1 . When I was a little boy, my parents and I lived in my grandma’s old house. It was ______ by four huge vegetable gardens. In the spring and summer, it was so______ there with some colorful flowers. That wasn’t all, though.

On the back porch Grandma had dozens of potted plants. She watered them, talked to them and ______ them. And in the winter she would ______ them all inside and set them on shelves near the ______ to get some light. There with a lot of love she kept them growing even during the ______ months.

As a boy I was ______ by all the hard work she put into them. I ______ the vegetables she grew, as they helped to ______ the family all winter long. However, I couldn’t understand why she put so much ______ into looking after those potted plants. They didn’t ______ us any food and they rarely had any flowers. It ______ a mystery (奥秘) to me for a long time.

Now as a(n) ______, I can finally understand why Grandma had those potted plants. It is the ______ reason I have so many pictures of sunrises and forests hanging in my house. They tell me that light, love, and growth still ______ during the dark winter. They make me know that spring will come again and that’s what I always say to my son.

Today I ______ Grandma’s potted plants in a new light. Every bit of her ______ for them is worth it. But my greatest ______ of light and love is Grandma herself. She is light to my soul ______ in the darkest times. And her love will live ______ though she passed away years ago.

2 . A 3-year-old boy who was lost in the woods for 3 days is now safe at home. But Casey told his parents that he was not ________ in the rainy, freezing cold woods. He said he was with a friend — a ________.

The child went ________ on January 22 while playing with friends at his grandmother’s house. When the other children ________ to the house and Casey didn’t, hundreds of people ________ the search. Then on January 24, someone called the police saying he heard a child ________ in the woods. The police then found Casey at night. He was in good health. After being ________ carefully by the doctor, Casey was sent home with slight ________.

Casey told the police that he had ________ with a black bear for two days and he called it his “________”. His mother told reporters that Casey did not say how he was able to ________ in the woods for three days. ________, she said, “He did say he had a friend in the woods, a bear, with him.” His mother ________ everyone who joined the search for her son. “We just want to tell everybody that we’re very thankful that you took the ________ out to search for Casey,” said his mother. “He is good. He’s already asked to ________ online cartoons.”

5 . It was 1:20 a. m. I had just gone to bed, a bit _________ after celebrating my 31st birthday. Before dinner, I’d placed _________ outside my garden door and prepared the cell phone just _________. After all, it had been _________ that week, resulting in flood warnings.

I was awakened by the _________ of rushing water. When I swung my legs off the bed, I was shocked to feel cold water already up to my knees and _________ fast.

Shaking in darkness, I _________ my phone and turned on its flashlight. Then by the light I could _________ water was from the garden door. It must have breached (在……上) the sandbags. The river, usually such a quiet, slow moving river in my region, had _________ burst its banks. And now I had to __________!

I took __________ action. Any effects of the alcohol before sleep were gone;__________ sobers (使清醒) one up. After I went outside, I learned the river had flooded the neighbourhood. Therefore, if I had woken up just a few minutes later, I would have drowned.

In the end, I think the experience made me __________ and determined to live each day to its fullest. I came very close to drowning that day. But rather than dwell on (沉湎于)what happened, I prefer to __________ what my mother told me afterwards, “Don’t remember the day when you lost everything. Remember the day you __________. That day marked the beginning of a new chapter in your life.”

6 . Two hundred years ago the English poet William Wordsworth wrote I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, a poem that was _______ when he came across a field of daffodils (水仙花). It expresses a basic spirit of early English Romanticism.

What makes this poem a (n) _______ of Romantic thinking? It isn’t that Wordsworth chooses to write about a natural _______: it is the way he describes the scene as if it had human _______. For him, _______ is not only a neutral (无感情色彩的) mixture of scenery, colors, plants, rocks, soil, water and air. It is a living force that feels joy and sadness and even tries to _______ us human beings and show us the beauty of life.

Wordsworth’s home is now one of the most popular _______ in the Lake District. You can go on a tour of the garden where wild flowers still survive now regardless of the change of the _______. The place, where Wordsworth saw the daffodils, is at the southernmost end of the lake. When you are walking in the _______ of William from two centuries ago, the first group of daffodils ________, but they aren’t tall yellow trumpets (小号状的花) proudly swinging in the gentle wind as ________ in Wordsworth’s poem. They are just tiny wild daffodils grouped around individual trees rather than ________ together. But as you look north, from beside a huge ancient oak tree, you ________ this is what delighted Wordsworth; group after group of daffodils, spread out to left and right but coming together in your ________ so that they form a beautiful, pale yellow carpet. What you’re seeing at last is nature transformed by human sight and ________.

8 . I took a job as a receptionist for a pet doctor nearly five decades ago. As an animal lover, I accepted the ___________ on condition that I wouldn’t have to help any wounded animals. I couldn’t bear to see any creature in ___________.

At the end of my first week, we were closing the office for the day ___________ a young man ran up to us. Holding a severely ___________ Doberman pinscher puppy in his arms, ___________ us to save his life. The two-month-old puppy had been hit by a car. The doctor and I ran back into the ___________ room. The doctor worked ___________ for what seemed like hours stitching him back together again. It was the easiest part. The puppy had ___________ many bones, including his backbone. Even if he ___________ the next few days, we were quite sure he would never walk again.

That day forever ____________ my life. The doctor guided me, and I became his ____________ in all things medical. One of my first jobs was to give that Doberman puppy daily physical treatment. I remember moving his ____________ legs to try to keep his muscles from weakening. Weeks went by until one day, I felt this little ____________ push back ever so slightly. And he continued to push back till he could finally use his legs.

Fast-forward about a year, I walked into the clinic’s crowded waiting room and called the name of the next client. ____________, a huge Doberman standing quietly on the opposite side of the room broke away from its owner and rushed toward me. I found myself ____________ against the wall with this huge dog ____________on his back legs, his front paws on my shoulders, washing my face with countless and joyful kisses!

I am still in amazement at the show of love and ____________ the dog had for me that day all those years ago. I went on to be a pet doctor for the following years until ____________. In all the time that has ____________ and all the experiences I have had, I’ve ____________ met a dog who didn’t know it had been rescued in one way or another.

10 . Sea turtles are considered a national treasure in Sri Lanka. However, in recent years, the sea turtles have faced great _________.

Growing up on the beach, Chamara Indika, 35, was _________ about it. In the beginning, he _________himself to the protection of sea turtles as a volunteer. He gave his spare time to raise _________ of caring for sea turtles and caried out sea turtle protection and rescue missions.

Later, he decided that this was not a long-term _________ . “One person’s abilities are very _________ and I wanted to make real changes,” said Indika._________, Jack Xiao, the founder of Chinese YIK International Volunteers (YIKIV), reached out to Indika and offered his help to protect sea turtles. With his assistance, Indika set up the Nil Manel Foundation in Sri Lanka.

The organization _________ professional training and guidance for the volunteers, spreads knowledge of turtle and carries out conservation activities. Volunteers can then work to spread their new knowledge to more people.

At first, the volunteers’ main job was to rescue and care for _________ turtles locally. Then they found people and animals eat turtle eggs on the beach. So volunteers started __________ eggs to a protection center with artificial cultivation. It __________ higher survival rates.

Thanks to their efforts, the survival rate of newborn turtles has reached new highs, and conservation awareness has also increased. Many volunteers now __________ to use straws and plastic bags which cause many turtles to die accidentally.

“It made me feel that all my work had __________. But it was not enough to rely on myself and the current volunteers. It would be important to __________ this knowledge down to future generations,” said Indika. With persistence and hard work, Indika firmly believes they will make a(n)__________ to the sea turtles.