1 . Dawn Loggins didn’t have a typical senior year. Back in 2012, Loggins was waking up early to get to school to put in a before-school _________ as a janitor (清洁工).

Before the rest of her peers _________ school, Loggins was cleaning bathrooms, scrubbing floors, and _________ down the very desks she would _________ later in the day as a student. After 7 hours at school, Loggins didn’t get to _________ home to enjoy an after-school snack or downtime either._________ , she clocked back in for another two-hour time on janitorial duty.

“I don’t mind cleaning,” Loggins said. “If you have to walk through trash to get to your desk, you’re not going to have an environment that _________ learning.”

While the teen was clearly hardworking, it wasn’t immediately obvious to school officials how badly Loggins _________ the financial support her job provided, until she asked her boss for _________ one day. The reason? Without electricity at home.

Even more shocking, while Loggins was at summer school, she __________ calling home, only to find out the phones had been __________ and her parents had moved away-without her. And she became __________ . When the school realized the extent of the neglect Loggins had been living with, they surrounded her with __________ . The community took her in, providing her with housing and food and clothing and helping her to apply for college.

And the efforts __________ : Loggins was accepted into Harvard University. Today she works as a motivational speaker, speaking to __________ that include education, homelessness, and women and youth empowerment.

2 . Growing up as a kid in the UK, I was fascinated by insects. Wanting to protect them, I started _________ little houses for ants, using little pieces of wood and leaves. My mother, always _________ me, said that the _________ I made things, the bigger my name would become when seeing my work.

As the years went by, my designs became more _________. And I used many different _________, such as diamond fragments, eyelashes and even spider web threads.

My sculptures have taken me to incredible places. In 2012, I met the queen, _________ her with a tiny crown on the head of a pin. In 2013, beyond my _________, I received my first Guinness World Record for creating the smallest sculpture made by hand which was a 24-carat gold motorbike. In 2017, I broke my _________ with a sculpture of a human fetus (胎儿) that measured _________ 0.078 mm by 0.053 mm.

As a child, I was __________ with autism (自闭症). In school, my teachers had defined me not __________ for learning; but now, I see my autism as a(n) __________. It’s pushed me to be the best I can be. I hold workshops in schools for neurodiverse children, sharing with them my life and work and helping them create their own miniature __________ out of Blu-Tack (蓝丁胶).

The microscopic world has always been my __________ place. I’ve tried to make bigger sculptures, but small is the best for me. We need to __________ the little things in life. Small things can also be mighty, too.

3 . If Christmas and Thanksgiving are the biggest official holidays in the US, certainly Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest unofficial holiday. Like other_______, it’s a time for friends and family to_______for food and chatting. However, those who live on the edge of society don’t have the special connection.

Meir Kalmanson thought those people, too, should get to_______the big day. So, on a cold February Sunday in 2017, as he_______to a Super Bowl party being held at a New York City club, he invited six_______men he met on the streets to join him. Over hamburgers, chicken wings and soda, Kalmanson and his homeless_______watched the classic football games. Kalmanson described the scene as“_______, exciting energy”. “We were on the edge of our seats. Cheering, laughing. But the games only played just a small part in the night’s_______,” he said. More important was the men’s_______with one another and the other fans.“We were part of a bigger party that was happening,” said Kalmanson. “They gained their dignity.” For that evening, they were no longer outsiders. They__________.

The following year, friends and YouTube fans asked about the next party, and so began the __________organization Super Soul Parties. Homeless people now have__________to new clothing and a barber, as well as mental health therapists and__________housing organizations.

Kalmanson grew up in a household that lived by the golden rule, “Helping those in need,__________it was a meal or a place to stay,” he says. “It’s the most important thing in life: Be __________”

4 . A few years ago, I was giving a presentation to the CEO of a financial services company, outlining a speech on “Leadership Presence”, which I was _________ to deliver to his organization the next day.

Our meeting lasted thirty minutes, and through that entire time, the CEO sat at the conference table with his _______   tightly crossed. He didn’t once smile, lean forward or nod encouragement. When I finished, he said thank you and glanced at the doorway to indicate that we were _________ .

I was sure that his nonverbal _________ was telling me that my speaking engagement would be canceled. But when I walked to the elevator, the executive’s assistant came to tell me how _________ her boss had been with my presentation.

I was shocked and asked how he would have _________ had he not liked it. “Oh,” said the assistant, _________ ,“He would have _________ as you were speaking and walked out of the room.”

The _________ signals I’d received from that CEO were ones I judged to be __________ . What I didn’t realize was that, for this individual, it was his __________ behavior.

Just as I __________ that executive’s body language, when people don’t know how you usually behave they also can easily __________ to the wrong conclusion. Remember this when meeting someone __________ . They won’t know that you __________ frown when you’re concentrating and may think the frown is a negative reaction to something she said or did.

5 . Hardly had I finished my work and left my office building at 9 p. m. on a Saturday when it rained cats and dogs. I noticed a man wandering around my car the moment I _______ the parking lot.

He was alone, _______ with cold, and he was looking around every few seconds. It was then that it _______ me that I had forgotten to roll the car window up and that was _______ where I left my wallet.

I ran and called out to the man, _______ he didn’t take the money and make a run with it. I was too tired to _______ him.

“Are you the _______ of this car?” the man asked, raindrops on the roof of my car making his voice _______.

“Yes, I am. And who the hell are you?” I replied with an unfriendly _______.

The man went on to tell me that he was a ________ nearby and familiar with every face and every car here. “This morning, several young men walked up ________ to take the money in your car. I would not let that happen. I came over and frightened them away, ________ to call the police. The young men ran away immediately. I was waiting for you here so that the car and your money would be ________,” he said.

When the man gave a clear ________ of what had happened earlier, I ate my words out of________ I knew I wronged him.

“Why didn’t you take the money?” I asked him.

“I beg, sir. But I don’t steal!” He replied determinedly and left hurriedly.

6 . Ida Keeling was 67, weak and sick, when her daughter Cheryl suggested a run to her. Cheryl thought that maybe what would pull her mother out from dark cloud was something that would get her _______ again.

Keeling lived a hard life when young, growing up _______ in Harlem, and doing hard work in factories during the Great Depression. She had _______ her husband early, and two of her four children died in drug-related incidents in 1978 and 1981.

Keeling had sunk into a deep _______, her health had begun to _______, and her daughters began to _______ that they soon might be losing their mother as well.

It had been decades since Keeling had done any _______, and she would later recall that first “mini-run” feeling as if it would never end. But when it did, “I just threw off all my bad _______.”

She hasn’t stopped running since, and it’s no longer as _______ as it was during that first meet. “I was just exercising then,” she says ________ regarding that first run, “and now I’m all over the world.”

When she’s not running, she must be ________. She’s in the gym three to four days a week on a ________ basis. Part of her healthy diet is occasional consumption of alcohol mixed with her coffee or water to ________ blood circulation.

She’s written a book about her ________, titled Can’t Nothing Bring Me Down: Chasing Myself in the Race Against Time. Her ________ is also suitable for everyone: “Every day is another day forward.”

7 . When I was young, our family cat broke out in a rash (皮疹). But an examination at the vet’s revealed no answers. When asked, “Has anything ________ in your home?” my mom explained my leave for college, and the vet responded “That’s it!” He gave my cat medicine that she took in my ________, and curiously didn’t need when I was home.

Years later after marriage, I adopted a well behaved cat. Suddenly he decided to ________ all our house plants. As it could be a ________ of his not feeling well, I took him to the vet. When tests all came back ________, the familiar question was asked again, “Has anything changed in your home?” We thought hard but couldn’t get it until one day we ________ our cat unsuccessfully trying to get in the window. Ah-ha! We had replaced the old ________ with new wooden blinds. They clearly ________ him from sitting in his favorite spot. Then I ________ the blinds every morning. The digging stopped.

I had forgotten those two incidents. Until recently our dog started ________ not herself and became an absolute________ on our daily runs. It was right when I was taking her to the vet that I thought of the question I would most ________ be asked. After years of being at home, I had recently gone back to work. It was a difficult ________ for our family, but I never considered the ________ it would have on one particular member of the family. Suddenly, she was ________ all day long in a quiet house. Why hadn’t I realized it before?

8 . Jaxon Carter, a 6-year-old boy, lost his mother very early. Her passing away left the little boy and his dad in _________. Soon after that, Jaxon had to move to a new _________ to study, which proved to be a great _________ for him.

Jaxon has been an outstanding and _________ student, despite his sadness over losing his mother. Jaxon recently had his graduation ceremony where he _________ a valedictory (告别的) speech. However, a normal speech everyone expected _________ an emotional and heart-breaking one as the boy paid tribute to (致敬) his late mother.

“When I started kindergarten here in August last year, I was a little 5-year-old boy who had lost my beautiful mother a month before. My kindergarten year helped me grow braver, smarter, more kind-hearted, and more _________,” he said in the _________. He thanked his teacher, who he _________ as someone with a “big heart”. “When I was __________, she used to tell me it would be all right.”

Lastly, he dedicated his speech to the person he __________ missed his mother. “I dedicate my speech, good grades, all school awards, and my kindergarten graduation to my beautiful mommy, who I will always __________ and miss so much,” said Jaxon. “I know she will always be with me in my __________.”

The audience __________ him as they were all brought into tears by the boy’s beautiful and heartfelt __________.

9 . We must have been about halfway through our Contiki trip and we arrived in Rome, the capital city of Italy. On this particularly hot day after _________ many winding beautiful streets, we ended up at St. Peter’s Basilica.

Our tour guide jokingly said he had forgotten the _________ back to the hotel and asked if anyone knew how to _________ to the hotel. None of us did, but then Julie, an American girl, confidently put, “I can _________ it.” We all thought she was joking too, for Julie was nearly _________. But she said, “No. Seriously, I can take us all back.” Our team _________ her as she led us through the winding streets. Someone asked, “How can you _________ remember the way we _________?” She answered, “I just know. Feel how beautiful and cool the air is. We are by the fountain. This is where we turned left.” We continued. “I’m _________ freshly baked bread,” she said. “We turned right by this __________ and this is the café we passed by. I’ve recognized the __________ of that coffee machine. It is __________ to trust me.”

Sure enough, every turn had the things we hadn’t __________ before. Those things revealed themselves like hidden diamonds. We discovered more and more about the __________ of this city.

Finally, we made our way to the hotel. What struck me most was how Julie made us all see a rich and __________ city through her eyes. It made me experience travel in a totally new way.

10 . When introducing the rules of the class, the first words my math teacher, Ms. Whitney, began with were “kindness” and “homework”. You must be feeling what I felt then: Why would homework, such a(n) ________ and difficult existence for students, be ________ with anything good?

As if ________ my confusion, Ms. Whitney began to explain in her ________ but authoritative voice: “Homework is the ________ you have for your teacher, your classmates, and yourself. It provides you the precious opportunity to grow and learn. When others can’t solve a problem, and you get a(n) ________, you can do them a favor. There’s a positive relationship between them.”

It was at that moment that I heard a pop in my head, a feeling as if the mist of ________ around the two words had faded away. Homework promotes kindness, and kindness ________ creates an atmosphere that ________ everyone to practice their skills. It is a ________ of positivity.

Ms. Whitney ________ the truth behind those words during the following days. Every day, we were ________ into groups and made to stand next to each other, working on problems that came like a ________ rapids. In a classroom ________ filled with friendly discussion and Ms. Whitney’s cheerful voice ________, “Kindness and Homework!” whenever she spied on one of us standing alone or helplessly, math class didn’t feel as boring or tiring as it was before.