1 . When my little sister Indi turned six, she started__________my every move. She would repeat whatever I said or did, which got me annoyed.

One afternoon my friend Mareya and I were making bracelets(手链).“What are you doing?”Indi asked,__________down next to us at the table. “May I make one too?”I__________but Mareya said yes. Indi squeezed(挤)in so__________to me that I could hardly see(what I was doing. I asked her to give me more__________but she said she was trying to see my move clearly. “You don’t have to see what I’m doing. You can make your own design!” I told her in a(n)__________voice. “I can!” she said. But she was still using__________the same thing as I was using.

Later, Mareya suggested playing the guitar. I didn’t want Indi to__________me so we went to the backyard._______ten minutes later, Indi turned up “you are always following me, and I’m___ it!” As soon as those words came out of my mouth, I wished I had never said them. Indi was surprised and her eyes started filling up with__________She ran away__________I could say another word.

I disliked the shadow(影子)that didn’t belong to me，but I also felt__________about what I said.“It’s worth trying to_____       the why you see the situation. She acts like your shadow because she looks up to you.” Mareya said to me.

Now I still remember Mareya’s words and feel less upset about Indi’s behavior. Anyway, she should be treated with__________and kindness.

2 . As the drumbeat changed, the dress fluttered(翩翩飞舞)in tune with the girl’s changing steps. Finally, she _________the performance in a neat pose onstage before the audience.

The girl _________is actually me. I’ve learned Latin dance since childhood. However, when I became a young girl, conflicts brought by Latin dance made me_________. The fair skin and slim bodies of mainstream beauty stand in contrast to what Latin dance pursues: power and wildness. As a young girl, I am _________for beauty. But a girl like me with strong muscles _________ in a crowd. In addition, _________feelings caused by unkind judgment piled up in my heart. It was so much that I compromised between power and_________

Luckily, in Vienna the match for the Chinese youth team_________my attention, dragging me out of_________.Players from different countries gathered to __________ the honors, and I was no exception. Though I had made my efforts, I was__________to find that I didn’t get the score I expected. The reason, obviously, lay in my__________. With my reduced intake of protein and carbohydrates(碳水化合物), I __________ lost a lot of weight, but at the cost of a sense of pow er and speed in dance.

In between games, I saw a little girl from Europe take firm and powerful steps in the__________. Her beauty came from her full muscles. The confidence in her eyes was__________. Definitely, she won the top prize. __________ her so much, I made her acquaintance and__________my difficult situation. Till now I do remember the confidence that__________me and some of her words: “Just be yourself.”

Looking back, I’m still the dancing girl but my__________has grown lighter. Something within me is __________

6 . It was a hot, damp summer day. After I________my tank in the local gas station, I started to walk inside to pay. Just then I noticed two elderly________standing back from their car. There was a mixture of shock and________on their faces. I followed their________and saw what they saw: five yellow jackets were building a________around their gas cap. My eyes________. I shared the ladies' fear.

Yellow jackets had never been________to me. When I was a young boy, a friend of mine and I were________and playing in my backyard. I must have________on one of their hidden nests while running.________, both of us were being chased and stung over and over by the yellow jackets. We ran away________with great fear. My mom________ran a cold bath and put us both in it to ease the pain and itching (瘙痒)________giving us medicine to fight all the poison in our little bodies from the stings.

I knew I couldn't let fear stop me now. I________my back pocket for a paper towel I had there, tore out the nest and stepped on it while the________wasps (黄蜂)buzzed around me.________of the ladies thanked me excitedly. I smiled, and nervousness and fear were replaced with________.

In this life, you can't let the fear of being stung either physically or________keep you from doing what is right. We need to go________ourselves and love each other. Don't let the yellow jackets in your life________you back.

8 . I was cycling and noticed a person about a quarter of a kilometer in front of me. I could tell he was cycling a little slower than me and _________ to try to catch up with him. I had about a kilometer to go on the road _________ turning off.

So I _________ cycling faster and faster and on every _________, I was gaining on him just a little bit. After just a few minutes I was only about 100 yards _________ him, so I really picked up the pace and _________myself. You might _________ I was cycling in the last section of the London Olympic triathlon.

_________ I caught up with him and passed him. On the inside I felt so _________. I beat him, of course, but he didn't even know we were __________.

After I passed him, I __________ that I had been so focused on competing against him that I had __________ my turn. I had gone nearly six blocks past it and had to turn around and go all the way back.

Isn't that what happens in life when we __________ competing with co-workers, neighbors, and friends, trying to __________ that we are more successful or more important? We spend our time and __________ chasing after them and we miss out on our own __________ our future.

The __________of unhealthy competition is that it's a never-ending __________. And there will always be somebody ahead of you, someone with a __________   job, more money and a better education, etc.

Therefore, just take what life has given you, your height, weight and personality. Stays focused and live a peaceful life. There's no __________in life. Run your own race and wish others well!

10 . I felt gloomy the other day. The weather was dark and rainy, and I just didn’t feel so______.

As I was sitting at my desk, I______it was the birthday of a dear long-time friend—a single, middle-aged woman who has devoted the past 15 years to nursing and loving her______. Knowing that she doesn’t have family in the town, I______to give her a call. Sure enough, she was on B-shift,______to work late till the evening, and wouldn’t make much of the birthday this year. As always,______, she sounded cheerful and was happy when I______.

After I hung up, I couldn’t______the feeling that she would really want to get a little attention on her special day.______feeling a little gloomy myself, I tried to put it out of my______, but as the day passed I couldn’t shake the feeling. I______gave in, and that evening set off for the hospital with a card, a cheese cake, and some balloons. My friend’s grateful smile and joyful surprise______me that I had done the right thing and were a generous______for me.

When I got home, I realized that not only had I cheered up a______friend on her birthday, but my own gloomy feelings had also______. Making her day had made my own!

That’s true______we take the time and make the effort to do something for someone else. It is like the little saying, “Loving kindness is twice blessed; it blesses him who gives, and him who______.”

Cheering up people on their birthdays isn’t the only thing we can do to make their day. Life constantly presents us with______to take an extra step or do a kind deed that will make a______to someone. And the_____thing is that as we do, it changes things for the better for us too.