1 . When working in person, most of us have a natural understanding of non-verbal (非语言的) signals. That is to say, all the ways in which we _____ work out without words. ____, in the digital workspace, this kind of communication can seem less _____.

Many work _____ now happen via online chats, and even video meetings can go ahead with cameras off.

Parts of non-verbal communication have always _____ outside face-to-face interaction, of course. For example, these unnoticeable _____ could begin with a profile picture on your CV (简历); even deciding whether or not to add an emoji (表情图标) in a work group chat can change the ______ of the interaction.

Yet the new workplace shift in where and how we work has _____ the world of non-verbal communication greatly. For instance, in video calls, backgrounds can give all sorts of non-verbal _____ about co-workers’ lifestyles, _______ and level of professionalism.

Let’s say if a co-worker positions the camera below the chin (下巴), ______ others to look up, you begin to dislike him or her, almost _______. Indeed, data have shown that during video calls, factors like camera angles, distance from the camera and ability to make eye contact all ______ how likeable people are noticed to be.

In a new world where ______ working is rapidly developing, being willing to engage non-verbally makes it ______ to understand others and to be understood.

3 . Since the age of four, Jacquelyn Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. However, a car accident put the high school senior in the hospital for 5 days and left her paralyzed from the waist down and _______ to sitting in the wheelchair the whole life. For most people, that would have _______ any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the beginning. _______ being a barrier, her wheelchair brought her bravery and encouraged her to think a lot of her life and she wanted to prove that she was still _______. Actually, Hill made it, rolling her wheelchair right alongside her non-disabled high school dance team. “It feels as if half of my body were _______ from me, and I have to move it with my hands,” Hill said. “ It _______ took a lot of learning and _______.”

After graduation, she wanted to expand her dancing network to include women like her. She began to _______ people online who had suffered similar injuries and shared her determination. Then in 2014, Hill moved to Los Angeles and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she calls the Rollettes. “I want to _______ the false belief of wheelchair users and show dance is dance, whether you’re walking or you’re ________.”

Dancing on wheels can be just as fast-paced, artful and ________ as the foot-based variety. In disabled dance competitions around the country, her team danced to the popular ________, rocking their ________ bodies, shaking their heads to the special beats, and ________ their wheelchairs in well-timed, dynamic, highly designed routines. The cheers, whistles and applause of the audience suggested that the fun was ________.

5 . Meagan, my youngest child, studies in a high school. She’ll _______ it soon and she has gained a scholarship from a university.

Her brother is a physician; her sisters major in computer. In a way, all of this came about for my New Year’s resolution made years ago. That evening my husband, Gary, said, “I’ve decided on my New Year’s resolution. I’ll take _______ lessons.” I answered, “What about me? I’m stuck in the kitchen, bed rooms, and yards due to the kids. It’s not that I don’t _______ being a mother, but that sometimes I wish to do something for myself, too.”

“Why don’t you?” Gary _______. “Surely you can think of something to be away from the _______.” His words comforted me. Since I was a non-native English speaker, I thought I could take an English class at college to improve my _______ so that people would understand me better. Later, I realized taking a class would _______ me, and that my kids would have an advantage, too.

“You’re right,” I replied. “I decide to take an English class and see if the college will accept me.” “Give it a(n) _______,” Gary said. “I’m sure you’ll make it.” _______, in my heart, I just felt a bit doubtful.

And before applying to college, I was __________ baby number three. So I __________ my plan made before. One day, Gary said excitedly, “I have finally found an excellent guitar teacher.” And he added, “What about your resolution? Have you signed up for your classes?”

I __________ my head, explaining it was because I was pregnant and that I had decided to apply to college after my delivery. Gary __________, saying I should register for the spring term before the baby came. I followed Gary’s advice. Later, I went to a good college and filled out some papers. I was __________ that after my papers were read, I was given a chance to take classes.

Now I fully realize the __________ of the New Year’s resolution. My following through that resolution inspired my kids, greatly contributing to their achievements in education.

6 . Many years ago, I bought a house in the Garfagnana, where we still go every summer. The first time we _______ there, we heard the chug-chug-chug of a motorbike _______ its way down the hill toward us. It was neighbor called Mario, coming to _______ us a box containing some tomatoes and a bottle of wine. It was a very nice _______ for him to make. But when we looked at the tomatoes, we were worried because they were so misshapen: not at all like the nice, round, _______ things you get in a supermarket. And the wine was cloudy, in a funny old bottle with no label on it. These can’t be any _______, we thought. But we were thankful for his kindness, so we _______ them.

What we discovered is that it’s _______ to judge what you cat only by its appearance. Those tomatoes had _______ that reminded me of the ones my uncle used to grow when I was a child. Nowadays supermarket tomatoes ________ perfect but taste of water. Nobody’s going to have a ________ memory of those. It’s a surprise they haven’t managed to grow square ones so that they can ________ them easily. Mario’s wine may have been cloudy and come out of an old bottle, but it was ________.

It’s good to eat things at the correct time, when they’re ________, and as close as possible to where they were grown. What Mario had ________ us was the taste of the Garfagnana.

8 . One morning,Ann’s neighbour Tracy found a lost dog _________ around the local elementary school. She asked Ann if she could keep an _________ on it. Ann said that she could watch it only for the day.

Tracy took photos of the dog and printed off 400 FOUND fliers and put them in mailboxes. Meanwhile, Ann bought some pet food in the dollar store nearby, and warned her two sons not to _________ in love with it. At the time, Ann`s son Thomas was 10 years old, and Jack, who was _________ from a heart operation, was 21 years old.

Four days later Ann was still _________ the dog, whom they had started to call Riley. When she arrived home from work, the dog _________ itself against the screen door(纱窗门)and barked madly at her. As soon as she opened the door, Riley _________ into the boy’s room where Ann found Jack was _________ a heart attack. Riley ran over to Jack, and as soon as Ann bent over to help him, the dog went _________.

“If it hadn’t come to get me, the __________ said Jack would have died,” Ann reported to a local newspaper. At this point, no one had called to claim the dog, so Ann decided to __________ it.

The next morning Tracy got a call. A man named Peter __________ his dog and called the number on the flier. Tracy started __________, and told him. “ That dog saved my friend’s son,”

Peter drove to Ann`s house to __________ his dog and saw Thomas and Jack crying in the window. After a few moments Peter said, “Maybe Odie was supposed to __________ to you; maybe you should keep it.” (组合规范练 P341)

9 . An act of kindness doesn’t have to be a grand gesture. Even those small acts of kindness can make a difference in someone’s day. That was just the case for Amie Mickey when she ________ a bumper sticker (车尾贴) on her car reading: You Matter.

Amie started to do this several years ago. At first, she wondered if people would ________ it. However, much to her surprise, she began seeing a flood of ________ every time she hit the road. More often than not, people ________ slowly near her car would roll down their windows, raising their ________, waving and smiling. Sometimes, she even found some sticky notes left on her windshield saying things like “You ________ too!” Once while she was driving down the highway, she became ________ when a man driving a sports car at a high speed pulled his car alongside suddenly, waving and mouthing, “You matter!” Though it took her some time to recover from the ________, she still felt happy. Last year, someone ________ her car while she was waiting for her friend in the car by the roadside, saying to her, “It is a(an) ________ sticker. I’ve seen various stickers before, but none of them have touched me as your sticker has done.” The two small words on the sticker seem simple enough, but they really struck a chord with many complete strangers who ________ to catch sight of the sticker.

Stories like Amie’s really ________ the rest of us. Sometimes a kind word or gesture may lift our ________ and it doesn’t cost a thing except for a little extra thought. Maybe it means offering a friend a hug, praising the children when the children ________ well in school, helping someone out or volunteering at nursing homes. Acts of kindness are waiting everywhere. Small as they seem, they can make a ________ impact on the world, and help form general goodness.

10 . 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.