2 . A few years ago I worked in an international company that sold computer devices. I had to ________ a lot over the country as a part of my work. I remember that I was at a stage of my life where I only cared about how to make more money.

On one of my trips, I came to the airport to take a bus to downtown, ________ . It was the same routine: get into the city, take the bus to the hotel, visit the customer, work late, take the bus back to the airport and fly back... I sat down somewhere in the middle. A boy was seated next to me, carrying a lot of ________ . Suddenly, he turned to me and gave me one of the most ________ smiles I had ever seen from a stranger. Warmly, he said, “Hi, the perfect day in the perfect place, huh?”

I remember thinking to myself — this must be one of those ________ people who is young and naive and just thinks everything is beautiful and easy. Why was he ________ me when I just wanted to enjoy the bus ride? But out of ________ I replied, “Perfect! Did your parents ________ you to have some vacations on the beach?” “No, I’m not here for vacation, and I don’t have parents,” He ________ his head, “I’m here because I want to achieve my biggest ________ . I’m on the way to the army school where my grandfather studied a long time ago.”

“I lost my dad 10 years ago then my mom married again. My stepfather ________ me out of the house. Since then, I’ve been living all over the country. I’ve met many people who were kind to me. And I’ve learnt a lot from life ________ these years,” he said softly. At that point I couldn’t say a word. I felt the ________ coming.

But he smiled and told me that for 10 years, he had only one thing on his mind — to join the army school like his grandfather. “My grandpa was a general of the army. He left me this,” he said ________ . He showed me a golden knife and said this was the best ________ of his childhood. “The only thing I know is that I will follow my dream and every day I will be happy.” Soon, the bus reached his stop, he stood up, took all his suitcases, and said goodbye with a big smile. From that day on, I always try to do everything with my best smile on my face.

6 . The True Story of Treasure Island

It was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson’s imagination. __________, recent research has found the true story of this exciting work.

Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived ________ for many years. In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a __________. With him were his American wife Fanny and his son Lloyd.

Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a long walk over the hills. They had been _________ this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors   by the heavy rain Lloyd felt the days ________. To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some __________.

One morning, the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island. Robert ________ that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of ________. “What’s that?” he asked. “That’s the ________ treasure,” said the boy. Robert suddenly saw something of an adventure story in the boy’s __________. While the rain was pouring, Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the __________ a twelve-year-old boy, just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate (海盗)?

Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the help of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to ________ such a man in a story. ________ Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was __________.

So thanks to a rainy September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg, and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of the greatest __________ stories in the English language.

7 . In the summer of 2015, Brian Peterson and his wife, Vanessa, had just moved to Santa Ana, California. Outside the couple’s fourth-floor apartment, a homeless man was often ______ on the street corner, sometimes keeping them awake at night. Peterson, 28, would pass the guy on his way to his job as a car designer, but they ______ spoke.

One day, Peterson was relaxing in his living room, reading the book Love Does, about the power of love in ______ when his quiet was ______ by the homeless man. Inspired by the book’s heart-touching ______, Peterson made an ______ decision: He was going to go outside and introduce himself.

In that first conversation, Peterson learned that the man’s name was Matt Faris. He’d moved to Southern California from Kentucky to ______ his career in music, but he soon ______ hard times and ended up living on the street for more than a decade.

“I saw beauty on the face of a man who, ______ and worn, hadn’t had a shower in close to a year. But his story, the life inside of him, ______ me.” And even though Peterson, a ______ of the Cleveland Institute of Art, hadn’t picked up a paintbrush in about eight years, he found himself asking if he could paint Faris’s portrait. Faris said yes.

Peterson’s ______ with Faris led him to form Faces of Santa Ana, a nonprofit organization ______ befriending and painting portraits of members of the community who are ______. Peterson sells the portrait for a few thousand dollars, splitting the proceeds and putting half into what he calls a “love account” for his model. Faris used the funds from his portrait to record an album, ______ his musical dreams.

8 . While many grandmothers would be content to stay home and enjoy a relaxed retirement, Nancy is taking a vastly _______ approach to her golden years. Three days a week, she heads to the _______ where she usually warms up with a walk before turning to her favorite sport of all:_______.

You read that right. This powerhouse is 75 years old. Ten years ago, she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. There’s no _______ for Parkinson’s, and the condition generally _______over time.

Nancy wasn’t about to _______ and wait for her symptoms(症状) to increase. “My doctor said one day, ‘you’re discouraged from sitting down’,” she explained. In a(n)_______ to “move, move, move”, Nancy headed to a gym to research _______ that might help her _______ her disease. As soon as she ________ non-contact boxing, she enjoyed it very much!

Non-contact boxing means Nancy never takes hits from her opponent, so it’s a(n)________way to get exercise that stimulates her brain as well as her body. Since she started her boxing________, Nancy said her symptoms have ________, and that she feels better immediately after working out!

When she first stepped into the gym, everyone turned around to stare at her in boxing gloves. Once they got over the ________, her gym friends, who are “gentle from the heart”, became her biggest supporters.

These days, she’s a ________ customer in the gym and has no shortage of partners.

9 . It's strange, but I don't really remember the hurricane (飓风）itself. It all happened so________. I was sitting in my room when the roof (屋顶) just ________. All of a sudden, there was the sky where the roof had been and I was very________. Without a roof, staying inside was really ________. It was August, so it was really hot and it smelled so________everywhere because much rotten food was thrown on the streets! Living in the ________air, we became breakfast, lunch and supper for the mosquitos(蚊子). We had lost our home and everything in it. But Mom kept on ________us that whatever happened, we should always try to see the good side of things. Anyway, we were all together and safe. Mom's words made us feel ________ . I remember us all lying under the midnight ________and looking up at the stars. Even though we had lost a lot, moments like those gave us________for the future.

Although it was only a few days before we were ________, it felt like months. We were taken to another town in a faraway county. Now, one year has________and I'm back home in New Orleans. We are working together to ________our home and our lives. Now we have another chance to look up at the ________of New Orleans, their beauty inspiring us and giving us ________ to move on.

10 . Lucas majors in classic linguistics. He is equal to recognizing a language in a _________ way no matter how unfamiliar it is. Last year, he _________ a shell with some totally strange _________ carved on it at a stall (小摊).

Based on his demanding _________ he knew it was from a small village. Besides, after _________ many related reference books, he had his point of view: the symbols were _________ as a variety of the writing system of Jiaguwen, a kind of writing system which dates back to 1500 BC.

Lucas had a _________ attitude to the discovery and applied to his university for a further research by visiting the village. With permission given, he visited it. He found the mother tongue of the villagers was a special dialect, whose vocabulary _________ from Mandarin (普通话) spoken by 1.4 billion people.

Despite many _________, understanding the dialect and finding more shells helped him complete a report. The report was __________ where he gave a full description: The characters __________ by a small nation in the Shang Dynasty were passed down by means of bones and __________. Afterwards, the nation went through ups and downs, __________ for hundreds of years. But it __________ disappeared due to some factors.

Lucas’s report was a __________ in the academic field, attracting more people to these special characters.