Darlene Leeson was in hotel isolation(隔离)after returning to Australia from a trip to Hawaii. She was calling a friend, joking about the idea of putting a(n)________on her hotel window as it faced offices across the road. Getting the gentle________of her friend, Leeson wrote on some notes: "Day 4 ISO need________. Room 623" and then stuck them up.

The first________from those in the outside world was laughter. She got a few________and waves from office workers and workers on a nearby rooftop. "It was more done to________myself during the boring isolation," she said. "I wasn't thinking anyone would take it________."

Then her hotel room phone rang. "I________thought it was the hotel ringing to tell me to________them off. It was the wife of one of the rooftop workers who had rung reception asking to get________to my room," she said. "They then asked what chocolate I________."

The traveller said she was in________and didn’t make her________of treat clear. "We chatted and she said I could________an Uber delivery soon." Within an hour, the chocolate arrived. Soon, TimTams (a brand of chocolate)arrived for her at reception. Leeson later________a woman in a nearby office building made the________delivery. More chocolate had arrived, and a group of workers had all________.

"Being in hotel isolation, I can't________my room where there are only a few short minutes when the sun can________," Leeson said. "Though, the kindness of these________brightened my day beyond any amount of sunshine possible."

One night, when I was eight, my mother told me that her company needed her to work in Brazil—a country far away from our home. In order to make us live a better life in the future, she decided to go. After my mother left, I ______ her very much. For almost four years, my mother would call us from Brazil every day. Every evening I'd ______ wait for the phone to ring and then tell her every detail of my day. A phone call, however, could never take the place of her presence, so I still felt______ at times.

During my fourth-grade Christmas break, we flew to Brazil to visit her. Looking at her large empty ______ , I became aware of how lonely my mother must have been in Brazil, too. It was then that I started to______ the tough choices she had to make on balancing family and work. Faced with difficult decisions, she used to tell me that I must make the best out of the situation with a ______ attitude.

Back home, I reminded ______ that what my mother could do, I could, too. If she______ to live in Brazil all by herself, I, too, could learn to be independent ( 独立的). I learned how to take care of myself and set high but achievable ______.

My mother is now back with us, but I will never______ what the experience has really taught me. The separation between us has proved to be good and helpful for me.

After their business trip, John and Mary returned, eager to see their lovely children. As they drove into their hometown feeling glad to be back, they noticed ________, and they went off their usual route to see what it was. They found a ________ in flames. Mary said, “Oh, well, it isn’t our fire, let’s go home.”

But John ________ closer and screamed, “That home belongs to Fred Jones who works at the plant. He wouldn’t be ________ work yet, maybe there is something we could do.” “It has nothing to do with us,” Mary ________.

But John drove up and stopped and they were both horror-stricken to see the whole house in ________. A woman on the lawn was screaming, “The children! Get the children!” John ________ her by the shoulder saying, “Get a hold of yourself and tell us where the children are!” “In the ________,” cried the woman. “Down the hall and to the left.”

In spite of Mary’s disagreement, John ________ for the basement which was full of smoke and ________ hot. He found the door and two children. ________ he left he could hear some more sobbing. He ________ the two badly frightened children into ________ arms and started back asking how many more children were down there. They told him ________ more and Mary grasped his arm and screamed, “John! Don’t go back! It’s ________! That house will fall down any second.”

________ he ran into the smoke-filled hallway and at last he found both children. As he climbed up the ________ stairs, the thought went through his mind that there was something strangely ________ about the little bodies next to him, and at last when they came out into the ________ and fresh air, he found that he had just ________ his own children.

The baby-sitter had left them at this home while she did some shopping.