1 . Exercise and I had never had a good relationship due to my fear of sports. From a young age, my dad _______ me into a dozen sports. I didn’t like any of them, _______.

When I entered the University of Regina, my dad _______ telling me “You have to find a way to stay _______.” or “You don’t want to get the Freshman 15, do you?” So I _______ to give swimming a shot, but I _______ managed to go to the pool twice during the fall semester (学期). Worse still, I was _______ to convince myself that’s OK.

The spring semester came. A friend of mine _______ me if I wanted to try Zumba (尊巴) with her. All I knew about Zumba was that it was basically a kind of exercise: dancing to Latin pop songs. It didn’t sound too bad, but I couldn’t be _______.

I went, and that was it. Zumba became my ________ of tea. The instructor would always say, “Don’t worry about the steps. Have fun. Do your own thing.” That removed my ________ of sports. I didn’t have to be ________. I didn’t even have to be good. I just needed to ________ the music and move. Zumba did ________ me from the Freshman 15, and it also did so much more. It let me make ________ with my unpleasant past about physical exercise, and enjoy staying healthy.

2 . As a young boy my family was very poor. I would often help do something for the neighbors to ________ a little pocket money.

One day I ________ on the door of an elderly woman and asked ________ she needed me to clean the yard. She asked why I was not in ________ and I showed her my worn ________, which no longer kept me warm. She ________ me to work in the yard. When I finished, she looked at me and said, “I suppose you want to be ________ now.” She then ________ a jar filled with dollar bills and said, “I’m glad you’ve done a ________ job today but that is not something you should be doing again. I want you to ________ new clothes and get back to school. I also want you to come back to ________ me with your report card and I will ________ you when I see you have worked hard and have some good ________. Now reach our your little hands and take out as much ________ as you can.”

I put my hands in the jar and ________ so much money that it was ________ for me to buy what I badly needed. Later, I returned several times to see the woman and she did just as she ________. She looked at my report card and gave me a handful of dollars and some delicious food every time I ________ her that I had an “A”.

I was twelve years old when I moved from that neighbourhood. I will never forget the huge ________ this wonderful lady made over my life with her ________. This is something I hope to do myself in this lifetime over and over again.

3 . My mother was a nurse and often took me along to visit the families she was caring for. Among them was a woman who had a _______ disease and was always lying on the bed.

One afternoon, my mom told me that we needed to visit the woman at her home, and that we needed to be there to _______ treatment, and we would stop at a store on the way. I thought we would stop at a _______ store, where we can buy some pills, but we pulled up to a _______. My mom headed to the make-up area and bought the most expensive bottle of perfume they _______. To my surprise, she also bought a _______ nightdress. When I asked my mom who these things were for, she said they were for her patient. My mom further explained that although this woman was older and unable to _______ her bed, she was still a lady, and she still _______ dignity (尊严) and beauty. She _______ to me that when we care for someone, we should look past the ________ or the illness and we look into the soul of the human so we can connect with them with sympathy.

I ________ realized that my mother’s great strengths and abilities were ________ the very young and the very old, those who can not ________ out their needs and hope for themselves, and need trustworthy and loving care providers. Under the influence of my mother, I knew in the 9^th grade I would become a ________. Today, my dream has come true. I work as a clinical psychologist, working hard and remembering what my mom taught me, and I’m not ________ that I find my work filled with patients who are very and very old.

4 . The earthquake was over and the city was in ruins.

I had no choice but to walk home as all the ______ had stopped as a result of the quake. On my way home I ______ an old lady at a bakery giving out free bread, which made my heart ______. A man was holding a sign saying, "Please use our ______." He was ______ his house for people to go to the restroom.

My friend, ______ wanted to be of help to others, stood in the cold with a sign "If you don't ______ a motorcycle, I'll be glad to drive you home." And then I saw him pick up an old man and drive him all the way to a faraway place!

Then the next day I drove to have my car ______. There was not enough ______ now and many gas stations were closed or had very ______ lines. I got worried, since I was ______ fifteen cars. Finally, when my ______ came, the man smiled and said," ______ this situation, we are only giving $ 30 worth of gas per person. Is that alright?" ______. It's nice that we are all able to ______, " I said. His smile gave me so much comfort.

At the escape center I saw a man ______ when people brought food to him. It was the first time in three days that food had been brought to their center. However, after he cleaned up the tears, his next ______ surprised me. "I am very ______ that we are provided with food. But people in the city next to us haven't ______ any food at all. Please go to that center as well." Hearing that, I realized there was a bright future on the other side of this ______.

5 . About six years ago I was going through a tough time，trying to work two jobs to afford my rent．On a cold Sunday morning, I went to GameStop-a video game retailer（零售商）to______the game I'd reserved．A woman in a car parked outside called me when I________the store．Though it was in broad daylight，I was______about it and kept some distance when I walked over．She said she couldn't walk and ______me to purchase a Kinect，a popular game，for her as her_______Christmas gift．Due to her leg disease it was______for her to move around. She called ahead but the employee wasn't willing to______．She gave me about ＄100 in cash AND her credit card．

I walked back in and bought the Kinect．Then it occurred to me that this woman，a complete stranger，_______me．What was it that stopped me from lying about the payment method and just______her cash？She couldn't know I wasn't a________；and how could she possibly have so much______someone？

I handed her the cash back，______had to pay with her card-it was above ＄100 at the time，and handed over the_______and her credit card． "This is what my son's been longing for．Thank you!   By the way，just from_____at you，I know you are the one who’ll be a friend to someone______．You have a face of an angel!" She said．

She gave me ＄10 and_______to take it back．Then she_______，saying "Merry Christmas!" She had no idea how much of a_______even ＄10 made．I was able to buy a few cheap groceries for the week and it really made a_______time in my life a little better．She may think I helped her；_______，I truly feel like the one who was being gifted something amazing．

6 . Molai grew up in a tiny village in India. The village lay near some wetlands which became his second___________. He learned the value and beauty of _________ there from a very young age.

When he was 16, Molai began to notice something _________ happening around his home. A flood had hit the area earlier that year and the _________ it caused had driven away a number of birds. _________, the number of snakes had declined as well. He _________ that it was because there weren’t enough trees to protect them from the _________. The solution, of course, was to plant trees so the animals could seek _________ during the daytime. He turned to the _________ department for help but was told that nothing would grow there. However, Molai went looking on his own and __________a nearby island where he began to plant trees.

________ young plants in the dry season was ____________for a lone boy. Molai built at the __________ of each sapling(幼树)a bamboo platform, where he placed earthen pots with small holes to____________ rainwater. The water would then drip(滴落)on the plants below.

Molai __________ to plant trees for the next 37 years. His efforts have resulted in 1,360 acres of naturally-grown land that has become home to many plants and animals.

7 . I was born legally blind. Of all the stories of my early childhood, the one about a______is my mother's favorite.

I was only two when the______occurred. We had just arrived home from a trip. Mom lifted me out of the car and _____to speak to the driver. I took advantage of my brief______to dash across the lawn (草坪) — and hit a large maple tree! I was running so fast that I bounced off the trunk and______on my backside. Mom______me to start crying, but I just sat there for a minute. Then I______myself up and kept right on going. Mom always______here that, as many times as I______across the lawn after that, I never again______into that tree.

Mom loves to use this story as an______. It reminds her that children don't enter life______to take risks or unwilling to______again when they fall down. She never wanted me to lose that______as I grew older. When I______my major life decisions，I was still that little girl tearing full-speed across the lawn. I studied abroad and later moved away from my parents' home to look for a______, Through years of______, I have become a respected teacher in a school serving high-need students.

We are almost certain to get______at some point during the process of achieving our goal. When that happens, don't sit in the grass and______. Just get up and keep on going. It will all be worth it______.

8 . We never talked about school as the ticket to the future. I was in the classroom, but I wasn’t there to learn how to write, read or even ______. When it was my turn to read, I wanted to ______. I was 13 years old, _____ I already hated being who I was.

I had a(n) ______ teacher, Mr. Creech ,who knew I couldn’t read. And he found it _______ to make my secret known to others. He ______me and said, “Anthony, why don’t you read the next paragraph?” I didn’t even know what the paragraph was. I ______ to read what was in front of me, but the only sound of my voice ______ resulted in laughter. From then on, I never gave up practicing reading.

Now I am 41 years old. One day, I planned to ______ back to Texas to visit my family and friends. On my way from the airport, I saw Mr. Creech _______ himself a drink. I rushed over and reached into my ______ to pay for him. “Do I know you?” he asked. “Yes, sir, you do know me,” I answered_______. “My name is Anthony Hamilton. You taught me English.” The look on his face told me that he remembered the ______ he’d once shamed. “I’m so ______ that I had a chance to see you again,” I said. “And Mr. Creech, I have great ______ to share.” I had learned to ______. But that wasn’t all. I had become a published ______ and an active speaker. “The next time you get another Anthony Hamilton in your ______, please encourage him to read as well,” I said.

The experts say what once ______ me has a name: dyslexia(诵读困难症). But I can tell you it was a lack of ______ for education.

9 . You never know how far a kind act can go. You don’t know who it can ________, either. When Gloria Porter and Jeff Reick began ________,they had no idea how much it would ________ others to shower (大量给予) people with kindness.

89-year-old Gloria Porter was lying in hospital. She couldn’t leave her ward. So to ________ boredom, she would often stare outside her window to watch construction workers building the new front entrance to the hospital. She wasn’t expecting one of the ________ to wave to her. She couldn’t help but wave back at the kind ________. This was only the start of a special ________ between the two.

Jeff Reick knew Porter was ________,so he decided to send a kind ________ to her by finding some chalk and writing “Get Well” on one of the beams (梁) facing her ________. “I just thought that was ________,” Porter said. “So I should do something to ________ that.”

When Porter saw construction workers working high above the ground one cold, windy day, she grew ________. She wrote “Stay safe” on a piece of paper, which she then ________ on the window for the workers to see. “When I saw 4 Stay safe’ on a piece of paper, I ________ and said to my coworkers, ‘Did you see that?’” Reick said.

The hospital staff took photos of that and ________ them on social media. The simple acts of kindness ________ and many people were employed in similar acts, including one woman who delivered ________ pizza to the construction workers.

“I just try to lead by example and never expect so much ________,” Reick said. “If everybody ________ does things like that, the world will be a better place.”

10 . It’s about 250 miles from the hills of west-central Iowa to Ehlers’ home in Minnesota. During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting. Ehlers _______about the small dog he had seen _______ alongside the road. He had _______ to coax(哄) the dog to him but, frightened, it had _______.

Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that _______ dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove _______. After a long and careful _______, Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving _______ away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with _______. It just started licking(舔) Ehlers’ face.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one ________ as lost in the local paper. The ad had a ________ number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers ________ the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had ________ their dog.

Jeff had ________ in Iowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched ________ for Rosie in the next four days.

Ehlers returned to Minnesota, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan. “It’s good to know there’s still someone out there who ________ enough to go to that kind of ________,”says Lisa of Ehlers’ rescue ________.

“I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as ________ to it as I am to my dogs,” says Ehlers. “If it had been my dog, I’d hope that somebody would be ________ to go that extra mile.”