1 . My brother and I were driving home together and we were deep in conversation. Because of his ________, my brother took a wrong turn, taking us towards a ________ and we had no way to turn back. ________, my brother paid the bridge fee and drove on. He was clearly frustrated by the mistake and the ________ waste of $4.

We eventually reached an exit slipway and, as we took it, my brother ________ a beat-up black car parked by the side of the road. A young guy was standing nearby ________ someone. I was busy trying to figure out which ________ we went next but my brother ________ and asked the guy if he needed any help. And he did. He had a flat tire (瘪了的轮胎) and needed a ________ to get it off. My brother gave it to him, then proceeded to help him ________ the tire. After we had finished the job he thanked us again and again, pulled out $20 and tried to give it to us. “No,” my brother said. “We never ________ to even get on that bridge. We took a ________ turn. But now we know why we did. It was to help you. Thank you for turning our mistake into a(n) ________ to serve.

What I loved most was watching my brother throughout this ________. He was able to see a chance to help even in an otherwise ________ situation, which can only come from a calm mind and an open heart.

5 . An 84­ year ­old American woman, Janet Fein received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Dallas last week. Fein grew up in the Bronx area of New York City. When she was in high school, she just wanted to finish and get a job. After ______early,at the age of 16, she went to work as a secretary. After getting married, she spent 18 years staying home with her five children. She then had several jobs______she retired at age 77. But even then, she was not ready to______during the retirement.

She worked for 20 years on earning an associated degree, which she received in 1995. But Fein told the AP she also ______to earn a bachelor’s degree “with all of my heart”. Fein took part in a state program that lets people who are 65 and ______ take free classes at public universities in Texas. State officials say about 2,000 people used the ______last year.

Even with all of her life experiences, she said she ______ reading, writing papers and learning new things. “With each class I ______knew a lot, but I wanted more. And that made me happy.” Fein kept going to class even as her health conditions ______. During her studies, it became ______for her to use a walker (拐杖) to ______and she required oxygen. She even ______knee problems. So, instead of going to the university, Fein took online classes to finish the remaining part of her degree requirements. She never showed (a) ______of giving up even with all of her difficulties.

Many people set the ______of graduating from college at a very young age while Janet Fein waited a life time for her chance to reach that goal. As the saying goes, it’s never too late to learn. Learning can help people live a______life.

6 . When Pat Jones finished college，she decided to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could ________ she was young. Pat wanted to visit Latin America ________，so she got a job ________ an English teacher in a school in Bolivia. Pat spoke a little Spanish，________ she was able to communicate with her students even when they didn’t ________ much English.

A sentence she had read somewhere stuck in her mind: if you dream ________ a foreign language，you have really mastered(掌握)it. Pat repeated this sentence to her students and ________ that some day she would dream in Spanish and they would dream in ________.

One day，one of her ________ students came up and explained in Spanish that he had not done his homework. He had ________ early and had slept ________.

“What does this have to do with your ________？” Pat asked.

“I dreamed all night，Miss Jones. And my dream was in English.”

“In English？” Pat was very ________，since he was such a bad student. She was ________ secretly jealous(嫉妒的).Her ________ was still not in Spanish. But she encouraged(鼓励)her young student. “Well，________me about your dream.”

“All the people in the dream ________ English.” the student said. “And all the signs were in English. All the newspapers and magazines and all the TV programs were in English.”

“But that’s ________，”said Pat. “What did all the people say to you？”

“I’m sorry，Miss Jones. That’s ________ I slept so badly. I didn’t ________ a word they said. It was a nightmare(噩梦)！”

7 . It was the last day of the final examination in a large eastern university. On the steps of one building, a group of engineering seniors gathered, discussing the exam due to begin in a few ____________. On their faces was confidence (自信). This was their last exam — then on to __________ and jobs.

Some talked of jobs they already had; others talked of jobs they ________ get. With the certainty of four years of college, they felt ready and able to take ________ of the world.

The coming exam, they knew, would be a(n) _________task. The professor had said they could bring ________books or notes they wanted, requesting only that they did not ________ each other, during the test.

________ they entered the classroom. The professor passed out the papers. And smiles ________ on the students’ faces as they noted there were only five essay-type questions.

Three hours had passed ________ the professor began to collect the papers. The students no longer looked confident. On their faces was a frightened expression. Papers in hand, no one spoke as the professor faced the class.

He looked at the ________ faces before him, and then asked, “How many completed all five questions?”________ a hand was raised.

“How many answered four?” Still no hands.

“Three? Two?” The students moved restlessly in their seats.

“One, then? Certainly somebody finished ________.”But the class remained silent.

The professor put down the papers. “That is exactly what I ________,” he said. “I just want to impress upon you that, ________ you have completed four years of engineering, there are still many things about the ________you don’t know. These questions you couldn’t answer are relatively ________ in everyday practice. ” Then smiling, he added, “You will all ________ this course, but remember — even though you are now college graduates, your education has just ____________.”

The years have _________the name of this professor, but not the lesson he taught.

8 . The True Story of Treasure Island

It was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson’s imagination. ______, recent research has found the true story of this exciting work.

Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived ______ for many years. In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a ______.With him were his American wife Fanny and his son ______.

Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a long ______ over the hills. They had been ______ this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain, Lloyd felt the days ______.To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some ______.

One morning, the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island, Robert ______that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of ______. “What’s that?” he asked. “That’s the ______ treasure,” said the boy. Robert suddenly ______ something of an adventure story in the boy’s ______.While the rain was pouring, Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the ______ a twelve-year-old boy, just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate (海盗)？

Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the ______ of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to ______ such a man in a story. ______ Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was ______.

So, thanks to a ______ September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg, and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of the greatest ______ stories in the English language.

9 . In the past, man did not have to think about the protection of his environment. There were few people on the earth, and natural resources seemed to be _______.

Today things are _______. The world has become too _______. We are using up our natural resources too quickly, and at the same time we are _______ our environment with dangerous chemicals. If we continue to do this, human life on the earth _______ not survive (生存).

Everyone _______ today that if too many fish are taken from the sea, there will soon be none left. Yet, with modern fishing _______, more and more fish are caught. We know that if too many trees are cut down, _______ will disappear and nothing will grow on the land. Yet, we _______ to use bigger and more powerful machines to ________ more and more trees.

We realize that if rivers are polluted with waste products from factories, we will die. ________, in most countries wastes are ________ put into rivers or into the sea, and there are ________ laws to stop this.

We know, too, that if the ________ of the world continues to rise at the present rate, in a few years there will not be enough ________. What can we do to solve these problems?

If we eat more vegetables and less ________, there will be more food available for everyone. Land that is used to grow crops ________ five times more people than land where animals are kept.

Our natural resources will ________ longer if we learn to recycle them.

The world population will not rise so quickly if people use modern methods of birth ________.

Finally, if we educate people to think about the problems, we shall have a better and clearer ________ in the future.