1 . As the other four players enjoy the crucial victory in an Arena Of Valor competition, they remained unaware that their teammate Lu Dong is a Paralympic _________ champion who plays with her feet.

At 32, Lu Dong has _________ a lot of medals over her 19-year swimming career. Meanwhile, she has enriched her daily life by _________ into various hobbies.

Lu _________ an interest in Arena Of Valor in 2017. _________, her appearances in internet cafes drew a lot of curious glances, which made her _________ However, it also led to generous compliments when others _________ her remarkable skills. “They praised me after watching me play so well with my feet, which gave me a sense of _________,” Lu said. Besides video games, Lu has _________ an hour daily to piano practice for the past three years and has also __________ her skills in both cooking and beauty makeup.

Losing her __________ in a childhood accident, Lu stop participating in P. E. classes to avoid __________ in her elementary school days, which made her physically and mentally __________. Luckily, she was recommended to join the provincial swimming team in 2004. She won two golds and two silvers in the youth group of the National Championship in 2005, earning a __________ in the national squad (代表队). Lu’s __________ performances in the pool caught the eye of Beijing Sports University in 2020, __________ the beginning of her college journey.

Changing from a (n) __________ girl to a national champion, Lu gained immense confidence. She no longer __________ to wear T-shirts in summer or to tuck her sleeves into her pockets in winter.

“It was swimming that __________ the girl who always talked a lot and the girl who was brave enough to __________ the fixed image of the disabled.” Lu said.

2 . In mid-October many years ago, I, with my little sick daughter, needed to pick up my youngest son from school. In a station, I fueled(加油) my car with my last dollar.

Once out of the station, the tire was flat(爆胎) and I was out of _______. I tried to change a tire. However, my daughter was so sick that I couldn’t leave her_______. So I called AAA for help, and they _______ me to wait for about one hour.

I _______ my son and husband of the situation. Putting the _______ down, I found a young man beating on my window. He_______ asked if I needed help. I said I had assistance _______. He responded, “Yeah, but I’m here _______!” I considered all the factors: a sick child, another child _______ me, husband working too far away, still an hour wait for AAA in the cold wind.

Then, I thanked him, telling him I couldn’t ________ to pay him. He laughed, saying he hadn’t asked for money. Together, we worked to ________ the tire. He did the ________ since I had to watch my daughter. Within 15 minutes he had me ________ to drive. When I asked him his ________, he said Tracey, walking off before I could say anything else.

Tracey stopped to help a ________ for no reason at all. He showed me something I must learn.

3 . There’s nothing quite like the excitement of getting engaged (订婚).Bailey Davis had this _______ recently. Like many other engaged girls, Bailey has been wearing her expensive ring ever since.

Because of her work, Bailey often _______ . On a particular day, she went to Columbus, Ohio. While at a rest stop, she used the restroom. Here, she _______ her ring. Little did she know that she’d also leave her _______ there.

“I drove two hours away to Columbus before I _______ it wasn’t on my hand, “Bailey says. “I felt like I was going crazy.”

By the time she returned to the rest stop, the ring was gone. Bailey felt _______ she’d never see her valuable ring again. _______, she and others did whatever they could to get the ring back. This _______ making a post on a social networking website.

Meanwhile (同时), Coty Warren _______ a ring he found in a rest stop. He tried to find its ________, but when nobody was around, he took it with him. Less than 24 hours later,he happened to read Bailey’s post. At once, he called the number Bailey ________on the post to deliver the great ________.Hearing it, Bailey, as you can imagine, was ________

Bailey offered to give Coty $1,000 ________, but he chose to refuse it, saying it was simply the ________ thing to do.

4 . Years ago Paul was living his best life, conducting tours in his native Zimbabwe. But his life changed after he_______ to lead an adventure down the Zambezi River.

Leading six clients and three other_______ down the river in three canoes (独木舟), Paul felt _______ because he knew the area well. Everything went well until they_______a school of hippos (河马)._______that they were at a safe distance, Paul_______ to just paddle (用桨划) around them.

The canoe_______ by guide Evans, however, was somehow knocked off course. Suddenly, there was a big _______. A male hippo had charged at Evans’s canoe and Evans was thrown into the water. The current was _______ Evans toward a mama hippo and her young 150 meters away. The situation was quite ________ because hippos are very territorial and might attack any animal________their territory.

Paul turned his canoe around to reach Evans ________ the other guides managed to get the clients to safety on a rock that hippos couldn't climb. The moment their fingers almost________, Paul was up to his waist down a hippo’s ________.

The hippo threw him out of its mouth soon but wouldn’t________ its attack. By the time others came to his________, Paul had been________   injured. After waking up ten hours later in a hospital,he realized that his left arm was gone. The only news that gave him some________ was that Evans survived, too.

Not long after his ________, Paul returned to the river in a canoe with a custom made single paddle. “Focus on what’s possible, not what we’ve ________,” Paul says.

6 . People are looking to make meaning these days, after the profound upheaval of the past few years. And one way that some of us do this is by looking for guidance or comfort in _______, the unexpected concurrence of events.

After Carla Kaufman Sloan lost her _______ son in an accident eight years ago, when he was 7, she began noticing heart shapes, often when she felt _______. It started the first time she took her younger son back to a restaurant _______ by both her boys. As she walked in, trying not to_______, she saw a heart-shaped _______.

“I showed it to my son, who _______ it was from his brother,” says Ms. Kaufman Sloan, who is a TV producer and writer in Miami. _______, she began noticing more heart _______, not only in leaves, but also puddles, rocks and clouds. On a beach in Mexico, she _______ at a pile of seaweed and discovered a red plastic heart. _______ it up, she saw that it was from a toy _______ the one that had helped her son learn about shapes _______ he was a baby. She took the plastic heart _______ -- and found it fits _______ into a slot (狭槽) in her son’s old toy. What a coincidence! “It helps to_______ there is more to our daily lives than the surface,” she says.

Paying attention to coincidences may help us, especially _______ stress, and can aid us in making decisions, calm us in _______ and help us feel more connected to others and _______. Studies show that noticing coincidences may help boost both the _______ of psychotherapy (心理疗法) and mental well-being.

7 . A student is learning to speak British English. He_________: Can I communicate (交流) with Americans? Can they _________ me? Learners of English want to know about the differences between American English and British English. _________ English is more or less the same in _________ Britain and America, though there are some spelling differences. For example, the _________ colour, centre and travelled are spelt color, center, and traveled in American English.

The differences _________ the spoken language are _________. For example, Americans say tomato [te'meiteu], dance[dæns], in southern England they say [te'mɑ:teu],[dɑ:ns]. In America they_________ not [nɑt], new[nu:]; in southern England they say [nat], [nju:]. _________, most of the time, people from the two countries can understand each other __________

How did these differences happen? We can’t answer this __________quickly. When people from England traveled to other countries, they __________ the English language with them. At first, the language stayed the __________ as the language used in Britain, but slowly the language began to __________ from one part of the world to__________ .

Sometimes, the English spoken in America or Canada or Australia changed; but sometimes the language __________ in these places stayed the same, while the language in England changed. For example, 300 years ago, the English talked about “fall”. __________, most British people talk about “__________ ”. But Americans still talk about “fall” __________ as people do in some parts of western England. In the same way Americans use the expression “I guess” (meaning “I think”) just as the British did 300 years ago.

You may wonder__________ is correct. The answer is that it doesn’t matter.

9 . It was one day in June 2018. After soccer practice that day, 12 members of a Thai soccer team and their coach decided to _________ the nearby Tham Luang cave. It is one of Thailand’s longest caves.

The boys, aged 11 to 16 and their coach, 25, walked in the waters and then _________ the cave. At first they were excited. _________, as they were in the cave, a _________ came. Soon, a flash flood came and more and more water got into the cave system. They pushed _________ in, eventually making their way to a _________ platform, 4 kilometers into the cave system.

The flood _________ the cave system with water, trapping the boys for 18 days. For the first nine days, they had no _________, and relied on drip-ping stalactites(钟乳石)for water. But they didn’t sit and _________. Realizing they were __________, the boys took turns digging a 16-foot hole into the cave wall, __________ to find a way out. They meditated(冥想)to save energy and __________ thinking about food. Finally, some British divers dived into the cave by accident and __________ them. Surviving that long was only half the battle though. The divers __________ Thai Navy Seals for help. Thai Navy Seals entered the cave to help and stayed with the boys as __________ planned how to take them out __________. Over the course of a three-day mission, divers helped take out each player and their coach.

The journey to the surface required each boy to __________ a full--face diving mask, be tethered(栓住)between two divers, and __________ for hours through tums and tight squeezes. Thanks to the __________ of Thai Navy Seals and the international dive community, all the team __________ and were able to quickly return to a normal, healthy life after the rescue.