1 . At 20, I was scared and lonely. My laptop was filled with the beginning of novels, half-finished song lyrics (歌词) — things I’d started with teenage ________ only to be disappointed by my lack of creativity. I was ________ trying to find a new way to approach life, with no one to ________ me in the right direction.

One Saturday, I went to a training day for my school’s new journalism team. The teacher suggested I start a blog as a good way to get into ________. Bored and in need of a ________, I immediately set up a Blogger account.

As I typed post after post in the months that followed, I assumed I would run out of ________. But somehow writing about the news and, later, about ________, came easily. Here was something interesting that required only a laptop and an ________. I loved the research that went into each post, loved being able to ________ what interested me and loved finding just the right phrase to describe how I ________. I found something I was good at and more importantly, something I ________.

I kept posting and slowly I got better. I ________, edited and even learned how to employ a metaphor. It wasn’t long until my mind was made up: I was going to be a(n) ________.

Seven years later, I am having just completed a fantastic placement (实习) in a local newspaper. I have never been so ________ to my younger self for actually listening to the one piece of advice that turned out to ________ most.

2 . How long have you been going to the same hairdresser or barber? It’s a question that gets us thinking about the unique friendship we _______ with our stylists over the years.

You have confidence in each other. You have a laugh together and regularly _______ each other’s news. Plus they try to make you look and feel your best. That’s a(n) _______ not only for a great friendship, but also for the perfect relationship with your hairdresser. When you find a good barber, it’s something to _______.

Many people have _______ experiences with their hairdressers. I’ve had my hair cut by Claire Miller for more than 15 years. She’s taken me through all kinds of _______, and she’s helped me find a totally new look now during the post-chemotherapy (化疗后) period with dyed blonde hair! _______ hairstyles, there have been communications about the joys and trials of motherhood, the _______ of health problems and changes in our careers and lives — the stuff of 15 years that we have _______ in the three salons Claire has worked in.

While she cut my hair recently, we chatted about that special __________ that forms between hairdressers and their clients. “You hear so many stories from them, and sometimes you feel like a counselor __________ a hairdresser. You assess their needs, and you know how to react to them,”says Claire.

For Claire, the customer interaction is something she loves about the job and that she has __________ developed throughout her working life. “It’s about being human and __________ about people. A lot of my clients are my friends and like family now. It’s my __________ to cut their hair, making them look and feel good, but I also want them to feel __________ by the experience,” laughs Claire.

3 . Human beings have somehow managed to engineer the night to receive us by filling it with light. This kind of control is no different from the feat ( 壮 举 ) of damming a river. Its benefits come with_________ — called light pollution — whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study. Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design. _________ lighting washes out the darkness of night, altering light levels and light rhythms to which many forms of life, including ourselves, have_________. Wherever man-made light spills into the natural world, some aspects of life-migration, reproduction, feeding-is affected.

For most human history, the phrase “light pollution” would have_________. Imagine walking towards London on a moonlit night around 1800, when it was Earth’s most populous city. Nearly a million people lived there, _________ candles, torches and lanterns, as they always had. Only a few houses were lit by gas, and there would be no public gaslights in the streets or squares for another seven years. From a few miles away, you would have been more likely to_________ London than to see its dim collective glow.

We’ve lit up the night as if it were a(n) _________ country. As a matter of fact, among mammals (哺乳动物) alone, the number of species active at night is astonishing. Light is a powerful biological force, and on many species it acts as a magnet attracting them to it. The effect is so powerful that scientists speak of songbirds and seabirds being_________ by searchlights on land or by the light from gas flares on marine oil platforms, circling and circling in the thousands until they drop.

It was once thought that light pollution only affected astronomers, who need to see the night sky in all its glorious clarity. Unlike astronomers, most of us may not need a_________ view of the night sky for our work. __________, like most other creatures, we do need darkness. __________ darkness is pointless. It is as essential to maintaining our biological welfare as__________ itself; the price of modifying our internal clockwork means it doesn’t operate as it should, causing various physical discomforts. So fundamental are the regular rhythms of waking and sleep to our being that__________ them is similar to altering our center of gravity.

In a very real sense, light pollution causes us to__________ our true place in the universe, to forget the scale of our being, which is best__________ against the dimensions of a deep night with the Milky Way — the edge of our galaxy — arching overhead.

4 . The train had been long delayed. Running out of _________, Andy put down his book and looked out. He found the_________at once: it was raining hard.

He lay down and fell asleep but was soon woken up by a woman. She handed him his bag and _________ that it had slipped to the floor. He gratefully took it back and opened it,_________ to see his mother’s scarf and some sandwiches inside.

Andy’s thoughts drifted(飘)to when he was _________. His mother had insisted on putting her scarf in. “If it rains, it may get cold.” He remembered feeling_________and had taken it out. But it was still here.

_________ Andy realized he was burning with fever. Feeling helpless, he called his mum. “Take a _________I have put in medicine, just_________,” she suggested. Touched by his mother’s__________he took the medicine and soon fell deep asleep in the__________of the scarf.

Andy woke up later feeling much better. Then he noticed the woman,who’d__________him earlier, __________ holding a baby in her arms, both shaking. Their clothes did little against the cold wind.

Without thinking twice, Andy wrapped his mother’s scarf around the baby. To his __________, the child soon fell asleep in the love of not one, but two__________.

5 . Marley Christian found a young koala, next to his dying mother. However, becoming motherless wasn’t his only _______. The rescuer from Friends of the Koala also _______ he was missing a foot.

Marley did her best for Triumph, the koala. She used socks to _______ his stump (残肢), which helped ease the discomfort Triumph felt whenever he tried to put _______ on it, but Marley thoughts he couldn’t _______ there. She began searching the Internet for pet prostheses (假体). But for a koala, there was nothing _______. “I was told it couldn’t be done,” Marley said.

Marley did find a company specializing in animal prostheses that would like to _______ the case, but they were unsuccessful after several _______. Eventually Marley found the _______ right in her neighborhood. She mentioned Triumph’s trouble to her dental prosthetist Jon Doulman, and he ________ to find a way to make a prosthesis for Triumph.

“________, it’s different from tooth problems,” Jon said. “But it’s worth a try.” After making one ________ of Triumph’s stump, he created a pink rubber boot, which could help make Triumph’s ________ of movement return. “It’s a seemingly ________ thing. But the design of the dentist does change Triumph’s life. Once the boot was ________, he did a little jump, and then ran around. I actually cried,” said Marley.

7 . In 1992, the first piano arrived on Mahani Teave’s distant island — Rapa Nui. Teave took her first lessons on that piano. They strengthened her love for the piano and _______ the young musician to leave her home for years of study.

Teave’s trip to the mainland came because of the _______ of Roberto Bravo, a well-known pianist who heard her play. Just nine years old, she enrolled in the Austral University of Chile in Valdivia. As a teenager, awards began to _______, including a first place at the Claudio Arrau Piano Competition. “Teave is extraordinarily gifted. The power of concentration that she _______ is first-class,” says Fabio Bidini, a famous pianist, _______ Teave would earn a worldwide reputation.

But after years of study in Berlin, Teave felt the island _______ her heart. She began to think of giving up the _______ career. “There was this umbilical cord (脐带) _______ me with the island and saying, ‘Mahani, you had all these _______. There are lots of children who are ________ to have them too, and only you can do this.’”

The memories of her youthful ________ for music haunted (萦绕) her. She ________ the pain felt when good teachers appeared on the island, and then suddenly ________ the island. “It was breaking children’s dreams over and over again,” she says.

Teave soon moved back to the island and opened a music school. “It is ________ to see the children learning. I am content,” she says. Teave may have given up a successful career, but she gains something more—the ________ of supporting the dreams of children, hungry to learn music.

9 . Like many young people, Jessica wants to travel the globe. Unlike most of them, this 25-year-old is doing it _______ . She and her husband have spent the last two years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore. It might sound like one long, expensive _______ , but the couple has an unusual way to make their travel _______ .

They’re part of a new form of the _______ economy: an online group of house sitters. Throughout their no-cost stays in _______ homes, they feed pets and water plants in the homeowner’s _______ .

It’s not all sightseeing. The two travelers carefully _______ their trips, scheduling their days around the pets that are sometimes difficult to _______ . But house sitting also offers a level of _______ they can’t find in a hotel. “It’s like ________ at a friend’s house,” Jessica says.

The couple has a high ________ rate in getting accepted as house sitters and they always go beyond the homeowner’s ________ . For Jessica, that means ________ plenty of pictures of happy pets, keeping the house ________ and leaving a nice small gift before heading to the next house. “You want to make the homeowner feel that they made the right ________ ,” she says.

10 . I went for a walk up to a local park and Chester was running about. Suddenly, two dogs appeared, attacking him. He got _________ and ran off in an unfamiliar direction. I can only _________ myself-it’s like losing a family member. My daughter didn’t sleep for three days. She just thought her pet was _________.

My family had almost lost _________ until Erica decided to offer her services. She uses a drone(无人机)to help find lost dogs. Equipped with a hi-tech thermal imaging(热成像)camera, the drone can detect heat _________ from 250 feet in the air. _________, when asked to help out in a search for a _________, Erica simply turns up to the dog’s last known _________ and sets up the drone. Having found more than 160 dogs, it’s proved pretty _________.

And it’s easy to see why. Can you __________ Chester running around these woods? To the naked eye(肉眼), it’s virtually impossible, but pop the thermal image up and he jumps out, __________ his owner to bring him safely back home.

Having saved hundreds of dogs, the method is clearly __________. Erica doesn’t __________ for her services and instead does it for the pleasure of seeing the owners __________.

Erica’s drone has helped create countless happy __________ and is sure to make many more in the future.