1 . My new birthday tradition is a big hit today. I ______ it a couple of years ago. It goes like this: I put the ______ number of one-dollar bills as my new ______ into my pocket and surprise strangers around town.

I know, $25 isn’t much but that’s my attempt (努力) at spreading kindness. I ______ strangers at local shops including McDonald’s, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Blenders, Kyle’s Kitchen, Yogurtland, along with ______ tips (小费) to some of the folks behind the counter.

Reactions (反应) were wonderful as I ______, “It’s my birthday and paying for this is my gift to you.” I would ______ the money and leave. Recipients (接受者) and even people working at the shops were astonished and excited.

I love it when people tell the story of the ______ guy with the Batman mask who paid for their coffee or burgers.

The ______ one of all was the last one at a restaurant. I paid for a young man’s ______. He was shocked and delighted. When I left and got into the car, he ______ me and told me I had made his day. Besides, I got the news that his ______ was in three days and we’re both Capricorn (摩羯座). So I told him that he can fill 25 ______ in his pocket and make people ______ the way he felt right then.

He wished me a happy birthday and a Merry Christmas, and I drove off ______ with my Batman mask on.

What a great birthday!

2 . A video about a homeless man went viral. Johal, a video-maker known for his social ________, decided to give a homeless man some money and ________ his reaction.

In the video, approaching a ________ homeless man, Johal carefully places some money on his bag. Minutes later, when the man wakes up, he’s surprised to see the cash and looks excited and grateful. The man walks to a store, steps out with a bag of ________, probably to face the cold nights, and returns to his bench.

Johal sits beside the man, talking on the phone with a friend, asking if he can borrow some money for his daughter. The homeless man ________ listens to Johal. After he hangs up, the man asks if he’s okay. Johal explains he’s getting his daughter some ________ while having a hard time financially.

In a(n) ________ turn of events, the man asks Johal to ________ his bag and leaves with the shopping bag. He returns ________ after returning the items and offers the money to Johal, who is a total ________, comforting he can go by without a blanket but the girl needs the treatment. Touched with the homeless man’s kindness, Johal ________ the experiment, offering $500 to the man, who instantly starts crying in ________.

________ but true, the result proves sometimes, those with less are the ones ________ most. Not all heroes wear capes. In fact, heroes are the ones with a ________.

3 . Imagine loving someone so much that you’d swim more than 5, 000 miles to see him or her. Dindim ____ swim that far every year to visit his friend Joao. This is ____ , not only because of the love between the two friends, but because Dindim is ____ a penguin. Joao found Dindim covered in oil, barely alive on a beach near his home. He picked him up, cleaned him off and brought him to his house where he ____ him and got him healthy again. Joao named him Dindim.

After a week, he brought the penguin back to the beach and tried to release him, _____Dindim refused to leave Joao. They lived together for the next eleven months. Then, Dindim disappeared. ____, Joao thought he’d never see his friend again. But just a few months later Dindim was back. He found Joao ____, and followed him home. Each year he ____ four months to live with other penguins. For the other eight months, he lives with Joao. Joao says that each time they meet again, Dindim seems ____ to see him. He says he loves the penguin ____ he were his family. He feels certain that Dindim loves him in the same way. Ecologist Carl Safina says that animals can and do love humans. He writes and speaks a lot about animals and their ____ . According to Carl, it’s clear that animals feel love for humans. What’s less obvious is whether or not humans love animals enough to ____ them. Hundreds of thousands of animals are killed by the same oil that____ Dindim when Joao found him.

Fifty percent of ____ has died out in the last 40 years because of humans’ ____their habitats. Scientists say we’re in a new mass extinction period. In the next two generations, they predict that we’ll lose 75 percent of the remaining species on earth.

4 . Once upon a time there lived a cruel lion in a thick forest. All the other animals were________ of him. One day the lion was trapped in a________ trap and no animal wanted to rescue him.

A man happened to come into the forest and saw the lion. The lion said, “I will die of ________if I stay here. Please help me ________.I promise your kindness will be rewarded. ” The man felt sorry for the lion and set him free. As soon as the lion got________ he let out a fierce roar. “I have been trapped in the cage for a long time. I am hungry. I will have to eat you,” said the lion, looking at the man. The man was disappointed. However, he was clever enough to say, “Alright, you can eat me. But let’s find someone and let him decide________ you are right in eating the person who has rescued you. ”

The lion was ________that no animal would speak against him, so he________. Just then a fox came and the lion asked the fox to be the judge. He said to the lion, “Sir, would you please ________me how it all happened? The lion was too willing. He entered the cage and closed the cage door. The fox ________bolted the cage from outside. And the ungrateful lion was ________ in the cage again.

The lion asked the man for help again,but the man knew the lion wouldn’t be ________ to him. He just walked away.   

When we’re________ by others. we should be thankful to others instead of returning bad for ________ . If we do that, we’ll be left to________ the consequence.

6 . An 84­ year ­old American woman, Janet Fein received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Dallas last week. Fein grew up in the Bronx area of New York City. When she was in high school, she just wanted to finish and get a job. After ______early,at the age of 16, she went to work as a secretary. After getting married, she spent 18 years staying home with her five children. She then had several jobs______she retired at age 77. But even then, she was not ready to______during the retirement.

She worked for 20 years on earning an associated degree, which she received in 1995. But Fein told the AP she also ______to earn a bachelor’s degree “with all of my heart”. Fein took part in a state program that lets people who are 65 and ______ take free classes at public universities in Texas. State officials say about 2,000 people used the ______last year.

Even with all of her life experiences, she said she ______ reading, writing papers and learning new things. “With each class I ______knew a lot, but I wanted more. And that made me happy.” Fein kept going to class even as her health conditions ______. During her studies, it became ______for her to use a walker (拐杖) to ______and she required oxygen. She even ______knee problems. So, instead of going to the university, Fein took online classes to finish the remaining part of her degree requirements. She never showed (a) ______of giving up even with all of her difficulties.

Many people set the ______of graduating from college at a very young age while Janet Fein waited a life time for her chance to reach that goal. As the saying goes, it’s never too late to learn. Learning can help people live a______life.

7 . It was a very foggy day in London. The fog was so ________ that it was impossible to see more than a foot or so. Buses, cars and taxis were not able to run and were standing by the________ of the road.People were trying to find their way about ________ but were losing their way in the fog.

Mr. Smith had a very ________ meeting at the House of Commons and had to get there but no one could ________ him. He tried to walk there but found he was quite________ . Suddenly he bumped(撞) into a stranger. For his ________, he apologized. ________ , the stranger asked if he could help him.

Mr Smith ________ him and they started to walk there. The fog was getting thicker every minute but the stranger had no ________in finding the way. He moved forward ________ there had been no fog at all. He went along one street, turned down another, crossed a square and at last after about half an hour’s walk they ________ at the Houses of Parliament.

Mr Smith couldn’t understand ________ the stranger found his way. “It is wonderful,” he said. “How do you find the way in this fog?” “It is no ________ at all to me,” said the stranger, “I am ________.”

8 . Life can give you so many choices and opportunities, but in the end it is up to us to take the first step. It’s _________ to turn your back on the rest of the world after experiencing a lot of pain.  

Before becoming involved with Hestia (a charity founded in 1970), I often felt that I just wanted to be left _________. I then volunteered to help distribute Hestia’s newsletter. I was _________ a small amount for my involvement and it was a great financial help at the time. During this time I met some wonderful people — staff and other service users within Hestia and it _________ that I actually had a good time. I felt respected and appreciated for my _________. If I had not decided to help out, I wouldn’t have realized the benefit that I gained both financially and _________.  

I was still unwilling to become more _________ though. However, when I realized that sitting within the four walls of my room wouldn’t help much, I knew I had to _________ myself. By helping other service users I started feeling _________ about myself and throughout it all I have ____________ my confidence and created good and lasting ____________ with other people. This has encouraged me and given me strength to take on other ____________ within Hestia.  

I later learned about other volunteering opportunities at Hestia and ____________ in the reception area gave me a sense of belonging. After a while I joined the finance department where I was part of a team and where I was shown ____________— something I was not ____________ to. For the first time I felt I could be “Me”.

9 . Tom came from France. It was his first visit to England, and he was looking forward to his first journey on London’s Underground Railway. And against his friends’ _______, he was determined to travel_______.   

He entered the station shortly after five o'clock in the afternoon. This is a_______time to travel in London, _______crowds of people go home from work at this hour. He_______to join a long line of people waiting for tickets. When at last his _______came, he had some difficulty in making himself understood by the ticket seller. _______, he got the right ticket in the end and by asking people the way, he also found the right platform (月台). It was_______with people.   

Unfortunately, he did not_______to get on the first train, but he was able to move nearer to the platform so as to be in a better________to get on the next one. When this train came in, Tom was ________forward onto the train by the push of people from behind. The doors closed and the train moved off. He was unable to see the________of the stations where the train________but he knew that the station he wanted was the sixth stop along the line. When the train reached the sixth station, Tom got off, feeling ________that his journey had been so easy. But he suddenly realized that he had come to a station he had never________. He explained his trouble to a man who was standing on the platform. With a smile on his face, he told Tom that he had caught a train going in the opposite(相反的) direction.

10 . In 1883, John Roebling, an engineer, was inspired by an idea to build a bridge connecting New York with Long Island. __, other bridge building experts thought that it was __ and told Roebling to forget the idea.

John __ about it and he knew that it could be done. He then __ the dream with his son, Washington who was an engineer. Working together for the first time, the father and the son made a __ of how it could be done and studied all the problems. After these preparations, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge. The project started well, but a (n) __ on the site took the life of John Roebling__ it was only a few months underway. Washington was __ and left with some brain damage. He wasn’t able to talk or even move. However, Washington did not __ and still wanted to complete the bridge. All he could do was to move one __ and he decided to make the best use of it.

He __ developed a code of communication with his __. He touched his wife’s arm with that finger, __ to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the ___method to tell the engineers what to do. Then the project was underway again. Washington tapped out (敲打出) his instructions with his finger for many years, until the Brooklyn Bridge was finally __.