Thanks to the power of the Internet, many people have become superstars overnight. Their _______ is felt online in catchphrases(名言), photos and videos that _______ around the Internet. hey have gotten famous _______ the unique luck of becoming an Internet celebrity.

This global phenomenon has certainly caught on in the US, and American high school students are no _______. Alex is one of their_______.

Alex? A few months ago, he was a high school student living a   _______life. He lived in Texas in the US. He woke up at 7 am for school. He had 144 followers on Twitter. But now everybody on social media knows him. How?

You must have had this experience. You were waiting in line for the _______ in a store when you realized that your cashier was smoking _______. Well, that's exactly what happened to someone who saw Alex. He was working in a chain store one weekend and a teen girl took his photo and posted it on the Internet. She _______ a caption(文字说明) naming the store, writing, "This is Alex from Target," and teen girls soon began ________ the picture on every social media platform.

Alex, who worked in the Target store all clay, had no idea that he had become a sensation. He only felt ________ when he noticed his checkout line had gotten ________ long. Then his Target manager showed him the online photo.

Alex's life began to ________. He got thousands of followers on Twitter, a social network, within the first 24 hours and his new fans even tried to ________ which Target store he worked at. "I was getting tons of texts," Alex said. "They all said 'This is crazy, you're famous.

________ , Alex also paid the ________ for fame when he received criticism and verbal ________.   Many have taken to social media to call Alex names. Twitter is full of ________ criticizing his looks.

Alex has tried to________the criticism. He says he wants to take what he learned from his days of being bullied and help to ________teenagers who are experiencing meanness online.

When I was in the first grade, doctors found a cancer in my head. It changed my _______. After an operation, I spent a whole year getting treatment. The _______ medicine that cured the cancer made my stomach hurt. One day, when I found out a program that trains dogs to be friends with people, I _______ my parents to let me have one. They knew it had been a(n) _______ year for me and they said yes. I was really happy, but I didn’t _______ that my life was about to change again.

We went to visit a few dogs to see if any seemed _______ for me. We went outside to play with them, and I found there was _______ magical about one dog. Instead of running around and playing like the other dogs, Coco just _______ with me on the grass. Since I felt so _______, taking a rest was all I wanted to do. Coco seemed to ________ it. Right then, I started to feel better with Coco sitting next to me. I knew she was the right dog, and she came home with us.

Coco was ________ there for me and with the help of her ________, my cancer was cured. That was when I realized that I ________ to help someone else get a dog like Coco. I ________ that if I could do that, another kid with cancer could start to feel better, too.

I needed to ________ enough money for one ________ dog. I sold home-made dog biscuits and after a summer of sales, I had enough money to pay for a (n) ________. My first adopted dog, Lucky Bug, went to Krysta, who had lost most of her ________ when she got cancer. She couldn’t see the dog, ________ she could get to know him by touching and smelling him.

I ________ cancer, and I knew Lucky Bug would help Krysta the way Coco had helped me.

Not all love is said out loud. It wasn’t until I went to high school that I ________ this.

In my memories, it was Mom who held the family together. Dad was harsh and ________. Every evening, coming back home from work, he would ________me for what I’d done wrong during the day.

When I broke my leg after I________ a swing, it was Mom who ________ held me in her arms all the way to the hospital. In dead ________, Dad pulled a gurney (医院的轮床) right up to the door of the emergency room and when asked to move it away, he jumped and________: “I need this gurney. Don’t you think it’s urgent?” His voice did frighten me.

Recently, as I was________my family’s photo album with some friends, one of them asked, “What does your father look like?” At that moment, it________me that few pictures of my dad could be found. He was always the one________pictures for us. This ________why nearly all of the photos in the album were of my Mom and me.

Familiar scenes ran through my head. At my birthday parties, he just ________ himself blowing up balloons, setting up tables and trying to make everything ________. It was Mom who carried the cake with candles on it for me to ________. Dad was sitting in the corner, tired and________.

Studying in high school now, I only go home about once a month. On my________, Dad remains silent________, but Mom always tells me that it was Dad who drove to other towns to buy fresh seafood and vegetables, saying that it was ________ as long as I could enjoy the dishes he’d ________.

Perhaps Dad just doesn’t know how to ________ love. Or, I don’t know how to recognize it.