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    It was Thanksgiving morning. In the crowded kitchen of my small house I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey 1the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in 2clothes and thin little sandals(凉鞋), staying together at the door on the top step.

    “Any old 3 ， lady?” asked one of them. I was4 . I wanted to say “no” until my eye 5their sandals, which were wet with heavy snow.

    “ 6and I'll make you a cup of hot cocoa.”They walked 7and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks on the8 . I served them cocoa and bread with jam to fight9the freezing cold outside. 10 I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget for Thanksgiving Day.

    The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a 11 voice，“Lady, are you 12?” “Am I rich? Pity. No!”

    I looked at my old sofa covers. The girl put her cup back in its saucer(托盘)13and said,  “Your cups match your saucers.” Her voice was flat with a need that no amount of food could supply. They left after that， 14their papers against the wind. They hadn't said “Thank you.” They didn't need to. They had 15me that I had so much to be grateful for. Plain blue China cups and saucers were 16worth five pence. But they matched.

    I tasted the potatoes and the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a good and steady job—these 17 ， too.

    I moved the chairs back from the fire and 18 the living room. The muddy(沾上泥的) 19 of small sandals were still wet on my floor. Let them remain for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to 20how rich I am.

    Despite the great progress in medical science, human beings are constantly attacked by cancer, which means death. A woman named Bonnie suffered a 1of discomforts caused by the treatment of cancer. She didn't regard cancer as a 2 disease, but a laughing matter. She treated it in a humorous way. To put it in3way, she is teaching people that even though cancer isn't4 we can treat it in a humorous way.

    Her second child was going to be born three months away5she was diagnosed with cancer. Suddenly, a6 mother turned into a helpless woman afraid for her own7 It was after she had had her baby8that she had an operation9 came chemo (化疗) and her life seemed to be made up of fears and10 But the11moment in her life came after she lost all her hair and a free wig(假发) arrived. She12 it on as her older son Kyler watched.

    “That was when I decided how to 13 it: crying over this bad wig or laughing about it14way would make15remember it.” Bonnie said. She spent a lot of time looking for anything funny from cancer patients. She got a lot out of collecting16 stories. She started laughing a lot, finding it the perfect medicine. Using herself as a bald (光头) model, Bonnie 17 to design her own greeting cards and calendars, making fun of the sufferings of chemo.

    “To have joy, we badly18 to laugh,” she said.

    Clearly, you can increase your confidence to 19 over any disease and trouble20 laughing.

    I was walking home from school one day and it happened to be a particularly cold and windy day. It was 1and I was crazy enough to forget my hats and scarf. You can imagine my cheeks were rosy 2 and my hands were as numb as they can be.

    All of a sudden, an old lady 3 up beside me and asked if I would like a ride 4. At first, I said it was OK and her 5smile melted(融化) away the thought that I should never talk to 6! We had an amazing chat and she was just 7 a good woman. She told me her 8and she dropped me off.

    I didn't see her or talk to her for about a month and one night as I9 her kind gesture, I decided to return the favor. So, I made a lot of 10 and walked down to her house with my friend. At first I was a bit 11she wouldn't remember me or think that I was a bad man who poisoned cookies but luckily, I was 12 wrong. She was so happy, and she hugged me and kissed me and seemed so 13 that someone would do something like that!

    When I got home my mom told me that she 14and told my mom on the phone that she 15because she was so touched. She said she would never 16 the kindness that was given to her! That filled me with such 17! There really is nothing else joyful like helping 18and making someone's day 19!

    Let us never forget the joy we get 20 giving others a hand!

    Every evening, I take a walk around the neighborhood. It has become a (an) 1. Even if I have already walked with someone or done another type of 2. I get out for this last mile or more. This is my time to 3 the day.

    Walking at 4 through my neighborhood brings the sounds of the 5 singing in the pond nearby and the sounds of the city train in the distance, occasionally interrupted by faraway 6 coming to and from the hospital. The sounds of these aircrafts remind me that whoever is being7 is probably having a much 8 day than me.

    Sometimes these walks are my way to recall events on the recent days. Or they are a way to 9 a problem or to be creative without interruptions of day-to-day life at home. 10 on other days, I try to be in the moment and just listen and look around in wonder, or be in gratitude for all the 11 things in life. Tonight when I walked, I just listened. When the moon is out and full or it's a dark evening with the stars shining, I love trying to 12 into the universe and 13 what is really out there.

    Everyone has a story. I spend some time with Mike. He has already walked 1,200 miles this year. 14 being diagnosed (诊断) with diabetes (糖尿病) four years ago, he started walking 5 or 6 15 every day. He has 16 64 pounds and his life has 17 a lot. On this 18, I also got to know Phillips. She walks every day. She is considering hiking the Camino de Santiago after watching the movie “The Way”.

    Just as last month has come and gone, this 19 will come and go. This is a 20 to go out today, take a walk and think of how you're going to pursue your dreams.

    Hunter Shamatt lost his wallet while he was on a flight from Omaha to Denver earlier this month. Upon realizing that his wallet was lost, he 1 the airline to see if anyone had turned it in — but fruitlessly. 2the wallet contained his ID, a signed paycheck, $60 in cash, etc, he feared the worst.

    Two days after the flight, however, Hunter was 3 to receive a package in the mail from an anonymous (匿名的) sender. Inside was his wallet — 4 an additional $40 in cash. "I rounded your cash up to an even $100 so you could celebrate the 5 of your wallet.", read a letter that was enclosed with the package.

    Hunter's mother, Jeannie, posted a photo of the 6 to social media in hopes that they would be able to track down the sender. All they had to go on was that the letter was 7 from Applied Underwriters in Omaha and the sender's initials were signed "T.B". The sender was later 8 as Todd Brown, who was delighted to "have a little fun" with helping out a hard­working stranger.

    "I saw he was just a kid, 20 years old. He had a paycheck in there, so I 9, 'Well, he's doing his best to make ends meet.' " said Brown. "Hunter was very 10. He told me he has some student loans to pay within two days so the 11 was right," Brown added, "He 12 it was gone forever. So when he opened it, he just started screaming, 'No way! No way!'"

    Brown says that he often tries to do good things without any recognition; that's why he didn't sign his 13on the letter, but Jeannie later insisted on 14 him on social media. Jeannie wrote on Facebook, "This story is more about rebuilding 15 in people than anything."

When I was 20 years old, I had a big dream in my mind. I wanted {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (travel) around Africa with my backpack. So I left my hometown with confidence(信心) and arrived {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Cape Town, not really sure what to do next. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (lucky), before my trip started, I met a kind; old Nigerian man. He gave me the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (good) travel advice I had ever received: "Be like a student on your way around the world."

The advice sounded simple, but {#blank#}5{#/blank#} really changed my idea about traveling. He helped me realize that travel is about {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (learn) cultures. It's far too easy to go into {#blank#}7{#/blank#} new country and believe your ways are better.

"But if you. study, ask questions, and try to learn from the locals, you {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (have) far richer experience," he promised.

After seven {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (month) of full backpacking in Africa from Cape Town to Cairo, I realized having a student-like mind helped me learn a lot, which {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (satisfy) me more than any other trip that ever did to me.