1 . A little girl created a perfect gift for her mother’s birthday. It was a drawing of a ___________ on white paper with the words “For mom: love, love, love” decorated with hearts. She folded (折叠) her letter, but then she ___________ it.

For most people, that would be the ___________of this story, but this story had a different result. James Carrell found the letter. He had just___________ his mother, wishing her a happy birthday. After he hung up, Carrell saw the___________ on the ground outside of a hardware store in Manvel. “I___________ it was a gift,” said Carrell. “I opened it up and saw the flower and hearts. It really___________ me.” Carrell thought the letter would___________someone’s day and that maybe he could find the owner, so he posted it on the Internet. The message moved a lot of people,___________one man.

“I was sitting at my friend’s house and saw a man’s______________,” said Carrell. The comments (评论) included one from Robert Alvarado. He wrote, “I can’t ______________you found my baby’s letter.” Carrell reached Alvarado to______________ the letter. It took a few days, but the men finally met on Thursday night.

“Eventually the letter made it home,” said Alvarado. “We are______________ for what James Carrell did. We often forget the power of ______________ things, but for this family from Alvin, Carrell’s small act left a(n) ______________ impression.”

2 . I believe that everything can be achieved through hard work and devotion. In life I had a______ that taught me this belief.

What______me of this belief is my Lewandowski jersey (运动衫). It has been an important______of my life for a long time. In college, I______it on many occasions to play soccer. The day when I_____ hard work and devotion could get a person successful was just the______day when I received my jersey. One day, my dad_____ me to first Polish International Friendly. This was the soccer______that was played in Poland. My dad______me my Lewandowski jersey before we entered the_____. Lewand-owski is a world famous footballer and is Poland’s______goal scoring striker (前锋).

The day when we went, Poland was playing against Germany. Germany was the ______team in the world, and Poland about the twentieth. _____, it was obvious that Germany was going to win easily. However, Lewandowski didn't_____ it that way. He was determined to work hard and score some goals, and to hopefully win. Lewandowski_____ alone and he together with his teammates continued to fight_____ hard. At last the Polish team won. I found Lewandowski extremely_____ after the incredible (难以置信的) game.

I saw what hard work look like. I made up my mind to become the best that i could be. The______for me is a sign of what it takes to be _____.It shows me that it takes hard work and determination to______the goals that we want to achieve.

4 . For as long as she can remember, 13-year-old Lila Hoffa has struggled to express herself in writing. Her handwriting is sometimes _________ and disorganized, and she used to have trouble holding a _________. In her first years at school, her teachers didn’t _________ that anything was wrong. But that _________ when she met her third grade teacher, Valerie Holmgren.

“Mrs. Holmgren realized that there was something more going on than just the _________ writing problems,” Lila said. Lila was diagnosed with dysgraphia (书写困难症). So her teachers and her parents held a meeting to _________ what to do next. “We were all sitting around a long table,” Lila _______. And Mrs. Holmgren pulled out a _________ and opened up a speech-to-text program that _________ changed spoken words into typed text.

“This was a/an __________ moment for me because I realized all of the stories and the ideas that I had __________ in my head — there was an easy way to get them down onto __________,” Lila said. Lila now uses speech-to-text software every day. The first story she __________ was called “The Girl Who Couldn’t Stop Reading — AKA Me!”, which became a __________ the moment it was published.

If Holmgren were standing in front of Lila today, this is what Lila would say, “Thank you for noticing my __________ and noticing that there was so much more to me.”

5 . When I was ten, I lived in a neighborhood with a public library nearby, which opened in the evening. I enjoyed reading and after school I would ______ there ahead of its opening time. Without waiting for things there to be ______, I would just turn on the lights in kids’ section and start my reading.

The ______ didn’t look approachable. I used to hear him being ______ on people who had late returns or damaged the books, so I was afraid of him. Every day, fifteen minutes before the ______closing time, he would start announcements and ask people to ______. I didn’t have a library card and couldn’t take my half read books with me, simply putting the books back ______. The librarian must have silently ______ my long face, because he started ______ the closure only in other sections. This ______ me minutes to read.

For five years, I had read most of the books in the library. The librarian was still serious and ______ on words, but he would smile at me. If I missed going to the library, he would be ______ and ask why I had missed my routine (常规). Then one day the librarian asked me to ______ for my own borrower’s account and wrote my name on my first-ever library card.

After my graduation, I moved away and ______ that library. When I went to the library again, unfortunately, I was told that the librarian had retired and the library has smart cards instead of those with the librarian’s ______ !

6 . High school graduations are one of the most important moments in a teenager’s life. However, heading into the ______ on June 6th, David was stopped at the door by a gatekeeper. So you can imagine how ______ David was. Although his sneakers were not extremely unacceptable, David learned they were in ______ of the school’s dress code and he was ______ entry.

David was about to ______ his chance to walk across the stage with his classmate when he caught sight of a ______ face. Butler, a famous local educator, came to the graduation as a parent. Learning David’s unpleasant situation, he ______ the young man back to the entry to see if he could ______ the gatekeeper’s mind.

“I was hoping that she would let it go, but she ______ not letting this young man in, and I didn’t have time to ______ with her,” Butler said. “I wasn’t going to let him miss the most ______ moment in his life for anything.” Without missing a beat, Butler simply changed his ______ with David. Just as the ______ closed, David made it inside the hall. Eventually he ______ David from ruining his graduation day.

Although firstly ______ by the last-minute substitution, Butler’s family were thrilled that his quick thinking turned a very ______ situation into a joyful celebration. “I wasn’t ______ because Mr. Butler is always helpful,” a ______ parent of David’s said.

It’s said that a truly generous man will give the shirt off his back to someone ______. Now it seems, the saying also ______ to the shoes off his feet.

9 . A professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test. All students were ______ and waited for the test to begin. The professor gave the test papers to all students with text facing down at the desk.______ he was done with handing out the test to all students, he asked them to ______ the test paper and begin.

Students were confused (迷惑) to see that there was just a black ______ in the center of the page. The professor told them, “I want you to ______ about what you see there.” The students were still confused but got started with the test. ______ the end of the class, the professor collected all answer sheets and started reading each answer from each sheet in front of all students. ______of them described about the black dot and tried to explain its position.

Now, professor began to explain, “Here everyone concentrated on the black dot and wrote about it ______ no one wrote about the white paper. The same is ______ our lives. The white paper stands for our whole life and the black dot ______ problems in our life.

Our life is a gift given to us by God, with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate -- our friends around us, the job that provides us with everything we need.______, we just focus on day to day problems like health issues, lack of money, problems in relationships, but we ______ see that these problems are very ______ compared to everything we have in our lives.”

We should try to take eyes off our problems and enjoy each moment ______ life gives us. Be happy and ______ your life positively.