3 . My job is to provide at-home services for the elderly and those who are disabled. My client (客户) was an 86-year-old woman who had been _______ cancer for the past four years. The last few months of her life took all her _______ but none of her joy in life.

Each day I appeared at her _______, she would ask, “Have you heard any good _______ lately?” I’m not good at remembering jokes and _______ had a funny story to tell her, besides it always seemed that the only joke that would come to my mind sound _______ to her.

Then, I got the bright idea to copy Grace’s Kid Stories that I _______ on my bookshelf at home. Every day I would have one more _______ thing to tell my wonderful friend. She would _______ quietly to herself, and my heart was________.

Today, her daughter told me she had ________ on Sunday. One of the things the daughter told me was that one of her mother’s last ________ was “Have you heard any good jokes lately?”

The daughter told her mother that she couldn’t ________ anything funny. Her mother replied that I always ________ with a joke and that she had ________ wailing for me to arrive with each new “joke”.

We ________ for a few minutes together, then I got on with my ________, but I couldn’t seem to down to work. Finally, I ________ the daughter and asked, “Would you like to hear today’s joke?”

I am grateful (感激的) to the stories for ________ me to make an old woman’s last days a little more ________. Goodbye, my old friend, I hope you continue to get a joke every day in heaven!

A US teenager criticized（批评）on social media for wearing a     1     (tradition) Chinese dress to her high school prom（毕业舞会）defended her decision and has won support from netizens（网民）in China.

Keziah Daum, 18,     2     high school senior in Utah, faced a strong reaction from thousands online, some of whom accused her of “cultural appropriation（文化挪用）” after she posted four prom pictures on Twitter on April 22 that featured her wearing a qipao, a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress for     3     (woman). “I     4     (praise) by the many people from China who have both reached out to me and have posted to social media their viewpoints. I thank them     5     the moral support regarding my decision     6     (wear) a qipao,” Daum told China Daily in an email on Tuesday. “I     7     (sincere) thank the outpouring of support I have received from the people of China.” Daum stood by her choice to wear the dress,     8     was red and orange with gold-and-black embroidery（刺绣）. She said on Twitter that she will not take down the original post. “The dress     9     (catch) my eye at first because of     10     (it) beauty,” she said. “I was also so happy to find a dress with a modest neckline. It is very hard to find dresses in America for prom which cover a women’s neckline.”

5 . “Who can ever have imagined someone like me would make it this far?” asked Chad Wood last week during his high school graduation speech as the best student. Chad offered _______ to his fellow classmates to never give up---and the words _______ much more to himself. That’s because Chad is deaf, and he told the story of the serious troubles he _______ to graduate first in his class at Harrison High school in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Chad didn’t start to _______ until he was 5, according to his mother, Pam Wood. Although her son was _______a disadvantage, she was determined not to treat him_______. “I’ve expected him to do everything every other kid does, and I saw no _______ why he couldn’t,” she told ABC News. “And if he_______ the first time, we just tried again.”

Chad, 17, worked hard throughout school, _______ no special treatment but sitting at the front of the class and using a special audio system so he could hear the teacher. All his hard work ________. He received full school fare to Vanderbilt University. “Deafness had taught me a lesson to never ________,” he said in the speech. “Not when the experts tell you it cannot be done. Not when you have ________ so far behind that escaping seems the only way ________. Not when achieving your dreams seems an entire ________.”