1 . The Nobel Prize is considered one of the most recognizable and admirable awards possible, _______ people of the world for their outstanding achievements in different fields.

Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 to a family of engineers in Sweden. In 1850, he met Ascanio Sobrero, the inventor of nitroglycerin (硝酸甘油) in Paris. Interested in its irregular _______ of exploding under pressure or heat, Nobel started to find a way to control it and make a _______ explosive. After years of _______, in 1867, at the age of 34, Nobel invented dynamite (炸药), which is much easier and safer to control than nitroglycerin.

During his lifetime, Nobel invented and patented various explosives. He _______ his wealth from his 355 inventions, among which dynamite was the most important.

When Alfred’s brother Ludwig died in 1888, a French newspaper _______ published Alfred’s obituary (讣告). Reading his own obituary, Nobel was _______ to find out his public image. The newspaper strongly _______ Nobel for inventing dynamite, giving him the nickname of “the merchant of death” and saying “Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became _______ by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.”

To Alfred, this obituary was a(n) ________. He spent his lifetime alone ________ things and was deeply concerned with how he would be remembered. This unfortunate event inspired him to make changes in his will, so as to ________ his public image, and to be remembered for a good cause. In 1895, one year before his death, Nobel made the last ________, saying clearly that his wealth would be used to create a series of prizes for those who have made great ________ to mankind in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. To widespread astonishment, Dr. Alfred Nobel ________ 94% of his total wealth to found the five Nobel Prizes.

4 . Goran Kropp was a Swedish adventurer and mountaineer. In 1972, at the age of six, with his father’s help, he_______ Galdhopiggen, the highest mountain in Northern Europe. Twenty-­four years later, he stood on the highest peak in the world, Qomolangma. His journey to the_______ shows just how independent, persistent (坚持的), and determined this outstanding man is.

_______ most people arrive at the foothills of Qomolangma by some sort of modern _______, Kropp bicycled 7,000 miles from his home in Sweden. Traveling by bike was not_______. He stopped many times to_______ his bike because rough roads caused mechanical problems for him.

Kropp _______ to climb Qomolangma the same way he traveled to the mountain: without the _______ of others and without modern conveniences. Unlike other _______ Kropp climbed the mountain without a guide or helper. He did not ________ bottled oxygen to help him ________ at high altitudes, and he carried all of his ________ himself in a pack that weighed about 140 pounds.

It took Kropp ________ tries to reach the top of Qomolangma. The first time, he had to ________ only 350 feet from the top because the weather was too dangerous. The mountaineer waited out the storm, rested, and tried again a few days later. This time, he was ________. After he walked down the mountain, he got back on his bike and rode the 7,000 miles back to Sweden.

6 . At around 9 a. m. on Friday, Bonnie Raitt stopped at a picnic area along a highway. She began walking her two-year-old sheepdog, Cady, along a path when a mountain lion ________ and attacked Raitt, injuring her left shoulder. She screamed, and Cady, who had been wandering ahead, immediately returned to ________ her owner. The mountain lion then turned its ________ to the dog and bit onto the bodyguard’s head. Raitt attempted without success to fight ________ the lion with stones, so she ran up to the road to get help.

Lindsey Stirling, who was driving by, saw Raitt and ________. After learning about the mountain lion attack, without ________, Stirling jumped out of, her car with her pepper spray (喷雾剂) and also grabbed a stick. The two women ________ to the scene in the forest, where, the struggle was going on, with the mountain lion still refusing to ________ the dog. They both started hitting it and yelling loudly ________ it finally set loose the ________ dog.

Cady eventually ________. Stirling pepper sprayed the mountain lion in the face, and it immediately turned away and ________. Cady was ________ injured, and Raitt hurriedly drove Cady to a vet (兽医). After spending several days there, the dog was released. Now Cady, lying on her own bed, with her favorite toys, is on the road to ________. “My dog is my, hero, and I ________ her my life,” Raitt said.

7 . As I was a young boy my family was very poor. I would often help do something for the neighbors to _________ a little pocket money.

One day I _________ on the door of an elderly woman and asked if she needed me to clean     the yard. She asked why I was not in _________ and I showed her my worn _________, which no longer kept me warm. She allowed me to work in the yard. When I finished, she looked at me and said, “I suppose you want to be _________ now.” She then took out a jar filled with dollar bills and said, “I’m glad you’ve done a   _________ job today but that is not something you should be doing again. I want you to _________ new clothes and get back to school. I also want you to come back to visit me with your report card and I will _________ you when I see you have worked hard and have some good_________. Now reach out your little hands and take out as much money as you can.”

I put my hands in the jar and __________ so much money that it was __________ for me to buy what I badly needed. Later, I returned several times to see the woman and she did just as she__________. She looked at my report card and gave me a handful of dollars and some delicious food every time I __________ her that I had an “A”.

I was twelve years old when I moved from that neighbourhood. I will never forget the huge__________ this wonderful lady made over my life with her__________. This is something I hope to do myself in this lifetime over and over again.

10 . Rwanda is a small country in East Africa with about more than 13 million people. The landlocked country is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. _______, almost half of the population still live in poverty.

Many people live in _______ where there is no doctor. Medical supplies such as _______, vaccines (疫苗) or even blood are _______ to reach these areas.

Zipline, an American start-up company, now helps people in remote areas to get better _______. A multinational team of engineers has been _______ to build a drone (无人机) that can deliver medicine to where it is most needed.

Rwanda is where their plans have been met with _______ from the government and the country’s civil aviation (民用航空) authority.

“Rwanda is the first country to _______ us through the design process of the drone to figure out how to do this,” said Keenan Wyrobek, a _______ of Zipline.

If a hospital or a ________ is in an area that is difficult to ________, the Zipline drone can deliver the medical supplies easily and much quicker than via road transport.

Doctors or healthcare workers just need to send a ________ to the base station and the delivery will be dispatched (派遣) via drone quickly and ________. So the vital supplies are dropped off by the drone where the items are ________. Now it only takes 30 minutes from the time the ________ is placed to the delivery.

“I used to see the drones fly and think they must be ________ until the same drone came to me and saved my ________. They are amazing,” said Alice Mutimutuje, a mother who fell seriously ill once.

The drones have already successfully completed more than 12,000 ________in the last years. In January 2019, the company________ their project in Africa and the 29 million people in the West Africa Ghana will soon benefit from this new________, too.