1 . Greg Bishop is never one to ask for help, but he is always the first to offer it. That’s why he is loved by many people in the community.

So when the community heard that the farmer would ________ to get in this year’s harvest due to his chemotherapy (化疗) treatment, Bishop’s friends and neighbors ________ his help and harvested his crop for free.

Dozens of people came out to lend their ________ - so many, that some even needed to be ________. A local restaurant provided free burgers to all of the helpers. Even local fuel companies offered to support the ________ with free fuel and money. ________, the farmers decided to pay the costs anyway.

Within five hours, the volunteers had ________ 1,200 bales (大捆) cotton worth $ 420,000. ________ Bishop had been forced to do it by himself, it would have taken weeks,

When asked why they so ________ offered their help, the volunteer helpers simply praise Bishop’s ________. “He’s a very good man. He’s just the best person.”

Needless to say, Bishop was emotional over the ________ of his community. “He was just ________ by what everybody did,” one of the helpers told Inside Edition.” He was in tears. He could ________ us enough for what we did.”

The future for Greg Bishop is looking brighter each day, as he ________ his treatment and plans for a bone marrow (骨髓) treatment in the upcoming months. His neighbors and friends, ever-willing to help, have ________ a fund to help pay for his follow-up treatment.

2 . In 2019, I went on a winter break trip with my family. One of our _________ was London. The first thing that I _________ when I landed in London was the weather. It was too _________ for my liking as it required me to wear a thick jacket.

After some _________ using a map of London, we decided to go to Buckingham Palace first.

Buckingham Palace was one of the _________ of a “hop-on, hop-off (随上随下)” bus that we took. The palace itself didn’t look very big or impressive from the entrance _________ it got much more impressive when you entered the gates.

While continuing on the “hop-on, hop-off” bus, we _________ the London Bridge, which I didn’t notice until the driver pointed it out to me. While it felt kind of special to be driving on such an iconic (符号的) bridge, the _________ was not as cool as one would imagine it to be.

Besides its history, this bridge was just another bridge that _________ two masses of land, something that pretty much all __________ do.

When we __________ Big Ben, we decided to hop off the bus and take some __________. Big Ben was a pretty __________ experience for me. In many pictures of London, Big Ben is a very visible (看得见的) building in the skyline, and it was very nice for me to see the clock tower __________. I am a big fan of skyscrapers (摩天大楼) and skyscraper-like buildings so this clock tower certainly caught my __________.

3 . I was born in the Philippines and spent most of my childhood there. Then we moved to Canada and I _________ a new school. Adapting to the new environment wasn’t as easy as I had thought, but I finally _________.

At first I _________ to talk to people because I had no _________ to speak the new language. In class, I always _________ to shut my mouth. I didn’t join any clubs or after-school activities.

However, my first gym class in my new school _________ me completely. It was a school rule that every student should take part in the gym class, _________ I just sat and watched everyone play. I was actually a very _________ person, so while watching my _________ play, I was very jealous (嫉妒的). I said to myself, “I can’t just sit here. What am I afraid of?” All these __________ occurred to my head. They ________ me to step out of my comfort zone. I __________ and joined my classmates.

After that everything was different. I joined sports clubs __________. I became more willing to come to school every day. Don’t __________ to get out of your comfort zone. Once you get out of it, you will build more relationships with others, and your confidence will __________ too.

4 . A few years ago, an expensive new car stopped on the Mississippi River Bridge. A(n) ________ man got out of the car. He wore very ________ clothes and looked very rich.

He climbed over the rail and under the bridge onto a platform below the roadway preparing to ________. Cars started ________ and the traffic backed up for miles. The ________ arrived with the fire department, officers and mental health professionals.

They began talking to the man and telling him not to jump. They told him that he might not die. He might become ________ and have to stay in bed for life. About half a mile back in the traffic there was an old ________. An elderly gardener got out of the truck and walked up to ________ the people were gathered.

He made his way through the people and shouted to the man, “Hey, I’ve got to go to work. Either jump or ________ the bridge. If you decide not to jump, tomorrow is going to be ________!”

After hearing this, the man ________ climbed back onto the bridge, which surprised everyone. The police surrounded him immediately and ________ him in the back seat of the police car. The gardener ________ back to his truck, waiting for the traffic to move.

One of the officer ________ a fireman, “Who was that?” The fireman said, “I don’t know. He just said he had to go to work!”

The police reported to the press that all the way to the ________ the man kept saying, “Tomorrow is going to be better.”

One must see a future to have a future.

As Mark Twain once said, “It is not what you do not know that will hurt you the most. It is what you think you know, however, it just isn’t so!”

5 . Once there was a farmer with a wife and two sons. He became quite________through hardworking. He wanted his children to have a(n)________life, so he and his wife did all the work and________made them do anything.

After some time, his wife died and________he didn’t want his children to________, so he did the field labor and all the housework. But as time went on, he became old and________, and started to worry about his________when he died.

So he thought about this for a long time and he________his sons and said, “Look, my inheritance (遗产) to you is a lot of gold. I’ve________all my gold in the fields, so it’s up to you to plough (耕作) them and________the gold.”

And he called his neighbors and said, “I’m going to________and my children don’t know how to________themselves. So please cook for them until they can take care of themselves.”

So the neighbors provided them with________for some time.

Certainly the brothers didn’t want to be robbed of the________so they did the digging themselves. They________one field after another and after they had dug all the fields, they found no gold.

So the brothers sat down and one________the other, “Do you think our father________us?”

But the other brother said, “No, I think our father was saying that the________is a golden profession. And if we dig up all the________we can become rich.”

So like all the other________, they sowed wheat in the fields they had dug and became very rich in the end.

6 . Most people who keep animals choose to have dogs, cats or fishes. But Recep Mirzan keeps a ______ animal on his farm in Western Turkey. The 63-year-old retired worker has a swan (天鹅) which he ______ many years ago. Mirzan was driving in his car when he ______ an injured swan with a ______ wing. Mirzan immediately ______ and took the swan with him to ______ her from predators (捕食者).

“Since I love ______, I said to myself that I should take her home instead of _______ her as prey (猎物),” Mirzan told The Associated Press.

He named the swan Garip. It means “strange” in the Turkish language but is also used to ______ a person who has had difficulties in their lives. After Garip’s broken wing improved, she ______ with Mirzan. Mirzan is not married and has no ______, so the swan is like a child to him. Garip has been living on Mirzan’s farm for the past 37 years, ______ Mirzan wherever he goes and never trying to ______ the farm.

According to the group Swan Sanctuary, in Britain, swans live in the ______ for only about 12 years. But thanks to the ______ environments, Garip can live up to nearly 40 years.