1 . Compean was no stranger to Los Angeles National Forest. He’d hiked the park several times. But after hiking along a _________ path last April, the 45-year-old man was lost.

As dusk _________, with several hours of aimless walking, his concern _________ fear. With only a bottle of water and less than ten percent battery _________ on his cell phone, Compean was unprepared for anything more than the two-hour journey he’d planned.

Compean climbed to a higher _________, some 7, 000 feet above sea level, where he found at least one bar of _________. “Help. My phone is going to die. I’m lost, ” he texted a friend, with a photo _________, showing where he was. All Compean could do then was wait. The temperature was dropping _________. Dressed so little, he soon felt cold to the bone.

Sixty miles away in Ventura County, Ben Kuo was reading a tweet _________ the Los Angeles County Police Department, showing an image of a man’s legs. Kuo has an unusual hobby. “I have always loved __________ where photos were taken,” he says. He frequently tries to __________ where movie scenes or television shows were filmed. When he saw the image of Compean’s legs surrounded by an endless landscape of __________, he immediately pulled up a satellite map on his laptop. The police department said Compean’s car was parked near Buckhorn Campground and Compean had been lost for a whole day, so he narrowed his search to the __________ area.

“There’s an amazing amount of information you can get from satellites, ”says Kuo. The first thing he __________ in Compean’s photo was the special grass. After comparing it to the satellite map, Kuo realized something, “He’s got to be on the south side __________ there’s not really any green valley on the north side.” That finding __________ his search, leading him to an area that was similar to a part in the image. The final step was comparing the __________ photo with 3D images of the area from Google Earth. The locations __________!

Thanks to Kuo’s __________ information, Compean was finally rescued and he was grateful to Kuo, “I __________ you my life”.

2 . Zhong Nanshan was born in October 1936 in Nanjing, Jiangsu. He grew up in a family of doctors. _______ the family tradition, he was admitted to Beijing Medical University in 1955.

Many know Zhong as a famous _______, but few know that he was once a(an) _______ athlete. Zhong has displayed athletic _______ early on. During his time at university, he broke the school's _______ for the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdles. In 1958, Zhong, then a junior year student, was _______ to join the Beijing sports training team to _______ for the first National Games of the People's Republic of China in 1959.

Although Zhong did not _______ to be a professional athlete, his love for sports never _______. In spite of his busy schedule as a doctor, Zhong _______ 3 or 4 times every week. Years of physical exercise gives him a healthy body, _______ him to continue marching forward in the medical field.

"You need to _______ in mind that the most important thing is not treating the disease, but treating the _______," said Zhong during a lecture at Guangzhou Medical University.

Zhong's life has always been closely _______ to his patients and to the development of the nation. When SARS _______, Zhong personally examined the mouth and throat of every _______ ill patient in his hospital, giving them comfort and _______ to fight the disease.

At the age of 84, Zhong is still _______ on the frontline of the novel coronavirus(新冠) outbreak. With his _______ medical skills and unwavering perseverance (不动摇的毅力), Zhong has become a _______ anchor (支柱) for Chinese people at this difficult time.

3 . I tore the top off my meal: spaghetti with beef and sauce. The aroma rushed out of the packet. It smelled like ______ .

Growing up, I always had a(n) ______ for Meals, Ready-to-Eat, or MREs. With their special ______ : airtight and waterproof (防水的), the thick plastic bags can ______ almost any changes in temperature and ______ a minimum of three years with no refrigeration. In my Army household, there was ______ one lying around somewhere: in the back of my dad's car, or in a closet.

My siblings and I weren't ______ to eat them often. They were saved for camping trips or the nights my dad was in charge of dinner. My father could have ______ us anything pizza, Burger King ice cream — but we would ______ MREs. Then we faced a ______ decision. It wasn't just about the entree (主菜) which was printed on the front of the pack: Menu No.12: Meatloaf; Menu No.17: Beef. It was also about the ______ that weren't mentioned on the outside of the package: the dry cake or the brownie; the cookies or the peanut butter…My first experience of ______ came when I had to choose which one I wanted. ______ the packages lying on our counter. I had my heart in my mouth. My hands were ______ before grabbing one.

______ beat eating dinner from those brown plastic bags, and that's why, when I saw MREs for ______ on Amazon, I bought some for $15 a piece. I ______ a picture on social media, and my former military friends laughed. But as I opened the shipment, it felt ______ I'd unearthed a box filled with childhood memorabilia. During my father's 24-year Army career, my family lived in ______ houses in five states. While I never had a hometown, the ______ was — still is — home to me, and MREs are a part of that.

5 . Perhaps you’ve heard the old saying “curiosity killed the cat.” It’s a phrase that’s often used to _________

People — especially children — not to ask too many questions. Yet it’s widely agreed that _________ actually makes learning more enjoyable and effective. _________, research has shown that curiosity is just as important as intelligence in _________ how well students do in school.

Curiosity also _________ us to embrace unfamiliar circumstances, brings excitement into our lives, and opens up new possibilities. Being curious requires us to be both humble enough to know we don't have all the answers, and confident enough to _________ it. Asking the questions that help us _________ the gap between what we already know and what we'd like to know can lead us to make unexpected discoveries.

In science, basic curiosity-driven research — conducted without pressure to produce immediate practical results — can have _________ and incredibly important benefits. _________, one day in 1831, Michael Faraday was playing around with a coil (线圈) and a magnet (磁铁)__________ he suddenly saw how he could generate an electrical current. At first, it wasn't clear what use this would have, but it actually made __________ available for use in technology, and so changed the world.

Unsurprisingly, there are chemical and evolutionary theories to __________ why humans are such curious creatures. When we become curious, our brains __________ a chemical called dopamine (多巴胺), which makes the process of learning more pleasurable and improves memory. It is still not known why learning gives us such __________, but one theory is that we may have developed a basic need to fight uncertainty — the more we understand about the world around us, the more likely we are to __________ its many dangers!

9 . Forrest Gump is one of the greatest novels I have ever read. The main character, Forrest Gump, who is ________ born with a rather low IQ, has already created a miracle(奇迹), ________ a great deal of great success. He is a football star, a war hero, and later a(an) ________.

As a boy, all the people ________ him. Most of the boys don't want to ________ one seat with him on bus. Many bad guys throw stones to ________ him. He cannot be allowed to study in primary school at first. But he is not a(an) ________. He always remembers his mother's words, "A stupid is someone who did stupid things." He never does anything ________. He has a strong will. So he does well on everything he ________. Also, he is a man with a strong sense of ________. He loves Jenny so much that he tries his best to protect her. He has a ________ attitude to life, making great efforts to become better, which make him a(an) ________.

God gives everyone different fates. Forrest Gump has a low IQ, but he has a(an) ________ for sports. God gives Forrest a great mother. She is ________ rather than ashamed（羞愧) of her son. She believes her son can ________ a happy life as an ordinary person. She is also intelligent. She tells some ________ to him --- "Life is like a box of chocolates. You ________ know what you are going to get."

Despite(尽管) his low IQ, Forrest Gump ________ a wonderful life finally. So whenever you are in trouble, do not ________. It is just a challenge. If you overcome it, you will gain more than you ________. We cannot control or change the environment around us. What we can do is adjust to(适应) it.