1 . In South Sudan, girls face many barriers ( 障 碍 ) to education. Some girls cannot   _______ to attend school because their parents cannot meet the costs, and there is also _______   housework for girls, which takes up their time. Therefore, their parents don't _______     their daughters to go to school.

Another problem is that girls can be married off early, often _______   force.We don't have the _______       to choose the person we wish to marry. Our parents _______       us to the one who pays the highest price in cows. Now more people are going hungry and marrying off girls to get cows to _______       . This happened to me. My parents married me off when I was studying, and I had to _______        school.

Luckily, my brother helped me come to ASEW, which _______        to help girls finish school.

I saw that the headteacher was a woman and that ________       me. ASEW was a school without punishment and schoolfees (学费)．It was a day school, not boarding school (寄宿学校), that gave me ________     to help at home. The curriculum was ________   so we could complete our education more quickly. It was also ________ ，protected from outsiders. It is extremely dangerous for women and girls ________ there is fighting all around Rumbek.

At ASEW, I studied hard and passed with a high score of 77 per cent. I wish other girls could have________ like me to go back to school.

2 . When I was a junior high school student in 1980 , God gave me a gift. It was happiness. One weekend, I went to visit my grandparents in the countryside .On my way home a car ran over me and cut off my______because of its high speed.

Several days later when I woke up at the hospital, I realized I had to spend the rest of my life without arms. How sad I felt at that time! Even I was full of fears.______slowly I knew I had to face the fact and got over it. I couldn’t get my arms back even though I______every day.

However, it’s easier said than done. It took me nearly half a year to get out of the sadness_______. I got so much from my past story. From then on, I could treat my life with a______mind. But in our daily life, I often see my classmates______about little things: they get a bad grade on a test; their bus comes late;they don’t have a mobile phone but others have, and so on. But I only______life. I was lucky to realize from an accident: It is a waste of our life to focus on what you have______.We should always think of what we have .So why are so many people unhappy? Someone may say, “My whole life would improve______I have a new car.” But when you get the car, what happens? For a whole week you are walking on air. Then you go right back to being unhappy.

Happiness depends on what we have! It’s in our heart. It’s a state of mind. Even though you own the whole world, you may still feel______. Happiness comes from mastering the art of appreciating and taking pleasure in what you really have.

3 . On a chilly January evening. Cruz, 11, and Anthony, 10, risked their lives onto a frozen pond to look at the birds out on the ice. They first threw a rock onto the ice to ________ it and then stepped on it. Convinced the ice would hold their ________, Anthony took a few steps. Suddenly he ________ through the seemingly frozen surface.

Cruz rushed to help his ________ friend, but the pond________ him too. He ________ to lift himself out of the icy water and onto a more solid section. With great ________, he then worked his way toward Anthony to rescue him. But the ice didn’t ________ and he fell in again. This time, he couldn’t get out. The boys were up to their necks in cold water and quickly losing ________ in their arms and legs. Cruz was ________ he was going to die.

Anthony’s older sister had seen the boys crashed through the ice and started screaming for ________. John Lavin, neighbor ________ nearby on his way to the grocery store, heard the scream. He quickly pulled over. Seeing the boys, he grabbed a nearby buoy ________ his shoes, and ran into the melted water, chopping( his way through the ice with his free ________.

John made his way to Cruz and Anthony and ________ them back to land. They were ________ to hospital, where doctors discovered that their five-minute ________ in the water had made their body temperature nearly ten degrees ________.

________, the boys have fully recovered. They are so grateful to their ________ neighbor. “Just to think,” says Cruz, “if he wasn’t there, we could have died.”

4 . I grew up in a small town in Ohio, where everyone knew a man called Tom. Uneducated, he couldn’t talk plainly. And because he was good-natured and not very smart, everyone teased him. I _________ he was an easy mark.

One day, he came walking by. I was about 12 and thought it would make me feel grown-up to _________ him like the adults did.

He asked how I was doing. I told him my father was _________, and that we lacked money. I could hear my friends laughing in the background so I went on with the lie. I had him _________ so completely that every time he inquired about the _________, I would make it seem increasingly worrying.

I knew he made a living by doing odd jobs (打零工), so it seemed _________when he asked me if we needed anything. I told him that we didn’t know if we would _________. He responded, “You poor thing. I will _________ for you.”

That night I heard the _________ rattle (作响) softly. Thinking it was the wind beating against it, I __________ it. Later when I opened the door to go outside, I found g box of groceries. I knew who had given the food. I ____________the small box of canned food with tears in my eyes. I felt __________ and wanted to return the groceries.

My father would not let me take the box __________. He said it would hurt Tom. Each day when we were to have dinner, my father would ask, “What side dish are we having from the __________ box today?”

It was hard for me to eat the food. I knew Tom had given __________. He gave the best he had, but I did not deserve the gift.

5 . Long long ago there lived many mice in an old house. They were free to do anything. They ate up a lot of food. So _________ owner of the house wanted to stop the mice _________ food. He got a cat. After that, some of the mice were killed. One day one of the oldest mice said, “All the mice _________ come to my hole tonight, and we’ll decide what to do next about the cat.”

Each of the mice arrived. They thought _________ and did what they could to find a way to save their lives. They spoke, sitting face to face, but none of them had an idea. Finally a young mouse stood up and said，"Why not tie a bell _________ the cat’s neck?   Then,___________the cat comes close, we will hear the bell and _________ .Then the cat won’t _________catch any more of us.”

“It _________ good! Who can do so here?” the oldest mouse asked. At this very moment the hole was quiet and no one answered. At last he said, “It's____________ to say than to do.”

6 . After reading your letter, I know that you are worried about losing your friends. You used to have lots of _________, but you stopped talking to them after you made friends with Li Hua, who   _________ your class a few months ago. Now Li Hua has moved to another city, and you have no friends _________ your old friends think you were mean to them. You feel very sad.

As we all know, it is not easy being new, and it was nice of you to be so _________ to Li Hua. You did the _________ thing when you made friends with him. However, it was not such a good idea for you to _________ talking to your old friends. What happened is in the past, and there is no need to _________ this now. I suggest that you talk to your old friends first instead of waiting for them to talk to you. At an appropriate time, tell them you are sorry and give them a(n) _______ for your actions. They will be happy to see that you _________ value them. You have learnt a valuable   __________ in life: make new friends but keep the old ones.

7 . Hunter Shamatt lost his wallet while he was on a flight from Omaha to Denver earlier this month. Upon realizing that his wallet was lost, he ______ the airline to see if anyone had turned it in — but fruitlessly. _______the wallet contained his ID, a signed paycheck, $60 in cash , etc, he feared the worst.

Two days after the flight, however, Hunter was ______ to receive a package in the mail from an anonymous (匿名的) sender. Inside was his wallet — ______ an additional $40 in cash. “I rounded your cash up to an even $100 so you could celebrate the ______ of your wallet.”, read a letter that was enclosed with the package.

Hunter’s mother, Jeannie, posted a photo of the ______ to social media in hopes that they would be able to track down the sender. All they had to go on was that the letter was ______ from Applied Underwriters in Omaha and the sender’s initials were signed “T.B”. The sender was later ______ as Todd Brown, who was delighted to “have a little fun” with helping out a hard-working stranger.

“I saw he was just a kid, 20 years old. He had a paycheck in there, so I _______, ‘Well, he’s doing his best to make ends meet.’ ” said Brown. “Hunter was very ______. He told me he has some student loans to pay within two days so the ______ was right,” Brown added, “He ______ it was gone forever. So when he opened it, he just started screaming, ‘No way! No way!’”

Brown says that he often tries to do good things without any recognition; that’s why he didn’t sign his _______on the letter, but Jeannie later insisted on ______ him on social media. Jeannie wrote on Facebook, “This story is more about rebuilding ______ in people than anything.”

8 . During summer vacations,I volunteered at the vet’s,so I’d seen a lot of _________.Minnie was by far the funniest-looking dog I’d ever seen.Thin curly hair rarely_________her sausage-shaped body,and her tail looked like a rat’s tail.She was brought to the vet to be put to_________because her owners didn’t want her anymore. I thought Minnie had a_________ personality,though.“No one should judge her by her_________ ,” I thought._________ ,I advertised Minnie in the local paper: “Funny-looking dog,well behaved,needs a(n)_________family.”

When a young man_________,I warned him that Minnie was_________looking.The boy on the phone told me that his grandfather’s sixteen-year-old dog had just____________.They wanted Minnie no matter____________.I gave Minnie a good bath and cleaned her____________hair.Then we waited for them to arrive.At last,an old car drove up____________the vet’s.Two kids raced to the door.They____________Minnie into their arms and rushed her out to their grandfather,who was waiting in the car.I hurried behind them to see his____________to Min-   rue*

Inside the car,the grandfather held Minnie in his____________and stroked her soft hair.She licked（舔） his face.Her rattail____________around so quickly that it looked like it might fly off her body. It was love at first lick."She’s____________ !” the old man said.I was ____________that Minnie had found the good home that she____________.That’s when I saw that the grandfather’s eyes were a milky white color-he was blind.

9 . It was on a sunny Saturday afternoon in the spring of 1949 that I learned an important life lesson about judging others by their physical appearance.

As a senior at school, I worked part time as a salesman in _______ center. The job provided a pleasant working environment and a modest _______. My weekly paycheck _______ a base salary and commissions (佣金) earned on the _______of radios and music related accessories(配件).

For maximum _______ at acquiring commissions, especially on sales of higher-priced items, two other teenage salesmen and I used the “up” system, taking turns greeting _______ entering the shop.

On that _______ afternoon, a tall, unshaven man walked in wearing clothing more _______ for yard work than for shopping.

This slim, _______ fellow was my “up”, but after glancing at his ________, quickly concluded my ________ would be more profitably spent with another apparently ________ customer, so I looked at my co-worker Norman and signaled that I was giving up my ________ to him.

Norman ________ as this unseemly looking fellow walked to the radio display. Then this fellow pointed at the Trans-Oceanic and asked whether he had six in ________. Norman looked ________, then turned and went into the storeroom. He immediately ________ and said that there were six. Then the buyer opened his checkbook and waited for Norman to write the ________. And I was asked to help carry the six Trans-Oceanic boxes to the back seat of the buyer’s car ________ nearby.

Ever since that notable afternoon, some years ago, I have carefully ________ judging others only on their appearance.

10 . James sat outside the office waiting for the interview. He felt so_______that he didn't know what to do with himself. The person who had gone in_______him had been in there for nearly an hour. And she looked so_______when she went in. Not like James, he felt he was_______. But the_______was that he wanted this job so much.It_______everything to him. He had thought about it such a lot before the day of the_______. He had_______himself performing brilliantly at the interview and being offered the job_______.

But now here he was feeling________. He couldn't________all those things he had planed to say. At that moment, he almost________to get up and leave. But no — he had to do this. He had spent so much time considering it that he couldn't ________like that. His hands were hot and sticky and his mouth felt________. At last the door of the office________. The woman who had gone in an hour earlier came out looking very pleased with herself. It seemed________she had got the job. She smiled sympathetically (同情地) at James. At the moment, James________her. The managing director then appeared at the office door. “Would you like to________now, Mr. Davis? I'm sorry to have kept you________.” James suddenly wished that he had gone home after all. He got up, legs shaking and forehead sweating and wondered whether he looked as________as he felt.