1 . People say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. That _________ comes to me as I _________the house purchased in 1962 by my parents. My mother passed away in 1996. My father left the house _________my sister and me when he died a few months ago.

After Dad was_________, we looked around the_________house where we grew up and that Dad loved so much. At first we feel so _________at all the stuff left. Like so many of their generation, my parents _________everything. And like many in my generation, we faced anxious _________about what to abandon and what to keep.

As we started throwing out old phone books and every medical bill from every_________my parents ever saw, I also__________many hidden treasures. Mom’s pocketbook was in their bedroom closet, which had everything in it, __________ her hairbrush with hair, as if she were still here. And Dad, who was a World War II veteran(退伍兵)and a world traveler, __________ everything-from little spoons from all over the world to every letter he wrote to his parents while in the__________. The letters he wrote during the war__________his thoughts as a young man. Later, in the basement, I__________our old kitchen table, which brought back __________of my parents and sister and me having breakfast together.

I’m realizing all these things__________my parents’ life journey. Each time I go to the __________, I find something that reminded me of my childhood or teaches me something about my parents I __________knew.__________, from the shabby furniture to all the hidden treasures, means more to me than all the money in the world.

2 . I got on the plane for a long flight to New York. After settling down, I spent a few minutes talking to a young ______. While talking, I ______ on the back of his hand a tattoo (纹身)—“Lost”.

For some reason, that ______ me in the same way as “Help Wanted” ______ in store windows did sometimes. I wondered what he was ______.

This passenger told me ______ there’s a lot you can do in New York, there’s a lot that you can’t do when you’re penniless. And now he was learning how to do video editing. Then we ______ the topic of documentary (纪实) film-making and the beauty of working creatively with ______. I told him about a documentary I made and pulled out a copy from my ______ to show him. He looked at it in silence and then asked ______, “Can I buy this from you?”

“No.” I said. “But you can ______ it.”

Even though I didn’t usually give my works away, ______ in me really wanted to share this story with this random stranger. He was surprised and touched by the ______.

Before landing, I prepared three Smile Cards as the “______” for the documentary, with a note telling him how to use them creatively.

As the flight ______, I asked, “what is that about?”, pointing to the back of his ______. “Oh, that. That’s the______ of a TV series my girlfriend wanted me to pick up. I just wrote it to ______ myself.”

Before he left, I handed him his “bill”. He was ______ and shot me a big smile before putting it into his pocket. “By the way my name is Mark,” We shook hands and he left. And I am ______ smiling.

3 . High in a tree, a cat was stuck in a tree near Kolb's house. It was too ________ to come down, and it took Kolb two days to find someone who could ________ When he did, Kolb paid close attention.

“When I watched him do it, I was ________ with how easy it was to climb the tree,” Kolb said. “I thought that was going to be the ________ part. I decided I wanted to _______ how to do that. ” Kolb, 64, found people to teach him the _____ skills, and he has bought and created equipment designed to ________ and capture cats so he can ________ bring them to the ground.

Kolb brings ________, which often is so attractive that cats will walk into the cat carrier to get it. The earner is of his own ________. Kolb cut a hole in the bottom of a laundry bag and sewed it on a glove. He puts on the________ and pulls the bag over his arm , then ________up the cat and inverts(翻转) the bag over the cat.

The cat ________ how long a rescue can take. Kolb said with set-up time, about the fastest it would last 30       ________. "It can take hours," he said. “I've had ________ that have gone on for hours. Sometimes, I may not have any good ________ except to wait for the cat to ________ and relax and see I'm not a ________ , and then I can get the cat to come to me. ”

"People ask me sometimes, 'Isn't it ________ doing this?' " Kolb said. "I think yeah, it is. Driving over there is dangerous and driving home is dangerous, but the part in the ________is pretty good. I feel a lot less safe on the highway than I do on the tree.”

4 . Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. The only thing that she loved was dance. That____nearly ended one night in 2010, when Hill was in a car accident that put her in the hospital for 51 days and left her____from the waist down. For most people, that would have ____ any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the ___. Far from being an obstacle, her wheelchair made her brave and _____. She wanted to prove to her community and to herself that she was still "normal" , whatever normal _____ .

Normal for her meant dancing, so Hill did it in her____right alongside her non — disabled high school dance team. Half of her body was ___her, and she had to move it with her hands. It ______ took a lot of learning and patience.

After graduation, Hill wanted to____her dance network to include women like her. She ____ people online who had suffered various spinal cord injuries （脊髓损伤）and shared her _____, and she invited them to dance with her. The experience was so _____ .

Hoping to____more people in a larger city, Hill moved to Los Angeles and formed a team of dancers with __ she called the Rollettes. She wants to break down the fixed general____of wheelchair users and show that dance is dance, whether you're walking or you’re _____

Hill has____what many of us never will: her childhood dream. She's a dancer. Every year she____a dance camp for wheelchair users of all ages. And in 2019, 173 ______ from ten countries attended.

5 . I could still feel the burning desert heat as I stood there on the platform. My suitcase was jammed between the doors of the train that was_________away from the station, and I was alone with a classmate I had_________merely 14 hours before.

We were in a_________country where I thought my fluent French would help me_________, but it turned out that we had transferred（换乘）trains in a Moroccan town where Spanish was the second language. Both my friend and I couldn't_________Spanish. The Arabic characters on the signs made us_________. We were lost. In those hours of_________helplessness, Annie and I sat on the ground, staring at the plat form.

_________, we started pulling our_________eyes away from the train plat form and out at the__________around us. How did I not__________the orange sand hills behind Annie' s head? Or the white skyline of Casablanca? The sky was completely clear, the air was dusty, but my god, it was__________. A woman sitting nearby__________at me, and I felt like the blanket of__________that was killing me had just lifted away. This moment—a__________comfort between complete strangers—helped me__________everything would be okay.

That day, Annie and I had the__________to disconnect from everything we__________, to see and soak in（沉浸在） everything around us. That day in Morocco, I came to believe that being__________is sometimes so much more__________than being found.

6 . Yesterday is a day I won’t forget forever. My 8-year-old daughter told me one of her friends, Kayla, wanted to ______ me for a school assignment. “Wow! A one grader had such idea at all!” I was ______.

All the day I was thinking about questions and the ______ to them. I prepared many questions she could ______ me with answers that would be ______ by an 8-year-old child. A ______ job, if you really think about it.

While shopping at a fresh produce stand I ______ all the metaphors I could use to express ______ by using fruits. “How do you think people ______ you?” “I’m a watermelon – hard on the outside but ______ on the inside.” All day long, the ______ built.

When I went to pick them up at the bus stop, I ______ changed my clothes. Just to appear “fresher” for the interview. ______ to begin, I asked Kayla where she would like to hold the interview. She said, “Oh, it’s okay. I don’t ______ to interview you. I found somebody else.”

“Oh, really?” I replied, a little ______. “Who did you get to interview?” I asked. “Oh, just my mother’s boss’s mother,” she said.

“Really? And what kind of work does she do?” “I don’t think she ______. She’s in a rest home.” Not finding any ______ to the target interview subjects, I asked, “Why did you happen to choose her?” “I had to interview somebody really old, who ______ tell me about life in the old days. She looks a lot older than you do!” she ______ commented.

Somehow, I was a bit ______ but I felt sure that was the best interview I’d ever had.

7 . One day a professor entered the classroom and told the students about a (n) _________ test. Once he handed out the test papers to all students, he asked them to begin.

Students were _________ to see that there was not a question but just a black _________ in the center of the page. The professor _________ the students' face expression and told them, ''I want you to write about what you see there. ''

The students were still puzzled but got _________ with the test. At the end of the class, the professor took all answer sheets and started _________ each answer in front of all students. All of them _________ about the black dot and tried to explain its _________ etc. After the professor finished reading the whole class was _________.

Now, the professor began to explain, ''Don't worry, I am not going to give you __________ for this but I just want you to __________ something. Here everyone focused on the black spot but no one wrote about the white paper, the __________ is with our lives. The white paper __________ our whole life and the black spot stands for the __________ in our life. Our life is a gift given to us by God, with love and __________, and we always have reasons to celebrate the good things. __________ we just focus on day to day problems like health issues, lack of money etc., but we never see these problems are very __________ compared to everything we __________ in our lives. ''

The test implies that we should try to take eyes __________ our problems and enjoy each one of our blessings. Be happy and live life __________.

8 . I grew up in Trenton, a west Tennessee town of only 5 thousand people. I have _________ memories of those first eighteen years, and many people in Trenton influenced my life in very _________ ways. My football coach, Walter Kilzer, taught me the _________ of hard work. My history teacher, Fred Culp, taught me that a sense of humor was one of life’s greatest _________.

But my father was my hero. He taught me many things, but at the _________ of the list, he taught me to treat people with love and _________. I remember one particular example of him _________ this “life lesson” as if it were yesterday. Dad owned a furniture store, and I used to _________ the furniture after school to earn my allowance. One afternoon I _________ my Dad talking to all the customers as they came in. At the end of the day, just as Dad was __________, the rubbish collector came in.

I was __________ to go home, and I thought it __________ that Dad wouldn’t spend much time with him, but I was __________. Dad greeted him with a big hug and talked with him for nearly half an hour. I kept looking at the __________, and when the man left, I asked, “Dad, why did you spend so much time with a rubbish collector?” Dad looked at me __________ and said, “Son, I tell you lots of thing __________ if you remember nothing else, remember this: treat every human being just the way that you would __________ to be treated. If you live the Golden Rule, everything in life will __________ work out well and your life will be happy and __________.”

Many years have passed, but my father’s words are still __________ with me.

9 . I often thought carefully and seriously about what my mother had said. At thought of my past conduct, a blush (脸红) of ____ rose to my cheeks, as many little acts of selfishness and ____ came back to my memory. So I ____ that for the future, both in great things and small, I would follow the Golden Rule.

It was not long after this that an ____ occurred of trying my principles. One Saturday evening when I went to Farmer Thompson’s inn to ____ the charge of my mother’s washing for the boarders. He was obviously busy ____ with some horse dealers and hardly noticing me as I made my ____ , except to swear at me, as usual, he ____ handed me a banknote.

Glad to ____ so easily, I hurried out of the gate, and then, pausing to pin the ____ in my folded scarf. I ____ that he had given me two bills instead of one and my first impulse was ____ at the unexpected prize. “It is mine, all mine,” I said to myself. At that moment I ____ what my mother told me： Don’t do what ____ wouldn’t like others to do on you. Turning round, I ____ along the road with breathless speed untilI found myself once more at Farmer Thompson’s gate.

“What do you ____ now?” asked the old fellow, as he saw me again.

“Sir, you paid me two bills, instead of one,” said I, ____ in every limb.

“Two bills? Did I? Let me see； well, so I did. Well, I am glad you are ____.”

I returned home with a ____ heart. I felt grateful that I practiced my life ____.

10 . Curtis Whitson, a regular rafter (漂流者), was trapped at the top of a waterfall with his son, Hunter.

This year, _________ snow and spring rains had turned the usually manageable falls into something

_________. Telling from the increasing sound of water, Whitson knew there was no way to go down the rocks as _________ . They had no cell service, and they hadn’t seen a _________ person in the past three days. As Whitson was thinking about what to do, he heard _________ coming from the other side of the waterfall. He _________ , but the sound of the rushing water _________ his cry.

“We have to get these people a _________ Whitson thought. Meanwhile, he grabbed his water bottle and pulled out his pocket knife to _________ “Help!” on it. Hunter found a pen and paper to write a note. Then Whitson __________ threw the bottle over the waterfall. But he __________ no response for a long time.

With no reasonable __________ that their message in a bottle would find its way to anyone, they had another __________ : They spelled out SOS in white rocks. As the evening wore on, they __________ a flashing headlamp aside so that it could be seen from overhead. Soon after, they heard a __________ coming with the __________ words: “This is Search and Rescue. You have been found.” After __________ the helicopter, they got the whole story that two hikers __________ the bottle and handed it to the campground.

This __________ rafting made Whitson and his son realize that with strong faith we will get a stone of __________ out of the mountain of despair(绝望).