1 . For 35 years, Floyd Martin has delivered the mail to residents in Marietta, Georgia. On the day of his ______ , the entire community ______ to honor this ______ mailman.

Martin became a postal worker with the United States Postal Service shortly after he graduated from high school and made many friends over the years. A little girl named Mae ______ the story of how she dressed like Martin for Career Day at school. “I was so honored,” the mailman said. “It ______ my heart.” Mae is one of the many kids in the ______ that love to see the mailman. That’s because Martin often gives kids candies. And it’s not just the children who get ______ . He also gives snacks to cats and dogs he comes across, too.

______ the packages he delivers and the treats he gives, Martin provides the neighborhood with something more ______ : kindness. Some neighbor s ______ their mailboxes with flowers, balloons and signs, and the celebration continued when his final day of work ended.

More than 300 neighbors attended the neighborhood party honoring Martin. Several stood up and said kind words to honor him. Then, Martin rose to thank the neighborhood. “Thank you for ______ me. We’ve gone through good times and bad times together.” He said ______ he had lost his parents and many of his friends, he knows he still has friends in the Mariett a neighborhood. “You are all here,” he said. “You were there when I ______ you, although you didn’t know it.”

Martin doesn’t have any children of his own. ______ , he knows that even in retirement, he can return to this neighborhood and see the hundreds of kids and friends who love him. “I love you guys. I say that. I mean it,” he said. “And that’s what the world needs more of now love, caring and ______ and taking care of one another.”

2 . For as long as I can remember, I’ve been part of a team of some sort of extracurricular (课外的) sport. I started swimming at a young age and then I was ________ to water polo (水球).

Water polo is a ________ sport. We grow together, we hang out together, and we succeed together. ________ in this sport depends on the successes of each other rather than the success of the ________. This is important because we all realize that ________ we can grow fast alone, we grow more and get closer to our goals ________.

I was never good when I first started a sport. To be honest, it was ________ when I first started playing water polo. My coach has always ________ me. She once said that we’re never going to be ________ at first and that’s okay because we can always get better. And get better? I did. No matter how ________ I got I noticed that there was always somewhere I was lacking and somewhere I could ________.

Being an athlete is ________. You have to wake up early every day. You have to ________ yourself every day. You have to balance your life outside of sport. But for me, ________ is never an option. I knew that simply throwing in the towel would cause me to be filled with great regret. So don’t let hard work ________ your desire to become someone greater than you are today.

3 . When the weather starts to warm up, we love heading to the beach for a few days. During one such trip, after a few days of being _________ on the beach and spending too much time walking the boardwalk, we decided to go for a _________.

We _________ a car for the day and drove to Key West. Our _________ was to enjoy a scenic drive on Highway 1 and maybe try some pie and head back, but the day _________ to be more memorable than that.

It was a breathtaking drive and we kept our eyes glued to the window. The scenery was _________ and felt like we were driving over water. When we were closer to Key West, _________ my husband-stopped the car, grabbed his camera, and ran out looking up at the sky—_________ me looking at him confused (困惑的).

After a few minutes of looking and pointing at a shiny object in the sky, he was pretty _________ to announce he’d spotted a UFO. I should __________ here that he loves sci-fi movies and UFO shows and strongly __________ we are not alone.

We eventually got back in the __________, stopped at a nearby store, and asked someone in the parking lot, “Do you see that shiny thing in the sky?” The man looked up and __________, “Do you mean that weather blimp (气象飞艇)?” The shiny object in the sky was not an unidentified flying object or alien craft but a weather blimp.

It is one of the short funny travel __________ that always come up when we talk about our __________. It starts with one of the kids saying “Remember the time when Dad thought he saw a UFO...?” and always makes us laugh.

4 . Faced with a medical emergency, most people would freeze or panic, ______ a child. But Suzie McCash, then just four, not only kept a calm head but took ________ action to save her mom’s life.

Suzie, from North Tyneside, had just returned home with her mom Rowena. But as soon as Rowena ________ through the door of their house, she began to feel dizzy. Rowena ______ from a life-theatening allergy to salicylates (水杨酸盐), ______ in oranges and almonds. Within minutes, she had collapsed in the hallway, ______ to breathe.

With dad Wiliam at work, it was ______ little Suzie to save her mom’s life.

She carefully described her mother’ s situation to the ______ call operator, “Mommy had an allergic shock. I then got her medicine to make her feel ______.” Then Suzie was asked if she could ______ the front door of her home, and replied, “I can’t really reach the lock, but I’ll have a ______.” When doctors and nurses arrived, Suzie managed to let them in, and they were able to give lifesaving ______ to Rowena.

“Her dad and I told her she must have ______ because we have no idea how she managed to open the front door on her own!” Rowena later said. “When she was little she loved playing ______, which helped her stay calm and remember what to do in an emergency. I’m so _____ Suzie saved my life.”

5 . Michael Coyne has autism (自闭症), He began searching for jobs when he was 21 years old, but he had no ________. It was hard for his mother Sheila Coyne to see her autistic son get________repeatedly in his job search. She suggested to him that he take a________path in life. That’s when Michael began________business classes that were provided by a state-funded program for________people. Shortly after completing his course work, he________ a coffee shop of his own. Coyne says that the business is growing.

The store has a Facebook page that describes the________of the business. “We are a family. owned coffee shop serving up________a cup of coffee. We employ people with development a disabilities, encourage community engagement, and________the way the world sees those with disabilities. "

People have left________reviews on the company’s Facebook page praising the service they have received at the coffee shop. They also________the outstanding work that the family has done in succeeding with their business and in the transformative message their company has________.

Families who have children with disabilities have found the place to be a________spot to visit in their community. Seeing the success that Michael has had with his coffee shop. parents have renewed________that their own disabled children will find success in their________ as well.

6 . American teen donates 15,000 books to children with cancer

When 19-year-old Emily Bhatnagar from Maryland, US, found out her father had stage four thyroid cancer, her response was a little different than you might expect. To _______ her father, who she also describes as her best friend, she decided to start a book drive called For Love and Buttercup, _______ books for kids with cancer.

“It was very much an _______ idea,” she explains. “I posted a message on an app called Nextdoor asking my _______ for used book donations. I was only expecting a few here and there, but the response was truly incredible and it was just the push I needed to co-exist with my _______ rather than letting it consume me.”

“It was absolutely heartbreaking to watch my dad _______ cancer and see him lose a little bit of himself each day, _______ the book drive allowed me to develop a newfound sense of purpose intertwined with an even greater sense of compassion to help others in any shape or form. I wanted to help kids. They’ve always held a soft _______ in my heart.”

Using _______ she earns from working at her parents’ bread shop, Emily has bought many books out of her own pocket. ________, she receives donations through her Amazon wishlist, which can be found in the biography of the book drive’s Instagram account, @forloveandbuttercup.

Emily and her older brother spent a ________ summer driving around town, loading boxes of books into their car. “It was such a ________ knowing people have carried these books all their lives through generations, and they wanted to gift it to my ________.”

The project has ________ huge success, with For Love and Buttercup donating over 15,000 books and being ________ by The Washington Post, Forbes, The President’s Volunteer Service Award and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation.

7 . I started playing field hockey(曲棍球) when I was in seventh grade. Going into middle school, I knew I wanted to____ a sport, since I loved being on a team with friends. ____ together after class, driving to other schools to__ and just having an overall sense of unity were all ____of playing a team sport that I knew I couldn't ____ get.

To be honest, before spring of the seventh grade, I ____ even knew what field hockey was. The only thing I knew was that my friends thought it sounded cool. I don't really know what ____my friends to field hockey. Maybe it's because it's mainly a women's sport, ____ maybe it's because the ____ is a really nice English teacher. Even though I chose it on a whim(一时兴起), I'm really glad I decided to ____ it.

I am certainly not a field hockey prodigy (天才) or anything like that, but it honestly adds to my ____. Yes, it leaves me with my legs ____ and my arms drooping heavily, but this pain doesn't compare to the feeling of happiness that comes ____ playing. When you're running with a wooden ____ in your hand, chasing a white ball, there's no need to worry about anything. It offers an amazing way to be free from the ____ and hardships of school.

8 . Isabel Navarro has proved that hard work and a love for learning can help you achieve your dreams. The elementary school cleaner never ______ her lifelong dream of becoming an educator. Now the 35 year old woman from Waco, Texas, has _____ a teacher’s assistant at Spring Valley Elementary in the Midway ISD.

Navarro grew up in Mexico, but at the time, her family _____ to make ends meet. Unfortunately, she had to _____ high school as a teenager so that she could work and start _____ for her family. She moved to the United States in 2009, and first worked in housekeeping for a while before finally _____ a job at Woodway Elementary in 2013 as a custodian (管理员). She got the work to ____ the classrooms at Spring Valley Elementary in 2016. However, she always knew she enjoyed communicating with the children and wanted to make a real ______ in the classroom as an educator.

“When I was a child, I ______ wanted to be a teacher,” she told KWTX. “I started working at 15 years old to ______ my parents at home and now I can finish my education and follow my dream.” She worked really hard to achieve that dream. The _____ mom of three obtained her General Equivalency Diploma (GED), which was extremely ______ for her as English is her second language.

Navarro ____ Spring Valley Elementary School Principal Kappy Edwards. “I’m very proud of Isabel’s_____ and commitment to furthering her education, obtaining her GED and transforming into a new role within Spring Valley,” Edwards said. “This ____ shows her admirable devotion and serves as an inspiring example for others.”

9 . A boat launched by American middle schoolers has been discovered in Norway, 462 days and more than 8,300 miles later. It was an ______ journey for the 5.5-foot boat.

In 2020, students of Rye Junior High School ______ an ocean-theme project. They assembled (组装) a boat and got ready to ______ it. However, COVID-19 ______ classes online. They figured out a way to beautify the boat remotely. The boat ______ in October.

The students kept the track of the boat’s ______ on a map whenever its Global Positioning System (GPS) sounded After about 10 months at sea, the GPS began reporting only occasionally. Then, on Jan. 30, the GPS reported ______ —this time from a small island in Norway. The school ______ a notice on its website asking for the safe collection of the boat if possible. The ______ also made its way onto the Facebook page of a nearby Norwegian community.

That’s where the family of a local sixth-grader, Karel Nuncic, ______ the boat. The family boated out to the island and ______ the boat. The next day, Nuncic brought the boat to his school, where students opened the hatch (舱口) to find the messages and the gifts that the middle schoolers had ______ inside nearly two years before. The Norwegian ______ said they would write a letter to their new American friends.

After 462 days and 13,412 km of ______ across the Atlantic Ocean, the messages inside the boat have formed a new ______ between schools.

10 . While I was driving a motorbike with one hand, a lady suddenly stepped into the street. I braked ______ to try to avoid her. As a result, I fell heavily to the ground and my left arm became completely paralyzed(瘫痪的).

Thus, I had to ______ everything I used to do with two hands. As a person who would rather get lost than ask for directions, asking for ______ is difficult for me. But I never expected things would ______ after years of swimming training for the 2020 Paralympics(残奥会).

When swimming, I need to wear a tight racing suit. It took a lot of practice to become ______ slowly putting one on with one hand. However, ______ one was a different story. I was once stuck and half naked in a swimsuit. I still refused to bother others and was even ______ to reach for a knife to find my way out. A girl near me saw me struggling. She rushed over and managed to ______ me in a minute.

At a Paralympic event, everyone player has a(n) ______. Being unwilling to ______ a helping hand made me a(n) ______ one. However the ______ in that changing room helped me start to become a new normal person.

At first, learning to ask for help was the adaptation that proved to be more difficult than putting on a ______ with one hand. After some efforts, I realized learning to do so was not the decision I had ______ made, but it became the win I______ wanting most.