1 . Luke is a cute dog, living together with me for five years. We get lots of_______in our area during the summer season. Many forests are badly_________by fires each year. That hot summer, not far from our shelter, a forest______________fire. It was July, and there had been a heat wave going on for three days.

Somehow, Luke rushed towards the forest. There was no longer any hope at that moment to wait for Luke to come back to the____________. In fact, I was waiting for firefighters to tell me that he had____________in the forest. Suddenly, a fireman burst into my office and____________me that Luke had succeeded in saving four cats who had been__________by the flames (火焰). I____________accompanied (陪伴) the fireman to the forest to get him back.___________we got to the scene of the event, we didn’t see Luke. Then we heard the________of a dog barking (吠) in the forest. I______________the barks was Luke’s. The firemen______________the tracks of the dog until they found him barking loudly by the side of an injured________. Thanks to Luke, four cats and a fireman were saved. This true story shows us that pets are loving and caring. We should love and__________them. Little animals can do__________things for humans.

2 . Zachariah Fike has an unusual _______. He seeks old military medals for sale in antique stores and on the Internet. But _______ most collectors, Zac tracks down the medals’ rightful _______ , and returns them.

His effort to _______ families with lost medals began with a Christmas gift from his mother, a Purple Heart with the name Corrado A. G. Piccoli, found in an antique shop. Zac knows the _______ of a Purple Heart—he _______ one himself in a war as a soldier. So when his mother gave him the medal, he _______ right away what he had to do.

Through the Internet, Zac tracked down Corrado’s sister Adeline Rockko. But when he finally reached her, the woman _______   him with questions: “Who are you? What antique shop?” _______, when she hung up, she regretted the way she had handled the ________ . So she called Zac back and

________. Soon she drove to meet Zac in Watertown, N.Y. “At that point, I knew she meant ________ ,” Zac says. “To drive eight hours to come to see me.”

The Piccolis grew up the children of ________ immigrants in Watertown. Corrado, the older son of the family, was a translator for the Army during WWII against Nazi Germany, and was killed ________ in Europe.

Before hearing from Zac, Adeline hadn’t ________ realized the medal was missing. Like many ________ medals, the one Zac’s mother had ________ was a family treasure. “This medal was very precious to my parents.” Adeline says. As a child, Adeline couldn’t understand why the medal was so significant. “But as I grew older,” Adeline says, “and missed my ________ more and more, I realized that was the only thing we had ________ .” Corrado Piccoli’s Purple Heart medal now ________ at the Italian American Civic Association in Watertown.

5 . Hunter Shamatt lost his wallet while he was on a flight from Omaha to Denver earlier this month. Upon realizing that his wallet was lost, he _______ the airline to see if anyone had turned it in—but fruitlessly. _______ the wallet contained his ID, a signed paycheck, $60 in cash, etc, he feared the worst.

Two days after the flight, however, Hunter was _______ to receive a package in the mail from an anonymous (匿名的) sender. Inside was his wallet— _______ an additional $40 in cash. “I rounded your cash up to an even $100 so you could celebrate the _______ of your wallet，” read a letter that was enclosed with the package.

Hunter’s mother, Jeannie, posted a photo of the _______ to social media in hopes that they would be able to track down the sender. All they had to go on was that the letter was _______ from Applied Underwriters in Omaha and the sender’s initials (首字母) were signed “T.B.”. The sender was later _______ as Todd Brown, who was delighted to “have a little fun” with helping out a hard-working stranger.

“I saw he was just a kid, 20 years old. He had a salary in there, and he’s _______ to support himself,” said Brown. “Hunter was very ________. He told me he has some student loans to pay within two days so the ________ was in time,” Brown added. “He ________ it was gone forever. So when he opened it, he just started screaming, “No way! No way!”

Brown says that he often tries to do good things without any recognition; that’s why he didn’t sign his ________ on the letter, but Jeannie later insisted on ________ him on social media. Jeannie wrote on Facebook, “This story is more about rebuilding ________ in people than anything.”

6 . A woman professor was giving a lesson to her students on stress management. As she raised a glass of water, everyone in the class_______they would be asked the “half-empty or half-full” question.

_______, with a smile on her face, she asked the students, “How_______ do you think this glass of water weighs?”

Answers called out _______from 100g to 300g. She quieted the students down and then replied, “It does not matter on the_______. It _______on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right_______. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb. In each case, the weight of the glass of water doesn’t change, but the_______I hold it, the heavier it becomes. Why?“

Lost in_______, all the students kept silent and listened to the professor carefully.

“Our________ and worries in life are like that glass of water. If we________our burdens (负担) all the time, sooner or later, we will feel exhausted.”

What you have to do is put all your burdens down, as________ in the evening as possible. Don’t carry them through the evening into the night; by doing this, we can get ________next morning and are able to move forward.”

“More often than not, life gets terrible when we think too much. And the moment you________your burdens, you’ll find yourself feeling so much more relaxed.”

“So rather than feeling________ and sorry for yourself, start doing something about it. After all, life is too short to waste on anything that is not making you happy.”

8 . There are many brands of chocolate. If you love it, you can’t forget Dove —the most famous chocolate brand. But do you know what the meaning of DOVE is?

Dove chocolate is born because of ______. One day in 1919 Princess Bazaar of Luxembourg’s royal family first met the royal kitchen helper Leon. Many nights Leon slipped into the kitchen and ______ various ice creams for Bazaar. They soon fell in love. Unfortunately owing to their quite different social ______, both of them had to ______ the deep feelings in heart.

Afterwards Bazaar was made to______ an arranged royal marriage against her wishes. For many days, Leon could not see Bazaar, and he was burning with______. Finally Bazaar turned up at the table a month later. While serving desserts, Leon ______ the letters “DOVE” which is an   abbreviation of DO YOU LOVE ME with hot chocolate on Bazaar’s ice cream. Leon ______ that Bazaar could understand his feeling.

A few days later, Bazaar got______. Leon, broken hearted, could not ______ the mental suffering and left for America, where he and his own family   ______ a candy store years later but lived unhappily. Many years later, they met again before Bazaar’s death. Bazaar ______   that she did eat the ice cream that afternoon but didn’t see the   ______ letters and also didn’t receive any   promise from Leon and she had to ______   to her fate and missed him all her lifetime.

Hearing this, Leon broke down in tears. If that chocolate had been ______, those letters would never have melted and he would not have lost his last ______. Leon decided to create a solid chocolate which can   ______   a long time.

After lots of research, he succeeded and each piece of chocolate was ______ engraved (刻) with the letters — DOVE. It is a ______   of the love between Leon and Bazaar.

Nowmore and more people fall in love with this chocolate. Giving someone DOVE means sending the______ of love: DO YOU LOVE ME?

9 . It was the first night of a tiring seven-day 250km race across the Gobi Desert a year ago. Mr. Leonard _______ a little dog going around his camp trying to _______ herself.

“Cute, but I’m not giving you any,” Leonard thought. Like all_______, he had packed just enough for the whole _______. He’d been running competitively for three years, and he had a_______ to win.

The next day, at the starting line, the dog_________ him again. He waved her away, _______ she might be stepped on by the runners. _________, the dog followed him all the way until the day’s race _________. That night the dog snuggled (偎依) up to Leonard and even __________ to get a little food from him. By then, he was determined to________ her Gobi.

The pair went on to finish the seven-day race, with Gobi __________ a distance of 125km on her own, and winning Leonard over, enough for him to make a ________ — he would take her home to Edinburgh. “Seeing Gobi on the race__________ my attitude to things. It made me think more about stopping and helping her, __________ just focusing on winning,” said Leonard, who finished second. “It also made my running more________, giving me a lot of pleasure.”

As Leonard was preparing to get Gobi home, she was ________. With a group of 20 local volunteers coming to his ________, he finally found her. After that, Leonard never let Gobi out of his ________. Now Gobi’s favorite activity is still running, and she __________ does at least 8km a day with Leonard up the hills.

10 . In a national spelling contest (竞赛)in America, an 11-year-old girl was asked to spell a certain word. But with her ______voice the judges were not sure if she spelled the word with the letter A or E. They talked it over and ______ decided to simply ask her what she had said. By now, the girl knew she had ______ the word. But instead of lying, she told the truth that she had said the ______ letter — so she lost the contest.

As the girl walked off the ______ , the entire audience stood to their feet clapping to applaud her______ . Later, dozens of newspaper reporters wrote about this 11– year–old girl’s honesty, even when it ______ her the contest. But the fact is that she ______ the biggest contest that day: the contest of her______ .

Probably the biggest test of our character and honesty is what we would do if we knew we would never get ______. This young girl could easily have______ and nobody would have known it but herself. But that’s just it: She would know she did wrong. It’s been said, “If you ______ , you make yourself cheap.” This young girl was strong and smart enough to value her own ______ and character more than the prize from a spelling ______ . Her respect for herself was more important than any ______ others might give her for winning a contest. She knew she would have to live with herself and the ______ she made in that moment will have long–lasting influence.

It’s so true that the choices you make today ______ what you are tomorrow. Our children will______ our behavior much more than our advice. So if we want them to ______ to be honest, we must show them the way by being honest ourselves. Remember, our kids are______ what we do and how we live even when we don’t think they see or know.