1 . Some people look down on those who use welfare cards. Actually, welfare cards are something_______to a credit card used for food/groceries but paid by the government. This story will show you how to_______the person using a welfare card.

At the checkout of a grocery store, the line is_______. A young lady was trying to get the_______to accept her card. No matter how many times she tried, however, it kept_______the card. “It’s one of the welfare card things. Damn people need to get a job like everyone else,” said the young man standing_______the young lady

The young lady turned around to see who had made the_______. “It’s me,” he said,_______to himself. A look of embarrassment came over the young lady’s face. In tears, she_______the store,__________looking back, and quickly drove away.

Several minutes later a middle-aged man went into the store and up to the__________and asked if she had seen the lady. After__________her, the cashier told him she had left. The man said that the lady was twenty years old, single. Her brother was a soldier__________in Afghanistan two years ago, leaving three young children to support. She had to__________that responsibility.

“I made a__________comment about her welfare card. I’m sorry,” said the young man. “Go back and get two big turkeys for her,” yelled an old lady,__________she looked at the young man. “No,” yelled the young man. The entire store became__________for several seconds. “Four turkeys,” yelled the young man. Everyone began__________.

Then he began to__________the groceries onto the belt including the young lady’s. When all was done, the young man wrote a check. He wanted to give the check to the girl__________she would need a few other things as well. Everyone in the store began to clap.

2 . Five-year-old Ryder Killam started using a wheelchair at age two. After attending preschool Dunn’s Corner Elementary in June 2019, he had to be ______ 75 feet to the end of the road every day to wait for his school bus by his father Tim. As Ryder couldn’t ______ for this bus if he was late, this would often ______ he’d have to wait for 15 minutes out regardless of the weather.

In September this year, when Ryder started kindergarten, Tim put up a patio (露天) umbrella at the end of his driveway to provide some ______. But it really didn’t ______ much unless it was just a rainy day without wind. So Tim ______ on Facebook to see if one of his friends might have an old bus hut (小屋).

After the post, someone advised Tim to ______ the construction class at Westerly High School and see if they’d want to take on the ______ of building Ryder a bus stop hut. So Tim sent Mr. Dan McKena an e-mail, ask if he’d be ______.

Tim said, “He responded with an ‘______’ and then he worked with his students to build the hut. ” Three of Mr. Mckena’s ______ worked hard for weeks. The hut was ______ delivered to the home six weeks later. “Ryder’s first ______ was ‘Oh, my God!’; he loved it very much,” said Tim. The family ______ the teens for their hard work. For the teens, surely they are ______ to see their project has helped others.

3 . One Saturday afternoon in a small town, Emma came out of a shoe shop with some new shoes. They were _________ shoes, but Emma was very _________ with them. She was seventy-three years old and did not have much money. She began to _________ home.

It was a _________ town and there was nobody in the street. _________, Emma heard something behind her. She did not have time to look, because just then somebody ran up behind her, hit her on the _________, and snatched(抢夺)her bag out of her hands. Emma _________.

“Help! Help!” Emma cried. But nobody came. Emma _________ got up and went to the nearest house. The people there were very _________ and gave Emma a cup of tea. Soon an ambulance came and took her to a __________.

At the hospital a doctor looked at Emma’s head and back and told her to stay in hospital for a few days. Emma thanked the __________.

Later, a policeman __________ the hospital and Emma told him about the bag-snatcher. The policeman __________ a small bag. In it there were a lot of pictures of eyes and ears, hair and mouths. Carefully Emma took the small pictures and __________ a big picture of the young man’s face.

After two days, in a morning a policeman came to the hospital with Emma’s new shoes and an empty bag. “A little girl __________ them in the street and took them to the police station,” he said. “How kind she is! Thank you very much,” Emma said and felt happy, though she lost some money.

4 . Rachel had a healthy life both physically and mentally till one unfortunate winter evening. It was raining cats and dogs; everything was wet. Rachel’s cat went outside in this cold weather. She ________ him to bring him back inside. He hid near a utility pole (电线杆). Since it rained heavily the pole was charged and ________ to touch. Rachel, bent down to ________ her cat. She held the pole for support not ________ it was charged. The pole electrocuted her so badly that she was barely ________ seconds before her death. The electrocution resulted in ________ both her arms, which had to be cut off.

Rachel had to face such a (n) ________ accident. People get ________ about losing a finger. What would it be like if you lose both your arms? That’s what Rachel was trying to digest. It wasn’t easy at all. Rachel, slowly and gradually was accepting the ________ that she lost her arms and was ________ dependent on others for basic necessities that ________ the use of her arms. It upset her that she could not ________ her own duties herself.

Many people would lose hope. ________, that was not the case with Rachel. She did not want to ________ her dream. She didn’t let the slightest hopelessness bring her down and make her ________ her motivation. After recovery, Rachel ________ day and night to do most of her work with her feet. She emphasized mostly on ________ since she had no arms to do that with. She tried and tried. After many ________ and failures, she finally could write with her feet. She continued her school, ________ her examination and got a scholarship for law school.

Her optimism paved the way for a bright future. Her hard work ________ all because she never gave up.

5 . On his way to the airport one afternoon, Phillip asked the driver to wait outside the bank while he collected some traveler ‘s checks.

The plane was to _______at 5:30. From the bank, there was still a _______journey to the airport _______Philip merely enjoyed the scene along the way. Shortly before arriving, he began _______the things he would need for the_______: tickets, money, the address of his hotel, traveler’s checks… Just a moment! How about his passport? Phillip went through his pockets. He suddenly _______that he must have left his passport _______.

What could he do?   It was now five past four and there would be too little _______to return for the passport. This was the _______time he was representing his company for an important meeting ________the manager of a Frenchcompany in Paris the following morning.Without a passport he would be ________to board the plane. At that moment,the taxi ________outside the air terminal. Phillip got ________, took his suitcase and paid the driver. He then ________a gooddeal of confusion in the building.A ________could be heard over the loudspeaker, “We very much ________ that because   of   a   twenty-four-hour strike of   the   airport   staff,   all flights for the rest of today have had to be called off.”   Passengers are ________ to get in touch with their travel agents or with this terminal for ________on tomorrow’s   flights. Phillip was very glad to hear that.   He would let his company know about this   ________and,   thank goodness,   he would have the opportunity of calling at the bank the next morning to ________   his passport .

6 . Sometimes simple words can arouse great sentiments (情感). If a(n) _________ tells you “I’m so proud of you,” you can bet it will _________ your heart. Or in the _________ of Jensen Weiss, millions of them.

In a video his mom Christina Weiss posted to TikTok late last year and then _________ recently, the 2-year-old tells his mom he’s “so proud” of her. Why?

“You cleaned my room. You’re so _________,” he says. The original video was _________ more than 6million times.

Weiss told Fox News Digital she had cleaned her son’s room while he was out _________ with his dad. “I heard him run into his room and say ‘wooo0oooow’and then heard his little feet running to find me and I knew it was going to be _________ !”

She said she reposted it at the request of her followers in late March “to _________ joy whenever and wherever we can.”

Weiss said she’s had many __________ in her life, including mental health issues. Her recovery journey has __________ influenced the way she raises her kids.

“I __________ in an intensive recovery program that many of my bad choices were __________ my lack of self-love and the tough environment I grew up in,” the Moorefield, West Virginia mom told Fox News Digital. “I hope to raise children who love themselves more than anything and won’t ever let __________ factors change how they feel about themselves.”

Weiss added, “I hope they always know they are loved, they are enough, and they will always be amazing humans to their __________, no matter what.”

7 . Shi Huishan is a senior majoring in Microbiology and minoring in Public Health and Music. She was ______ in microbiology in high school after she first learned about the immune（免疫)system.

As a result of her keen interest in biology, she______ the Beck Lab. Her project was to study a ______ that she has been struggling with herself. However, her hard work in the lab has not come ______.Working in research is hard; Sometimes she will do the exact same experiment several times and get ______ different results for each. She will have to ______ doing the experiments until the data becomes ______. From the experiments she learned that solving problems is an extremely crucial step in research. 'That is what ______ science and research exciting and interesting.

As a senior, she talks about her ______ as a researcher. Whenever the data was inconsistent, she always ______ herself. She did a lot when she ______ started research. But now she actively looks for the possible causes and ______ team members in the lab. It is an important ______ for her to learn, to be ______ about herself. She wishes there are more opportunities for students to openly ______ the struggles they have in research. Doing research is not all about ______ data.

After ______ , she plans to take a year off working as a lab technician before applying for her Master's degree. She said, “Facing ______ is what pushes people to grow and do things you might have never ______ you could do. As long as you are ______ and believe in yourself, anything is possible.”

8 . This is a real-life story of building the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. In 1870, a creative engineer named John Roebling _________ an idea to build a bridge to connect New York and the Long Island. However, bridge building experts all over the world thought it _________ and advised Roebling to forget the idea.

Roebling was thinking about his bridge all the time and he was _________ that it could be built. He just had to share the _________ with someone else. After much discussion, he _________ to convince his son Washington, a _________ engineer, to join him.

The project started well, but a serious _________ on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was also _________ and left with a certain amount of brain damage, which _________ him to be unable to talk or walk.

What he suffered didn’t __________ him and he still had a strong wish to complete the bridge. He tried to inspire and pass on his __________ to some of his friends, but the difficult task made them __________. All he could do was move one finger and he was __________ to make the best use of it. By moving it, he __________ developed a code (密码、暗码) of communication with his wife. He __________ his wife’s arm, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the __________ together again. Then he used the same method to tell them what to do. It seemed unbelievable but the bridge building __________.

For 13 years, Washington tapped out his __________ with his finger on his wife’s arm, until the bridge was finally __________.

The Brooklyn Bridge shows us that dreams that seem impossible can be realized with determination and __________, no matter what the difficulties are.

9 . The word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by hardship. The circular motion (循环运动) between happiness and ________ is the one I’ve been dealing with lately.

A year ago, I developed troubling symptoms in my left ________. My husband sent me ________ to a specialist who said I had already suffered some permanent loss of vision(视力) and would, without ________, go blind in that eye within months. And I urgently ________ to begin painful eye injections. Almost blind? Painful eye injections? I was ________. What if the ________ medicine didn’t work? What if my right eye developed the same condition? I ________ thought that, amazingly, the medicine was only three years old; before that, patients just went blind.

Over that long week, I ________ myself to casually ________ sadness, to cry and acknowledge my fears about my very fragile body. I ________ to be near anybody but my husband. Fortunately, I ________ pretty quickly, within the week. During this ________ time, I posted my ________ in my blog and receives great care and support from friends online, which filled my heart with ________ and encourages me to receive the eye injections. Besides, the doctor ________ the efficacy(功效) of the medicine. In the end, I bravely received the eye injections and they were very successful. I was lucky enough to see the world again with my healthy eye.

Finally, I gained a ________ insight(见解): being your happiest self isn’t ________ to a lifetime of sunny skies, and we are ________ to experience storms of life. Knowing this can help us face difficulties optimistically and ________ the change of life.

10 . Since I was 12 years old, I’ve suffered from a condition called Compulsive Hair Pulling(强迫性拔毛症). The physical destruction was severe, but the emotional ____ was worse. When I was young, no one, ____ my doctor, knew how to help me. I was alone.

Growing up, I didn’t ____ anywhere and I suffered great shame knowing I’d brought this ____ upon myself. My hands seemed to have a ____ of their own. “What’s wrong with me，” I’d often wonder. Sometimes, people asked about my ____ of eyelashes(眼睫毛) and eyebrows. I was lonely, but I kept people at a distance. However, each night, ____ I fell asleep, I’d pray for wisdom, and for God to send someone who ____.

Then when I was 25, I read a letter from a mom whose child suffered from the same illness. I could ____ believe my eyes. After all these years, I discovered, I was not ____.

At that moment, my journey for ____ began. I took small ____ at first—telling only a few friends. Some of them tried to understand. Then, they began to ____ their secrets with me. I learned to see ____ the way God saw me, someone ____ love.

One day, my ____ happened. A friend called with wonderful news. She just met a woman with Compulsive Hair Pulling—someone just like me. She gave me her phone number. I was ____. I quickly dialed(拨电话), and from the minute Christina answered, we began to chat like old friends, both thrilled to find someone who understood our pain. We ____ to meet soon, only to find we lived only two blocks away.We immediately____ our phones, and in the dark of night, ran outside to the nearby parks in our pajamas, ____ we hugged, cried and talked for hours. I felt I’d just met my long lost twin, someone who understood my pain and struggles.