John is from Illinois, a state of America. He     1     (study) in a middle school. It’s 11: 40 pm now. John is still sitting on his bed and looking at the clock. He has     2     important test tomorrow, but he can’t     3     (sleep). That’s because his neighbors（邻居）are too noisy.

One of his neighbors     4    (be) Mrs. Smith in Room 201. She has three children. They are singing and dancing. How about the other neighbors? Are they noisy too? Yes. What are they     5    (do)? A young woman lives in Room 202. She is a     6     (music) and she is new here. Now, she is practicing     7    (play) the drums. Eric is John’s good friend. He lives in Room 204. He     8     (wash) his clothes with the washing machine（洗衣机）.

It’s very late now. John really wishes     9     (have) a quiet night!

Jack and Jane are brother and sister. They like different     1     (sport). Jack likes soccer. He is     2     the school soccer club, and he plays soccer every day. He     3     (have) eight soccer balls. He likes volleyball,     4    . He has two white volleyballs and three blue ones.    5     Jane doesn’t like soccer or volleyball. They’re difficult for    6     (she). She likes tennis. She thinks it’s     7     (interest). She is in the school tennis club     8     she plays it very well. She has seven tennis balls and four tennis rackets in her room. She also likes     9     (play) baseball. She has six    10     (baseball) —two yellow ones and four green ones.

A boy lost his left arm in an accident, but he didn’t give up his     1    . When he was eleven years old, he     2     (decide) to study judo（柔道）from an old great judo coach. The boy was doing well, but after three     3     (month) training, he found that the coach had told him only one action. “Sir,” the boy     4     (final) said. “Shouldn’t I learn more actions?” This is the only move you know, but this is the only action you’ll need to know. “the coach replied. Not quiet understanding, but believing in his coach, the boy kept     5     (practice).

Several weeks     6    （之后）, the coach took the boy to a competition. Surprising himself, the boy easily won his     7     (one) two matches and came to the finals. This lime, his opponent was bigger,     8     (strong) and more experienced. For a while, the boy appeared to be defeated. but soon his opponent made a big mistake, he lost his guard. Immediately, the boy used his move to defeat his opponent and won the match and the competition. He was the     9    （冠军）

On the way home, the coach     10     (tell) the boy that he taught him only the action was to let his greatest weakness become his greatest strength.

The moment Jiang Mengnan got the award (奖励) of Person Touching China for 2021, she said thanks to her parents, the star in her life.

Born in 1992 in Hunan Province, Jiang’s world became silent (寂静的) w    1     she was 6 months old. After taking some wrong medicine, she lost her hearing. Then, Jiang’s parents began to teach her to learn lip (唇) reading. They asked her to put her hands on     2     throats (喉咙) when they talked. It was a slow and hard job, but her parents never gave up.

Later, following her parents’s advice, Jiang didn’t go to a “special” school     3     a normal middle school. The school life wasn’t easy, but her parents told her not to compare (比较) herself with others because each person is different. “Everyone has his or her own problems to     4    .” they always told her.

    5     lip reading and self-study, Jiang learned to speak and was able to keep up with learning and she got into Jilin University with a high score of 615. In 2018, she got into Tsinghua University’s School of Life Sciences as a PhD, hoping to contribute (贡献) all her life to the health of humans.

More importantly, she often volunteers at special education schools, teaching children like her not to lose hope because of their disability and advising them to believe in themselves. Jiang now tries to advise disabled (残疾的) children to fight even     6     for success than normal people. Jiang says, “People with disabilities have no n    7     to feel upset. Where there is a door     8     to you, there will be a window open for you, and I believe that all problems are gifts.

Lucy was a single mother. She lived with her little son. She lost her job two years ago and they had a very     1     life. Being poor was terrible. Her heart was broken every time her son asked, “Can I have some more food please, Mom?”

One day, when her son asked the same     2     again, she decided to prepare a big meal for him with the only 6 dollars in her hand. She went to the supermarket, bought some food and cooked at home. Lucy was a shy mother,     3     she was strong-minded（意志坚强的）. “    4     is time to make a change,” she thought. She once loved     5    . So she began to write for magazines day and night to     6     some money.

Things went better. The local food bank started to provide Lucy     7     some free vegetables every month. Her son finally had enough     8     to eat. Once he told Lucy that the dishes she made were delicious. Then, an     9     came to Lucy’s mind: Why not sell my recipes on     10     Internet? She did. Many people liked her recipes and she became famous.

Now Lucy has a well-paid job and a beautiful home, but she’ll remember the days when she worked hard for a good life forever.