I truly feel that my mother led me here, to Morzine, and to my future as a happy wife and businesswoman. When Mum _______in October 2007, I was a cook. In December that year, a pearl (珍珠) necklace Mum had left me _______. I was distraught (忧心如焚的). Some days later, I was _______that a guy who was working with us that day “could probably have made a fortune selling the necklace he found”. _______, he returned it. When he heard how I’d _______Mum for six months before her death, he said, “Winter is coming, and I think this Christmas would be _______ for you. Why not go out to the Alps (阿尔卑斯山) for a couple of weeks?”

I came to Morzine, a small and friendly village in the Alps and immediately fell in love with it. What was supposed to be a stopgap (权宜之计) trip turned into a new _______. I kept travelling between London and here and felt _______than I had in months. In December 2008, I was _______as a hotel manager and moved here full time.

A month later, I met Paul, who was traveling here. We fell in love. In the beginning, I didn't want to discuss __________, because the sadness of losing Mum __________felt great. Paul understood that and never pushed me. But, by summer, we got married. A year later, we used his savings, and the money from the sale of Mom’s house, to build our own __________. We want to give our guests a   __________ feel, so each room is themed (以……为主题) around memories from our lives. There are also styles to remind me of Mom — a tiny chair which used to be in her bedroom is set in one room.

We are having a wonderful life and Mum feels naturally part of it, __________ there’s no way we would be here if it wasn’t for the __________ she gave me. I know she’s here in spirit, keeping an eye on us.

When DeJuan was in fourth grade, he didn’t have the money for school lunch. “I wouldn’t have made it without generous help from others,” said DeJuan, now 15. This year, DeJuan _________ money on the Internet. “I wanted to do something to _________ other kids get the help needed.” DeJuan’s _________ was to collect $200 to help parents in his community pay for their kids’ school _________. In less than two weeks, he received $400. He went back to his _________ school, McCurdy Elementary and _________ the head teacher with a check.

Now DeJuan is raising money to _________ the entire Hazelwood School District, which _________ more than 30 schools. “Sometimes, school lunch is the only meal a kid can _________,” he says on his GoFundMe page. “Food __________ is a huge issue, and I am doing what I can to __________ it.” As of September 23, donations totaled nearly $10,000.

Besides taking care of other kids’ meals, DeJuan also keeps himself __________ by running Team Tech Boy, a business he started to encourage kids’ interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). And he has __________ two STEM-themed comic books based on his own understanding of STEM education.

“__________ really warms my heart,” DeJuan says. “The fact that I’ve been able to __________ others’ lives positively gives me a really good feeling.”

Kids love percussion instruments(打击乐器). In truth, becoming a percussionist requires a great deal of _________ and practice. It was believed that one more thing was vital—a good sense of hearing. Dame Evelyn Glennie, _________,has proven that isn’t always true.

At age 8, Glennie began taking piano lessons, and she also began losing her hearing. She was totally deaf when she joined her school orchestra(管弦乐队)at 12.The moment Glennie saw the_________ in the percussion section, she knew that was where she_________. At 15,She_________ the Royal Academy of Music in London for a solo percussionist. However, never hearing of it, they were unsure about accepting her. Ever_________,she persuaded them to take her.

Since Glennie made her first professional_________ in 1985, she has gained fame as the world’s first fulltime solo percussionist and won many awards.

When asked how she_________ the music, she says, “I use all my_________, especially sight, feeling and touch.” Paying close attention to the__________ and relying on feeling the music, she performs in bare feet on a wooden platform, which__________ her to feel vibrations(震动)from the instruments through the floor.She is in__________ motion as she moves from one instrument to the next.

She has become a(n)__________ wherever she performs. As a writer observed, “She was able to__________ disabilities aren’t barriers. They’re __________ to thinking differently.”