1 . I was ready for bed. My eyes fell on the musical _________ on my bedside table. In it was a photo of Dad smiling, and once opened, it would play his _________ song recorded before his death. It was propped (支撑) open just enough so the recording wouldn’t play.

Dad was a _________ man. He was always singing me his little made-up songs to share joy although he was _________ off-key, not hitting every note.

Dad was a man with big heart. When my house burned down a few years ago, Dad _________ my family into his home. When we tried to offer some _________, he said with his characteristic voice, “Don’t be _________!”

With happy _________, I fell asleep.

“Beautiful and marvelous!”

Suddenly, I was awoken hours later by the _________ song. The card! I snapped it shut (啪的一声合上).

How did that card just start playing? I checked the windows, all tightly shut. But why couldn’t I __________ the feeling that something was wrong?

I decided to __________ downstairs. Opening the door to the laundry room, I was hit with a strong smell of __________. The heat lamp had fallen, and the carpet was burning.

The __________ wasn’t too bad. I let out a shaky breath with __________. What could have happened? Perhaps another house fire. But we were safe. All thanks to Dad’s one-of-a-kind __________.

2 . At only 9 years old, Lesia Cartelli was badly burned in a gas explosion at her grandpa’s house. In fact, the burns were so_____that her own grandfather didn’t recognize her. But now, this brave woman uses her miserable past to help other burn _____ find healing.

Lesia and her cousin were playing in their grandpa’s basement on that_____ day. A gas leak started to burn, causing the whole house to _____. The explosion threw many of the 9 family members in the home across the street. Lesia pulled herself out of the house. Flames still covered her little body so she _____ in the dirt and snow to put them out.

Lesia_____ several months in the hospital, undergoing operations and skin grafts(移植). Once released, Lesia’s scars drew _____ and questions from people, so she started isolating herself.

“When I was burned, everything in my life changed,” she said. “My friendships changed. I hated going to school. You are_____ things you never had to before.”

Lesia could have remained_____ in her whole life, because when bad things happen, we can ______ choose to escape or to treat it as a chance to ______. Lesia chose the latter, realizing she was put on this Earth to do more than just survive.

“My life got______ when I started to look on my life as a gift,” Lesia said.

Lesia______Angel Faces, a national nonprofit organization offering support to girls ranging in age from 11 to 19 to help them heal ______.

Lesia’s Angel Faces allowed the girls to bond with fellow burn victims, helping them get rid of the feelings of ______ loneliness.

3 . Opening my car window, I called out, “Ma’am! Ma’am!” The only lady in the parking lot ________ until she saw me. “How nice you look today!” I said.

Her face registered ________ for a second when she found I was a stranger, and then she smiled. “Thank you!” she ________. I stared at her and felt her shoulder ________ a bit more and her final steps to her car seemed ________.

I have made it a point in recent years to compliment (赞扬) people, especially women and girls. Instead of just thinking ________ in my heart that someone did a great job, I say it out loud. It’s like having a(n) ________ in my head. When I see someone who ________ a kind word, the cheerleader jumps up and down and throws her pompoms (绒球花) in the air. As women, we have learned from our role models to be ________. Even when we do receive a(an) ________ compliment for what we’ve accomplished, we downplay our own ________ as the world expects us to show ________. Now, when I compliment a woman and she ________ the game of denial, I say to her, “Just say thank you.” Most of them are relieved they can ________ the compliment. It’s a good beginning to accept the praise without feeling ________ isn’t it?

4 . Two years ago, my friend and I were at college. With his birthday quickly approaching, he came to me with an unusual __________: instead of receiving presents, he wanted to do some acts of kindness.

I was __________ for such an idea. Giving instead of taking for the birthday was really difficult. I asked him how he could come up with such a __________ idea. He told me about a TED talk he had watched on generosity, which had inspired him. So we started to __________ creative things we could do.

Our university employed some security guards to __________ its students. They have to work __________, keeping watch on every corner throughout the university. For the most part it's a thankless job as most people grow __________ to seeing the guards all around and eventually barely notice their __________, let alone acknowledge their efforts. How could we show them our appreciation?

We decided to make a large pot of hot __________. We hired a Uber and asked the driver to take us around the campus where we knew the __________ would be and we poured them each a cup of hot chocolate. The Uber driver was __________ a bit doubtful to the entire plan but after a while he was helping us __________ the guards and our lively spirit had __________ to him as well. We were met with many __________ and appreciative words. It was amazing to see how a ​__________ act or even intention of generosity can lift everyone's spirit.

5 . JAYCE began noticing when he was 5 in kindergarten that others had two hands but he had one.

When one boy _______ him, Jayce felt very sad. He returned home with _______ : Why am I different? Why?

"He _______ told us he was mad at God for making him that way, " Lewis, his mother   says. "That was a huge knife to the _______."

Lewis _______ she didn't know what to do at that point. One day, when Jayce was 12, Lewis _______ the TV to a news story about Trashaun, an eighth grader from Washington, Trashaun, then 14, two years older than Jayce, had become an Internet sensation after _______ videos of his slam dunks(灌篮). Like Jayce, he was _______ most o£ his left arm. Lewis called Jayce in. He watched _______ dunk after mazing dunk.

It seemed that watching Trashaun would simply be a(n) ________ moment for Jayce—he'd see a surprising role model with a similar   ________. Had it stayed just that; Lewis would have been ________. Little did she know that a family friend had already ________ the newspaper to help set up a meeting with Trashaun to build Jayce's ________.

The boys met on a Saturday afternoon two months later, in April 2017.

The day was not spent being buried in self-pity—it was devoted to ________ , They rode bikes around, took photos, played hide-and-seek, and ________ baskets.

Trashaun ________ their left arms. He told Jayce not to let words ________ his confidence or anyone dray him down,________ that he was perfect the way God made him.

Since that meeting, Lewis has seen a pronounced ________ in her son.

6 . It’s 27 years since my last conversation with my mother, who didn’t finish school like many of her contemporary girls. She often told me, “I never got my ________ but one day you will.”

Pointing to a tree or cow, she asked me to ________ their English names after her. Feeling ________, I asked, “Mama, why do I have to learn these ________ phrases?” She held her pen right before my eyes. “Hold it firmly,” she ________ me, “for this pen and the new foreign language will be your compass to ________ around the world.” Sadly, my mother died of breast cancer when I was six.

Turning seven, I traveled 30 miles to live closer to my school. But “closer” is a ________ term in Uganda, which ________ I had to get up as the ________ sun rose and then ran 8. 8 miles barefoot to school. Also, I needed to carry a stick in ________ of snakes and dogs. During the ________ season, the path to school was ________ daily and I’d swim with one hand, using the other hand to ________ the book bag on my head.

Research shows 70 percent of poor children don’t ________ primary school in Uganda. Reasons for this ________ dropout rate includes the long ________ some children must ________ among many other reasons.

Fortunately, I’ve made it. Whenever I see the sun rise, I am ________ of the wisdom of my mother, who ________ me to dream big and to use the ________ of the pen to make my dream come true.

7 . We’ve heard it before－we’ve heard it on the news, from teachers, from parents－children and teenagers today are growing up too fast．There are not too many people that will ____ with that statement．Teenagers are faced with serious problems and decisions at an early ____．In fact most teenagers’ daily schedules are as ____ as those of an adult’s．

I have been working since I was thirteen, and always in   ____ in which I was working with adults. I have had to learn to think and ____ like an adult to be taken seriously. So, I count myself as one who has grown up too fast. I just graduated from high school, and have recently spent some time reflecting(反思) on the ____ eighteen years-thinking about myself, what I have gained, and what ____ I have yet to achieve.

We are expected to work hard, get excellent ____ , be in a good relationship, and know what we want to do ____．The list goes on and on. But the ____ is clear：We live in a society today that is ____ our childhood．We no longer have many years to be careless and fancy-free. We are expected to ____ the strict school rules and to excel(擅长) in everything we do. I’ve known these things for a long time, and knew that they ____ me. But, I never really admitted it until last night, when I learned a ____ lesson, taught to me by my boss where I work. We had finished a job at a remote site．It was about 11:30 at night, and we had ____ to his house. We were talking about the ____ he had been making to his home．One of the things he said was “I ____ my basketball hoop(篮圈).” Then he threw a basketball to me.

We proceeded to shoot hoops for about 40 minutes. Both of us were terribly bad at it, but we spent the whole time ____ away like children. Then I realized something: I am still a child. Oh, the law says I’m an adult. But, we are still really and truly children. We all need to have ____ once in a while.