1 . Keller is a first-grade teacher at a school in Greenville County, South Carolina. She was on her way home when she noticed a little boy _______ his bike down a busy highway.

The _______ of such a young child in the midst of all that traffic _______ her. Instantly, she decided to _______ her car around. To her surprise, she _______ the little boy. He was one of her former students!

7-year-old Cameron wasn’t out for a casual bike ride. He was on a(n) _______ mission to save his diabetic (糖尿病的) father who had collapsed at home.

Cameron had _______ calling 911, but he didn’t know the code for his father’s phone. In the _______, he didn’t know how to place an emergency call from the phone. Even worse, when he tried seeking _______ from the neighbors, he ________ no one at their homes. Thus, the ________ little boy did the only thing he could think of. He hopped on his bike and ________ to his grandma’s house, which was five miles away from his. Not only did Keller ________ him and stop, but also she ________ emergency services. With the help of Keller, doctors were able to go to the home and help Cameron’s father in time.

This teacher helped a ________ save a life and the whole experience left Keller in awe. Both Cameron and his dad were grateful for the help they received in their time of need.

2 . Yesterday, a salesman called me by phone, on behalf of a telecommunication company, to sell his phone plans. I was at work and while I usually don’t _________to spend time with those conversations, I _________ myself that I couldn’t talk yet and proposed him to call me back one hour later, at 6 pm.

That’s what he did. So we _________ 15 minutes. He explained to me his different phone plans, which he stated to be better than my_________one. While listening to him, sometimes I was lost in my thoughts. I gave several “hmm hmm”, as a _________of approbation (赞同) and to_________ to him that I was still there. Sometimes, I felt a bit_________, especially as he had a bit of difficulty in correctly talking in French. But I stayed calm and _________ until the end of the discussion.

At the end of the conversation, he_________the following to me: “Thank you, Olivier. You are the first person in a long time, with whom I had a(n) __________     conversation. Usually, people__________at us, insult us, and treat us as thieves. Today, since 10 am, I hadn’t had a(n) __________ without an offense. I know you had a long day at work and you could have __________ in front of your TV or done something else. Instead, you listened carefully to me. I am __________ and I sincerely thank you. I wanted to tell it to you.”

I thanked him for this revelation. I realized how much he could have been the subject of verbal __________ , all through his working days. Yet, he was only doing his job. I hope he will have a good weekend.

5 . When I was five years old, I had a toy cat named Smokey. I took the brown cat everywhere I went.

One day my parents and I went to the store with my toy cat. I remember I liked ______ with my parents. I always imagined that my friend Smokey and I were going on a(n) ______together. When I walked into the store I went ______to the teddy bears. I made my toy cat Smokey play with his new friends Ted and Beary. By the time we got all the things we needed my parents told me it was time to ______. They were already by the checkout counter ______ I left immediately. In my hurry I left the toy cat on the shelf.

We walked to the car and I started to help my parents put ______ we bought inside.

Then we all started to ______ home. But then I realized that I left my toy cat at the store. So I started to cry, ______my legs. But my parents didn’t want to go back. So I   ______ them to go back to get my cat. I ran into the store as fast as I could. Smokey was just sitting there in the same place, ______ . I ran to my toy cat and ______.

I still have my toy cat sitting on my desk. I haven’t played with it ______I was five or six. Sometimes when I look through my desk and see it, the ______brings back many ______ memories. Even the ______ things in life, like a brown cat named Smokey, can influence you in a very personal way.

6 . It was Sunday. I had one last patient to see. I _________her room in_________ hurry and stood at the doorway. She was an older woman, sitting at the edge of the bed, _________to put socks on her swollen feet. I crossed the threshold, spoke quickly to the nurse, and glanced at her chart (表格) noting she was in stable condition.

I was almost in the clear. I leaned (倚靠) on the bed looking down at her. She asked _________ I could help put on her socks. _________, I began to say something like this: “How are you feeling? Your sugars and blood pressure were high but they’re better today. The nurse mentioned you’re _________ to see your son who’s visiting you today. It’s nice to have family visit from far away. I bet you really _________ seeing him.”

She stopped me _________ a strict voice.   “Sit down, doctor. This is my story, not your story.” I was _________ and embarrassed. I sat down. I helped her with the __________.

She began to tell me that her __________ son lived around the corner from her. She just had this one child but she had not seen him in five years. She believed that the stress of this contributed __________ to her health problems.

After hearing her story and putting on her socks, I asked her if there was anything __________ I could do for her. She __________ her head no and smiled. __________she wanted me to do was to listen.

7 . My love of laundry deepened as I grew older. I learned how to wash and dry my own clothes before I was ten. In my teens, I taught myself to _________ . With a love of dry-clean-only clothes while on a college-student _________ at the University of Kentucky, I _________ my textile(纺织业) professors to find out if I could wash my wool sweaters and pants by myself. I _________ I could-after all, people had been wearing wool clothing since long before the _________ of dry cleaning.

What I learned from my textile teachers were not just the how-tos. In his books, author Gary Chapman teaches “the five love languages”— _________ to express and experience love. Mine is _________ . That’s what caring for clothes meant for my grandmother, for my mom, and _________ for me. Far beyond duty, service is the way I show love to others-whether I’m ironing my husband’s shirts, _________ decorating our home for Christmas.

Changing our mindsets from __________ cleaning clothes to caring about others is the __________ to changing our attitudes toward laundry from hard work to love. My __________ is that caring for your loved ones’ clothes shows them love. When their clothes are __________ , smell wonderful, and look great, your loved ones are going to feel as if they can take on the world, and their days are going to be __________ . That’s true for you and your clothes __________ . And don’t you deserve that?

8 . An 11-year-old boy from Nigeria impressed the world with an online video of his ballet dancing in the rain. Then something_________followed.

Madu is one of the 12 students of a dance school. Daniel, the school founder, is teaching children for free and hopes to “change some commonly held_________about ballet.”

Gracefully spinning among a group of girl dancers, Madu_________. While his mom wanted him to become a priest (牧师), the boy pushes himself hard to be what he_________to be.

“I love dancing and it gives me a great feeling. People think ballet is only for girls, but I want people to_________that a boy could do the same,” Madu said.

The video of Madu_________his ballet skills in the downpour got _________from millions including Mrs. Harvey, director from a top US dance school, who decided to_________.

She_________Madu with a full scholarship to her school and offered Daniel an online course for free to ____________his teaching.

Both Madu and his teacher went____________at the surprise! “Sorry for disappointing mom. I love the ____________but not the prayer and I’ll never give it up,” the boy____________.

____________，when you nourish (滋养) your dream with love and____________, opportunities will find their own way.

10 . With a breathing tube in his throat, it was all Radice could do to lift his arm to signal the doctor. Never had he felt so _________. “Am I going to die tonight?” Radice wrote on a piece of paper. The words _________ Dr. Pitera like a knife. The thing was that he owed his _________ to Radice, a cardiac(心脏的)exercise _________ at St. Barnabas. It was a debt Pitera thought he’d never be able to_________. Now their roles were turned around because of Covid-19(新冠肺炎). Petera had to give Radice something to hold on to--Hope. Pitera took Radice’s weak, nearly _________ hand, “You’re not going to die on my _________.”

Nearly six years earlier, Pitera had _________ a serious heart disease. Later he began his recovery exercise at St. Barnabas, where he met Radice, an experienced exercise specialist in the department. Radice _________it was important for his patients to regain their self-confidence because it was their strength. For one hour, three days a week, he__________ took Pitera through the six different exercise machines. “Radice gave me my life back.” he said.

Radice was just impressed by Pitera’s progress and devotion. Six years later, when he found himself a __________ at St. Barnabas, he couldn’t believe he again met the man whose__________ he’d rebuilt.

“Not on my watch.” For Radice, those words were exactly what he needed to hear. __________ day by day, Radice was recovering. Radice began his own exercise program. Pitera visited as often as he could to cheer on Radice’s progress.

Nearly 20 days after he was sent to hospital, Radice completely __________. Pitera came to his room to say goodbye. “You __________ my life,” Radice told him. “You saved my life,” Pitera answered back.