Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future and wanted to make a________in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that. That’s________I learned about the Lighthouse Project.

I started my________as a Lighthouse Project volunteer by reading as much as I could about the experiences of previous________. I knew it would be________, and that I would be away from my family and friends for a very long time.________, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project________.

Adam was outgoing at junior high school. However, after he entered senior high school, he became_________easily. His parents were anxious about his_________. But whenever they tried to_________with him, he would shout, "Leave me alone!” Then he shut himself in his room for days, refusing to talk. This_________them. What if he became ill? So they changed their_________. When they found the exchange program which welcomed senior students of different nationalities to_________in China, they asked his teacher to talk him into joining it.

Before he came to China, he had been_________about Chinese kung fu. So he_________for a kung fu course. On the first day, after the female teacher’s lecture, he did the movements_________. He was not sure how well he would learn. However, with the teacher’s encouragement, his__________grew. As a guy with a strong personality, he__________hard and soon became the top on campus. Later he created his own style of kung fu and__________flash cards to show the__________. He kept improving the movements until at last, he made them perfect. More and more students__________him and he became famous.

He’ll return home next year. His__________is to set up a company or a formal organization to teach Chinese kung fu, I’m sure his dream will come true.

2015 was the first year when the Blue Jays had made it to the playoffs (季后赛) since their World Series win in 1993.

That year, baseball gave me a whole new way to _________ with my 9-year-old son. He got _________ about playing baseball, and we started watching the Blue Jays games together, _________ the language of baseball. Over the years, my son’s baseball devotion has pretty much _________ our lives. Then came the pandemic (流行病). This spring was a(n) _________ time, but watching the Blue Jays on TV _________ cured me. And the repetitive pattern of the game was comfortable and of much _________. No, you don’t know what’s going to happen, _________ you do know there will be baseball.

By summer, we were back at the _________ to watch my son’s team play. That game __________ my spirits. It helped me feel like __________ was going back to normal. Singing O Canada, __________ for the Jays and feeling the crowd’s positive energy helped me feel like __________ and celebration were possible again.

So, years from now, when I hear the names from this season’s team, I will be __________ back to this time: to the pandemic, and to the real __________ of being a baseball fan.