2 . When I was 15 years old, I was a straight-A student. I was always _______ with a great group of friends, and I would hang out with them every weekend. Then I moved to a new place just before high school and everything _______ overnight.

While trying to _______ to my new surroundings, I also started the tenth grade. Going to a public school in a big city, _______, was harder than before.

I didn’t _______ well in class. Although I tried hard, my mind would go _______ the moment I attended the exam. All my _______ didn’t pay off, and I failed somehow. As a result, I became _______ and turned to video games.

My English teacher noticed what I was _______. He suggested I should go to the after-school classes for the kids who needed help. ________ to get a passing grade, I went. And that’s where I met Oliver. ________, he became my best friend and I was back on ________. And little by little, my ________ improved. It seemed that reshaping myself in a new environment wasn’t that terrible as ________.

As the year progressed, I made many friends and won many awards as well. Looking back, I see that my depression (沮丧) slowly disappeared. Having a friend really ________, even more than video games.

3 . Once there was a little boy who became very ill. He had to spend all day in bed, unable to_________.

Because other children weren’t_________to come near him, he_________greatly, and spent his days feeling sad.

There wasn’t much he could do except look out of the_________.Time passed, and his feeling of_________just grew. Until one day he saw a_________shape in the window. It was a penguin eating a sausage sandwich. The penguin got in through the_________window, said “good afternoon” to the boy, turned around, and_________.

The boy was very_________.He was still trying to work out what had happened, when outside his window he saw a monkey, busy blowing up a balloon(气球).__________, the boy asked himself what that could possibly be, but after a while, as more and more crazy looking__________appeared out the window, he began to laugh suddenly and found it hard to__________.The boy didn’t tell anyone about this because who would have__________him? Even so, those strange characters put joy back in his heart, and in his body. Soon, his__________had improved so much that he was able to go back to__________again. There he got to talk to his best friend all the strange things he had__________. He saw something sticking out of his friend’s school bag. The boy asked his friend what it was.__________his friend had to show him what was in the__________: There, inside, were all the fancy-dress suits that his friends had been using to try to__________the little boy!

From that day on, the little boy always did his best to__________that no one felt sad and alone.

8 . When you think about the daily life of a 4-year-old child, picture books, cartoons and toys likely come to mind. _________ a 215,000,000-year-old dinosaur footprint ( 脚 印 )? Probably not. But that’s just what_________ 4-year-old Lily when she was taking a_________ on a near beach with her father Richard.

The footprint found by _________ Lily measures nearly four inches and is _________ preserved. Experts believed it was _________by a two-footed dinosaur. Its species that’s not been seen before is a _________ that’s made the scientific community _________. Karl James, a dinosaur expert, _________ the find as “the finest impression (痕迹) of a very ancient dinosaur in Britain in a decade”.

“Lily saw it when walking along the beach and Richard took a picture,” Lily’s mom said. “When Richard came home and showed me the __________, I thought it looked __________. In consequence, I __________experts who took it over from there. We were __________ to find out it was really a dinosaur footprint. I am happy that it will be taken to the national museum where it can be enjoyed and__________for generations.”

There are a lot of the secrets of nature in local areas if you take time to look__________ enough.

9 . Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis, cricket — anything with a round ball, I was _______,” he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the one always _______ in school gym classes in Devonshire, England.

It was a mountain _______ he received for his 15th birthday that _______ him. At first he went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to ride the bike along with a _______ friend. _______, Saunders set up his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and _______. At the age of 18, he ran his first marathon.

The _______ year, he met John Ridgway and was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s School of Adventure in Scotland, where he _______ about Ridgway’s cold-water adventures. Greatly ________ , Saunders ________ that this would be his future.

In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders ________ his first long-distance expedition (探险) towards the North Pole. It took ________ energy. He ________ frostbite (冻疮), ran into a polar bear and pushed his body to the ________, pulling his supply-load sled (雪橇) up and over rocky ice. Since then, Saunders has skied more of the North Pole by himself than any other British man. His old playmates would not believe the change.

Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, a 2900-kilometre journey that has never been completed on skis.

10 . Young children across the globe enjoy playing games of hide and seek. For them there’s something highly exciting about _________ someone else’s glance and making oneself unable to be seen.

However, we all witness that preschool children are remarkably _________ at hiding. They often cover only their eyes with their hands, leaving the rest of their bodies _________.

For a long time, this ineffective hiding method was _________ as evidence that children are hopelessly “egocentric” (自我中心的) creatures. But our _________ research results in child developmental psychology _________ that idea. We brought young children aged 2—4 into our Minds in Development Lab at USC. Each _________ sat down with an adult who covered her own eyes or _________. We then asked the child if she could _________ or hear the adult. Surprisingly, children replied that they couldn’t. The same ____________ happened when the adult covered her own mouth: ____________ children said that they couldn’t ____________ to her.

A number of ____________ ruled out (排除) that the children misunderstood what they were being asked. The results were clear: Our young subjects ____________ the questions and knew ____________ what was asked of them. Their ____________ to the questions reflected their true ____________ that “I can see you only if you can see me, too.” They simply ____________ mutual (相互的) recognition and regard. Our ____________ suggest when a child “hides” by putting a blan over her head, it is not a result of egocentrism. In fact, children consider this method ____________ when others use it.