4 . Margaret Thompson and her husband, Kenneth, stretched their legs together on walking holidays in Switzerland. In Interlaken, they would head up the mountain and watch the paragliders (滑翔伞运动员) ______ themselves into the sky. Back in town, in a large park, they watched them return to the ______ . “Some day I’d love to do that,” Thompson told Kenneth.

But there was always so much to do in Interlaken. _______, Thompson didn’t know if Kenneth would have ______ it. “He was not so keen on heights as I was,” she said. So she ______ to watch the gliders take flight and land.

Kenneth died in 2005. Eleven years later, Thompson ______ took to the skies herself, in a paraglider at the age of 80. Although some people get scared while flying, she said she just feels ______ . Thompson did her second paraglide when she turned 85.

Thompson asked the organizers about the age ______ for paragliding. They said: “Any age, as long as you’re ______.” Thompson, now 86, plans her third flight for when she is 90.

Thompson______ living above her parents’ shop in Belfast. At 18, she helped in the shop while ______ for her music diplomas (文凭) in Stranmillis, south Belfast. She started to ______ piano to local children, and at the height of her teaching she gave 70 ______ a week. She still has 15 pupils on her books.

Is she scared of getting older? “Fear? No. People say: ‘Isn’t getting old ______ ?’ I say: ‘No. You are free to do more things that you want to do,’” Thompson said.

“People might worry about falling, it being the end of them. But that doesn’t ______ me at all. When it’s your time, it’s your time. No matter where you are,” Thompson added.

5 . Sarah, a Girl Guide (女童子军) from Wagga Wagga, dreams of being a medical scientist, inspired by Florence Nightingale’s ________ work in the field of nursing. “I want to make a positive ________ on the world by learning first aid to help people ________,” explains Sarah, who has a vision of seeing more girls in science.

Meanwhile, Olivia, from Coogee, has taken ________ from a famed Australian obstetrician (产科医师). “I want to be a biomedical engineer or something else in the medical field, to make money from some great inventions and then use that money to ________ houses to the homeless,” she says. “This is just like Catherine Hamlin, a gynaecologist, who used her wealth to ________ to the women of Ethiopia by providing them with more healthcare.”

Girl Guides Australia promotes the ________ of girls, whether they dream of working in forensic science or engineering, or ________ want to learn first aid. It also ________ a conference about what they could achieve, where some schoolmates who have gone on to success in STEM ________ a vital experience as members of Girl Guides.

Natasha Hendrick is principal geophysicist at Santos Ltd and a Rhodes Scholar. She said that her time as a Guide showed girls could do anything. She ________ for the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and donates her time to Women Who Code, ________ young women who want to succeed in the tech industry. “A great many activities I was ________ in as a Guide provided a safe, supportive space in which I learned to try new things, like effective communication skills, be brave, and grow,” says Natasha. “I became a young woman who ________ to be different through my choice of career. And today I can look back and say my Guiding experiences made me one of those sought-after scientists who are also skilled managers, ________ communicators and good leaders.”

6 . Alice is a student who came to my class last year. Though she has already turned 60, Alice looks so fit and______with a bright smile and an enthusiastic attitude. I am Alice’s teacher in class, but I feel she is my teacher in life.

For my 2-hour class every Saturday morning, Alice has to take a 3-hour round-trip on the road. But she is never ______for class. Alice is very passionate about learning English. She often says, “Don’t ______ me as a 60-year-old. I am just a new beginner who wants to learn anything ______ . You know, I am very excited to come to the class!” So I feel a strong sense of______ to make sure what I teach makes sense to her.

Alice came to me with very______ English skills, but she turns out to be a very fast learner because she always puts English______ on a daily basis. I______ her homework before every class. Her homework is usually not what I ______ for the class, rather it is something that she______ to put together. She makes various sentences using the important words and phrases she learned from our______ class. I am always______ by the quality of her work.

I feel fortunate to have a student like Alice. She has______ me so much. Our______ is a great learning experience for both of us. Though I have no idea why she learns English, I hope I can help her ______ her dream, whatever it is.

7 . At an airport I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. The airline had announced her plane’s_________and he said to his daughter, “I love you. I wish you enough.”

She said, “Daddy, our life together has been more than enough. Your_________is all I needed. I wish you enough, too, Daddy.” They kissed good-bye and she left.

I could see he wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to_________his privacy, but he welcomed me in by asking. “Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be_________?” “Yes.” I replied.

Saying that brought back memories I had of expressing my love and_________for all my Dad had done for me. Recognizing that his days were_________, I kept telling him face to face how much he meant to me._________I knew what this man was experiencing.

“Why is this a forever good-bye?” I asked.

“I am old and she lives too far away. And the reality is, her next trip back will be for my_________,” he said.

“When you were saying good-bye I heard you say, ‘I wish you enough’. What does that mean?”

He began to smile. “That’s a wish that has been_________from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone.” He paused and looked up as if trying to remember it__________. He smiled even more.

“When we said ‘I wish you enough’, we wanted you to have a life filled with enough good things to__________you,” he continued and shared the following as if he were reciting it from__________.

“I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest________ in life appears much bigger. I wish you enough gain to satisfy your desire. I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you     ________”

He then began to__________and walked away.

8 . One day, Lisa’s mother drove her to make a donation to Hope House, a shelter for the homeless. A 3-year-old boy there ______ thought they were gifts for his birth-day. At that moment, Lisa ______ something had to be done.

Lisa, who was 9 at the time, said she hadn’t really thought about families who couldn’t ______ birthday parties for their kids before meeting the boy. That day she asked the director of the Hope House whether birthday parties had been hosted there before. The answer was apparently no.

“The ______ of giving birthday parties for homeless kids at Hope House was already ______ in her mind on the car ride home,” Lisa’s mother, Tania, said.

Lisa ______ that the little boy was wearing a blue shirt, blue shorts and blue socks, so she decided to ______ him a blue- themed party. For the child’s ______, she and her mom brought balloons, a cake and a gift back to Hope House.

This was the ______ of the Hopeful Hearts Club, Lisa’s non--profit group that hosts birthday parties for kids ______ at Hope House. Each child gets a cake, a gift and party decorations ______.

Hopeful Hearts Club ______ with Lisa and two of her friends. Today it has ______ to more than 1,000 members--people who have contributed their time or things to Lisa’s projects.

______ birthday parties at Hope House, the club hosts events such as collection drives, holiday meals and family activities. Meantime, Lisa hopes to inspire others to reach out and help their community. “If you see a need, try to ______ it,” Lisa said.

10 . My mother worked as a housekeeper, and she often brought many leftover things home, including used ______ as well as many other things.

One December day, an old-model toy car ______ among a load of other things. It was as long as my forearm and took both hands to lift. I immediately began ______ it and polishing (抛光) it to a bright candy-apple red. It was a thing of ______, and I glowed (容光焕发) as much as it did from the pride of          ____.

Our relatives from France came to visit that Christmas, and my young French cousin ______ that wonderful, shiny red automobile. He’d been ______ so far in life, suffering severe illnesses as a child and ______ himself badly earlier in the year when his bicycle hit a plate-glass window.

By now, everyone ______ how I felt about the car, so nobody dared suggest that I give it to him. But, deep down, I knew it was the ______ thing to do. So, when they ______, my red car went with him. Though I was sad to see it go, my heart ______ when I saw the pleasant smile on his face as he tightly held it.

I still ______ that car and miss it to this day. But with that beloved ______ Christmas gift, I bonded (建立亲密关系) with my cousin for life.

Giving that gift away showed me that it is better to give than to receive. It was the first gift that I gave that keeps me ______.