1 . 17-year-old Norwood was driving three friends home in St. Petersburg, Florida, on February 20. As they reached a crossroads, a black car _______ them. Their car sailed into someone’s yard and crashed into a tree.

As smoke rose from the car, a bystander shouted, “It’s about to blow up! Get out!” The _______ had caved in Norwood’s driver’s side door, jamming it shut. _______, but otherwise OK, she climbed out through the window. Along with two of her friends, who’d also managed to _______ themselves, Norwood ran for her life.

But halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, Simmons, wasn’t with them. Norwood ran _______ and found Simmons in the back seat, unconscious. She threw open the back door and pulled her friend out, avoiding the broken glass as best as she could. She _______ Simmons to safety and laid her on the ground. “I checked her pulse (脉搏), and put my head against her chest. No sign of life,” Norwood told CNN, “That’s when I started CPR. Fortunately, I _______ my CPR certificate yesterday.”

She started pumping Simmons’s chest and breathing into her friend’s mouth in hopes of filling her lungs with the kiss of life. No _______. And then, after the 30 compressions (按压) and two rescue breaths, Simmons regained consciousness. The CPR had _______!

Soon, paramedics (急救人员) arrived and rushed Simmons to the hospital, where she heard how her best friend had saved her life. “I wasn’t ________,” Simmons said. “She will always help any way she can.”

2 . Once upon a time, there was a man who worked very hard just to keep food on the table for his family. A few days before Christmas, he _________ his five year-old daughter after _________ that she had used up the family’s only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper.

As money was tight, he became even angrier when on Christmas Eve he saw that she had used all of the gold paper to _________ one shoebox. He was also concerned about where she had gotten _________ to buy what was in the shoebox.

The next morning the little girl, _________ excitement, brought the gift box to her father and said, “This is for you, Daddy!” Holding the box, the father was embarrassed by his earlier behavior, _________ what he had done to her.

But when he _________ the shoebox, he found there was nothing. “Don’t you know, young lady,” he said _________, “when you give someone a _________, there’s supposed to be something inside the package!”

The little girl __________ him with sad tears rolling from her eyes and whispered, “Daddy, it’s not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was __________.” He fell on his knees and put his arms around the girl and begged her to __________ him for his unnecessary anger.

An accident took the girl’s life only a short time later. It is said that the father __________ this little gold box by his bed for all his life. Whenever he was __________ or faced difficult problems, he would open the box, take out an imaginary kiss, and __________ his daughter’s love.

3 . In the dictionary of Jessica Cox, a woman aged 36 from Tucson, Arizona, there seems to be no such words——can’t or impossible. How does that ________?

Jessica was born without ________ but that has only ________ her doing one thing: using the word “can’t”. While she________ prosthetic limbs (义肢) as a child, she finally gave them up and used her feet to________ everyday tasks. “Prosthetic limbs can never________ the tactile (触觉的) ability of flesh and bone——but my feet have that ability,” she said.

She has lived with her ________ since birth with no explanation of why she was born________ what most of us________ as essential (基本的) parts, and she has been proving that she can do________ people with arms can do, ________ what most people are proud of. With her feet, she can eat with chopsticks, type on a keyboard, play the piano and even surf on the sea. To our________, she became the first armless black belt in the American Tae Kwon Do Assocaition. But what ________ people most is that in 2008, she became the first________ to fly a plane with her feet, ________ her a Guinness World Record.

Now Jessica and her husband are working together touring the world as Jessica gives encouraging speeches. “I wanted to________ others not to let fear stand ________ of their opportunities.”

So, next time you are ________ to tell yourself “I can’t possibly …”, remember this ________ woman and change the vocabulary in your________.

4 . Last month I took my son Tom to see his grandparents in the countryside. When we arrived, my father and mother were so ________ to see us.

At lunch table, Tom told me proudly, “Dad, in the yard, our dog ran after a hen. Finally the hen was ________ to a corner. The ________ hen, when she found no other way out, ________flew up to the roof and escaped successfully. Dad, why can a hen fly?" I ________ for a while and said, "Maybe because of love, It is the love that ________ her inner power and she flies!" He seemed to have ________.

Last weekend we visited Tom's grandparents again. I heard Tom ________ from the yard," Dad! The dog is running after the chicken!" I ran out of the house ________. The hen ran to a group of ________followed by the dog. The hen stopped and turned around suddenly and________the dog angrily, with her two wings ________ her children.

I ran fast and ________ between the dog and the hen, shouting at the dog to drive it away." Dad, why didn't the hen fly away? She knows she can't ________ the dog." asked Tom. I thought for a while and said, "Maybe because of love, the love to her ________ more than her own life." Tom thought for a long time and nodded.

In fact, in our life, we will do the same as the hen did.

5 . For most people, getting a car opens up a new world of freedom and allows you to go wherever you want and whenever you want. Getting a car did________ these for me, and it also brought my best friend and me________. But then it tore us apart.

My best friend lives not far from my________. Soon I seemed to become her________ when I turned 16 in December, since her________ is in late summer, seven months behind me.

And so I________ her up for school and took her home. We made ice-cream________, shopping and to the movies—all in my car. I would drive to her house just to sit on her bed, read magazines and have a good laugh. I went to her house so________ that she gave me a key to her house.

A week after I began to________, she was with me when I had my first accident. She was there and________ me and we kept it a________, since I didn't want people to________. From then on, through thick and thin, it was just me, my car and my best friend.

High school is a time of________, but for a long time I couldn't________ how we became so distant(疏远的). Finally, my best friend________ her dream car. With its________, the passenger seat of my car became________. Our car trips became less frequent until I didn't________ drive down her street.

It's funny how a car can change a(n) ________ so much. I had wanted her to get a car, but once she did, I________ it. I wanted her friendship back even if it couldn't be the same.

6 . Night fell. Doug Falter came back home, teary-eyed and _________. The professional photographer had just run from one end of Hawaii's Waimea Bay to the other, scanning the water _________ his "baby", a custom-made blue surfboard.

On arriving home, Falter _________ his search online. "Was surfing tonight and _________ my baby, " he wrote on social media. He hoped it would be washed ashore in the coming days and that whoever _________ it would have also seen his post. But instead of pushing Falter's surfboard to _________, the currents of Waimea Bay swept it out to sea, _________ the Hawaiian Islands.

Weeks passed with no _________ of the surfboard. Then _________. Lyle Carlson, who had made the board for Falter, comforted him with the possible reunion but nobody knew when.

But Falter never completely __________ about the board. It __________ on a remote island of Sarangani in the southern Philippines --- six months after and over 5,000 miles away. A local fisherman sold the unusual __________ to Giovanne Branzuela, an elementary school teacher, for $40. For Branzuela, riding the big waves had been his dream.

The once-blue board had __________ to a pale straw color during its journey, but its __________ markings were still there: two elephants and the words " Lyle Carlson Surfboards, Oahu. Hawaii. "

On realizing how far the surfboard had traveled, Branzuela __________ Carlson online, who, in turn, contacted Falter. Falter __________ the board was his and was __________ to learn his " baby" had floated across the world's largest ocean and __________.

He was thrilled, but not only for himself. Knowing someone ocean away shared the same interest with him __________ a lot to Falter. He couldn't imagine a better __________ to the story.

7 . My presentation was horrible and both the client and boss seemed not satisfied. Disappointed and exhausted, I ___________ myself out of the air-conditioned office. It was hot as hell and I was _________ in the three-piece suit I’d bought specifically for this big day. I boarded a full bus and was unable to ___________ it, so I _________ my way off at the next stop. Continuing my journey, I refused to take off my jacket, purposely maximizing my setbacks — “When it rains, let it ___________” was my principle.

As I ___________ the corner, I saw a group of kids frolicking (嬉闹) in the water. “If I get wet...” I said to myself, thinking about taking an alternative ___________. Then I noticed a little kid holding a water gun and ___________ me a little harder than the others. I eyed him back. Suddenly, he shot his gun at me. In that second, I knew I was going to get wet though I felt they didn't dare. He got me, behind my ear, ___________ he made his escape. I, ____________ and then angry, headed toward the alley to ____________ his escape. More surprisingly, his playmate threw his water gun to me. I pulled the trigger (扳机). He fought back but his shooter was no ____________ for my power, so instead he turned his water gun on a few other little kids who were taken by surprise and ended up in ____________ at what just happened. Then, I too turned my gun on these kids and before long we were in all-out water warfare. Soon, the whole block seemed to be ____________. Needless to say, I was wet and laughing like I'd never __________ before.

I couldn't remember my last water ____________ and if did, it couldn't have been as fun as this one. It took a five-year-old to ____________ the kid in me, and help me realize that you may not be able to ____________ disappointment but you can still let in the ____________. And you can ____________ a suit, too, and not really care!

9 . Since having my son, I have found that I am always lucky enough to be surrounded by people willing to help.

When he was eight weeks old, I had a(n) _______ to meet with a TV producer in New York City to talk about my career. It was Monday. Could I, a young mother with a newborn baby, _______ from my home outside Boston to meet him on Wednesday? It was a _______ chance. So I said yes.

Honestly, it was _______. My son hated being in the car seat and ate very _______ during the long ride. _______we spent a comfortable Tuesday night at my parents' house in Connecticut, which is halfway between Boston and New York. When we _______in New York, I handed my son over to my friend from college. A dad himself, he _______him in a coffee shop during my_______. Everything went fine thanks to his help.

When my son was four months old, my best friend was going through a difficult time. So I decided to fly to Florida to ________her. Without my husband, who had to work, I was ________to fly with the baby. But I figured it couldn't be ________than driving to New York when he was a newborn baby, and I had gotten through that.

________, people I met on our trip were endlessly________. On the flight down, the airline worker got me an extra________because the flight wasn't full. A nice lady sitting close to us ________him while I went to the bathroom. Taxi drivers helped me fasten his car seat and loaded the awkward pushchair in their trunks. To ________my son, my friend borrowed a lot of toys. We spent four ________days in Florida.

If you want an opportunity to see the ________in people, try taking a baby on a trip. In my experience, when face­ to face, most people sincerely want to ________each other.

10 . One day, a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin. The professor ________ the question papers, with the text facing down as usual. ________ he handed them all out, he asked his students to ________ the page and begin. To everyone’s surprise, there were no ________, just a black dot (点) in the center of the page. The professor, seeing the expression on everyone’s face, told them the following:

“I want you to write what you________ there.”

The students, ________, got started on the inexplicable (令人费解的) task.

At the end of the class, the professor ________ all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of all the students. All of them, with no ________, described the black dot, trying to explain its position in the middle of the sheet, etc. After all had been ________ , the classroom was silent, the professor began to explain:

“I’m not going to grade this. I ________ wanted to give you something to think about. No one wrote about the ________ part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot, and the same happens in our ________ . We have a white paper to observe and ________, but we always focus on the dark spots. Our life is a ________ given to us with love and care and we always have________to celebrate: nature renewing itself every day, our friends around us, the job that ________ our livelihood and the miracles we see every day.

________, we insist on focusing only on the dark spots: the health issues that bother us, the lack of money, the________ relationship with colleagues, the ________ with a friend, and etc.

The dark spots are very ________ compared to everything we have in our lives, but they are the ones that pollute our minds.”