1 . Chloe Smith is a girl aged 6 from Atlanta, Georgia. One day, while taking a walk with her father near their home, she________something shiny under a pile of rubbish. She picked up the ________ to take home, as she often did on her treasure-hunting walks. Chloe was later ________ to discover she had found a stolen Olympic gold medal.

The medal belongs to former canoeist (划艇运动员) Joe Jacobi, who won gold while ________ for Team USA in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic games. The medal, along with other personal belongings, was ________ in May of 2016 when someone broke into Jacobi’s can. Though police managed to ________ some of his stolen items, they hadn’t been able to find his ________ Olympic medal. It may have been lost forever, if not for a 6-year-old girl’s treasure-hunting ________ .

Chloe’s dad had seen Jacobi’s story on the news, and ________ realized it was his stolen property. He found Jacobi’s email and sent him pictures of the treasure. After________ the medal, Jacobi was astonished, just speechless.

Chloe was ________ to give it back after speaking with Jacobi on the phone. ________, Jacobi promised to speak to her class when school begins again this fall. The ________ of this little girl reuniting an Olympian with his beloved possession is ________ . When we talk about character and doing the ________ thing, Chloe represents the Olympic values in every sense of the word.

4 . Kristin Schell is the founder of the Turquoise Table Movement.

A decade ago, Kristin Schell with her family ________ to a new home in Austin, Texas. She ________ to communicate with her new neighbors.

One day, Kristin needed some backyard furniture for a party so she bought a few picnic tables from a store. One table was laid in her front yard ________. After the party, she painted the table turquoise—her favorite ________ —and just left it in the front yard.

Unexpectedly, that turquoise table became the ________ where people had social contact. Neighbors began to stop by to ________ themselves and sit down for a chat. Kristin ________ people to join her at the table for coffee or iced tea. Construction workers on jobs in the ________ took their lunch breaks at the table. Then the neighbors followed Kristin’s suit-they chose to put a picnic table in their front yard too. A movement was born.

Some people often ________ to invite others into their homes. They think their house is too small and ________ or they don’t have enough time. Kristin’s turquoise table away the excuses and the ________. With the lovely table, all she has to do is ________. Kristin believes that the table enables her to take a small step toward building ________ relationships in her community.

Nowadays, thousands of such ________ exist in all 50 states in the US and in 13 countries around the world. Not all of them are ________ turquoise. No matter what color it is, it’s a friendships table.

5 . We were sitting in the doctor’s waiting room when my father said something that ________ me. “Are you my daughter or my sister?” My heart broke as I stared at him.

The doctor told us my father had Alzheimers (阿尔茨海默病). It was a big ________ for me. I was facing a battle on two fronts, emotional and physical, and I was ________for it. The disease didn’t take him away suddenly. Instead, it slowly ________him. It made me sad to watch my father hide his _______ to read the clock.

As the disease continued to progress, his behaviors became ________. We had to face another painful truth — we could no longer provide my father with the level of ________to keep him safe at home. He ________ to move to a skilled nursing facility.

Babies are born helpless; parents keep on ________. Children grow up and learn that relationships are reciprocal (相互的). However, the parent-child relationship isn’t ________. The parents remain the giver, and the children remain the taker. That is the natural order of the world — ________the child becomes the parents’ caregiver.

When a(n)________appears, we can do something to change the fact.________my father is alive and taken good care of in the nursing home. If he can ________ the illness, then I can make it. I will give him everything he deserves to have as a great father. And we will be _______with a bright future by doing our best.

7 . When I was about 10 years old, I was walking down the street with my mother. She ______ to speak to Mr. Lee. I knew I could see Mr. Lee anytime around the neighborhood, so I didn’t greet him. Later, my mother ______ me by the arm and said something that has impressed me deeply. She said, “You let that be the last time you ever walk by somebody and not open up your mouth to speak, because ______ a dog will move its tail gently when it passes you on the ______.”

That ______ touching my heart deeply, it’s been a guidepost for me and the foundation of who I am. I’s not just something I believe in; it’s become a way of life. I believe that every person ______ to feel someone realize their presence, whether he is ______ or nobody.

At work, I always used to say hello to the ______ of the company and ask him how our business was doing. But I was also speaking to the people in the cafe and the people who cleaned the buildings, and asked how their children were doing. One day, I asked the founder how ______ he thought I could go in his company. He said, “If you want to, you can get all the ______ to this seat.”

Now I’ve become vice president, but my mother’s advice is still in my heart. I have benefited a lot from opening my mouth and saying, “Hello.”

10 . Once there was a farmer who had a fine olive orchard (橄榄园). He was very hard-working, and the ________always prospered (繁荣) under his care. But he knew that his three sons looked down upon the farm work, and were eager to become rich.

When the farmer was ________ and felt that he would die, he ________ the three sons to him and said, “My sons, there is a pot of gold ________ in the olive orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it.”

The sons tried to know in what part of the orchard the ________ was hidden, but their father would tell them nothing more.

After the farmer was ________, the sons started to find the pot of gold. Since they did not ________ where the hiding-place was, they agreed to begin in a line, at one ________ of the orchards, and to dig until one of them should find the money.

They dug until they had turned up the soil from one end of the orchard to the other, around the tree- roots and between them. ________ no pot of gold was to be found. It seemed as if someone must have stolen it. The three sons were bitterly ________ to have all their work for nothing.

The next olive ________, the olive trees in the orchard bore more fruit than they had ________ given; when it was ________, it gave the sons a whole pot of gold.

And when they saw how much money had ________ from the orchard, they suddenly understood what the wise father had ________ when he said, “There is a pot of gold hidden in the orchard. Dig for it if you wish it.”