a soul. It’s one vacation I will never forget.

8 . In a national spelling contest (竞赛)in America, an 11-year-old girl was asked to spell a certain word. But with her ______voice the judges were not sure if she spelled the word with the letter A or E. They talked it over and ______ decided to simply ask her what she had said. By now, the girl knew she had ______ the word. But instead of lying, she told the truth that she had said the ______ letter — so she lost the contest.

As the girl walked off the ______ , the entire audience stood to their feet clapping to applaud her______ . Later, dozens of newspaper reporters wrote about this 11– year–old girl’s honesty, even when it ______ her the contest. But the fact is that she ______ the biggest contest that day: the contest of her______ .

Probably the biggest test of our character and honesty is what we would do if we knew we would never get ______. This young girl could easily have______ and nobody would have known it but herself. But that’s just it: She would know she did wrong. It’s been said, “If you ______ , you make yourself cheap.” This young girl was strong and smart enough to value her own ______ and character more than the prize from a spelling ______ . Her respect for herself was more important than any ______ others might give her for winning a contest. She knew she would have to live with herself and the ______ she made in that moment will have long–lasting influence.

It’s so true that the choices you make today ______ what you are tomorrow. Our children will______ our behavior much more than our advice. So if we want them to ______ to be honest, we must show them the way by being honest ourselves. Remember, our kids are______ what we do and how we live even when we don’t think they see or know.

9 . Everyone should go to his or her 50th high school reunion. There was a time when I thought I’d never go even if the opportunity _________. But now I feel _________ for people who don’t go.

I went to the _________ of my high school on a Saturday evening, and I’m glad I did. It was a gift to recognize some _________ classmates right away — and to be recognized. _________, we had name tags and our _________ photos on our clothing to help identify us. I recognized one woman immediately!

The most memorable and moving experience of the night was _________ by a schoolmate and neighbor to whom I was once close. Unfortunately, we had a falling-out in the high school. I never saw her after _________, but this time, I saw her name on a place setting. At first, I feared that I would _________ her. But my better self won over, and I __________ her out. I kept looking until I got a __________ on my shoulder. There she was __________. We hugged as if nothing had ever __________ and exchanged affectionate words. When the party __________, my old-new friend walked towards me, __________ me again and wished me well. I returned her good wishes. All the bad __________ melted into thin air.

I am grateful I had this __________ to reunite with old classmates. After all, we are almost __________ the final lap of our lifelong journeys. Some classmates had already left this __________, and their names were deleted from the list. Sometimes we have to walk back into the past because time does heal old wounds. We’re not the __________ people. We are better people.