4 . I looked out of the door of my 100-year-old house and saw my newly built garden. I realized nothing is rubbish. I was full of joy and ___________.

I ___________ to look at the things in a different perspective that we usually think of as _________ —plastic bags, polluted water, rubber bands, and newspapers, clothes and furniture we ___________. I also began to think, act and live according to the belief that all things have the _________ of being reused as long as we try to _________ it. And I explored the worth of ___________. I mean recycling isn’t just about _________ rubbish like putting glass and paper in _________ bins. It also requires creativity, commitment and even love.

My neighbors would put the autumn __________ by the roadside to be picked up by the garbage truck. This didn’t __________ with my newfound concept of recycling trash, so I made a new ____________ with branches for moving boxes and put up a __________, saying, “Dump (倾倒) leaves here”. I watched carefully through the autumn as my neighbors __________ the leaves in my new garden and I also watered the grass __________ with rainwater and collected dogs’ waste as fertilizer. Then I __________ flower seeds. Finally, I had a new ____________ garden, full of colorful flowers.

Nothing has to be really __________. I even used my bath water to water my flowers, though it might be a little   __________ for my friends. But I think if we all can turn waste, sometimes a little dirty, into __________, the world will be a much better place.

6 . I became a gardener when I was twelve. My early________of gardening may not have originated from my love for nature. It was to ________my parents.

At that time, we had a big yard in which a beautiful maple tree stood. But my mother often looked with ________at this work of natural art. Those golden leaves seemed like tons of rubbish to her, “something else to ________!”Seeing the neighbors busy with gardening, my father ever thought it a waste of time.

At that age, I always did something________to whatever my parents did! If gardening were something they found________, I would plant a garden!

I planted some lily (百合花)seeds in the yard. But they failed to ________. I continued to sunflower seeds and roses. Wild ________joy, I found the first rose bloom (开花). One by one, the flowers bloomed their heads off.________, I was touched by this land of wonder.

________, my parents showed no interest in my garden. My father even________at me because he found it was ________to move around my garden to the driveway. To my mother’s ________, I put her vase my real roses which, in her eyes, were simply weeds________flowers.

Regardless of their ________, I kept on planting my garden and ________to enjoy the pleasure gardening. Plants make such good companions: they breathe, they bloom, they________to care and love.

It has been many years since I made my first garden out of my desire to ________my parent. Today I become known as Mrs. Greenthumbs, teaching gardening and hosting a gardening show which makes my parents feel very________. And now I could say it is my affection for________that makes me a real gardener.

7 . The mental aspect of athletics is underrated. The common expression, “athletics is 90 percent ________ and 10 percent physical, ” is often used by coaches, and stresses that mindsets make a huge ________ in competitions.  

“The physical aspect of the sport can only take you ________, ” said Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Shannon Miller during an interview with the Dana Foundation. “The mental aspect has to ________, especially when you’re talking about the best of the best. In the Olympic Games, everyone is talented. Everyone ________ hard. Everyone does the work. What ________ the gold medalists from the silver medalists is simply the mental game. ”  

Many athletes have used the technique of mental imagery, or ________, to perform at their best. Research on the brain patterns of ________ found that the patterns activated when a weightlifter lifted heavy weights were activated ________ when they simply imagined lifting and some studies have suggested that mental ________ can be almost as effective as physical training. One study, published in the Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology in 1996, found that ________ weight lifting caused ________ changes in muscle activity.  

“Mental imagery ________ on many cognitive (认知的) processes in the brain:motor control, attention, perception, planning, and memory, ” researcher Angie LeVan wrote in Psychology Today. “So the ________ is getting trained for actual performance during visualisation. It’s been found that mental practices can enhance motivation, increase confidence, improve motor performance and ________ your brain for success. ”

________ visualising is more than just thinking about an upcoming event. ________ athletes use visualisation, they truly feel the event taking place in their mind’s eye.  

“During visualisation, she incorporates (整合) all of her ________ into the experience, ” sports psychologist Dr JoAnn Dahlkoetter wrote in a blog post on The Huffington Post ________ a speed skater she works with. “She feels her forefoot pushing off the track, she hears her skating splits, and she sees herself racing ahead of the competitors. She experiences all of the elements of her race ________ before executing (完成) her performance. ”

8 . The early winter storm was much worse than the forecast.

“Sweetheart,” Dad whispered to Mom, “I have to get out of bed and go to _________ the turkeys.” When Dad left the _________, Mom worried that he would not be able to make it to the farm. The snowy wind was blowing _________ around our little white house.

At 7 a.m., Mom was _________ to call for help when Dad’s truck _________ into the driveway. He rushed in and nearly fell down on the kitchen floor. “Call Boots,” he _________ to say. “Have him tell his friends to come up to the _________ and get a free turkey for Christmas dinner.”

“We have at least 500 _________ birds,” he said shaking his head in defeat. With seven children to feed, he knew the loss would be financially _________.

That morning, Boots, our new neighbor, __________ the tragic (惨痛) story. He called his friends and __________ them to tell friends and former neighbors where they could get a __________.

As the sun burst forth, hundreds of cars drove up the __________ road to our Fowler farm. Every turkey was claimed (认领). Friends viewed the tragic scene __________. But as more people arrived the atmosphere __________.

Nearly all of the birds were paid for in cash. With the __________ that the tragedy was disappearing, neighbors and friends talked and __________ laughed. On Dads truck someone __________ a donation box. More was paid than what the birds would have __________ at the store.

Mom and Dad were moved to tears as they __________ hundreds of dollars and hundreds of friends.

9 . JAYCE began noticing when he was 5 in kindergarten that others had two hands but he had one.

When one boy _______ him, Jayce felt very sad. He returned home with _______ : Why am I different? Why?

"He _______ told us he was mad at God for making him that way, " Lewis, his mother   says. "That was a huge knife to the _______."

Lewis _______ she didn't know what to do at that point. One day, when Jayce was 12, Lewis _______ the TV to a news story about Trashaun, an eighth grader from Washington, Trashaun, then 14, two years older than Jayce, had become an Internet sensation after _______ videos of his slam dunks(灌篮). Like Jayce, he was _______ most o£ his left arm. Lewis called Jayce in. He watched _______ dunk after mazing dunk.

It seemed that watching Trashaun would simply be a(n) ________ moment for Jayce—he'd see a surprising role model with a similar   ________. Had it stayed just that; Lewis would have been ________. Little did she know that a family friend had already ________ the newspaper to help set up a meeting with Trashaun to build Jayce's ________.

The boys met on a Saturday afternoon two months later, in April 2017.

The day was not spent being buried in self-pity—it was devoted to ________ , They rode bikes around, took photos, played hide-and-seek, and ________ baskets.

Trashaun ________ their left arms. He told Jayce not to let words ________ his confidence or anyone dray him down,________ that he was perfect the way God made him.

Since that meeting, Lewis has seen a pronounced ________ in her son.

10 . Liz was quite excited these days. She was going to travel to Asia with her mom. Neither of them had ______ traveled out of the United States before. They were going to ______ to Hong Kong. They would travel on their cruise(乘船游览) ship to Shanghai and Beijing after ______ in Hong Kong for three days.

“Beijing is inland, so we have to _____ about a two-hour bus ride to get there from the port. I _____ the name of the port. Anyway, we’re going to ______ the Great Wall, the Tian’anmen Square, and the Forbidden City. It's going to be so ______!” she told her neighbor Jane.

From China, the cruise ship would go to Pusan in South Korea, and ______ to Tokyo. From Tokyo, they would _____ a flight back to Los Angeles.

“The trip is going to ______ three weeks. It's only going to ______ us about $ 2,800 each if we don’t _____ anything.” She laughed.

“I hope your trip is more _______ than mine was” said Jane. “I took a cruise to the Bahamas, _____ almost all the passengers got _______. I caught some kind of disease that made me ______ for almost three days. They ______ us a discount(折扣) that we could use on a _____ trip. No more cruising for me. That is really a pity.”

“We’ve ______ those things,” said Liz. “Mom and I are going to be ______ our hands every 30 minutes, and we’re bringing surgical masks with us.” Good preparations may help a lot in the travel and make it a pleasant and successful one.