1 . A forest after a wildfire

Throughout my career, I’ve had many chances to enter various wildfire areas. But I’ve ________ had the opportunity to see the immediate scene after a fire.

So when I ________ into a recently burned forest, my first reaction was the deathly ________ hung in the air. There were no birds, no breeze caught in the leaves of a tree, or animal noises. It felt as if life itself had totally ________ from this place. What was even worse, the burned-out forest meant that a large amount of ________ alongside the road was no longer ________ by the under-growth (灌木丛) . Oil cans, glass, plastic bags—you name it, and you can find it.

Knowing there was a story here that needed ________ , I raised my camera with a heavy heart, no matter how ________ . Photographing burned-out areas is ________ , since there is really only a bunch of burned-out wood. Through my lenses, I sought to connect viewers to the ________ of the disaster.

For a nature photographer passionate about environmental protection, it’s important to ________ the ugly as well as the beautiful. We need to put those two things together, so while ________ hope, we are aware of what has been taken from us, and how ________ that loss can be. Without that balance, we risk becoming used to a world shaped by destruction and not the one of ________ . Nature will regenerate, but now, we must consider what ________ we humans play in that process, too.

2 . When I first read the wonderful book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, I was in Grade 9. I came to know about it from my sister. When I came to Grade 10, I started _______ what I learned from the _______ to my daily life. I have many _______ in my life, and my biggest one was to be a member of our school football team. So I started _______ the scene of being allowed to join the _______ that I had been dreaming about.

Then the day came that my first round to _______ the football team was going to happen. The result came out but _______ I did not succeed in the first round. I was feeling a bit depressed (沮丧) due to much time I spent preparing for it. But, soon I tried to find a(n) _______. I waited for the second round. Deep inside my mind, I was quite sure that I was going to be a _______ because I had always ________ one particular teaching from the book. That is when something bad happens, something ________ will surely happen.

After six months, the second round was ________ and it became the best day of my life because I had ________ my dream.

From my ________, the really important things to be noted are to hold on to your dreams and you must have ________ in your ability.

3 . As a little kid, I was addicted to math. Since my father was often doing math with my elder sister, I ________ some things by listening in on them. One of those things I learned ________ was adding a whole three numbers at once!

When it came time for the ________ to learn the same thing, our teacher ________ us to add all numbers in the ones column (个位数), then the tens, etc. However, I always added the numbers by adding the first two, then writing the third number under the sum (总和) of the first two and adding those. The ________ worked fine. So I chose to keep doing things the way my ________ had taught me.

One day, the teacher had ________ written on the board and she called four students up to ________ the problems at the same time in front of the class. I was on the far end, away from the teacher, but I felt ________ as she would catch me doing things the “wrong” way. So I did things my way, put the answer, and ________ erased my work.

She ________ nothing unusual. When she got to me she agreed that the answer was right, but I needed to do my work again in front of the class with her watching me. ________, I honestly expected a scolding (责骂) for my wrongdoing. Instead, she seemed ________ and asked me to ________ my way to the class. She told me that was a better way and she was happy with kids doing math however they wanted as long as they got the right ________.

4 . Kishwar Chowdhury, who has won millions of hearts with her native food, came a long way from being a home chef to a Masterchef Australia (Australia’s cooking show) finalist, wining the judges with Bengali food.

The 38-year-old has quite a _________ background to the cooking industry. Kishwar was born and brought up in Melbourne. According to her education, she completed her graduation in Australia, and after that, she _________ her post-graduation degree in London. Then she took up a part-time job in Germany followed by which she _________ six years in Bangladesh _________ her own business there and became a successful business owner. Because of her _________ in cooking, her family encouraged her to take part in the Masterchef Australia competition and became the _________.

She had cooked a _________ range of Bengali dishes, leaving the recipes on the world map by _________ world - class judges. In her finale, Kishwar _________ Panta Bhaat and Aloo Bharta which is basically a poor man’s food made of __________ rice and never found in any restaurant. This very choice has made every Bengali across the borders __________. Kishwar dreams to write a cookbook on Bengali __________. She hopes to __________ Bengali food to the coming __________. She is hereto __________ Bengali cuisine and bring light to it in the Australian audience and also around the world.

5 . At rush hour, as the highway to Mexico City is crowded with fast buses and cars, Manuel Amador is going the other _______ .

His destination is Ecatepec, a neighbourhood with a population of 1.7 million, an hour’s ride outside the capital. It’s where he has been ______ for nearly 10 years. And it’s one of the country’s most ______ places to be a woman.

Mexico estimates a(n) ______ in Mexico in femicide, or the murder of women for being women, and the state where Ecatepec sits is one of the hot spots. More than 92% of the people living in the community say they feel ______, according to a recent survey.

Mr. Amador says he was ______ and angry when he heard his students talk about the extreme ______ and fear and how no one seemed to ______ out against it. So he did something. In his extracurricular workshops, whose ______ has grown beyond school ______, he helps students   ______ performance art to oppose the ______ many people feel about the deaths and _______ .

“Here I feel good, because this is the first man, or ______ the first man I know, who ______   this problem and tries to solve it,” says a student named Jasmin. “He’s not like other men who say, ‘Here they go again with their sermons (说教).’”

6 . Howard walked across the vast desert planning to walk through it for one month. Twenty_________passed, the journey had been so_________and it seemed that he had enough food and water to finish it.

“I’ll be able to walk out of this_________, " he thought gladly. But the desert_________cared for travelers. _________this idea could disappear, the sandstorm had arrived suddenly. He hurriedly_________his head with the clothes, lying on the sand. After about ten minutes, the sandstorm stopped. When he shook the clothes and stood up, he found a horrible thing: the back bag_________with food and water was swept away by the_________.

Now, he only had a (n)________left. He held it in his hands tightly. “Oh, not too bad,_________I have a pear, " he thought__________himself, determined to walk out of the desert.

One day and one night passed quickly , but the desert still seemed to have no end, and hunger, thirst and__________of death followed Howard closely.__________, each time he wanted to__________, he forced himself to stare at the pear that he had been__________: “ Not too bad, at least I have a pear.”

A small pear became the__________for his survival and the source of his courage. Three days later, __________he saw a village not far away, he fell onto the ground, but after all, he walked out of the desert and__________as well.

To keep hope is one of the best ways to achieve__________, so never tell you“__________left”，because as long as you try to search, you can always find that “pear” to pull you through.

7 . Long ago there lived a wise man who worked hard. _________, his son was lazy and did nothing at all.

The wise man was _________ about his son’s future. One day, he asked his son to go to a faraway place to find some treasure. Then he _________ his son a map.

The next day the son left _________ the map. Along the way, he met lots of _________, but he overcame them. After a long year, he _________ the place his father said. He spent a week _________ the treasure everywhere, but didn’t find _________.

He was disappointed and decided to return home. On his way _________, he experienced the same scenery. Sometimes, he __________ to enjoy the beauty of nature. He also learned to hunt __________ make meals. He was now able to tell __________ by the position of the sun during a day. He met those __________ people who had helped him earlier. This time, he stayed and helped them.

When he got home, he said __________ to his father for finding nothing.

“There wasn’t any treasure in that place, my dear son,” the father said __________, “But I think you have found you own future path.”