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Jan Tchanani, an English teacher in Brimingham, UK, suddenly developed a serious illness. At age 50, she was out of work. At first, she felt quite     1    (anxiety). She tried to find a way out, then she discovered     2    (surf) the Internet could help her feel less lonely and bored. She joined     3    online group where she could talk about her problems and get support and advice     4    others. She realized that one of the greatest     5    (benefit) of the Internet was its ability to remove the distance     6    usually exists between people.

She     7    (inspire) by the people online and began to teach some older people to use the Internet. She and her friends organized activities and raised money     8    (pay) for private teachers. Also, Jan has started taking online classes to learn more about how to use the Internet to make the society     9    (good). Jan’s life has been     10    (great) improved by the Internet!

【推荐2】阅读下面短文,在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The year was 1956.My husband and I and our nine-month-old baby,Pam,moved from St.Louis to Fort Worth,Texas.We found a     1     (love) apartment and settled in quickly.One chilly morning,I     2     (head) for the laundromat (洗衣店).I turned     3     the engine of our car     4     (warm) up the car and put Pam in her car seat,    5     back then was in the front seat.I locked the car door.Then I put the basket of laundry in the back seat and locked the other door.    6     (sudden),I realized I had locked the     7     (key) and my baby in the car and locked     8     (I) out.I immediately went into panic mode.My neighbors had gone to work,and there were no cell phones back then.As I looked up the street,I saw a red Ford pickup     9     (drive) toward me.The driver stopped when he saw me crying and waving my hands.The man on the passenger side of the truck got out and said,“I have a car just like this one;let me see if my key will open the door.” It did!I have told so many people that     10     passenger in a red Ford pickup was so kind.

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Mac was cycling along a road. With a heavy camp bag, he wasn't moving very fast. Suddenly he heard loud breathing behind him.     1     ( look) to his side, he was     2     ( terrify) to find it wasn't a dog but a wolf that was running after him. He reached     3     the spray in the bag. With one hand on the handlebar, he fired it. A bright red color covered the wolf and it fell back shaking its head. But a minute     4    (late) it was by his side again. He sprayed     5         second time, the wolf falling back again but only to quickly restart     6     (it) attack. The wolf was getting closer. Mac waved and yelled at passing     7    ( motorist) but meanwhile rode hard. He knew clearly he must be careful not to slow down.     8    ( fortunate) , Paul and Becky were driving along the same road when they spotted the scene. They drove toward Mac. When the car was in front of him, Mac jumped off the bike and dashed for the back door. Paul     9    ( open) the door so as to let Mac in. It was quite a while     10     Mac became calm and thanked them.

【推荐1】The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 has inevitably captured the attention of the world because so little of its fate is known.     1     hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 continued at full speed, with more planes and ships joining the multinational search as the time    2    (leave) to find the plane’s “black-box” flight     3    (record) runs low. Chinese, Australian and New Zealand aircraft claimed     4    (find) objects in recent days,     5     items which were fished out of water so far have turned out unrelated to the missing plane.

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A supermarket employee in Illinois is being called a hero after     1     (run) across the store’s parking lot to save a baby     2     was in a runaway shopping cart (购物车).

Ben Mazur, a worker at a Schnucks supermarket in Alton, was pushing shopping carts when he heard a car horn honking(喇叭鸣响) repeatedly. “It turns out, the     3     (own) of the car was trying to get someone’s attention because there     4     (be) a runaway cart rolling down the store’s parking lot,” according to the supermarket manager.

Mazur quickly noticed it wasn’t just a cart－there was also a baby placed in the child seat. “The mom was putting     5     (she) other kids in the car and didn’t realize what was happening,” Mazur explained. “I stopped     6     I was doing, ran across the lot and pulled the cart back before it rolled into a stop sign.”

Now, both the manager and customers speak     7     (high) of Mazur. “We have a slanting(倾斜的) parking lot so carts can get rolling fast,” said Alton Co-Manager Tom Moore. “Quick thinking on Ben’s part saved the baby. Congrats, Ben, you’re     8     brave man!” “Not all     9     (hero) wear capes(披肩），”a customer added. “You ran     10     (fast) than a speeding baby!” another joked. “Good job, Ben.”