1 . Chloe Smith is a girl aged 6 from Atlanta, Georgia. One day, while taking a walk with her father near their home, she________something shiny under a pile of rubbish. She picked up the ________ to take home, as she often did on her treasure-hunting walks. Chloe was later ________ to discover she had found a stolen Olympic gold medal.

The medal belongs to former canoeist (划艇运动员) Joe Jacobi, who won gold while ________ for Team USA in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic games. The medal, along with other personal belongings, was ________ in May of 2016 when someone broke into Jacobi’s can. Though police managed to ________ some of his stolen items, they hadn’t been able to find his ________ Olympic medal. It may have been lost forever, if not for a 6-year-old girl’s treasure-hunting ________ .

Chloe’s dad had seen Jacobi’s story on the news, and ________ realized it was his stolen property. He found Jacobi’s email and sent him pictures of the treasure. After________ the medal, Jacobi was astonished, just speechless.

Chloe was ________ to give it back after speaking with Jacobi on the phone. ________, Jacobi promised to speak to her class when school begins again this fall. The ________ of this little girl reuniting an Olympian with his beloved possession is ________ . When we talk about character and doing the ________ thing, Chloe represents the Olympic values in every sense of the word.

2 . When I tried out for the football team during the summer before 9th grade, I never imagined how important this sport would become in my life. Football is a _____ sport, at times almost painful, and practices really _____ a team’s physical and mental limits. Without trust in my own ability and a strong sense of commitment, I would never have managed to continue after years of hard work as a player, and with countless _____.

In the first year, I played on the defensive line. This was an amazing _____ that gave me a great sense of achievement. But in the last game of the season, I was seriously injured. I was prohibited from any physical activities for six months. After going _____ a series of physical treatments, I returned to the field as a team captain. I practiced harder than ever to make up for my _____ time.

In September, during my junior year, my name was mentioned in the local newspaper as the key defensive lineman on the team. After playing a fantastic season, I was given the _____ of the Most Valuable Player.

_____, my skills in football do not magically extend to other sports. During the winter break, I went on a snowboarding trip and seriously injured my right shoulder. I had to have four _____. Since I could not use my right arm for two months, I had to learn how to write and eat using my left hand.

______ life must go on. I knew that my own present efforts would decide my future, so I ______ the strict training program to build up strength and improve flexibility in my ______. After an eight-month recovery, I was back to the field playing football, the sport I ______.

In this sense, the world of football has taught me an important life lesson: ______ and commitment make what seems impossible ______. This lesson from football is the one that can be applied to every part of life.

3 . 23-year-old Taleigh Loven walked downstairs to her graduation party last October. She was ______ balloons, treats and congratulations from her family. What didn’t cross her mind was her ______ wearing the same graduation cap as she did. ______ him carrying a certificate (证书) with his name on it, she instantly burst into tears.

Mike Loven, 47, decided four years earlier that he was going to restart his study in Grand Canyon University, the ______ school his daughter had just been ______ to. A few weeks later, Mike was taking his first______ course while Taleigh was getting settled in her dorm — with no ______ that Mike was a fellow freshman.

“There was no real reason for ______ it a secret from the family—I merely thought the _______ would be fun,” Mike said. “I work a lot and I’m always on my computer, so no one ______ knew that I was working on stuff (材料) for ______ all those years.”

The ______ part about the whole thing, Mike said, was during ______ midterm seasons when his family would constantly ask him for help with tricky (棘手的) school-related issues. He had his own ______ as well, but he couldn’t tell them. That, he said, ______ many late nights at the computer.

4 . As the temperature approached as high as 90°F last July 4th, three police officers went into a market to get something ____ to drink. Once inside, they were asked by a security guard to help with a(n) ____ woman. The woman in question was obviously ____, and her cheeks were wet with tears. The officers looked inside her bag. All they saw were containers of____. 

“I’m hungry,” she explained ____. Caught red-handed, the woman no doubt was expected to be treated as a ____. But the police had other ____. “We’ll pay for her food,” one of them told the ____ security guard. “She would not be ____.” 

Drying her wet ____, the woman repeated, “Thank you, thank you.” She wasn’t the only one touched by this act of ____. Customers at the market were so impressed by what they’d ____ that some even posted a photo on Twitter. ____, attention was never what the officers sought. They were ____ by a far more common emotion. When we look at someone’s face and see that they need us, it’s pretty ____ for us human beings to walk away from something like this.

5 . Dario and his mother loved their new apartment. One night, they played jazz music to celebrate their new home. The loud__________ filled the room and made them feel very happy.

The next morning, they found someone had left a_________ under their door to complain about the sound of the piano. Later that morning, Dario suggested that they write a letter to their___________and apologize for their playing.

“Maybe we could go and___________everyone in person,” his mother said.

“What if we invite them to come here for a __________instead?” Dario asked.

Over the next few days, they sent out invitations and prepared desserts for their guests. Finally, the day of the party__________. Some guests brought presents. Others brought flowers. Some even brought desserts to___________. One woman, Mrs. Gilbert,__________ Dario’s mother with a book of piano music by Chopin.

“I heard you playing the other night,” she said. “The sounds woke me out of bed. I___________that you might play like this every night. So I wrote a short note. I hope you don’t think I disliked the playing.”

Dario’s mother smiled at Mrs. Gilbert. “I think maybe we __________ you an apology,” she said. “I didn’t____________how late it was when we were playing. Maybe we should play some quieter music at night.”

“You play, you play!” Mrs. Gilbert said. “I like what you play! Just not so loud at night.” She pointed to the book she had given them. “These songs are not such___________ music.”

“These songs are beautiful music,” Dario’s mother said. “We will be____________to play them in the evening.”

“And we won’t play so loud or late!” Dario said. He was already looking forward to____________the new music. More than that, however, he was happy to see the big smile on his mother’s face. It gave him a feeling of ___________and made him feel that they were home at last.

6 . Lots of kids set up lemonade stands in the summer. For many, it’s a first step toward learning what it means to_________ your own money. For 11-year-old Cartier Carey, it was a _________ to do a lot more. That’s because Carey isn’t using his _________ to open a first savings account. Instead, he’s _________   it back into his community. His goal is to help single mothers in need. With all the stress and_________ uncertainty brought on by the pandemic, Carey decided to focus on the basics: diapers and wipes. 

The idea for the project_________ while Carey was visiting his grandmother who lives in one of the area’s more economically depressed neighborhoods. Carey, who is keenly observant for his age, was_________ by how many women he observed raising children on their own. By the end of July, Carey had raised close to $5,000 via the lemonade stand and from donations, and _________ about 6,500 diapers. As of September, at 22,000 diapers, he’s_________ to achieving his total goal of 25,000. 

But the generous 11-year-old is no__________ to worthy causes. Before becoming a “lemonade mogul”, Carey launched another community__________ titled “Carti packs”— provide care packages for the homeless that__________ such essentials as deodorant, soap, tissues, and even handwarmers for when the weather got __________. 

Carey says his greatest__________ comes from knowing he’s made a difference and seeing how much his efforts have meant to the people he tries to__________.

7 . The LEGO story started in a Danish woodworking shop. At the time, Ole Kirk Christiansen was just a(n)_________carpenter in the village Billund but with ambition. As a young man, Christiansen turned his love of playing with wood into_________ and, in 1916, he opened his own shop.

At first, his shop produced furniture like ladders, stools and ironing boards. But in 1924, just as he was looking to expand his business, his sons_________set a pile of wood chips in the shop on fire,_________the entire building and the family’s home.

Despite a total_________, Christiansen saw the fire as an excuse to simply_________a larger workshop. _________, tragedy continued to strike. In 1929, the great Depression hit the world, and his wife died in 1932. Affected by financial and_________ disaster, Christiansen laid off many of his workers and _________ to make ends meet. Little did he know that those tragedies would be of importance to his business to__________.

Since times were so hard, Christiansen made the difficult decision to use his wood to create__________ goods that might actually sell. The decision didn’t__________ at first. But his love of toys pushed the company ahead, even when it was__________ the toughest times.

It __________he was a brilliant toymaker. Soon, his wonderful models of cars and animals and his adorable pull toys gained national popularity. His bestseller, a wooden duck whose mouth opens and closes when pulled, is now still a hot__________. In 1949, his company created its plastic bricks called the Automatic Binding Bricks. And the toy became more and more popular as the years passed.

8 . To Huang Qin, a caregiver for the elderly, having a mastery of skills is not enough to become a good caregiver—one also needs to have a passion for the job and the ability to _________.

Huang started her_________as a caregiver at the No. 2 Shanghai Social Welfare House in 1992. She _________her second day at work: a resident _________ seizures (癫痫) and hit his head against the corner of a table. “I was so _________that I just froze,” she says. “Our team leader later told me about some of the early warning_________ that led to the occurrence of the seizure. At that moment I understood being a caregiver is also about having _________ skills.”

Her _________ soon led her to invent care­giving _________ that have made the lives of the elderly in her care better. One of the first people she__________was an 89-­year-­old resident. Because of a stroke, she was never able to __________her fingers by herself and therefore, was __________ getting skin infections on her hand whenever the weather was wet.

Inspired by a claw­like weapon she__________ while watching a film, Huang used elastic (有弹性的) cotton cloth to __________a tool, allowing the patient to keep her hands unclenched (松开). These innovations greatly improve the __________ of life for the seniors.

9 . Sylvia is a woman with big scars(伤痕) on her body. The incident happened during a childhood game of hide-and-seek with her sister. Due to frequent power cuts (停电), her mom used to ____ pots of water and put them on the bathroom floor. Her mother had told her not to enter the room, but Sylvia ____ in the room. When her sister pushed the ____, she fell backwards into the____ water.

With scars over her body, a life of hiding from ____ followed until the____ point came in July last year. Sylvia was on holiday with her mother when she ____ a man’s camera phone following her. Then she was____ by the effect the experience had on her mother—she could see Mom staring at her scars, looking ____. Seeing this, Sylvia ____ to pose to make her mom____.

Sylvia felt like she had____ her family’s lives and thought. She realized it was the time to ____ not just to make a change herself, but to help others with disfigurements(缺陷).

Sylvia pointed out “Every person is____. We should accept our bodies the way they look.” She also organized a swimwear show featuring models with different disfigurements and wanted people to see what it truly ____ to be inclusive(包容性强的).

10 . What do you do with a withered orchid (兰花)?____ you’re an expert, you may find that they never ____ for you again.

Everything has a life cycle and orchids don’t ____ forever. I can’t ____ throwing out orchids. I have tried my best, but in ____. After so much ____ and error, I was almost ____ that they have died.____, my wife had other ideas.

Some of the plants were moved to a table in the living room, and others were ____ on the kitchen window.

Actually, everything has its own life cycle. Sure, you can ____ hope. It was easy to believe that those orchids would never flower again—that is, until my wife decided to come to their ____.

My wife kept moving the plants around the house looking for the right light.____, the orchids stayed alive. Tiny new stems (茎) grew from the old ones a year later. And now, nearly all of them are flowering.

Yes, you can ____everything you think is important—your beauty, your wealth, even your family — but as long as you are alive, you can find new life within something you thought was never going to bloom (开花) again. Never lose ____ on finding new life, even if the chance is ____.