1 . This pasta（意大利面食）is no ordinary pasta. When imprinted with grooves（沟、槽），it can _________into tubes, and other traditional shapes as it cooks. This new technique would _________ uncooked pastas to take up less space. That means it would need less _________

Pasta lovers “are very picky about the shapes of pasta and how they _________ with different sauces,” says Lining Yao. She studies the _________ of smart materials at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn. Flat pasta like spaghetti holds less sauce than twisty types like rotini. But those shapes come at a(n) _________ :bigger packages. For some _________ pasta, more than 60 percent of the package holds just air.

Yao and her colleagues _________ a series of grooves onto one side of each noodle. Then they cooked that pasta. The pasta _________ water as it cooked. But the liquid couldn’t go as fully into the grooved side. So that side became less expanded than the ____________ side．That asymmetric（不对称的）expansion bent the ____________ flat noodle into a curve（曲线）．By changing the arrangement of the grooves，the researchers ____________ the final shape.

Yao and her colleagues reported their ____________ in Science Advances.

The pasta ____________ good camping food, Yao says. A member of her team brought it along on a recent hiking trip. The pasta slips easily into a small pack. But it cooks into a(n) ____________ shape.

2 . Four years ago, I felt great joy after freeing myself from one of those 2-mile gym fitness runs.I ______ running with a passion (热情), it was just something that never came ______ to me. At that time, I never ______ that I would one day run a marathon.

Everything ______ when I met my neighbor Mrs. Gray. She was fifty years old, going through cancer and still __________ to run 30 miles a week. Encouraged by her, I thought I could run at least one or two. In February, I started to walk a 2-mile route (路线) and would ______ to add in a short distance of running. Two months later, I finished 6 miles. I felt ______, but I felt great.

Over the next several years, I continued to push each run for a few extra minutes. The physical and mental fight never stopped, ______ I loved every minute of these runs. I didn't need to compete against other runners. For me, the _________ competitor was myself.

Slowly, I ______ entering some local road races. After continuing to ______ myself and finishing two half marathons, I ______ I would train for the Detroit Free Press/ Flagstar Bank Marathon. My summer was filled with many long 6 AM runs to beat the summer heat. I loved my ______. I knew I was finally on the road to success.

Race day finally came, and I was filled with ______. The experience was hard but it ended up being unbelievable. As I crossed the finish line, I experienced the strongest sense of ______ I ever had in my life

3 . As a teenager growing up in a small town in Oregon in the 1950s, I had no wish to finish high school. My biggest _______ in life was to be a cartoonist. My hero, Walt Disney, had never _______ high school, and I felt that if he could drop out and _______, so could I. But my mother would never hear of it, so I _______ to go on with my school life.

In my second year of high school I began to sell cartoons to a small magazine in California. In my letter to the editor, I mentioned my _______ to drop out of high school and go into _______ full-time. He wrote back urging (力劝) me to _______ school. To make him believe me, I told him about how Walt Disney had _______.

A few weeks later, I got a mail from the magazine. I was quite _______ to see one letter addressed to me from Walt Disney studios. They ________ me that the editor had contacted them and explained to them my ________ about finishing high school. They ________ me very strongly to stay in high school, pointing out that they ________ considered applicants without a high school education.

It discouraged me, ________ it taught me two things: I was no Walt Disney, and times had ________. I finished high school, and went on for two years of college. Years later I worked for Walt Disney studios.

4 . One warm spring day, a small creature followed my girls home after school. She was so _______that my girls begged me to keep her.

So we named her Molly and she_______everywhere my girls went. But one day, a particular ad caught my attention and my heart_______ at what I read. Someone was searching for a lost puppy near our grade school.

I wanted to ignore the ad. However, my conscience was _______me. With _______feelings, I picked up the phone. Secretly I was praying no one would_______, but a woman did. As I described the dog to her in detail, her voice shook with_______. and she wanted to come right over._______ minutes I heard a vehicle pull up at the driveway and some _______ stop at the door. A thousand thoughts_______ my mind: I could pretend I wasn't home or tell her,“I'm sorry, you have the wrong address." But it was too late: the bell rang and Molly was _______.

Opening the door, I saw a woman with a little girl sitting in a small wheelchair. When looking at Molly, the little girl's face_______.“Here,Lucy,”she yelled,“Come here!”Molly instantly obeyed,wagging her tail wildly. Seemingly sensing my feelings, the woman explained that Lucy(Molly) was more than just a puppy to her daughter. Suddenly I felt _______.God has blessed me with so much,I thought. As they pulled out of the______,I smiled, knowing I had done the right thing - that puppy was_______where she belonged.

5 . In eighth grade, I was fascinated by a legend from Japan. ________ you fold one thousand paper cranes, the gods will help realize one wish for you. I took it as a challenge and started folding paper cranes.

I folded cranes at home, between classes, and in the car. My fingers were ________sticky from the glue.

________with a pack of colorful pencils, I decorated each piece of paper individually. Slowly, my collection grew.

With more confidence, I started ________. How small was it possible for a crane to be? Smaller than a golf ball? Smaller than a coin? Soon I could finish a crane in fifty seconds with my ________ closed.

By six hundred cranes, the increasing demands of high school academics caused my ________ to slow. I despaired. I wouldn’t let this be another ________ project that I couldn’t finish. My cranes mattered to me. As an outlet for expression, they ________ as a way to overcome frustration and sadness.

So, I pushed myself to keep working and to keep folding one crane at a time. My determination ________ off. One month before the end of junior year, I folded my thousandth paper crane. As I ________ the open drawer filled with cranes in a huge number of sizes and colors, I felt a rush of ________. I proved to myself that I can finish what I start.

Looking at them, I realized the fact that there is a lot of beauty in tiny things. I have ________ away cranes to my friends as a pick-me-up on ________ days, and I have made cranes to ________ people, such as the dark green crane I made the day my grandmother died. They are a symbol of hope to remind me what I have accomplished. It turns out, I didn’t need the ________. I learned I have the power to make things happen for myself.

6 . I’ve always been fascinated by languages, but I’ve never been any good at learning them. I remember sitting in my French lessons, I never _________ what I was being taught. My teacher wasn’t _________.

But one of my A levels was English Language, and that was where my interest in _________ started. Over the last few years, I’ve started learning more languages than I can _________. They include Latin, Russian, Spanish, and probably several others. None of them stuck.

And then came lockdown. While I was _________ enough to still be able to work from home, on evenings and weekends, I found myself getting _________ and looking through video websites for something to watch. That’s how I _________ a Chinese fantasy drama filled with complex relationships.

But by the time I got about halfway through the show, I _________ that in some cases, the words being spoken in Chinese didn’t match the words being said in the English translations. _________, a character was being called shijie instead of by her name. I went online, did some __________ and met a difficulty.

Shijie, which I learned can be translated as “martial sister”, introduced me to the complexities of Chinese __________. So many different words for “aunt”, “uncle” and “grandfather”! Characters with more than one name!

I was __________ by the way the language is so connected with the culture, and how poetic and __________ it is. I wanted to be able to __________ the source material, even if it was going to take me a long while __________ I got to that point.

7 . Last semester, I worked in a restaurant in my spare time. In the beginning, it was very _________ for me to learn the rules and remember the recipes. I had to stand there and _________. At the end of the day, I was so tired that I almost could do nothing.

After a few days of working, the head waiter told me that I could take charge as a chief. I knew if I worked hard, I would take charge of a room. It meant I could get more _________. I was glad to do that.

As new, it was not an easy thing to _________ all customers well. Sometimes, I dished up wrongly. Or I forgot the customer’s requirements. What was _________, I overturned the plates twice. However, I could not be _________ because of these difficulties.

One day, I was about to be off duty when three foreigners came here. It was my first time to talk with a _________. Suddenly, my mind was blank even though I had memorized 3500 words. I began to speak slowly, but think _________.

“Excuse me, what can I do for you?” I said it word by word. At the same time, I showed them the _________. “No, we order ... with some rice.” They said so quickly that I could hardly understand what they wanted.

“Pardon?” I asked with embarrassment.

“Hum, there is no rice left. How about noodles? Like this and this.” I felt   __________ embarrassed. I could not __________ the dish name to them and just showed the picture in the menu to them.

On the way to school, I saw them again and we went the same way. They were students too. They talked to me. I stumbled to respond to questions. I __________ about why I couldn’t remember any words. However, I __________ to this atmosphere gradually and began to talk to them more fluently. I restarted to pick up my confidence again. They praised me for my self-confidence.

It is memorable, for it was the first time to make a dent in my heart. __________ self-confidence means half success. I believe in myself and won’t __________       confidence any more.

8 . “Bookshops are places to let your imagination fly high, with so many possible ________ to discover,” says Laura Iverson. She is one of the ________ at Darling Reads bookshop in West Yorkshire, England.

For Iverson, the best thing about working in a bookshop is ________ new books to readers. “ ________ beats that smile when they find the perfect book,” she says. ________ , when it comes to choosing the right one, she has some useful tips.

Don't feel you have to ________ a book because your friend likes it," Iverson says. "Stick to your own interests and choose what ________ you. "

She also ________ asking booksellers for suggestions because it could open your ________ to a new book or writer you would never have considered. "Bookshop staff are so ________ and absolutely love talking about books all day. "

Iverson says that one of her ________ books is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. She remembers ________ reading it when she was around 12 years old, and not being able to put it ________ . This is one of the things Iverson loves about reading. "No matter where you are, or what you're doing, you can be ________ into another world, once you a pick up a book that fascinates you, in a matter of ________ . "

9 . I have been a student here for the last three years now. I really _______ it here, the teachers, the students, and everything. However, leaving my old school and changing to a new one wasn’t so _______ for me.

I had never changed schools before; I was quite happy where I was and _______ with everyone, but my mom thought it was time for a _______. My mom wanted me to better my skills which were something I wasn’t _______. I’ve always loved social sciences, but until sixth grade, _______ I hadn’t written one great essay (文章). My mom was right. I had to start learning more about writing, _______ it was a love of mine. It also is a very _______ skill to have because it is needed in every way that one might follow.

Afterwards, I didn’t want to _______ my old friends. I had been with those friends since first grade, and I thought that if I left school our ________ wouldn’t be easy. The summer of 2018 was ________ for me. I was feeling sick and nervous ________ that I wouldn’t make any friends at my new school. But then my mom tried to tell me ________, “Everything will be okay, believe me.”

After one week at the new school, I started thinking it was ________. I was enjoying the learning and having fun with my many new friends. With persuasion (说服) from my mom at first, I had made the right choice. I’m ________ to everyone around me, especially my mom.

10 . What happens when the novel A Dream of Red Mansions meets architectural psychology? How does a coffee shop ________ your imagination? Seeming odd at first sight, these are the questions ________ in Critical Thinking & Innovation, a course taught by Professor Xiong Hao.

For Xiong, critical thinking is a(n) ________ part of life which he loves most. After ________ his Ph. D., he joined Fudan University and participated in TV debates and talk shows. He is well known for his quick ________ and composure (沉着) on ________. “People are often restrained (限制) by conventions. Innovation is about thinking differently,” Xiong highlighted the ________ of critical thinking.

Students are attracted to the course for the student-friendly learning ________ in class. Previously, the course was run on an e-platform with ________ seminars as a supplement (补充). Students who enrolled in the course all ________ it. “The expressions used by the professor are very ________.” “The speed of teaching is just right.” These are some of the comments.

As a result of the outbreak of COVID-19, Xiong has to ________ several adjustments this semester. The course is divided into 60 sections and each lasts only 6 minutes to cope with ________ attention spans as students watch the videos online.

“As a teacher, I don’t know how well students are processing the information. For students, they may get bored or tired easily for the lack of ________.”   To make up for it, Xiong inserts questions and the students will have to choose the right answer before they ________. Offline seminars have been moved online as well.