1 . Today, caring people across the country are finding creative ways to improve the lives of the homeless. These efforts _________ mental health services, and _________ haircuts a service offered by the Nashville Street Barbers.

The Nashville Street Barbers is a group of hairdressers who are “trying to make their community a _________ place one cut at a time.” The inspiring group was _________ in 2017 by hairdresser Caroline Lindner to help the homeless.

Since then, the Nashville Street Barbers has grown, _________ a $ 10,000 donation from the Hardee’s All Stars program and a growing group of _________ visitors. Linder believes that the barbers have developed so _________ because of the connections they’ve made with their visitors, who they treat just like paying customers. “I know most people are particular about their _________ and our workers are not different”, she told. “We had to prove and gain trust which _________ people to come back every Monday finally. What started as a one-person effort has become a city-wide __________ that now provides up to 80 free haircuts a week. Lindner even __________ to enlarge the program, bringing the Nashville Street Barbers to locations beyond the city. Until then, the team hopes to make a __________ through their inspiring story. “Our final goal,” they say, “is to __________ others around the world to start their own barbering communities and __________ their communities.” And now, we can see __________ there are many people following their steps.

2 . The opening and closing of the doors are the most significant actions of man’s life. What a_________lies in doors!

No man knows what awaits him when he opens a door._________ the most familiar room, where the clock ticks and the hearth glows red at dusk may harbor_________. The worker may actually have called and_________the leaking pipe. The cook may have been ill and demanded her passports.

There are many kinds of doors. Revolving doors for hotels, shops and public buildings. They are _________ the busy, bustling ways of modern life. Can you _________William Shakespeare or Charles Dickens skipping through a_________door? There are double doors, sliding doors, stage doors and glass doors. The_________ and mystery of a door lies in its quality of being hidden. A glass door is not a door at all, but a window. The meaning of a door is to _________what lies inside; to keep the heart in suspense.

Also, there are many ways of opening doors. There is the cheery__________of elbow with which the waiter opens the kitchen door. There is the sympathetic and awful__________of the dentist’s maid who opens the door into the operating room and, without speaking,__________that the doctor is ready for you.

The opening of doors has in it some flavor of the__________, some sense of moving into a new moment. Even in__________, the opening of a door may bring relief. But the closing of doors could be__________. A door closed brings__________to an end. And there are degrees of sadness in the closing of doors. A door slammed is a confession of weakness. A door gently__________may often be the most tragic gesture in life.

The opening and closing of doors is a part of the serious fluency of life. Life will not stay__________and let us alone. We are__________opening doors with hope, closing them with despair. Life__________not much longer than a pipe of tobacco, and destiny knocks us out like the ashes.

3 . Afroz Shah, a lawyer in Mumbai, hasn’t had a weekend off in four years. But he hasn’t spent this time preparing for _________.

His mission? Saving the world’s oceans from _________ pollution.

It’s a calling he found in 2015 after moving to a community in Mumbai called Versova Beach. He had played there as a child and was_________to see how much it had _________. The sand was no longer _________ because it was covered by a layer of garbage more than five feet thick — most of it plastic waste.

“The whole beach was like a_________of plastic,” he said. “It hurt me. The _________ mess.” What Shah had seen is part of a global environmental crisis. More than 8 million tons of plastic _________in the world’s oceans each year. It’s predicted that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. “Plastic in the ocean is a _________. And the sea species have no choice at all, ” Shah said. “We are ______________ their habitats.”

In October 2015, Shah began ________________ up plastic waste from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began calling on others to join in. Word ________________ and with the help from social media, more volunteers got ________________.

For Shah, the work has always been a ________________ journey, but it has earned global attention. After he was ________________ as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Shah now devotes nearly all of his free time to this ________________.

He’s now spent 209 weekends on this mission, ________________ more than 200,000 volunteers, some of whom are young students, to join him in what’s been called the world’s biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was ________________ clean and Shah’s cleanups expanded to another beach as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.

“This world talks too much. I think we must talk ________________ and do action more, ” he said when interviewed by CNN in October 2019.“We are a smart species. Well adapt. We’ll learn. And with these youngsters rising up, I see ________________.”

4 . Lee Hee -ah was born in 1985 in Seoul, Korea. She has no bones in her left thumb(大拇指). However, as a pianist, she is bringing_________around the world. What does not stop is her_________will.

Hee- ah began learning to_________the piano when she was 6 years old. She could not_________hold a pencil, but her mother thought the lessons might_________her hands. The girl did more than strengthen her hands. She became a concert_________traveling in many countries.

When she plays to sold out concert halls, she includes_________ by Beethoven, Chopin and others in her classical programs. At a 2010 concert in New Zealand, she_________Canada was her favourite country for touring, _________by New Zealand, She did not say what she__________about Canada, but in New Zealand it was the respect to the people with disabilities.

The__________ performer does more than share her love for music. She shares her__________for life. Her body may be incomplete, but her spirit is__________. She is full of belief in her own abilities and is a(n) __________for anyone trying to climb over or__________their own difficulties.

6 . The story of how I got my job was a funny one.

One day, I was________along a street to an interview________a yellow car suddenly cut in front of me.________another car coming in the other ________, I had to brake (刹车) hard and________into another cyclist. We both fell, but________neither of us was hurt. I became angry and cycled as fast as possible to the driver of the yellow car to tell him________I considered him. I told him what a bad ________I thought he was and he was a(n) ________to other people on the road. His face turned________.I warned him not to drive ________in the future so that everyone else could enjoy a long life.

I was in time for the ________. Having walked into the room, to my________, I found one of the three interviewers________to be the driver of the yellow car. We looked at each other for a while, keeping ________. Then I decided to look ________the whole matter as a great joke! I laughed and told him that I talked________the last time we met and this time it was his turn to talk a great deal. Lost in thought for a while, he________that I was not going to say anything about his bad driving. The interview went ________. Two days later, I received a letter offering me the job. I was pleased that the manager—the driver of the yellow car, didn’t________my rudeness to him.

Through the experience, I find something that seems impossible at first sometimes turns out to be good.

8 . When I decided to leave my home country of Iran to pursue a PhD in Canada, I hadn’t expected that communication would be an issue. In Farsi, I was a(n) _______ speaker. I had taken English lessons in my 20s and scored well on the English test for university _______.

But soon after my _______ in the English-speaking world, I realized how wrong I was. Now I had to be careful and deliberate. I needed to _______ follow the conversation. I needed to _______ it into my native language, reflect and generate thoughts and ideas in _______. Then I needed to find the right English words and put them in the right order to _______. I had a hard time remaining present and focused in _______, because I was constantly thinking about what I would say next. I gradually turned inward and _______, particularly when surrounded by native English speakers. And I worried about my future. After all, effective communication in English is ________ to being included and recognized in many ________ and professional operations.

Later, I ________ to say exactly what I meant in discussions over and over again. Suddenly, a simple idea ________ to me: why not ________ the discussion in writing, in an email to my colleagues? That small adjustment was a game changer, because writing gave me ________ to reflect and comfortably ________ my points in English.

I made a ________ of sitting at my computer and putting my Farsi thoughts into English words, taking my time to ________ clear sentences with accurate vocabulary and ________. With some efforts and a willing heart, I grew more ________ with oral communication, which revived my spirits.

9 . Honesty is always the best policy. Though lying often allows one to escape punishment for the moment, the ______ will always come out. In most situations, one will ______ that lying does not offer the same long-term benefits as honesty does.

Sometimes people lie for the purpose of being ______. For example my cousin Joanne was invited to her friend’s birthday party and she asked for my ______ on her dress. In fact, her dress was terrible, but I ______ and told her that the dress was beautiful. How could I ______ her excitement over the dress?   Looking back at that moment, I probably should have told her the truth, considering that the guests laughed at her.

After that I realized the ______ of telling the truth. My brother once helped his best friend cheat on a ______ test. That night, he told me what happened at school. I was very angry and asked him to say sorry to his math teacher immediately ______ he went to school the next day.   ______, the teacher only forced the two boys to take the test again. If my brother had not followed my ______, he might have been kicked out of school. Besides, my brother’s behavior sets a good example for his friend. So he ______ his friend and helped him avoid serious punishment.

In some cases, lying seems to be difficult. For example, how can one ______ to young children what has happened when they lose one of their family members?   Lying seems kind, but if one lies to children, they may feel more ______ when they discover the facts. Therefore, it is important for each of us to be ______ anytime.

10 . “Ding... ding...,” the bell rang. The English teacher came into the classroom with test papers in his hand. All the students shouted. The teacher_________with a smile on his face, “I know there are too many tests for you these days, but the test today is very_________.” After hearing the teacher’s words, all the students sat up straight and _________for the test to begin. The teacher started to_________the test papers to each student._________he finished handing out the test papers, he asked them to begin.

There was not a question but only a small black “X” in the middle of the paper. The students were very_________to see that. The teacher _________ the students’ surprise. Then he said, “I would like you to_________about what you see there. You must finish it all by_________ .”

All the students thought about it hard and then wrote down their answers quietly. At the end of the class, the teacher collected their papers and read the answers. __________ of them described the black “X”. The next day, the teacher said, “Everybody only paid attention to the black ‘X’, but __________ wrote about the white paper.” The whole class listened __________ , because they worried that they might fail the exam.

Then the teacher said, “Don’t worry about the __________ of this test. I just want you to think about your life.” Everyone smiles. The teacher added, “The white paper is like our whole life and the black ‘X’ in the middle of the paper is just __________ problems in our daily life. Do you have some more thoughts?”

Then the students discussed and expressed __________ opinions actively. Finally they understood the teacher and this special test.

Our life is a __________ given to us by God, with love and care.________, we just care about the problems like illness and hunger, and never see that these problems are much__________ than everything else we have in our life.

We should try to take our eye off problems and __________ each moment life gives us. Only then can we start a nice   __________   and find true happiness in our lives.