3 . Some people wouldn’t be happy about having to work on Mother’s Day weekend. However, I felt pretty ________ when I climbed into the florist delivery van (送货车). My own mother was no longer alive to ________ the flowers, so ________ the day of other moms seemed like the best thing to do.

First up on my ________ of deliveries was a nursing home. Someone named Mary was ________ a vase of pink roses from her children. I announced the name to the ________ on duty. “Roses for Mary?” the nurse said. “Room two twenty-four. Just set them by the ________. It’s a nice gesture, but ________ she won’t know the flowers are there.” Carrying the vase down the hall to look for Mary, I thought ________ like these couldn’t just be set by the window and ________.

“Happy Mother’s Day, Mary,” I announced. “Your children sent you these ________ flowers.” Mary’s eyes ________ the flowers and slowly she smiled. I ________ my cell phone. I had Mary’s daughter’s ________ on my delivery list. I combed Mary’s short gray hair into place and took a ________ of this loved mother with her roses. “Just look at your mama,” I ________ Mary’s daughter. “The roses were a blessing.”

I was a little behind schedule by the time I got back to my van, but it was ________ of it. I had many other deliveries at nursing homes like Mary’s. I took a lot of pictures, ________ a lot of texts and ________ a lot of joy.

Eventually when I got back to the shop my coworker gave me a bunch of flowers. “These flowers are for you, Happy Mother’s Day, Rita, we ________ your favorites.”

5 . A few months ago the pilot of a small plane had an unusual ______. He took off from an airport runway on a training ______ . A strong wind blew the plane sideways, and it _____ the top of a tree. Both wheels of the plane were knocked ______, but luckily to him, the plane did not crash.

The pilot sent a radio _____to the airport. He did not know how to ______ without wheels. The airport controller _____ to help the pilot. He telephoned the airport firemen and told them what to do.

A fireman saw a long, open lorry, which was ______ at the airport building to collect some goods. The fireman borrowed it and ______ to one end of the airport runway. Then he turned round and waited for the plane to _____. The airport controller immediately ______ a radio message to the _____. He told him to try to land on top of the ______. The fireman drove quickly along the runway and the pilot flew down to land. Fortunately, he _____ to land on the lorry. Part of the lorry was ______ and the tail of the plane was broken, ____ nobody was injured. The fireman ______ the lorry down and then it stopped ______. What a heroic scene it is!

The pilot was very ______ to all of them who had offered him help, of course. He gladly agreed to ______ for the damage to the lorry.

6 . Dr. Gallagher is speaking highly of a Minnesota state police officer. The policeman stopped her for speeding, but gave her N95 masks instead of a________. She thanked State Police Jordan Axani for his act of______during the coronavirus pandemic(流行病) in a Facebook post.

Dr. Gallagher, a doctor voluntarily _______ in the area, explained she was________ after driving over the speed limit on March 21. Jordan told her it was irresponsible for her to be _______because it would take up resources if she got into a(n)________and she would not be able to help her________. She waited for him to write a ticket, but to her________, he let her off with a________warning-plus five medical masks. They came from a supply that the state had given him for his own________.

“I________at once,” she said. “Maybe it's just because of the cold weather, and I also saw him shed(流出)a few tears, before________ me safe and sound on the journey and walking away.”

Like many of her fellow health care workers, Dr. Gallagher said she had been feeling________for not having proper protective equipment and worried about what would________if she fell sick far from home.

“This________stranger, who owed me nothing and most________is more on the front lines against the pandemic than I am,________his valuable masks, without even________me first,” she added.

While the coronavirus pandemic has________the world, the kindness of people like Jordan Axani is a reminder that nothing can take away our________in times of crisis.

7 . I was sending my mum and sister off at the train station after their holiday visit. On the way I saw a man in a _______ in an empty place. It looked like he wasn't _______ shoes. _______ saying goodbye to my family, I went back to the place and he was there. His chair was on the incline（斜坡）leading to the street and it looked like he was _______ with his bare（赤裸的） feet to keep from _______ into the street.

I asked if he wanted me to _______ him back up. He nodded. I asked him to _______ his feet and pulled him back up into the place. He didn't answer me when I asked if this was _______ enough. Then, I opened the box I had _______ with me. It was a shoe box with an old pair of shoes that I had kept in my car. When I passed the shoes to him, you could have imagined the ________ on his face. First it was ________﹔and then it was happiness. When he spoke, I couldn't ________ what he said, but I knew he was thanking me ________.

On the way back to my car I saw a couple who were badly ________ and gave them a couple of my.________bags. As I drove past the ________ man, I saw he had already ________ one shoe and was working on the other.

Keeping old pairs of shoes and unused bags in my car for ________ like this is so much more important than ________ them out or selling them at a yard ________.

8 . In late January of 2018, Chicago experienced the coldest temperatures that the city has seen in decades.

A group of homeless people that live in an area called Tent City were left outside directly ________ to the deadly weather. 34-year-old Candice Payne, a managing broker (经纪人) from a local company, was ________ enough to have shelter from the dangerous conditions. ________, she couldn’t stop thinking about the homeless people in the area who had nowhere to go.

“It was 50℃ below, and I knew I had to take ________,” Payne told The New York Times. She started thinking of different ________ that could possibly work. Eventually, she ________ to see if there were any rooms available at ________ hotels that she could ________ for the night for the people ________ in the street. So without wasting any time, Payne got on the ________ and started calling hotels in the area.

“Finally, the Amber Inn was nice enough to ________ me to buy the rooms for the homeless,” Payne said. Without ________, she purchased 30 rooms for the night with her credit card. She ________ reached out to people on her Instagram account asking if anyone would like to ________ with either paying for more rooms or ________ the homeless people to the inn.

She got immediate ________ that surprised her. Strangers ________ their cars and S.U.V.s. They also ________, which helped Payne pay for a total of 60 rooms for five nights.

Payne’s ________ act made news across the country, however, she said, “I am a regular person. I ________ it with so many others’ help.”

9 . It was just a harmless Valentine’s Day joke. Old Lady Hayes _______ it. She used to scream at us for “borrowing” a few of her precious raspberries(木莓), like we were _______ gold.

George practiced _______ the box out of reach by the string. I couldn’t wait to see it fly away when she tried to pick it up.

I was first to _______ my dad in the doorway. I froze. Within seconds, my _______ was shared by all. Dad walked slowly to the empty candy box. He picked it up, and watched it swing back and forth. Then he looked into the eyes of the _______ boys.

“It doesn’t seem so long ago that I was playing Valentine’s Day _______,” he said, “One year my cousins and I decided to try one on our Grandma Walker _______ we loved her. We just wanted to have some _______. We sneaked up to her ____________ and drew a gift there with red paint. Then we kicked the door and ____________ behind the bushes. When Grandma ____________ appeared, she looked down. Even from 15 feet away we could see the ____________ in her eyes. Grandma ____________ for the fresh paint. Slowly, she ____________ our joke. She tried to smile, absently wiping red paint on her clean and white apron(围裙).” Dad ____________ and for the first time I noticed that his eyes were ____________. “Grandma died later that year. I never had another ____________ to give her a real valentine.”

Later that night a red, heart-shaped box was ____________ on Mrs. Hayes’ front doorstep. We hid behind the bushes to see how she would ____________ to receiving a full box of candy.

10 . When most of us get a text message on our cell phone from an unknown person, we usually say ＂sorry, ________ number!＂ and move on. But when Dennis Williams __________ a text that clearly wasn’t intended for him, he did something __________.

On March 19, Dennis got a group text __________ him that a couple he didn’t know were at the hospital, waiting for the __________ of a baby.

＂Congratulations! But I think someone was mistaken,＂ Dennis __________. The baby was born and update texts were __________ quickly from the overjoyed grandmother, Teresa. In her __________, she didn’t seem to realize that she was __________ the baby’s photos with a complete stranger. ＂Well, I don’t __________ you all but I will get there to take pictures with the baby,＂ replied Dennis before asking which room the new __________ were in.

Much to the family’s surprise, Dennis stuck to his __________! He turned up at the hospital __________ gifts for the new mother Lindsey and her baby boy. Lindsey’s husband was totally __________ by the unexpected visit. ＂I don’t think we would have randomly invited him over but we __________ it and the gifts.＂

Teresa __________ a photo of the chance meeting on a social networking website __________ by the touching words: ＂What a __________ this young man was to our family! He was so __________ and kind to do this.＂ The post has since gained the __________ of social media users all over the world, receiving more than 184,000 shares and 61,500 likes in just three days.