1 . Despite growing up so close to Jersey Shore, I _________went to the beach:I know,very un -Jersian of me. However, when I do _________to go to the beach, it is to fulfill my mission on Earth.

On most days that I choose to go to the beach, there is a__________beach clean-up. My friends and I are placed in a group together and then we start to work. Even the smallest bit of trash can end up _________an innocent creature, so we are always extra careful when assigned a specific area. I remember _________all sorts of trash. For example, once I found an old dog leash; well, I guess that dog is long gone, but the leash _________With a trash bag in my left hand and a glove on my right, my _________days were filled with doing semi-squats and talking with my friends as we went along.Step by step,we _________anything that did not _________the beautiful beach scenes we kept in our minds. Sometimes, we turned back and__________the complete clean sweep that we had left behind us. What was once filled with trash, was now gleaming flawlessly under the sun.

Even if I only get to spend 10 hours on the beach per year, I want to make the most out of that time. Yes,I do _________the shore with my family and friends. However, just seeing _________rows of trash lined up near the boardwalk ________ the fun.The beach has given me so many memories since early childhood, and now it is my time to return the__________and do what I can to reverse the environmental_________.

2 . One day, Phosphorus (启明星) felt sad. She felt she was very small and ordinary while other stars in the sky were _______ and brighter. She sat in the night sky, crying.

“Why are you so _______?” the Moon came and asked her one night. “I am too small,” she cried, “Why was I born like this? Almost no one _______ me.” The Moon said to her, “Not really. Sometimes being bigger doesn’t mean being better.” But this didn’t _______, and Phosphorus was still not happy all the time.

Seeing this, the North Star came to her and asked for the _______. It was the same question and the same _______ and Phosphorus was still in the same situation.

Then the Sun knew this and decided to _______ her. She stared at her, saying, “Hey, it is _______ that I am the biggest and brightest star in the sky. But you are also important to the sky because you are very beautiful. I am so big and bright that I _______ people’s eyes. On the other hand, you can be gazed (凝视) upon to admire your ________. You tell the ________ of a new day to the world. No one can ________ you.”

This time, Phosphorus thought and thought. Suddenly, she didn’t feel herself ________ and began to understand her value. She twinkled ________ in the night sky.

Dear friends, just like Phosphorus, most of us are little stars, but we should find a(n) ________ for ourselves.

3 . I'll never forget the day Marilyn came in my office. She said, “I am too old to learn how to use a computer.” I _______ my head in disbelief.

Here is a woman who has raised 6 children, who has _______ smoothly in her career telling me that she was too old to learn something _______！ My own philosophy on life is that you are NEVER too old to learn. Having new knowledge is a(n) _______ and can open new doors.

Needless to say, she did learn how to _______ the computer! Marilyn is now retired and leading a very _______ life volunteering in her community. She helps anyone who needs help and is using her computer skills! This woman has all amazing talent _______ making people laugh and feel at ease.

Now she is well into her 60s and she calls me and says she is going to make a CD. You can _______ my surprise and delight！！ All her life she has played the _______ and taught others. Now she has her own CD. My mind ________ back to the day when she told me she was too old to learn！！！！

To produce the CD, she had a lot of learning to do. It was not just sitting at the piano and playing. She had to research the ________, learn about copyright issues, and learn about marketing. Pretty amazing for someone who once said she was too old to learn!

Marilyn's story ________ my beliefs that no matter what your ________， you can learn and do whatever you set your mind on. Congratulations to you, Marilyn; you are a(n) ________！

It is my hope of ________ Marilyn's story with you. And it will inspire you to take action to learn and do the thing that you have thought about but have never done!

4 . I remember it as if it were yesterday.I was 11 then,thinking,if my parents weren't going to tell me,I would _________what was going on myself.I slowly walked up to my teacher and asked, ＂Mrs.Marcus,do you know what prostate cancer is?"She looked at me in ________,“Why do you ask, Rachel?" I responded,"I _________my parents talking about it.”

Mrs.Marcus taught us health and nutrition.If there was anyone who had information on the topic,it was her.The next day,she _________me an envelope in which was an article that answered my question.I read the article and learned it was a cancer with a low survival rate as it was__________found early on.

My father had gone for a yearly check-up.Results came back and everything looked great.He looked at the reports and saw that some levels were _________elevated(升高），yet still within the normal _________

However,I was determined to talk with him seriously after careful ________.I told him,＂You'd better check again just to be_________.These levels aren't concerning,but you know..."＂Why not?"That"why not"_________my father to live for another 22 years.It _________my father did have early prostate cancer.In addition to traditional medicine,my parents tried every type of _________treatment they could get their hands on. _________,he chose to operate.The operation proved successful and just weeks after they__________the cancer,my father went skiing all day long.

I couldn't imagine what would have occurred if the borderline results had been ignored. With time, I understood , realizing my dad had cancer as a child was challenging and _________the way I view health.

5 . “I’m bored.” You may turn your nose up at the words when a child says so. In fact, boredom is generally viewed as an unpleasant _________ state. How can anyone _________ boredom when there’s so much that can and should be done?

But boredom is _________ to experience. _________ the lesson most adults tell you — boredom is for boring people — boredom is useful. It’s good for you.

If kids don’t _________ this out early on, they’re in for a not-so-pleasant surprise in the future. Life isn’t meant to be full of _________. “That’s right,” a mother says to her daughter in the novel Where’d You Go, Bernadette. “You are bored. And I’m going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it’s boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The _________ you learn it’s on you to make life interesting, the better off you’ll be.”

People used to accept that much of life was boring. _________ things happen when you’re bored. Once you’ve truly felt bored, you find yourself _________ to discovery. This is why so many useful ideas occur in the shower, when you’re held captive to a routine activity. You let your mind wander and __________ it where it goes.

Of course, it’s not really the boredom itself that’s important; it’s what we __________   it. When you reach your breaking point, boredom teaches you to make something happen for yourself.

Teaching children to __________ boredom will prepare them for a more realistic future. One day, __________ in a job they otherwise love, our kids may have to spend an entire day answering Friday’s leftover email. This sound boring, you might conclude. It sounds like __________, and it sounds like life. Perhaps we should get used to boredom again, and use it to our __________.

6 . My adviser interviewed me over the phone. He _________ my undergraduate record and thought I had a graduate degree.

Therefore, I was _________to the Ph.D.program. He welcomed me into his lab even after knowing the _________.

I began to get into a running start. I_________myself into reading every paper found and testing scientific questions. But four years later, I felt lost because I _________passed my qualifying exam. Then a friend asked me to volunteer as a barman at a gala (盛会). I was _________at first, having never worked behind a bar, _________ I said yes in the end. I spent an evening _________cutting fruit and doing other unskilled tasks. I was tired but also felt unbelievable - surprising how much_________I had.

Later, I realized the reason why I enjoyed this experience so much was that the __________of this job were exactly what I was __________from my Ph. D. program. It was only physically tiring, for the tasks I did were __________. At that point, I had not had a pause in __________as hard as I could for four years, and I was completely __________of the toll (损害)it was taking on my spirit. Since then,I've tried to give my mind more __________.

7 . Every year on my mother's birthday I will think of the same story in my heart, the story of repairing a relationship and building bridge.

I had many________ with my mother while I was growing up. After I was married for a few years my mother invited me to meet her for lunch. It sounded serious but I was a dutiful daughter and of course I said yes. ________having a discussion about something I did wrong or something she didn't like or something she wanted me to change as before, she asked me if I wanted to be her friend. I Was ________ . We'd been more like enemies than________   I responded with yes since I Always________ a friendly relationship.

Our relationship ________ for many reasons but there was really only one at the core. Our perception(观念) of each other was skewed (有偏颇) by________

There were many things we needed to do to repair our relationship but it began with these two-- question and listening: questions like “What were you thinking when you ...” or “Why did you do ... ”and listening that didn't lead to________   , but accepting the other's view as their truth.

We explained how we felt when the other had done certain things we were hurt, angry or upset about. We both held the same goal of________ so we didn't hold anything back and were especially ________

We saw trust in each other's eyes through the sharing. I felt a beautiful hope rising in my heart like the golden sun rises over the ocean. Our misunderstandings were ________ and trust grew. My mother and I became extremely ________ and it all began with a simple ________

Our relationship suffered________my mother and I shared our different views and ________. Perception is powerful and changes everything.

8 . My life as a tax-paying employed person began in middle school, when, for three whole days, I worked in a baking factory.

My best friend Betsy’s father was a manager at Hough Bakeries, which, at Easter time, _________ little bunny (兔子) cakes for all its _________throughout Cleveland. It happened that the plant downtown needed eight kids for _________ help during our spring break, for which I had no_________ beyond listening to my favorite records. I’d _________ minimum wage. I’d see how a factory_________. My parents thought all of this was a grand idea and called Betsy’s dad with their _________.

Our_________in the factory were simple: Place cakes on a moving belt. Attach icing (糖霜) ears. Apply icing eyes and nose._________ bunny from the belt. This was ____________ than it sounds.____________ a bit and the cakes pile up. As I told my parents at dinner that first night, it was all a little more high-pressure than I’d   ____________ .

Dad __________. The son of a grocer, he’d spent the summers of his childhood____________ food in Benardsville, New Jersey. This was the sort of work that made you____________ the dollars you earned and respect those who did the work, he told me.

9 . Allamby started his auto-repair business at the age of 19. Over the years it had grown into two shops, but Allamby______something more. At first, he thought it must have to do with______his business. So at age 34, he______to go for his bachelor’s degree in business management.

After taking classes part-time over the next five years, Allamby was told he had to take biology to get his______. Attending biology class reawakened his______dream. “After the first day, I remembered the feeling of wanting to be a doctor______when I was younger,” Allamby says.

So a______Allamby walked into that biology class at age 39. He was______to live his dream. With the______of his family, he decided to______business school. Instead, he took the science classes he’d need for a second______as a doctor. And so in 2015, Allamby cut______with his past. He sold off his two shops. Then he started at Medical University.

In 2019, at age 47, Allamby______Allamby, MD (医学博士). He took a job in emergency medicine at Cleveland Clinic Akron General.

It’s a small______to pay for the life Allamby now gets to lead, but he finds his true direction halfway in life. So it’s really never too late for one to ______ his dream.

10 . My mother always made sure that walnuts (胡桃), oranges and chocolate were in the Christmas stockings for the six of us. They were a ________ memory for me, so I continued the ________ when I grew up.

One year, I ________ that I had already put the chocolate in the stockings. On Christmas Eve, we were hosting our extended families’ annual Christmas party, ________ I decided to hang the stockings on the shelf above the ________ to make it look like a picture-perfect holiday. I had considerable praise for my decorating and the food I ________. We had a great family gathering with a beautiful lit fireplace.

Christmas morning, after the ________ of the night before, the children and I ________ to a quite relaxing morning of juice and hot rolls. We lit the tree and candles and put on soft Christmas music. My daughter was ________ to open her stocking and handed the other to her older brother. I was thinking what a picture-perfect ________ this was turning into when my son, lying on the couch with his hand deep into his stocking looking for a Christmas ________, said, “Yuck (可恶)!” He pulled out his hand ________. Instead of a fun treasure, he came up with a handful of chocolate goo (黏糊糊的东西). His sister followed suit. “Oh, yucky!” she said. “I have it, too!”

It appeared that all the chocolate had become ________ as the stockings were hung by the hot fire. Oranges, walnuts and small gifts were all nicely ________ in chocolate.

“Mom,” they said, ________ their eyes, “only you could do something like this.”

That taught me not to try so hard to make everything “perfect”.