1 . Jane had lived her entire life in a small town. While she had spent decades dreaming about_________,she never took action to make it happen.

On her 65th birthday, Jane made a brave decision. She sold all her _______and with a back-pack, she set off. The first days on the road were _______—she felt like she finally lived the life she had always_________.

Yet, after a few weeks, she began feeling _________. With each new step, her legs hurt more and more. _________,she slammed (怒摔) her backpack on the ground and sat down with tears. Staring hopelessly into the road ahead, she shouted loudly. “I have nothing left in my life!”

It _______ that a life adviser heard her words. He decided to help her, so he caught hold of her backpack and _______quickly. Shocked and in complete sadness, Jane cried more loudly. “That backpack was all I had. Now everything is_________.”

About twenty minutes later, she collected her________,and slowly walked forward. Then ________, she saw her backpack on the road n short distance ahead of her. She was so__________that she couldn’t help exclaiming (喊叫),“Oh, thank heavens! Now I can continue onward.”

As we journey through our lives, we may________ incredible disappointments. During this time, it seems we’ve lost everything. __________, actually, we are holding a backpack of support.

So don’t lose ________. Keep going, and you’ll achieve your dream.

2 . When Anika Puri visited India with her family years ago, she was surprised to come across a market in Bombay filled with rows of ivory jewelry (象牙饰品) and statues. _________, ivory trade has been illegal for more than 30 years, and elephant hunting has been___________India since the 1970s.

“I was quite ___________ ,” the 17-year-old recalls. “Because poaching (偷猎) is illegal, how come it is still such a big issue? ”

Curious, Puri did some research and discovered a shocking___________: Africa’s forest elephant population had ___________by about 62 percent between 2002 and 2011. Years later, the numbers continued to drop. Puri, a wildlife lover, wanted to do something to help protect the species and others still___________by poaching.

Over the course of two years, Puri___________EISa, a low-cost product of a machine learning-driven software that___________movement patterns in thermal infrared (热红外) videos of humans and___________. The software is four times more____________than the existing most advanced uses a $250 FLIRONE Pro thermal camera with 206 *resolution (分辨率) that plugs into an off-the-shelf iPhone 6. The camera and iPhone are then____________to a drone (无人机), and the system____________real-time inferences as it flies over parks as to whether____________below are humans or elephants.

Its potential impact on society earned her the Peggy Scripps Award for Science Communication. “____________isn’t a straight line,” Puri says. “It makes me resourceful. It helps me____________a more creative thinker.”

4 . About a year ago, my department invited me to submit a 5-minute video clip about my research laboratory to be screened at a secondary-school summer camp. With many ________ under my belt (已获得的) after five years as a main investigator, I was quite ________ about getting this ________.

Three seconds into ________ myself on my phone in my office, I realized that I had been too ________. I had to press ‘Pause’ ________ I couldn’t help looking around the room. And while watching myself on camera, I couldn’t obtain the excitement I brought to the classroom—all my ________ trained teaching method didn’t work well for a video clip. Admitting that my acting career had ________ a wall, I decided to ________ to a directing role and asked my graduate students to help me to film and present the video.

The 5-minute clip ________ taking 2 hours to finish, but it was so well received by the audience that it ________ me to create an account on Bilibili, one of the leading video-sharing websites in China. I got my lab to ________ making short films in Chinese on the main topics of our ________, which include digital fabrication (数字制造) in architecture and adaptive structures that can respond to stimuli (刺激物). In the nine or so months since I created that ________, our lab videos have attracted more than 20,000 subscribers and received nearly 3 million ________, mainly in China.

5 . It’s 1:30 am in Kenya’s populated north, and 50 people are lying on their backs on the shore of a dried-up river, staring up at the night sky. These stargazers have travelled 250 miles to Samburu to _________ the Perseid meteor shower(英仙座流星雨). They are not _________: Every few minutes, arrows of light shoot _________ the sky like silent fireworks.

The Star Safari is organized by a Kenyan astronomer(天文学家), Susan Murabana, who has brought a 50 kg, 170 cm-long _________to allow the group to view Mars and deep-sky objects. But here in Samburu, where _________ pollution is minimal, the Perseid meteors — visible with the naked eye (裸眼) — _________ all the right boxes.

Every two months, Murabana and her husband put their equipment on to the _________ of their truck and _________ to rural communities, where they help up to 300 children to view the planets and learn about constellations(星座) and the _________ of astronomy. Her primary mission is to give __________ an opportunity that she wishes had been available to her.

“There is a common misconception in Kenya that astronomy in general is hard, boring, and only for boys,” she adds. “I’d like to __________ young ladies that it’s not right and that they, too, can become astronomers,” says Murabana.

“When I started this work, I was a lone ranger and I wanted to change that.” She says. __________by a similar outreach activity, which lighted her __________ for astronomy in her early 20s, Murabana set up her own outreach program after her online master’s degree in astronomy in 2011.

She __________ Dr Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space, as a role model. “I hope that one day, those small actions can make a butterfly effect that __________ the first African woman in space.”

6 . Lucky Candy grocery store (杂货店) held a challenge game for its customers in the neighborhood. The _______ is simple: answer a math question — say, what’s 8×8+50? — and you’ll get five seconds to take as much as you can from the store, all for _______ .

For Ahmed Alwan, 23, joy is as important as breakfast, but his regular customers sometimes _______ for both. So he came up with a clever way to _______ his customers’ days. “I’ve grown up in the neighborhood,” he says. “I know most of them don’t have much money, and sometimes they need _______.”

Lucky Candy is located on a busy street in the Bronx, known as a food _______ , where people are badly in need of affordable, healthy food. Many residents depend on neighborhood shops for their daily _______ .

When kids get an answer right, one of two things _______ happens. Some kids rushed for the candy and who could blame them? Others take things like rice and potatoes, clearly thinking of their _______ at home.

“The store is doing something ________ to many,” a customer told Inside Edition. “Many people here don’t even have anything. A chance to get free stuff like this means a lot.”

Alwan ________ this challenge game with his own monthly pay. And his boss, also his father Aobad, doesn’t ________ offering help, too. As an immigrant (移民), Aobad knows that in one of the ________ and most competitive places in the U.S., a little help goes a(n) ________ way.

“This greatly changed our community,” says Alwan. “They’re showing so much love and care — they’re ________ at the store for a chance to play. No pushing or shouting.”