2 . Our life has become more and more intelligent over_______past 30 years. Have you ever imagined what a smart home is? Last weekend, Cox Communications published their new smart home ______(call)Home Life, in which all equipment is ”smart“. A _______ (power)Internet connection is central to their product. Not only is the equipment remotely controlled, this home also features direct connections to family members and doctors. For example, their relatives_______live in another state can enter their house through their smartphones or computers.

The smart home seems to be designed _________(attend)to the elderly. In a smart home, many activities can be monitored and all kinds of help________(provide)whenever necessary. If a person has a fall or doesn’t take their medicine, he or she will be reminded________(instant). However, the person________(live)in the smart home has his or her_______   (independent).

This smart home offers plenty of chances for patient control, as well________reducing health costs in many situations. Technology can help old people stay independent and safe.

4 . This is the story of Moyo, a rescued elephant in Zimbabwe Elephant Nursery, a local non-governmental organization called Wild Is Life. She is probably one of the ________ elephant cubs ever to be rescued. She came to the nursery when she was about three to four ________ old. Sheweighed 56 kilos, and ________ a just-born African elephant cub weighs about 90 kilos. So she was a special iconic little elephant. Under good care of the staff there, she managed to ________.

Every year, hundreds of young elephants are orphaned across the African continent and rarely have a chance of ________ in the wild and are more often than not, left to die. “We rescue babies, and we provide ________ for them. We make sure they are in good ________ here, and help them regain their ________ needed in the wild. We are trying to create a culture where people ________,” said Roxy Danckwerts, the founder of Wild Is Life.

Moyo is about four and a half years old now. She is healthy, playful, and has become some kind of ambassador to the nursery. Therefore, she’s having to take on a lot of ________ for such a young animal, almost becoming a leader at the very young age. She is gentle, calm, very very ________ to the other elephants that come into the nursery. She is also very good with people.

But unfortunately, they’re not much more than objects of money in the eyes of ivory(象牙) dealers. Zimbabwe has a ________ elephant-hunting problem. Some regions are ________ as much as 75 percent of the elephant population over the past 10 years. That is why Danckwerts feels excited at China’s decision to ________ illegal ivory sales, which he believes has become a major turning point and a signal to the world that China has made a ________.

5 . When I was about 5 or 6 years old, my mother set me down on a purple banana-seat bike. She _________held the back of the seat while I found my balance. Then she gave me a _________and let me go，calling，“Pedal(踩踏板)，pedal，pedal，glide(滑行)!”as I rode across the grass.

When I was older, I _________ a soccer team and I always rode my bike to go to _________. On my bike, my_________was my own. I can do what I want to. After a(n) _________ practice, I would pick an apple from a tree in the garden near the soccer _________ and eat it while I pedaled home, or _________ to the shop and go home with some of my favorite snacks.

Then I got married and had babies. _________ the house for a two-hour ride was no longer a(n) ____________. When my girls got older, my mom ____________ them to ride their own bikes. “Pedal, pedal, pedal, glide!” she’d ____________ as she used to. But this time it was me ____________ after them with my hand on the seat.

Last spring, my mother died suddenly. I was in deep ____________. Every morning, I’d leave my hotel and ____________ my bike to a bike path. She’s never going to teach us again. I wanted to cry.

6 . I stood at the starting gate on the mountain top in Torino, Italy. I was there, ________ in the Paralympics (残疾人奥运会).

When I was nine, skiing was the ________ thing on my mind. I mean, we lived in the warm South where I seldom saw snow, ________ skied on it. I only dreamed of being a soccer ________out of love for playing it. But one of my legs began to ________ suddenly. I didn’t take it seriously at first. I just ________ my lip and said nothing. Later, my leg hurt so much that I couldn’t ________ the pain any longer. My parents took me to the hospital and the doctors ________ that there was cancer in my leg. I didn’t want them to ________ my leg. But it was the only way to save my life. What I could do was ________ it goodbye. On my way to the operating room, I felt the coolness of the floor with my bare ________. I knew I would ________ walk with both legs.

In a few weeks I was ________ with a prosthesis (假肢). Then in a short time I was ________ to it — getting around pretty well with it. Then one day in a lift I saw a ________ for a ski training course. I looked down at my leg. Could I ski, ________ just one leg? A whole new ________ was there, waiting for me to explore. Skiing was totally ________. I loved everything about it. I especially loved it as it helped me ________ losing my leg at nine. Finally, at age 22, I ________ it to the U.S. Paralympics Ski Team. I had never felt happier.

7 . A young man was about to go to the office when he received a phone call from a nurse who told him his father was injured and in hospital. So he ______ to the hospital by taxi. He had gone into the hospital when he found he ______ his cell phone in the taxi. What’s ______, he had forgotten to ask the nurse which ward his father was in. He had to run hurriedly around in the hospital ______ his father. Seeing a nurse, he asked her with ______, “My father is in hospital. He...”

The nurse ______, “Oh, my God. It’s you. Come with me!” She ______ the young man to the bed side of an elderly man. “Your son is here,” she ______ to the elderly patient several times. The old man was too weak to stay awake, only to look ______ at the young man standing beside him.

Throughout the night the young man ______ to the old man, holding the old man’s hand and offering him words of love and strength. The dying old man said nothing. The nurse ______ the young rest for a while but he ______ her advice.

Sunrise ______, the old man peacefully died. The young man placed the lifeless hand on the bed and informed the nurse. After the nurse did what was ______, she just found the young man had left, leaving a letter ______ “Thank you, lady! My father is fine. I knew right away the old man was not my father. But I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn’t here. So, I stayed.”

9 . When I first heard from my doctor that I was allergic to hay (干草), it weighed pretty heavily on my mind. I was a ________ kid growing up, running and tripping around big, open fields and playing with the animals on my friend’s farm. I never ________ from pollen (花粉) or the outside ________, except for the sun burning my ________ slightly. There were no ________ placed on me as a child.

After I learned about my ________, I felt that a kind of curse (诅咒) had been placed on me. I could never get a rabbit or a pig, since hay is the main ________ of their diets. This burden made me ________, which was the first feeling that sank in, the sudden ________ from my younger, allergen-free self.

But with time, I began to see my allergy as a(n) ________ instead. I was the kid that tried never to ________. I was okay with ________ a six-hour drive in a ________ car with my knees to my chest. I was okay with eating burned or undercooked food. But this allergy finally let me feel ________ saying “no”. I finally felt free to ________ to go to places or do things where my allergy would act up. I didn’t have to ________ for not wanting to sit on the grass with my friends on summer days while I got bitten.

I now have a sense of ________. This allergy that was supposed to be “so ________” was actually letting me breathe, and break out of what I thought was “normal”. Now I ________ worry that I’m refusing too much. I ought to thank this allergy for giving me the space to be ________.

10 . I deliver (派送) meals on wheels every Friday. A week ago, I had the pleasure of _________ one of my customers. She was in her eighties and was very _________ and I always brought her lunch on Fridays. She looked _________ when she opened the door one day. She told me her phone was_________ and that she couldn’t receive the call from her doctor. She went to her neighbors, _________ they were not at home. She had _________to ask the mailman to help her, but he didn’t come for several days. She was _________ .

Having heard _________story, I took matters into my own hands. I called the phone company_________and made sure they knew that getting this phone__________was urgent (紧急的). I took down her phone number and her __________ just to make sure I could __________ later to see if the phone had been fixed.

She was so __________ that she was in tears,__________me for my help. I called the __________twice that day. They told me they had checked the phone line and got the phone__________. After that I called her every day to make sure she was__________ and didn’t need anything.

Just being able to help her in her time of__________filled my heart with such__________and happiness. It does not take much time or __________ to help a neighbor. Sometimes, all that is needed is a smile, a hug or a helping hand.