1 . This morning, when 1 shaved in the mirror. I found my body was growing older. There was no doubt about it My __ which used to be brown with a touch of gray was now gray with a touch of brown. There was even so __ hair left on the top of the head. My forehead wrinkles appeared when I smiled I thought about letting my __ grow for a second but I didn't really want to look like Father Christmas.

When 1 stepped back. I could see I had become __ as well. It's because while my metabolism (新陈代谢)had __ ，my eating hadn't. My muscles were painful and my body was also __ , However, the work must go on. ______ was my deepest love. An article in my __ seemed to be formed I was thinking of writing the words down in case 1 would __ them when 1 came into my study. When I looked in the mirror again. I ____ and felt a joy in my heart. 1 thought that no matter how old I looked my soul was forever ______. The truth is while I have been gradually growing older on the outside, 1 have been for a while. growing younger on the inside. I can remember how serious, __ _ and worried I was in my twenties and thirties. I often felt the burden of life was _____ heavy. But now at fifty, my heart feels __ and my days look brighter. 1 have more faith and less fear. In the end. all of our bodies will __ and die. but our soul won’t.

2 . How do young people learn best？This is something I think a lot when I am teaching foreign languages to young people.I often_______that traditional teaching_______are hardly effective for young brains to learn a foreign language.

After moving to southern Italy，I was_______to have had the chance to run a private course teaching English to children under 7.I_______children liked singing and enjoyed games so I wanted to use these tools to help my students_______English conversation skills.I found some fun and_______songs online，which they loved very much.I also found the English version of some nursery rhymes(童谣) they once were familiar with.All of them were very entertaining and helpful but_______could still not have a basic conversation in English.

I wanted these students to be_______in the language I was teaching and I also wished them to speak it.I was eager to deliver 90% of my lessons in English._______，I knew it would be difficult to get them to talk in a foreign language they________speak outside our lessons.So I had to________a simple yet effective plan.

One day I decided to prepare a dialogue in English and rather than simply getting students to repeat the phrases，I got them to chant(反复唱) ________.I discovered that chanting was a practical way to get students to speak in English—it________！

So when teaching English to young people now，I________them to make up their own chants to help them remember________or complex sentences.

3 . Inspiration can be a strange thing. You never know when it might hit. And sometimes, it can come from the most _______places.

I recently read about an author named Nnedi Okorafor. When she was in college, she had a serious spine disorder（脊椎病）. Okorafor was told that a simple operation could_________it. But when she woke up from her_________, she found that she couldn’t move her legs and was in great pain.

Okorafor got well later. But before she did, she saw strange things in her hospital room. She imagined her_________as a beast that hunted her from the shadows. But she also_________a woman-a woman who could fly. In fact, this     _______woman inspired her and helped her forget her pain. “I felt myself become_________.” she wrote in her book Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected.

We never know where we might find the inspiration to create. As a_________, most of my inspiration comes from other people’s music. But I also find_________in other places. Books, movies and__________just moments in everyday life can lead to new creations.

__________, I recently rewatched the film Blade Runner. I’ve seen it plenty times before; it’s one of my favorite movies. But this time, for some reason, I saw it__________. I decided to make that could create the same feeling as the ________. It’s not done yet, but the music I’m working on now is heavily influenced by the movie’s setting and characters.

Anything can   __________us. You just have to be__________to catch inspiration when it hits.