2 . I was driving home after attending my uncle’s funeral. I took a canyon (峡谷) drive with beautiful scenery to process my ________.

Suddenly I heard a pop. I knew what had happened — a big flat tire! I ________ to the side, but this was a canyon drive with not much shoulder (路肩) ________, and it happened to be around a turning that people couldn’t see. That made it ________.

Cars were passing me fast. I couldn’t get out. Within minutes, I saw a van stopped behind me. A gentleman walked out, ________ a hand, and I dared to walk out very ________. He moved my car out of the ________ way while I was talking to the police. Since they couldn’t send ________ in 20-30 minutes, the gentleman took out my spare tire and started ________ the tire for me.

After the job was ________, I thanked him and he left. As we said goodbye, I ________ him to pay it forward. I saw in my mirror that the van just ________ me, making sure I was OK. At the light, I got a chance to see the ________ family in the van. A beautiful young wife with attractive children in the back. They all gave me a big smile and ________ at me!

I thought the gentleman had set a successful example for those young children to learn about ________ and passion.

4 . When I was in my final year of college, a good friend of mine was planning to visit a toastmaster(宴会主持人) club and invited me to join her. _______ I loved the idea of public speaking and hoped that the _______ would be where I would see myself someday, I was a self-doubting person filled with pessimism, which never gave me the _______ to take that baby step.

Later, another friend encouraged me to _______ one of the forums. _______, I still never joined in it until I graduated. It was when I started working in a company and moved to a different city, and I was lonely that I _______ myself harder to give this forum a(n)_______. Little did I know that it was this little forum that was really a start to bigger things. Since then I have started to _______ the road to my career as a toastmaster gradually.

That friend doesn’t know what a(n) _______ his little encouragement has made on my life. Today I am a ________ individual; pessimism no longer has the upper hand and I can proudly call myself a public speaker. I still remember when I ________ my first paycheck for my public speaking, tears weren’t enough to ________ my emotions. I have been speaking on ________ occasions to various audiences since then. Whenever I walk up to the platform, holding the microphone, I believe that I am nothing but myself.

I don’t just give a lecture to the crowd. Sometimes, I tell them a story—one that has a dark reflection of my past pessimism, one that is related to my sincere ________ for that friend of mine and one that ________ my hidden passion and talent, which might have been forgotten had it not been for her encouragement.

5 . Paen Long has had a dream ever since he saw a plane for the first time at the age of six. His dream was to _______ a plane. Last year, the 30-­year-­old man started building his plane _______. “I was afraid that people would _______ me, so sometimes I worked at night,” he said. It was a long time before he put his dream into practice. Paen Long tried to build his own plane, using the money he had _______ from running his own garage. He has spent three years _______ instructional videos in order to learn how to make a plane.

It took him a year to build his plane, using mostly recycled materials. The plane’s first _______ came at 3 p.m. on 8^th, March. Local villagers gathered excitedly to watch the plane fly._______, the plane only got 50 m in the air before crashing (撞击) to the ground. “When all people were looking at me, I felt very _______,” he said.

Although the first try failed, Paen Long remains _______. His next project is to build a seaplane. Paen Long thinks the plane will cost over $10,000. “I never feel ________ for spending all my money building a plane,” he said.

His wife, Hing Muoyheng,________ about her husband, especially as they have two young sons. However, she has no ________. “I don’t know how planes work and he doesn’t have any ________ to help him. He can only search for information himself,” she said. “I tried to ask him to ________ a few times because I was afraid, but he said he wouldn’t give up, so I have to support his ________.”

7 . The clock had just struck eleven when I first heard a noise coming from the lift. I opened the door of our room and listened: someone was _________ against the door of the lift and calling out at the same time.

“What’s wrong?” I shouted. “The door has been stuck (受阻) and I can’t _________.” The _________ came back. The voice came from several flights below.

My wife had now _________ me and she went off directly in search of the night porter (守门人). After calling to the girl that help was on its _________, I went back into our room to get some _________ to rescue her. Then I hurried _________ the stairs until I reached _________ the lift was stuck.

I tried my hand at forcing to _________ the lift door, talking all the while to the girl trapped inside, __________ my tools were of no use for this purpose. Very __________, however, my wife returned. __________ to find the porter, she had called the police, who agreed to send an engineer. __________, she had got in touch with the fire service.

In a short time, the engineer appeared. Almost immediately the fireman arrived too. With his __________ equipment it took the engineer only a short while to get the door open. In spite of her horrible experience, the girl was in good spirits. “I’m hungry.” was her only __________ as she stepped out of the lift.

9 . We all need to spend time alone once in a while. But Beatriz Flamini took things to a whole new ________. The Madrid Spain resident spent 500 days in a 230 foot (about 70 meter)underground cave,   ________from the world.

Flamini was 48 years old when she went into isolation (隔绝) and 50 when she ________   from the ca ve on April 14,2023. The extreme athlete   ________ the challenge of testing her mental strength. She also wanted to help scientists explore the     ________ of isolation in terms of the human body and mind.

Flamini entered the ca ve in November 2021. She carried two cameras to ________her stay. Ateam of volunteers supported the ambitious adventure by________ dropping off food, fresh clothes,water and other ________ near the cave’s entrance. They also used the daily video recordings to ________   Flamini’s physical and mental condition.

Flamini spent her days exercising, cooking, reading, and drawing. She says she experienced________loss of her sense of time after about two months and was   ________when a support crew member came to ________ her after 500 days. “I said,’   ________ ? No way. I hadn’t finished my book,’” she recalls.

Flamini may have   ________   a new world record for the longest time spent in a cave alone. But the achievement has not been   ________ by the Guinness World Records.

10 . As I was a young boy my family was very poor. I would often help do something for the neighbors to _________ a little pocket money.

One day I _________ on the door of an elderly woman and asked if she needed me to clean     the yard. She asked why I was not in _________ and I showed her my worn _________, which no longer kept me warm. She allowed me to work in the yard. When I finished, she looked at me and said, “I suppose you want to be _________ now.” She then took out a jar filled with dollar bills and said, “I’m glad you’ve done a   _________ job today but that is not something you should be doing again. I want you to _________ new clothes and get back to school. I also want you to come back to visit me with your report card and I will _________ you when I see you have worked hard and have some good_________. Now reach out your little hands and take out as much money as you can.”

I put my hands in the jar and __________ so much money that it was __________ for me to buy what I badly needed. Later, I returned several times to see the woman and she did just as she__________. She looked at my report card and gave me a handful of dollars and some delicious food every time I __________ her that I had an “A”.

I was twelve years old when I moved from that neighbourhood. I will never forget the huge__________ this wonderful lady made over my life with her__________. This is something I hope to do myself in this lifetime over and over again.