On a recent trip to California, I was introduced to Smile Cards. I promised myself to _______ an act of kindness before I left California. I _______ thinking about it but I didn’t know what to do.

I reached the airport and the _______ was about to begin when I saw an ice cream store. I went in and told the guy at the store that I _______ to do an act of kindness. The guy, named Jose, looked confused. _______ I explained I had just attended a conference, where I was told Smile Cards and _______ to do an act of kindness. Jose showed _______. I told Jose, “Whoever is your next _______， treat them to some ice cream and then give them this Smile Card.” Jose _______ read the card and agreed with a smile that was both grateful and ________ at the same time.

Since this was my first time, I wanted to know the ________ of the receiver. “Jose, I have to catch a ________， but here is my cell phone number. Would you be ________ enough to call me and tell me the person’s reaction？” He ________．

I went to my gate, and as I was about to board, Jose ________， “I did the act of kindness. The person was very ________， and asked me to express thanks to the person who paid for it！” I again thanked Jose and boarded the flight feeling ________．

I really want to ________ this practice of kindness. I am a professor and I love my work ________ it makes a difference in the lives of others. And now, I realize that I can do that everywhere. The whole world is my ________．

Adventure is in my blood. And I had been considering how I was going to celebrate my high school graduation. I didn't just want a small _________ in the backyard, I started thinking about doing a solo（独自的）_________ somewhere out of the ordinary. I took out the _________ and drew a 1,500-mile route along which I would be _________ from the northernmost point in Norway to the southernmost section of Sweden. When I _________ my plan with my dad, he _________ as I thought he would. Because I get my adventurous _________ from him, he was all for it.

I had only been away from my _________ for three days, but there was an inner _________ going on. Part of me was homesick and doubting whether I really could _____________ it. The other part of me was ready to ___________ to myself and my family that I could do it by myself.

On the road, I met another ___________ who was quite a bit older than I was. He started his journey alone by ___________ at the southern part of Norway and just finished. I could tell he had a great sense of ___________. It encouraged me not to ___________.

As I listened to my ___________ artists on my MP4 player, I pedaled（踩踏板）with my feet. There was ___________ around me for miles. ___________, that wasn’t entirely true. There were mosquitoes millions of them. My arms were so dotted with ___________ that they looked like a topographical（地形的）map. But, however __________ it would be, nothing could stop my advance on the destination. As you know, adventure is in my blood.

My mother always says that I’m born to dance ballet (芭蕾). But that September when I was in a ballet_______and went to do a turn, something just happened. I heard it and I surely_______it.I went right to a doctor and got an MRI，which _______a lot of damage to my knee-a(n)_______ injury for a dancer.I had to have a (n) _______.

Everything had been going so well and now I had this huge injury. Dance was my life, but_______,I wasn’t going to be able to do it for a year or possibly never again.

My dad was really a big inspiration for me. He was_______a battle against cancer at that time.He showed me how to make it through a_______situation.I thought that if he could do that, I could handle this ,too. _______my operation, I had great difficulty walking, but I knew that if I really worked hard, my injury would________.

Several months later, I definitely wasn’t at my strongest, but I could ________ a class. The dancing I did was basic at first ________ that my knee could handle.

Once we started practicing in the fall, I was beginning to feel like myself again. One day, I________ the schedule and my name was next to Eliot Feld. I thought it must be a(n) ________because he is very famous in the ballet world. But it wasn’t. He________ me and taught me a lot of things. At l8,I had a solo (单独) performance! It was a big ________.I was so excited and felt like a real ballerina. After the________, Eliot said, “You know, you have a gift---and you are also made of________.” That, coming from him, was the ________compliment (赞美) I have ever received.I’d like to think that________ my injury made me strong.