1 . 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 __________.

2 . The day had started out as usual for Mrs. Ito until the late afternoon when the news of destructive tsunami came over the radio.

Mrs. Ito felt ______ in her house. Her small home was built on the property that ______ escaped the terrible 1946 wave that destroyed Hilo. Many lost their lives, then. But the waves did not reach her home.

At last, 12:30a.m. came as the radio warning had said but ______ happened. Passers-by said that the tsunami must have ______the islands. Mrs. Ito went into her room and looked down the street. It was ______. Suddenly, a flash- like lighting lit the sky. The first wave of the tsunami burst Hilo’s electric power plant, and all the lights______.

______she knew it, the wave roared into her house. She was ______to the floor as her house begun to spin and finally tore apart.______, Mrs. Ito grasped for anything to stay above water when the floorboards opened up and she became______in what used to be her home. She struggled out of the boards and______to squeeze free. Then she blacked out.

When she woke up, she______herself floating on something in the water. There she was, a 62- year- old widow who couldn’t swim, hung on______to her tiny makeshift raft. At sunrise, she______two boats on the horizon. But it was too far away. She thought that ______was just a matter of time. But anyhow, Mrs. Ito was finally seen and saved.

3 . The World Cup is an international football competition that takes place every four years. The first World Cup event _________ in 1930 and it has only been cancelled twice in the history of the competition - in 1942 and 1946, _________ the Second World War. The World Cup can take place anywhere in the world. In 2018 the host country was Russia, in 2014 it was Brazil, in 2010 it was South Africa, and this year, in 2022, the _________ country is the State of Qatar. It is _________ time that a country in the Middle East is hosting the World Cup and only the second time that a country in Asia is hosting the _________.

While the World Cup usually takes place in the months of June and July. It is incredibly _________ in Qatar during the summer months, and _________ the competition will take place in November and December this year. There are 32 national teams participating. These teams were _________ through qualifying matches. There will be a total of 64 _________ played over the 28-day World Cup. These will take place in eight stadiums across the State of Qatar. The opening match __________ at Al-Bayt Stadium on the 20th of November between Qatar and Ecuador after the opening ceremony.

4 . “Does anyone on board know sign language(手语)?” came the voice over the speaker. Clara _______. Then the flight attendant(乘务员) walked up to her and _______ the situation. “We have a passenger on the plane who’s _______ and deaf,” she said. “He seemed to want something, but we couldn’t _______ what he needed.”

Clara, 15, who had been studying sign language for years, knew she could finger-spell into the man’s _______, so she walked toward the passenger Tim Cook. Gently taking his hand, she _______, “Are you OK?”

Cook asked for some water. After it was _______, Clara returned to her seat. She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the _______. Then she looked at her watch and told him. On her third visit, she decided to _______

Then she told Cook about her family and future plans. “________, he didn’t need anything. He was just lonely and wanted to ________,” Clara reasoned. After a while, Cook started to tell Clara how he became blind.

She listened carefully and it seemed that she had endless ________. “Clara was ________,” a flight attendant said in an interview. “She was a timely ________ to Cook and it obviously ________ Cook to have someone he could speak to.”

Humans are mammals (哺乳动物). Most mammals are born able to do many things. Some can walk within a few minutes of being born. They have to be able to run away if _________ is near. But human babies are born _________. They need the care of adults to live.

In the first month of life, babies cannot smile or sit up. They cannot even hold up their own heads _________some help from grown-ups.

In the next few months, babies grow a lot. They learn to roll over, support their heads, and _________ sit up while being held.

Babies also have to learn to use their _________. It takes months for them to learn to reach for objects. At around six months old many babies can _________ an object from one hand to another.

Babbling is _________ a human baby learns to speak. Babies all seem to make similar sounds by babbling. They try to imitate (模仿) the sounds they hear from adults. It will take about nine months _________ a baby can say real words.

Somewhere around a baby’s first birthday he or she may stand or walk with help. Soon the baby will _________ around on his or her own!

The first year of a baby’s life is a time of growing and __________. Growing sure takes a lot of work!

6 . I’m a single mom. Unluckily, I was________earlier in the year so times was really________. My son had been in and out of the________for six years because of a severe disease. He was 8 years old and his brother was 7.

My sons knew we had________troubles, but they didn’t know how hard we were because my parents________for them. I was grateful that I had helpful parents.

One day, we were at a grocery store(食品杂货店) and I was________about grocery money and gas money because the day I had to pay for bills was________. Meanwhile, my 8-year-old son saw a homeless man outside the store. It was really cold and the man asked if we could give him some_______. My elder son walked to the man and gave him a dollar, and his brother did the________thing. I saw my sons talking to him and ________them say “be right back”.

They came over and asked me if we could get the man some hot coffee because it’s ________and the man had stayed there for four hours. So, we went inside, buying the man some________. Suddenly, I was not thinking about my________, or my worries at all. Instead, I was happy to see my sons do something kind, which was so________.

I hugged both my kids, because they had________me the great value of kindness.

7 . Some people look down on those who use welfare cards. Actually, welfare cards are something_______to a credit card used for food/groceries but paid by the government. This story will show you how to_______the person using a welfare card.

At the checkout of a grocery store, the line is_______. A young lady was trying to get the_______to accept her card. No matter how many times she tried, however, it kept_______the card. “It’s one of the welfare card things. Damn people need to get a job like everyone else,” said the young man standing_______the young lady

The young lady turned around to see who had made the_______. “It’s me,” he said,_______to himself. A look of embarrassment came over the young lady’s face. In tears, she_______the store,__________looking back, and quickly drove away.

Several minutes later a middle-aged man went into the store and up to the__________and asked if she had seen the lady. After__________her, the cashier told him she had left. The man said that the lady was twenty years old, single. Her brother was a soldier__________in Afghanistan two years ago, leaving three young children to support. She had to__________that responsibility.

“I made a__________comment about her welfare card. I’m sorry,” said the young man. “Go back and get two big turkeys for her,” yelled an old lady,__________she looked at the young man. “No,” yelled the young man. The entire store became__________for several seconds. “Four turkeys,” yelled the young man. Everyone began__________.

Then he began to__________the groceries onto the belt including the young lady’s. When all was done, the young man wrote a check. He wanted to give the check to the girl__________she would need a few other things as well. Everyone in the store began to clap.

8 . Five-year-old Ryder Killam started using a wheelchair at age two. After attending preschool Dunn’s Corner Elementary in June 2019, he had to be ______ 75 feet to the end of the road every day to wait for his school bus by his father Tim. As Ryder couldn’t ______ for this bus if he was late, this would often ______ he’d have to wait for 15 minutes out regardless of the weather.

In September this year, when Ryder started kindergarten, Tim put up a patio (露天) umbrella at the end of his driveway to provide some ______. But it really didn’t ______ much unless it was just a rainy day without wind. So Tim ______ on Facebook to see if one of his friends might have an old bus hut (小屋).

After the post, someone advised Tim to ______ the construction class at Westerly High School and see if they’d want to take on the ______ of building Ryder a bus stop hut. So Tim sent Mr. Dan McKena an e-mail, ask if he’d be ______.

Tim said, “He responded with an ‘______’ and then he worked with his students to build the hut. ” Three of Mr. Mckena’s ______ worked hard for weeks. The hut was ______ delivered to the home six weeks later. “Ryder’s first ______ was ‘Oh, my God!’; he loved it very much,” said Tim. The family ______ the teens for their hard work. For the teens, surely they are ______ to see their project has helped others.

9 . One Saturday afternoon in a small town, Emma came out of a shoe shop with some new shoes. They were _________ shoes, but Emma was very _________ with them. She was seventy-three years old and did not have much money. She began to _________ home.

It was a _________ town and there was nobody in the street. _________, Emma heard something behind her. She did not have time to look, because just then somebody ran up behind her, hit her on the _________, and snatched(抢夺)her bag out of her hands. Emma _________.

“Help! Help!” Emma cried. But nobody came. Emma _________ got up and went to the nearest house. The people there were very _________ and gave Emma a cup of tea. Soon an ambulance came and took her to a __________.

At the hospital a doctor looked at Emma’s head and back and told her to stay in hospital for a few days. Emma thanked the __________.

Later, a policeman __________ the hospital and Emma told him about the bag-snatcher. The policeman __________ a small bag. In it there were a lot of pictures of eyes and ears, hair and mouths. Carefully Emma took the small pictures and __________ a big picture of the young man’s face.

After two days, in a morning a policeman came to the hospital with Emma’s new shoes and an empty bag. “A little girl __________ them in the street and took them to the police station,” he said. “How kind she is! Thank you very much,” Emma said and felt happy, though she lost some money.

10 . On his way to the airport one afternoon, Phillip asked the driver to wait outside the bank while he collected some traveler ‘s checks.

The plane was to _______at 5:30. From the bank, there was still a _______journey to the airport _______Philip merely enjoyed the scene along the way. Shortly before arriving, he began _______the things he would need for the_______: tickets, money, the address of his hotel, traveler’s checks… Just a moment! How about his passport? Phillip went through his pockets. He suddenly _______that he must have left his passport _______.

What could he do?   It was now five past four and there would be too little _______to return for the passport. This was the _______time he was representing his company for an important meeting ________the manager of a Frenchcompany in Paris the following morning.Without a passport he would be ________to board the plane. At that moment,the taxi ________outside the air terminal. Phillip got ________, took his suitcase and paid the driver. He then ________a gooddeal of confusion in the building.A ________could be heard over the loudspeaker, “We very much ________ that because   of   a   twenty-four-hour strike of   the   airport   staff,   all flights for the rest of today have had to be called off.”   Passengers are ________ to get in touch with their travel agents or with this terminal for ________on tomorrow’s   flights. Phillip was very glad to hear that.   He would let his company know about this   ________and,   thank goodness,   he would have the opportunity of calling at the bank the next morning to ________   his passport .