1 . We might look different and speak different languages, but most of us, especially the young ones, love sweets! One day we _________ one of the 15,000 orphan(孤儿)-led houses in Swaziland. Inside the _________ we found a beautiful little girl with huge brown eyes, Tanzile. I gave her a sweet from my bag and she said something in the _________ language. The nurse next to me _________: “She wants another one, doctor, to give to her little sister.” I said “_________” and gave her another.

Later that day, we passed by Tanzile’s house to say goodbye. To our _________ she seemed to be holding on to that _________ sweet I had given her. I thought she was _________ and had taken two for herself. But after the _________ had asked her some more questions, this is what we learned:

Tanzile is 7 now. Two years ago her parents __________ in the disaster. At the time of her parents’ death, she __________ her baby sister, who was three at the time, and has never seen her. But ever since that time, whenever Tanzile __________ anything from anyone, she refuses to accept it, __________ they give her two. In fact, in the little mud hut where she lives, we found a pile of old things which she has been __________to give to her sister one day.

I can still remember the nurse trying to __________ her that “ Tanzile, if someone gives you food, you must accept it, __________ it is only one piece and not two - for your own __________ and safety.” And it was so __________ for us to keep the tears from our eyes as she shook her head __________

On the way back, I thought of that old Eagles’ song — “When we’re hungry, __________ will keep us alive.”

2 . TJ Lawlor has been working at Whole Foods Market in Redwood, California, for 12 years now. He _______ to go out there early to start a great day at work. It was his friendly face and great disposition (性情) that made connecting to his customers _______. The connection he made with a particular _______ was extra special. Now 19 years old, Riley Dehne is a young man with Down syndrome (唐氏综合征) who is _______ about everything “frozen.” It was his love for the movie, Frozen, that _______ him to anything cold or frozen.

Six years ago, he went to Whole Foods Market with his mom. He _______ went to the Frozen Section, and that’s where he met TJ. After a short _______, this kind store clerk _______ Riley to fill up the freezers with goods. He even gave him a popsicle (冰棍). _______, Riley enjoyed visiting the store, which no one ________ would last for years. Riley visited every week, and he helped TJ put goods on the shelves and ________ the rubbish. All of these things were done while his mom, Andi, ________.

“It honestly ________ my heart,” Riley’s mom said. “Sometimes, when there’s someone with a ________, it can be harder to get to know them. TJ took ________ to get to know Riley, to ________ his strengths and build on them.” Andi ________ TJ a lot and she even wrote an article about their special friendship in her local paper.

TJ also drew ________ and strength from this young boy. “Every time this guy comes in, nothing but love, nothing but smiles,” TJ said. “When something in life ________ me, this guy cheers me up. He cheers me up, and I cheer him up. That’s what I look for in a ________ ”.

3 . We were in for a whole new way of life when we moved to a horse farm in Winchester,Kentucky. One of the _______ parts of the move was getting to know the people in this small community. Even before we left Florida we had a(n) _______ of the friendliness of the residents and their _______ to help even strangers like us. “Your lower field is flooded,” was the first _______ we received in Florida from the former owner of the farm.

So we knew about the _______ before we moved, but we didn’t figure on how much it would _______ us once we arrived. Every time we went to town we passed those fences, _______face down. The trouble was that we didn’t own a _______ .

One day, our neighbor said, “I _______ to put my cattle in another field for a while. If I use my tractor and __________ your fence, could I use your lower __________ ?”It __________ that we needed him and he needed us. Soon, not only were our fences fixed, but his cattle kept the field __________ and clean. “Isn’t it __________ how we need each other and can each __________ the needs of the other?” I said to my husband.

One night our neighbor asked my husband, “Want to ride with me to __________ my farm?“ So my husband did. When he __________ home, he walked in, smiled and said, “Do you know what? He didn’t need our fields at all. He has 150 acres not even being __________ !” I went to sleep that night thinking about the __________ in our new community and how our new neighbor found a way to help us by __________ he needed us.

4 . Jasen was diagnosed with a type of cancer. Despite going through several treatments, there was no saving his _______, and by age 7, Jasen was completely blind. Today, the only thing he can_______ is whether it is daytime or nighttime. _______, despite growing up blind, Jasen never hesitated in following his dreams, no matter how _______ they may have seemed. And it was this_______ that won him the role of quarterback on a local football team.

The 15-year-old grew up following the sport of football at least three times a week, attending local games with his father, who would _______ the action going down on the field. He fell in love with the sport and knew that he wanted to give it a_______ himself. When his parents _______ him an iPhone, he started _______ all the football teams in the area to see if they would accept him.

Nichols, coach of him, ________ that the first time after seeing the boy play, he realized that the kid "could do anything". What Jasen lacks in vision, he ________ in spatial (空间的) awareness and memory, knowing ________ where his teammates are supposed to be, and throwing the ball with accuracy.

In order to ________ his team and play his role on the court, Jasen always ________ every play and all the positions his ________ should be in when he throws the ball.

"Just seeing him, he ________ me there's nothing you can't do, and that ________the other kids .Ever since he joined my team, the team have ________ around him", coach Nichols said. "It ________their attitude to life. He makes the season. Even if we don't win, just having that chemistry with the team has probably been one of the ________ things."

5 . Eighteen years ago, hospice (安养院) nurse Michelle Linn met a baby who seemingly did not have long to live. Braden was born with Pfeiffer syndrome, type 2. This condition________facial abnormalities that can make it difficult to breathe.

Braden’s mom Cheri says their son’s prognosis (病情预断) was not________from the start. “The doctor said that he would not live and if he did live, he’d be________blind and deaf,” said Cheri. As a baby, Braden’s airways were so badly________that his doctors sent him to hospice care, and that’s where the family________Michelle. As his nurse, Michelle spent hours by Braden’s bedside hoping he’d________. One night a few months into his hospice care Braden’s________got so bad that Michelle feared the________was near.

“As I watched him________all through the night, I honestly wasn’t sure if he would________it to morning,” she wrote on Face book. Over the next few months, Braden’s_______ improved._______, he was finally allowed to leave the hospice, an all-too-rare_______. Ever since then Braden has________every prognosis!

Doctors said he wouldn’t________to be 18 months old, but this year he________his 18th birthday. To celebrate his senior year of high school his________asked Michelle, the nurse who________for their son as if he were her own, to take his senior pictures. The results are a________of the power of faith and friendship.

“It is such a great________to see him graduating from high school,” said Cheri.

“I’m very happy with who I am today,” Braden said.

6 . One afternoon, Jose Rodriguez Jr. went home early after school. He _______that his little brother Joel was searching for his fidget toy (解压玩具). It is _______ for Joel, who has autism (自闭症), and likes to play with it to _______.That was when a(n) _______ struck Rodriguez: What if he could find a better way for Joel and others with autism to _______ their fidget toys?

Soon, Rodriguez founded Tasium, a company that makes _______ T-shirts. There is a fidget toy tied to the bottom corner of each shirt，which _______ that the toy is never far from the person wearing it. “For those with autism, fidget toys have proven to be _______,” Rodriguez says. “Many people think that fidget toys are a distraction (使人分心的事物). _______, they are really there to help.”

Rodriguez took a ________ by NFTE, a nonprofit that provides training for young people. In the end, NFTE ran a ________. From classes held around the world，NFTE ________ three students per class and nominated (提名) their ideas for an international contest. To his ________, Rodriguez won the contest last year. The win came with $12, 000 and ________ Rodriguez to start Tasium. Rodriguez used the ________ to set up a website, and the money also gave him the ________ to make the first batches (批次) of shirts available for sale.

________, Rodriguez made shirts at his school with a heat press, but now he's switched to screen-printing ________ the design on the shirts doesn't wash off easily. Rodriguez says he plans to continue the ________ from college and expand Tasium into jackets, hats, dresses, and more, with every piece of clothing having some kind of fidget toy ________. “I just wanted to help the world in some way, ”Rodriguez says.

7 . Chase Friedman awoke inside the hospital paralyzed from the neck down,________ whether he’d walk again, Friedman, 25,________ and fell on his friend’s bathroom floor, an accident that ________ injured his spine (脊柱) and left him unable to move his arms and legs. Doctors told him his ________ of walking again were “50-50”. The Los Angeles ________ thought “my life was over”. But on a Saturday less than three months later, Friedman climbed the Art Museum steps, bringing friends, family and strangers to ________. After he raised his ________ at the top of the steps, Friedman told the crowd that “anything is possible”. “I’m glad that people are ________ because it does prove that you can beat everything,” Friedman said.

His journey up the 72 steps started well before Saturday. After surgeons put pins (钢针) in his spine, he learned to walk again at Magee Hospital. He practiced on instruments and stairs, held up by a belt or his physical therapist, Erin Freimuth.________, his recovery attracted hundreds of thousands of people on TikTok, the social media platform where he would post videos of his ________. A video ________ Saturday’s journey up the Art Museum steps received 1.8 million ________.

Friedman arrived in a wheel-chair and ________ a walker as he approached the steps. The crowd of about a hundred people, who were dancing, exercising and ________ for photos beforehand, fell silent. With the ________ gone, Friedman took each step slowly. The crowd ________ when he reached each ________.

When his mother visited, the sight of her son unable to do anything was ________ . But seeing him ________ the Art Museum steps, she said. “This is definitely a time when everybody in the world needs ________.”

8 . It would be an understatement to say that Ernestine Shepherd is in better________than most people. The 80-year-old________lives by the words "determined, dedicated and disciplined" to stay in the best health possible.

Ernestine Shepherd recently________her 80th birthday. And she still________every day. But this was not always the case, she says. "Earlier in life, I really did not think too much about eating________nor exercising, but as time went on, my mind changed completely."

One day she went out________with her sister, Mildred Blackwell. They tried on a swimsuit. Both women realized they were out of________. Blackwell suggested that they take a fitness class to lose weight and get in shape. So at age 56, alongside her sister, Shepherd started to exercise. She said her sister________her to do more than just exercise.

"My sister was________in getting me started to lift weights and to try to become a bodybuilder." Then, in 1992, Mildred Blackwell died suddenly. Ernestine says the________deepened her commitment to good health. She promised to continue training as a bodybuilder to honor her sister's________.

Soon Ernestine invested in a personal________. Then after training, she did her first bodybuilding________. Ernestine Shepherd holds the 2010 and 2011________in the Guinness World Records as the World's Oldest Performing Female Bodybuilder. Shepherd keeps a________diet of proteins and carbohydrates such as chicken and rice. And she gets________from Collin, her husband of 52 years, who helps prepare her seven small meals a day.

Shepherd says her lifestyle changes________her of several health conditions." No more high blood pressure medicine. No more panic attacks. Exercise is not work, it’s fun." Shepherd still competes in body building________. And, this year, she became a (an)________. Her book, "Determined, Dedicated and Disciplined To Be Fit," came out in April, just before she turned 80. And, Ernestine shares a________about aging. "If ever there was an anti-aging pill you will have to call it exercise."

9 . I’ve been running my whole life. At first, it was to tell on（告发） my brother for stealing cookies and then running to escape the cookie stealer as he ______ toward me. I ran through my teenage years and college as a(n) ______ and cost-effective way to stay fit. I ______ to run through adulthood as motherhood, career and hobbies kept me in constant ______. Running was a fun ______— something to be done quickly and ______ so I could get back to my busy life.

Despite my perseverance (坚持不懈), running never became ______ a hobby for me. Never running more than three miles at a time, I hadn’t the ______ to think about anything more than a 5km. It wasn’t until I was overcome with temporary mental disorder that I was ______ to step outside of my comfort zone and ______ to run a half marathon.

My running partners picked me up at my door, and we fell into a ______ jog. I took it slow, one mile, then two. Gradually, I fell in step beside my new friends. We talked about our favorites, and ______ funny stories about our children. By the time we were running 12-mile races, I knew I’d made ______ friends.

The day of the ______ finally arrived. At the start line, armed with my friends, I already felt like a champion. My time training had ______ . I felt ______ and strong. I held a steady pace and kept up with my ______ as long as I could. By mile 10, I began to ______ and told my trusty running mates to go on without me. As ______, they gently slowed their pace to fall in line with me. Legs shaking and knees buckling ( 弯曲 ), we finally ______ the finish line together.

10 . The mountains where I live are full of turning, twisting and narrow roads. I was driving down one of those roads last spring. Days of on and off rain had made the ground_________and hillsides mushy. As I_________a curve(弯道), I saw that the weakened soil had_________a tree on the hill by the road. It was now lying on the road_________my way. I_________the brakes and slowly drove around it. Then I_________. I knew it was only a matter of time before someone would_________into that tree.

I got out of my car and tried to pull the_________into the ditch(沟渠)but it was much too big and_________. I didn't know what to do. Thirty seconds later, a white pickup truck__________and pulled over. Out__________a young man. “You need a chainsaw(链锯)?” he asked. I said, “Yes!” and he__________one out of the back of his truck.

For the next few minutes he cut the tree into__________parts while I carried them across the__________and dumped (扔掉)them over the guardrail(栏杆)on the other side. “You never know when you will need a__________” I joked while my newly found__________smiled and put his saw back in the truck. I waved goodbye and__________him drive off before heading back to my own car.

What a(n)__________it was that we two met at just the right time! I felt happy knowing that I was able to help________a possible accident. The rain finally stopped and the sun__________the clouds.