Our apartment has been hit by a “hurricane”. Every bit of furniture is _______ with paper chains, scissors, tape and modeling clay. _______, I’m so exhausted tonight, recovering from a surgery.

The phone rings — for the sixth time in less than an hour. We know it is my mother, again. A stroke claimed her brain, but not her life. She is troubled by a severe mental _______— she has no idea that she has _______ the things she is about to say a million times. Nor can she recall I had a _______.

Each time she calls, I play a game with _______ called “How Good a Person Can I Be?” I’ve won five rounds of the game tonight; I am due for a _______ this time.

“Mom!” I _______. “You are not being removed from your home! And we visited two days ago!” Silence. Then: “I was only calling to say hi.” My mother continues, “Why are you yelling?”

I sink into the couch, aware that my daughter is _______. She hears me scold my mother and lose my ________. I have not only failed at being a good person; I have failed at being a good ________ to my daughter.

“Can I talk to Grandma Ellie?” My five-year-old ________ the phone. ________, I hand it over.

Then, I hear my mother ________through the receiver. “Sweetheart! How are you? Did you go to school today?”

What magic is this? All she says is “Hi, Grandma,” Out of the phone comes a waterfall of good ________. My mother tells her how much she loves her and how lovely her voice sounds.

I was tired and angry; but now I am ________inside, watching my kindergartner ________ her fragile grandmother with such skillfulness. I’m fascinated by their ________.

The mess in our apartment still ________ around me. I listen to my daughter whispering to her grandmother, caring for her with extreme ________.

When 15-year-old Amy began working on her family’s farm in the early morning, she was greeted by a rare sight - an extremely large eagle with a broken leg. “He was ________ and trying to fly, which panicked (惊慌) me a little because he was the ________ of my sheepdog,” she said. “I’m seriously not a bird person. I can ________ cows that weigh nearly a ton but won’t go near a bird, I won’t even go near chickens.”

Seeing the bird ________ in trouble, Amy quickly called for help. ________ her own fear of birds, she was sad to see a local eagle hurt. “I rang my mum immediately. I couldn’t ________ him there. I felt really bad for him because he was all wet and cold,” Amy said.

Since the eagle was living in a nest on Amy’s farm, it has ________ the teenager. But ________ the rescuers from Wildlife Rescue South Coast arrived it gathered all of his ________ to give them a good chase, alert (警惕的) to the new people. Rescuer Amara Mohan immediately noticed the eagle had broken his leg, and after three hours of struggling it was finally ________ and eventually taken to Sydney’s Small Animal Specialist Hospital for a (an) ________. A pin and plate were put in his left ________, a delicate operation on such a small bone.

Ms. Mohan said that after the operation, the eagle was ________ well at Raptor Recovery Australia. “It is really bright; it’s using his right leg and putting more ________ on it now,” Ms. Mohan said. Amy hopes all is going well and the eagle can be returned to her family’s farm. “I’ve done a lot of ________ things on the farm—saving the eagle is one of them.” She said.

My daughter and her husband rented a house without furniture and just decided to “wing it” (临场发挥) for lack of money. Soon after that, they saw a sofa ________ for free that was about 45 minutes from where they live. The ad said whoever ________ arrived there would get it. They were the first but it was too ________ to fit in all in one go. They were ________ for a while.

Then an old man from across the road ________ with a tape measure (卷尺) and a couple of oranges from his ________ to give them. The tape measure showed them there was no ________ to load it in the truck. And they would have to make two ________. The old man said he would ________ it with a sheet and make sure no one took the other part. When they returned, he said someone else had tried to get it but he had ________ them.

Then this man told them his story. He came from a poor country and grew up with a dirt floor, 6 siblings (兄弟姐妹) and no ________. He said people often forgot how ________ it was for young people starting out, but he ________ them for seizing the available opportunities. Besides the oranges from his yard, this old man also ________ them $50 and suggested spending it in doing something nice for themselves and others. The ________ of this old man had my daughter in tears when she told the story to me.