1 . When he was younger, Ronald Clark lived in the library. Exactly! Clark’s father, Raymond, worked as a/an _________ of the Manhattan Library then, and his family lived on the top floor of the building. The job of library guard, as Ronald _________, is like being "the keeper of the temple of _________”. However, at first, Ronald was _________ of his unusual home. “Every kid always wants to be _________I never invited any of my friends to visit it.” he says.

_________, he admits that nobody else had as many books as he had. And once the library was closed for the day, it _________ him to be the only kid in the building who could run and_________ and jump and yell. And if I had any _________ about anything, I would get up in the middle of the night, go down, get out a book and read until 3 o'clock in the morning, he says, “I began to realize how __________ I was because the library gave me the __________ for learning — and this just never left me.”

His time living in the library __________ the man he would become. He was the first in his family to __________ high school, and after college, he got a position as a professor teaching history.

“My dad's __________ was beyond words. I took him to my office and showed him my name on the door—Professor Clark,” Ronald says, “I saw the way he looked at it and I can hardly even __________ what my life would've been like if I had not lived in the library.”

2 . My son Jared was born blind. Reading children’s books seemed impossible. _________, I learned about a life-changing organization founded by Debra Bonde, whose efforts helped _________ children worldwide.

In 1984, Debra began transcribing (改写) popular children’s books into braille (盲文), _________ them for just the cost of the paper. Word spread and _________ grew for more of her books. Friends helped her to form a non-profit so she could get _________ to help with production costs. She named it Seedlings because she believes that if you give a _________ to a child, the love for reading will _________ Since Seedlings was founded, it has _________ more than 600,000 books across the world, half of which are given away.

As a mother, I appreciated the _________ that Seedlings provided for Jared. It __________ braille books to the libraries of the schools Jared attended so he could __________ books just like his sighted classmates. Since books from Seedlings were __________ it was possible to have our own home library. In addition, Jared would often receive __________ books from Seedlings through their give-away program.

Today, Jared is a successful software engineer. Since 2012, he has __________ on the Board of Directors for Seedlings’ — making a __________ in the lives of blind children, the way Seedlings did for his.

3 . These surfers have been recognized as heroes after they came to the rescue of two drowning swimmers last month.

Adrian York and his friends had already been ________ some waves at Trinidad State Beach for several hours when they decided to take a break. As they were resting in the ________ waters, however, they began hearing cries for _________

Since it had been a particularly ________ evening, the 15- and 16-year-old boys had to look through the mist to locate the source of the yelling. They then ________ two swimmers who were ________ in the ocean with their ________ barely held above water 100 feet away.

The surfers --- two of whom had been through ________ training - knew that the swimmers did not have a long time before they fell ________ to hypothermia （体温过低）,so they ________ jumped into action. While York quickly headed back to ________ to call 911, the other three swam quickly to the swimmers and helped them onto their boards.

The ________ said that the swimmers were two brothers who had not been wearing the appropriate swimwear for such cold waters. They had been playing in the surf when they were suddenly ________ by a strong wave -- and since the beach had been so foggy, the brothers^, parents had not been able to spot them in the mist.

Though it had been difficult to calm the ________ brothers and get them onto the surfboards -- particularly because one of the brothers reportedly weighed an estimated 250 pounds --the group was ________ able to get everyone safely to shore.

4 . Last month, Peters arrived at his high school graduation ceremony with black leather sneakers (运动鞋) with a white sole. However, he was told he needed to wear dark _________ shoes, but with the event starting in just _________, Peters didn’t have enough time to rash out for _________ shoes. When he saw John Butler, a paraprofessional educator and his mentor, he ran over and _________ what was happening.

Butler tried to get Peters into the ceremony with his shoes, but when that didn’t _________, he took off his loafers and _________ them to Peters. ‘‘It was easy to understand,’’ Butler told The Washington Post when asked why he had done so. “This was the most important moment in his life up to that point, and I wasn’t going to let him _________ it for anything.”

They don’t wear the same _________, and thus got a good laugh over the way Peters shuffled in the larger shoes. But Peters said he wasn’t _________ that Butler offered his shoes, because he’s that type of person. ‘‘At school, if you’re having a __________ day, he’ll be the one to take you out of class, walk around the school with you, and talk to you __________.”

The __________ caused some confusion at first---Peters’__________ didn’t know where his new, large shoes came from, and no one could understand why Butler was only wearing __________. Once the situation was explained, Peters’ mom, Jima Smith, expressed her __________ for Butler. “I pray he will continue to work in the public school system because we need more teachers like him,” she told the Post. “Our young Black men need good role models and mentors like Mr. Butler.”

5 . Yuan Longping is the pioneer of Chin's research and development of hybrid rice. He is also the first scientist in the world to _________ use the advantage of rice hybrid varieties. He is _________ as the “father of hybrid rice”.

This _________ respectable scientist known for developing the first hybrid rice strains, was born on the ninth day of the seventh lunar month in 1930. Then in 1949, Yuan _________ Southwest Agricultural College and began his special connection with   _________ - a staple food of the Chinese people that would become the focus of his _________ research career. Later the _________ of a wild rice species by Yuan in the southern island of Hainan in 1970 became the _________ of China's decades of hybrid rice research. He has helped China _________ a great wonder - __________ nearly one - fifth of the world's population with less than 9 percent of the world's total land.

While food shortages have long belonged to China's past, Yuan, the famine (饥荒) fighter, has a much bigger dream 一 to __________ the whole world from hunger. Since the 1980s, Yuan team has __________ training courses in dozens of countries in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Yuan's team was __________ to try out the saline - alkaline tolerant (耐盐碱的) rice in __________ fields in Dubai (迪拜) in January 2018, achieving huge success. China's technique has been __________ as a powerful way to fight the world's food shortages.

6 . I dreamed about my daughter, Jennifer, who is 38 now, a wife and a mother of three. They lived about an hour and a half away from me, but it seemed as though we were worlds away. I________to hear my daughter's voice. I rang her up. She answered on the second ring.

"Hey," I said, trying to sound________. "I had a dream about you last night."

"You did?" Then Jennifer________me. "I dreamed about you too. It was a________dream. I won't even tell you anyway." But she couldn't________her tongue. "We were walking to a wedding ceremony through a vegetable garden. A farmer________that I had stepped on one of his tomatoes. He asked me to pay 43 cents for it.________, I didn't have any with me and asked you for it, but you________. I woke up in tears."

Jennifer________a laugh. "Wasn't that very silly, Mother?"

"No, not at all." I said________. "There were so many things I should have done for you."

"Well, you could have gotten up from your________sometimes," she said. "You were always writing."

Silence, the________seemed over. I came to________that our relationship probably broke down over a lot of little things.

I found a small bag, dropping 43 cents into it, I________the bag to Jennifer with a note in an envelope.

The next day, the phone rang, "Mama, I got the 43 cents!" she said________.

7 . After a lifetime of bringing nature back. Sir David Attenborough wants us to get out of our comfort zones and help save the natural world. "I think it's terrible that children should _________without knowing what a tadpole（蝌蚪）is. It is very _________ . “ he says. He sees a very different world: Arctic sea ice has _________ and some of the reefs where he dived are lifeless. His latest film, A life On Our Planet, highlights the large scale of humanity's impact on _________ , He says, the earth is heating up and could possibly _________ it into sudden, catastrophic disaster. Probably no one else alive has _________ as much o£ the Earth's surface as Attenborough. He warned if we don't mind our ways, we will _________ life as we know it. including ourselves.

For so many years, he travelled with just a leather suitcase. His wife would see him off at the airport, never knowing _________ when he would return. In 1997・ when he was filming a _________ about birdlife, his wife suffered a serious illness. He flew to her bedside just in time for her to squeeze his __________ before she died. Afterwards, he __________ himself into his work again. These days» more often he is in a recording studio so he stresses it's film crews who spend months capturing footage（镜头），not he that should take the __________

Despite his __________ , he remains modest.   The future is at stake not for him but for the next __________,“he says, “We are representatives of a very __________ damaging species.

So just be modest. Don't waste.”

8 . The Vincent Smith School on Long Island in New York serves youngsters with learning disabilities. Some of the kids have family members who tested positive for COVID-19 and are _________.

Realizing remote-learning model was to occur in all New York schools, headmaster John Baldi set a plan in advance to serve his kids, before politicians announced that schools would _________. Out of concern that a lack of continuous study would _________ his students, Baldi had his teachers and students training on Zoom(一款视频软件)_________, so they would go on _________ online immediately once something bad happened.

Today, he Zooms from one online classroom to the next, so that _________ and routines are kept. He also makes sure that each student continues to _________ much-needed academic services like speech, reading and homework. Without that, these kids could fall behind quickly. Knowing that parents need as much _________ as students, Baldi spends much of his time _________, texting and emailing them. He has even taught some of them how to use Zoom, calming their __________.

Baldi is also working hard to make sure his kids know they are cared about and __________ by their teachers. He __________ a feel-good video about the school, telling the students they're missed. He's also working to make sure that the students' families don't feel __________, by keeping the school's media platform full of photos of the school's remote-learning classes.

The Vincent Smith School motto is "We teach differently because every child __________ differently." That has never been more apparent than during this very different period, and Baldi has been __________out that motto every day.

9 . Weeks ago, I went to visit my son Chase's teacher for math problems in the fifth-grade classroom. Afterward, we began to _________ about teaching children and we both agreed the most important thing is to shape little hearts to be kind and brave and _________ to a larger community. Not until then was I told a(n) _________ activity in her class.

Every Friday afternoon, she asks her students to write down four children with whom they want to _________ in the following week, and nominate (提名) one student to be the _________ brilliant classroom citizen. All the _________ votes are handed to her. After the students go home, she _________ those pieces of paper and studies them. She looks for patterns. "Who is not getting requested by anyone else? Who never gets _________ enough to be nominated?" _________ she is not looking for a new seating plan or “brilliant”citizens. __________, she is seeking lonely children, who are struggling to __________ others.

It's like taking an X-ray of a __________ to see beneath the surface and into the hearts of students. As she said, the __________ comes out on those private sheets of paper. I was quite __________ and couldn't help asking, “How long have you been doing this?” “Every single Friday afternoon since Columbine,” she said.

This brilliant woman watched Columbine, knowing all outward violence begins as inner __________. So she decided to fight violence early and often within her __________ What she is doing when __________ those lists is saving lives. She knows everything-even love, even belonging — has a __________. She finds the patterns and __________ the codes (密码) of disconnection. Then she gets lonely kids the help they need. It's math to her. All is __________— even math.

10 . As a child, Ronald lived in a library. His father was a custodian （守护人）,who kept the library clean and tidy. "The job of the library custodian is just like being the ________ of the temple of knowledge,   Ronald tells a reporter at StoryCorps.

At first, Ronald says he was ________ of his unusual home, which was different from others' nice ones. "I never dared to ________ any of my friends to visit my home. ________, I was proud that nobody else had as many ________ as 1 had.” he said.

Once the library closed for the day, it was a ________ to be the only kid in the building, could run, jump and scream. And at midnight, if I had any question, 1 would ________ and start reading a book until 3 o'clock in the morning,"   he says, "1 began to realize how ________ it is to have the library because the library gave me the love of reading that has never ________ me."

He says his time living in the library ________ him into the man he is today. He was the first in his family to ________ from high school, and then from college. A few years later, he got a position as a ________ at Cape Cod Community College.

“I took my dad and ________ him the classroom and my name on the door — Professor Ronald. He just ________.That's my Dad, quid. But... I saw the way he looked at it,“ Ronald says. "He wanted me (o aim higher. I am ________ for the days my family spent in the library."