1 . The passengers on the bus watched with sympathy as Susan made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and then, using her hands to____the seats, settled in one of them.

It had been a year since Susan became blind. As the result of an accident she was suddenly thrown into a world of_____ Susan’s husband Mark watched her____into hopelessness and he was____to use every possible means to help his wife.

Finally, Susan felt ready to____to her job, but how would she get there? She used to take the bus, but she was now too____to get around the city by herself. Mark____to ride the bus with Susan each morning and evening____she could manage it by herself.

For two weeks, Mark____Susan to and from work each day. He taught her how to rely on her other____, specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new____.

At last, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip____. Monday morning arrived.

Before she left, she hugged her husband____, her eyes filled with tears of gratitude. She said good-bye and, for the first time, they went their____ways. Each day went perfectly, and a wild excitement took____of Susan. She was doing it!

On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work____. As she was getting off the bus, the driver said, “Miss, I sure____you.” Curious, Susan asked the driver____.

“You know, every morning for the____week, a fine-looking gentleman in a military uniform has been standing across the corner watching you until you enter your office building safely,” the bus driver said.

Tears of happiness poured down Susan’s cheeks. She was so lucky for he had given her a gift more powerful than____. That is the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness.

2 . Preschool girl lifts old man’s spirits

When Tara Wood brought her daughter to a grocery store to buy the four-year-old some birthday cupcakes, she had no idea that would be a life-changing _______.

As Tara pushed her daughter Norah around the store last month, she _______ an old man who was by himself. The old man looked cold, until Norah shouted to him, “Hi! It’s my birthday today!” The man stopped and his demeanor (举止、态度) changed from distant and serious to warm and _______. “How old are you today?” the man asked. After some time talking together, Norah asked her mom to take a _______ of her with her new friend “Mr. Dan”, Dan Peterson, 82 and then went their separate ways. That could have been the _______ of the story. But it was actually the beginning of a(n) _______ relationship.

Tara _______ the picture of her daughter and Mr. Dan on Facebook. Someone who _______ him reached out to her with Mr. Dan’s contact information. It turned out that Mr. Dan’s wife died in March and he had been _______ from depression and anxiety ever since. The person on Facebook told Tara that it was the first time they had seen Mr. Dan ________ since the death of his wife. Knowing that, Tara contacted Mr. Dan, and ever since Norah and the 82-year-old have developed a ________ unlike any other. “She has shown me a depth of love, a depth that I didn’t know existed,” Mr. Dan told the reporter.

Mr. Dan told Tara that before meeting Norah, he hadn’t had one night of uninterrupted ________ Anxiety kept him up at all hours and ________ him restless. After meeting Norah, he said he now sleeps soundly. For Mr. Dan’s 82nd birthday on October 20, the mother and the daughter brought balloons and presents—and, of course, cupcakes. Mr. Dan will also spend a day around Thanksgiving with Norah and her family. “If you don’t take the time to ________ people, you will never know how you can ________ impact a life,” Tara Wood said.

3 . Brenegan McNulty is a server at Yellowknife’ s Nova Hotel restaurant. She says that her weekend _______ has fallen into a wild and uncontrolled _______ since they were a little short-handed for the evening.

When a group of ten women entered the restaurant looking for a table, _______, McNulty was still ready to_______them with a smile.

As she _______the table, McNulty assumed that the women were _______a birthday since they had been passing around a _______ for all of them to sign.

To her _______, the woman finished _______ the card only to hand it over to her. Furthermore, she opened up the card and found that it ________ $ 1,100 in cash.

When McNulty asked them why they had surprised her with such a ________ gift, they simply said that they had selected her as a random ________ for a random restaurant.

“They wanted to do something ________ for someone who was working hard during the ________ season,” she recalled to CBC. “That’ s something you hear about ________ on The Ellen Show, you know, not here in Yellowknife. ”

Since McNulty works two jobs to ________ her one-year-old son, she says the ________ is a much- appreciated financial aid she has received ________for the New Year.

“It could ________ a new stroller (婴儿手推车) for him, food, or saving for rent for my own place in the New Year,” McNulty told the reporter. “ ________ working seven days a week, going to work and having something great like this happen makes it all worth it. I felt like I won some sort of lottery. I don’t know how I got so lucky.

4 . Mattew Shifrin has been building with Legos (乐高积木) since he was 5 with the help of his friends. When he turned 13, he got a _______ birthday present from his friend, Lilya Finkel. It was an 843-piece Middle Eastern Lego palace. And with it were_______that Finkel made specially for it. Finkel_______a unique name for every one of the more than 800 pieces in the   palace set. Then she spent countless hours_______ building instructions in Braille (盲文) that spelled out how to_______ them all together.

His mind was blown. As a_______person, Shifrin had never before been able to complete a Lego set_______. Shifrin knew immediately that he had to help other blind children find the same_______ . Shifrin says, ''For blind people, Lego sets act as small 3D_______for real-life buildings instead of two-dimensional photographs. Lego bricks ________ me to see things that are ________ to explore by touch.'' For years after that incredible Lego________ , he together with Finkel created similar instructions for about 45 other Lego sets, all ________ on a website they created, ''Lego for the Blind.''

Shifrin began________the Lego company several years ago to discuss his work, but it was in 2017, when Finkel died of cancer, that he finally connected with the________person. His years-long efforts________ when the Lego company released its first audio and Braille building instructions. The project is a high-tech version of what Shifrin and Finkel did for their________. It couldn’t have been completed without Shifrin's________ – or without his determination.

He just ________ Finkel had been here to see it. ''I think she'd be very glad that we came this ________,'' Shifrin said.

5 . You might think having to dial 911 in an emergency would be scary, but really it was OK because I knew what to do. One ______ I was sitting on a rock watching my mom ______ a horse. The next second , she went ______ backward when the horse kicked her. She landed on the ground, ______, got up on her knees, and held her face in her hands. The horse ran off.

I was in a bit of ______. I yelled to my mom and ______ if she was all right. She didn’t answer. ______, she ran inside the house. I was scared, but I knew my mom would want me to make sure the horse was ______. I led him back to the barn. He’s not ______ or scary or anything—sometimes accidents ______ happen.

Once I put him in a stall, I ran ______. My mom did not look OK. I called 911 and told the ______ what had happened. The ambulance came and drove us a short distance to where a helicopter was waiting to ______ my mom to the hospital. In the ambulance, I called my mom’s friend, who came and took me to the ______ too.

I was crying and so ______ and shaking. Would my mom be OK? After ______ and five days in the hospital, she came home. I was so ______ to have her back. She was training ______ again after about six weeks.

Later on, I couldn’t believe it when the government gave me an award for how I ______ the emergency and helped my mom. One thing’s for sure. She can always ______ me.

6 . One day, my husband, David, and I were taking our dog Joey for his evening walk. We were on our way home, ________ toward a bridge, when I heard some loud noises ahead.

As we went near, I could see a(n) ________ sitting on the ground. It was a young man, crying and shouting, with his whole body shaking. I ________ and suddenly realized the ________ of the situation. High-speed trains ran over the bridge and it was a well-known spot for those who wanted to take their own ________.

David and I ________ glances. There was no one around. I knew I would never be able to ________ myself if his death was reported the next day and I’d done nothing. I moved ________ toward the man and asked him if I could sit down, and then ________ myself onto the ground opposite him. I tried a few ________ questions: “What’s your name? How old are you? What do you do?” His answers were ________. “Tommy. 23. Computers.”

“Are you OK?” I asked. “No, I’m not!” he ________ back. He lost control of his ________ —tears one moment; anger the next. I tried my best to make a ________. I even retold the story of Neil Laybourn, who had ________ a man down from Waterloo Bridge in London 10 years ago.

“They’re great friends now.” I said. “Who knows? That could be us.” I was saying anything to calm him down, to show him I was a person who cared, and his life still ________. Then I heard the sound of a train in the distance and knew this was it: the moment he could ________ himself out there.

Time slowed down. There was ________. I told him my name, Joey’s name, where I lived, how I was a mother of three. When the train passed, I let out a ________. By this time, Tommy’s cries were slowing down and he was stroking (抚摸) Joey. “He is a(n) ________ little thing, isn’t he?” he said.

7 . I was driving home with my son Giacomo, 15, on the A40 when I suddenly saw a small plane coming down. Out of nowhere, it_______   some   200 yards   away from where we were ________ , overturning and bursting into   flames.

We were going 70 miles an hour and I managed to______;   otherwise   we would have   crashed into   it   ourselves. I jumped out, ________   Giacomo in the car. I remember _________   at him to stay there since we really     didn’t have time to mess around.

Flames were coming out of the cockpit (驾驶舱) and I could hear screaming, so I climbed under the wing and tried to   __________   the windows in but failed, and with the heat of the   __________   coming over the top of the plane, I ______   I might have to give up or I’d be in great danger myself. I found the small windows at the back of the     plane had cracked ( 破 裂 ), so my best bet was to kick those through. It___ and, looking back, we were unbelievably____; otherwise, it would have been a completely different____.

I pulled a teenage girl and boy out. Then another guy, Joel Snarr, arrived on the_______   to help at just the       right time. I don’t think I would have been able to get the ________   out — he was a big guy.   _________ , Joel seized him by the arms and got him out just in time. I could _______   straight away Joel had a military background by        how he ________   himself. We’d   just got all three of them, Stuart Moore, who’d flown the plane, and his nephew     and niece, to a safe___ when the plane exploded.

The emergency services   ___________     pretty quickly, and then they did their   duty. When I got   back to my            ______, Giacomo   and I stared at each other, almost laughing   in _________. It was a very   strange moment — things like this only happen in films.

8 . Daniel Mazur and his companions spent seven hours climbing up Mt Everest through ice and snow, digging the crampons（攀岩用鞋冰爪）into the ice and taking _____steps. They were less than three hours away from the spectacular 29,017-foot summit. As Daniel looked out on the ______peaks below, he suddenly saw a flash of bright yellow to his left. To his _____, it moved.“What the hell ?”he _____. When he _____, Daniel noticed a man sitting on the edge of a cliff, with no hat, gloves or _____. Pulling his frostbitten hands out of his snowsuit, the man named Hall burst into laughter. _____, he suffered from cerebral edema(脑水肿), which______ to his loss of consciousness. The other men ______Hall away from the cliff 's edge and helped him back into his ______. They attached their ropes to Hall in case he _____off the cliff. They were______when two Italian climbers, intent on reaching the summit, passed by. Sadly, they______to help. It _____Daniel and his team two days to lower Hall down. As soon as they arrived at the safe and suitable place, Hall was sent to the hospital immediately.

____their help, Hall could very well have died on Everest . Although his rescue is a_____, it has caused a debate on climbers who leave behind the sick and injured in ______ of Everest's grand prize. “Once you are up there, you _____as though you could do anything.” Danie said, “Sure, I wish I could have reached the _____again. But there's no _____we could have left Hall on that ridge.”

9 . Mother’s Day 2016 was the last time that all my three kids would be kids at home. I was_______a Mother’s Day to remember.

That morning, I got up early and left for the_______.The boys and I were going_______,so I expected the break. I entered the office after my class,_______the crowd for their faces. I didn’t find the boys, but wasn’t too worried_______their classes often ran late. I found a bench with plenty of room for all four of us,_______seats for my young men.

The longer I sat there, the more_______and angry I got. How could they_______their mother on this day? I couldn’t_______my work, only on how I’d been wronged.________the last class in the morning ended, I could hardly wait to get home and give them a piece of my mind.

Arriving home, I noticed a pile of roses on the ground. They were the________of a track made of fresh flowers, which led to our house. As I________the flowers, the door got opened and three________ faces greeted me. They let me see what they’d been working on all________.

________the entire floor were the words: “Happy Mother’s Day. We Love You.” They were spelled out with________. The whole house was________with flowers. They’d worked all morning, gathering the fresh flowers and________them into a surprise message.

I immediately realized I’d been much too hurried in my________of the situation. In fact, they’d spent their time sending a________to show how much they really cared.

10 . I took a job as a receptionist for a veterinarian (兽医)) almost five decades ago. As an enthusiastic animal lover, I ___ the position on the condition that I wouldn’t have to assist with any ___ animals. I couldn’t bear to see any creature in pain.

At the end of my first week, we are closing the office for the day ___ a young man ran up to us holding a severely injured Doberman puppy in his arms and ___ us to save his life. A car had hit the four-month-old puppy.

The doctor and I ran back into the ___ room. The only place the skin was still ___to this poor little animal's body was around one shoulder. The vet worked ___for what seemed like hours, stitching(缝合)him back together again. That was the easy ___The puppy had broken multiple ___ , including his spine (脊 柱).If he survived the next few days, we were quite sure he would never __ again.

That day forever changed my life. The veterinarian guided me, and I became his assistant in all things ____.One of my first jobs was to give that Doberman puppy daily physical care. I remember ___ his tiny legs to try to keep his muscles from becoming ____

Weeks went by until one day, I felt this little fighter push back ever so slightly. And he ___to push back until he could finally use his legs.

Fast-forward about a year. I walked into the clinic's waiting room and called the name of the next client. Suddenly, a huge Doberman who had been standing ___with his owner on the opposite side of the room ____ loose and rushed toward me. I found myself pinned____the wall with this magnificent dog standing on his legs, his front paws on my shoulders,___ my face with joyful and _____ kisses!

I still tear up in amazement at the display of love and __ the dog had for me that day all those years ago.