John was having a daily test in the history class. As he started filling in the ________, he felt that someone was watching him. He looked over at Matt, who was staring at John’s test. Matt ________ looked away when he saw John catch him.

The next day, Mr. Garcia asked John to his office and said, “Do you know why you’re here? You and Matt have had the ________ answers in the past three tests.” John didn’t know how to answer.

Mr. Garcia continued, “I know you are friends. Matt’s going ________ a hard time at home, but that is not the ________ to cheat. I want you to think about that.”

When John came back, he found Matt and said ________, “Look, Matt, I know I didn’t cheat! I know it’s too coincidental (巧合的) that three of our papers have ________ !”

Matt’s face turned red, “I’m sorry. Many things are happening at home, ________ I just can’t focus on study. My dad lost his job, my grandmother is sick, and that means I must ________ my little sister!”

John thought about how ________ Matt was. Then he made a decision, “Well, I guess you could come to my house after school some days, and we could study together.”

The next week. Matt came to John’s house four times. They ________ their notes, and John showed Matt how he organized the facts. Matt got the ________ of learning pretty quickly.

A few weeks ________, Mr. Garcia was returning papers as usual. John looked over at Matt and saw the big 90 at the top of his paper. After class, Mr. Garcia talked to John again. “Well, I hear you’ve been giving Matt some study tips. You really helped ________,” Mr. Garcia smiled. “You’re a true friend, John. I hope you know that.”

It was impossible since John didn’t really think of Matt as a good friend. But as he thought about all the time he’d spent with him, he ________ Matt really had become a good friend.

“Ana! Milk!” Mama called.

Ana had to close her first-aid book and walked to the farmland on the mountain. Somewhere down the mountain, she saw several volunteer doctors training village nurses, and Leta was there too. “She should take me there to ________ something with them.” Ana thought. “She always thinks I’m too ________, but I’m already 15! ”

After carrying the milk back to Mama, she walked up the road. Rafi, a village boy, was trying to stand on a horse’s back. “He may make trouble again. That’s why adults don’t ________ children to do anything important,” Ana thought.

Suddenly, she heard a heavy fall and Rafi was ________ the horse. “Rafi!” All the children ran towards him. “Get Leta.” one said.

Ana shook her head. “Leta’s gone to the medical training.”

The children didn’t know ________ they could help Rafi. When Ana saw his leg hurt badly, she ________ what the first-aid book said about it.

“Vin!” Ana called one boy. “Go and get Rafi’s mama.” She turned to the others. “Give me your ________. I need it to tie his leg with.”

Ana then found a strong stick. She ________ tied the stick and Rafi’s leg together with the shirt. “I know it hurts,” Ana said softly. “But this will hold your leg still ________ you get to the hospital.”

Soon, Rafi’s mama hurried there and ________ Ana, and then she took him to the hospital. ________ standing near Ana cheered for her.

Later, Leta came to Ana’s home. “I heard what you did. I feel so ________,” Leta said. “You kept your head in a dangerous situation. That’s an important     13    .”

Ana’s face turned red. “I was afraid at that moment, but I had to be _________.”

Leta nodded. “You did a good job and you’re the ________ in our heart. Now, listen. The volunteer doctors are coming tomorrow. Would you like to join us?”

“I’d love to.” Ana answered immediately. “And I’ll bring my first-aid book.”

When I was 13, I climbed my first high mountain near where I live in Surrey, British Columbia. I was overweight at the time and ________ when I reached the top. But I loved the ________ of overcoming something bigger than myself. Soon I’d climbed nearly 100 mountains.

Two years ago, on 30 December, my friend Mel Olsen and I drove to Oregon to climb 11,240-foot Mount Hood. That day, we started at 3 a.m. It was about -10℃. Along the way, we met two other climbers, and the ________ of us continued on together. Before the final push to the top, my face felt ________ it were burning. The other climbers decided to ________, but Mel and I went ahead.

As we went higher, it became more difficult to climb on. At around 9 a.m., we reached an ice step. It was about three or four feet tall. I volunteered to go first. I placed my left foot on the ice step. I was ________ that I was safe, so I put my full weight on it. Suddenly, I heard a sound, and a whole piece of ________ broke off the step, right under my foot.

In a second, I fell backwards. I could hear Mel calling my ________ as I was rolling down the mountain. After a few _________, I found I’d fallen 50 feet. Then I took a survey of my body to see ________ I was hurt, starting with my head, then my neck and arms. For the most part, I was fine, except that I was suffering from a huge pain in my left ________ and couldn’t move.

I shouted for help, and immediately Mel and other climbers came to help me and called Mountain Rescue. Then I was taken to a ________ where I stayed for four days. The doctors told me it would be a year before my leg was well again, but I started climbıng again half a year later.

The fall has made me more careful. But the experience also made me ________ as a person. Since the ________, I’ve climbed another 60 mountains. I’m not going to let one fall ________ me from doing my favorite thing.

Chelsea Phaire is changing the world, one art kit (美术套件) at a time. The high-energy 14-year-old girl is the founder of Chelsea’s Charity (慈善). Its ________ is to give art kits to kids in all states in the US and, in the future, to kids in other countries. So far, Chelsea’s Charity has ________ thousands of kits.

Chelsea was only 8 years old when she ________ to start the charity. “My mother and I had a conversation about the fact that not everyone had chances ________ art materials,” Chelsea says, “and that made me so ________.” But it took her parents some time to agree with her about the charity. They wanted her to wait ________ she was a little older.

In 2019, Chelsea could ________ start her charity. She told her friends not to buy her presents for her 10th birthday. ________, she asked them to give her art kits for her charity. The girl also ________ money by helping out at her dad’s barbershop (理发店) to buy art kits. The art kits Chelsea puts together often go to ________ kids.

Art is an important part of Chelsea’s life. “Art has helped me ________ hard times,” she says. “I use it to express ________ and make myself feel better when bad things happen.” This is why she feels it’s so important to make sure everyone has ________ to learn art.

Chelsea says ________ is also a great way to release (释放) bad feelings. “If everyone knows how to change bad feelings and thoughts into art, then we can solve problems in a(n) ________ way,” she adds. “You never know unless you try.”

Last week, I was creating a birthday book for my dad about our family’s store. I worked forever, making each picture as ________ as possible. Every time I messed up, I started all over again, so the floor under the kitchen table was covered with half-finished drawings. My little ________ came to help me draw. Mom told us to move the paper to the recycling bin ________ completing the project.

At that time my friend Mareya ________. Her guitar teacher lives in my neighborhood, and she sometimes stops by after her lessons. She invited me to go and play in the ________ together, but I said it was freezing outside. ________, Mareya thought it was the perfect weather for not getting overheated. As soon as we reached the park, the sky filled with grey clouds and ________ started pouring down. Just as I was about to come back to the birthday book, I was surprised to find all the half-finished drawings were wet in front of the recycling bin, ________ my once-perfect pictures. How angry I got with my brother who threw them all away!

My mom was so ________ that she found balloons in our craft (工艺) box and helped us get set up. Since my birthday book was ________ to be about the store, the balloons were the perfect shape for big apples, peaches and oranges. We ________ to work together to make one big basket full of different shapes of balloons. It turned out to be really ________.

There’s a pretty happy ending to what was almost a sad story. My dad ________ our present so much that he keeps it right next to the checkout counter in the store, for everyone to see.

Mareya’s and Mom’s ways of looking at things really did ________. I know it’s disappointing to have your best artwork destroyed (毁坏). In fact, you might want to keep the things you really ________ in a very safe place. Whatever you do, do not give up being an artist.

10 . Mr. Fogarty slowly looked over the rows of boys, each holding his breath and praying (祈祷) it’s not his turn. Mr. Fogarty’s eyes passed over them and they could _________ again. His eyes landed on me and my heart jumped.

This was what I _________ every Tuesday during jazz practice. I was fine during practice _________ it’s time for each of us to stand and play our instrument alone, with everyone else watching. I always prayed for Mr. Fogarty to _________ me, but he never did. _________, he called me out in front of everyone, every time.

Mr. Fogarty mouthed, “You’re _________.”

My partner smiled. He knew how much I _________ this moment each week and in some way it gave him _________ to see me sweat (流汗) .

I prayed that the kid before me would never stop when he finished his solo (独奏曲). My heart beat so hard that I could _________ breathe as I stood up.

I started to breathe out the first notes (音符). I held them as long as I could and then I looked at the music, hoping to __________ the safe pattern of musical notes that told me what to do. But no, I had to trust myself. Suddenly the notes on the page started jumping at me, each coming so fast I was not __________ which to play first. So I played them all. All my thoughts were musical notes, and they were moving so fast that I didn’t have time to __________ what to play next. I just let my hands go. I was so caught up in my solo that I didn’t __________ how long I had been playing.

Mr. Fogarty gave me a signal and, suddenly, I __________. And I freed my hands from the saxophone (萨克斯管) which was still warm from my __________ fingers.

My band teacher was smiling at me satisfyingly.