1 . Over the last few weeks, I have been back and forth to the hospital and working with my doctors and medical technicians. I feel very _________ and appreciative of all the great minds and effort involved in _________ my illness. I found I have become _________ grateful to those human beings who invented the many medical _________ that have saved so many lives and _________ so much pain.

With everything I _________, I couldn’t help thinking about many life-changing _________ that we humans have come up with, from the fairly simple stethoscope (听诊器) to more _________ inventions like X-rays, and other great devices. Of course, one of the biggest, most basic inventions was the _________. It changed the world in all kinds of ways. Without wheels, we’d have no __________, such as bikes, cars, trains, or airplanes.

__________many inventions human beings have invented through the ages, I __________ some very popular inventions. It is __________ to imagine what if we live without them. These __________ things like tape, nails, Post-it notes, DNA testing, the Internet, vaccines, and medical imaging.

Some inventions were accidental __________ but many were matter of simply trying to solve a problem. If we pay attention to what we experience and really put our __________ to it, there is no reason why we couldn’t come up with some new inventions ourselves. Maybe make a list of __________ items, systems, and habits we all have, and then go up and down the list and see if we can put two or three items together in a way to come up with a new __________ or better way to handle life and the __________ in it. Give it a try and see what we can come up with, We could __________ ourselves, and others as well!

2 . “Katy, please come to the front desk. You have a ________ here.” Immediately my sensors were on. Why? Could it be...? Is it...?

As I ________ the front desk, Sabrina sat comfortably in front of her computer. Nothing was ________. She was ________ her task at hand and hardly noticed me approaching.

“You called me?” I said, somewhat ________. For a while I became unsure that there even was a package there waiting for me. I was ________.

Sabrina looked up. “Oh yeah, the doorman brought this up and told me to give it to you.” As she ________ a brown paper bag from under her desk, ________ it over her desk from her sitting position.

“What is it?” Sabrina asked.

Once glance inside, my doubt was confirmed. ________ inside were 2 containers. could not see their ________ from my bird’s eye view but a pleasant smell had already spread the front office area.

“Someone has tagged me.” I ________ with a smile and a shake of my head I rounded the corner and ________ into the bag. I lifted a round container full of fried potatoes, finding below a larger container filled with rice and yogurt. I set the bag down and saw a(n) ________ among the containers. Inside was a beautiful card that read, “They say the world is ________. What we send out eventually finds its way back home.

I had to ________ about three times as I stared at this card. My heart was ________ fast and my body was electric with the shower of ________. I could do nothing but shake my head and smile, trying not to cry.

As I sat eating this amazingly delicious food, a ________ realization came over me. The joy and ________ that I was feeling must have been the same feeling that ________ the people to whom we gave away food on Saturday’s event! It was the exact same thing.

3 . Growing up in one of the poorest communities in Atlanta, US and being raised by a single _________ mother, I was not expected much by many people, so I had to expect_________of myself.

On my 13th birthday, I bought a _________of Harvard and put it on the wall of my room. Being at Harvard became what I_________: I kept picturing myself studying in Harvard. Even when my electricity was_________, I knew that my poster of Harvard was still_________only two feet away from me. I’d_________my day by asking myself these two questions: “What do I want in my life?” and “Are the things I am doing today going to get me _________ to that life?”

Reminding myself of my _________each day made it __________ for me to say no to the choices my peers(同龄人)making, because those paths wouldn’t have __________ me to my goal. Nothing could__________ my power to decide what I chose to do with my__________.

Every day I could __________ myself moving towards my dream university__________my writing got better, SAT score __________, and my scholarship checks started coming in. On March 31st, 2011, an email arrived __________Harvard. The first word was “Congratulations!” A month later, Harvard flew me up to visit the campus where __________I got to see my dream university face to face.

Who you are today is the __________of the decisions you made yesterday, and who you will be tomorrow will be up to the choices you make __________. Who do you want to be tomorrow?

4 . When I first began to learn photography, a photographer offered me a simple ______ for taking a good picture.

Don’t just “point and ______ ”, as one camera used to advertise. After ______ your intended subject through the lens(镜头), pause and think about how you ______ in the moment. Then after deciding the specific part of your subject that ______ that emotion, simply cut away everything else and press the button. ______ : focus on what matters most.

This advice could also be applied to ______ . Focus on what matters most; ______ everything else. When we go about our lives with little ______ or difficulty, we may be tempted to “take it all in” and thus ______ to focus on what matters most and find it ______ to get rid of unnecessary things.

All is too often it is not until our lives are in ______ that we suddenly realize that we’ve ______ our focus. We have ______ paid attention to the important aspects of existence—justice, kindness, and humanity. ______, we actually have a chance to focus again. As we make difficult ______ about what offers meaning and purpose, we may discover that even ______ things have the potential to turn good and ______ . We just need to reframe the ______ before us. Then we can ______ and pay attention to the meaningful things of life.

5 . Are you a person who loves challenges, or hates them? I must _______ I’ve spent most of my life as a person who hates them. I always _______ challenges as maddening _______ keeping me from where I want to be. I even used to take them _______, feeling like the universe must hate me and like to see me struggle.

As I grow older and wiser——I find my _______ nature rising up to meet these challenges, and I’m learning to see them _______. Most of us know that great rewards _______ great effort. Nothing _______ comes easy. When we work hard for something and then see it appear before our eyes, we get such s powerful sense of _______. We can point to it and say, “I did that. It was tough, but I did it ________.”

Challenges are truly ________. They give us opportunities to grow and learn, to test and improve ourselves. They show how ________ we want to create the dreams in our hearts. This is such a(an) ________. It may not seem that way at first, but with a tiny ________ in attitude, we can see that we have been handed an excellent opportunity.

The next time life ________ you a challenge, stop and consider for a moment what it means. Don’t look at challenges as an end, look at them as a door ________ your heart’s desires. That door might be locked and maybe you forgot ________ you put the key. It might take some effort and patience to find it again but I believe that you will.

Once we begin to change our ________ about obstacles and challenges that can actually become fun. Our competitive human nature ________ and gets ready to win, no matter what. We develop a steely determination to not be ________.

6 . I was unemployed in 1994. Fortunately, I _________ that it wasn't going to last forever. I returned to my _________ life and got a Master's degree in animal behavior in 1998. For 55-year-old then, it just _________ as if it were something I could and should do.

My wife and I came to Tasmania on holiday in 2000. We went into a wildlife park because I wanted to _________ Tasmanian animals. During that time, a（an）_________ went as we were sitting in the cafe looking outside, "Oh _________ I could spend the rest of my life here." And I went, "Well, I see it's up for sale." My wife looked at me and she knew.

We _________ the park in 2001. When we arrived, we realized it was messier than _________. So immediately we had to get the park _________ out. We were 58 when we ____________, but we were working 16 hours a day, finally building the park up and ____________ the animals' lives. We ____________ the regulations on animal protection in with local authorities, and tried to get other wildlife park ____________ on board.

In 2007, I ran the London marathon to raise funds for the project with my family. I ____________ completed it, with ____________ funds collected till now. As always say, life isn't' rehearsal, but a mission. If you don't do it now, you'll never do it.

7 . I have always been a fat girl. I am comfortable with my body but there is a _______ to pay for being different.

In primary school, I was an enthusiastic gymnast. I was not _______ and had to make up for my inadequacies (缺陷) by extra _______. And in the early days, I always waved my ribbon (丝带) in a _______ way. However, I hung on. I _______ so much that in 2018 I was in the Zimbabwe National Gymnastics Championships Final.

Whenever I went up in a competition, the crowd did not expect much from the _______ child. This crowd was _______ different. They _______ loudly on my weight. One man even said, “That is the _______ dress. And the elephant inside it isn’t much ________!”

I was deeply ________, but I let my ribbon do the talking. I had worked particularly hard on my ribbon work and it ________. The music seemed to be a perfect match with my ribbon. Soon the sniggers (窃笑) of the crowd turned into ________. As I went into the last leap and waved the ribbon in a waterfall entering my final pose, the crowd ________. I turned to ________ them and found each other on their ________, applauding.

I won the National Champion, but the best thing I got from hours of practice was the ________ that my body does not determine what I am capable of and should ________ limit what I can do. I know that I can ________ anything I put my mind to ________ I am bigger than my body.

8 . When I was just a little boy, my mom and I drove to my grandpa' s sister's house in another town. I went outside to _________ in the yard while they all sat around the _________ table to talk. After over an hour's playing by only myself, I got _________ and walked inside to see what they were doing. _________ on the kitchen table was a large, homemade tapestry (挂毯) that was still being _________ together. Pieces of multicolored fabrics (织物) were put everywhere. I sat on a chair and _________ as my great aunt painstakingly sewed a little piece onto it. I looked over at one edge of the tapestry and saw a piece of thread _________ out. Without thinking I reached over to _________ it.

"No! Stop!" It was my grandpa's sister's _________. I jumped back. Seeing the __________ look on my face she smiled and __________ showed me why she had shouted. That single piece of __________ went in and out of the different pieces of fabric. If I had pulled it, I might have torn (扯破) the entire tapestry and __________ her hours of work.

As I __________ that moment today, I can see that our __________ is a lot like that thread. We are all just a single string (细绳) in the world. We can't always see where we are going or what we are __________ to. However, don't feel __________ in the tapestry of life. Accept your __________ in it willingly. You may only be a single piece of thread but your love and your life help to __________ the whole thing together. You are put here for a purpose. __________ it and live for it each day of your life.

9 . You can learn a lot sitting in a parking lot. One day, I was sitting in my car with my son waiting for my wife who was in the _________. I would look up and _________what was going on outside. Then, I noticed a brand new bright red car park next to my car. A well-dressed woman stepped out of it. She looked _________with a serious look and her eyes were hidden behind sunglasses. I watched her as she headed for the same supermarket and _________what her life was like.

After a while, a truck parked on the other side of the red car. It _________ of burning oil and probably didn’t have many months of life left in its engine. A young mother with four little girls got out. All were dressed in _________ clothes that were most probably _________ at the second-hand store. She gathered them together and headed for the store, laughing and talking all the way.

A while later, I saw the well-dressed lady come out, _________ a shopping cart with several bags of items in it. She put them in the car and drove away quickly. Her eyes were still _________ and there was still a frown (皱眉) on her face. About thirty minutes later, the mother came back with her girls. They had a week’s __________ of groceries in their cart. After putting everything into the truck, the mother took out two __________, broke both in half, and gave each girl a half. They smiled as if the cookies were the most__________ gift in the world.

As they __________, I thought about the two women. I __________ knew who had more money, but I wasn’t sure who really owned more. Actually, there are many kinds of __________, but the most valuable is love. The truth is that one who loves the most, also learns the most, lives the most, gives the most, and grows the most in this life. And the more you share, the more you get.

10 . I'm an attorney（代理人）, a children's book author, an entrepreneur（企业家）, and a regular volunteer at my church. Having moved to California from New York recently, I often wake up to thousands of_________and emails. Like many of you, I'm a busy person and always on the go.

I started a storytelling_________called the Auditory Museum. We believe in the power of shared experiences. As part of our mission, we are_________to using personal stories as a means for social change. One day, I flew back to the east coast for a friend's wedding. After it, I had a few hours to kill before my red-eye flight back home. Like any other entrepreneurs, I decided to sit in the hotel lobby at_________with my laptop and get some work done.

While writing an email about the importance of storytelling, I was_________by a gentleman who was curious as to what I was working on._________that I had lost my train of thought, I gave him a fake smile._________with my icy response to him the gentleman_________next to me in the hotel lobby. "Why are you working now? What do you do? Where are you from? "Now, at this point, the irony was not lost on me. I was so_________my task that I had prioritized __________a non-pressing email over the opportunity to engage in conversation.

I closed my laptop and smiled. I told the gentleman about my job, my company, my passion for storytelling, and my __________to create social change through the sharing of personal experiences. He began to tell me his life story. One hour later, he thanked me for my time, wished me good luck and__________.

That night I learned a very__________lesson. We live in a generation obsessed with self-improvement, self-help, self__________etc. I don't think there is anything wrong with focusing on ourselves. In fact, it is arguably necessary for personal growth. However, we can often find the answer to life's greatest problems outside of ourselves, in human __________.