1 . I am a girl, but I was born to be a rebel (叛逆者). I like games that can be ________. Some of the sports I like, even boys won’t play!

Wrestling (摔跤) is ________ seen as a sport for men, but I ________ to see if I could do it.

Every Saturday morning, I got out of bed early to go and watch my brother ________.From morning to night, I would sit watching the ________ have all the fun. Since then, wrestling has been part of my       ________.

For three years, I ________ all the boys and became the best player in the team. My deepest memory of wrestling is when a boy walked off ________ because he’d lost to a girl.

My last ________ was at this year’s Girls’ State Wrestling Championships.

I was so excited. I was sure I would win. My heart was beating hard when the match started. I could see ________ but my competitor. When the final whistle(口哨) blew, I had ________ by four points. The cameras and ________ all turned to me: I was the new wrestling champion. But after a few minutes of enjoying being a champion, pain began to run ________ my knee. Because I hurt my knee, my ________     of being a national champion ended. Even so, I won’t lose heart and still want to wrestle next year when I go to college. I have ________ that you can do anything you want if you stay positive and put your heart into it.

2 . My mother was a nurse and often took me along to visit the families she was caring for. Among them was a woman who had a _______ disease and was always lying on the bed.

One afternoon, my mom told me that we needed to visit the woman at her home, and that we needed to be there to _______ treatment, and we would stop at a store on the way. I thought we would stop at a _______ store, where we can buy some pills, but we pulled up to a _______. My mom headed to the make-up area and bought the most expensive bottle of perfume they _______. To my surprise, she also bought a _______ nightdress. When I asked my mom who these things were for, she said they were for her patient. My mom further explained that although this woman was older and unable to _______ her bed, she was still a lady, and she still _______ dignity (尊严) and beauty. She _______ to me that when we care for someone, we should look past the ________ or the illness and we look into the soul of the human so we can connect with them with sympathy.

I ________ realized that my mother’s great strengths and abilities were ________ the very young and the very old, those who can not ________ out their needs and hope for themselves, and need trustworthy and loving care providers. Under the influence of my mother, I knew in the 9^th grade I would become a ________. Today, my dream has come true. I work as a clinical psychologist, working hard and remembering what my mom taught me, and I’m not ________ that I find my work filled with patients who are very and very old.

6 . Alice is a student who came to my class last year. Though she has already turned 60, Alice looks so fit and _________, with a bright smile and an enthusiastic attitude. I am Alice’s teacher in class, but I feel she is my teacher in life.

For my 2-hour class every Saturday morning, Alice has to take a 3-hour round-trip on the road. But she is never _________ for class. Alice is very passionate about learning English. She often says, “Don’t _________ me as a 60-year-old. I am just a new beginner who wants to learn anything _________. You know, I am very excited to come to the class!” So I feel a strong sense of _________ to make sure what I teach makes sense to her.

Alice came to me with very _________ English skills, but she turns out to be a very fast learner because she always puts English _________ on a daily basis. I _________ her homework before every class. Her homework is usually not what I _________ for the class, rather it is something that she __________ to put together. She makes various sentences using the important words and phrases she learned from our __________ class. I am always __________ by the quality of her work.

I feel fortunate to have a student like Alice. She has __________ me so much. Our __________ is a great learning experience for both of us. Though I have no idea why she learns English, I hope I can help her get closer to her dream, __________ it is.

7 . Volunteering in Indonesia was more than a simple experience. It was an opportunity for me to _________ myself as I had never done that before. I met some of the most _________ people on the planet who fully shared their stories. Together we had the great chance to _________the country, its people and its _________ environment.

Before starting the education work in Bali, I was given a week to experience Balinese _________ in a small and nice village. There, we had the _________ chance to meet the locals and get to _________ them first hand when living in their houses. During the _________ activities we learned basic Bahasa language, we cooked, we painted and we _________ ,we went to hike a volcano. It was really ____________ but I deeply suggest it if you want to challenge yourself and see a great sunrise from this wonderful ____________          .

The start of the second week was a bit ____________ .A lot of people I met were ____________ to volunteer somewhere else. I was supposed to attend the education program but I ended up ____________ the school. If you have ever ____________ a “third-world-school”, delete that picture from your mind. It could be the worst. But if there is something I ____________ volunteering in Bali, it is the fact that everything can get better with a good ____________. The first day we were really ____________ and unsatisfied. I even doubted if I was making a ____________ . But then, day after day, walls were painted, chairs were repaired and blackboards were cleaned. At the end of my ____________ I even wished I could have stayed there for all time!

8 . Music is something I could never live without. Without music, I was ________ and would only talk when asked to. Music allowed me to ________ myself and be as loud as I wanted to. Singing my ________ out during choir class, auditioning(试唱) for choir concert solos, and trying out for the school play, I felt most like myself. There was nothing that could keep me away from my ________, until high school.

Everyone who wanted to be in the show choir auditioned for the ________, including me. In the audition room, there was a piano, notes and different lyrics________ on the chalkboard. I hit every note, and the sound was amazing. When my audition was over, I breathed a sigh of ________. Weeks passed and the list of who had made it to the show choir was ________. I   found my name: “Angelica H-alternate(候补者)”. After I saw this, my ________ disappeared. On the outside I wasn't sad, but in my heart, my whole world had ________.

A year passed, and I was at ________ that also offered karaoke to the customers. My parents let me go up and sing. Finally, I got enough courage to ________ song by Sam Smith and started off. While I hit the high notes, people eating ________ for me. I realized I did not get into one programme but that did not mean that I had to give up all ________. I still liked singing. The lesson I learnt was that if you are ________ or do not get what you want, and it is something that you're in love with, don't give up.

9 . Lydia Denton felt very sad when she learned about the incident, in which many children in the U.S. died because someone left them in hot cars. But no one has come up with a good way to deal with the ______. The little girl, who would enter the seventh grade, decided to find out ____.   

Two years later，the 12-year-old girl from North Carolina won a $20,000 prize for her ____. The Beat The Heat Car Seat, a car seat device measuring the ______ of a car. The device is able to ______ the parents of the danger when the inside temperature of the car ____ reaches 102 degrees Fahrenheit (38.9 degrees centigrade).

Lydia used part of her $20,000 to continue to ______ her device with the hope of getting it to market as soon as possible ______ it can be something that will save lives and something that most people can ______ to get it.

With her 14-year-old brother and 10-year-old sister, Lydia also ______ some of her prize money. They also helped bring the ______ in the car seat device. Her brother was really great at coding and her little sister would ______ them with some sweets or cakes.

Lydia’s mom, a science teacher, said it was ______ to watch her three kids cooperate to think out a way to the problem that has ______ for years. They have proven that time and time again nothing is ______. She is really proud of them.

10 . When I was young, I was a terrible student. I didn’t ____ talking with my grandmother on the phone, because she would ask me about school and about what I was reading. Her inability to know what was ____ to me was never more evident (明显的) than at gift-giving time. 

Each Christmas, I would get a package from Grandmother. “Another____ just like every year!” I would think and then put it aside. I would____all my latest toys on Christmas morning and for days and even weeks.____, I would open Grandmother’s gift. I would read the book and sometimes memorize the text, but I didn’t count this as having fun. 

Although I was not interested in____, I had great patience with younger children. Seeing how I____her kid with homework, my neighbor said that I should become a teacher when I grew up. At first, the idea seemed____to me. Slowly the idea took root and I decided to give____a try. 

During my second term in college, I sat in my Children’s Literature class. Our teacher____a list of classic children’s books. It was then that I wanted to____. I raced home and ran to the basement (地下室). There on the dusty shelf sat the most amazing collection of children’s books any teacher could____to have. My grandmother didn’t____me what my little girl mind wanted, but what she knew I needed—a gift for the soul that would last a lifetime. 

I____to water the seed my grandmother planted so long ago. I graduated from college, received my master’s degree and became a____, trying my best to plant those tiny seeds in all my students.