1 . We were five minutes into the worse airstream I’d ever experienced when we approached Boston’s Logan International Airport in a severe winter storm. I _________ the woman next to me and said, “Hey, would you mind _________ with me for a few minutes? I’m really_________.”

“Sure. My name is Sue,” the woman replied, _________ warmly. “What bring you to Boston?” I started to explain that I was on a business trip. Then the plane shook _________, and I said quickly, “I might need to _________ your hand. ”

Sue took my hand in both of hers, _________ it, and held on tight. She was so _________ — “Yep, this is a little uneasy, but we’ll be on the _________ safely soon,” she told me. Then I asked her what’s her __________. “I’m a retired physical education teacher, and I __________ women’s volleyball,”she said. Immediately, I could see what an __________ coach she must have been.

Sue and I talked — about our families, our vacations, our love of the ocean — until the plane finally __________.

When we said __________, I gave Sue a big hug and my card. A few days later, I received a __________. “I have to admit that I was just as __________ as you were but did not say it, ”Sue wrote. “I just __________ your hand as hard as I could. Thank you for helping me through this very scary __________.”I told my friends about Sue. I explained how __________ she was to me, and what I learnt. It’s OK to ask for __________ from a stranger if you need it.

2 . Since having my son, I have found that I am always lucky enough to be surrounded by people willing to help.

When he was eight weeks old, I had a(n) _______ to meet with a TV producer in New York City to talk about my career. It was Monday. Could I, a young mother with a newborn baby, _______ from my home outside Boston to meet him on Wednesday? It was a _______ chance. So I said yes.

Honestly, it was _______. My son hated being in the car seat and ate very _______ during the long ride. _______we spent a comfortable Tuesday night at my parents' house in Connecticut, which is halfway between Boston and New York. When we _______in New York, I handed my son over to my friend from college. A dad himself, he _______him in a coffee shop during my_______. Everything went fine thanks to his help.

When my son was four months old, my best friend was going through a difficult time. So I decided to fly to Florida to ________her. Without my husband, who had to work, I was ________to fly with the baby. But I figured it couldn't be ________than driving to New York when he was a newborn baby, and I had gotten through that.

________, people I met on our trip were endlessly________. On the flight down, the airline worker got me an extra________because the flight wasn't full. A nice lady sitting close to us ________him while I went to the bathroom. Taxi drivers helped me fasten his car seat and loaded the awkward pushchair in their trunks. To ________my son, my friend borrowed a lot of toys. We spent four ________days in Florida.

If you want an opportunity to see the ________in people, try taking a baby on a trip. In my experience, when face­ to face, most people sincerely want to ________each other.

3 . One day, a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin. The professor ________ the question papers, with the text facing down as usual. ________ he handed them all out, he asked his students to ________ the page and begin. To everyone’s surprise, there were no ________, just a black dot (点) in the center of the page. The professor, seeing the expression on everyone’s face, told them the following:

“I want you to write what you________ there.”

The students, ________, got started on the inexplicable (令人费解的) task.

At the end of the class, the professor ________ all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of all the students. All of them, with no ________, described the black dot, trying to explain its position in the middle of the sheet, etc. After all had been ________ , the classroom was silent, the professor began to explain:

“I’m not going to grade this. I ________ wanted to give you something to think about. No one wrote about the ________ part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot, and the same happens in our ________ . We have a white paper to observe and ________, but we always focus on the dark spots. Our life is a ________ given to us with love and care and we always have________to celebrate: nature renewing itself every day, our friends around us, the job that ________ our livelihood and the miracles we see every day.

________, we insist on focusing only on the dark spots: the health issues that bother us, the lack of money, the________ relationship with colleagues, the ________ with a friend, and etc.

The dark spots are very ________ compared to everything we have in our lives, but they are the ones that pollute our minds.”

5 . Where there's a will, there's surely to be a way. As the COVID-19 crisis increasingly spread, all international flights in Spain were________. But Carlos, who was just in Spain, desired a________with his wife Isabel in Argentina in time for their 5th wedding anniversary celebration. With the Atlantic Ocean between them, he was faced with a________. Finally, the young sailor________a daring solution-he'd simply sail home.

Sensing the severe illness, Carlos feared the local________would soon begin restricting travel. The urgent situation left him with no________: With 24 hours, he had to get fully prepared. After________a 29-foot sailboat with life necessities, Carlos set sail in mid-March, trusting his________would get him home.________, the voyage wasn't without hardships or danger. On the way, he________the port Cape Verde to restore his food supply. But they________his entry. Once past the equator(赤道), he ran out of fuel and was left to rely________on wind power. Then, the wind________, leaving his sailboat sitting on the calm sea for 10 days. With no one aboard to________, he would be in danger should he run into trouble, but Carlos proved________. The wind eventually rose again, allowing him to go on.

While Carlos' faith was________challenged, the long voyage also________views of Mother Nature's beauty as well. A group of dolphins provided nice________, racing alongside him.

After sailing on the sea for 85 days, the boat entered the final port. Carlos was tested for COVID-19 and________. Exhausted but extremely________, he and his wife Isabel were reunited just in time for her birthday.

6 . I often remember those good old days when life was relatively simpler, and people were much more humane (有人情味的) and _________. Recently, to my surprise, I got the   _________ to experience that same _________ that I thought had disappeared from the world.

I was out shopping the other day with my husband, two daughters and one granddaughter. It was very hot, and we were all obviously _________ and hungry. We entered a restaurant, looking for some _________ and comfort.

To our _________, all the tables were occupied and no one seemed in a hurry to get up. We waited, tired, hungry and _________. After quite some time, one table was vacated (腾出), but that could only _________ two of us. My daughter made me sit along with her father, _________ she and my other daughter stood alongside.

My granddaughter sat on my lap as we __________ us, waiting for another table to be vacated soon. At the next table, two young girls were sitting at a table for four and __________ their meal. We decided to __________ to their table, once they __________ their meal.

Since the girls had just got their order, I knew it would be a __________ wait. As we were deciding on what to order, one of the girls got up and __________ their table to us. She said they would move to our table so that my family could sit __________.

We were very __________ of their kind gesture. We thanked them warmly and moved to their table. The girls quickly __________ their plates and glasses and went to sit at our table.

That day I thought to myself there still were some kind, __________ and helpful youngsters in this fast moving non-caring world; and my __________ in humanity was brought back once again.

7 . 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 ______.

8 . 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.

9 . There was once a young couple who lived very happily together. The only thing they worried about was ______ their happiness would last forever.

An old man told them, “______ around the world and look for a happy ______. Ask them for a piece of cloth _______ the man’s shirt. Then you will stay _______.”They began their journey to _______ the happiest couple. Whenever they heard about a happy couple, they would ask them, “Are you the happiest couple?”

They replied, “Yes, we are happy in ______ way except that we don’t have any children.” Actually they were not the happiest so the couple _______ their journey. They met another couple in a city. ______ they were happy, they had lots of children, which made them uncomfortable. This couple didn’t ______ like the happiest, either. They continued traveling to many different places ______ they just couldn’t find what they were ______.

One day they met a shepherd (牧羊人). His ______ was looking after a crying child. The young couple asked them the same question. They ______, “Everybody is happier than the king.” The young couple immediately ______ that they were the happiest couple and asked for a piece of cloth from the shepherd’s ______. The shepherd said, “If I give you the cloth then I will be ______ without any clothes because I only have one shirt.”

They then ______ that it was difficult to find perfect happiness. The wife then said, “It’s important to ______ two things if we want to be happy. First, we should be ______ with whatever we have. And second, we must always be patient.”

10 . Josiah’s mother, Ava Faulk took him to a local restaurant. Ava Faulk was asked with questions when he saw a__man sitting in front of the restaurant. He wanted to__exactly what a homeless person’s life was like. If the homeless person had no__, where would he keep his things?

After__his mother’s answers, Josiah then insisted his mom buy the homeless a__. She agreed and the man was___into the restaurant. Josiah helped the man with his__, including a hamburger, some chicken and steak. Josiah__his mother that he would spend less in the following days.When the homeless man’s meal was__, Josiah decided that he should offer a__to God. That was when he cried out his wishes for the other customers in the__to hear. Later, Josiah’s mother__in a video that Josiah’s prayer brought__to the eyes of nearly every customer in the restaurant that day.

Montgomery’s TV-12__the story of Josiah on May 17, 2018 and it has been spread around the nation. The totally voluntary(志愿的)__of Josiah serves as a lesson to the whole world. Others entered the same restaurant that day and___ saw the homeless man. __, only this boy saw him with__, which shows something we may have all____.

It’s a moment the mother will never forget. Later, Faulk said she would consider that night as one of her “__achievements as a parent”.