1 . Hey, That’s Me!

Dolls are usually seen as a toy that can be played with. However, Amy Jandrisevits knows the ______ of a good doll “Dolls have a power we don’t ______ understand,” she told The Today Show. It’s a(an) ______ she got while working as a social worker in the childcare center using dolls to help her young patients ______ to their changing medical situations. Many of the kids ______ themselves in those dolls. But for the kids without a leg or who had lost their hair, there were none they could ______.

So, seven years ago, when a friend mentioned that her child was under depression, Jandrisevits knew what might help the youth through this ______ period. She made a doll by hand— using fabric(纤维), stitching(缝补), and markers — and sent it off. After the friend ______ a photo online of the happy child and doll, another woman asked Jandrisevits to make a doll that looked like her baby, who was ______ a leg.

Word ______ , and soon Jandrisevits was making dolls for children with scars, birthmarks, facial deformities(缺陷) in short, a doll that looked like them. She ______ her job and started a nonprofit, A Doll Like Me. Working out of her home, it ______ Jandrisevits about seven hours to make each doll. A GoFundMe page helps her ______ costs and allows her to donate her services. She hasn’t asked for any money for a doll since she began her nonprofit.

As she explains on her GoFundMe page, “Every kid, ______ gender, race, age, medical issue, or body type, should look into the ______ face of a doll and see their own ”

5 . Five years ago, a friend asked me to look after his cat while he went on holiday, and I realized the idea had potential on a bigger scale. So I moved to London and decided to ________ cat sitting.

For me, cat sitting is about ________ two groups of people who need what the other can offer. I get to stay in people’s ________ without rent while they’re on holiday. The owners get ________ cat sitting. It also means that there is someone to keep an eye on their homes while they are away. It seems a fairer ________ than just watering plants or walking dogs — I’m more of a cat person.

I have always loved cats, and their gentle temper makes them ideal ________ for someone working from home. Cats have such different personalities, so it’s not surprising that I ________ more with some than others. An owner once told me not to ________ her cat to sit on me, as it had happened only once. But just four days later, the cat came over and sat on my lap. I sent her a photo!

Cat sitting helps me with my ________ anxiety disorder, too. I want to be around people, but sometimes I can’t. Sometimes, this anxiety even ________ me from leaving the house. But since becoming a cat sitter, my mental health has ________. Having my own ________ gives me the power to plan my day. I can recharge when I need to and can go out and meet people when I want. The cats have ________ helped.

Now I have stayed in 25 houses, ________ 30 cats and saved more than 10,000 pounds that would have gone on ________. One day I want to save up for a flat so I can have a cat of my own.

7 . When Danay Ferguson first competed against men in golf (高尔夫球运动), she was not confident. And the male golfers did not want to golf with her and not take her seriously. Then, she _________ her first game. After that, she had all the confidence to keep playing and _________ the men.

Danay is the only _________ professional golfer in Senegal. She was _________ to golf by her cousin and immediately fell in love with it. Luckily, she got a chance to _________ in Morocco. With the financial _________ from her French golf partners, she spent three months training. After returning to her hometown, she set off again for Morocco and even got a _________ there, teaching children at a local golfing school. She stayed seven years because she enjoyed the _________ there.

Today her home is filled with many golf _________ . She has won so many that she doesn’t know the exact __________ . What she has done is __________ because Senegal is a conservative (保守的) Muslim nation. There is much __________ from society for women to take part in professional sports. The culture has traditional ideas of what women should do. A woman who chooses sports __________ duties at home risks being __________ by her family. At first, her family wasn’t supportive. But after seeing her __________ for the sport, they changed their minds.

In 2018, when Danay returned to Senegal, she was not __________ about the situation of golf there. She wanted to __________ a golf school. In 2020, she was funded to set up a golf school in order to __________ for the 2026 Summer Youth Olympics. It’ll be her job to train Senegal’s first __________ golf team, including preparing female golfers. She hopes to continue to __________ internationally and bring the next generation of Senegalese female golfers into the world.

8 . There was a boy who was sent by his parents to a boarding school (寄宿学校)______being sent away, this boy was the______student in his class. He was at the top in every______always with high marks.

But the boy changed after______home and attending the boarding school. His grades started ______ He hated being in a______. He was lonely all the time. And there were especially dark times when he______committing suicide (自杀). All of this was because he felt______and no one loved him.

His parents started______about the boy. But they even did not know what was______with him. So his dad decided to travel to the boarding school and______him.

They sat on the bank of the lake near the school. The father started asking him some casual questions about his classes, teachers and_______After some time his dad said, “Do you know, son, why I am here today?”

“No, no,” his dad replied. “I am here to tell you that you are the most______person for me. I want to see you_______ I don't care about grades. I care about you. I care about your happiness. YOU ARE MY LIFE.”

These words______the boy's eyes to be filled with tears. He______his dad. They didn't say anything to each other for a long time.

Now the boy had______he wanted. He knew there was someone on this earth who cared for him deeply. He______the world to someone. And today this young man is in college at the top of his class and no one has ever seen him______!

9 . At the age of 60, my father was hit by a car when he walked to a nearby supermarket to buy vegetables. After ________ for two months in hospital, he finally woke up. His waking up ________ all our family. ________, he didn’t know any of us. Doctors said his brain was hurt so ________ that he had lost all his memory. And his mental age (心理年龄) was only five. We were sorry to hear about the bad news.

Since I was his only child, it was my ________ to look after him. He forgot ________ everything, but he did remember he liked sweets. I used the sweets as a way of ________ bad behaviors. I would gave him one sweet ________ he didn’t sit on the ground, a second for stopping painting on the wall, and another for not trying to put clothes on the dog.

Dad became the ________ child in town. He climbed up the tree to catch a bird and couldn’t get down after it ________ away. He broke my window with a ball and ________ our telephone in water like washing clothes. When I told him he was doing ________ things, he would answer smilingly, “I like that!” My son, then aged five, and two eight-year-old daughters, welcomed their ________ playmate. He would happily make them real cigarettes, ________ his sweets with them, and carry them high in the apple tree to ________ apples.

It is eight years since the ________. Dad has accepted the fact that he is the ________ of his three playmates but not a brother. He has also accepted that they grow taller but his ________ stays the same. Though it is still ________ to take care of him, he brings us a lot of fun. In some way I think it is a(n) ________ thing to look after dad like looking after a child. How many people can have the chance to care for a child-like parent?