2 . As is well-known to us all, some people have their own principles. Of course _________ also have their own opinions. I have opinions about what I think is right or _________ or good or bad. But they’re only opinions! I won’t try to build my life around my opinions, but I’ll try to _________ my principles.

It’s said that a 15-year-old boy learned a valuable _________ about life principles. One day, he found a woman’s wallet that _________ $127 and her _________. He jumped onto his _________ and went to her house. He told her he found her wallet and she gave him a big _________. She also gave him twenty dollars.

That evening the boy told his parents about the _________ and his father said, “I don’t think you should have __________ $20 for doing what you should have done. A person shouldn’t be rewarded for being __________.”

He thought over his father’s words and __________ that he should return the money. He rode to the lady’s home again and gave the __________ back to her. She didn’t want to __________ it, but he told her she had to and that his father __________ something to him that he had __________ realized before.

In my opinion, if we are always honest and insist on the personal __________ of always doing the right thing, we __________ develop a good character. These great principles shape our lives and make us into persons of __________. They teach confidence. It’s pretty obvious that the boy is fortunate to be __________ by a wise father.

3 . My aim in life is to save the environment for future generations. I want to become an environmental consultant _______ I finish school. Too many people think that pollution _______ be stopped if we want the country to develop. But that is not true. We can _______ dangerous and dirty waste from factories. Even though a factory produces a large _______ of goods, it does not mean that it has to pump a lot of pollution into the environment.

I want to teach people to buy recycled products. This is much _______ for the environment, because it means we do not need to cut down more trees. Companies and businesses can still _______ , but the Earth will not have to suffer.

There is no _______ that we also have a problem with population. The number of people in the world keeps _______ , and we are producing more rubbish and using up more raw materials. What if they run out? I am confident that if we are all _______ to work together, we can overcome these ________ and keep the Earth clean and healthy.

4 . Today is the best day of my life. All my years of training as an explorer have finally ______ off!

______ days of labor, making surveys, digging and carrying ______ earth, we finally found the tomb of Tutankhamun,   ______ it and saw its contents. When we broke open the door, the ______ was so hot and dusty inside that we had trouble breathing. Since it was ______ , we had to turn on some flashlights so that we could see. Within the tomb, whichever way we looked there was a fortune in gold and treasure. Everything in the ______ had been preserved from the time of King Tutankhamun’s ______ . After looking into the tomb, we closed it back up again. As we want to have a ______ examination of everything there, we do not want to ______ anything in it until we are ready.

5 . S.E. Hinton’s career as an author began while she was still a high school student. _________by the fights of the two gangs in her high school, Hinton wrote The Outsiders, an honest, sometimes shocking novel told from the point of_________of a fourteen-year-old boy.

The Outsiders was_________during Hinton’s freshman year at the University of Tulsa, and was an immediate_________. Today, with more than fourteen million_________ in print, the book is the best-selling young adult novel of all time. The book was also made into a film in 1983.

The Outsiders brought with it publicity and_________. S.E. Hinton became known as “The Voice of the Youth”. This _________success also brought a lot of pressure,       _________a three-year-long writer’s block (瓶颈期). Her boyfriend (now husband)_________helped break this block by suggesting she write two pages a day before going__________ . This finally led to her second __________, That Was Then, This Is Now.

In 1988 she was awarded the first annual Margaret A. Edwards Award, given in__________ of “an author whose book or books, over a period of time, have been accepted by__________adults as an authentic (真实的) voice that __________to light up their experiences and emotions,__________inspiration to their lives.”

6 . Everyone needs friends.There is an old saying: Friends are God’s way of taking care of us. But how do you find real friendship and______it?

The Care and Keeping of Friends by American author Sally Seamans tells young students some ______ways to find friends.

Sally says finding friendship is just like a tree______. You plant the seed and take care of it to _____it grow. First, you should ______a friend. What makes a good friend? It is not ______a person has money or good looks. A good friend should be ______and patient. For example, if you have a bad day, a good friend should ______your complaints (埋怨) and do their______to help. To make a friend, you cannot be too shy. You should make each other happy and ______your lives.

But things cannot always be ______. Even the best friends have fights. What should you do when you have a______with your friend? You have to talk to them. When there is no one around, have an honest talk.

If he or she doesn’t want to______, you could write a letter. Sally says there are three steps to being______again: Tell him or her how you are______; say what your friend has done wrong, and ______why you did this or that.

The______also has advice on some small but important things like celebrating your friends’ ______.______you haven’t had a real friend before, you will start to think of having one if you______ this book. Because the book tells that friendship is the most important thing in your life.

7 . No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own_________.

I learned this lesson from a(n)_________many years ago. I took the head coaching job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.   

It was a tradition for the school’s old team to play against the_________team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn’t even practice to_________the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated. I couldn’t_________ I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to   _________that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were _________me. I had to change my_________about their ability and potential.   

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little_________. Most important, I began to treat them like winners. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their__________, we met every day and__________passing and kicking the football.

Six months after suffering our defeat on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to__________. Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a victory for us even if we lost the game. But that wasn’t what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me one of the greatest thrills of my life!   

From the experience I learned a lot about how the attitude of the leader can__________the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and__________them. I helped them to see themselves__________, and they built themselves into winners.

Winners are made, not born.

9 . Chloe Smith is a 6-year-old girl from Atlanta, Georgia. One day, while taking a walk with her father near their home, she _________ something shiny under a pile of rubbish. She picked up the _________ to take home, as she often did on her treasure-hunting walks. Chloe was later _________ to discover she had found a stolen Olympic gold medal.

The medal belonged to former canoeist (划艇运动员) Joe Jacobi, who won gold while _________ for Team USA in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. The medal, along with other personal belongings, was _________ in May of 2016 when someone broke into Jacobi’s house. Though police managed to _________ some of his stolen items, they hadn’t been able to find his _________ Olympic medal. It may have been lost forever, if not for a 6-year-old girl’s treasure — hunting _________.

Chloe’s dad had seen Jacobi’s story on the news, and _________ realized it was his stolen property. He found Jacobi’s email and sent him pictures of the treasure. After __________ the medal, Jacobi was astonished, just speechless.

Chloe was __________ to give it back after speaking with Jacobi on the phone. __________, Jacobi promised to speak to her class when school begins again this fall. The __________ of this little girl reuniting an Olympian with his beloved possession is __________. When we talk about character and doing the __________ thing, Chloe represents the Olympic values in every sense of the word.