1 . It was the most destructive wildfire in California history. It started in Paradise (天堂镇) and caused $16.5 billion in _______, destroying nearly 19,000 buildings and killing 85 in all. The beauty of this _______ named place was gone.

Grammer, working in Los Angeles, grew up there. When his friend Edwards posted pictures of his white chimney — the only part of his house to survive — he felt _______. And then he had an idea.

“I’ve got to _______ that chimney,” he says, “I’m not trying to say anything. I’m an artist. It was an opportunity for me to _______.”

Grammer spent three hours painting an image of a woman on the _______ — a reminder of the chimney, of the beauty of life, or even just of _______ itself.

Grammer posted the image on Instagram. Those who were affected by the fire, _______, could not calm down. Someone _______, “You bring beauty and hope.”

Greatly inspired, Grammer returned eight times. Outside one house, he found a photo of a girl, Eleanor. He painted a picture of her on the wall of her home left __________. It was a stamp that life was here and that life can __________ to be here. The painting has __________ meaning for the homeowner. Eleanor’s father, recalls how she used to play just feet away. Eleanor herself returned once to __________ the painting.

Ironically (讽刺的是) that first painting, on the chimney in Paradise, __________ only a few months — the bulldozer (推土机) is a cruel art critic. However, Grammer couldn’t be more delighted. It means that the __________ of Paradise is rising again.

5 . We’ve been having a heat wave on the East Coast this summer. So the absolute thing you wouldn’t want to do is _________ in a hot car! That’s what I _________ when I saw a woman doing just that. Well, she wasn’t asleep at the time, but I guessed that was her plight (困境) when I noticed that the _________ of the car was piled high with her _________ from the passenger seat to the back seats. I’d been noticing this car _________ in the same space on this parking lot for a few weeks.

I finally _________ to the car and asked if I could get her some _________ from the store nearby. She _________ but at least I got a close enough look to see that she was not in any immediate _________ in spite of how it looked. This made me more curious. The woman said her name was Justine. As we talked, darkness began to __________, so I told her I had to __________. Thinking I’d return another day, I started for home.

A week later, I was back shopping at a store near the __________ and there was Justine in that car on a hot day! I went over to the car hoping to hear her __________. But how many people would have simply __________ without stopping? I was there to __________, not to judge or criticize.

6 . More people are travelling than ever before, and lower barriers to entry and falling costs means they are doing so for ________ periods.

The rise of “city breaks” 48-hour bursts of foreign cultures, easier on the pocket and annual leave balance has increased tourist numbers, but not their ________ spread. The same attractions have been used to market cities such as Paris, Barcelona and Venice for decades, and visitors use the same infrastructure (基础设施) as residents to reach them. “Too many people do the same thing at the exact same time,” says Font, an expert in tourism. “For ________, the city no longer belongs to them.”

In response to this situation, cities have come up with various solutions. For instance, Amsterdam has started advising visitors to seek ________ outside of the city center on its official website. “That takes courage, really, to do that. But only so many people will look at the website, and it means they can say to their residents they’re doing all they can to ________ congestion.”

But it also proposes a better way, which is called “de-tourism”: sustainable travel tips and ________ schedules for exploring a real Venice, off the paths beaten by the 28 million visitors who flock there each year.

A greater variety of ________ for prospective visitors — ideas for what to do in off-peak seasons, for example, or outside of the city center — can have the effect of removing them from already crowded landmarks, or ________ short breaks away in the first place. Longer stays ________ the pressure, says Font. ‘If you go to Paris for two days, you’re going to the Eiffel Tower. If you go for two weeks, you’re not going to go to the Eiffel Tower 14 times.” Similarly, repeat visitors have a better sense of the________, “We should be asking how we can get tourists to ________, not how to get them to come for the first time. If they’re coming for the fifth time, it is much easier to integrate their behaviors with ours.”

Font says cities could stand to be more ________ about the tourists they try to attract when the current metric for marketing success is how many there are, and how far they’ve come. “You’re thinking. ‘yeah but at what cost…’” He points to unpublished data from the Barcelona Tourist Board that prioritizes Japanese tourist for spending an average of 640 more per day than French tourists — a(n) ________ that fails to take into account their bigger carbon footprint. ________ tourists are also more likely to be repeat visitors that come at off-peak times, buy local products, and spread out to less crowded parts of the city — all productive steps towards more ________ tourism, and more peaceful relations with residents.

9 . Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles when a flight attendant asked an urgent question over the loudspeaker: “Does anyone _________ know American Sign Language?”

Clara, aged 15, _________ the call button. The flight attendant came by and _________ the situation. “We have a passenger on the plane who’s blind and deaf,” she said. The passenger seemed to want something, but he was traveling alone and the flight attendants couldn’t _________ what he needed.

Clara had been _________ ASL for the past year to help with her dyslexia (读写困难) and knew she’d be able to _______ spell. So she walked toward the seat of Tim Cook, then aged 64. _________ taking his hand, she signed, “How are you? Are you OK?” Cook asked for some water.

When it arrived, Clara _________ to her seat. She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On her third visit, she stopped and _________ a while.

“He didn’t need anything. He was __________ and wanted to talk,” Clara said to herself.

So for the next hour, she talked about her family and her plans for the future. Cook told Clara how he had gradually become __________ and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman. Even though he couldn’t see her, she “__________ attentively at his face with such __________,” a passenger reported.

A flight attendant said, “You could tell Tim was very __________ to have someone he could speak to, and she was such an __________.”

10 . From the very beginning, the girl’s family objected strongly to her dating this guy though the girl loved the guy deeply. After a couple of years, the guy finally graduated and decided to ______ his studies overseas. Before leaving, he proposed marriage to the girl and promised to love her the whole life. The girl agreed, and with the guy’s determination, the family finally ______ . Before going abroad, they got engaged. They often sent their ______ through emails and phone calls. Both never thought of giving up.

One day, on her way to work, the girl was knocked down by a car. The collision (碰撞) on her brain has caused her to lose her ______ . The girl did not want to be a ______ to him. She wrote to him ______ that she did not wish to wait any longer. With the letter, she sent the ring back to him. The girl decided to move away, hoping she could ______ forget everything. In the new environment, the girl ______ the sign language and started a new life. She told herself every day that she must ______ the guy. One day, her friend came and told her that he was back. But she asked her friend not to let him know what had happened to her. Since then, there wasn’t any more _____ of him.

A year later, her friend came with an envelope, ______ an invitation card for the guy’s wedding. The girl was shattered (打击). Opening the ______ , she saw her own name in it. She was about to ask her friend what was the matter when she saw the guy standing in front of her. He used the ______ telling her, “I’ve spent a year learning the sign language. I want you to know I haven’t forgotten my ______ . Let me have the chance to be your voice. I love you.” With these, he _____ the ring back into her finger. The girl finally smiled.