1 . One hot early morning, I, accompanied by my mother, was gently wheeled across our quiet street to the taxi stand. Three weeks earlier, I had ________ my left ankle accidentally. Now, with my ankle in a cast, I had a/an ________ at the hospital to be assessed for a/an ________.

The thought of it ________ me because I had never been operated on, but I would have to ________ it. After over 90 minutes, we were still ________, trying to stop a taxi. But the taxis would pass by us either already filled with passengers or ________ to take us.

My mother was starting to get ________ as we were fast running out of time; our appointment was ________ for 10:45 am and we still had to ________ the admission process and it would take up to 40 minutes to get to the ________.

Then a black SUV pulled over and ________ in front of us. The driver, taking a look at us, ________, “You two look like you may need a ________.” He told us he’d seen us earlier as he was taking his son to a weekend school activity. With no questions asked, this good Samaritan ________ us aboard and got us to the hospital in 45 minutes.

We arrived at 10:30a.m.— ________ in time for my appointment. He ________ any pay, saying people should ________ one another then left with a smile.

To this day we have not ________ paths again with this friendly driver, but his ________ has stuck in our minds and he has taught me to keep watch for and help others in need.

3 . A professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test. All students were ________and waited for the test to begin. The professor gave the test papers to all students with text facing down at the desk. ________ he finished ________ the test to all students, he asked them to ________ the test paper and begin.

The students were surprised to see that there was just a black ________ in the center of the page. The professor told them, "I want you to ________ about what you see there. "The students were________ surprised but got started with the test. ________ the end of the class, the professor collected all answer sheets and started reading each answer from each sheet in front of all students. ________of them described about the black dot（点）and tried to explain its position. Now. the professor began to explain, "Here everyone________ the black dot and wrote about it ________ no one wrote about the white paper. The same is with our lives. The white paper stands ________ our whole life and the black dot ________ problems in our life.

Our life is a ________ given to us by God, with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate--- our friends around us, the job that provides us with everything we need. ________, we just focus on day-to-day problems like health issues, lack of money, problems in relationships but we ________ see that these problems are very ________ compared to everything we have in our lives. "

We should try to take eyes off our ________ and enjoy each moment ________ life gives us. Be happy and ________ your life positively.

I have a warm story to share with you. The school in San Francisco not only accepted a deaf student, but also teach the entire class the sign language to allow them to better communicate with him.

It was in September last year when a woman asked the primary school to accept her six-year-old son, James, who, unfortunate, had a hearing disability. The teacher, Lily, was agreed almost immediately. However, on the first day of school, she noticed James sit all by himself, unable to communicate with any of his classmates. To find a solution, she came up a brilliant idea — getting the whole class to learn the sign language along with James, but they got a sign language teacher on board. A couple of months late, James was able to communicate with all his classmates about homeworks and games.

7 . Life is full of beautiful moments. All you have to do is to _____your eyes and your heart to see them. I saw __ just the other day. The local __ had just let out, and I found myself behind a school bus as I was driving home.

The bus _____ by a house sitting on top of a hill. A little girl, no more than 7 years old ____ the bus and started running quickly to the _____ .The smile on her face was quite sweet. I ____ up the hill to see where she was going. I saw her dad waiting for her. As she got _____ , her dad smiled and knelt (下跪) down to _____ her. He wrapped his powerful _____ around her and gave her a huge hug, the moment she got to him.

My eyes __ a hit as I watched this scene. I ____ all the times my own children had run into my arms with ___faces and loving hearts. Every single hug from them was a treasure of_____ .Suddenly my trip down the memory lane was __ when 1 heard the car behind me honk its horn (鸣喇叭), I saw the school bus quickly pulling away, and started to ____ it again. However, this time I did so with a fuller heart than ever before. I took that ____ moment and stored it safely in my soul, where I knew it would remain forever.

One day, we all will leave this school of learning and love, and ____get to go home again, ______enjoy your day here al school then love and learn. But we know that one day you will be going home to where the hugs are eternal (永久)and the ______ never ends.

8 . Taylor Pollard remembers when her younger sister, Kheris Rogers, was in first grade she once asked to stay in the bathroom longer---she hoped it would make her skin lighter. Kids were making fun of Rogers’ dark complexion. So Erika Pollard, the girls’ mom, moved Rogers to another school. Kids still made fun of her, but this time the kids bullying（霸凌）her were black.

Taylor Pollard wanted to help her sister feel good about herself. In 2017, she took a picture of Kheris. She posted it online. She wrote Kheris was “flexing in her complexion”. That is an expression their grandmother used often to encourage the girls to feel beautiful. Complexion means skin color. Flexing is a term for “showing off” or “showing pride”.

Then the sisters received many messages supporting Rogers and decided they wanted to direct that energy. Together, they came up with the idea of putting the message on a T-shirt Their business, Flexin’ In My Complexion, started shortly after that in April 2017. Erika gave the sisters about $100. Then their project got off the ground. They used some of the money to build a website. They also learned how to screen print T-shirts. The sisters set up shop in the garage behind their mom’s house in LA.

The sisters are co-CEOs. So far the sisters have sold more than 10,000 T-shirts. Flexin’ in My Complexion has done more than make money for the sisters. It has also helped Rogers become confident. When she was being bullied, Rogers says she would come home from school upset.

“I would always come home crying; I would just have tears coming down my face,” she says. “My confidence is probably 10 million times higher right now. You have no way of knowing but my confidence back then was probably as low as it could be.”

I can well remember that I     1     (ask) to deliver a speech titled “A Real Test in My Life” before the whole class at the age of 9! You can imagine how     2    (awful) shy I was with so many eyes     3    (fix) upon me. I had no     4     (choose) but to prepare for it, though. First of all, I was to draft the speech, which was just a piece of cake for me, a good writer. But     5     hardest part lay in my oral presentation from my memory, for to read from the paper was not allowed. The real moment began     6     I stood on the platform with my legs trembling and my mind blank. But my listeners were waiting patiently    7     any signs of rushing me. Gradually I found     8    ( I ) back, delivering my speech with difficulty. After what seemed to be a hundred years, I found my audience     9    (applaud) — I made it ! From then on, my fear of talking before an audience disappeared. Actually with my confidence building up, I now turn out     10     (be) a great speaker. Looking back, I know the greatest difficulty on our way to success is our fear. Overcome it and we will be able to achieve our goals.