2 . Owura Kwadwo Hottish teaches computer science in a school. It is a normal school except for the fact that it didn’t have______

Owura became famous after he posted photos of him on the Internet. In the picture. people could see he was teaching his students by______ an entire computer on the blackboard.The photos showed the______level of education for children in Ghana. People were______ that Owura made sure each button was drawn correctly. He would come to school half an hour ahead of______every day. He drew the computer on the blackboard, but at the end of his class, it was______off to start the next class, so he had to______it the next day! Owura’s efforts______when Microsoft took______of his act. They first took him to an international educators’ meeting in Singapore. He made a______about his teaching methods at the meeting and ______a standing ovation(欢呼) after the speech.

______,Owura got the thing he always wanted for his students—some companies______computers to the school. Not a single child in the school had seen a real computer in their lives. Thanks to their teacher’s______the world took care and treat them with ______

4 . On a Friday evening in December, two weeks before Christmas, I lost my job. When my daughter, Kristil, then 12, and I planned to get our Christmas tree, I listened to my voicemail: “We’re sorry but your work _______ has ended today. ”My heart sank. As a single parent, my anxiety _______.

The next day as we searched for the tree, I _______ to be cheerful as I eyed each price tag(标签).

“Is everything OK? ” Kristil asked. ”You seem worried. ”

“I got some bad news yesterday,” I told her. ”I lost my job.”

I eagerly _______ job as my bank account became smaller. I felt as if the world was closing in on me.

One afternoon, I dropped Kristil in a wealthy community for a birthday party. I watched as she went in, _______ with all the nice things we couldn’t afford. I drove home _______. Back at home, I glanced out the window. It had been snowing _______ all morning. I noticed a slim woman trying to open her car door _______ the wind. As she got out, I realized it was my old professor, Sister Esther Heffernan. I’d first met her 10 years earlier when I was her student at Edgewood College. Kristil was 3 at that time, and I sometimes took her to class. Such was Sister Esther, a(n) _______professor. When I was busy with lessons, she would ________ coloring books to occupy Kristil.

“Well, I called last week but couldn’t get through. ________, I thought I would come by.” Sister Esther said. “I have gifts for you and Kristil.”

I made her a cup of tea, and we talked. Being in Sister Esther’s ________ gave me hope that things would be all right. I opened her card as she ________. Hundred-dollar bills fell onto the table. I gasped ________, tears of gratitude streaming down my face. Sister Esther had given me $1, 000.

On Christmas Eve, I ________ watched as Kristil opened her gifts. In 2020, at age 91, Sister Esther died, but the love she gave during her life lives on in the hearts of many. I am lucky to be one of them.

5 . Many cities around the world today are heavily polluted. Careless methods of production and ________ of consumer demands for environment friendly products have ________ the pollution problem. One ________ is that millions of tons of glass, paper, plastic, and metal containers are produced, and these are difficult to get rid of.

________, today, more and more consumers are choosing “green” and demanding that the products they buy should be safe for the environment. ________ they buy a product, they ask questions like these: “Will this shampoo damage the environment?” “Can this metal container be ________ or can it only be used once?”

A recent study showed that two ________ five adults now consider the environmental safety of a product before they buy it. This means that companies must now change the ________ they make and sell their products to make sure that they are “green,” that is, friendly to the environment.

Only a few years ago, it was impossible to find green products in supermarkets, but now there are hundreds. Some supermarket products ________ labels to show that the product is green. Some companies emphasize that their products are clean and safe in their advertising and have made it their main selling ________.

The ________ for a safer and cleaner environment is making companies rethink ________ they do business. No longer will the public accept the old ________ of “Buy it, use it, throw it away and forget it.” The public ________ is still here, and companies are ________ their act gradually.

6 . I still remember my father’s sheepish(窘迫的)expression at breakfast the morning after he’d been invited to have dinner at a colleague’s house. ________ arriving in Brazil, back in the dark ages of computing, he’d ________ his hosts by making a hand gesture(手势)which he had always understood to mean “OK”, but in Brazil, it meant something quite different.

Even worse, he’d raised his fingers to his lips and made a kissing sound, which again, he meant as a way of ________ that something——in this case the meal he’d just been asked to ________——was delicious.

The faux pas(失礼)was ________ forgotten. My father’s colleague and his wife understood he probably wasn’t yet ________ of the local meaning of the gesture. I was ________ of this moment myself a few months into my stay in China. After ________ a colleague’s WeChat message with a Van Gogh sticker that I thought meant “keep fighting”, a second colleague appeared. “The Chinese version is a bit different,” she said, “See these characters?” They mean “I will hit you.”

Life is full of ________ meanings. We generally understand that even if it stings, a mistake is only an insult(冒犯)when it is ________. Intention, much like possession, is nine-tenths of this law. ________ as we look around, much friction(争执)originates from misunderstanding, and history is full of the ________ results of crossed communication.

My father’s faux pas was ________ because of context—he had just arrived, he could not know, and it didn’t make sense that he’d be offensive(无礼的)by design. But when context is ________ or differently understood—perhaps it is time we all think twice before typing or talking, especially when the consequences can be much ________ than the misuse of a WeChat sticker.

7 . My husband and I embraced (拥抱) and sobbed when we learned our home had been destroyed in the fire. The ________ of ours along with generations of irreplaceable items no longer existed in our life.

Several weeks later, we were allowed into where our home once stood. The drive there was ________. Some vehicles had been ________ on the side of the road. I had ________ online what was wouldn’t be destroyed by fire and was ________ to find as many as possible while digging through the ________. Tears streamed down my face as I dug. Every item I found was a(n) ________ to me.

After hours, we loaded the precious items we had ________ into our vehicle. I stood in the driveway and looked at what was once our home, ________ where we would find another home and how we could start over. Feeling empty, I questioned my ________ to survive the oncoming ________?

An afternoon breeze started and ________ burned pages from buried books. I thought about the books I had lost and the ________ they had given me. As I turned to leave, I noticed a piece of paper stuck to my boot. I pulled it off and read the printed ________. If life is difficult, pause and ________ on the fortune sometimes hidden within every circumstance.

With ________ faith and courage, I began again. I kept that piece of paper ________ and put it in every hotel and motel room we stayed in during the coming months. The message now sits on a shelf in the home we ________ into after the fire. It ________ me during that time and helped me through the long ________ recovery process.

8 . Josiah Launstein, 14, has always felt lucky to live in Rockaway, New York. Living just a few blocks from the beach, Josiah can see the ocean and hear the wave from her house. “It’s the ocean that makes Rockaway so _________,” she says.

On October 29, 2012, that _________ turned fierce. That night, Hurricane Sandy attacked the East Coast, and Rockaway was hit especially hard. _________, Josiah’s family escaped to Brooklyn shortly before the city’s bridge closed.

When they returned to Rockaway the next day, they found their neighborhood in ruins. All around her, people were _________, especially the elderly. In the following few days, the men and women helping Rockaway recover _________ Josiah. Volunteers came with carloads of donated clothing and toys. Neighbors devoted their spare time to helping others rebuild.

“My mom tells me that I can’t _________ what happens to me,” Josiah say, “But I can always choose how I deal with it.”

Josiah’s _________ was to help. She created a website page matching _________ in need with donors who wanted to help. Josiah posted introduction about a boy named Patrick, who lost his baseball card collection when his house _________. Within days, Patrick’s collection was __________. In the coming months, her website page helped lots of kids.

Josiah also worked with other organizations to bring much-needed __________ to Rockaway. Her __________ made her a famous person. She was invited to the White House and __________ as a Hurricane Sandy Champion of Change.

Today, the scars of destruction are still seen in Rockaway, but hope is __________. “I can’t imagine living anywhere but Rockaway,” Josiah declares. “My neighborhood will be back, even __________ than before.”

10 . Hansen and his 10-year-old son Chase search the streets of Salt Lake City every weekend for the homeless to take to lunch. They started Project Empathy(共情)four years ago to ________a meal, listen to their stories and figured out how they could ________ help.

“Just start with a smile, a hello. It really just starts with that. If you do it, you can make a connection. A small gesture can have a ________ impact on others less fortunate,” Hansen ________ in an interview.

Some of these shared meals have turned into stronger ________ .Ward, a homeless, was ________ in a flat. He credited the Hansens with helping him ________the difficult process of moving off the streets. “It is great to have friends who make us feel ________ and I’m impressed with the pair,” Ward said.

Father and son’s ________have developed into a passion project that ________ faith and community, which emphasizes the ________ community members can have in uplifting the homeless. They know they can’t settle the homeless ________ alone. They’re hoping empathy will ________.

“My hope for the future is to ________ more connection across our country. We could and we will succeed ________ we have other people join in and help the homeless,” Chase said.