1 . Once there was a little boy who became very ill. He had to spend all day in bed, unable to_________.

Because other children weren’t_________to come near him, he_________greatly, and spent his days feeling sad.

There wasn’t much he could do except look out of the_________.Time passed, and his feeling of_________just grew. Until one day he saw a_________shape in the window. It was a penguin eating a sausage sandwich. The penguin got in through the_________window, said “good afternoon” to the boy, turned around, and_________.

The boy was very_________.He was still trying to work out what had happened, when outside his window he saw a monkey, busy blowing up a balloon(气球).__________, the boy asked himself what that could possibly be, but after a while, as more and more crazy looking__________appeared out the window, he began to laugh suddenly and found it hard to__________.The boy didn’t tell anyone about this because who would have__________him? Even so, those strange characters put joy back in his heart, and in his body. Soon, his__________had improved so much that he was able to go back to__________again. There he got to talk to his best friend all the strange things he had__________. He saw something sticking out of his friend’s school bag. The boy asked his friend what it was.__________his friend had to show him what was in the__________: There, inside, were all the fancy-dress suits that his friends had been using to try to__________the little boy!

From that day on, the little boy always did his best to__________that no one felt sad and alone.

2 . On Thursday morning, two teenage boys were saved by a drone (无人机) in Australia while lifeguards were still training to use the machine.

The swimmers, aged 15 — 17, got into difficulties about 700 feet off the coast of Lennox Head, New South Wales (NSW). A passer-by saw them _______in dangerous waves. Lifesavers _________sent the drone to drop a lifeboat and the pair made their way safely to the _______.

The drone, known as “Little Ripper”, was actually not _______ to be saving anyone just yet-lifeguards were being trained to _______the machine. When a call came through about the swimmers in _________, the drone happened to be nearby.

Jai Sheridan was the lifeguard who_______ the drone. He described the experience as_______.The Little Ripper certainly proved itself today. It was _______the drone when the alarm was raised. I directed it toward the swimmers, and dropped the ________. With its support they made their way to safety. They were ________, but not hurt. The teens were saved in just 70 seconds with the drone — while a lifeguard would have taken up to six minutes to________ the rescue.”

John Barilaro, an official of the state ________ the rescue as historic. “It was the world’s__________ rescue by the unmanned airplane,” he said. Never before has a drone been used to ________ swimmers like this.“

4 . I was in the second year of my PhD program when a colleague asked what I would do if I had a 25th hour every day. Without much________, I said I would use it to help others. Like many graduate students, I was________with teaching, coursework,________, and some attempts at a personal life.________, I asked myself, “Do I really need a(n)________hour to help other people — or do I need to make better use of the 24 hours I have?”

A short time later, I started to________for an organization that provides________for senior citizens and people with disabilities. To my________, adding this activity to my busy life was just what I needed to________the chaos I was feeling as a first-generation international graduate student.

I was a bit________before my first ride, as I had not________much with people outside school. But my nervousness quickly calmed when I________my passenger: an old woman on her way to church. She was________to see a young international driver and was full of questions about my________. She shared with me how thankful she was to attend________and get some fresh air. She gave me her blessings.________like these and the smiles on my riders’ faces________me to continue driving.

I started to volunteer about 3 hours every weekend — time I otherwise would have wasted________or looking through social media. Sharing stories with my riders was much more________. My previously overwhelming schedule began to feel________.

5 . On a trip back from Boston, my two little guys and I stopped at a gas station. It was not until I got home that I ________ my wallet had been left there.

I tried to set aside my frustration and ________ over this and focused on taking action. First, I had to find the phone number of the gas station. Just a quick Baidu ________, right? Unluckily, the number had been recently ________ due to new ownership. So I ________ the restaurant across the street. The hostess warmly took down my ________ and had a waiter bring it to the gas station manager, who then rang me up. He told me that a regular customer had found my wallet and ________ it over to him for safekeeping. We ________ that I would drive back to the gas station the next day to ________ my wallet.

My relief that the situation was heading the right direction was ________, as was my appreciation for the ________ and thoughtfulness of others --- from the ________ who found my wallet to the restaurant hostess to the manager, who was willing to ________ me my wallet if that was     ________ for me.

At every step of the way, a generous spirit was shown, which was ________ in a world where we often ________ self-focused thinking and self-serving behavior.

Much good fortune ________ me after I left my wallet behind on that trip back from Boston---including a powerful reminder of the goodness and generosity of others. My world was ________ and made more joyful, not just by being reunited with my wallet, but by the ________ acts of others. As Marianne Williamson wrote, “________ is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

6 . Around twenty years ago I was living in New York.______ I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree，I couldn’t find ______ work.

I was driving a school bus to make ends meet and ______ with a friend，for I had lost my flat. I had ______ five interviews with a company but they said I did not get the job.“ Why has my life become so ______？” I thought painfully.

As I pulled the bus over to ______ a little girl，she handed me an earring ______ I should keep it ______ somebody claimed (认领) it. The earring was painted black and said “BE HAPPY”．

At first I got angry. Then it hit me—I had been giving all of my ______ to what was going wrong with my ______ rather than what was right！I decided to make a ______ of fifty things I was happy with .Later，I decided to ______ more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for me from a director at a large ______.She asked me if I would give a lecture ______stress management to 200 medical workers. I said yes.

My ______ there went very well，and before long I got a well-paid job .To this day I know that it was because I changed my way of thinking that I completely changed my life.

8 . I used to be the shyest person in the world. I hid behind my elder sister whenever I had to speak to a stranger. When asked to speak in class, I could ________ breathe, much less speak.

Then in the seventh grade, my sister ________ I take voice lessons. After thinking carefully, I did and tried to keep it secret.

I began a series of exercises, making ________ so strange that I couldn’t help laughing. I learned how to howl (吼叫) like a cowboy and snort (讥讽) like an old lady. By playing around with sound in the class, I gained ________ in the part of me that had been a point of embarrassment before: my voice.

A few months later, I was asked to ________ for some old people, I thought I would do better than before because of the voice lessons. I ________ my mouth and — nothing. I couldn’t remember the lyrics! My face turned ________.

Then the ________ struck me: I’ve already embarrassed (尴尬) myself enough in front of this crowd. There’s really nothing else to lose. So in my second song, I just relaxed and felt the energy of the song lift me. And I did much ________.

After that, I started singing to myself as loudly as I could in my own room. That’s something I would never have done before.

I am not a ________ person. Singing has made me more outgoing.

10 . Last night, my sister sent me a message: “The 1196 weather service will come to an end. So if you want to listen, today is the last _________.”

For 20 years, a caller could dial 1196, _________ an area and then hear the weather forecast read by a computer-spliced (电脑合成的) version of my father’s _________. This was the 20^th-century service that _________into the 21^st century. Soon, it would be _________ by the newly-developed weather app.

Dad’s love for the job was _________ my imagination. He stuck to making most of the recordings after he had cancer. I remembered _________ him to the recording room in my spare time. He would sit there for a whole day,_________ thousands of words with headphones on. He pronounced each word carefully. The _________ headphones and the precise pronunciation all took him back to his previous job as a radio journalist. And he was __________   of his voice. It sounded strong and held its fine timbre (音色) __________ he was in poor health.

The whole recording was really a large __________ with many sessions. In the end, Dad was too __________ to go to the recording room. __________, the sound engineer came to my parents’ house to __________ the last parts.

Finally, I plucked up(鼓起)the courage to dial the number to say another goodbye to my father.