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I grew up in one of the poorest communities on the south side of Atlanta, US and was raised by a single mother who didn't finish 3rd grade. Not many people expected much of me, so I had to expect something of     1    .

On my 13th birthday, I bought a poster of Harvard and put it up in my room. Being at Harvard was     2     I dreamt about all the time though many people thought it was far     3     my reach. I would bum the midnight oil,    4       (bury) in piles of books. I'd begin my day by asking myself these two questions, "What do I want in my life?" and "Are the things I am doing today going to get me closer to that life?"

    5     (remind) myself of my goal each made it easy to say no to the same choices I saw my peers making, because those paths wouldn't have taken me closer to my goal. Asking myself those questions gave me the courage and energy to study just one more hour on my SATs when my friends were asleep; and it gave me the determination to submit（提交）just one more scholarship     6     (apply) when 180 others had already turned me down.

On March 31st, 2011,     7     email arrived from Harvard. The first word was "Congratulations!" A

month later, Harvard invited me to visit the campus     8     for the first time I got to see inside Sanders Theater, tour Widener Library and eat dinner in Annenberg Hall. I couldn't wait to start my     9     (explore) here.

Who you are today is the result of the decisions that     10     (make) earlier, and who you will be tomorrow will be the result of the choices you make today. Who do you want to be tomorrow?

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I was returning to my home and stuck in the traffic. Among the busy     1    (vehicle) was an ambulance, whose driver was trying     2    (get) out of traffic jams and the patient was fighting with his illness. Some people were giving space to the ambulance but others were not,     3     shows that there are good people in the world and there are     4    (self) people as well. If the ambulance could not find the way, the patient had to risk     5     (lose) his life on the way

Each life on the earth is Important, whether it is a human being or an animal difference if we think     6    (much) of others than of ourselves? Maybe it is only for 15 minutes very day, then many mistakes can     7    (avoid). When people notice our kindness, they will return it one day. So learn to show our kindness. Trust me. I have tried and     8     works wonder honest.

The true value of life is not in what we get     9     what we give. If we can give more than receive, we’ll     10    (strength) the harmony among people and live in a better world

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What on earth does happiness mean? I can’t give you its exact definition, but I am sure    1    you love and help others, you’ll get it.

I’ll never forget an old lady,     2    lives in a small house alone. It’s said that her husband and her son    3    (die) in a road accident years ago. Her life is bitter, but she often helps others with a smile. Whenever it snows, she is always the first     4    (clean) the paths.

She looks after several children     5    (live) nearby. Perhaps she is unlucky, but I think she is a happy person. Her life is full of     6    (laugh) and love.

But I’m sad to see some people getting their happiness in bad ways. They talk     7    (noise) in cinemas and meeting rooms; they destroy trees to enjoy     8    (they) and they laugh at others’ shortcomings. Perhaps they feel happy     9    that time, but they will never get true happiness because they have lost their personality already.

Now I know     10    happiness is. It means kindness, love and unselfishness. Above all, I have come to understand that bringing happiness to others is getting ourselves happiness.

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Elias’ Story

Elias, a poor worker in South Africa, said that the time     1     he first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of his life. In 1952, he went to see Nelson Mandela, a black lawyer for advice. Mandela was generous with his time, for    2     Elias was very grateful.

He began school at six, but he had to leave school two years later     3     his family couldn’t afford the school fees and the bus fare.    4     a result, he had very little education. After     5     (try) hard, he got a job in a gold mine. However, to live in Johannesburg, one had got to have a passbook. Not having one ,because he was not born there, he worried about    6     he would become out of work.

Then Mandela helped him, telling him how to get the correct papers     7     (stay) in Johannesburg. He became more hopeful about his future and later joined the ANC Youth League     8    (organize) by Mandela. Just as Mandela put it, the blacks were so badly treated that they had reached a stage     9     they had almost no rights at all.

In 1963, he helped Mandela blow up some government buildings. He knew that only by answering violence     10     violence could they achieve their dream of making black and white people equal.

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In my opinion. We should try our best    1     (realize) our goals even though there     2     (be) little hope. The efforts seems to be the lights in the darkness.

I used to be    3     shy girl in my primary school. I was weak in English at that time, especially for    4     (speak) English. So I was afraid to answer the teacher’s questions during English classes. After I entered my dream middle school, something     5     (change) . I started to read many     6     (interest) English stories and my English teacher was patient to help me a lot. I studied hard in class and practiced by watching English films and listening to English songs in my free time. Little     7     little, I found     8    more and more interesting to learn English. I could even talk with my classmates    9     (fluent) in English and I was not shy any more. At last, I got high grades in English and I had     10     (confident) to do it better in the future.

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Sarah is a senior at high school. Just like normal senior students, she looks forward to     1    (go) to college after graduation. But she is also quite different to her classmates; Sarah is a part-time model,     2    can make her quite a lot of money.

Recently, Sarah was told that the modelling agency wanted to give her a full-time contract (合同).     3     she decided against it, preferring to follow her dream of studying engineering at college instead.

To concentrate     4     her final exams, Sarah has turned down several     5    (invitation) to modelling events since then. But she hasn’t given up on modelling completely. In fact, she is     6     (confidence) that she will continue to model part-time throughout her college life in the future.

Sarah says, “My dad thinks I should take the offer now. But at the moment, school     7     (come) first. Modelling is     8    (certain) interesting, but it’s not my dream. I want to get     9     good education rather than be left with     10     to do when I can’t model any more.”