1 . People who listen to indie bands are miserable shaggy-haired layabouts(懒惰的人)while fans of rap music are brave and full of self-confidence.

_________ mere narrow-minded opinions, these are the results of an extensive psychological survey of more than 36,000 music lovers, which confirms, once and for all, that our musical tastes really do_________ our personality. But the study’s most remarkable discovery is that lovers of classical music share a high number of personality traits (特征) with those who prefer rocking out to a heavy metal.

The research asked people worldwide to describe their personality and then to list their favourite styles of music. The results show a distinct _________ between people’s personality traits and the style of music they enjoy.

Fans of indie music, for instance, were found to have low self-respect and little_________ but described themselves as creative. Rap enthusiasts, _________, tend to feel good about themselves and are extremely outgoing. Those who love dance music are_________ outgoing but are more likely to be unfriendly and slightly self-centred.

Professor Adrian North, who led the study, suggested that the results explain why so many people bond over music and also why some of us are very_________ about the music we listen to, since it is likely to be closely linked to the person we are.

According to Professor North, both heavy metal and classical fans are_________ by a shared “love of the grandiose”, which means that a Metallica fan is far more likely to listen to Mahler than an indie kid is to give reggae a try.

“Aside from their age difference, they’re_________ the same kind of person,” he said. “Lots of heavy metal fans will tell you that they also__________ Wagner, because it’s big and loud. There’s also a sense of theatre in both heavy rock and classical music, and I__________ that this is what they’re really looking to experience when they listen.”

John Gregson, 23, a classically-trained musician with a passion for heavy metal, __________. “As an instrumentalist, out of all of the main styles of music, heavy metal and classical are the ones which require the most__________ to play---they’re technically very difficult and involve playing at inhumanly fast speeds,” he said. “You feel like you’re in on a secret---you__________ it personally. It also feels like you know something that other people don’t because you__________ a style of music which is often underestimated.”

2 . Dressed in a pretty long robe (袍服), stylist Xiao Hang walks across the busy Beijing metro, attracting curious glances.

China has been _________ by Western fashion in recent decades, but many young people like Xiao are looking to the _________ for their choices of clothing and wearing traditional hanfu. These historic costumes of the Han ethnic group are _________ a renaissance (复兴) in part because the government is promoting traditional culture to boost patriotism (爱国主义) and national _________. Period dramas have also contributed to the _________ in interest in traditional Chinese clothing — The Story of Minglan, a TV series set in the Song Dynasty _________ more than 400 million viewers in three days.

There is no _________ definition of what counts as hanfu since each dynasty has its own style, but the clothes are _________ by loose, flowing robes, with sleeves that hang down to the knees. “When we were little, we would drape (披) sheets and blankets to _________ we were wearing beautiful clothes,” Xiao said.

“Two-thirds of my wardrobe is hanfu,” said Yang Jiaming, a high school student dressed in a Tang-style robe and black boots at a hanfu gathering. He wears hanfu under his uniform at school and his classmates and teachers have been ____________ of his style.

The support of the government for Chinese culture has given the hanfu community a(n) ____________. In April 2019, the Communist Youth League of China ____________ a two-day conference on traditional Chinese clothing, including hanfu.

Clothes are the “____________ of culture”, said Jiang Xue, a member of Beijing-based hanfu club Mowutianxia, which has received ____________ from the Communist Youth League of China. “If we do not even ____________ our traditional clothes or don’t wear them, how can we talk about other essential parts of our culture?” she said.

5 . During my second year at the city college, I was told that the education department was offering a “free” course, called Thinking Chess, for three credits. I ______ the idea of taking the class because, after all, who doesn’t want to save a few dollars? More than that, I’d always wanted to learn chess. And, even if I weren’t ______ enough about free credits, news about our ______ was appealing enough to me. He was an international grandmaster, which ______ I wound be learning from one of the game’s ______ . I could hardly wait to meet him.

Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this ______ was no game for him: he meant business. In his introduction, he made it ______ that our credits would be hard-earned. In order to ______ the class, among other criteria, we had to write a paper on how we plan to ______ what we would learn in class to our future professions and,   ______, to our lives. I managed to get an A in that ______ and learned life lessons that have served me well beyond the classroom.

Ten years after my chess class with Ashley, I’m still putting to use what he ______ me: “The absolute most important skill that you learn when you play chess is how to make good ______ . On every single move you have to ______ a situation, process what your opponent (对手) is doing and evaluate the best move from among all your options.” These words still ring true today in my ______ as a journalist.

6 . It was 4 o’clock in the morning when I received the phone call.

“This is the emergency room calling and your son was just _______ in with serious burns on his face, neck and arms.” The doctor described the _______ , which caused the burns. At 6 a. m. , our son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers in the courtyard of their apartment. Unfortunately, the charcoal（木炭）burst into flames because they had sprayed too much petrol. The flames _______ my son’s shirt tail and shot from his waist to well over his head.

Fortunately, one of the boys was quick-minded, grasped my son, and _______ him on the grass. While it saved his life, there was not enough _______ to save him from fearful burns and the terrible scars（伤疤）.

After he recovered from the treatments, the doctors told him they would not do plastic surgery（整形手术）for 6 months _______ it took that long for the skin to stop shrinking and wrinkling. So he had to return to college with typical scars of burns.

When I was a child, my mother told my sister who had a very _______ 10-inch scar on her arm, “Nancy, if you ignore the scar, other people will ignore it. It does not mean they will not _______ it, but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn’t matter to you.”

I _______ this wisdom on to my son. He took my advice to ________ and returned to school with his head held high—glad he was alive. By the end of the six-month waiting period, he decided that the scars did not ________ , so he made the ________ to give up any plastic surgery.

We all have “scars” that we believe will ________ people to keep away from us. And we spend a lot of time thinking that if we looked differently, or dressed differently, people would like us better. But you see, people will only judge you by your looks, or your clothes, if you are judging yourself by these same ________ standards. Put your imperfections out of your mind and concentrate on what you value ________ yourself, and your beauty will shine through.

8 . As a medical student, I was absorbed in studying and hardly spoke with real patients in a hospital. Then I started visiting local hospitals to gather _________ for my essay (论文)．

One cold evening, I was “hunting” for the final three patients I needed to _________ my study. The records showed a 43­year­old patient, Ms. A, was in the ward (病房) still _________ from her recent stroke (中风), no relatives or friends with her. When I sat down on a chair next to her bed and told her my _________, she agreed. The questionnaire (问卷) was made up of three simple questions. Before I could _________ after finishing it, Ms. A spoke up in her weak voice, “Doc, do you think I can get back to my _________ life?” Deep in my heart, I wished I were her doctor. I replied that _________ I didn’t know much about her case, I could tell her what I had learned about the recovery of stroke patients.

Ms. A then talked about herself. She told me that her husband died and her pay as a cleaner was _________ enough for her kids. I didn’t know what to say. Looking into her eyes, I _________ to remember the lessons from a communication skills class a few years earlier, but my mind was __________. Without realizing it, I had begun holding Ms. A’s hand. Since I didn’t have anything to say, I just sat __________ while she talked. That’s when it __________ me that she was not expecting any __________ from me. She just wanted me to listen. All I did was nodding my head as a way of showing my __________. Finally, Ms. A stopped talking. “I’m very __________ for keeping you here, but I feel __________ now.” Finally, I knew what to say. “It’s OK, Madam. It’s part of my __________.”

Ms. A taught me one of the most important __________ a doctor can learn. Sometimes patients do not need expensive medicine. They just need someone with __________ and willingness to lend an ear and __________ a little of their time.