John Henderson, 106, and his wife Charlotte, 105, from Austin, Texas are the oldest living couple on Earth. They have 80 years of     1    （marry）.

The couple, who met each other in 1934 while studying in the University of Texas, married in 1939. When     2    （ask）about their years together, Charlotte said. "We have always cared for each other. It is just one of those things that     3    （natural）comes to us."

Longhorn Village, the senior living community    4     the Hendersons live, helped the couple celebrate their anniversary by     5    （throw）huge party. At the party, the two lovebirds     6    （surprise）by a 1920s car, similar to the one John used to drive to impress Charlotte when they first met.

The couple's grandson said, "They are     7     wonderful couple and are glad to chat     8     others to share stories of the past. They have been living healthy and     9    （energy）life. Since 84 years ago, they     10    （attend）at least one football game a year.

"I am thankful for life itself and being able to live full life," said John.

A firefighter prevented a woman from being hit by a train

It was late, about 10:15p.m. Esposito    1    (get) off the train at Bellport, New York, went to her car and started driving home. She was so familiar with the road    2    she almost drove automatically turned left to the Station Road, then another let onto Montauk Highway, and then — bam! When Esposito’s car had just crossed the two railroad    3    (track), it hit a big tree and was pushed back.    4    (injure) but mostly shocked by the crash, she    5    (trap) in the car.

As it happened, John was just about to go to sleep when he heard a sharp noise and saw    6    accident not far outside his bedroom window.    7    a volunteer firefighter, John, who was 65, fetched a flashlight and rushed out without hesitation. He discovered Esposito’s car straddling (横跨) the railways. And then he heard the train alarm go off,    8    signaled a train’s arrival.

    9    (immediate) John rushed to Esposito’s car but the driver’s door couldn’t be opened due to the crash, so John ran to the other side and managed    10    (open)another door. Finally he got Esposito out to safety. Several seconds later, the train crashed into the car.

On a cold evening with snow floating in the air, I got     1     (stick) on the road because of a flat tire. I attempted     2     (seek) help from the passing cars, but no one stopped. As I was about to give up hope, a man     3     (drive) an old dirty car came to my aid. To be honest, I was scared when he first approached me. Eying him up and down, I thought to myself, “There is a very good chance     4     he may rob me”. He seemed to have sensed my discomfort so he tried to reduce my anxiety by introducing himself. His act of kindness made me feel     5     (shame) to have questioned his doing intentions.     6     was really considerate of him to stop to help a perfect stranger like me, especially in such terrible weather. Thus, after the spare tire     7     (fit), I asked how much I owed him. I wanted to pay him back.     8     (surprising), he did not take my offer     9     rather told me to pass the kind act forward and help more people in need. As he said those words, I noticed him wearing a smile of contentment. Helping others seemed a very natural thing to him. I witnessed the true beauty of human nature     10     him.

More than one month ago, a photographer went to Litang, a remote county in Sichuan Province,     1     (take) some pictures and   he     2     (accident) shot   a video of a 20-year-old Tibetan herdsman, Dingzhen in Mandarin.

In the video, Dingzhen     3     (capture) walking in front of his home and smiling shyly towards the camera. After the photographer posted the video on Douyin,     4     soon went viral (迅速走红）, gaining over two million     5     (like) and more than 100,000 comments.

Some netizens commented that“the young man’s eyes are full of stars and are as pure as the blue sky behind him”, while some described his smile     6       “purest one in the world”.

Dingzhen’s sudden     7     (popular) also made Litang go viral on China’s social   media   platforms.     8     number of searches for Litang rose quickly. On Ctrip's website, searches for Litang started going up on Nov 20.The search average shot up 620% against the previous week,and was four times greater     9     during the National Day holiday in October. Dingzhen was also given a job promoting tourism for Litang County and would get a monthly salary of 3,500 yuan. Despite it, the   young   man   shyly   admitted     10     he intended to do was simply become a “horse prince” by winning his local horse races.

The Financial Times gave part of my job to a robot named Amy last week. For years I have been making podcast version(播客)of my column,     1     now I am faced with a tough competition.

To be fair, Amy does something going for her. She has a great voice, smooth as velvet. Her    2    (two) advantage is that she's practically free. She is part of a new service from Amazon that turns text    3    speech, costing-nearly nothing. Even more    4    (impress) is her speed. Less than two seconds after receiving my    5    (write) text, which means when I just start to read, "Yesterday the Finan…", she has already finished.

Yet once I got over my distress and listened to her work, I felt    6    (good). I know it's early days for her, but at the moment Amy is no match for me. Listening to her is not like listening to    7    non-English speaker read aloud, but to someone without brain, or heart, or sense of humor. Her    8    (deliver) is so poor that I don't even understand. Amy never reads with understanding, never    9     (know)when to pause, and never does irony. She continues to get it wrong.

Finally, I'm not afraid Amy is about to steal my job. Only people possess human touch. It is the heart-to-heart communication    10    makes us special, beautiful and irreplaceable.

It's a touching Christmas story, but not in the     1     (tradition) way. It’s about a seriously ill 5-year-old boy     2       died in Santa’s arms in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the United States.

Eric Schmitt-Matzen, 60, a part-time Santa, received a call     3     a nurse at a hospital several weeks ago, saying a dying 5-year-old boy wanted to see Santa Claus. Schmitt-Matzen dressed and rushed to the hospital. Walking into the boy’s room, he asked people       4       (leave)   if they couldn’t hold back their       5     (tear). He picked up the boy and held him in his arms.

“They say I’m going to die,” the boy told him       6     (sad). “What can I tell them when I get to where I’m going?”

Schmitt-Matzen said. “When you get there, you tell them you’re Santa’s Number One elf (小精灵), and they will let you in.”

The boy asked, “They will?” Then he     7    (sit) up and gave Schmitt-Matzen a big hug and asked one more question: “Santa, can you help me?” Schmitt-Matzen wrapped his arms around the boy. Before Schmitl-Matzen could say anything, the boy died right there. Santa let the boy stay, hugging and       8     (hold) onto him.

Schmitt-Matzen was       9       sad that he wanted to cry.

The story was printed, and people were       10     (move) when they read it.