My classmate Michael studied very hard     1    he went to senior high school. Every day he worked     2    everyone else in my class left the classroom. He said he wouldn’t stop trying     3     he got satisfying scores in his studies. Hard     4     he tried, he made little progress. But he didn’t lose heart at all     5    he believed as long as he persisted he would succeed one day.     6    time went by, he made improvements in his studies and he was admitted to a university in Beijing at last. We had a get-together     7    we started our new life in university. We both had got offers from universities,     8    we had a very good time. When we stood     9    we used to play and study, we couldn’t help thinking of our happy old days. We believed we would never forget each other ,    10    we would go or whatever we would do.

On the first day of her work, Sally found that a class full of problems was waiting for her. She was told six teachers     1     (quit) before her. When she walked into the classroom, it was chaos：two boys were fighting in a corner，yet     2     rest of the class seemed not to notice them; some girls were chatting and some were running about with paper, food packages and other garbage     3     (leave) everywhere.

Sally walked onto the platform,     4    (pick) up a piece of chalk and wrote on the blackboard：“Rule 1：We are family！” All students stopped     5     (look) at her. And she continued with Rule 2，Rule 3... In the following weeks, Sally worked out 10 class rules and posted them       6     the wall of the classroom. She patiently explained all the rules to the students and required everyone to follow them.

    7     (surprise), Sally was not driven out like the former teachers；    8    ， she won respect from the students. Over the years, she has witnessed gradual changes in the class. At the graduation ceremony, just     9     she expected, she was very proud to stand with a class of care, manners and     10     (confident)．

Linda is a really hard-working student, but her grades     1     (fall) since three months ago. This is because she sometimes has trouble concentrating     2     her study. She also refuses     3     (talk) with her teachers and friends. What’s worse, she not only feels     4     (tire) all the time but has difficulty in falling asleep.     5     she is going through is brought to her mother’s attention. Therefore, her mother asks her what happens to her, but she just says she feels like     6     (cry).

As     7     matter of fact, Linda is suffering from clinical depression (临床抑郁症). It can be described as a mood which is so low that it affects your daily life     8     (bad). The first signs of it in teens are     9     (poor) school reports than before, learning difficulties and staying away from classmates and teachers. If you have these signs, don’t worry. There are many effective     10     (way) to deal with this problem, such as medicine, small talk, more exercise and a balanced diet.

Today after work, as I was driving home, I realized my brake wasn't working. I started to panic and managed to pull over,     1     (luck) without crashing into anything or anyone. As I was struggling to figure out what to do,     2     middle-aged black man knocked on my car window and asked me     3     I needed help. I rolled down the window and explained to him what had happened. After     4     (check) my car, he said it could be that I ran out of the brake liquid because that had happened     5     his daughter's car. I thanked him for his help. This man later came back with a bottle of brake liquid. Not only did he go and buy it with his own money, he also     6     (help) me open up the hood(引擎盖) and put the liquid in. Then he knelt down on the wet ground to inspect the brake seal in the rain. I offered to pay for the brake liquid, but he refused     7     (take) my money. I reached out to shake his hands, which     8     (cover) with grease(润滑油) from my car. I was so     9     (thank)to him and I would never forget his     10     (kind).

Jo is an Australian woman who worked as a volunteer teacher in Papua New Guinea. The school     1     she worked was a bush school, whose classrooms were made of bamboo and grass. There’s no electricity     2     running water. It took some students about two hours     3     (get) to school. The other day, Jo     4     (show) the boys an experiment when the mixture was bubbling and the boys started jumping out of the windows. Jo doubted     5     she was making any     6     (different) to the children’s lives.

Jo and Jenny visited Tombe’s home. When they arrived, Tombe’s mother started crying “ieee ieee” and his father led them to his house, a low bamboo hut with grass     7     (stick) out of the roof. Jo loved listening to the family talking     8     (soft) to each other in their language, even though she couldn’t participate much     9     the conversation. That night Jo and Jenny slept on a newly made platform. They left the village the next morning and they were exhausted as they dragged     10     ( them ) down the mountain towards home.