1 . Six-year-old Mia Rabii is from California．She didn’t expect to become a（n）___ when she went for a walk with her mum recently．But when some strangers called out for ___, Mia and her mum ran to their side．

It turns out that some ducklings（小鸭子）had gotten stuck and the people who found them were unable to ___ them．But luckily for the ducklings, Mia had just what it took to bring them to ___．Now the six-year-old’s ___ act is being talked about around the world．

It all ___ when a family found a mother duck ___ with only one duckling．The father duck was nearby, but ___, there were no other ducklings following them．___ the family knew that ducks often travel in flocks（群）, they realized that something was probably ____．

Then suddenly, there were strange ____ coming from a drainage pipe（排水管）．They were the cries of ducklings．It turned out that the other ducklings had ____ into the pipe and gotten stuck．Unluckily, no one in the family had slim（纤细的）enough ____ to reach down and pull out the ducklings—but ____, there was a hero nearby．

The family ____ Mia and her mum, who immediately rushed to them．The family filled Mia and her mum in on what had ____, and Mia decided to take action ____ and try to bring the ducklings to safety．

Mia put her arm down into the darkness and carefully ____ the first duckling．Mia then rushed back to save the ____ duckling．And the next．．．until she had brought all eight ducklings to safety．

After Mia saved the little creatures from ____, the overjoyed mother duck went off with her beloved ducklings．

2 . Clouds are an ordinary sight. However, this Dutch ______ makes his own.

Berndnaut Smilde creates clouds in locations where nature would never ______ them. The inside of a church or museum looks different behind a cloud. And an everyday cloud looks ______ in a castle. The art project ______ the beauty of clouds. Each scene lasts only five seconds before it ______.

The ingredients (原料) for Smilde’s clouds: just ______ and water vapor (水蒸气). The artist needs a cold and wet space with no wind. ______, the clouds will never ______ or will fall straight to the ground.

______ a cloud is formed, Smilde will run around it and turn it into a shape about 3 meters ______ and 1.8 meters tall. ______ he will step back far enough to take several pictures. Smilde will not stop until he is ______ with the results. ______, he creates a dozen clouds at a time.

Many people are interested in Smilde’s project. Some ______ him to create clouds for them at a party or a wedding ceremony. Smilde, however, ______ them. He says he only creates clouds when the setting offers ______ fresh. The artist doesn’t just want people to stare in ______ at his clouds. He also wants people to ______ the transience (转瞬即逝) of life. For the clouds, they exist only for a moment and then are gone forever.

“Each ______ is about being at the right place at the right time,” Smilde says. “If you are seeing a photo, you have ______ missed it.”

3 . There are lots of ways to raise awareness for a cause. Usually, the _______ the idea is, the more it gets noticed. And that’s precisely why one _______ Frenchman has caught our attention.

Baptiste Dubanchet is biking across Europe, surviving _______ on discarded(丢弃) food. The three-month, 1,900-mile journey from Paris to Warsaw is Dubanchet’s _______ of raising awareness of food waste in Europe and throughout the world.

As you can _______, the trip is no piece of cake. While restaurants _______ tons of food each year, much of it remains inaccessible because of _______ garbage containers, health regulations, or business policies. Only about one in ten places _______ him food that would otherwise be discarded. For legal _______, most restaurants have a policy against ________ food waste. “Some people have even ________ their jobs by giving me food,” Dubanchet said.

What’s ________ interesting is the attitude various cities have toward Dubanchet’s cause. Berlin has been the ________ while the most difficult was the Czech town of Pilsen. There, he had to ________ at some 50 different stores or restaurants before finding food. The ________ is all the more serious when you consider the ________ exercise required to bike from France to Poland.

“I have to get food ________ because after all the biking I am tired and I need the ________,” Dubanchet explained. “Is my ________ full or empty? That is the most important thing, not what I am eating.”

He aims to ________ his journey by mid-July. With any luck, he’ll turn a few more heads in the process.

4 . It’s about 250 miles from the hills of west-central Iowa to Ehlers’ home in Minnesota. During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting. Ehlers _______about the small dog he had seen _______ alongside the road. He had _______ to coax(哄) the dog to him but, frightened, it had _______.

Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that _______ dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove _______. After a long and careful _______, Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving _______ away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with _______. It just started licking(舔) Ehlers’ face.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one ________ as lost in the local paper. The ad had a ________ number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers ________ the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had ________ their dog.

Jeff had ________ in Iowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched ________ for Rosie in the next four days.

Ehlers returned to Minnesota, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan. “It’s good to know there’s still someone out there who ________ enough to go to that kind of ________,”says Lisa of Ehlers’ rescue ________.

“I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as ________ to it as I am to my dogs,” says Ehlers. “If it had been my dog, I’d hope that somebody would be ________ to go that extra mile.”

5 . A group of homeless children in the Indian capital — New Delhi publish a newspaper. It tells about their own ___.

It is called Balaknama, which means “children’s voice”. It is written and ___ by children. About 10, 000 people ___ it.

The children write about poverty, child labor, underage marriages and drugs. When ___ arrive and the team sits down to select stories, lots of fights ___ They argue, “This story will have more impact than that story.” So there are a lot of ___ before the final ___ goes to print.

The newspaper has 70 ___ in several states and 14 in the capital. All of the reporters, editors and managers are ___ children.

Many of their parents are ____ and cannot read or write. The children now earn money，and many of them ____ classes online that may help them find a job.

The newspaper is published every month. It has eight pages. In 2002, when it began ____, the newspaper was published four times a year. It has ____ the lives of many of the children who publish it, and hopes to ____ the lives of thousands of others. Non-governmental organizations and charity groups ____ the newspaper.

Sanjay Gupta leads a group that helps the children and ____ money to the newspaper.

“They feel very encouraged when people ____ them. I think this is a really ____ tool to empower (使自主) them.” said he.

The newspaper costs about three cents. That is less than the ____ of a small cup of tea in India. ____, the small cost gives the children hope that they will someday have a home and a job.

6 . The day that I will always remember is when I ran my first 10km.While putting my toe on the starting____, I felt my heart drop to my stomach. However, I would____my heart, because in running, when you run out of your____, you just run with your heart.

That day the____was cool and fresh, and my courage had____. The race was about to start. Bang! The____of the starting gun ran into the air. I took off running,____like the wind. I knew it would be a really great____for me. In the first four miles, I felt like a cheetah (猎豹). I felt____and forceful in my pace.

I saw the finishing line and I felt like an Olympic____who was about to win the race. I had____been happier, and felt proud too when I had my____put around my neck. As the saying goes, “Running is the greatest metaphor (比喻) for life,____you get out of it what you put into it.”

7 . Bill White's father is a lawyer. In his _______ time, he likes to get out in the country and take some _______ of animals.

For a long time, Bill had wanted to go with his father on one of his _______. But his father didn't take Bill along with him _______ he was fifteen.

He and Bill drove to the farm which _______ to his uncle in the afternoon. They _______ the night there, so that they could _______ out early the next morning. Uncle Steve and his son Larry, who was sixteen, were going to go out with them.

It was still dark when Bill heard the alarm _______ the next morning. He wondered why it was running so early. He couldn't remember _______ he was. He turned over ________ and looked at the clock. It was 5 o'clock. Then he ________ that he was at the ________ and that he was going out to take pictures with his father. He jumped out of bed and got ________ quickly.

He ran downstairs. The others were already in the ________. Uncle Steve was cooking bacon and eggs. There was a pot of coffee on the stove. It ________ good.

They ate breakfast quickly. They didn't talk ________, because they didn't want to ________ up the other people in the house. They filled a thermos bottle ________ hot coffee and took some sandwiches ________ Aunt Grace, Uncle Steve’s wife, had made for them. They gathered their camera ________ and started out.

8 . Scientists find that hardworking people live longer than average men and women. Career women are _________ than housewives. Evidence shows that the _________ are in poorer health than the job-holders. A study shows ___________ the unemployment rate increases by 1%, the death rate _________ correspondingly (相应地) by 2%. All this comes down to one point: work is _________ to health.

Why is work good for health? It is _________ work keeps people busy, away from loneliness and solitude (孤独). Researches show that people feel _________, worried and lonely when they have nothing to do. Instead, the happiest are those who are _________. Many high achievers who love their careers feel that they are happiest when working hard. Work serves as a _________ between man and reality. By work, people __________ each other. By collective (集体的) activity, they find friendship and warmth. This is helpful to health. The loss of work __________ the loss of everything. It affects (影响) man spiritually and makes him liable to (易于) __________.

__________, work gives one a sense of achievement (成就感). Work makes one feel his __________ and status in society. When a __________ finishes his writing or a doctor successfully __________ a patient or a teacher sees his students __________, all of them will be happy beyond __________.

From the above we can __________ the conclusion (结论) that the more you __________, the happier and healthier you will be. Let us work hard, study well and live a happy and healthy life.

9 . One year after Tom was born, his parents had a car accident. They never   ___. Tom's 85-year-old grandmother was too   ___ to take care of him. As a result he was put up for adoption (领养).He was adopted by a middle-aged couple who had no   __   of their own. They were not rich and received little education, but they were   __   people.

As Tom was growing up: he   __   a lot of problems at school. He didn't learn   __   and had trouble in reading. His   __   sometimes laughed at him. What they said made Tom   ___.

After many years of learning at home, he   __   overcame (克服）his difficulties. Today he is a very   __ speaker and author. While he was growing up_, his self-esteem(自尊) and   __   were low because of others' making fun of him. It took him many   __   to realize his dreams.

When listening to his videos and tapes, he shows confidence. He tells about his   __   and how he overcame the challenges in his life. He has a very   __       sentence: “You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present situations   __   you change.”

For those who have low self-confidence, I suggest you   __   reading about Tom's world. Many people have so much potential（潜能）to be discovered. If you have a dream, then start today to   __   yourself towards it. If someone like Tom who has   __   in learning can make such achievements, why can't you succeed?

10 . Jason, our son, was born with cerebral palsy（脑瘫）. My wife and I often comforted him as he faced many _______ in his early years.

It was _______ to see him regularly chosen last for baseball, but his most _______ time came when he began high school. One afternoon, Jason returned home in _______ and shouted: “I’m never going to school again!” He was _______ with food that other kids had _______ him on the school bus on the way home. Jason later told us what had _______. A few days earlier, Jason had _______ up for the school running team. That day, a few older students made _______ of his performance on the track. I called the headmaster about the ________, and it never happened again.

One day, as the other kids exercised in the gym, they ________ one lonely runner-Jason jogging around the snow-covered track. A few weeks later, Jason said to me, “Dad, I was ready for the ________. He added that each month, each student ________ an “athlete of the month” and voted for the ________. Jason’s name had never been ________. But that day, one student said: “Sir, I would like to propose Jason for athlete of the month. “The coach looked ________. “He works harder than any of us, Sir,” the student continued. Tears ________ in Jason’s eyes as everyone in the class put their hands up. We, also in tears, looked on as he ________ displayed his certificate.

Whenever I despair, I think of this story. I ________ myself that challenges are not overcome by ________, but by patience, determination, and faith.