1 . Once when Kevin was _______ hats under a big tree, the monkeys on the tree picked some hats and put them on. So Kevin took off his own hat and threw _______ on the ground. The stupid monkeys threw their hats, _______! Kevin soon _______ all the hats and left happily.

Fifty years _______, young Tony, _______ of Kevin, also sold hats for a living (谋生). _______ a long walk, Tony was tired, _______ he put his bag of hats beside him and laid down under a big tree. He was soon fast _______.

When he woke up, Tony found that there weren’t any hats in his bag! Tony started looking ________ his hats. To his ________, he found some monkeys on the tree wearing his hats.

Tony didn’t know ________ to do. Then he remembered the story his grandfather ________ used to tell him. “Yes! I can fool ________ monkeys!” said Tony. “I’ll ________ them imitate (模仿) me and very soon I will get all ________ hats back!”

Tony then waved at the monkeys, the monkeys waved at him. Tony started dancing, the monkeys were also ________. Tony threw his hat ________ the ground…

Just then, one of the monkeys jumped down ________ the tree, picked up the hat Tony threw on the ground and ________ up to Tony. He said, “Do you think only you had a grandfather?”

2 . My husband and I just spent a week in Paris. Our aim was to see if we could live, in some way, like real Parisians. So the first thing we did was _______ a fantastically expensive sixth-floor apartment the _______ of a cupboard. It was so tiny that we had to leave our suitcases in the hallway.

The place wasn’t _______ authentic, though. Unlike a _______ Parisian apartment, the plumbing (水管) worked. There was a nice kitchen and a _________ bed. Our _________ even had a tiny lift with a female voice that said perfect French.

Parisians are different from you and me. They never look lazy or untidy. As someone once _________, they eat great food and never gain _________. The food is so delicious that you don’t need much of it to be happy. French strawberries do not taste like cardboard. Instead, they _________ in your mouth like little flavor bombs. That’s not the only reason why the French eat less than us. On our first morning in Paris, I went to the food market to __________ some groceries. I bought a handful of perfectly ripe strawberries and a little sweet melon. My husband and I agreed they were the best fruit we had ever eaten. But they cost $18!

In France, __________ of life is much more important than efficiency. You can tell this by cafés life. French cafés are always __________. Many customers are locals. When do these people __________? The French take their 35-hour workweek seriously — so seriously that some labor unions recently __________ a deal with a group of companies __________   the number of hours that independent contractors(承包商) can be on call.

3 . The victims were carried in one by one, their paws and fur burned, suffering from dehydration(脱水) and fear. Their caretakers _________ their wounds, and _________ them in baskets with the only thing that was _________ －the leaves of eucalyptus (桉树) tree. As miserable fires have _________ more than 2 million acres in Australia, only dozens of koalas have been _________ from the smoky trees and _________ ground.

Koalas, unlike kangaroos, birds or snakes, do not _________ from fires but instead climb trees to the top, where they can curl themselves into a ball for _________ and wait for the danger to _________.

But during big fires such as those that have burned in recent weeks, the animals are far less likely to __________. Even if the fire itself does not reach the tree __________, the animals may overheat and fall to the ground, where they can be burned to death.

The tough situation of the koala has raised __________ among scientists and conservationists(环保主义者). While koalas have developed to exist alongside the wildfires, they are facing new __________, not just from climate change but also from human development, which has dislocated koalas' populations, __________ their ability to survive fires.

We have these __________ animals not found anywhere else on this planet, and we are killing them. This is a big wake-up call.

4 . I was always complaining about wind or rain. Although it was nothing unusual for the arrival of wind or rain, it caused inconvenience for me to go out, and sometimes it even created an awful atmosphere, so I ________ it strongly.

On a rainy day a meteorologist (气象学家) I met was very ________ at my great anger caused by rain that made a little inconvenience for me.

He asked, “Have you ever seen typhoon? Do you know what would happen to the world if there were no typhoon?” I shook my head. I had no experience of how overwhelming it was when it ________ everything away in its way.

“Well, let me tell you,” the meteorologist said. “Without it the ________ of fresh water will be more serious, for it is a great ________ of water supply on earth. Without it, there would be a greater imbalance in the distribution of ________. The equatorial area that receives the most sunshine on earth ________ entirely on typhoon to disperse (驱散) heat. Without typhoon the tropics would be even ________ while the frigid zones much colder. As a result the temperate zones (温带) would ________ from the world...”

Ignorance made me________. I disliked wind only because it ruffled (吹乱) my hair. I hated rain merely because I had to carry an umbrella. But I had no idea at all that typhoon—something much more violent, something a thousand times more________ than wind or rain—was a(n) ________ to the existence of mankind.

________ no road on earth goes all the way on level ground, there’s no person in the world who can do whatever he pleases. Wrong as it is for people to guard against typhoon, it is advisable for a man to stop to think for a moment before he complains. “________ typhoon disappeared all together? What would the world become then?” The ________ will keep him calm and lead him closer to truth—he will be better aware of the world he lives in.

6 . Some of the greatest problems we face today are concerned with the gradual destruction of our environment. Brown clouds; wildlife _________; polluted water. These _________ all seem so huge. So my family does what we can. We take cloth bags to stores instead of using plastic bags. We walk where we don’t have to _________.

But does it do any good?

I recently learned something about flamingos. These beautiful birds gather in _________ groups of a thousand or more. Every year, when the time _________ for migration, a few flamingos start the process by taking off from the lake. But _________ of the others seem to notice, so the tiny group returns.

However, the next day they _________ again. This time a few more struggle along with them, but the vast majority still _________ no attention, so these pioneers come back.

The _________ continues for several more days. Every time a few more birds join in but, __________ the thousands of others still take no __________ , the great migration plan is once again __________.

Then one day something __________. The same small group of birds takes wing and a tiny number more join in, just as before. And this time their total number, though still quite __________, is enough to tip the balance. As one, the whole group takes flight and the migration __________ . What a __________ sight it must be – thousands of flamingos taking to the sky at once!

A few can make a __________. It’s true that all of the great problems of the world have been solved because of the __________ efforts of a few.

If you believe in a cause, don’t __________! Others will someday take notice and together we will __________ even our greatest problems.

7 . When my aunt's children were small, she decided to get them a puppy. Her neighbor's dog had given _______ to a couple of puppies a few weeks earlier and so my aunt arranged to _______ one of the puppies once they had been weaned （断奶）.

The day came to bring home the little puppy and the children were _______; they named it Shorty happily and _______ welcomed it, preparing its food and a comfortable _______ in a basket. The next day the children gave it some milk before kissing it goodbye and _______ for school. When they returned, they were _______ to discover that Shorty was missing. They _______ the whole house inch by inch, _______ it was nowhere to be found. A few hours later, the ____________ who sold them the puppy came over carrying Shorty, ____________ . He explained that the mother dog had slid into my aunt's house and carried the puppy back to his home.

For a number of days my aunt and her neighbour tried ____________ to keep the puppy in his new home, because each day the mother dog would ____________ it from the tiny bed. Finally, my aunt's neighbour gave up and offered her a refund （退款）

I came to realize that mother's love is flowing all over the places you can imagine , ____________ in the kingdom of animals. By the way, if you would like to keep a puppy as a ____________ you might as well keep the mother dog at a distance.

8 . Recently I have taken a vacation at the eastern end of Ocean Isle Beach, a small town on North Carolina southern coast. It is ______ the mainland by the Atlantic Coastal W aterway. It’s a pleasant seaside town. From my point of view, there were no ______ that the sea here might not always be the______ neighbor.

______, a short walk along the beach quickly provided a different______. Just a few dozen yards away, huge sandbags were______, guarding a number of homes from the sea. As I______ walking, I soon found myself in front of homes that were built actually above the waves at high tide.

I passed a woman walking her dog and asked her about the______.“There used to be two streets of houses in front of these homes,”she told me.“Now, they are oceanfront.”

It ______ the homes at the east end of Ocean Isle Beach were victims of coastal erosion, which is ______ at most beaches in North Carolina and through the world. An eroding beach can ______ several feet of sand a year.

The case of Ocean Isle Beach ______ a key situation about sea level rise: since it occurs relatively ______, it can be easy to think it’s not______. But as climate scientist Josh Willis told me,“If you are not ______ it, you’ re just not looking in the right place.”

“Thanks to satellite______, we know that sea level is rising about 3.3 millimeters a year, a ______ that grows by another 1 millimeter per year every decade or so,” Willis said. “We can’t really ______ a few millimeters of sea level rise a year just by looking at the______ because of waves, tides, etc, but we can definitely see the______ of it both in the short and long term.”

9 . When I first came to Rochester from Austin, Texas — a place where fall is practically non-existent — I was excited for a real northern fall. But, I wasn’t _________ it to feel like Christmas in October.

Regardless of this _________, and the adjustment period that I’m not entirely sure I’m _________, I am thankful to be somewhere that has a _________ fall. By “real” I _________ a distinctive season, a(n) _________ in the weather and a visual changing of the world around me. The leaves _________ colors, it rains more often, the air is almost always _________ and dry, and a light breeze _________ me to walk a bit faster to get inside. Yes, it is more difficult to be __________ outside in a Rochester fall — where it isn’t just “less hot” but __________, fairly cold. But, I would argue that time spent outside in this season could be more __________ than in the summer.

Everyone __________ that fall is about change — I won’t argue against that. Things do __________ in the fall — the weather is __________ becoming worse and worse, the dying leaves become warmly colored, and __________ you know it, we’ll be back to having only eight hours of sunlight a day.

This oncoming change is why I think it is so important to __________ fall. Fall is not just about the __________ of change, but also appreciating what will soon be __________. Go __________ this fall. Enjoy the leaves not because they are turning beautiful deep shades of orange and red, but because there will soon be no leaves in those branches at all.

10 . One day, I was eating an apple when suddenly, I felt an apple seed in my mouth. I wanted to throw it away. But_________, I looked at the apple seed -really looked. It was dark brown, almost black. Its shape_________me of a candle flame. A little dark brown candle flame...

I realized I was_________an apple tree in my hand-a little seed with the_________to become a beautiful tree and_________thousands of fruits and seeds, each able to grow a new tree again._________then, wasn't the world filled with apple trees?

It is a（n）_________of nature that only a few of these seeds grow. Most_________do or are destroyed early on in their growth. I put the apple seed on the table and bent down to_________how the light was reflected from it, this tiny wonder of nature. I wondered, how many seeds would a farmer have to____________for one seed to grow into a tree? How much____________would it require?

Then it occurred to me that it's quite often so with people's____________. Wonderful ideas come to our minds but they____________too soon. We don't protect them as we should. And then one day we____________why our dreams never come true. The seeds of our dreams could never____________on their own. Like the planting of an apple tree, it might take many____________-such as the application sent a hundred times for that one good job,____________the many people you meet in life before a true friend can be____________.

I picked up the apple seed again -but instead of____________it away 1 took an empty flower pot, poured some earth into it and____________the seed. I thought that maybe one day it would grow into a proud tree, and I would never know if I didn't try.