1 . There is no way they just drove into that water, thought Corion Evans. The 16-year-old teenager was ___________ with friends near the Pascagoula River, when a car with three teenage girls inside accidentally_________ off the road into the river and started to___________ some 20 feet away from land.

It was around midnight in July. In the _________ , Evans and his friends could_________ figure out the girls holding on to the roof, the only part of the car still above water. But they could hear _________ for help.

Evans took off his shirt and shoes without ___________ , diving into the water. He helped the first girl he saw and led her to the shore. Then, he jumped back into the river to ___________ another of the girls. But halfway back to the bank, she was so_________ as to go underwater, pulling Evans down with her. Evans fought his way and pushed her to ______________.

There was still one girl in the water. Watson, 19, could not ____________. She was swallowing water, ____________ to stay afloat. And sacred. “I just knew my last breath was coming and I began to go under. Then, a shake. Evans ____________ me.” Watson said later.

The three girls were rushed to the hospital and well ____________. Evans risked his life to save them, but he said he had no other ____________

2 . A Florida man likes to shop at garage sales for old plaques(纪念匾)so he can reuse the wooden backs. Recently, he was looking through a___________he bought years ago when one _________a small ball caught his eye.

The man took a moment to___________what was written on the plaque and quickly realized there was a___________stone inside the ball-a piece of moon rock brought back on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The plaque and rock had been a___________to the state of Louisiana by then-President Richard Nixon but___________ended up in a garage sale for the man to find years later.

“I can’t even tell you how long I___________it for. I’m not even sure how much I___________for it. The wood in the plaques is such nice wood and that is what I___________them for," the man said. The man __________the Louisiana governor’s office, which____________him to the Louisiana State Museum. The man hand-delivered his____________to the Louisiana State Museum. He didn’t want to take a chance that something might happen to it during__________.The museum’s director is____________for his generosity and __________for reuniting the state with this priceless object. “It is an extraordinary piece of Louisiana history,” he said. “We’re____________to take possession of this piece and to share it with our audiences.”

After Apollo 17____________on Earth, Nixon____________379 pieces of the satellite stone to all the states as well as foreign nations. Over time, those gifts began to____________A 2002 search found that many were unaccounted for. To date, the fate(命运)of 171 rocks remains __________

5 . Are all inventors scientists? No. Anyone can make an invention if he or she has ideas and is _______ to try again and again until the invention works. That’s just _______ happened to James Murray Spangler in 1907.

Spangler was a cleaner at a department store. He started to work every night after the _______. He liked his job, but it was a lot of work to clean all that space. He was _______. He wished that here was a better way to clean the store’s floor.

Each night as he worked, he _______ about the problem. What kind of machine could he make? After a while, some _______ formed in his head. He fitted an old box, a tape, a pillowcase, an electric fan, a broom hand and a paint roller together. He tried it at home. It _______ ! At last, he decided to take his _______ to the store.

A police officer was walking down the street when he saw Spangler using his invention through the window. The officer went to tell the owner that Spangler was doing something with a (n) _______ machine that made a lot of noise. He thought Spangler had lost his ________.

The owner rushed to the store. He told Spangler that he was ________ for messing around instead of doing his job. Spangler told him that he was doing his job ________ than ever before. He asked the shop owner to let him ________ how his machine worked. ________, the man agreed. He was shocked when Spangler moved his machine over dirt and gum wrappers. They disappeared! Spangler had just built the first vacuum cleaner. The next year he ________ his invention to a firm named Hoover. Before long vacuum cleaners were as common as stoves in homes.

7 . Many of us are lucky enough to have some degrees of choice over what we eat. When we open the fridge or browse the shelves of the local supermarket, there are a variety of options_________to us. But are the_________we make about our diet as free as we like to think? What if there was something _________our own hunger influencing what we eat?

Certainly, it appears we’re_________ influenced by other people-especially those _________to us — when it comes to what we eat. Research has found that the closer and stronger two people’s _________, the more _________hey have over each other’s food choices. “A lot of our cues from face-to-face interactions are linked with who we’re with,” says Solveig Argeseanu, associate professor of global health and epidemiology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, US. “It’s more about the relationship and how _________myself with that person than other individuals. If I think the person I’m with is more _________or popular, I’ll tend to want to__________them more.”

Our eating habits are also influenced by what we see. Scientists say we __________ oozing (渗出) protein, a dribbling egg yolk, or bubbling mozzarella (马苏里拉奶酪), for example. “There is some evidence that, if you see pictures of food, that visual__________can prompt you to feel a desire to eat,” says Suzanne Higgs, professor in the psychobiology of appetite at the University of Birmingham, UK. Although, she says, whether people __________through on that desire is influenced by lots of other __________, such as what food is available at the time.

Social media is one place where visual and social cues __________. Undoubtedly there is (a/an)__________ that if friends in your social network post__________about particular types of food, it could lead you to__________them, for better or for worse. And research__________that social media might be changing our relationship with food, __________us think differently about what we eat.

8 . I don’t usually keep houseplants. They get either overwatered or underwatered. But after I got a terminal (晚期) brain cancer and needed a major operation, I ________ the idea of having something green around.

My friend gave me a lucky bamboo plant, which I told my wife I wanted to ________myself.

Caring for the plant gave me a sense of ________ when I felt useless. The disease ________my ability to walk. As a doctor, I was used to being the one who offered ________, not the one who received it. ________ the plant, as small an act as it was, connected me to a main part of my old identity.

Over the next few months, I recovered from my ________ and returned to work. And the plant had doubled in height and its leaves were ________ and healthy. Both the tree and I were thriving (旺盛). Then, ________, whatever I did, the leaves kept browning and dropping. I grew more and more ________.

“If my lucky bamboo dies, I might die too.” I couldn’t shake the feeling that the plant had become a(n) ________ of my health until I realized I had ________ connected my good care for the plant with my own survival. When my cancer unavoidably ________, I no longer thought it was any failure on my part. And as my anxiety ________, I began to learn how to better care for my plant. I put it to a larger pot (花盆), giving it ________ to grow. Gradually,we both began to thrive again.

9 . Ahmad is the founder and CEO of Copia, which she _______ as “match.com meets Uber for food recovery”. Companies use the Copia app to _______ when they have leftover food, what kind, and how much. When recipients such as shelters, soup kitchens, and agencies first register with Copia, they indicate how many people they need to_______, on what days, and what kind of food they’ll take. The app uses an algorithm to place the excess food, which is delivered by trained food handlers.

How did Ahmad create Copia? As a senior at UC Berkeley, she was walking near campus one day when she saw a young man _______ for food. She invited him to sit down for a meal. He told her his name was John and he had _______ returned from a second tour in Iraq, but he hadn’t eaten for three days because his VA benefits (退伍军人福利) hadn’t, _______.

Ahmad had an aha moment then:_______homeless people like John were starving in Berkeley, across the street the university dining halls were tossing out still-edible food. After she did some research, she says, “I _______ that this indicated a much larger problem.” Ahmad started a student group that recovered food from campus venues and _______ it to local nonprofits.

________ as this was, the inefficiencies bothered her. One day, she got a call from the dining hall manager, who had 500 tasty sandwiches left over from a(n) ________. If Ahmad wanted them, she needed to pick them up as soon as possible, before they ________. She ________ a car, loaded it with the food, and called nonprofits. She found takers for only 25 sandwiches and ended up giving out the rest at a nearby park.

“I remember thinking how ________ it would be if people who had food could say, ‘Hey, we have stuff,’ and people who needed it could speak up, and then we could ________ the two.”

10 . I have travelled across the country to improve the water and sanitation (卫生) programme for some of the poorest people that have been hit by a disaster.

As a ________ member of Oxfam India, basically, I have spent three years in Tamil Nadu. It’s a dream that comes true for me as I have always wanted to ________ humanitarian activities! That’s why I chose to study nursing after completing my basic ________. In 2015, I got my Master’s Degree in Public Health, and then joined Oxfam India.

Almost ________, I was sent to Tamil Nadu to serve the people affected by one of the worst ________ in recent history. The disaster pushed everyone in Oxfam India to become ________,with some preparing floods reports, and others writing suggestions. And I was tasked with the ________ of leading the team for Public Health activities. I still remember my ________ situation-a kind person desired to do ________ work for people, but was ________ experience! However, my goal of leading the ________ was clear. I received good ________ from my team members who made my job easier.

In the past three years, I have ________ a number of activities on safe ________ and sanitation. Those activities created a good ________ for me to carry out all I have learned from books.