1 . That cold January night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was, walking home at one o’clock in the morning after a tiring practice at the _________. With opening night only a week away, I was still learning my _________. I was having trouble dealing with my part-time job at the bank and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about _________ both acting and San Francisco. City life had become too much for me.

As I walked down empty streets under tall buildings, I felt very small and cold. I began _________, both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible _________. Very few people were still out except a few sad-looking _________ people under blankets.

About a block from my apartment, I heard a sound behind me. I turned quickly, half _________ to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetlight. _________, the noise had made me nervous, so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I realize what the noise had been. It had been my _________ falling to the sidewalk.

Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to __________I’d heard the noise. Although I searched the sidewalk anxiously for fifteen minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.

Just as I was about to give up the search, I heard the garbage truck pull up to the sidewalk next to me. When a voice called from the inside, “Alisa Camacho?” I thought I was __________. How could this man know my name? The door opened, and out __________a small red-haired man with an amused look in his eyes. “Is this what you’re looking for?” he asked, __________ up a small square shape.

It was nearly 3 A.M. by the time I got into bed. I wouldn’t get much sleep that night, but I had gotten my wallet back. I also had gotten back some __________ of city life. I realized that the city couldn’t be a bad place as long as people were __________ to help each other.

4 . The first attempt of even the most talented artists, musicians, and writers is seldom a masterpiece, If you consider your drafts as dress rehearsals (彩排), or tryouts, revising will seem a natural part of the writing _________. What is the purpose of the dress rehearsals and the out-of-town previews that many Broadway shows go through? The answer is adding, deleting, replacing, reordering, _________ revising. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Phantom of the Opera underwent such a process. When Lloyd Webber began writing in 1984, he had in mind a funny, exciting production. However, when Phantom opened in London in 1986, the audience saw a moving psychological love story set to music. The musical had _________ several revisions due, in part, to problems with costuming and makeup (戏服和化妆). For instance, Lloyd Webber _________ some of the music because the Phantom’s makeup prevented the actor from singing certain sounds. When you revise, you change aspects of your work in _________ to your evolving purpose, or to include _________ ideas or newly discovered information. Revision is not just an afterthought that gets only as much time as you have at the end of an assignment. _________, it is a major stage of the writing process, and writers revise every step of the way. Even your decision to _________ topics while prewriting is a type of revising. However, don’t make the mistake of skipping the revision stage that follows _________. Always make time to become your own __________and view your dress rehearsal, so to speak. Reviewing your work in this way can give you __________ new ideas. Revising involves __________ the effectiveness and appropriateness of all aspects of your writing, making your purpose more clearly, and refocusing or developing the facts and ideas you present. When you revise, ask yourself the following questions, keeping in mind the audience for whom you are writing: Is my main idea or purpose __________ throughout my draft? Do I ever lose sight of my purpose? Have I given my readers all of the __________ , that is, facts, opinions, inferences --- that they need in order to understand my main idea? Finally, have I included too many __________ details that may confuse readers?

7 . Marilyn managed to walk no further with her recent knee injury. I had a good _________ to stay with her at Irene’s home. The rest of our group walked back to Cathie’s to wait since we met up with Carlos’ _________ tire.

The spare one was anyhow also flat, so a trip to the farther-away town became a _________, which meant a brief stay with Irene and her daughter Lupita. _________, neither Marilyn nor I speak much Spanish and they speak little English. It appeared as though we were bound to pass an _________ period of time.

Things at times turn out to be no worse than expected. Lupita showed us how to make a rubber band bracelet (手链). She gave Marilyn and me a few she had _________ done. I secretly took one of the bracelets off my wrist into Lupita’s bag of finished ones.

While Lupita was sent to the store, which we found out later was to get some cheese for lunch.I taught Irene ho w to make a peace dove. She was a very quick learner. Even though the way of dealing with that _________ inside fold still confused her, she got the _______ of it soon.

When Lupita returned, Irene went up the concrete stair to the kitchen area, where we could hear her mixing, patting and frying empanadas. Lupita stayed and kept us _________. We made origami doves, hearts and even a little dog named Palomo — which means dove or pigeon.

Invited to share a simple, yet so generously prepared and shared lunch of homemade empanadas, we sat at the table, ____________ the language of food, creativity, kindness and   ____________.

A cock took a break from its ____________ outside the back door. Doves that____________ in the trees showed their ____________ to the harmonious scene, as we shared a meal of peace and ____________.

9 . An off-duty pilot was called a “legend” after stepping in to fly a plane himself to stop the flight being cancelled.

Michael Bradley, a(n) ________ easyJet pilot, had a holiday when he ________ flying a plane that was delayed by two hours. He told passengers on board the Manchester Airport flight to Alicante that he was ________ his services as there was no pilot available.

Mr. Bradley said, “My wife was then with my little boy. She ________ and complained, ‘Our flight’s delayed by two hours because there’s no ________ for the flight.’ So just before we went through security I wonder if this is worth a phone call. I think it is because I’d like to go on holiday.”

Mr. Bradley phoned up easyJet and said, “I’m standing in the ________ doing nothing. I have got my ________ with me and I’d very much like to go on holiday and if you need a(n) ________, I’m standing here ready to go.” And his bosses called him back in less than a minute to give him the go-ahead, saying, “Please, please, can you fly the airplane to Alicante?” Then he told this to the passengers. This was ________ with cheers from the passengers.

An easyJet spokesman said, “We are ________ to one of our pilots who was travelling on holiday from Manchester to Alicante on 2^nd, September with his family and ________ to operate the flight. This ________ customers could get to their destination and shows the ________ of our crew. This is ________ in line with regulations as he had his license and ID with him. Safety is always our ________ priority.”

10 . Eradajere Oleita thinks she may have a partial solution for two of her country’s persistent (持续的) problems: garbage and poverty (贫困). It’s called the Chip Bag Project. The 26-year-old student and environmentalist from Detroit is asking a (n) _________ of local snack lovers: Rather than _________ your empty chip bags into the trash (垃圾桶), _________ them so she can turn them into sleeping bags for the _________.

Chip eaters drop off their _________ bags from Doritos (多力多滋薯片), Lay’s (乐事薯片), and other favorites at two _________ in Detroit: a print shop and a clothing store, where Oleita and her volunteer helpers collect them. After they _________ the chip bags in soapy hot water, they _________ them open, lay them flat, and iron them together. They use soft materials from old coats to line the insides.

It _________ about four hours to sew a sleeping bag, and each takes around 150 to 300 chip bags, __________ whether they’re single-serve or family size. The result is a sleeping bag that is “waterproof, lightweight, and easy to carry __________,” Oleita told the Detroit News.

Since its start in 2020, the Chip Bag Project has __________ more than 800,000 chip bags and, as of last December, __________ 110 sleeping bags.

Sure, it would be simpler to __________ the money to buy new sleeping bags. But that’s only half the __________ for Oleita—whose family moved to the United States from Nigeria a decade ago with the hope of __________ a better life—and her fellow volunteers. “We are__________ ourselves to making an impact not only socially, but environmentally,” she says.

And, of course, there’s the symbolism of recycling bags that would otherwise land in the __________ and using them to help the homeless. It’s a powerful reminder that environmental problems and poverty often go __________. As Oleita told hourdetroit.com: “I think it’s time to show __________ between all of these issues.”