2 . At 111, Dr Edith Kaufmann was the second oldest person in the UK. I met her when I _________ a care home for the elderly in London six years ago. I didn’t realize it would be the start of a close _________, where the age gap was eight decades.

At first sight, I was _________ by her self-confidence. Her doctorate (博士学位) told me she was intelligent and _________. From the beginning, I never felt as if Edith and I _________ conversation. Edith could have a full conversation with me about anything, and that her memory stretched back so easily, _________ even small things which took place 100 years ago.

She was also _________ . She loved dancing as a child and I recall, only a few weeks before her death, she laughed _________ when I played the waltz (华尔兹) and we _________ hands and danced along to the music. Although towards her later years she was __________ to a wheelchair, she still participated in the exercise classes.

As I __________ Edith each week, I realized that I was going as much for me as I was for her. I learnt to take the words of __________ when I could get them. When I have __________ over the years, and small decisions have weighed on my mind, I have __________ nothing more than the opportunity to regain my perspective on life and what actually __________.

4 . On the last day of college before graduation, our professor walked up onto the stage to give us a final lesson, which she called “a life lesson on the _________ of mindsets (思维模式)”. As she raised a glass of water over her head, everyone _________ her to mention the typical “glass half empty or glass half full” question. _________, with a smile on her face, the professor asked, “How heavy is this glass of water I’m holding?”

Students shouted out answers _________ from eight ounces (盎司)to a couple of pounds.

After a few moments of _________ answers, she replied, “In my opinion, the absolute weight of this glass: doesn’t _______ . It all _________ how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute or two, it’s _________ light. If I hold I for an hour straight, my arm might feel painful. If I hold it for the whole day, my arm will feel completely numb, _________ me to drop the glass to the floor. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn’t change. __________ the longer I hold it, the heavier it __________ to me.”

As the class nodded their heads in __________, she continued, “Your worries, disappointment and stressful thoughts are like this glass of water. Think about them for a while and __________ happens. Think about them a bit longer and you begin to feel __________. Think about them all day long, and you will feel completely numb, __________ to do anything else until you drop them.”

5 . Some years ago, I was stuck on a crosstown bus during the rush hour. The bus was full of cold, tired people_______with one another. Two men_________at each other for being too crowded. An old woman got on, and nobody offered her a _______. Anger was in the air, no_______could be found here.

As the bus approached Seventh Avenue, the driver’s words came from the speaker. “Folks,” he said, “I know you’ve had a(n) _________day and that you are not feeling well, but I will_________. When each of you walks by before getting off, drop your___________into my palm(手掌), My route goes right by the Hudson River, into which I’ll_________them.”

Everyone burst out laughing, their faces shining with_______. The passengers who had been ignoring(忽视) each other’s________suddenly grinned (咧嘴笑) at each other.

At the next stop, just as________, the driver held out his hand, a palm up, and waited. All the________passengers performed the gesture of dropping something into his palm. The driver__________the same action at every stop that followed.

Occasionally we may sink into a grey world, but someone can________it like a ray of light, showing us hope. What if we are the light?________, anyone has the power to shine on others’ dark days.

6 . When I was young, I used to hate running. In fact, I wouldn’t have become a(n) ________ if it weren’t for my former classmate Jane. She had been a(n) ________ runner for many years. After our graduation, she wouldn’t stop talking about how much she ________ it.

So she picked it up again, and after about a year, I started to join her at the ________. Just a few months later, she signed up for a five-kilometer race for both of us. I ________ about doing it for it was just too soon.

But on the race day, there I was.

The gun went off. Thousands of runners ________. The first kilometer was tough. I was already breathing ________and painfully aware of the group of runners ________ past me.

After another minute, I saw the three kilometer ________. All I could think of was that I was dying.

I ________ a corner, and saw both sides of the street ________ with people watching the race, all cheering the runners on: I willed my legs to ________ going.

Then I looked up and saw the clock. The ________ ticking away gave me an incentive (激励). I knew that if I ________finished this race, I would achieve something. So, I ________ up and made it.

7 . At around 3 p. m. on Monday, Erin Wilson stopped at a picnic area along Highway 299. She began walking her two-year-old sheepdog, Eva, along a path when a mountain lion _______ and attacked Wilson, who screamed, catching the _______ of her 2-year-old Eva. Eva, who had been wandering ahead, immediately returned to _______ her owner. The mountain lion then _______ the 55- pound dog and bit onto the bodyguard’s head. Wilson _______ without success to fight off the lion with stones, so she ran up to the road, frantically trying to flag someone down.

Sharon Houston, who was driving by, saw Wilson and _______. After learning about the mountain lion attack, without _______ Houston jumped out of her car with her pepper spray（喷雾剂）and also grabbed a stick. The two women _______ to the scene in the forest, where the struggle was going on, with the mountain lion still _______ to let go of the dog. They both started hitting it and yelling ________ it finally set loose the bleeding dog.

Eva eventually ________. Houston pepper sprayed the mountain lion in the face, and it immediately turned away and ________. Eva was gravely injured, and Wilson ________ drove Eva to a vet(兽医). After spending several days there, the dog was ________. Now Eva, lying on her own bed with her favorite toys, is on the road to ________. “My dog is my hero and I owe her my life.” Wilson said.

9 . I think this was my most impressive experience so far. I volunteered for two weeks in a guesthouse by the sea ________ by a Mexican mother and son.

I’ll always remember when I got to the bus stop and the son came to ________ me up. He was my age and I just knew this would be something different and fun. We ________ on the way to the house and I was welcomed to a Mexican lunch by the mother and another ________, K, who was younger than me. We quickly ________ a little group and even with the mother.

The most ________ part of this experience was the room I was ________ K: Our beds were separated by ________; we had no door to our room and we had holes in our ceilings. There was an only table in our room where we all had lunch. The water from the tap ________ from the sea and there was one stove and the WiFi ________ worked. We played card games at night, and best above all, ________ and talked for hours and hours. I loved every minute of this ________ but simple country life.

I was sad to leave but have kept ________ with all of them since then and definitely plan on seeing them again. This ________ made me understand why you should volunteer, whether it’s in your home country or anywhere else in the ________.

10 . Throughout history, female scientists, engineers and mathematicians have changed the world. But while their_______have been remarkable, their names and their stories have_______received a lot of attention. Physicist Jess Wade wanted to_______the stories of great scientific pioneers who may be ignored and she_______a unique way to do that: writing Wikipedia pages.

Wade told CBS News that while the_______of women in science is small in comparison to that of men, she has always had_______in the field. When she was a graduate student, Wade_______an inspiring woman in science, Kim Cobb, who is a climate scientist at Brown University.

“So when I met her I thought she is a(n)_______person and I need to learn more about her. When I did a little search, I couldn’t_______any information about her. What I________was a Wikipedia page but it wasn’t there.”

That’s how Wade got the________—to start writing Wikipedia pages for diverse people in science who don’t yet have them.

In her free time, Wade searches the Internet to________information, and then she gets to work writing Wikipedia pages. She’s written more than 1,700 so far.

Wade is now making a__________for herself in science and she knows she wouldn’t be here without those who came before her. “We all have a role to________in making science a more diverse and________place,” she said.