2 . My parents and I visited our relatives in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. Everyday I enjoyed walking a circular way starting from their house. One evening I decided to be adventurous and changed from my _________ way - I was looking forward to a longer walk, _________ that I would be able to find my way back. My walk took me beyond the living area and into a beautiful place with an expanse of fields on both sides of the road. With the sun beginning to _________, it was really a wonderful sight. After about thirty minutes, I noticed that I was not _________ back in the direction I had come - in fact I seemed to be moving further away. I searched my pocket for the mobile phone to get help, but it wasn't there. I had left it at home.

However, I remained _________. Although there weren't any people about, there was some _________ and I was sure that someone would stop and point me in the right direction. As each car or truck came, I stopped and _________, but time after time each one passed me by. No one seemed to feel any sympathy for me. About forty minutes, I was beginning to feel _________. There was no one in sight and my family was completely in the dark as to my _________.

When I just gave up all hope, a black SUV __________ me and stopped. A mother and daughter wanted to know how they could help. I told them I was lost and gave them my address. The mother pointed to a turning a little further down the road and promised me I was pretty close to home. Expressing my thanks, I started off at a fast __________. I had been walking for about five minutes when I heard a car drive up behind me and stop. It was the mother and daughter again. They realized that they had not given me the correct __________ and my destination was much further away.

They offered to __________ me home, and I was so grateful for their help. During our brief conversation I got the __________ that the teenage daughter was going to a school party and would now arrive late. We didn't __________ names but I will never forget their act of kindness.

3 . For most people, having things stolen feels like an offence. Robbie Pruitt admitted that he got ______ when he discovered the theft of his mountain bike last September. But soon enough, his______ took a turn. After letting go of his anger and frustration, he found himself on a road to sympathy ______ .

For Pruitt, a keen bicyclist, the first thing to do was ______ his stolen bike. But when he went bike shopping, he found few available, which got him thinking: What if the ______ of bikes was Covid-19 related, and what if the person who'd taken his bike really needed ______ to get to work?

With that thought in mind, Pruitt ______ a plan and posted it on the community website. He______ to fix bikes free of charge for anyone who needed it. He also asked for unwanted bikes, which he would repair-again______ . And then he would donate them to folks who could truly use them but didn't have the ______ to buy one.

The day the post went live, Pruitt received thirty ______ bicycles. Then came more than 500 enquiries for ______   information. By the end of 2020, Pruitt had repaired more than 140 for donation or to be ______ to their owners.

Pruitt tries to give his donations to families that are ______ struggling. ______ simply satisfying a material need, he has provided an opportunity for kids in his neighborhood to learn how to fix their own bikes.

In addition to ______ skills, Pruitt's lessons teach teamwork, encourage self-worth, and promote feelings of community. ______, the kids have gained a sense of accomplishment.

"It's a really great ______ for kids,“ said a neighbor in an interview with the local newspaper. "Pruitt is certainly providing a ______, but it's not just the bikes. It's the relationships in the community. It's the ______ he can make on people."

4 . I always dreamed of becoming a full-time writer. After two years as a salesman, I _______ my job and made up my mind to realize my _______ .No one could tell me whether I would succeed or not.I rented a basement and _______ to write.I had so many things to write because the enthusiasm（热情） was _______ in my heart.

After a year or so, _______, I began to doubt myself.I found it _______ to earn my living by writing.None of my novels were _______that year.But I _______ to follow my dream--even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of _______.I believed anyone with a dream must learn to struggle for the ________.

During the hardest period of my life, a friend came to see me and tried to________ me, “Come to our company, ________ we will pay you 2,000 dollars a month.” 2,000 dollars was really a big fortune at that time.It would enable me to live a ________ life.As the money was dancing in my ________, something cleared my senses.Hadn’t I dreamed of being a writer, a full-time writer?

“Thanks, but no,” I said ________ , “I’m going to stick to writing.”

Again and again, I said to myself, “I will be ________.People will love my novels.”

________ my first novel was published in 1991.I had the kind of success that few writers ever ________.

Twenty years have passed, but the effect it had on my life has ________.Now I often   ________ the time working in that cold basement.I will say, “Anyone with a dream and persistence will be successful.”

5 . A gentleman lost his family when young. He was homeless and went to the local_______every day. Although the church never let him in, they left one of the windows _______ so he could hear mass （弥撒曲）.It gave him _______and comfort. Many times we would bring him into our home for a hot shower, or a hot meal. Those were the times when his eyes lit up, almost like he_______ everything he was going through.

Every winter I would get nervous for him and other_______people. I would take blankets and gloves to hand out. It never felt like _______ . This winter was the _______ . One night, concerned about our friend, I headed out with warm food and extra blankets. I found our friend's _______ but didn't hear a sound. Worried, I opened the tent and was _______ by what I saw. Another elder gentleman that was new to town was sleeping________ under a pile of blankets. Our friend had ________ him with all of the blankets to keep him ________ .Our friend sacrificed himself so another fellow human could ________ a cold night.

Our friend was buried in our local cemetery （墓地）.The only people that ________ were our town's few homeless people, my husband, my dogs and me. No matter how many blankets I buy, it will never be enough, but it's ________ . The whole society should make efforts.

6 . Jeremy Locke, 25, has his own roofing company in Bridgeport, Nova Scotia. For a couple of years before he began his_________, he would drive past the home of Jeanette MacDonald, noticing the_________state of her roof. He was_________—not just for the elderly woman but also for the children living with her. So Locke_________to lend a helping hand.

The young man knocked on MacDonald's door and_________to fix her roof for nothing, "I didn't know who the woman was, but I wanted to_________this for her and her grandchildren," he explained to The Chronicle Herald. However, despite his kind_________, the woman politely turned him down.

MacDonald and her_________left an impression on Locke. He saw_________between the woman and his own grandmother, and couldn't bear to see her in this__________. He had also grown up without much and felt that he should use his skills to__________.

A year after Locke set up his own roofing company, seeing that the roof was__________in a state of disrepair, Locke returned to MacDonald's home and asked MacDonald if she wanted to enter a raffle (抽奖) his company was doing for a__________roof. The 70-year-old woman__________the chance, but little did she know that there was no__________.

MacDonald's relief__________Locke's kindness is immeasurable, "I could win $1 million but it wouldn't make me as__________as knowing I'm getting a new roof on. Jeremy is__________something. He's a guardian angel (守护天使) sent from God."

The__________should cost about $ 9,000 in terms of materials and manpower. However, the only thing Locke wants in return is a home-cooked meal for his staff from the woman who__________him of his grandmother.

7 . When Pat Jones finished college，she decided to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could______she was young. Pat wanted to visit Latin America_____，so she got a job_______an English teacher in a school in Bolivia. Pat spoke a little Spanish______she was able to communicate with her students even when they didn't _____much English．

A sentence she had read somewhere stuck in her mind: if you dream______a foreign language, you have really mastered it. Pat repeated this sentence to her students and______that some day she would dream in Spanish and they would dream in_____．

One day, one of her______students came up and explained in Spanish that he had not done his homework. He had______early, but had slept _______ .

“What does this have to do with your ______?” Pat asked．

“I dreamed all night，Miss Jones. and my dream was in English.”

“In English?” Pat was very______，since he was such a bad student. She was______ secretly jealous (嫉妒的). Her_______was still not in Spanish. But she encouraged her young student. “Well，_____me about your dream．”

“All the people in my dream_____ English.” the student said. “And all the signs were in English. All the newspapers and magazines and all the TV programs were in English．”

“Great. That's______，”said Pat. “What did all the people say to you?”

“I'm sorry, Miss Jones. That's______I slept so terribly. I didn't _____a word they said. It was a nightmare (噩梦 )!”

8 . Mr Black lived in a city and he had a few shops there. His wife often _______ him when he was poor. So he loved her very much. One _______morning the woman _______her car on an icy road and it fell into a river and she _______ in the accident. He was very _______and always felt alone. His friends advised him to _______two weeks in a small town _______was by a forest and had much _______in it . He agreed with them and went there by himself. But there he often cherished the memory of (怀念) his late wife.

One afternoon he was walking in the town while he saw an old man _______ some parrots. He stopped to look at them and the old man asked him to buy one. He ________the most beautiful parrot and asked, “Can it speak?”

“Yes, sir,” answered the old man.

“How much does it ________?”

“Forty pounds.”

“It’s too ________,” said Mr Black. “Is it ________forty pounds?”

The old man said ________and turned to the bird and repeated the question, “Are you worth forty pounds, dear?”

“Certainly,” the bird answered ________.

Mr Black loved it at once and bought it. When he got home, he wanted to ________it more, but it couldn’t learn anything ________ “Certainly”.

One morning he ________the bird say “Certainly” again, he became angry and________, “Only a fool (傻瓜) spent forty pounds on such a stupid (愚蠢的) bird!”

“Certainly.” answered the parrot.

Mr Black began to ________and set it free.

9 . Many years ago my dad was diagnosed (诊断) with a terminal illness. He was unable to work at_______job. He would be fine for quite a while, but would then fall suddenly_______and have to be admitted to the hospital.

He wanted to do something to keep himself_______, so he decided to volunteer at the local children_______. My dad loved kids. He would talk to them and play with them. Sometimes, he would_______one of his kids. In certain instances, he would give_______to the sad parents of these children.

One of his kids was a girl who had been admitted with a_______disease that paralyzed (使……瘫痪) her from the neck down. I don’t know the_______of the disease, but I do know that it was very sad for a little girl. My dad decided to try to help her. He started_______her in her room, bringing paints, brushes and paper. He stood the paper up__________a backing, put the paintbrush in his mouth and began to paint. He didn’t use his hands at all. Only his__________would move. He would visit her________he could and paint for her. All the while he would tell her, “see, you can do________you set your mind to.”

________, she began to paint using her mouth, and she and my dad became friends. Soon after, the little girl was discharged (允许出院). My dad also________the children hospital for a little while because he became ill. Sometime later after my dad had recovered and________to work, he was at the volunteer counter one day and________the front door open. In came the little girl who had been paralyzed, but this time she was________. She ran straight to my dad and hugged him really tight. She gave my dad a picture she had done using her________. At the bottom it read, “thank you for helping me walk.” Sometimes love is more________than doctors, and my dad—who died just a few months after the little girl gave him the picture-loved every single child in that hospital.

10 . A magazine article told about a woman in rural Florida who was recovering from a lengthy illness. She enjoyed sitting on her front porch in her _______ and, on this day, she watched her son _______ his car. He raised it on blocks of wood, removed the tires and _______ on his back underneath the vehicle.

_______ there was a loud crack and the car lurched (突然倾斜) to one side, pinning the young man underneath. She _______ for her husband who ran to assist, but he couldn’t _______ the car or the young man. He climbed into his own vehicle and sped away for _______.

The mother, who hadn’t _______ in months, realized that her son’s groans (呻吟声) were growing _______ and she knew that it would be up to her to __________ the boy. She rose to her feet and walked on __________ legs to the car. Supporting herself, she __________ the car. The car rose a few inches — just enough to let the boy get __________. Then she collapsed.

After a thorough __________, she was found only to have suffered strained muscles. And the __________ doctor’s words were most telling: “I will always wonder, ” he said, “how far she might have lifted that car if she had been __________ and strong.”

We’ve read similar stories about persons exhibiting almost super-human __________ in times of crises. This mother, and others like her, found the strength they needed to __________ the crisis at hand.

And so it is with all of us. When life __________ us down and it seems impossible to get back up, we need to find a way to do what needs to be done. We are __________ than we think.