1 . Any dog’s love can feel like a miracle (奇迹). Mason is a strong dog, and he may be the kind one that can bring happy surprise on Earth. He________a storm last spring. His family thought he would be________there, but the storm broke the garage door and Mason disappeared.

That day a lot of people________a lot. Mason’s family was _______that they were just to be alive,________the storm had left their home broken. But they were sorry at the thought that their sweet friend had died. They________the neighbourhood, hoping to find him, but Mason didn’t _______up.

Three weeks after the disaster, Mason’s family stopped by the house to collect some things that once________to them. There Mason sat on the front door, so________to see his family that his entire body was shaking. Where had Mason stayed during the storm? What did he eat for those long weeks? How did he________his way back home without any help from the others? There was no answer to those________and no time to think. Mason was thin and couldn’t stand well. The family quickly found the________and learned their dog had returned home on broken front legs. “He was hurt badly,” says Doster, who had spent days helping pets with their owners. He also got in touch with Dr William, who________to perform the operation for free.

Mason was hurt so bad that he needed weeks to________. By the time he returned home to his family in September, he was jumping around like a________dog again. “It is really a miracle!” Doster says.

3 . Angela used to fly. Using her _______ for wings, Angela would run faster than anyone. Now, she thought, “I am _______ than everyone.” She was the last to get off the school bus, with the help of walking sticks.

“You _______ be Angela!” a girl came to her, “I’m Laurie, your instructor. Are you ready to learn to ski?”

“No,” Angela answered, but still followed Laurie into the changing room. “I can understand how you feel.” Before Angela said anything, Laurie _______ her trousers and showed her left _______ leg. Angela’s mouth dropped open. “Track 3 skiing (三板滑雪) was designed for people like us. If I can learn to ski, _______ can you,” Laurie said. They put on regular ski, and used outriggers (支架) to _______.

Laurie and Angela made their way to the _______ track. Angela spent the morning climbing and falling, sliding and falling, and turning and _______. She felt disappointed and ________.

“OK, last one try before lunch,” Laurie said after they climbed up the hill once again.________ Angela managed to follow Laurie down the small hill without falling. When she stopped beside Laurie at the bottom, she punched her fist in the air “Yes!”.

After lunch, they moved to a higher place. Looking down from the top, Angela felt ________. “I can’t go down that!” she cried.

“Follow me!” Laurie________, “You are doing great! Try to be Flying Angel again.” “That was before I lost my leg because of cancer,” Angela whispered. “Trust yourself,” Laurie said.

Angela took a deep________, then leaned forward, sped up, took turns and skied down the hill. Faster. Faster. It felt like ________.

5 . Zu Wenbao is a 23-year-old Chinese with autism (孤独症). That means it can be _______ for him to find a job or make friends. But he is doing better now because he is learning _______ and spending time with other young people at a _______ called Chen’s Studio in Beijing. Zu’s mother, Zhao Guorong, _______ her son to the school every Sunday so he can _______ with the teacher, Chen Shensi. It takes them two hours on three different buses to get to the _______ from their home outside of Beijing.

At the Beijing studio, Zu learned how to play the keyboards and _______ in a band called “Star Kids”. “Without music and these _______ , he wouldn’t have anything,” Zhao said. She said her son would not have any people to _______ if it were not for the music school.

Chen knows the young people with autism have trouble getting jobs, so he hopes music will help them make a ________ . The Star Kids band has already given some ________ . He did not know much about autism before he started teaching a bass player with the ________ in 2020. At the start, it was hard. Chen became ________ when he had trouble communicating with his students. However, it ________ became easier. He said, “I know it is hard for them to communicate. However, ________ , I think music might be their language.”

6 . A six-year-old kid walked into a candy store with his dad and was surprised by so many candies on offer. “It’s amazing. What should I ________?” he asked himself.

“Come on, son, we don’t have much ________. I have to attend an important meeting,” his dad said.

“These are all my ________ and I don’t know what to choose.” He picked up some bags and then put them back. He couldn’t make up his mind. “________, son, we have no time. I’m very ________,” his dad said. So the boy ran around the store ________ again. His eyes moved from one bag to another,but all of the sweets looked so good and he couldn’t make up his mind. ________, the dad had enough. He caught his son by the hand and they ________ the store empty-handed. The boy ________. He wanted them all, but ended up with ________ because he couldn’t choose just one.

Some of us are that boy. The world is that candy store. We have a great number of choices available to us, but if we don’t make a(n) ________ about our jobs, education, relationships, marriage or other ________ things, we will end up empty-handed. Sometimes we worry about making the ________ choice. What if we regret the direction that we take and it’s too late to go back? We don’t have to worry about this. How do we ________ whether it is good or not if we don’t make a choice? The bigger ________ is that we make no decision at all and end up going nowhere and doing nothing.

8 . Last week, I had to travel by air. I was carrying two large _______ and a medium-­sized one. Yes, I know I was not traveling _______. I had to take a bus and a train before getting to the airport. It was not an easy task _______ I took it easy. Because I left with more than enough _______.

I arrived at the bus stop and there were a few other people waiting. The bus came and one by one I tried _______ to put the suitcases inside the bus. Then I began to think, “Why doesn’t anyone offer to _______?” I sat on the bus and kept thinking, “Many passengers are _______ and strong enough, and most of them are my neighbors. How unkind, typical of this country! That’s why I want to _______ as soon as I can.”

I suddenly stopped myself and decided to think in another way. I changed my _______. I had been trying especially lately to “turn” as soon as I saw negativity (消极性) coming into my head, so I went for: “I’m ________ that I managed to take those suitcases on the bus; I’m ________ enough; I look forward to the challenges of this trip; I will meet people I love.”

The bus arrived at my destination (目的地) and I waited for everyone to ________ so I could patiently take out my suitcases one by one. And a man in his 70’s whom I would least have ________ to help came back up and offered to give me a hand! He carried the last one for me! I was so pleased and surprised, giving him a big ________. He smiled back and we both went our separate ways. He seemed pretty pleased with himself.

I then thought, “I should have hugged him.” Hope I will ________ him again.

9 . At the beginning of our last class, I asked if someone wanted to share what happened when they told someone they loved him/her. As was usually the _________, I fully expected one of the women to_________, but on this evening one of the men raised his hand. He appeared quite moved and a bit_________.

He began by saying, “Dennis, I was quite_________ with you last week when you gave us this _________. I didn’t feel that I had anyone to say those words to, and_________, who were you to tell me to do something that is _________? But as I began driving home a(n)_________deep down in my heart started talking to me. It was_________ me that I knew exactly who I needed to say ‘I love you’ to. You see, five years ago, my father and I had a cruel __________ and really never resolved it since that time. We __________ seeing each other unless we totally had to at Christmas or other family __________. But even then, we__________ spoke to each other. So, last Tuesday by the time I got home I had__________ myself I was going to tell my father I loved him.

“It’s strange, but just making that decision____________to lift a heavy load off my chest.”

“When I got home, I rushed into the house to tell my wife what I was going to do and for the first time in our married life she saw me cry.”

10 . As French author Andre Maurois once said, “Without a family, man, alone in the world, shakes with the cold.” Indeed, families who give us love and________are an important part of our lives. But even in a loving family, ________can’t be avoided.

One day, I was doing my homework and my sister ________. Busy with homework, I didn’t talk to her and just kept working. But when I took a ________, I turned my head to the place where my sister was sitting. ________, I found my notebook had a lot of messy drawings on it.

At that time, I was full of________ and shouted at my sister, “You are really a ________and I hate you.” Hearing the words, my sister ________out crying and tried to explain her behavior. But I ________ since I didn’t want to hear a word from her. The ________ afterward lasted for a long time between us. To________the problem, my father brought me to the living room and asked: “Have you noticed what the drawing is on your notebook?”

I shook my head. Then, under the________ of my father, I looked at it carefully, it ________，“Happy birthday.” At that moment, I knew how ________I was. Though drawing on my notebook wasn’t right, my sister’s love and ________were sincere (真诚的). Feeling ashamed, I said sorry to her. Instead of staying angry, she smiled back at me.