1 . Two hundred years ago the English poet William Wordsworth wrote I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, a poem that was inspired when he came across a field of daffodils (水仙花). It ________ a basic spirit of early English Romanticism (浪漫主义).

What makes this poem a(n) ________ of Romantic thinking? It isn’t that Wordsworth ________ to write about a natural scene: it is the way he describes the scene as if it had human ________. For him, nature is not only a neutral (无感情色彩的) ________ of scenery, colors, plants, rocks, soil, water and air. It is a ________ force that feels joy and sadness and even tries to educate us human beings and show us the beauty of life.

Wordsworth’s home is now one of the most popular ________ in the Lake District. You can go on a tour of the garden where wild flowers still ________ now regardless of the change of the time. The place, where Wordsworth saw the daffodils, is at the southernmost end of the lake. When you are walking in the ________ of William from two centuries ago, the first group of daffodils appear, but they aren’t tall yellow trumpets (小号状的花) ________ swinging in the gentle wind as described in Wordsworth’s ________. They are just tiny wild daffodils grouped around individual trees rather than ________ together. But as you look north, from beside a huge ancient oak tree, you realize this is what ________ Wordsworth: group after group of daffodils, spread out to left and right but coming together in your sight so that they ________ a beautiful, pale yellow carpet. What you’re seeing at last is nature transformed by human sight and ________.

3 . Many cities around the world today are heavily polluted. Careless methods of production and ________ of consumer demands for environment friendly products have ________ the pollution problem. One ________ is that millions of tons of glass, paper, plastic, and metal containers are produced, and these are difficult to get rid of.

________, today, more and more consumers are choosing “green” and demanding that the products they buy should be safe for the environment. ________ they buy a product, they ask questions like these: “Will this shampoo damage the environment?” “Can this metal container be ________ or can it only be used once?”

A recent study showed that two ________ five adults now consider the environmental safety of a product before they buy it. This means that companies must now change the ________ they make and sell their products to make sure that they are “green,” that is, friendly to the environment.

Only a few years ago, it was impossible to find green products in supermarkets, but now there are hundreds. Some supermarket products ________ labels to show that the product is green. Some companies emphasize that their products are clean and safe in their advertising and have made it their main selling ________.

The ________ for a safer and cleaner environment is making companies rethink ________ they do business. No longer will the public accept the old ________ of “Buy it, use it, throw it away and forget it.” The public ________ is still here, and companies are ________ their act gradually.

5 . Since 1960, considerable scientific researches have been done on chimps in their natural habitats. Astonishingly, scientists have found out that the social _________ of Chimps are very similar to humans. Chimps will _________ in certain ways, like gathering together to protect their land. But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct (本能) to _________ one another. Chimps in the wild seek food for themselves. Even chimp mothers regularly _________ to share food with their children. Who are able from a young age to gather their own food?

In the laboratory, chimps don’t _________ share food either. If a chimp is put in a cage where he can pull in one plate of food for himself or, with no greater effort, a plate that also provides food for a neighbor to the next cage, he will pull _________ -he just doesn’t care whether his neighbor gets fed or not. Chimps are truly selfish.

Human children, _________, are extremely cooperative. From the earliest ages, they desire to help others, to share information and to participate in achieving common goals. The psychologist Michael Tomasello has studied this _________ in a series of experiments with very young children. He finds that if babies aged 18 months see a worried adult with hands full trying to open a door, almost all will immediately try to help.

There are several reasons to believe that the urges to help, inform and share are not taught, but naturally _________ in young children. One is that these instincts appear at a very __________ age before most parents have started to train their children to behave __________. Another is that the helping behaviors are not improved if the children are rewarded. A third reason is that social intelligence __________ in children before their general cognitive(认知的) skills, at least when compared with chimps. In tests conducted by Tomasello, the human children did no better than the chimps on the __________ world tests but were considerably better at understanding the social world.

The core (核心) of what children’s minds have and chimps’ don’t is what Tomasello calls shared intentionality. Part of this ability is that they can __________ what others know or are thinking. But beyond that, even very young children want to be part of a shared purpose. They actively seek to be part of a “we”, a group that intends to work toward a(n) __________goal.

9 . She came in the dead of night, in the cold. She was more than half ______ , starved down to bones. Her hair was completely eaten away by mange(兽疥癣). She had been run off from more than one yard when she finally crept into an empty doghouse in the trees beyond mother’s yard. ______ she was out of the wind.

My mother and brother found her in the daylight of the next day. They could not even ______ she was a dog.“ And it broke my heart,” my mother said.

The ______ dog encountered two people who ______ to give up on anything. They ______ batteries that have not had a spark of anything in them for a long time. My mother even keeps pens that stopped writing in 1974. My brother Mark looked at her tragic face and ______ her “ Pretty Girl ”. It was as if he could see beyond the ______ .

Mark and my mother fed her, and bathed her in burned motor oil, the way my people have been curing the mange for generations. A month later, a beautiful white German shepherd stood in the garden. She was ______ to last, at most, a few weeks or months, yet she lived three more years-- decades, in dog years -following my brother to the garden to ______ rainbow and listen for thunders.

“I ______ for her,” my mother said. “Some people say you needn’t ask for God’s blessing for your dog, but…” And then after the gift of years, her health began to ______ and Pretty Girl died.

The garden is now planted, full of flowers. Some things in the garden are planted according to ______ , like the shape of the moon or the conditions of soil and weather. However, there are things we cannot ______ things beyond science, like how a man could name a dying dog and have her ______ from misfortune, making her live longer than expected.

10 . Two weeks earlier, my husband, Russ, had gotten an early-morning call telling us to move to a safer place immediately. The wildfire tearing through Northern California had spread and _______ our way.

We’d jumped in the car with our cats and a few belongings. For days, we’d _______ from hotel to hotel, desperate for news. What finally came wasn’t _______. Our house had been right in the fire’s path.

Now we’d been given _______ to return. I wasn’t prepared for what awaited us. Our house was nothing but_______. Photos and my precious collection of inspirational books — all gone, I wiped away tears as we dug through the ash (灰) and debris (残骸). How will we _______ this?

How will we go on? It felt as if our lives had been_______.

Russ _______what we’d found into the car. “Let’s go, ”he said. I turned to get in the car. That’s when I noticed something stuck to my shoe. A piece of paper, dirty with _______. I picked it up. Its edges were________, yet the words were surprisingly ________ : “If life seems difficult, I pause and________the blessing sometimes hidden within every circumstance. With new ________I begin again. ”

Words that must have come from one of my books, a passage I couldn’t ________ but now said everything I needed to ________. Words that rose from the ashes. I framed that scrap of paper. It now sits in a place of honor in our new home, a reminder that we can begin again.