Zheng Chao, who grew up in Jiaoyao village, a high-altitude mountainous area with poor land, was raised by tea. His family, which has been growing tea     1     three generations, used to have trouble putting food on the table,     2     now he earns 70, 000 yuan a year just from selling tea.

In 2019, Kuang and seven other young people in the village set up a tea cooperative. With the support of the economic cooperative in their village, they     3     (successful) integrated the resources of the tea industry, and carried out the model of unified (统一的) planting, fertilization, processing and sales, attempting     4     (achieve) high quality and a good flavor. An old house in the village     5       (transform) into a tea processing and exhibition workshop, while the house facing the green     6     (mountain)and the tea garden became a separate tea tasting room.

Last year, the cooperative assigned 40 percent of its     7     (expect) earnings to the shareholders in the village.     8     Mao Huayan, Kuang’s wife, received her bonus of 1,097 yuan, she felt like a child     9     (get) “lucky” money during Spring Festival. More important was the     10         (industry)development that helped them to accumulate wealth.

Not long ago, my daughter’s shoes     1     (damage) with a knife. She burst into tears. I took them to the shoemaker’s. The man said he would add more scratches on both shoes as if the openings were made on purpose for a special style. I didn’t fully understand him, but I decided to leave the shoes. Two days later I dropped by from work     2     (collect) the shoes. I found more scratches on each shoe, but all the openings were patched by red leather and the stitches were twisted. The appearance looked     3     (interesting) than ever.

In 1944, I started my first project     1     (increase) wheat production in Mexico. There I learned a very important lesson     2     you can’t bring the new wheat to farmers without good roads.

After     3     (authority) failed to persuade farmers to plant the new wheat     4     (develop) by me, I decided to upgrade the largely unusable farm-to-market roads that linked the villages.

After we     5     (rebuild) the roads, I could see the amazing effect immediately. Wherever the new roads went, farmers adopted     6     new crop with surprising speed. Since the new wheat produced much more than the varieties that had been planted for hundreds of years and had provided barely enough grain for survival, the farmers could afford to build new houses and purchase better clothing and healthier food for their children. The children stayed in school longer, thanks to the little ”taxis“ that carried them between the school and their homes over the new roads. Child death rate dropped     7     (remarkable), as mothers with sick children could get medical help on time. Villages once troubled by     8     (violent) now became safe to travel both day and night. As the new road opened the way for commerce, information and opportunities, young people no longer     9     (attract) to join local criminal groups.

I carried this lesson with me through the rest of my career, increasingly convinced that there was a direct relation     10     the absence of quality roads and poverty.

One day, an old man came inside a restaurant. The restaurant’s     1    (own) Annie noticed him and asked if someone was together     2     him, and how he got there. The old man could not give any answers. Annie then asked him if he knew his name, and     3    (unexpected), the old man said, “Of course, I know my name!” But unluckily, the old man could not give any name either.

Then Annie called the government, and     4     officer answered the phone. After ten minutes, the officer came and talked with the old man, from which the officer learned that the man had a son. Then he got in touch with the old man’s son,     5     came to pick the man up later. This heart-warming story     6    (post) online later by Mike. So far, many people     7    (express) their lovely comments, and thousands have “liked” it as well.

It is     8    (thought) of people like Annie and the officer to go out of their way     9    (help) the old man. Giving a hand to strangers is one of the best     10    (gift) at difficult times.

“I’m old in age, but young in mind. The zoo is my lifetime’s happiness.” Despite     1     (variety) difficulties, for 33 years,     2     82-year-old Chinese man called LuoYingjiu has been running by himself a small zoo in Enshi, Hubei province.

At the one-man Fenghuang Mountain Zoo, Luo serves     3     director, cleaner, breeder, vet and conductor. Most of the animals of the zoo are old and weak, many of     4     were saved by Luo. The zoo’s lion, tiger and python passed away years ago,     5     (leave) only a bear, some peacocks, a troop of monkeys,     6     about 20 dogs.

A ticket only costs 10 yuan ( $1.5) per person, and it’s free for children. But the zoo’s appeal to locals is fading. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, the number of visitors     7     (drop) to just several people a day.

While the world changes     8    (gradual), the zoo remains much the same, and so does Luo’s love for the animals. “Many people tell me to rest at this old age, but my wish is     9     (maintain) the zoo with all my heart until my last day. Since I’ve shouldered the     10     (responsible), I shall never quit halfway,” says the former soldier in the local dialect.

Jiang Huan didn’t understand his father’s decision to donate his organs     1     an organ donation coordinator (协调者) told him that the transplant surgery was successful and had helped save a life.

“Hearing that one life was saved due to my father’s donation, I realized the     2     (great) of his heart and the true meaning of life,” Jiang says. “It feels like his life was extended.”

In 2010, China     3     (official) launched a national pilot program for human organ donation, which gave rise     4     numerous donation coordinators like Zhou Lijuan. With her mobile phone available 24 hours day and night, Zhou gets used to rushing to hospitals whenever there are any potential organ donors.

“Very often we     5     (understand), rejected, and even cursed by the family members. But painful scenes of patients     6     (wait) for organ transplant opportunities always come to my mind first. They are in urgent need of     7     (suit) organs,” says Zhou. She adds that the eagerness in the eyes of those patients has motivated her over the years     8     (stand) up for her duty.

“It’s not how much time you have but how you use it     9     matters,” says a card from a donor’s family     10     (present) at the memorial park.

Robert Owens felt     1     (defeat) and helpless on Sunday as he waited in Louisiana’s capital city for one of the most     2     (power) hurricanes ever to strike the US.

The 27-year-old man had spent days     3     (anxious) watching long lines of cars leaving for safer locations as Hurricane Ida     4     (approach). He had hoped that his wife and two children would be among them. But leaving would have required money for gas and a hotel room—something they didn’t have.

Out of desperation, Owens went to the bank on Saturday and applied     5     a payday loan. But he     6     (tell) he didn’t have enough credit history.

“Our bank account is empty-we can’t afford     7     (leave),” he said. “A lot of us here in my neighborhood have to stay and wait, not knowing how bad it’s going to get,” he said. “It’s     8     terrifying feeling to think my family is getting left behind.”

“The fact     9     we are not middle class or above just keeps coming back to bite us again and again, in so many different     10     (direction)and ways. A simple payday advance is just one of them,” he said. “It’s like we have to pay for being poor, even though we’re trying not to be poor.”

It was a winter morning. I took a walk in the nearest park. On the road, there were people of all ages.

I noticed there was a crowd in a corner when I went     1     (close) and pushed my way to the front. Then I saw an old man     2     (lie) on the grass. A young woman in her early     3     ( twenty) next to him was crying. I could not understand why people there were doing nothing.

Suddenly,     4     old voice seemed to call me. It was my grandfather speaking     5     me as he did many years ago. “Be strong, my boy.” he seemed to say. Therefore, I moved forward to the two     6     (help) people in the middle of the crowd. I asked some people around to pick     7     ( he) up carefully. My voice was loud,     8     attracted people’s attention and they took action     9     (quick). Soon the old man and the young woman     10     (send) to a nearby hospital.

I never thought I     1     (talent) at anything that had to do with music, but my parents wanted me to learn to play the piano at the age of six. To be a good daughter, I agreed to learn even though I wasn’t interested in     2     at all. Experienced in reading her students’ minds, my piano teacher could tell     3     a couple of lessons that my heart was not in it. However, after learning for about six months, I was asked to perform something at the year-end concert     4     (arrange) by my teacher. Surprised and terrified at the same time, I could only agree.     5     (consider) my inexperience, I chose a     6     (fair) simple composition again and again. On the day of the concert, I was so nervous     7     I woke up with butterflies in my stomach.     8    it turned out, there was no need to be nervous because all my hard work     9     (pay) off and I played perfectly. Encouraged by this first     10     (perform) and the positive reaction of the audience, I have continued to play the piano and enjoy it more every day.