1 . Ruth Henricks has served thousands of customers, but she will never forget one man who walked into her diner（小餐馆）30 years ago.

“He was very thin, looked kind of________, and he told me he was living with AIDS,” she recalled.________the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention（CDC）, the United States was in the middle of an AIDS epidemic（流行）in 1989, when the reported number of cases________100,000, including nearly 60,000 deaths.

His name is Scott. He became a________at Henricks' diner and she would ask him about his health. Some days he was too________to feed himself. He told Henricks the only time he ate was at her diner.

Then, after about a year and a half, Scott stopped________. Henricks tried to find him, to no________. She was________, but she realized she could help others like Scott. That was the________of her non-profit organization, Special Delivery SanDiego, bringing home-cooked meals to people________with AIDS.

She gathered together________, many of whom were regular customers of her diner. They cooked meals at the diner and________lunch and dinner to 75 people a day.

By 1996, Henricks________her mission to help anyone living with a chronic（慢性的）illness including cancer and kidney disease. The organization purchased a space next to the diner so it could________more people in need.

Henricks said: "At first, we delivered meals to people living with AIDs. At that time, people were actually________very quickly. It was very________for all of us to watch these people just pass away. We would________put them on meal service, and a month later somebody would be calling, saying, 'Well, they've passed away.' So, after a while, people were asking me, ‘How can you keep doing this and not get________’"?

It's bringing that love, that respect, that________to them in their last days. At least they don't have to________about where the next meal's coming from.

2 . An act of kindness doesn't have to be a grand gesture. Even those small acts of kindness can make a difference in someone's day. That was just the case for Amie Mickey when she____________a bumper sticker on her car reading: You Matter.

Amie started to do this several years ago. At first, she wondered if people would________________it. However, much to her surprise, she began seeing a flood of____________every time she hit the road. More often than not, people________________slowly near her car would roll down their windows, raising their____________________,waving and smiling. Sometimes, she even found some sticky notes left on her windshield saying things like “You________________too! “Once while she was driving down the highway, she became____________when a man driving a sports car at a high speed pulled his car alongside suddenly, waving and mouthing, “You matter!” Though it took her some time to recover from the________________, she still felt happy. Last year, someone____________________her car while she was waiting for her friend in the car by the roadside, saying to her, “It is a(an)________________sticker. I’ve seen various stickers before, but none of them have touched me as your sticker has done. “The two small words on the sticker seem simple enough, but they really struck a chord with many complete strangers who___________to catch sight of the sticker.

Stories like Amie's really________________the rest of us. Sometimes a kind word or gesture may lift our____________and it doesn't cost a thing except for a little extra thought. Maybe it means offering a friend a hug, praising the children when their children________________well in school, helping someone out or volunteering at animal shelters or shelters for the homeless. Acts of kindness are waiting everywhere. Small as they seem, they can make a____________impact on the world, and help form general goodness.

3 . Byrd is in her eighth year of teaching at Wilder Elementary in Mansfield. She has taught fifth grader Fisher Croney every year since he was in kindergarten. Fisher _______ in the class by helping in Byrd's classroom whenever he has free time after class.

Byrd also _______ Fisher's mother, Shannon Croney, as an acquaintance. They would occasionally chat at their boys' baseball games. She had heard that Croney was having some _______ problems. In January 2019 Croney received a routine blood test and found her kidneys （肾）were not _______ normally. After going through a string of tests, doctors could not figure what caused her kidneys to _______. But Byrd didn't know what the _______ was until she saw a Facebook post from Fisher around Christmas of 2019. It was _______ to help his mother find a kidney. Byrd did not _______ to help. In March, Byrd, learned that she and Croney were a close _______ Even doctors were ________ that they were not related in blood.

Byrd was in the hospital for ________ in June. She was never ________ about the transplant（移植）. Actually, she felt honored that her donation enabled another person to live a totally ________ life.

Today, both women are doing well. They are turning their ________ to another member of their community, who is also sick and ________ a kidney transplant.

4 . Everyone goes through some form of change. Going through change can teach us about our _______. In order to move on in life we must _______ change. We either accept it or _______ it. I have chosen to take it on with a _______.

Before entering junior high school, I thought _______ would be the same as things in my primary school. And then I began to realize that wasn’t _______ not only was there more work but there were _______ friends. That also meant my old group of friends started to separate. As months went by, I realized I should _______ the fact that we were all going through a big change and that it was okay to grow _______.

I have also learned we should never __________ ourselves for someone but rather for ourselves. It is important for me to be happy and I shouldn’t have to change myself only to __________ someone else. Recently, I have been able to realize that not everyone will __________ me or what I do or what I wear, and that's okay.

I believe in change but only if __________ from that person is put into it. If someone doesn’t try to change, then I believe he won't __________ his goal and that he could possibly __________ the person or thing he loves. I noticed this __________ a friend of mine. She __________ saying she was going to change, but she put no effort into it and because of this she lost many close friends.

As we get older, it becomes easier to try new things and meet new people. Our __________ no longer affect just ourselves but our family and friends as well. Life is based on making decisions, some of them __________, and some of them bad. It’s these decisions that make us who we are. Most people are __________ of change, but I choose to accept it gladly.

5 . It was 1935, when I was 10 years old, and we lived in Brooklyn, New York.

A few days before _______ , my father was sitting on the chair, _______ , with tears in his eyes. The mailman was _______ our building and asked my father what was _______. I heard my father say that he had _______ his food and that the _______ was past due. He had tried to work as a _______ , but he wasn't a very _______ man, and the work had been too hard for him. "How much do you need?” the mailman asked. My dad said he needed $33 for the rent, and without _______ , the mailman took $50 from his wallet and ________ it to my father. My dad said, I don't know ________ I'll be able to pay you back." The mailman put an arm around my father and said it would be ________ if he paid him back or not. The mailman noticed me and said, "Isaac, things will not be this way forever. If you or your son will ________ this day, there will be times in the future when someone needs your help. Help them within your means and tell them what happened this day. This will be my ________. Merry Christmas.

As long as he lived, my father helped others when he could, and I've done my best to do my part in paying the mailman's ________ back.

6 . Aidan Anderson was raised in a family that valued community service.   His _______ deeds developed into the nonprofit organization Aidan Cares. Ten years later, he continues to_______his impact. When he isn’t working to help the community, Aidan enjoys singing and has _______ an album.

Since an early age, Aidan has shared his _______ for music with others. He was _________inspired to start Aidan Cares after he received $80 in tips for playing his harmonica（口琴）and singing at a restaurant. Aidan donated all the _________ to buy pills for children in Africa. Later on, he was offered an opportunity by his mom to play for a corporate launch event, which he _________．The event helped raise much_________，which was donated to African children. And Aidan Cares was_________. Since then, Aidan has given countless more performances to__________kids globally.

Aidan considers his mom his biggest__________ for getting into community service. They delivered__________ to the sick and homeless when he was less than two years old. Together, they lived in nursing homes when on a mission, but for them, the sacrifices were absolutely ____________. These experiences taught Aidan that ________ is only a number and that anyone can make a difference. And he is determined to ________ his experiences with other kids.

7 . Late one Sunday afternoon in September 2019, Oseola McCarty, an elderly cleaning lady passed away in the little wooden frame house where she had lived and worked most of her life. It may seem like an ordinary_________to an ordinary life, but there was something quite_________about this woman.

In the summer of 2015, McCarty gave $150,000, most of the money she had_________throughout her life, to the University of Southey Mississippi in her hometown. The money was to help other African Americans_________university.

She had_________school in the sixth grade to go to work, never married, never had children and never learned to drive because there was never any place in_________she wanted to go. All she ever had was the work which she saw as a_________. Too many other black people in the countryside of Mississippi did not have even that. She had started her saving habit as a young child when she would return from school to clean and iron_________money which she would then save.

When she retired, she decided that she wanted to use the money to give children of limited means the_________to go to university. She had wanted to become a nurse, but had to leave school to look after sick relatives and__________. When asked why she had given her life savings away, she replied, “I’m giving it away so that children won’t have to work so hard, like I did.” After news of her donation__________the media, over 600 donations were__________to the scholarship fund. One was given by a media senior manager, Ted Turner, who gave a billion dollars.

She didn't want any fuss (大惊小怪) made over her__________but the news__________and she was invited all over the United States to talk to people.__________she went, people would come up to her to say a few words or to__________touch her. She met the ordinary and the__________, President Clinton included. In the last few years of her life, before she died of cancer, McCarty was given over 300 awards. She was honored by the United Nations and__________the Presidential Citizen’s Medal.__________having no real education, she found herself with two honorary doctorates: one from the University of Southern Mississippi and the other from Harvard University. Her generosity was clearly an__________to many and proof that true selflessness does exist.

8 . Danielle was living in a new city with no local bank of her own. She desperately needed to _________ a bank to cash her paycheck. For more than two weeks, she made _______ one after another but in vain.

Danielle decided to attend a meeting at the local women’s resource center. The women there had been a strong source of encouragement since she came here. Sitting next to Danielle, Amy began to share the details of her _______ situation. She was just days away from _______ her home and her car. Her phone and electric services were both scheduled to be cancelled. Her husband had gambled away their money. She had nothing left.

As Amy described the situation, Danielle _______ God’s soft whisper in her heart: “After the meeting, give Amy twenty dollars.” Danielle immediately thought, “But I can’t. I only have forty dollars.” She heard the _______ again. Danielle knew she needed to follow. _______ the meeting concluded, she _______ her purse and quietly handed twenty dollars to Amy. Knowing Danielle’s situation, Amy was _______ to accept it at first. But as a crowd of women ________ to give Amy hugs of support, Danielle told her that God wanted her to have it. Then Danielle left.

With just twenty dollars left in her wallet, Danielle decided to try cashing her paycheck at just one more bank before ________ home. She was ________ filled with renewed confidence and optimism. She walked into the bank next to the women’s center. Moments later, the bank ________ her paycheck with no questions asked. Wearing a big smile, Danielle returned home.

Realizing true hope has no ________, she continues to be ________ for the lifetime supply that she received for just twenty dollars.

9 . I remember the day shyness took over my life. I was 14 and having a French lesson. The teacher told us to record ourselves ________ about a film. Perfect! I recorded myself ________. Then I pressed “play” to listen back. What I heard was a little kid talking. My ________ reaction was to ________ I was listening to someone else’s recording. But then, it dawned on me. That was my ________. I realized there was something ________ about me.

My little voice has made me feel really sly. And my shyness has caused me to ________ attending events, not make important ________, and keep my ideas to myself. As shy person, working from home, hiding behind my computer was ________, but the more time I spent hidden away, the more my comfort zone shrank. Everyday ________, like ordering a coffee, became increasingly awkward and ________.

And, then, one day I was at big conference and it suddenly ________ me like lightning bolt (闪电). All speakers were confident, comfortable with being ________. There were no quieter voices. But the ________ is, if the loud voices are the only ones you hear, we quieter people feel even more alienated (疏远的). The world needs mixture of personalities. Success is not just about who can shout the ________. The world needs quieter people, too. That day I chose to stop ________ and embrace my shyness. No more feeling like I needed to change who I am in order to ________. No more living a small life.

Then I created the Shy and Mighty Society, a space for shy people like me to ________, and in the process of helping others, I could also push myself ________, bit by bit. Now, I’m happy to tell people I feel shy. I’m not ________ any more. And I know that I’m not alone.

10 . Detective Ashley Jones works at a police department in England. He has recently made a significant_______- -loneliness is a serious social problem that can contribute to depression and even crimes, but it can be_______in a clever way. The_______? Chat benches.

Jones got the idea after he had talked with an elderly lady who had been cheated of her_______. The lady would get a call from a stranger every morning who _______made her believe that he was her friend, and then she lent him about “f 31,000 . Jones was_______ when she said that she didn’t actually_______ being cheated. “Otherwise, 1would never speak to another person for weeks on end,” she said.

This led Jones to the conclusion that there are too many extremely _______ people in his community, who are easy targets of cheating. So he_______ to do something about it. He__________ the police department to allow him to __________   a couple of “chat benches” in two of their local parks. Then he hung a colorful sign on each of the benches that__________:”HAPPY TO CHAT. “Just a few days after the signs went up, he found people sitting there and engaging in active and__________ conversations.

The idea is catching on__________There are now over 40 chat benches throughout England. More new chat benches have sprung up across the UK and beyond. All who participated have gained a(n)__________ outcome from getting involved. Jones’ idea has been fully __________-the “HAPPY TO CHAT” benches help__________ the invisible social barrier that keeps people from saying hello.

This effort is not just a(n) __________ at being community minded- -it’s also a __________ measure. It prevents people who are cut off from society falling victim to cheaters.

The Chat Bench is a fantastic new project that__________ those of all ages to interact and get to know each other in the future.