1 . After accidentally sliding down the face of a steep rock wall, two tourists found themselves trapped by the edge of a deep pool in a British park. They knew they were in a(n)______situation.

Fortunately for them, five Sikh hikers who happened to be on the scene and______the incident used not only their heads but also their hats—or more______, their turbans(头巾)—to begin a pretty amazing______.

After carefully______the situation, and with no cellphone service to call for outside assistance, the group of international students ______the decision of unwinding the long turbans—their traditional headgear. They managed to fashion a 33-foot lifeline, with which they were eventually able to______the pair out of their situation.

Once the two hikers were pulled to______park officials stepped into______their condition. As neither required medical treatment, they were______with park officials’ permission and a warning to better______where they’re going next time.

Kinda and his four comrades, while more than pleased with their day’s work, were ______about their heroic action. “It was simply a(n)______of being in the right place at the right time and having the______to help,” they said. “In Sikhism, we are taught to help someone in any way we can with anything we______”Kinda said, “even our turbans.”

2 . MOOC, an open online course, aims at providing interactive discussion and open access via the web. In addition to _________ course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOC provide interactive user forums that help build a _________ for the students, professors, and teaching assistants.

MOOCs _________ made waves in the fall of 2011, when Professor Sebastian Thrun from Stanford University opened his graduate-level artificial intelligence course up to any student anywhere, and 160,000 students in more than 190 countries _________. This new kind of online classes is _________ the higher education world in many ways. Since the courses can be taken by hundreds of thousands of students at the same time, the number of universities might _________ greatly. Professor Thrun has even _________ a future in which there will only need to be 10 universities in the world. Perhaps the most _________ thing about MOOCs, many of which are being taught by professors at prestigious (声誉高的) universities, is that they’re free. This is certainly good news for _________ students.

There is a lot of __________ and fear about MOOCs. While some say free online courses are a great way to increase the __________ of minority students, others have said they will leave many students __________. Some critics have said that MOOCs encourage an unrealistic universal __________ of higher education and that there is no replacement for true dialogues between __________and their students. __________, a brain is not a computer. We are not __________ hard drives waiting to be filled with data. People learn from people they __________ and remember the things that arouse emotion. Some __________ worry that online students will miss out on the social aspects of college. In other words, MOOCs __________social interaction among students and professors even if they are offered by professors from __________ universities.

4 . Girls are better at reading and writing than boys as early as fourth grade, according to a study, and the gap continues to widen until senior year.

Scientists generally agree that boys and girls are psychologically more alike than they are different. But reading seems to be a(n)________, with growing evidence suggesting a similar ________in writing. The study, published in the journal American Psychologist, provided further ________ to support this view.

David Reilly, lead author of the study, said the study ________the commonly held view that boys and girls start grade school with the same cognitive abilities. “It appears that the gender gap for writing tasks has been greatly________, and despite our best efforts with changes in teaching methods, that does not appear to be ________ over time,” he said.

Factors explaining the results could include learning ________ being more prevalent among boys; the pressure to conform to masculine (男子汉的) ideals and the idea of reading and language being feminine (女性的); and slight________in how boys and girls use their brain hemispheres (半球), the authors believe.

To investigate how ________ levels differed between boys and girls in the U.S., the team studied data collected over three decades in the National Assessment of Educational Progress. This database of test scores on over 3 million students in the fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades________national and state performances in a range of subjects, and considered such variables such as disabilities or whether children were English learners. Reading and writing was ________according to children’s understanding of a range of different passages and genres.

________, girls were found to perform significantly better in reading and writing tests by fourth grade when compared with boys of the same age. As children progressed to eighth and twelfth grades, girls continued to ________ boys, but the difference was more noticeable in writing than reading. But what caused this difference in abilities? Evidence suggests ________ problems, such as being disruptive（扰乱性的） in class or being aggressive could be linked to neurological conditions. What is known as lateralization (偏侧化) could also play a role. Boys are believed to use one hemisphere when reading or writing, while girls appear to use both. The data did not, however, provide evidence to argue ________ the two genders having different learning styles.

7 . “For the final exam, instead of a written test, everyone will be required to give a ten-minute presentation on one of the science topics we covered this year,”Mr. Marx announced.

Angela ________. When Mr. Marx passed around a sign-up sheet, Angela chose the topic of tadpoles, but also made sure she picked the very ________ time slot (时间空档) for presentation days. She wanted to put as much distance as possible between now and the moment she would have to speak ________ the class.

Angela began having ________ in sleeping at night. She dreamed of ________ the final exam because she froze and ________ her speech. Every classmate’s ________ meant she was one step closer to having to present herself.

When the day. ________,Angela couldn’t eat breakfast; and she had to ________ math before science. She couldn’t ________ at all. Her heart pounded as Mr. Marx ________ her name. She gathered her notecards with shaking hands and ________ walked to the front of the room.

“Tadpoles,” she began, “are frogs or toads at the beginning of their life cycle.” The first

sentence ________.Then, something happened that she did not ________ at all. She relaxed. Once she began, the words ________ smoothly. She could see Mr. Marx start to smile and nod ________

After weeks of ________ this moment, she couldn’t believe how quickly the presentation passed.

“So,” she said ________,“does anyone have any questions ________,after her presentation about tadpoles?”

“ ________ to do something can be worse than actually doing it,” Angela thought.

9 . Haynes,who still lives in Ladbroke Grove,now runs breakfast clubs and free lunches in Paddington. Every Wednesday, Haynes _______ a full English breakfast for the 50-strong group. On Saturdays, it’s a three-course lunch.

“I do home-made soup,a cooked dinner with meat and two vegs and pudding.” she says. On Thursdays, she offers a food bag with _______ that people can take home and _______ themselves. But if people are _______ or can’t cook,she’ll make them ready-meals and sandwiches. She adds: “My whole life is _______ by food. In north Paddington, people _______ me in their phone book as ‘Jacqui dinner lady’.”

“Demand has only _______. When universsal credit was introduced I had to buy two extra fridges to _______ the demand,” Haynes says. When the pandemic began,she had to purchase an extra freezer because “we needed more _______. Some people were ________to come out of the house,so we had to make extra ________.” She is concerned about the rising ________ of living.

“Food is getting so expensive,” says Haynes. “People are paying ￡7 a day ________ for gas on their meters. And that’s going to go up when it gets ________ .” On average,Haynes ________ about 50 people a day,but she ________ to see that rise come in winter.

Whatever Haynes does. she does it ________. “I believe it is not without any reward. You’ll get back ten times what you ________,” she says. In addition to her work at the food bank,she ________ a support service in North Kensington,offering people help with legal issues,advocacy and school appeals,and she is ________ involved in the post-Grenfell Tower recovery effort.