1 . A couple in Ohio accidentally dropped off a bag containing almost $ 100,000 at an Ohio charity shop. Thanks to _______ employees, they got the money back.

The employees were going through _______ last week when they came across a _______. Inside was $ 97,004. “It was so much cash,” employee Kelsey Croy said. “I looked in the bag and we _______ it right there on the desk. And it was $ 97,004.” Thankfully, the owners _______ a receipt for tax purposes when they dropped off _______ that morning. The employees _______ called the couple but there was no _______.

Not wanting to _______ that amount of cash in the store, they called the Zanesville Police Department. ________ repeated calls, officers finally got a hold of the couple. The couple hadn’t realized the money was ________. They told the police they withdrew all their money to deposit it in another bank. On the way, they ________at the charity shop to donate a bag of clothes. That’s ________ the money ended up there. “When we finally ________ them, they just asked if they could get it back tomorrow,” the officer said.

The couple has made contact with the original ________ who found the money to thank them. “I’m just glad that I meet with a bunch of honest and loyal people,” Croy said.

2 . There was a clever man in a village. He knew a lot of things. Unfortunately he was _______. He did not have a house, and he got his meals with great _______. Even his clothes were very much worn out. 

So the man had to _______ for his meals. On seeing his old clothes, many people thought that he was _______. Saying “Go away,” they _______ the door. 

Once he somehow _______ new clothes. Wearing those new clothes, he went to the very first house. The host said _______, “Sir, please come in and have some food in my house.”_______ soup and sweet meals were served. 

Having prayed(祈祷) first, the man _______ a piece of meat and began to ________ his new clothes, saying, “Eat, eat!” 

Seeing that the host was ________ and was not able to understand. Then he asked, “The clothes do not eat. Why do you ________ food to them?” 

The old man answered, “Just because of my new ________, you gave me food today, but yesterday you asked me to go away. I obtained food due to these clothes, so I am ________ to them. This is why I am feeding them.” The host was a little ________.

3 . I was making a stop on my book tour. A sweet woman approached me, and pleasantly _______ she wouldn't buy a book. She said she _______ wanted to ask me a question: How did I get into acting and how did I _______ to stay in it? I was _______the performance, so I didn't want to waste energy with a long response. I said, "Persistence," without thinking.

She laughed and said, "Well, sure. That's true with everything, right?"

A light came on in my brain. She was righter than she knew. I said, "Yes, but not how you mean. Success is a _______of persistence. So is failure. We become whatever we're persistent at. I had friends who were always exactly 20minutes late－persistently late. You could set your _______by them. I know actors who persistently destroy their own chances. They don't _______ enough. They don't learn their lines. Persistently."

A lot of the time our methods of working are a series of habits, good and bad, we _______sometime in the past. Habits feel_______. My ex-acting teacher once said, "Comfort is the enemy of the artist."

I wasn't crazy about his statement back then, because I was uncomfortable, but still wasn't an artist. I see the ________ of it now. People________take the easy path. It's human nature to look for the________ at the back of the book. We often see the effort in finding better habits as a problem to be avoided, but in doing so, we persistently waste our ________.

As actors, we know we can become anything with enough rehearsal. ________look at what you do persistently. If you don't like your habits, change them. No matter what your passion is the power to ________the map of your life is essential.

4 . A few years ago, I was given a wallet. A beautiful elephant was woven into its front panel. The wallet was_______ to me by a close friend on my birthday.

The wallet was not only beautiful; it had a personality: it loved to run away, as I told my parents over and over again, only to receive eye ___________ in return. “Frances, really, you’ve lost it again?” they would say every time I _______ it. Fortunately, I would eventually find it in my own house.

One day,_______, as I was leaving a football stadium at a school, the wallet once again _______   from my pocket. I discovered the ___________ when I got home. I searched the house and I prayed, as usual. Nothing.

But then, around a week later, my parents received a _________ on their business voicemail.   A complete stranger was calling with the_______ of my wallet. “I’m calling for Frances,” a _______ came from the stranger. This man, to find whom the wallet belonged to, looked inside of it, and found a ________which my parents had written to me. It __________ have their business phone number on it. Upon getting my wallet back, I wrote a brief letter to the man expressing my ________, and remarking on what an amazing act of kindness he had committed and that he was truly a ________ person. I would be forever grateful to him. I __________and emailed it off to him.

I don’t know if I believe in chance or luck, but I do know I believe in ________and in the selfless acts of kindness.

5 . Coronavirus(冠状病毒) is not only a globally terrible story, but a window to people's soul Coronavirus erupted in many countries and resulted in a great number of deaths, leaving the world _______.To control the spread, the Spanish government _______ announced lockdown(防范紧闭)and _______ people to stay at home.

With the 80-year-old birthday _______, Charo intended to prepare for it, which fell just days after the _______. At the thought of the lockdown, _______, the urge to celebrate it wasn't as particularly strong as ever.

On the birthday, having her simple meal, she was called out by her neighbor when she was a bit _______. With the door opened, Charo was _______ to find there was nobody, but a gift. It was a cake with a birthday candle that was placed _______ on a table outside her front door! She was ________. Who could remember the special day? Her friends and neighbors, who were familiar with her, had moved away.

As Charo ________ up the cake and stepped out to find the visitor, her neighbors suddenly appeared behind their apartment windows, ________ singing the birthday song. ________ of what happened, the elderly woman struggled to hold back ________ when she returned to her house. After a while. she rushed back to the window to ________ at her neighbors and expressed ________ with a round of applause(鼓掌).

The lockdown didn't stop a(an) ________ from getting together. Fear around emergencies can also provide ________ examples. In the face of threat, these adorable people are helping people, ________ the lives of one another in their ________ways.

6 . If you could possess any three things, what would you want? Eleven-year-old Ruby Kate loves __ that question at nursing home in the Harrison. Even more amazing, she then __ to make the residents^' wishes come true.

Ruby Kate has long been close to __ folks, since her mother, Amanda Chitsey, works at nursing homes in northwest Arkansas and she often __ with her. Last May, Ruby Kate noticed an old resident named Pearl staring out a window   __as her dog was being led away by her new __ , since she was not able to __ to look after her with a small pension.

So Ruby Kate __ to do something about it and started by asking residents what three things they desire most. They simply requested for __ like chocolate bars, McDonald's fries, and even just a prayer. Using her __ money to change the situation, Ruby granted the __ of about 50 people in three months. Then she started appealing for __ .

The nice people of Harrison responded __ so much so that Amanda set up a GoFundMe page, Three Wishes for Ruby's residents, hoping to collect $ 5, 000. They __ their goal in a month. After GoFundMe promoting Ruby's __ internationally this past January, Three Wishes raised $ 20,000 in five months __ . With the money, Ruby was able to get more __ : One resident asked for a man cave, so Ruby came up with the novel idea to get him a tent and __ his fridge with snacks.

Earlier this year, “Three Wishes” became a nonprofit and launched its ___nationwide chapter. Ruby Kate doesn't plan to stop here. “I consider __to be my hobby,” she says, “and I'm very good at it and I would like to pass this kind act on.”

7 . Alibaba founder Jack Ma was never supposed to be a billionaire.

Harvard snubbed him. He flunked college entrance exams twice. Investors thought the serial entrepreneur was _______ when he started building an e-commerce site in China.

But Ma proved them all _______. Alibaba, which he launched in 1999 from his ______ Hangzhou apartment, is set for one of the largest IPOs in U.S. history.

Analysts _______ that Alibaba -- which does most things digital -- could be valued at $200 billion, roughly four times the market cap of Lockheed Martin (LMT).

How did an English teacher with a ______ translation business become a tech titan? It began with a drink.

Searching for "beer" and "China" during his first use of the Internet in 1995, Ma found nothing. But there was plenty of information about American beer and German beer.

_______an opportunity, Ma built a Chinese-language webpage. Within hours of _______, he was receiving enquiries from around the world. The Internet, Ma thought, is "going to change the world and change China."

A few years later, in 1999, Ma gathered 17 friends and acquaintances at his home again. They worked feverishly on a new__________: a website to connect exporters with foreign buyers.

Alibaba.com was born. The firm quickly outgrew Ma's apartment, eventually becoming the ________ tech company flourishing in China.

Ma, 49, has always been proud of his humble _______. When Alibaba launched, Ma had no money, no tech experience and a haphazard management style.

But he did have plenty of ________. Former executives say Ma's infectious optimism -- and his talent with languages -- helped sell the dream.

"He's funny! He can do standup in Chinese or English," said Duncan Clark, a former Alibaba consultant. "He can ______ to the audience ... he has the ability to make everybody in the room feel as if he were talking to just one person."

Ma, married with two kids, is also known to ______gut instinct.

"He cares more about what is in someone's heart than what is on their _____," said Porter Erisman, a former executive who made a documentary about the company. "Look at the senior managers -- at Alibaba, a lot of them had no prior business experience."

In Ma’s company, employees are called "Ali people," and managers are given nicknames taken from popular Chinese martial arts novels. Ma, as a Tai Chi devotee, sometimes draws ________ for company strategy from those books.

8 . The Road Less Travelled

Pennsylvania is one of the oldest states in America full of mysterious places. One of those places has been_________for decades. My dad loves history. When he learned it was_______to the public, he decided to take a bike trip with me to_______this historic road. I was 14 then.

My dad chose a 16-mile section of the road for us to ride. Part of it included an old and long tunnel(隧道)called the Sideling Hill Tunnel. To_________, we checked our tires and made sure our bike lights had batteries. In the morning, we_______our bikes into the trunk of the car. Then we set off on a cool fall afternoon.

After a two-hour drive, we reached the road. Then our bike trip started. It went smoothly.

As we approached the Sideling Hill Tunnel, I felt_________as it was black inside! But my dad_______me. He said be would be right beside me. He reminded me to be_______all the way and keep my_______on!

When we entered the tunnel, the sound of our bikes________through the darkness. I shined my flashlight around and saw walls covered in graffiti. I was pretty scared, but________following my dad helped me relax. That gave me________to keep going. And I was so happy to ride out into the________afternoon!

Whenever I am going through hardships in life, I remember this__________. It reminds me that my dad is always beside me. He turns on the light of__________in my heart. And he gives me courage to keep riding through life’s dark tunnels.

9 . What is intelligence (智力) anyway? When I was in the army I ____ an intelligence test that all soldiers took, and, against ____ of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a ______ like that.

All my life I've been registering scores like that, so I have the feeling that I'm highly______, and I expect other people to think so, too. Actually, though, don't such ______simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions?

I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not_____ have scored more than 80. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hurried to him — and he always______it.

Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man______questions for some intelligence tests. By every one of them I'd prove myself a _____. In a world where I have to work with my______. I'd do poorly.

Consider my auto-repair man again. He had a habit of telling______. One time he said, "Doc, a deaf-and-dumb (聋哑) man______some nails. Having entered a store, he put two fingers together on the counter and made _____movements with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He______his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk______him some nails. He picked out the right size and left. Well, Doc, the ______man who came in was blind. He wanted scissors (剪刀). How do you suppose he______them?" I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers. He burst out laughing and said, "Why, you fool, he used his _____and asked for them. I've been _____that on all my customers today, but I knew for sure I'd catch you. "Why is that" I asked. "Because you are so goddamned educated, Doc. I knew you couldn't be very ______

10 . On a bright Sunday morning, Damian Languell was sleeping soundly at home in Wade, Maine, the US. The sound that woke him at 8:15 was so _______ that he assumed it came from inside his house. As he got up to _______ , he heard another sound, this one coming most definitely from _______ . Looking out of his bedroom window, he _______ a tree engulfed in smoke about 500 yards away. A car was wrapped around the tree’s base, and its engine was   _______ .

Seeing that, he immediately _______ buckets of water and ran to the crash site. Up close, the _______ looked worse. The car was _______ nearly in two, and the tree was where the driver’s seat ought to have been, as if _______ there. He thought that no one should have survived this ________ , and yet there was 16-year-old Thompson, still ________ with his terrified face pressed against the driver’s side window in visible ________ . Languell tried stopping the fire with his buckets of water with no success. When the   ________ got into the front seats, he realized he had to get the boy out of there as soon as possible.

________ , Languell tried to open the back door, but he failed. He grabbed a stone beside the tree and ________ the back door. This time, it ________ and the back door was opened and Languell crawled in. Thompson was struggling to get free when Languell noticed how bad his legs were. Using a pocket knife, Languell sawed through Thompson's   ________. Now that Thompson was free of restraints (束缚), Languell pulled him out of a rear window, and then ________ him to safety before the car was entirely surrounded by flames.

Then Languell called a (n) ________ as Thompson suffered severely. Thompson thanked Languell for saving him, regardless of his own safety. Soon, the doctors arrived and Languell felt ________.