Xing Yifan was born with CMD (先天性肌营养不良). The disease resulted     1     Yifan having little muscle growth. The disease also affected his fingers, making     2     more difficult for him to write.

“The disease makes him lose independence. He has never walked on his own and can only sit with a support,” his father Xing Dacheng said. “Every 30     3    （minute）, to have a rest, he has to lie down, even in the classroom.”

“We are so     4     （thank）to the teachers and leaders from his primary school to senior high school,” the father said. “They never refused to give him chances     5    （receive）good education,     6     Yifan and the other members of our family will remember forever.”

After entering high school, the young man studied more seriously. Over the past 3 years he     7    （win）many prizes and set an example to classmates. Now, Yifan has been admitted to Beihang University with a score of 645 out of a possible 750 points in this year’s national college entrance examination.

When     8    （ask）what motivates him to study hard, he said, “I was     9    （complete）inspired when I read the story of British physicist Stephen Hawking. I’ll continue working hard at the university in the hope of     10     （be）a person like him, who changed the world with knowledge.”

4 . When I was about 5 or 6 years old, my mother set me down on a purple banana-seat bike. She _________held the back of the seat while I found my balance. Then she gave me a _________and let me go，calling，“Pedal(踩踏板)，pedal，pedal，glide(滑行)!”as I rode across the grass.

When I was older, I _________ a soccer team and I always rode my bike to go to _________. On my bike, my_________was my own. I can do what I want to. After a(n) _________ practice, I would pick an apple from a tree in the garden near the soccer _________ and eat it while I pedaled home, or _________ to the shop and go home with some of my favorite snacks.

Then I got married and had babies. _________ the house for a two-hour ride was no longer a(n) ____________. When my girls got older, my mom ____________ them to ride their own bikes. “Pedal, pedal, pedal, glide!” she’d ____________ as she used to. But this time it was me ____________ after them with my hand on the seat.

Last spring, my mother died suddenly. I was in deep ____________. Every morning, I’d leave my hotel and ____________ my bike to a bike path. She’s never going to teach us again. I wanted to cry.

6 . Maria and Pablo lived in a tiny village in Mexico. Because Christmas time at their house did not include many gifts, Maria and Pablo _________ to the Christmas festivities at the village _________ with great joy.

To honor the birth of Christ(耶稣), the church _________ a beautiful manger(食槽) that drew crowds of admirers. Villagers walked miles to admire the manger, bringing lovely, _________ gifts for the Baby Jesus. As Maria and Pablo watched the villagers _________ their gifts in the soft hay(干草) around the manger, they felt _________. They had no money to buy _________ for their family and no money to buy one for the Baby Jesus.

On Christmas Eve, Maria and Pablo _________ to the church for that evening's services, _________ wishing that they had a gift to bring. __________ then, a soft glowing light shone through the __________, and the shadowy outline of a/an __________ appeared above them.

Maria and Pablo were afraid, but the angel __________ them, telling them to pick some of the short green __________ that were growing by the road. They should __________ the plants to the church, the angel explained, and place them near the __________ as their gift to the Baby Jesus. Then just as __________ as she had appeared, the angel was gone, __________ Maria and Pablo on the road looking up into the dark sky. Confused but __________, the children filled their __________ with large bunches of the green weeds and hurried to the church.

8 . Nong Luhuan had a wild dream when he was little: He wanted to become a cartoonist and publish books of his own. Now, the 22-year-old art design student has _______ his dream. His microblog cartoon has more than 260,000 followers.

Nong`s microblog cartoon first drew wide _______ in late 2012. He draws _______ of real-life people struggling to achieve their life goals.

One story is about a middle-aged cleaner who _______ to have a job with a salary of 6,000 yuan a month. But he _______ to work in Beijing for only 1,000 yuan per month. This way he could audition(旁听)at the central Conservatory of Music and realize his dream of becoming a _______ . Another widely reposted story is about an accounting student who is _______ to become a flight attendant.

Though each story _______ only several pictures, it takes Nong a lot of effort to complete them. He digs _______ into each person’s story. Before drawing, he spends a whole day researching the person’s ________ .

Microblog cartoons are not interesting because of the drawings. “We attract viewers with the ________ ,” Nong says. “If my work can trigger reflection, then it is ________ .”

On the way to success, Nong has had his own ________ . He even thought about stopping his dream of ________ in 2011. But when he saw the microblog cartoons of Chen Anni, a well-known female cartoonist of Nong’s age, he found new ________ . “She is not even a fine art student and she is pursuing her dream of drawing cartoons. Why should I ________ ?” Nong says.

After that, Nong worked even harder, ________ becoming popular and receiving encouraging ________ . Many fans have sent Nong private messages, telling him that his work has ________ them to pursue their life goals. “I’m glad that I have persisted and conveyed a ________ attitude through my work. My readers are inspired through it and are themselves becoming a source of motivation for others,” he says.

9 . When you travel, it’s inevitable (不可避免的) that things will go wrong. It doesn’t matter how _________ you are for the trip—accidents happen on the road, at hotels or _________ in the middle of the ocean. Often, it’s what happens next that _________ the most. No matter what happens, it can be a _________ turn in the journey or a bad thing.

During a recent long international trip, my youngest daughter’s airsickness struck again. We were _________ our choices after landing in San Francisco for an overnight layover (中途停留).

When we stood in the middle of the terminal (航站楼), not only _________ how to get to our hotel, but also discussing whether or not we should just turn around and go home, a pilot _________ us.

He quietly asked me if my 4-year-old was the passenger who had gotten _________ on the flight. I nodded, half afraid someone was going to tell us we now weren’t _________ to fly with her.

Instead, he __________ down to her level, opened up his bag and took out a pair of wings. While the captain was ________ her the wings, he kindly asked my young daughter how she was feeling. Like most young kids, sometimes she’s ________ about talking to strangers, but not this time. They __________ for 60 seconds, but in those 60 seconds, she went from feeling bad and __________ to walk around the airport to jogging to the airport hotel with a smile on her face.

As the captain walked away, she __________ and said, “He cared about me.” My daughter is still young, but she is old enough to feel __________ when a pilot wants to check in on her. In that moment, the pilot was exactly the right one to make her feel better about flying. He __________ our day by taking two minutes out of his.

It’s often the __________ stories that make the headlines, but small, heart-warming moments are still happening all around us. I’m __________ to all in the travel industry—and beyond—that take those few minutes to make a world of ________.