1 . I was nervous as I had never worked in a hospital before. However, my advisers were amazing and instantly put me _________ . From my first day, I realised that my highlighter pens were my most important _________ in understanding the information given in handover. Never did I know these pens would help make a real _________ to the care of one patient.

I was helping to look after Lily, who had _________ a total left hip (髋部) replacement. My adviser and I were _________ Lily for discharge (出院), but problems with her short-term memory meant she found it _________ to understand her prescribed medications (医嘱). Although we explained it, she was still _________ and became upset. To make it simpler, I decided to create an easy-to-understand medication _________ using my highlighter pens. I _________ all her medications, the amounts and the time of day. By spending just ten minutes creating something __________ to Lily, I made it.

When Lily received a follow-up call later, the nurse __________ a message from her, thanking me for my colour chart, which had helped her __________ . I was pleased by this: it was only a small act, but it made me realise how much the little things __________ and that you can never __________ patients fully understand what is being said. I am always happy to spend that extra few minutes to make sure a person understands what is fully __________ about their care.

2 . When it comes to my fathering lessons, few adventures compare to the motorcycle trips I’ve shared with my daughter, Ewa.

Our first_______, in August 2017, was a winding (蜿蜒的) ride around the Catskills and Finger Lake districts of New York state. We _______ big highways and spent the week on_______ scenic back roads. At one point, I found myself _______along a Catskills meadow (草地) not far from Woodstock, keeping pace with a deer and shouting, “Go Bambi, go!”

On our second day, we _______ in a small town for ice cream. I asked the woman at the picnic table next to us: “What’s the_______ of this town?” “Interlaken,” she answered.“Where are you trying to get to?”

Me: “We don’t know. ”

It _______ to me then that I’d always wanted to do this no-schedule kind of trip, when you ride just for riding. Ask any middle-aged _______: We’ve all dreamed about doing the Easy Rider (逍遥骑士) thing, throwing our wristwatches into the ditch and heading toward the horizon without a_______. Now, travelling with no plan became a________ of my rides with Ewa.

Since we almost ________ knew where we were going, we were almost never ________ when we arrived, pulling ________ the road at the end of each day with satisfaction. The reason to celebrate? We________! The truth is that life on a motorbike is one close call (死里逃生) after another. On the way, riders must stay ________ 100 percent of the time. A tiny stone can be deadly. I used to be nervous, but Ewa had a different take: “To me, motorcycling is like meditation(冥想). ”

3 . I’m standing on Rio’s beach, one of the most famous _______ of sand. In this lively, multicultural country, the beach is not just a place;it’s a state of mind—a way of thinking and living.

Every Brazilian has his or her own ideas of the perfect beach, _______ to tell you where to find it. I’m happy to take their advice but my ultimate goal is to find my own dream beach. First, I go to Prainha’s beach _______ by a row of perfect palm trees, moving softly in the ocean breeze. Its beauty is magnificent-its perfect graceful lines are like something in a _______. But for me, it’s somewhat too perfect. I am searching for something a bit _______.

I continue my search heading north to a legendary beach: Jeri. As an international destination, it attracts visitors from Tokyo to Toronto. Luckily, Jeri hasn’t been _______ by tourists mostly because of its isolated(偏远的)location—at least five hours from any airport. I take a beach buggy(沙地车), driving for three hours. The boats lie on their sides while nets _______ to dry on lines between fishermen’s houses. Peaceful and beautiful! How can it possibly get any better? I _______.

My final stop is the islands of Fernando, _______ a few hundred kilometers out in the Atlantic. They once were used as a prison and later by the army. Today, they are a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site, ________ with birds and sea life. The beach there is a perfect ________of sand, sea, and sky. The water is pale blue and warm, alive with colorful fish, ________, and other marine life; the sand is the color of ________. In the rocks and strong winds that ________ come in from the Atlantic, there is the wilderness I was seeking. Finally, I’ve found the beach of my dreams. I ________ my toes in the sand deeply and imagine I can hold on to this place forever.

4 . Once there was a little girl who had many misfortunes in life and was struggling with problems. One day she felt so upset that she couldn’t help ________ to her father why her life was so ________.

Sensing her ________, her father, a chef, took her to their ________. He asked her to just ________ till he finished everything. He filled three small pots with water and placed each on a burner. Once the water began to ________, he placed a potato, an egg, and some ground coffee beans in each pot. Curious, though, she kept ________ as her father instructed her to do so.

About twenty minutes later, he turned off the ________. The chef turned towards his daughter and said, “See, the potato went in strong and hard but in boiling water, it became soft and weak. The egg was ________, but now the egg became hard. ________, the ground coffee beans were unique. After being ________ the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.”

Seeing the little girl was still confused, he then ________, “The potato, the egg and coffee beans had each faced the same ________-the boiling water. However, each reacted ________. When hardships come your way, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?” Hearing these words, the girl made her choice inside-she would be the ________, which could not only change the whole situation but also change in its own way. After all, life is 10% what happens to you and 90%how you react to it.

5 . Billy Mills was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the Oglala Lakota people. His mother died when he was 9 years old. Hurting from the________, young Billy took up sports,________ an article that stated that Olympians are chosen by the gods.

So Billy started running. He ran his first race ________   jeans and basketball shoes. He finished dead last but fell in love with the sport. Then his father ________, and with a broken heart, he stopped running. Being orphaned at 12 and feeling ________, Billy didn’t run again ________   he reached high school.

He came out of high school with the fourth-fastest mile in the nation. He went on to the University of Kansas and ________ hard, hoping to make the Olympic team. He finished second in the trials and was on his way.

At the start of the 10, 000-meter race in that 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, Billy Mills, an orphaned boy from ________ Pine Ridge, South Dakota,________ up to run for his country, his parents, his people. As the race wore on,________   fell behind, lap (一圈) after lap, until four led the pack. With one lap to go, he was nudged out of his lane from behind, then bumped off his stride again. He was ________ at a distant fourth place.

In the last 100 meters, an unheard-of Billy Mills ________ into a dead sprint from lane four and strode his way into the ________ books with an Olympic record.

“It was ________ a belief,” Billy remembers. “Beliefs ________ us or destroy us, but we have that opportunity to create our own journey. ”

6 . Emily Bhatnagar has always found comfort reading. When she’s struggling with anxiety and depression, she turns to ________. So when she ________ saw a text message on her father’s phone informing relatives he had stage 4 thyroid (甲状腺) cancer she hid her ________ with the one thing she’s always found comfort in. But this time, she went a little further.

At the age of 17, Emily ________ a neighborhood book activity. She decided she’d ________ the books to children who were also facing health scares. “I thought to myself, I’m only a(n) ________.What can I do? I am not a doctor. I can’t save lives, but I can hopefully make them a little bit ________.” says the teen. “I was drowning in ________ when my dad was diagnosed. Thinking of these little children ________ the same thing as my dad was ________.”

This was July 2021. Her original goal was to ________ books for children undergoing cancer treatment, but she’s ________ it to all patients under 18. She called her effort For Love and Buttercup (金凤花), and launched it with a ________ for book donations on neighborhood app Nextdoor. “Buttercup flowers represent childlike innocence and fun that a lot of these kids don’t get to experience. It’s what I hope they ________ when they open my books,” she says.

The neighborhood book activity that began with a lone teen has grown into a nationwide one. And Emily, now 19, says it’s given her and her father a ________ distraction that allows them to cure together.

7 . Last year my daughter started feeding a homeless cat that we named Miss Alice. Since then, things have_________. First two other homeless cats that we named Garfield and Tang also showed up, wanting to be__________ . Some days later, the local __________noticed them and started flying down to enjoy any leftover cat food after those three had finished__________. Everything was going well. Now my daughter is like a Disney princess. Anytime she walks outside, the __________ gather around.

My daughter always treats them equally with care. The only one who seems ____________with this new arrangement is Miss Alice. She keeps __________the other two cats away from the food. The other day when I walked over to my daughter’ s house, Alice came up meowing(喵喵叫) asking to be___________. While I was touching her head and___________her back, Garfield and Tang also meowed for attention. But Miss Alice scared them away. She wasn’t___________to share anything about me.

The thing that Miss Alice___________understands is something that has taken me years to learn, too. It is the truth that the more love we share and___________ ,the more love we have. Some __________ people like my daughter seem to know a lot about___________. It is in sharing love that we can make__________with the world. It is in love that we support each other. May we all learn this even if poor Miss Alice never does.

8 . I had a wonderful Easter (复活节) when I was four years old. On Easter morning, there was a _________ to find Easter eggs.

“We will get an egg, right?” I asked my mom. “Yes, of course,” she replied, with a _________ smile.

The staff member in charge of the hunt _________ that when she yelled “Go”, the hunt would begin. “Get ready!” the staff member yelled. “We are starting in 3…2…1…GO!”

Kids rushed across the lawn (草坪), _________ from one tree to another searching for the plastic Easter eggs filled with candy. Ten minutes passed but I had nothing to _________. I looked across the lawn and saw the other kids _________ holding up their plastic eggs and knew my chance of finding even one egg was getting _________. Just then my mom pointed to a tree across the lawn. “Look! There’s one!”

A shiny blue plastic egg was resting on the ground _________ the base of the tree. I looked up at my mom in _________. However, instead of smiling back at me, she was turning to the left, in the __________ of another mom. The two moms were alternating (交互的) between __________ at each other and at what appeared to be the last Easter egg.

I hadn’t seen my mom run before that day. She had been born with __________ knees and when she was in elementary school she had worn special shoes to __________ a foot problem.

The other mom also ran toward the shiny blue egg. In one last __________ of speed, my mother reached the tree, bent down and __________ the egg. “Yay! I got an egg!” I shouted in excitement.

9 . Do you often feel tired in the morning even though you’ve been in bed for seven or eight hours the night before. Like many people, you are not sleeping as much as you think you are. ________, your sleep efficiency is not that good.

Sleep experts_______ “sleep efficiency” as the percentage of time lying down that you are actually sleeping. The science of sleep efficiency is still young. There is no________ number for efficiency that’s been proven as linked to poor health. However, according to a report about sleep________, some experts estimate a rough range of 85% or above as a reasonable place to be. Besides avoiding caffeine intake after lunch and________ physical exercise before bed, here are some tips for improving sleep efficiency.

Short-wavelength blue light________ by the sun and screens of computers and smartphones, stops production of the sleep-stimulating hormone melatonin(褪黑激素)and makes you feel more________. Blue light tells your brain it’s________. Experts suggest turning off your computers and smartphones one hour or at least 30 minutes before bed.

Go to bed and wake up at the same time, or________ the same time, every day. Avoid excessive sleeping at the weekend. Consistency is key to a good night’s sleep, especially when it comes to waking up. When you have a consistent wake-up time, your brain_______ to this and moves through the sleep cycle in preparation for you to feel rested and alert at your wake-up time. Roughly an hour before you wake, hormone levels increase gradually (along with your body temperature and blood pressure),________ you to become more alert.

Most people may feel_______ in the afternoon. If you aren’t getting enough sleep at night, you’re likely going to feel________ to sleep in the afternoon. When this happens, you’re better off taking a short nap than turning to caffeine or strong tea to keep you awake. A short nap will give you the rest you need to________ the rest of the afternoon, and you’ll sleep much better in the evening.

10 . Some people think they need to change how they look or act to feel good about themselves. ________ , all you need to do is to change the way you see your body and how you think about yourself.

The first thing to do is to ________ that your body is your own, no matter what shape, size, or colour it comes in. If you are very ________ about your weight or size, check with your doctor to make sure that things are OK. But it is nobody else’s ________ but your own what your body is like—in the end, you have to be ________ with yourself.

Next, identify which aspects of your ________ you can realistically change and which you can’t. Everyone, even the most perfect-seeming celebrity (名人), has things about themselves that they can’t change and need to ________ like their height or their shoe size.

If there are things about yourself that you want to change and can, do this by making ________ for yourself. For example, if you want to get ________ , make a plan to exercise every day and eat nutritious foods. Then keep track of your progress until you reach your goal.

Meeting a(n) ________ you set for yourself is a great way to boost self-esteem (自尊) !

When you hear ________ remarks coming from within yourself, tell yourself to stop. Try ________ your self-esteem by giving yourself three compliments (称赞) every day. Every evening, list three things in your day that really gave you ________ . It can be anything from the way the sun felt on your face, the sound of your ________ band, to the way someone laughed at your jokes. By ________ the good things you do and the positive aspects of your life, you can change how you feel about yourself.