1 . As we all know, a friend in need is a friend indeed. I really didn’t know the meaning of this proverb until one day something _______ happened to me.  

That morning, I got up late and _______ to school without breakfast. While I was crossing a street, my bike _______ a stone and I fell on the ground, with my both knees badly hurt. I managed with the _______ and continued my riding. On my arrival at school, my teacher took us to the _______ for a basketball match. _______ I could hardly walk normally, I joined in the game. When I _______ to pass the ball, I was knocked down and fell down on my back. I could not _______ the terrible pain and cried. My classmates all started _______ at me and continued their match. ________ on the ground alone, hungry and painful, I couldn’t stop my crying. Just at that moment, Jack, one of my teammates, ________ towards me from the other end and helped me. He comforted me and tried all ________ to make me stand. He asked another classmate to take his ________ and kept sitting beside me. He kept me company the whole day and even ________ me home after school was over.  

It was on that day that I learned and believed the proverb “a friend in need is a friend indeed” to be ________.

2 . April Fool’s Day

April Fool’s Day is a western festival. No one _______ exactly when and how April Fool’s Day began. However, there are some stories about _______ it came into being. One story _______ like this: in the sixteenth century France, the start of the new year was on April first. It was celebrated in much the same way _______ it is today with parties and dancing into the late hours of the night.

Then in 1562, Pope (教皇) Gregory introduced a new calendar for the Christian world, and the new year fell on January first. There were some people, _______， who hadn’t heard or didn’t believe the _______ in the date, so they _______ to celebrate New Year’s Day on April first. Others played tricks on them and called them “April fools”. They tried to make them believe that something false was _______. In France today, April first is called “April Fish”. French children fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends’ _______. When the “young fool” ________ this trick, the prankster (恶作剧者) shouts “April Fish!”

Today Americans play small tricks on friends and strangers alike on the first of April. One ________ trick on April Fool’s Day is pointing down to a friend’s shoe and saying, “Your shoelace is untied.” School children might tell a classmate that school has been canceled (取消). ________ the trick is, if you fail for the joke the prankster shouts “April Fool!”

In Britain today, on the first of April, even ________ newspapers, radio and TV programs tell big lies. You might read a science ________ showing that doctors have found a way to cure (治愈) AIDS, or you would probably listen to a piece of news about a UFO ________ on an island.

3 . Wayne Rogerson’s close friend, Ashley Cooper, died when he was seriously injured in a crash in 2008. His family later _________ his donated organs (器官) helped save seven people. This _________ Mr Rogerson to start donating blood.

Mr Rogerson said he _________ to do his bit and had donated blood 21 times, seldom _________ an appointment over eight years. But he could not have known the _________ act of giving blood would _________ save his own life.

At a donation _________ in 2017, a Red Cross Australia Lifeblood nurse discovered Mr Rogerson’s hemoglobin (血红蛋白) count was low and _________ him to seek medical care. “I had no _________, none at all,” he said. After Mr Rogerson went to a hospital and had medical tests, doctors said that he had developed cancer. Mr Rogerson spent about three months in hospital for an operation and treatment. During that time he _________ two blood transfusions (输血). “I was so _________ that they got it in time … I was fully recovered in November that year,” he said. But, to his _________, he can no longer donate blood due to_________ reasons. “After being both a(n) _________ and a recipient (接受者), I urge everyone to donate if you can,” he said.

“The _________ you save might just be your own.”

5 . Jane Jie Sun, CEO of Trip.com Group, Asia’s largest online travel agency, connects people with the best ______ the world has to offer—China’s Great Wall, Australia’s outback and Italy’s ancient ruins. She believes cultural experiences can ______ divides and conflicts, strengthen industries and create peace.

While ______ Peking University, Sun was invited to a program in the University of Florida, where she ______ managed to further her study, majoring in accounting. ______ her fellow students, Sun’s life pace was rapid(快速的). She bicycled 6 miles to the campus each morning, taking the ______ classes available so she could spend the rest of the day, and Saturdays, working to pay her education fees.

______, Sun recalls her UF days fondly. “I learned a lot from my experience in the USA,” says Sun.

“Many discussions I had at UF still influence(影响) my style of leadership today.______, I have developed appreciation of ______ other persons’ different arguments over a certain ______.”

“I try to put myself in other people’s shoes,” says Sun. “In a global market, you have to have a very good understanding of different people and ______ different cultures.”

Now as a mother of two daughters, she shoulders the______ as the CEO of what is now a $25 billion company and puts tremendous effort into her work.

“Some people ask me why I work so hard, but I feel that mothers are the best role ______ for children,” Sun says. “I show them that to work is actually to ______ yourselves, but if you double your efforts at work and being a ______, it is doubly rewarding.”

6 . A fifth grader at Shreve Elementary in Ohio created a Kindness Closet to help students in need.

Anderson “Andi” Musser said a friend told her that she ________   she had some girls’ clothing to wear to school.“I went to my ________ and got the clothes and shoes that don’t ________ me,” Andi told The Daily Record. “I gave them to her at school the next day.And she was really happy.” 

After ________ clothes to her friend,Andi couldn’t help thinking about how great it felt to help someone in need. 

“She realized what a difference that ________ for her friend,” said Jessica Musser,Andi’s mother.“That was so ________ to do.She asked, “ Can we do this for more people? ” She took the initiative (倡议) at that ________.” 

So, Andi ________ her principal with her idea to ________ a Kindness Closet, a place where ________ students can visit during the school day to “shop” for a new coat or ________ worn garments.

She came to me, and having knowing what she thought, I said,“Great, let’s do it, ” Principal Adam Stein said.

________, Andi doesn’t have enough clothes.She came up with an idea and asked local stores for ________.

“It’s great for Andi to see her vision ________,” Principal Stein said.“It’s part of our ________ here at Shreve and Triway.It’s what every principal and parent would want for their kids to do — to put others first.”

8 . When you do skydiving at 101 years old, you’re pretty much a superhuman. Verdun Hayes became the _________ person in the world to complete a 15,000-foot tandem jump (双人伞), _________ the Guinness World Records he once set up.

Verdun Hayes wasn’t _________ . He finished the jump with eight family members and two close _________ at Dunkeswell Airport. As they _________ to make the jump, the entire family looked nervous, but _________ as well. Hayes’ grandson-in-law Ian Honnor said this wasn’t Hayes’ first jump! “When he was more than ninety years old, his family kept telling him he wasn’t _________ to do the jump. At the age of 100, he _________ realized his ambition and became the first man of such an advanced age to _________ a tandem skydive.”

This time he decided to shoot for the world record. “Because it’s such a big ____________, it was decided that as many people in the family as we could possibly get were going to go ____________ him. He had four generations (世代) of his family in the ____________ at the same time.”

Hayes even had some ____________ for those people hoping to ____________ the same thing at his age. “Just keep your mind ____________ occupied by positive thought and keep your body as fit as you possibly can, ” said Hayes.

9 . My husband Adlai and I often went camping to celebrate special occasions. In fact, our anniversary was coming up. But this time I felt a sense of _________. I couldn’t think about my journal. 

For birthdays and anniversaries,_________ giving each other cards that we were not interested in, Adlai and I wrote letters. For nine years, I’d written almost all of mine in a journal. For our eighteenth anniversary, we had gone camping. After a hike, we returned to_________our letters. But the campsite was _________by a bear. Our tent fell down. Worst of all, my journal was _________. We searched for hours, but it was _________. 

I never _________. I always wanted to have back those nine years of letters! One day, I came home to find a car in our driveway. Two _________stood in the yard with Adlai. Adlai held up a weather-beaten book. My journal! The woman and her husband had _________ it weeks earlier in the underbrush. She was__________ when reading my love letters. “We only have your first names, so it is a bit __________to find you. Luckily, we make it.” the woman said. 

As a result of their__________, I could hug my journal again. I just couldn’t thank them more. There are always people in the world who show __________ to others. What the couple did doesn’t__________change our lives, but it can certainly change the way we __________ about life.

10 . When I first saw the Boston Marathon in 1964, I just fell in love with it. I _______ to be part of it, but I didn’t know if I could do it.

In February, 1966, I sent my _______ to the Boston Marathon and they wrote back, saying, “Women are not physiologically (生理上) able to run a marathon. ”When I read the letter, I thought if I could prove that this was a _______ view about women, it was going to open up the discussion of what else we thought women could not do. So I took the bus to Boston and got there the day before the race.

When I got to the starting line, I knew the most important thing was that I should not be _______. To avoid being arrested or pulled off the course, I had a blue hooded (带风帽的) sweatshirt pulled up over my _______ with my hair tied back. Then, there was the bang, but I waited until about half the pack left—then I _______in.

Even though I was disguised (伪装), the other runners _______ very quickly that I was a woman. Fortunately, they were very _______ . I told them that I was _______ I would be thrown out if officials saw that I was a woman. But they said, “We won’t let that _________. It’s a free road. ”That’s when I ________ the hooded sweatshirt and everyone could see I was a woman. Then people went ________. They started shouting and clapping, “Way to go, girlie!”

Finally I ran into Boston and ________ the race in 3 hours and 21 minutes.

I went back to Boston and ran again in 1967 and 1968.1 hope to be a (n) ________ of someone who follows what they love and what they’re good at. I think everyone came to this world to ________ something.