Jack was walking towards me, but my new friends raised their eyebrows and piled their backpacks on the table so that there was no space left for Jack to sit down. This awkward situation froze the air. I     1     (显得很冷漠) and lowered my head when Jack looked at me. “     2     (我真丢脸)！” I thought later，“I should have spoken up for him when he was driven away.” With strong feelings of guilt, I realized I     3     (罪魁祸首). Therefore, I went to him and made an apology. To my surprise, Jack forgave me at once and smiled.

I     1    (被怀疑) stealing the woman’s gold ring，    2     (这使我的脸上蒙上了一层阴影).     3     (我是如此懊恼以至于泪水像洪水一样顺着脸颊流下来). Then I thought why I should    4     (替别人背黑锅).So I tried my best to trace the real thief to defend my innocence.     5     (在朋友们的帮助下)，I was greatly convinced that I would prove that I was wronged.

The little girl was very poor and her family     1     (负债累累). Walking past the bakery, she felt so hungry and a little dizzy. However, she couldn’t find money to purchase a piece of bread and she was     2     (充满了沮丧和悲伤). She hated theft. She told herself that when she had money, she would pay back. She held out her hand, grabbed the bread, and was about to turn around when she found the owner standing in front of her. Her mind     3     (头脑一片空白), and she had no idea how to respond. However, the owner told her the bread was put there for customers to have a taste and requested her to taste and make a comment! Many years later, although she     4     (积累了大量财富), she kept the habit of visiting the bakery.

To celebrate his 45th birthday, Jack, a journalist,     1     (离开城市)and cycled along the small paths. The green grass，the bare rock, and the fresh air made him relaxed. Unluckily, he encountered a bear, and     2     (未能逃脱). He was pushed to the ground and bitten in the left leg.     3     (随后), Jack lost his consciousness. Hours later, Jack came to his life, surrounded by some loggers and a doctor.     4     (原来是他们救了他). Tears of gratitude rolled down his cheeks.

Only then did I know the truth—my family was in need of money. Wrapping my sweaty hands tightly around the bills,     1     (我的心在痛). Shame conquered me as my hands started to tremble. I     2     (说服了自己把钱贡献给我的家人). Reaching into my pocket, I took out the money and gave my dad the money     3     (当他有空的时候). The tension I felt disappeared, and I     4     (对自己很满意). What I learned was the true meaning of growing up and from then on I     5     (被激励要更加努力学习).

One night a hotel caught a fire, and people in it ran out in their night clothes.

    1    (幸运地), nobody was hurt.

Two men stood o    2     and looked at the fire.

“Before I came out,” said one,“I ran into some of the rooms and found a lot of money. People don’t think of money when they’re     3    (害怕的). When anyone leaves paper money in a fire, the fire burns it. So I took all the bills that I could find. No one will be poor because I took them.”

“You don’t know my work,” said the other.

“What is your work?”

“I’m a policeman.”

“Oh!” cried the first man. He     4    (思考) quickly and said,“And do you know my work?“ “No,” said the policeman.

“I’m a writer. I’m always telling s    5     about things that never happened.”

There is a colorless tiger. He seems like something out of an old black and w    1     movie. His lack (缺乏) of color makes him so famous that the world’s great painters want to come to his zoo to t    2     to put some color on him. But the colors always just drips (滴) down off his skin (皮肤).

Then along comes a p    3     called Van Cough. When he travels around, he likes to paint     4     (happy) with his brush. He never puts any paint on his brush, and he doesn’t u    5     canvas (画布) or paper. He paints the air.

When going into the tiger’s cage, he begins saying some words to the big animal, and     6    (move) his dry brush up and d    7     the tiger’s body. Later, people can see c    8     on the tiger’s skin. Everyone wants to k    9     what the painter’s secret is. He says to them that his brush is only good for painting real life and he needs no colors. He can do it because of the words he kept s    10     to the tiger: “In just a few days you will be free again, you will see.”

When Mills Godwin High School’s 11th grader Laasya Konidala isn’t studying, you’ll usually find her baking in the kitchen or doing a puzzle with her mother. For her, family is everything. But recently, her family received terrible news.

This past year her grandmother was diagnosed (诊断) with breast cancer. But she didn’t sit back and worry, she     1     (祈祷) for her grandmother and went to work.

“As someone who has a lot of natural curiosity and as a researcher, one of the first things I did was to d    2     into reading articles and papers as much as I can,” Konidala said.

Teaching herself to code (编码), she entered the MEDARVA Science Fair, presenting research that bridges the gap between predicting breast cancer sub-types with good classification models. And she won! It’s research that could help to     3     (发现) and treat breast cancer. As you can imagine, her grandmother is very proud.

“She knew I was into     4     (science) research, but she never expected me to do something directly related to her. She was at a loss for words,” she said.

Her mother, Rekha Rasineni is not. She tells you what a hard worker Laasya can be.

“Some days we tell her ‘You don’t need to be     5     (produce) and working all day. Take it easy.’ But she doesn’t like that. She likes to study and do puzzles and bake and maybe even save lives with her research.”

Alice felt     1    (松了一口气) to see a car approaching. When the driver with a smile offered a ride to her,     2    (她松了一口气). Alice thankfully got in the car,     3    (一种温暖和解脱交织的感觉涌上心头。). Reaching her destination, Alice     4    (松了一口气). Tears of appreciation welled up in her eyes as she thanked the driver for his help, but he just smiled warmly.     5    (她在寒冷的天气里感到了温暖，相信处处都有好心人。).

Having quarreled with her husband Tom, Jane boiled with anger and she intended to find a better camp spot alone.An hour later, what alarmed her was that she got lost in the forest. Jane sank to her knees,     1     (悔恨的泪水模糊了她的双眼).     2    (她抓着头发，发出一声后悔的喊叫). All the fantastic memory crowded in and she couldn’t help crying, “    3    (如果我不是和汤姆吵了一架，然后走开，爬到高地上去，我就不会被困在这个可怕的地方了！)”    4    (她焦躁不安，懊恼万分), and after a while became asleep with tears in her eyes.Tom and the police were searching the forest for Jane by helicopter. Finally, they found Jane. Tom stormed out of the helicopter, rushed forward excitedly and hugged Jane tightly, saying that how much he was concerned about her.