5 . Every Saturday morning Phoenix Young would take piano lessons with a family friend when he was a child. “At that time we would_______around and take all morning just to have a lesson,” Phoenix_______. “And I loved it.”

But when Phoenix was 12, his teacher proposed that he need better_______.So his mother took him to a music school in the Bronx, and signed him up for classes with a teacher named Bade Simon, experienced bit known for being _______. And she quickly lived up to that _______.Phoenix found the stressful life was_______like his lighthearted Saturday mornings with his former teacher, so it wasn’t long before he_______that he would quit.

One day, however, Bade_______him and said something surprising: “I have_______in you. Keep going. Then the reluctant (不情愿的) student did something surprising ________: he said, “Okay.”

“It was as if all I wanted was just a________from her that she cared about me,” Phoenix said.

That moment________their relationship. Within a few weeks, they were having________during lessons. And within a few months, she was teaching him things about music that he’d never known before. It was the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship.

“I went into________and became a piano teacher, a career I have been doing for 50 years,” Phoenix said. “And I ________it all to that precious moment with my unsung hero, Bade Simon.”

6 . Jonathan Jones, 12, was overcome with emotion after his principal, who is also color-blind, let him _______ his unique glasses during science class last week.

As soon as Jones put the glasses on, he appeared to be immediately _______ . He initially smiled and laughed, _______ he broke down moments later. He then walked around the classroom excitedly, _______ the now-vivid colors around him.

“I was feeling joy that I could _______ see all this color, and a little bit of _______ that I couldn’t see color my whole life,” Jonathan told ABC news.

The boy’s mother posted a(n) _______ of Jonathan seeing color for the first time online and started a GoFundMe campaign to buy a pair of the unique glasses for Jonathan, which reportedly cost $350. However, so many people were _______ by Jonathan’s story, and the campaign actually ended up _______ more than $25,000.

She wrote: “After posting the video we’ve been touched by how many ________ people have wanted to help him. We’ve had multiple pairs donated to Jonathan and will use 100% of ________ funds to purchase color-blind glasses for those who can’t ________ them.” “The glasses company will match every pair we purchase with a free pair, which ________ the number of people we can ________ ,” she continued.

For Jonathan, with the new glasses comes a new ________ of the world. He said his favorite color is blue and he’s excited to visit the Caribbean this winter so he can see the ocean in all its glory.

7 . Experts say boredom is good for kids, which forces them to be creative, improves their imagination, and helps them discover new things. A (n) _________ in point is 12-year-old Luke Thrill from Dubuque, lowa.

Luke was _________ of playing video games and riding his bike, so he decided to build a tree house in his backyard instead. He made money from mowing the lawn and _________ exchanged some services, such as gaining the help of an electrician _________ sweeping his garage. Luke also used spare materials from his grandmother’s house and other _________ materials from his neighbors for some of the windows and the door.

The 46-square-foot tree house cost $2,000 to build and _________ 18 months. Inside there is a bed, a table and a mounted (安装好的) TV, and a lift can be easily _________ by stairway.

Although Luke did the _________ and learned how to do all the work, he had his father’s help throughout the project. Greg was very happy that his son learned to keep within a _________ and deal with grown-ups. __________, he had some simple rules when Luke started the project 18 months ago: “You __________ the money. You build it. And you own it.”

Luke is now in love with building. He has a You Tube channel and hopes to __________ other kids to start building. __________, he wants to build a bigger tiny house to live in, but for now, he __________ in his new home a few nights a week, does homework there, and uses it to take a __________ from his twin brother.

8 . 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.

10 . Sarah grew up on a fishing boat. Her father, _____ to make enough money to buy a house, had _____ her within their only small boat since his wife died.

One morning, Sarah saw a _____ above the sea, which was close to them, and the boat began to rock as waves grew. ____   the mountain of clouds approaching from the south, she rushed below deck (甲板) ,“Dad, _____!”

“What?” her drunken father asked _____.

“Dad, a big storm is coming. We need to get out of here.” She grabbed his shoulders and _____ him.

He got angry, shouting, “What are you doing?”

“Dad, we have to _____ the boat. There’s a big storm coming.”

Her father _____ her at last. He walked to the deck, saw the ______ and fired up the engine.

“Dad, what are you doing?”

“Sarah, ______ we stay here, we will die. We need to go out to the sea. We must ride the waves; that’s our only ______.”

Their boat headed into the storm ______. Above them were black clouds and in front of them were dark waves. It was so ______.

Hours passed. The dark day turned into darkness totally. They held each other for ______, but the experienced fisherman needed no ______ because he had fought many such battles.

Eventually, the waves ______ and the sky brightened. Sarah was ______ and hugged her father, “You did it, Dad.”

They sailed back into the port. Other boats had been destroyed. Their boat was the only one to ______ the storm. Sarah hugged her father again. “Dad, you made it. You ______ us.”

“No, Sarah,” he held her by his arms, “we did it together.”