1 . Leslie Morissette's son, Graham, was six years old when he was diagnosed with leukemia(白血病).Throughout Graham' s treatment in the hospital, Graham connected with everyone he met, from   _______patients to younger children.“ He would _______ his toys to other sick children or act silly to make them laugh. ” Morissette said. “ Graham's special spirit is what kept me_______ . He gave me the energy and the _______to fight with him. ” In 1997, when he was eight years old, Graham passed away.

Inspired by how Graham lived his life caring about others, Morissette founded the _______Grahamtastic Connection in his late son's honor. The organization provides free technology-including computers, iPads and robots-to children _______ against cancer and other serious illnesses.

One of the major goals of Morissette's work is to _______kids to their classrooms. This helps them continue their education despite multiple hospitalizations and days _______ from school.

The robots“ _______”children right into the classroom in real time. They can ________ the robots right from their hospital bed or home. If a child is unable to attend school, they can ________log on to their tablet or laptop and ________the robot. They can walk up and down the school paths, and go to lunch with their friends. But the real magic happens ________ classes. The robot enables them to walk down the hallway with

“Every time I can help a child in need, I feel ________ Graham is smiling down,” Morissette said. “I believe that Graham's love lives on in the work that I do. And I'm proud and privileged to be able to do it in his honor.”

2 . My local supermarket is always busy. The first parking space I found was convenient, but I’d noticed a woman in a blue car _________ for a while. As I was _________, I let her have it. On the _________ of the car park I backed into the next available spot — it was a tight fit.

Pretty soon, I’d made my way through the supermarket and was back in the fresh air. Feeling good, I _________ my purse change into the hands of a homeless man and helped a _________ woman reverse park (倒车).

Just as I _________ my car, I saw the woman I’d let have my car space _________. She was giving a mean odd _________— half puzzled, half intent (热切的). I smiled and wished her a pleasant day. As I squeezed back into my car, I _________ the same lady looking in at me. “Hello,” she said, hesitantly. “This might sound crazy but I was on my way to ____________ some of my mother’s things off at the charity bins.” “You are just so much like her. You helped those people, I noticed, and you seemed so happy.” She looked at me meaningfully and passed a box in through the ____________, “I think she would like you to have it.” Shocked, I took it from her ____________. She smiled and walked away.

After a pause, I opened the box. ____________ was a beautiful gold necklace with a large grey pearl. It was the nicest gift I’d ever received, and it was from a complete ____________. The necklace was around my neck, a warm ____________ of human kindness.

3 . In a national spelling contest in America, an 11-year-old girl was asked to spell a certain word. But with her ________ voice, the judges were not sure whether she spelled the right word. They talked it over and ________ decided to simply ask her what she had said. By then, the girl knew she had misspelled the word. 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，clapping to applaud her honesty. Later, dozens of newspaper reporters wrote about this ________, even though it cost the girl the contest. But the fact is that she ________ the biggest contest that day: the contest of her character.

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 it’s been said, “If you ________, you make yourself cheap.” This young girl was ________ enough to prize her own character more than the prize from a spelling contest. She knew the ________ she made in that moment will have a long-lasting influence in her future.

Should the wallet, found in the street, be put into a pocket or ________ to the policeman? Should the ________ change received at the store be forgotten or ________ ? Nobody will know. But we have to live with ourselves, and it is always better to live with someone we ________.

I was a single mother in my 30s who lived down and out with my daughter Peggy in a small apartment, struggling hard to make our needs meet.

One day, I headed to the downtown for an interview. I sat down in the streetcar, and there against the seat was a beautiful silk umbrella with a silver handle decorated with gold scrolls, among which there was a name carved.

On impulse(冲动) I determined to find the owner myself. I got off the streetcar in the heavy rain and thankfully opened the umbrella to protect myself. Then I searched a telephone book for the name, I found it immediately and called it, waiting patiently, and then a lady answered.

"Yes, “she said in surprise, with extreme excitement." It was my umbrella which had been stolen a year ago.”

So appealing was her pleasure that I forgot I was looking for a job and went directly to her small house. She took the umbrella, with teary eyes, explaining with choking voice that the umbrella was given by her parents, now dead, Her happiness at retrieving(找回)this special possession was such that to have accepted her reward would have spoiled something, so I refused her offer and left.

The following months were hard. I can only obtain temporary employment, for a small salary. What was worse, I had just lost my last job before Christmas, with only fifteen dollars left. Unless a miracle happened, I would be homeless in January, foodless and jobless. I had prayed steadily for weeks, and there had been no answer but this coldness and darkness.

The air was full of Christmas merriment, with the bells ringing and children shouting in the bitter dusk of the evening. But there should be no Christmas for me, I knew, no gifts, no remembrance whatsoever.

Thinking of this, I couldn’t control my tears on my way home, but I managed a smile so could greet my little daughter. She opened the door for me and threw herself in my arms, screaming joyously and demanding desirably for her Christmas gift. There I stood, frozen, overwhelmed by misery.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang and Peggy rushed to answer it, calling that it must be Santa Claus.

Suddenly, a note attached to one package caught my eyes.

A Simple Thank

I have been in the teaching profession more than thirty years, and one of the best teachers I have ever known was Mr. Rowe. I was lucky enough to co-teach fourth grade with him.

Mr. Rowe had infinite patience and understanding and I learned so much from watching him. He could perform miracles, like the one he performed with Steven, one of the unhappiest kids I ever saw. Steven couldn’t stand school. He didn’t like being picked last for kickball. He didn’t like the kids who raised their hands and knew all the answers, and most importantly, he didn’t like himself.

The first day he walked into Mr. Rowe’s classroom, he ignored the other students, looking angry and annoyed, and slid into his chair, knocking a couple of textbooks onto the floor.

Mr. Rowe walked over to him and touched Steven’s shoulder, but Steven pulled away. Nevertheless, Mr. Rowe welcomed him, “Hi, Steven. I’m happy you are in my class. We are gonna have a great year.” Steven looked around the room as if Mr. Rowe must be mistaken. No teacher in his right mind would want Steven to be part of his classroom.

So, while Mr. Rowe seemed cheerful and relaxed that day of school. It seemed like Steven was angry and confused.

That day after classes, Mr. Rowe chose Steven to pitch the kickball at recess. “Hey, Steven,” Mr. Rowe commented, “You are good at pitching. Let me show you my secret trick.” Mr. Rowe taught Steven one of the tricks that not a single kid could perform. Steven learned fast and did quite well! Everyone cheered for him!

After the kickball, Steven sat as closer to Mr. Rowe in classes as he could. When a question was asked, Steven lit up; he knew the answer! He raised his hands. When he answered the question, his voice shook. However, he got the answer right! He said, with Mr. Rowe, his days of the fourth grade promised wonderful.

That was not to say that every day went smoothly, but it was evident that Steven grew to love Mr. Rowe more and more with each passing day.

Time passed quickly that year, and before we all knew it, it was the last day of school.

Many years later, Mr. Rowe and I were surprised when a handsome young man walked into our classroom, dressed in the Marine Corps (海军) uniform,

There was something in the elderly woman’s grace that caught my eye. Although slow and unsure of her steps, the woman moved with deliberation (从容), and there was no hesitation in her gestures.

It was a few years ago, and I had taken a part - time holiday - season job in a video. store at the local shopping mall. From inside the store, I could see the people outside rushing by.

The elderly woman entered the store, along with her daughter, who was displaying a serious case of impatience, rolling her eyes, sighing and checking her watch every few seconds. I guessed if she had possessed a rope, she would have fastened it to her mother to drag her along to keep step with the rush of other shoppers.

The elderly woman separated from her daughter and began to seek through the DVDs on the nearest shelf. After the slightest hesitation, I walked over and asked if I could help her find something. The woman smiled up at me and showed me a title written on an old piece of paper.

Rather than rush off to locate the DVD for the woman, I asked her to walk with me so I could show her where she could find it. Looking back, I thought I wanted to enjoy her company for a moment.

Something about her deliberate movements reminded me of my own mother, who’d passed away the previous Christmas. I missed my mom and still felt regretful about the moments when I’d used my impatience to make her life unhappy.

As we walked along the back of the store, I introduced its floor plan: old television shows, action movies, cartoons, science fiction. The woman seemed glad of the unrushed company and casual conversation.

We found the DVD and she thanked me, saying that it was the one she’d enjoyed when she was her daughter’s age. Unwillingly, I accompanied her to the cash register, realizing I had to return the elderly woman to her daughter, who was still tapping her foot at the front of the store.

7 . I still cannot forget the story—one story determining my life.

I was sure I was to be killed, even though I was wrongly put in prison. I became terribly ________. I searched my pockets to see if there were any cigarettes, which had ________ their search. ________, I found one but I had no matches.

I looked through the bars at my jailer (狱卒). He did not make ________ contact with me. I called out to him, “Have you got a light?” He came close and ________ the match, his eyes accidentally locked with mine. At that moment, I smiled. I don’t know why I did that.

In any case, I smiled, and my smile leaped through the bars and ________ a smile on his lips, too. He lit my cigarette but stayed near, looking at me directly in the eyes and continuing to smile. I kept smiling at him, now aware of him as a person and not just a(an) ________. And his looking at me seemed to have a new meaning, too.

“Do you have ________?” he asked.

“Yes, here, here.” I took out my wallet and nervously fumbled(胡乱摸找) for the pictures of my family. He, too, took out the pictures of his family and began to ________ his plans and hopes for them. My eyes filled with ________. I said I ________ that I’d never see my family again. Tears came to his eyes, too.

Suddenly, without another word, he ________ my cell (小牢房) and silently led me out.

Out of the jail, quietly and by back routes, out of the town. There, at the edge of town, he ________ me. And without another word, he walked toward the town.

My life was saved by a ________.

Yes, the smile is the unaffected, unplanned, natural connection between people. I really believe that if that part of you and that part of me could ________ each other, we wouldn’t be enemies. We couldn’t have hate or envy or fear.

Randy Heiss, 61, has lived in Bisbee, Arizona for more than three decades. Ten years ago, he and his wife lost their only child. They have no grandchildren.

The spot of red was what first caught Heiss’s attention on December 16, 2018. He was hiking the remote land behind his farm in a small town near the U. S.-Mexico border, and there lying on the grass was a balloon. He walked toward it with his dog, thinking he should pick it up and throw it away.

That’s when he noticed the balloon’s string was attached to a piece of paper. “Dayami,”it read on one side, in a child’s writing. Heiss flipped the paper over. On the back he saw a numbered list, all in Spanish. His Spanish wasn’t very good, but he could see it was a Christmas list!

Heiss was charmed. He suspected that a child had tried to send Santa Claus a Christmas wish list by balloon, something he used to do himself when he was a kid. Nobody had ever returned the letters Heiss had sent, but he wondered whether he could find the girl who had sent this one.

It would be difficult, but Heiss had a few clues. About 20 miles to the southwest, just across the border, was the city of Nogales, Mexico, with a population of about a quarter million. Based on the wind direction, he was almost sure that was where it came from. Heiss brought the note home to his wife, who is fluent in Spanish and helped him translate the list They determined that Dayami, probably a girl, had asked for a doll, a dollhouse.

They determined that Dayami, probably a girl, had asked for a doll, a dollhouse, doll clothes and art supplies. Heiss then posted his search about finding Dayami on Facebook, attaching photos, hoping some of his friends in Nogales might know the girl ’s family. A few days passed with no results. Heiss worried that time was running out before Christmas. On December 19, 2018, he decided to send a private Facebook message to Radio Xeny, an AM radio station based in Nogales. To his surprise, someone from the station called him back right away and promised him to post his search on the station’s Facebook page immediately.

The next morning, Heiss awoke to a message from Radio Xeny.

Dayami ’s eyes were wide open with wonder.

9 . At least thirty times Bobby had tried to climb the snowy mountain, but he had never______ the top. His friend Peeper, who knew a lot about his failures, ______ Bobby to try again. He gave Bobby a pair of ______ and said, “If it starts clouding over, put on the glasses, or if your feet start hurting, put them on too. The glasses are very ______. They'll help you.” Bobby ______ the gift without much thought.

The day came when he was to have another ______. About two hours after he started, he felt his feet hurting. Then he ______ what Peeper had said, and put on the glasses. The pain was pretty bad, but ______ the sunglasses he could clearly see the snow­covered mountain top, so he went on.

______， clouds were gathering. But this time Bobby could still see the ______ through the clouds. He kept ______， leaving the clouds behind, forgetting his pain, and finally arriving at the top. It was certainly worth it. His feeling of ______ was extremely good, almost as great as that ______ view.

The mountain below was surrounded by a sea of clouds. He couldn't believe that the clouds were as ______ as that, so he looked more closely at the sunglasses, and discovered the ______. Peeper had engraved(镌刻) the snow­covered mountain top on the sunglasses, ______ Bobby could see it when he was looking upwards! Bobby ______ that the only obstacle(障碍) to reaching the top had been losing ______ when he couldn't see the mountain top. He was thankful that Peeper had used that little ______to help him see that his ______ was never impossible, and that it was still there, where it had always been.