1 . Isabel Navarro has proved that hard work and a love for learning can help you achieve your dreams. The elementary school cleaner never ______ her lifelong dream of becoming an educator. Now the 35 year old woman from Waco, Texas, has _____ a teacher’s assistant at Spring Valley Elementary in the Midway ISD.

Navarro grew up in Mexico, but at the time, her family _____ to make ends meet. Unfortunately, she had to _____ high school as a teenager so that she could work and start _____ for her family. She moved to the United States in 2009, and first worked in housekeeping for a while before finally _____ a job at Woodway Elementary in 2013 as a custodian (管理员). She got the work to ____ the classrooms at Spring Valley Elementary in 2016. However, she always knew she enjoyed communicating with the children and wanted to make a real ______ in the classroom as an educator.

“When I was a child, I ______ wanted to be a teacher,” she told KWTX. “I started working at 15 years old to ______ my parents at home and now I can finish my education and follow my dream.” She worked really hard to achieve that dream. The _____ mom of three obtained her General Equivalency Diploma (GED), which was extremely ______ for her as English is her second language.

Navarro ____ Spring Valley Elementary School Principal Kappy Edwards. “I’m very proud of Isabel’s_____ and commitment to furthering her education, obtaining her GED and transforming into a new role within Spring Valley,” Edwards said. “This ____ shows her admirable devotion and serves as an inspiring example for others.”

2 . I still remember the last few hours I spent with my grandma in the hospital. On the _______ day of her life, I sat with my grandma, in silence, in laughter, in tears, and in _______ of a woman who was still _______ though she was very weak and in great _______.

My grandma was always smiling, which ______ me a lot. She seemed to be ______ with everything. After hearing my confusion, she spoke softly about her life and the reason for her present _______. It was the most meaningful day that I will never _______.

My grandma told me that she _______ remained idle (无所事事的) through her life. She was once a teacher and after leaving her job she _______ to work as a volunteer in the community though she was old. She tried her best to _______ those in need for free and make her life meaningful.

Ralph Emerson once said, “The _______ of life is not simply to be happy. It is to be _______, to be honorable and to make a difference.” My grandma had been serving our society, and she had _______ all her life without any regret (遗憾). That day I completely _______ it was the reason why my grandma was smiling.

3 . Jonathan Jones, 12, was overcome with emotion after his principal, who is also color blind, let him _______ his unique glasses during science class last week.

As soon as Jones put the glasses on, he appeared to be immediately _______. He initially smiled and laughed, but he _______ moments later. He then walked around the classroom excitedly, _______ the now – vivid colors around him.

“I was feeling joy that I could _______see all this color...and a little bit of _______ that I couldn’t see color my whole life,” Jonathan told ABC news.

The boy’s mother posted a(n) _______ of Jonathan seeing color for the first time online and started a GoFundMe campaign to buy a pair of the unique glasses for Jonathan, which reportedly cost $ 350. However, so many people were _______ by Jonathan’s story, and the campaign actually ended up _______ more than $ 25, 000.

She wrote “After posting the video, we’ve been touched by how many __________ people have wanted to help him. We’ve had __________ pairs donated to Jonathan and will use 100% of donated funds to purchase color blind glasses for those who can’t __________ them.” “The glasses company will __________ every pair we purchase with a free pair, which doubles the number of people we can __________,” she continued.

For Jonathan, with the new glasses comes a new __________ of the world. He said his favorite color is blue and he’s excited to visit the Caribbean this winter so he can see the ocean in all its glory.

4 . It began in November 2016,when Hinton, then 17, got a text message from an ________number inviting him to Thanks giving. When he asked who it was, the person responded:“Your grandma.”

“Grandma? Can I have your________?” the teenager replied. He received a photo of a woman he had never seen before. It was Dench, now 64.

Hinton wrote back,“You’re not my grandma,”________a laughing face. Still playing along, he jokingly asked:“Can I still get a________though?”

Dench replied:“Of course you can. That’s what grandmas do. Feed everyone.”Hinton soon realized her________invitation had turned ________, and he decided to take Dench up on her   ________. He went to her home in Mesa, Ariz., about a 25-minute drive from his house south of Phoenix, for a Thanks giving meal with her family,including her actual grandson, whom she________intended to text instead of Hinton.

Every year since then, the two friends and their families have gathered together for an annual Thanksgiving meal, and this year will be no________,despite the virus. Hinton, who shares regular________on social media about his Internet-famous friendship with Dench,________that the Thanksgiving tradition will ________this year, as well.

Although Dench was________about the misdirected text in 2016 at first, she said, both she and Hinton feel very________that it happened.“Family is more than________ ,” Dench said.“It’s the people you want to be with.”

5 . I was cleaning out a cupboard the other day when I made an amazing discovery. Inside I _________ the manuscript (手稿) for a novel. It included an outline of the _________ and a pile of typed pages telling a story. It was written, to my _________, by my father who has been dead for more than 50 years. It isn’t _________, as novels go, perhaps fifty or sixty typed pages, but without my _________ it has somehow accompanied me through my years of _________, several jobs, a marriage, the birth of my children and grandchildren, retirement and even a relocation across the country where I live.

Yet there it was, resting under a lot of paper to be recycled. I might have _________ my father’s legacy (遗产). I was truly _________ by my discovery.

I’m in the middle of reading another book _________ my dad’s novel has a place on my bed-side table. I want to have some __________ time for it so I haven’t __________ examined it yet. I’m going to spend a whole afternoon to give it the __________ it deserves. As yet I don’t know what the story line is about and I don’t even know if it is complete but I __________ a highly emotional process of finding out.

I find it fascinating to think that this could happen; that after more than fifty years my father could __________ his only son through the mists of time. It’s one of those things that we don’t see coming and that make life so __________.

6 . I'll call him Peter because I didn't know his name. He was a waiter in a restaurant to which I had taken Robert, my five-year-old son, for his ______. Robert wore his new ______, proud and joyful.

Peter greeted us warmly and brought his ______ close to Robert's level to talk with him. Robert lifted his left foot so Peter could see his boot and then he asked Peter to ______ it. Before I tried to stop his ______ request, Peter got down to Robert's boot and took a long smell. Then he thanked Robert for ______ the special smell. Robert smiled at Peter's reaction.

When ______, Robert took more time than a fast-food customer should. Eventually, he ______ an orange juice. Peter praised his ______, which brought a bigger smile to Robert's face. Peter followed us ______ with our food as the birthday boy picked the perfect table. My heart was filled with thanks for this man who made my son feel ______. Though Peter did what Robert asked calmly, I still criticized (批评) Robert for his impolite deed.

Peter treated all customers with extreme ______ and politeness. Eight years later, Robert can still feel Peter's   ______. In life, we often ______ people by material worth or university degrees. However, the true ______ of a person comes from how they treat others.

7 . Once there was a farmer with a wife and two sons. He became quite________through hardworking. He wanted his children to have a(n)________life, so he and his wife did all the work and________made them do anything.

After some time, his wife died and________he didn’t want his children to________, so he did the field labor and all the housework. But as time went on, he became old and________, and started to worry about his________when he died.

So he thought about this for a long time and he________his sons and said, “Look, my inheritance (遗产) to you is a lot of gold. I’ve________all my gold in the fields, so it’s up to you to plough (耕作) them and________the gold.”

And he called his neighbors and said, “I’m going to________and my children don’t know how to________themselves. So please cook for them until they can take care of themselves.”

So the neighbors provided them with________for some time.

Certainly the brothers didn’t want to be robbed of the________so they did the digging themselves. They________one field after another and after they had dug all the fields, they found no gold.

So the brothers sat down and one________the other, “Do you think our father________us?”

But the other brother said, “No, I think our father was saying that the________is a golden profession. And if we dig up all the________we can become rich.”

So like all the other________, they sowed wheat in the fields they had dug and became very rich in the end.