1 . The tech industry created many wonders. However, when it comes to how they are used by kids, they usually bring a _________ influence on them.

My kids________ iPhones very early by playing with the old models my husband and I ________ after we got new ones. As a little girl, my daughter learned the English words on her own from an iPhone app. Besides, she was_________ by simple apps that could repeat her facial expressions and read children’s stories to her. At that time, I considered iPhones quite _______ and usually permit her to use iPhone as a reward.

Things were good for a few years ________she discovered YouTube. I   was_________the first time I caught her watching YouTube videos at midnight. The YouTube videos were so ________ to her that she could not resist watching them even at midnight. It should not have surprised me how ________ YouTube would be. After all, I have spent a good part of my career predicting (预测) users’ needs to _______ users’ stickiness (黏着度). We do not want our users to _________ our product. But at no time did we realize that those users might be our ________ one day. Their immature brains and low self-control ability _________ to avoid the influence of those advanced tech products.

After seeing how my kids got lost in YouTube, I ________ my attitude towards iPhones. I took away their iPhones because they stand little chance of disentangling (使解脱) themselves from the _______ tech products.

2 . My son Timmy was born with several rare developmental disabilities. By age 13, he had had at least 10 surgeries on his legs and feet. Balancing and walking was very ________ for Timmy, and he needed a great deal of help with mobility.

Meeting Janice, who ________ treat Timmy, changed Timmy’s life. Janice and Timmy ________ an immediate bond. That bond led us to get our Larry, the biggest dog I’ve ever seen. Janice, being so ________ with my son and her dogs, knew Timmy and Larry would make a perfect ________.Larry, not usually easy to bond with, was ________ like glue to my son the minute they walked in the door.

Larry has changed Timmy, s life so much for the better. Not only does Larry give my son ________ for his mobility issues by keeping him steady on his feet and protecting him from ________, but he is also his best friend. If Timmy is sleeping, Larry does not ________ his side. If Timmy does not feel ________, Larry still will not leave his side, even to ________ or go out.

Larry slows to Timmy’s pace and watches every ________ he makes. They walk along together in perfect steps. It is truly ________ to watch the two of them together. This year, Timmy and Larry began their journey in high school together. The ________ that Larry gives Timmy is priceless. Larry is always there to support Timmy for mobility, for falling, for companionship, and is his best ________.

3 . Last year my daughter started feeding a homeless cat that we named Miss Alice. Since then, things have_________. First two other homeless cats that we named Garfield and Tang also showed up, wanting to be__________ . Some days later, the local __________noticed them and started flying down to enjoy any leftover cat food after those three had finished__________. Everything was going well. Now my daughter is like a Disney princess. Anytime she walks outside, the __________ gather around.

My daughter always treats them equally with care. The only one who seems ____________with this new arrangement is Miss Alice. She keeps __________the other two cats away from the food. The other day when I walked over to my daughter’ s house, Alice came up meowing(喵喵叫) asking to be___________. While I was touching her head and___________her back, Garfield and Tang also meowed for attention. But Miss Alice scared them away. She wasn’t___________to share anything about me.

The thing that Miss Alice___________understands is something that has taken me years to learn, too. It is the truth that the more love we share and___________ ,the more love we have. Some __________ people like my daughter seem to know a lot about___________. It is in sharing love that we can make__________with the world. It is in love that we support each other. May we all learn this even if poor Miss Alice never does.

7 . Marcus is a handsome and athletic kid. He plays tennis and _________ the state tournament every year. Marcus’s neighbor, Conrad, is also _________ to compete, but he has rheumatoid arthritis (类风湿性关节炎). Although it pains him just to walk, he _________ painful days at school walking to the sports field. He loves watching his school compete so he doesn’t _________ a game.

Marcus has known Conrad since primary school. They’ve always been _________. He sees Conrad in pain and his _________ at not being able to play sports. So, every day alter school, Marcus _________ his classmates to go to Conrad’s for a moment of discussion about the game competition. The discussion is as _________ as a real high school game, which makes Conrad forget the hurt.

Finally, the doctors found a new _________ to reduce the pain. Conrad walks without much pain, and then begins running, but he still has to learn the __________ of running. After a childhood of walking carefully and taking __________ steps, Conrad has to train his walking like a kid again and stay in shape. He pushes himself every day，building his lungs and doing leg lifts repeatedly for his leg __________. He knows what pain feels like, but running for Conrad is no longer __________.

To Conrad’s delight, he gets a chance to join the cross country team. Conrad doesn’t win, not once, but Marcus is there, __________ for him who always finishes in the middle of the competitors, breathing in wind and waving his hands __________.

8 . As is customary in many cultures around the world, when a Japanese couple ________ a baby into the world, relatives come to visit the family and ________. However, because of the pandemic and social distancing rules, that hasn’t been ________ lately. Dakigokochi—rice babies ________ in Japan have been around since the early 2000s, but their popularity has ________ once again because of COVID-19. With relatives unable to ________, baby-shaped rice bags have become a much-needed way of ________ the joy of having a baby with ________ ones. Rice babies are bags of rice that weigh ________ as much as the babies they are replacing, and that have photos of the ________printed on them. They are ________ to relatives so they can hug the “new human” while looking at a picture of the baby’s face.

Naruo Ono, the owner of a rice shop, ________ the idea for rice babies 14 years ago when his own son was born and he was thinking about what he could do for relatives who ________ far away and couldn’t come and see him. He decided to make rice bags that were the ________ shape and weight as the baby, and ________ a picture of him on them, so the relatives could see and feel him.

One day, someone saw Naruo’s rice baby in the window of his shop and ________ on how interesting it was. That’s when he ________ that there might be a ________ for his cute rice bags. He started making them for ________and has since been shipping them all over Japan. Since then, several companies have ________ his invention.

9 . Although he is one of China’s most famous scientists, Yuan Longping considers himself a farmer, for he works the land to do his research. Indeed, his ______ face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like those of millions of Chinese ______, for whom he has ______ for the past fifty years. Yuan Longping ______ what is called super hybrid rice. In 1973, he became the first ______ pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high ______. This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce 20% more of the ______ in the same fields. Now more than 60% of the rice ______ in China each year is from this hybrid strain.

Born in 1930, Yuan Longping ______ from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then, finding ways to grow more rice has been his life ______. As a young man, he saw the great need for ______ the rice output. At that time, hunger was a ______ problem in many parts of the countryside. Yuan Longping searched for a way to increase rice harvests without ______ the area of the fields. In 1950, Chinese farmers could produce about fifty-six million tons of rice. ______, in a recent harvest, nearly two hundred million tons of ______ was produced. These increased harvests mean that 22% of the world ‘s people are ______ from just 7% of the farmland in the world. Yuan Longping is now ______ his knowledge in India, Vietnam and many other less developed countries to increase their rice harvests. ______ his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of ______. Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing ______ twice as large as before.

10 . A young man travelled by train. As it was ________ across a wildness (荒野) passengers looked out of the ________ idly and aimlessly. When the train came near a bend, it _________ and then an unadorned (简陋的) house came into ________. It was so clearly ________ the deserted landscape that everybody on the ________ turned to “admire (赞赏)” it. Some passengers ________ began a discussion about it.

The ________ man was also impressed by the scene. On his return he ________ the train at the nearest station and ________his way to the house. Its ________ told him that he was troubled by the ________ of the train, and he wanted to sell the house but ________would buy it.

Soon after the young man ________ thirty thousand dollars for the house, regarding it as a ________ place for advertisement (广告). It was facing the railway ________ where the train had to slow down and the ________ passengers would cast their eyes on the house to ________ themselves.

He managed to get close to some big companies and tried his best to let them ________ the advantage of the place for ________ . Finally the Coca-Cola Company took a lease on (租用) it and put up promotional signs. The young man was paid 180 thousand dollars for a three-year rent.