1 . Small children are easy to throw up in the air and catch-and they _________ it. “Again, Daddy, again!” Jacky shouts as I throw him skywards and catch him on the way back down again. He throws his arms and legs out _________ he were flying, his eyes wide with _________. His trust in me is _________ which is quite a nice feeling, but at the same time gives me a huge sense of _________ .

I hope Jacky will always trust me fully, but I know that, as he gets _________ , it will need more effort and sound judgment_________ . Trust is such an important part of a _________ relationship that it’s something that can’t _________ to lose. Every time I __________ Jacky to something new, he’ll do it only because he trusts me and feels __________ in the knowledge that he won’t get hurt .__________ , teaching Jacky to swim means he has to __________ that, when he’s swimming in the big pool, I’ll come to his rescue if his doggy paddle lets him down.

__________ in the workplace, trust is important for strong __________ . It is something that every manager should work hard to __________ among their team. If people don’t trust you, they’re unlikely to __________ your directions and willingly become a loyal (忠诚) team member. A __________ of trust can make people work against you rather than for you. At the very least, it means that people are not going to be __________ you their best. Good __________, like good parenting, is a long-term commitment.

2 . At school, art class is fun. We _________with different techniques and generally get creative. However, a field trip to an art gallery is often _________. Last year my art teacher organized a trip to an art exhibition. The gallery was full of older people, who obviously didn’t want to be with _________students. We all got _________ and couldn’t stop chatting. Our teacher was getting _________ and kept telling us to be quiet.

The next day we complained to our teacher about the _________ of activities for teens at art galleries. She _________ that a visit should be both educational and fun. That’s when I decided to go online and look for art galleries that have special_________ for teens. Eventually, I _________to find a huge range of activities and proposed some to my teacher.

I also used the ________________ to learn about artists. Recently, I found a contemporary artist called Martin Bailey. I’ve ________________ seen artists who combine different techniques, but Bailey is totally different. He does unique illustrations with ________________ household objects such as umbrellas, headphones and even cookies. His art is simple, but it makes you see things ________________. For example, he notices that a flower is similar to a mop(拖把) and puts this ________________into life by drawing a little man with a real flower mop. It’s really ________________ ! I hope I’ll be able to go to an exhibition of his work in the future.

3 . Each year, eight children in an average class in the UK are unable to read well when they leave primary school. Volunteers are welcome to join Bookmark, a non-profit organization to help ________this. With Bookmark you will brighten the futures of primary school children. Sally, a Bookmark volunteer, has a story to ________.

Sally joined Bookmark as a volunteer in 2021 when she had retired and wanted to________her time to others. Before volunteering with Bookmark, she had never worked with________beginning the sessions was indeed a step out of her ________zone. Sally felt a real________       to Bookmark’s mission and believed the challenge would ________.

“Volunteering has made me feel more________.I feel I am making a difference, however________it is. I get huge________from engaging with children and making them laugh as we read in a(n) ________ way. All the pupils I have read with so far have become________ and eager to learn. The sessions do make you think on your feet somewhat, trying to explain what words mean and trying to________a child’s comprehension of a story. I’ve also really________chatting to them and listening to them making up stories. Reading for pleasure is providing a________into learning   and a world of opportunities.“

4 . Smith brought his three-month-old son out for breakfast one day. He was playing with his son and tending to him while eating, and just doing his _________ thing.

But then he noticed a _________ staring at him. He was _________. “What is going on?” “They kept _________ at me,” he wrote in a post.

As it _________, the strangers were just happy to see a dad spending time with his son, and they felt inspired while watching the _________. Smith had no way of knowing that until he paid for his meal. He was given by the waiter a _________ from the couple, saying what a great father he was and that they would like to leave some _________ for his meal.

“Today your meal is on my wife and me,” it read. “_________ that baby as long as possible. The Masons.”

For Smith, it was a happy moment of reassurance (认可) and feeling __________. He was touched by the generosity and noted that he didn’t have a father figure growing up, so spending this time with his son is super __________ to him.

He wrote that he’ll share this __________ with his son when he’s older and that he wants to teach him kindness and about the __________ of giving back.

“I make sure I’m __________,” Smith wrapped. “I get blessed — I want to __________ someone else.”

5 . It’s often the simple things in life that make the most significant impact on us. It was late one afternoon in mid-September. My three-month-old son was napping in his ______. As I wandered through our living room, I happened to _______my balcony window. Puddles (水坑) had _______the ground and the rain had slowed.

Down below _______a boy of about four. Filled with a mixture of fascination and happiness, he stomped (踩) through the puddle, mud and _______flying. He walked, stomped, splashed through that puddle ______, happily enjoying what mother nature had left for him.

Not more than ten feet away stood his mother. She didn’t scold him. _______, she watched with a pleasant smile on her face and stood _______. As for me, it was a (n)_______moment that changed the way I will forever view my role as a mother.

The little boy probably will _______each afternoon that his mother takes him outside, as he _______. He may not remember each little thing that happens each time his mother lets him _______his world. But he will remember that his mother _______him and he will know that she helps him to learn and grow in a pleasant and fun environment.

Maybe we can all learn from the innocence of _______that views a rainstorm not as something to run through or to avoid, but something meant to explore, to _______ and to love.

6 . Born with severe hearing loss, Li has found her way to communicate with the world — through painting. Drawing was not only her way of coping with a ________childhood, but has also opened for her a door to creativity and a way of ________ . Moreover, painting led Li to meet her husband Hu Shiqun, who lost his hearing due to medication.

After graduation, Li got a job as a typist. ________ job as it was, Li was not happy because the previous feeling of loneliness came back. In March 2016, Li ________the job and joined her husband’s company to be a wall painter.

From then on, in many parks and scenic spots in Hunan Province, the couple have ________ large-scale murals (壁画) and interactive pavement painting. Under their ________, the pavements are transformed into fantastical scenes. For Li, their creations can make art more ________ to the public and become a way for them to ________ with the world.

Now Li has apprentices (学徒) and ________ more and more newcomers on how to create large-scale murals. Besides, Li and her husband have set up a studio in Shanghai to ________ more business opportunities.

Although they are just a small number among the country’s 27 million hearing-impaired population, Li hopes that their stories can ________ more people facing similar battles to build their own careers and achieve their goals, ________ how tough it may be.

According to Li, “Painting brushes can help me create a colorful world in my imagination, telling my thoughts on paper, instead of through ________. My husband and I want to ________painting to more people like us, helping them to fight social ________ that we can not fully participate in social activities. ”

7 . A 17-year-old teenager, Anika Puri, has invented a low-cost tool to spot elephant poachers(偷猎者) in real time. She won the 2022 Peggy Scripps Award for Science Communication for her model of a machine-learning-driven software that _______ movement patterns in thermal videos of humans and elephants. “I’m especially excited by the _______ focusing on endangered species and environmental science,” Puri said.

During a recent trip to India, Puri realized that elephants were still being _______ for their tusks(牙). “I was quite taken aback,” Puri said. “Because I always thought, ‘well, poaching is _______ ; how come it really is still such a big _______ ?’”

Over the next two years, Puri _______ the software EISa(short for elephant savior). This wildlife poacher detection solution is based on a _______ process: an EISa camera attached to a mobile phone _______ over a park on a drone and _______ the movements of elephants or humans. The software is four times more ________ than existing state-of-the-art detection methods. It also decreases the ________ for expensive high-resolution thermal cameras.

The 17-year-old’s invention has eared ________ from notable scientists. “Puri’s software is quite admirable,” says Jasper Eikelboom, an ecologist, “It’s quite ________ that a senor high school student has been able to ________ something like this. Not only the research and the analysis, but also being able to ________ it in the models.”

8 . Those in the food industry understand the difficulty that comes from working with people. No matter how much you try, some customers are never _______. If you make one mistake, some people are likely to lose _______. This situation took place at a McDonald’s in suburban Atlanta.

A customer approached the drive-through window _______. He threw a drink back at the pregnant fast food worker who handed it to him. Most would find that unthinkable. Yet, he felt _______ because the drink was not what he wanted.

Bryanna was the _______ in this incident. It was so _______ to her that she couldn’t even figure out what was happening. She was _______ and covered in ice and soda.

The customer next in line who witnessed what happened was Feroza Eyed. She _______ the incident via Facebook after things took place. “I’ve never seen anyone _______ that way, especially to do that to a pregnant worker, which was just ________.”

When Feroza approached the drive-through, she ________ the fast food worker a cash tip to comfort her. She had yet another ________— set up an online registry for Bryanna’s baby. Feroza ________ maybe she could raise $300 or $400 for Bryanna to buy something nice. But by 24 hours later people had donated $1,700. Feroza was just obviously going crazy with ________.

Through this, Feroza and Bryanna have become friends. It’s just ________ to see such love and happiness.

9 . Borneo is home to some of the most extraordinary wildlife. Several years ago, I decided to go there for a visit. A local person offered to be my guide, which was a great bonus for me.

One day, my guide turned off the smooth road and took me across a ________ hillside instead. We picked our way carefully when ________, a Rafflesia (大王花) popped into my view among those stones. Oh, dear! More than ________, I bent down and put my nose practically inside the flower’s core.

________, to my surprise, it was only one of the ________ during the trip.

As I ________ the end of my trip, there was still something I had yet to see. We planned to ________ most feared creature there, the saltwater crocodile, which can grow to a ________ of 6 meters or more. When we shone a flashlight towards the muddy shore, little sounds ________ in the darkness as if something unseen underwater had broken the ________ Taking a second look, we spotted two greedy ________ just above the water line. As we drew near, it ________ and we saw clearly it was a crocodile. With great caution, we neared it and finally could ________ its true dimensions. It was a baby-no more than 0. 6 meter long. Aha, whatever, I could now report to the ________ back home, who had never been to Borneo, that I had ________ a hungry crocodile in the wild and lived to tell the tale.

The world out there is so fascinating. Don’t let work run your life. Why not step outdoors and enjoy the wonders nature offers to you?

10 . Before our round-the-world trip we always thought that in Peru visiting Machu Picchu would be our most amazing experience.

Although Machu Picchu is simply indescribable, it _________ out that a totally improvised (即兴的) adventure gave us a much stronger _________. When we were staying at a Couchsurfer’s place in Cusco, we _________ him whether it would be _________ to visit a real Quechua village.

He said we could _________, although we would have to find it out ourselves since these Quechua _________live quite far in the Andes. _________, there’s no public transport to get there. In the end, we got very lucky. While_________ for transport, we found out that the local doctor and other social workers were going to _________ some of these tribes and they let us join them.

We were __________ happy because we had the chance to stay in a Quechua community. We __________ about their traditions, saw the colorful clothes they wore every day and __________ their daily routine for some time. We often had to use __________ to communicate, since most of these people don’t speak Spanish, only Quechua. This is one of our most interesting travel __________ and a real heart-warming experience that we will never __________.