1 . At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comǎneci made history. She performed a routine ________ on the uneven bars (高低杠), scoring a perfect 10. She pursued ________ in her practice, which led to remarkable achievements in the game.

Perfectionism is generally ________ as a good quality. Therefore, it’s not surprising that perfectionism in society has been on the rise for years. And it is more ________ in certain professions like top athletes and medical specialists. Perfectionism can be seen as a ________ tendency. Perfectionists usually set extremely ________ standards for themselves and others. According to researchers, such behavior is rooted in ________. Many perfectionists worry that if they don’t pay enough attention to detail, it will hurt their performance. So they ________ their perfectionism even when it’s self-defeating.

Aiming for a high degree of success isn’t necessarily ________ as long as you behave reasonably. People with adaptive perfectionism work hard to meet ambitious goals, but are also able to tolerate mistakes, changes, and problems that they didn’t ________. When encountering ________, they stay flexible.

Maladaptive perfectionism, which ________ an intense desire for others’ approval, and a high level of concern over mistakes, is ________. It tends to weaken individual confidence and affects relationships and overall well-being. To overcome it, it’s crucial to shift your mindset. Start by being realistic and gaining a ________ perspective. Give yourself permission to loosen up a bit on certain matters, enabling you to prioritize what truly matters. ________ can be challenging, but it is indeed attainable.

2 . Now is 6:15 a. m. Jocelyn Murzycki needs to get out the door in an hour. As the sky ________ to lighten, Murzycki doesn’t manage a few more minutes of sleep. Instead, she’s heading out in the freezing cold on her daily “plog” — a run to ________ litter.

First, the necessities for her “plog” are: a litter grabber and a reusable ________. Covering herself up, Murzycki jogs purposefully down Main Street, stopping ________ to pick up a plastic cup. She usually needs to ________ halfway through her 20-minute run to empty her bag. Within a few hours, the street will be littered with rubbish again. But this doesn’t make her stop — it just gives ________ energy to her plogging.

The word “plogging” comes from “plogga”, a combination of two Swedish ________, “pick” and “jog”. The activity was ________ by Erik Ahlstrom. When he moved to Stockholm, he felt ________ at the amount of litter in the streets and began gathering friends to clean up the neighborhood while out for runs. Now, Mr. Ahlstrom is traveling the world, publicizing (宣传) the ________ of plogging. In the US, some social medias and running groups always ________ people to get out and plog: more than 40,000 posts with the “plogging” hashtag (话题标签) can be ________online every day.

Murzycki has ________ plogging for a few years even before the trend hit the U. S. “________, it’s boring if you go out every single day for just picking up litter,” she says. However, now she has already figured out how to make it ________ by plogging with friends.

5 . Francis Kere is the first African to win the Pritzker Prize, known as the Nobel Prize of architecture. However, his ________ to the peak of his field was far from smooth. Growing up in a village where there was no kindergarten, he was ________ into an extremely hot classroom with over 100 students. At the age of 7, Francis Kere had to leave his family home to attend school because his village didn’t have one of its own. This ________ of poor building facilities contributed to his vision of better educational lives of local children, using architecture. Thirteen years later, he boarded a plane for Germany on a scholarship to study architecture.

His early reputation came in helping ________ a school in his village after graduating from college. He ________ the whole village to provide ideas and drew the ________ on sand for all to see. ________, he involved them in constructing the school, using local wood and local clay (黏土).

The result of their hard work was a welcoming structure with a “floating” roof that ________ ventilation (通风) in a hot climate and wall openings that bring ________ for students to learn even without electricity. He showed the villagers that ideas to ________ climate or other challenges are always at hand.

In this process, local people learned ________ skills that they could later use to find work. By cooperating with them, Kere ________ the idea that climate solutions started with big institutions. He ________ that everyone could contribute to addressing the major issues related to education and climate and ________ a global impact by acting locally.

Adopted by architects in dozens of countries, his ________ is rooted in the “unique” aspects of each community now.

6 . It was 1:20 a. m. I had just gone to bed, a bit _________ after celebrating my 31st birthday. Before dinner, I’d placed _________ outside my garden door and prepared the cell phone just _________. After all, it had been _________ that week, resulting in flood warnings.

I was awakened by the _________ of rushing water. When I swung my legs off the bed, I was shocked to feel cold water already up to my knees and _________ fast.

Shaking in darkness, I _________ my phone and turned on its flashlight. Then by the light I could _________ water was from the garden door. It must have breached (在……上) the sandbags. The river, usually such a quiet, slow moving river in my region, had _________ burst its banks. And now I had to __________!

I took __________ action. Any effects of the alcohol before sleep were gone;__________ sobers (使清醒) one up. After I went outside, I learned the river had flooded the neighbourhood. Therefore, if I had woken up just a few minutes later, I would have drowned.

In the end, I think the experience made me __________ and determined to live each day to its fullest. I came very close to drowning that day. But rather than dwell on (沉湎于)what happened, I prefer to __________ what my mother told me afterwards, “Don’t remember the day when you lost everything. Remember the day you __________. That day marked the beginning of a new chapter in your life.”

7 . When Lucia’s father couldn’t afford to hold a celebration for her 9th birthday, the Ethiopian girl decided to become a tech expert and _______for a celebration herself.

Drawn to the field for its money-making potential, Lucia began learning by _______ around some local computer repair shops. Google searches and borrowed books from local colleges _______ expand her knowledge at that time. Soon, Lucia made much _______from her after-school tech jobs.

Now, at the age of 19, Lucia realizes that tech has the potential to _______ a lot more than just money for birthday celebrations. “Technology is of great _______ to Africa’s future. Training the young generation in tech will _______ something lasting.” Through initiatives, like Girls Can Code and iCog Labs, she tries to increase girls’ participation in the field and guides them to create tech-based _______to community problems. With the Anyone Can Code program, Lucia taught programming and robotics to children through _______ ways, including clubs and summer camps.

However, Lucia faces challenges. Though many Ethiopian girls do ________ in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) subjects, their parents often prevent them from pursuing these fields. As a result, girls in Ethiopia don’t ________any subject of these fields as their major (主修专业)after graduating from high school. Besides, tech education isn’t ________seriously in schools in Ethiopia. People think programming is not ________ unless you want to be a computer scientist.

Despite these, Lucia keeps on________ the Ethiopia’s next generation to study tech. She loves the field and wants to inspire other girls that ________ the same passion as her in her country.

8 . Two hundred years ago the English poet William Wordsworth wrote I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, a poem that was _______ when he came across a field of daffodils (水仙花). It expresses a basic spirit of early English Romanticism.

What makes this poem a (n) _______ of Romantic thinking? It isn’t that Wordsworth chooses to write about a natural _______: it is the way he describes the scene as if it had human _______. For him, _______ is not only a neutral (无感情色彩的) mixture of scenery, colors, plants, rocks, soil, water and air. It is a living force that feels joy and sadness and even tries to _______ us human beings and show us the beauty of life.

Wordsworth’s home is now one of the most popular _______ in the Lake District. You can go on a tour of the garden where wild flowers still survive now regardless of the change of the _______. The place, where Wordsworth saw the daffodils, is at the southernmost end of the lake. When you are walking in the _______ of William from two centuries ago, the first group of daffodils ________, but they aren’t tall yellow trumpets (小号状的花) proudly swinging in the gentle wind as ________ in Wordsworth’s poem. They are just tiny wild daffodils grouped around individual trees rather than ________ together. But as you look north, from beside a huge ancient oak tree, you ________ this is what delighted Wordsworth; group after group of daffodils, spread out to left and right but coming together in your ________ so that they form a beautiful, pale yellow carpet. What you’re seeing at last is nature transformed by human sight and ________.

10 . Painting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of pigment, has been continuously practiced by humans for some 20,000 years. Together with other activities that may have been ritualistic(仪式) in _________ but have come to be described as artistic, painting was one of the earliest ways in which man sought to express his own personality and his _________ of abstract things. Unlike music and dance, however, examples of early forms of painting have _________ to the present day. And painting, like other arts, exhibits _________ qualities that make it easy for viewers of all nations and civilizations to understand and appreciate.

The major existing examples of early painting anywhere in the world are found in Western Europe and the former Soviet Union. But some 5,000 years ago, the areas in which important paintings were _________ to the eastern Mediterranean Sea and neighboring regions. _________, Western painting shared a European cultural tradition.

Western painting is in general _________ by its concentration on the representation of the human _________, whether in the heroic context of antiquity or the _________ context of the early Christian and medieval world. The Renaissance(文艺复兴) extended this tradition through a close examination of the natural world and an investigation of balance, harmony, and perspective in the visible world, __________ painting to the developing sciences of anatomy and optics. The first real break from figurative painting came with the growth of __________ painting in the 17th and 18th centuries. The landscape and figurative traditions developed together in the 19th century in an atmosphere that was __________ concerned with “painterly” qualities of the __________ of light and color and the expressive qualities of paint handling.

In the 20th century, these interests __________ the development of a third major tradition in Western painting, abstract painting, which sought to uncover and express the true __________ of paint and painting through action and form.