1 . Dave had always loved the ocean. You wouldn’t believe how excited he was at Christmas when seeing a gift-wrapped _______   .

But when he began to surf, something _______ happened. Dave thought he knew the water well, but a big wave _______ him away. Dave felt powerless against the _______ in the deep water and lost confidence. Just then another surfer paddled (蹚水) up beside him. “Can I help you?” he asked. Dave _______ him. It was Mike. “I can help you back to shore.” he continued, “First, you need to _______ that fear and relax a little.” Dave began to relax his grip (紧抓).“Good,” said Mike. “Let the wave pick you up, then _______ your weight forward. As you start to build up speed, move your _______ back until you feel balanced. Just enjoy the ride.”

When Dave reached the _______ near the shore, he was bursting with excitement, fascinated that the current which had terrified him was seen as a helpful way by Mike. He had ________ this. He was right to be ________ of the big waves, but no longer did he feel out of his ________ .“Looks like you don't need me any longer,” said Mike. “You are a ________ . Have fun.”

Dave took a last wave, ________ it confidently to the shore. Watching the signs of the tide and the size of the waves, he realized they hadn't changed. It was he who was really different —stronger and more confident. The previous ________ had given way to joy and exhilaration.

2 . Most people as they get older start to take life a little slower and enjoy a leisurely pace. But it is not for Kerry, who ________ pole dancing in her 50s, has no ________ of slowing down any time soon. She’s even ________ her life “began at 50”.

The super fit gran ________ an eating disorder from a young age. Now in the best ________ of her life, she looked back on her youth and claimed she was once told she was “too fat to be a dancer”, sparking an eating disorder and being ________ conscious of her weight. After taking up dancing she felt ________ in her new lease of life.

“At the age of 47 I made a list of things I wanted to ________ and I’ve always wanted to do dancing, but I was worried I was too ________. It was so late in life,” said Kerry. ________ planning on doing one class to ________ it off her list, she found a passion and love for the sport and made a living from it, even participating in ________ too. “I feel like fate really put this in my ________, not only to recover my body but to get rid of the ________ that comes with it,” she explained. Now, she’s on a mission to ________ women that their age doesn’t have to hold them back.

3 . The virtue, responsibility, means a duty to complete a task, which can be either ______by someone else or even may have been created out of our own ______ and circumstances. It must be taken seriously and as a(n) ______ man, you should put your best efforts to ______the task to completion.

The sense of responsibility should be ______since the teenage years, as it is the best time to learn good habits and ______. Although there is no age to learn something new, it is again   the responsibility of teachers and parents to ______ their children to learn the ______ of responsibility from the beginning.

The responsibility of an individual may change with situation and ______. The significance of responsibility usually ______ with age. A student should learn to be a(n) ______ person for his school and home activities, not to make his parents ______, to set a good example for his younger siblings or juniors at school, to be responsible to the society and ______ and being a responsible citizen. A teacher is______responsible for leading the   students to the right path and to help them learn the values of life as well as the ______subject.

Now, some of you may be ______ what will happen if we do not fulfill those responsibilities. Will there be any ______ for not doing so? In that case, you will be ______and lose the purpose of living. It is because, to fulfill one’s responsibility, you may meet some difficult situations and while dealing with those ______times, you are actually learning important lessons and ______ of those challenging fights will definitely help you further.

4 . Harland “Colonel” Sanders was born in 1890. He was left to be the only ________ of the house at a young age when his father died, leaving him with a mother and two younger sisters.

By the age of 7, he had started ________ and soon after, he was working several odd jobs.

At the age of 40, he had ________ the perfect fried chicken recipe and had even opened a restaurant to ________ the high demand for his food. As he was perfecting his chicken, he was ________ by a pressure cooker (压力锅) salesman who ________ Sanders to invest in his product to help speed along his cooking process. Sanders ________ buying 12 pressure cookers, and then he was ready to sell a lot of chicken.

At the age of 60, Colonel Sanders decided to ________, but because he was not content with ________ of his $105 social security checks, he decided to franchise (给予特许经销权) his chicken.

He started traveling to different restaurants, cooking his fried chicken at the spot for restaurant owners. If the owners liked the chicken, they would be sold the ________. However, Colonel Sanders got ________ 1,009 times before he made his first sale.

________, Colonel Sanders had 600 franchises selling his ________ trademark chicken. In 1976, the Colonel was ________ as the world’s second most ________ celebrity.

5 . People who lost their loved ones know how precious it is to safeguard their memories. Beaton’s _________ passed away in 2003 due to cancer and ever since then, Beaton found comfort in listening to her voice in the _________, which he managed to _________ till December 2014. But when the UK-based telecommunications company Virgin Media had to _________ their old data as part of their technical work, Ruby’s _________ was also deleted.

Talking about how _________ the recording was to him, Beaton said, “I listened to it quite often. Basically, it came to the point where if I felt _________, then I would listen to it to cheer myself up” and added, “In December, _________ it disappeared. I just could not tell people how it _________ me at that time. I was absolutely devastated (被击垮) by it.”

Rob Evans, the executive director of engineering at Virgin Media, said finding Ruby’s message was like “__________ for a needle in a haystack (干草堆).” He thought the chances of retrieving (找回) the message were quite __________ and a team of 11 engineers took three days to __________ it down.

Evans called Beaton to __________ the good news that they had been able to retrieve the voice message in January 2015, twelve years after his wife’s __________. He broke down in tears of __________ after hearing Ruby’s wonderful sound again.

6 . In my 30s, I decided to learn to ride a bike. When I was young, I had no one to teach me. My mom remarried after divorce when I was 6. I remembered I was _________ because I was the only kid over 6 who still relied on training wheels. Then my stepdad removed them, but in doing that, I lost interest and _________ in the activity. I was worried I’d fall off.

Not knowing how to ride didn’t _________ me initially, until we moved to the suburbs when I was 12 years old, where bicycles were _________. On _________ to the convenience store to buy candy with my friends, I was always the last to arrive, on foot.

In my early 30s, I remember feeling _________ as I watched young children learn to _________ on bikes. Among them were my neighbors, whom I would occasionally _________. Then something changed. The fear within was still there, but something much stronger was _________.

I decided to join a women’s bike-riding workshop. There, I stood in an urban park, determined to overcome my __________. Meeting women from diverse backgrounds, all seeking cycling skills for various reasons, strengthened my __________. Before long, I was riding __________.

__________ the joy of riding, I bought my own bike, not just for getting around but to __________ lost time back. It wasn’t simply a bike; it represented a(n) __________ I missed earlier. I completely engaged myself in the experience, enjoying the scenery and the breeze on my face.

7 . Last week the electricity in my flat went out. I had just got home from work and was ________ making my tea, when all of a sudden the power was off. I was surrounded by complete ________. The lights had gone out, the oven had stopped working and my phone was no longer ________. My flatmates and I tried to ________ it but we soon realised that we couldn’t. We would have to wait for a(n) ________ to come in the morning. This left me a whole night without any ________. My typical evening is spent watching TV and looking through social media. Tonight this wasn’t ________. Due to the lack of lights I couldn’t even read a book. We weren’t prepared with candles or matches. We just rely too much on electricity, expecting that it will ________.

So for me it was an early night to sleep. And I couldn’t help but think, do we ________ electricity too much? That night, losing our electricity felt like losing a basic ________, as basic as running water. But really, electricity is a luxury (奢侈品) that we’ve grown to ________ for granted. I use electricity all the time, even when it’s not really necessary. I use it to ________ my phone when I have to wait for even just a minute, for example when waiting for friends.

Our overuse of electricity is a big ________. It contributes to global warming, which is something that we really should be worried about. It is harming our environment and we need to do what we can to stop it. How would we ________ in a world without electricity? Cutting back on our use of electricity would save energy resources so that they could last for longer. I know ________ that I can cut down on my use of electricity.

8 . When people think of tigers, they think: strong and dangerous. But now, the big animal is calling for our help.

There were once eight kinds of ____________in the world, but three died out during the 20th century. In the last 70 years, the___________ of Siberian tigers (东北虎) has gone from as many as 300 to   _________ 22 somewhere. The Siberian tiger has been ________dying out completely. If the government doesn’t make any efforts, it’s quite __________ that there will be no more Siberian tigers in China in ten to twenty years.

In order to double the number of wild tigers in the _________ ten years, the World Wildlife Fund (世界自然基金会) has started a program recently. It__________save wild tigers and put an end to tiger hunting and killing. China, together with twelve other__________, has joined in.

Wild animals, such as red deer and wild pigs, are the main __________ of the tigers. The hunting of these animals is the greatest threat (威胁) to tigers. So the most important thing is________the animals that tigers eat. To protect the wild tigers, we need to call on more people to stop eating and hunting wild animals.

9 . When Guo Xiaoyu was born just days ahead of the Opening Ceremony in August, his grandpa Tao Zhenguo was very busy with his volunteer work for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The grandpa was very happy to _________ his newcomer.

Fourteen years later, the 77-year-old Tao is even _________ because Guo has also become an Olympics volunteer. “He is _________ an Olympic boy now,” Tao says. Both grandfather and grandson are volunteering at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. They are helping with garbage _________, traffic guidance and information inquiries (查询).

Guo says he learned a lot from his _________. He listened to Tao’s volunteer _________ when he was a little child, and began doing community work. But Guo is not just _________. He’s now also teaching his grandpa English.

Tao doesn’t speak English, but he is _________ that “as an Olympics volunteer, I have to learn it to at least be able to communicate a bit with foreign guests”. “It’s never too late to learn,” Tao says. “I don’t _________ to become an English-language master, but I hope that I can at least say Welcome to Beijing when I ____________ foreign athletes and guests.”

10 . I have a confession(坦白)to make: I’m a recovering addict. I was addicted to YouTube. The _________ influence of social media on me has been well documented.            

My first experience was on the _________ of a friend to enjoy Susan Boyle’s amazing singing on Britain’s Got Talent. But soon I found myself spending a lot of time _________ the screen and discovered onscreen offerings were truly _________. I learned how to plant my own vegetable garden and wise sayings from philosophers. Down the rabbit hole I went, surfing for hours and hours, watching other people living their lives and giving me _________ on how to live mine.

As the months went by, I subscribed to (订阅) many _________, waited anxiously for new weekly _________ on gardening and also watched people reading poetry or painting. I found all this calming and beneficial to health.

At some point though, I got annoyed by these artistic and seemingly perfect lives, which started to annoy me while forcing _________ with my own somewhat more mundane(单调的)existence.

Regardless of my growing anxiety, I _________ to click on the YouTube icon (图标) on my phone whenever I had a __________ five minutes. Having compared my life constantly with the images onscreen, I started to __________ the endless rules presented for good health, financial stability and mental contentment.

I gradually realized that I had a full and happy life, which __________ me perfectly. I started paying attention to my own life instead of __________ other people live theirs. I still like checking in occasionally for some entertainment and inspiration but I’ve __________ the frequency. I am content in the knowledge that my addiction to life onscreen has been __________ by life itself.