2 . Last year, I found a part-time job. I was working as a__________ at Tower 15 on Newport and two blocks to my right was another guard-named Mike, working at Tower 17. He called me over the phone and said, “Hey, I have spotted two kids who are__________ in the dangerous zone. I have to give them a warning. Keep an eye on us.” I said, “Sure.” In case of emergencies, anytime we got out of our tower, we were supposed to__________ somebody else.

Mike__________ the phone and seized the lifebuoy.Then he realized that these two kids had been__________ arid that there was a great tendency for them to be__________ by the wave.__________，Mike rushed toward the ocean, I____the water and all I found was two small heads. The mother of the two kids knelt down on the beach with__________.

When I dropped my binoculars(望远镜) and reached the mother, Mike was in waist-deep water,__________ the two kids. I turned to the mum and said, “Hey, it's. OK. They are safe.” I saw the terror started to__________. Then she glanced back and got her first good look at Mike. A new kind of__________ washed over her face as though there was another__________ to her kids' lives. She snatch her kids without appreciation.

Mike had some seemingly boring__________, and his shaved head showed a scar. Maybe he had no__________ manners, but his lifesaving ability__________ his unsatisfactory skills in PR(public relation). In the mother's__________, Mike was a really terrible guy. However, that couldn't change the fact that he had just__________her kids.

Mike just glanced at me and smiled. As I jogged back to my tower, I promised myself I'd never let my own__________ prevent me from__________ a hero when I meet one.

3 . This afternoon after seeing my mom, I was driving home. I took the _______ that was more like a canyon(峡谷)drive with beautiful scenery. Suddenly I heard a sound and I knew a big _______ tire! I pulled to the side, but this was a canyon drive with not much shoulder _______       , and it happened to be around a curve(弯道)that people couldn't _______ me. That made it very _______. Thus, cars _______passed me so that I couldn't get out. Within minutes I saw a car stopped at a distance_______me. The gentleman walked out, _______help, and I walked out of the car very _______, for it was so narrow. He moved my car a bit out of the way while I was still talking to AAA(美国汽车协会). They said with all the________they gave me since I was in a dangerous place, they can send ________ in 20 minutes. The gentleman offered to look at my spare tire to________was OK before I________with AAA.

Before I knew it, he look it out and ________ to change the tire. By the time I finished talking with AAA, he had changed my tire!       .

I ________him and he left. I saw in my ________ that the car just followed me, making sure I was OK. At the light, I got a chance to see the________family in the car. A beautiful young wife with lovely children in the back. They all gave me a big smile and________ at me. I thought about what a role ________ for those young children to learn about service and sympathy. I thought how ________ I was to be the receiver of such generosity.

4 . How much do you know about athletes? Many people regard watching sports games as a form of _________. But for athletes, they are challenging the _________ of human beings and breaking boundaries. Intensive training is a task which they do every day as a matter of _________. On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister, who ran a mile in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds, _________ the whole world’s attention. People believed that it was _________ imagination for a person to run a mile within 4 minutes. Bannister made a（n）

_________ in what people believed was impossible. In the years since, more and more athletes have overcome the four—minute—mile _________. Today, the record—held by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco since July 7, 1999—_________ at 3 minutes and 43. 13 seconds!

Records are _________ at a lower and lower rate in both running and other fields. When new records are set, they're changed by a small proportion of a（n） __________ . The decimal point（小数点）,set at one- tenth of a second for Bannister's record, now __________ one-hundredth of a second. __________, we'll have to go to a third decimal place, and then a fourth.

The closer athletes get to being __________, the harder it is to make improvements. Even though they are __________ the best performances of human beings, excellent athletes can still __________ proportions of seconds off existing records. They have a real __________ to break records. The gaps between new and old records decrease __________. Athletes are getting closer and closer to physiological __________ performances all the time. It will be tougher and tougher __________. However, excellent athletes never __________ trying.

5 . I was just starting my copywriting internship(实习) at Wunderman. I was filled with ______ about doing new things in my life and reaching new levels of personal growth. _______, it was then that I realized I wasn't good at making friends and that the ______ of making new friends could kill my creativity and humanity. I wanted to _______my communication skills, but I didn't know how. Then, I _______it would take only one simple "hello". A simple hello could lead to a million things, right? I believed that if I started this_______ process of making people my friends, I would never _______.

On the same day, I decided that it was time for ______ . I decided that I would say hello to the first person that I would make eye contact with. So, while I was reading a book during my lunch break, I_______ a person in a cafe, and he was alone. At that time, I ______ this was the perfect moment to say hello. This was my time to ______ . This was my moment to prove myself wrong and defeat all my negative impressions of ______ and have the courage to grow as a(n) ______ .

It wasn't _______at all. It took only one simple hello to create new chances for me. As a matter of fact, the person that I started ______ appeared to be an intern in the same company as me! How ______ is that! Basically, we started to talk about everything — our dreams, goals, values, our future, how we got into the ______ company, and so on — it was a never-ending journey of right ______ .

It's almost been a month since we became friends. Deep inside I feel like the whole world is on my side. We are ______ each other in everything we do. You see, friendships can be complex but it's worth the ______ . Friendships require a combination of trust, respect, courage and support.

6 . There was a very wealthy man who was bothered by severe (严重的) eye pain. He _______ many doctors and was being treated by several. He did not stop consulting a number of _______ experts; he took heavy loads of _______ and experienced hundreds of injections (注射), _______ the ache was much severer than before. At last, a monk who was supposed to be a(n) _______ in treating such patients was called for by the suffering man. The monk _______ his problem and said that for some time he should _______ only on green colors and not to let his eyes fall on any other _______. It was a _______ prescription (处方), but he was desperate (绝望的) and decided to try it.

The millionaire got together a group of painters and bought barrels (桶) of ________ paint and directed that every object his eyes were likely to ________ on should be painted green just as the monk had directed. When the ________ came to visit him after several days, the millionaire’s servants ran with buckets of green paint and ________ it on him since he was in red dress, for fear that their master see any other color and his eye ________ would come back.

Hearing this, the monk ________ and said, “If only you had purchased a pair of green glasses, worth just a few dollars, you could have ________ these walls and trees and pots and all other articles and ________ could have saved a large share of his fortune. ________, you cannot paint the world green.”

Let us ________ our vision and the world will appear accordingly. It is foolish to shape the world; let us ________ ourselves first.

7 . During my junior year of college, I signed up for a volunteer leaching program in Costa Rica. I lived within an inspiringly colorful living quarter which was ______ into a female and male section, along with a kitchen, eating room and conference room. I taught at a school. It was located（位于）within a ______ and every day birds and butterflies flew throughout our school. It was ______ . We were ______ on Costa Rica’s school system, the country, the language and how to ______ a lesson. Additionally, we took part in ______ acclivities lo relax ourselves.

The experience was beneficial to my English writing ______ when I got back to college, I began writing. I wrote so much that a piece of my writing about that experience was ______ in Folio’s Literary Magazine. Because of that, I was more ______ to continue working abroad.

After ______ , I moved to China for a year and worked in schools to teach reading and writing. It was a life-changing ______ of my life. Not only did I ______ my experiences through a weekly blog, but I began a book. Culture differences ______ me and even consumed me in the beginning, but ______ I fell in love with the people, their schools and their history.

Upon ______ to my home, I became a teacher in Trenton, New Jersey. The moment I stepped into the classroom. I could empathize（感同身受）with my ______ . I truly feel volunteering in Costa Rica was where it all ______ and working in China enriched my leaching life. If I could do anything ______ , it might be volunteering or working abroad more before settling down.

The ______ I’ve made through volunteering and working abroad are an English major’s dream and I hope that every English major ______ the chance to study or work abroad.

8 . My mother was a responsible teacher and she retired.So I decided to give her one of my old computers to help her pass the time.She had a little bit of computer _________, so I just set it up for her and let her ________ with it on her own.

As time went on, I _________ the computer was hardly touched.She said she didn't know _________ to use it.I decided to teach her.I sat and ________ everything and she seemed OK with what I said. Unfortunately, my sister called me at that moment _________ we talked on the phone for an hour.Then when I saw her again, she was sitting in front of the computer, looking quite _________. The screen saver(屏幕保护程序) had appeared and she didn't know how to ________ it off.She had tried _________ every key and it didn't work.I told her, “Just _________ the mouse a little.” What I meant was that she just needed to move the mouse around to _________ the computer up.What she did was to _________ the mouse and start shaking it around in mid－air until the ________ went completely black. I couldn't help laughing because of her funny _________. The more I laughed the _________ she got.

She thought that I was a(n)   _________ teacher and she decided to figure the thing out herself.Well, at least I helped her overcome her _________ of breaking something and encouraged her to ________ a little.

About a week later, I found a home－made _________ card with a mouse on the front making a funny face _________ to my door.It said, “Thanks for the computer lessons.Love, Mom.”

9 . Shortly after I graduated from junior high in 1968, my mother began repeating her boring words: “Learn to________, and doors will open for you, Pam.” I would______with a sigh “Yes, Mom” or, an eye roll when out of her________.

As an immigrant mother, she believed typing was a(n) _________“American skill”. That meant it was up to me, her American-born child, to learn to type. Then a typewriter appeared for my birthday.

“Thanks, Mom, but I can’t type,” I_________reminded her.

“That’s going to_________,” she answered, also gently. “Soon.”

Mom was a woman of her_________. “Soon” arrived just one week later, when she took me to the Crown Business Institute and put my name on the________of the institute’s typing lessons.

Every morning I________to Crown and by noon we were finished,________ached terribly. As the lessons progressed, Mom began to show me a completely________side. The usually mild-mannered woman changed into a_________army officer, making me practice over and over, and I’m sure even my typewriter was begging for_________. My mother encouraged and comforted me when I_________or wanted to give up. She stated her________but still effective typing-can-open-doors words, and I would just continue________. When I finally completed the course, showing the_________to my mother, Mom cried.

Mom was right. Many________did open for me. My life would have been different had Mom not________my learning to type at a young age. It was Mom who________me through one door so future doors could open. That old and faded certificate is just as much hers as it is mine.

10 . I got on the bus, dirty, tired and hot after a day hard working. I_________that place every day looking like a coal mine worker._________, I still felt a bit proud of myself for holing this tiring job for 3 months. Taking my seat on the bus, I decided my_________life would not lower my spirits today.

I was dreaming about a better and new life when I was_________by our new passenger, a middle aged woman with worn out clothes and messy hair. She_________pushed her way into a front seat, and then turned her glare and_________on whoever dared to look her way.

All I could feel for this woman was_________. Only pity and the familiar knowledge of being faceless, nameless, and_________to no one. Suddenly, she loudly yelled to me, “Why you so_________man?”

With a smile I said, “I just came from work.” She then asked if I worked in hell and broke out in laughter, so I laughed too — __________her and told her that was funny. Then I asked her her name as I__________why I was so dirty. Her name was Karen.

In front of all of us on the bus that day, the power of__________showed its beauty. In front of all of us this woman__________. Her language, her posture, and her voice, even the wave she tilted (倾斜) her head when I spoke to her as a__________changed.

As Karen was getting off the bus, she touched me__________on the arm. With tear-filled eyes, she asked whether I’d be riding the bus the next day. I__________I would. We waved to each other and then I got what my life had needed all along: affirmation (认可).

An old woman on the bus spoke to me, “Sir, you just changed that woman with your heart. She will never forget how you__________her. You are great.” Other passengers gave me thumbs-up signs showing their__________.

That day was the first day when I realized I am__________. People say I gave Karen something that day but actually she__________me so much more.