1 . As the youngest kid in the family, I used to be told, “No, do it this way.”I knew my family members were all trying to _______ me. But I didn’t like feeling _______ all the time.

One weekend, I went to help Grandpa with _______. Grandpa had flattened out one side of the green bush with a pair of shears(大剪刀) and told me to _______ the other side. He _______ to watch, but I didn’t do anything. I was _______ of doing it the wrong way. “I can do it by myself, ”I said. Grandpa said he would come back to _______ me. When he was gone, I _______ the big shears to cut the branches, but _______. I wanted to cry.

Then I took a pair of regular scissors and cut the bush. Little branches fell to the ground. I took a step back to ________ my work. The bush looked flat and neat on my side. Grandpa came back. He looked at the side he had cut, then back at mine. “Your side looks ________ than mine, he said.

I was ________. ”You mean my way isn’t wrong?“

”No. Your way works just fine,“ Grandpa said.

I was so happy my ________ was right this time. As I grew up I realized learning from other people didn’t necessarily mean having to always ________ them. It is okay to do things a little ________. Being different is fine.

2 . Experts worry that teen texting is out of control. Instead of _________, Kenny, 16, often _________ with his friends through the night. “You get a(n) _________,” explains the teen, who lives in Texas. “When I get a text, I’m itching (渴望) to _________ it even if I want to sleep.”

Garcia, a high school senior from Grand Kennedy, has also felt the need to stay constantly _________. We asked how many texts she sent and received each day. “I don’t know… maybe 1,000?” she answered. “It’s too many to _________.”

Dr. Dowdell, at Villanova University, says that many people expect to be able to _________ anyone at any time. “It’s very _________, especially to a high school student. But it reduces the time that could be spent studying, exercising, or just relaxing. Another _________ is, there’s no downtime.” And people need to __________—especially when we have so much to do.

So we decided to have Kenny and Garcia do an experiment. These were the __________: No phone for 48 hours. No computer or Internet either.

“Wow, it was completely __________,” Kenny joked. Though he was sad and missed his friends at times, he __________ “it had benefits.” __________ texting, he went to the gym and caught up on schoolwork. Garcia had an even more __________ result. “I loved it!” she said, “I was hanging out with friends and slept better too.”

3 . With the_______ of economics (经济), the problem of the left-behind children (留守儿童) has _______a serious social problem. More and more people have _______we should do something to help them.

The biggest problem is that the children are all_______for the love from their parents. Many of them can just get a call or a letter from their parents half a year, a year or even several years. So some children can't_______what their parents look like. When they meet their own _______, they have no one to talk with. Nobody gives them enough care.

Because of being too _______ away from their parents, the left-behind children's study is the second_______problem. From a survey (调查) about their study, only two percent of the children get good _______, while ten percent of them are common and eighty-eight percent of them are poor. What a pity!

There are also many other________of the left-behind children, such as having ________ ability to protect themselves, unhealthy lifestyles, ________ too much pocket money and too much time on the Internet and so on.

________a word, to________all the problems of the left-behind children needs the government, families and schools to try________best together.

4 . My dear girl, this is a letter for you to read when I am getting old.

The day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to be patient please, but first, try to ________ what I’m going through. If when we talk, I ________ the same thing a thousand times, don’t interrupt (打断) to say: “You said the same thing a minute ago...” Just ________, please. Try to remember the times when you were ________ and I would read the same story night after night until you ________.

When I don’t want to take a bath, don’t be ________ and don’t embarrass me. Remember when I had to run after you, trying to get you to take a ________ when you were just a girl?

When you see how ignorant (无知的) I am when it comes to new technology, give me the time to learn and don’t look at me that way... Remember that I ________ taught you how to do many things like eating appropriately, getting dressed and ________ life’s problems every day.

________ I occasionally lose track of what we’re talking about, give me time to remember, and if I can’t, don’t be nervous or impatient. Just know in your heart that the most ________ thing for me is to be with you.

And when my old, tired legs don’t let me move as ________ as before, give me your hand, the same way that I offered mine to you when you first ________.

When those days come, don’t feel sad... Just be with me, and understand me while I get to the ________ of my life with love.

I’ll ________ and thank you for the time and joy we shared. With a big smile and the huge love I’ve always had for you, I just want to say, I love you, my darling daughter.

5 . I once worked on a farm. One day, a powerful wind slammed (猛推) me against a post. My left arm got totally _________, and it was later cut off.

Back home after an operation, I found everything a(n) _________. My husband tried to help me, but I wanted to be _________. I called my left arm “Stumpy” and tried to _________. I learned to squeeze toothpaste; I developed a technique for pulling the toilet paper.

“Mom can do anything,” my daughter said _________. The one thing I really wanted to do, though, was get back into _________. First, I tried to swim. When I swam with Stumpy, there was no forward motion. _________, I kept going and finished the lane at last. Then I tried the triathlon (铁人三项). I _________ how to balance the bike with one arm and start running. Within a year, I became an _________ athlete, winning a silver medal at the Paratriathlon World Cup.

In 2020, I decided to do New Zealand’s __________ event. Competitors have to run for 36 km, cycle for 140 km, and kayak (皮划艇) for 70 km. I __________ hard over the next six months. Then the big day came. After kayaking for a long time, my legs felt like jelly. “Don’t __________,” I told myself. In the last few kilometers, I heard loud __________. Many people came to support me.

Life in __________ for me, but I choose to change it. “Just because you’ve got only half a wing doesn’t mean you can’t __________ to achieve your dreams,” I said to myself.

6 . In the summer of 2005, Kathryn Fumie was living in an apartment by herself for the first time. She needed to _________ how to cook for herself and do some cleaning. One day, she _________ to sweep the floor because the floor was so dirty that she couldn’t bear it.

Because of lack of enough experience, there was too much water left on the floor. When Fumie was walking quickly on it, she suddenly slipped and twisted (扭伤) her right _________. The pain was_________, and it was a terrible injury._________, a neighbor was available to call her an ambulance (救护车). When it arrived, a nurse _________ her during the 45-minute drive to the hospital and helped to keep her calm.

Fumie _________ she was extremely uncomfortable. “I kept asking the nurse if the injured right foot could be rubbed (揉). And I was just begging for a _________.”

The nurse calmly _________ that she couldn’t rub it. She said she wanted to save as much of the bone of the foot as possible, and that extreme pressure could __________ even more damage. Fumie said the nurse talked to her about what she was doing in her free time to take her __________ off the pain.

Today, she says she still feels __________ to the nurse. “I felt so lonely at that time. And she did make me feel like it was going to be OK.” Kindness makes our life more __________, and doesn’t necessarily __________ doing something great. Sometimes it is __________ things that matter.

7 . I was lucky because I found my lifelong career early in life-creating something meaningful with imagination and knowledge. Wozniak and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. In 10 _________ Apple had grown into a two-billion-dollar company with a well-known electronic product launched. We’d just _________ our finest creation, the Macintosh, and I had just turned 30. Then I got fired.

How can I get _________ from a company I started?

Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to _________ the company with me, and for the first year or so things went _________. But then our visions of the future became _________ and eventually we had fallen out. When we had some words, our Board of Directors _________ him. And so at 30, I was out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, which was _________.

I really felt _________ for months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs (企业家) down-that I had dropped the baton (接力棒) as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to __________ for messing everything up. I was a public __________, so I even thought about running away from the valley. But something __________ me: I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that a bit. Consequently, I decided to turn the tables.

__________ as I was about my future then, it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a(n) __________ again. It freed me to enter one of the most __________ periods of my life.

8 . A group of high school and college students from Connecticut have come together to build something extraordinary: fully-functioning electric carts (电动车) for families who may be unable to afford adaptive wheelchairs. They are part of the local “Go Baby Go”, a(n) ________ that helps kids with ________ receive access to self-governed mobility.

“What this is designed to do is maybe for an hour every day let the kid take ________ of their own mobility,” Connor Boman, one of the students who ________ during the build said.

Go Baby Go volunteers learn how to build special electric cart shaped like cars. Local kids in need are then given the carts ________ for each build being usually funded entirely by voluntary ________. The Go Baby Go in Connecticut finished building custom carts for seven-year-old Kelicia and eight-year-old Mosiah. The day the students completed the carts, Kelicia and Mosiah’s families went to New Britain High School to ________ them out for the first time. When each child got into their brand new cart, their faces ________— it’s the single moment the builders look forward to the most.

Mosiah was shaking his head in ________ at first that he was driving, but he got the hang of it very quickly. He made driving the red jeep look so enjoyable that his older brother wanted to try it out. The students who built the cart let him have a try, ________ the cart was specially made for Mosiah, who is unable to walk on his own.

It took some ________ for the other cart recipient, Kelicia, to get used to the driving, but once she did, she couldn’t stop — and her mom, Kechisa Mathis, couldn’t stop ________. As she ran alongside her daughter, someone was considerate to run up to Mathis with a big box of ________. Onlookers laughed kindly as Mathis kept on ________ for Kelicia through her tears.

They may look like cool, red electric cars, but they’re much more than that — they give disabled kids a way to move around ________ with a huge smile on their face.

9 . It started with a bit of discomfort on the head. Annoying as it was, I was _________ to take up my doctor’s time with such a silly complaint and have a wasted journey only to be _________ that it would heal by itself. Still, I turned to my laptop.

As soon as I’d _________ ‘online self-diagnosis’, the search engine provided over 11.5 million _________. On one site that provided free _________, I answered the questions and reached a description matching my _________. After clicking on ‘More Information’, I was shocked by what I’d never _________. The worst outcome was a brain cancer. I couldn’t be more _________.

I headed off to the doctor for what I thought would be a series of tests but which turned out to be a valuable lesson in not _________ everything you read online. It took him less than a minute to guess at and __________ head lice (虱子). I was __________ to know that I would be safe and sound, and horrified to know that my head was being occupied.

While a doctor makes a diagnosis __________ your appearance and medical history, a search engine relies __________ on algorithms (算法) according to popularity or numbers of key words and comes up with results which can be __________. One minute you’re under attack from a late cancer, the next you’ve just caught a cold. Time spent going to the doctor’s for __________ of mind suddenly seems fair enough.

10 . Martin is a certified personal trainer for more than 30 years. He recently ______ a nonprofit organization, Fit2Give, to provide free personal training to ______ communities. Not everyone can attend a group exercise class — some need a one-on-one ______.

“The trainers will be paid; that’s why we’re taking ______,” Martin says. “We’re paying for their certification and their ______ and their ability to establish a ______ relationship with someone.”

Martin’s own ______ to fitness started when he was young. Later, he was attracted to weights and started visiting the gym. “While I was ______ at the gym, a supervisor suggested I take the exam and become a trainer,” he ______. “They loaned me their book. I took the exam. I ______.”

Martin has been supporting people’s fitness goals, which brings Martin ______. He says one client who lost 100 pounds through ______ diet and exercise. “At her weigh-in, her family was there, and they came up to me in ______ and said, ‘We thank you so much. Our mom, she’s like a ______ person.’ It was ______ to me that not only had I affected her, I had affected her family. That warmed my heart.”