1 . When other teenagers hang out with friends in the summer vacations. Erica doesn’t join. Instead, the 16-year-old senior high student is ______in filling cake orders and updating her website. She ______Kayke Bakery, a home-based business.

Erica started baking out of ______in the year 2021. Her first attempt was a(n) ______.Yet she made more cakes the next day and ______her techniques through teaching videos on a daily basis. “I saw other people’s decorated cakes and was ______to be a cake artist instead of just a baker,” Erica said. After due ______, she asked her parents about setting up her own business. “Seeing how ______she was,” Erica’s mother recalled, “we ______beginning to help her cope with all the legalities for its opening.” Soon, she had ______customers always coming to her for custom cakes. “______dealing with both school and a business is tough on occasions, but I managed to get______.” she said. “I’m glad to be able to do what I love.”

Always considered a ______, Erica finished her senior year with almost full marks. She plans to ______cake decorating after senior high. “I’m thinking about starting non-profit organizations.” In these years, besides learning various techniques, Erica has become more ______ . “I realize I possess great potential and power.”

2 . It should have at least been a dunk (扣篮). Everyone in the area knew it as the tall, wonderful _______ flew toward the basket. There was no one within 20 feet of him and no obstacle to _______ him from scoring as he had so many times before. But this time he _______.

Never mind that he was_______ at full speed during a pressure-packed game, with thousands of _______fans screaming at him to miss. As far as I was concerned, there was no _______for missing such an easy, automatic shot. I couldn’t believe it. For the rest of the game, I _______about every missed shot and every bad pass. By the end of the game, I _______ at him through the television screen, “You’re a professional. A professional doesn’t make mistakes like that!”_______, he didn’t play a perfect game.

Later that evening I was doing some filing (归档) when I paused to reread a column from several weeks ago. I stopped when I __________ a typo(打字错误). Instead of “the”, I had written “tje”. But it was an understandable __________. After all, the letters “h” and “j” are right __________ to each other on the keyboard. Anyone could slip and hit the wrong __________. And I was sure the editors would catch the mistake and fix it __________it went into publication.

My eyes went __________ to “the”. And somewhere in the back of my mind I heard a(n) __________ scolding voice: “You’re a professional. A professional doesn’t make mistakes like that!”

I guess it’s __________ that we don’t really have a right to expect __________ in others until we’re prepared to expect it in ourselves. And not just professionally. This is __________true on the highway, in the grocery store, at the movies and most especially in the home. Unless we can offer ourselves as a perfect example, we ought to be willing to excuse others’__________.

3 . As a child, Robin Stevens loved reading murder mystery stories. She _________ herself in the worlds of fictional detectives(侦探) like Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple. These childhood heroes now _________ her own detective stories and most recently the first in her new _________ of books was called The Ministry of Unladylike Activity.

This series is set in the Second World War (1939—45) and tells the story of May Wong, _________, with her friend Eric, wants to be a spy(间谍). They _________ a case at the mysterious Elysium Hall. Stevens tells The Week Junior that all her characters are _________ “parts of myself, parts of friends and some historical characters who I _________.”

Stevens tries to write 2,000 words every day when she’s first _________ a story. “It’s complicated(复杂的) and I think, ‘This is _________, I can’t write’,” she says, but then she goes back, checks and __________ a few pages at a time and __________ the story comes together. She says her snack of choice is jelly beans, to keep her brain __________.

“If you want to write, you have to __________,” she says, or at least, __________ stories from books, TV or films. Although writing can be hard and __________, if you give a few minutes to it every day, week or month, you will improve. Remember to have fun with a story, Stevens says, “and if you’re not having fun, write something else.”

4 . The release of the iPhone 11 last September was greeted with open arms. People _____ for four days just to be one of the first people in the world to get their hands on these gadgets. They _____ up to 800 dollars for the privilege (特权).

But a phone, nowadays, is no longer just a practical device, which used to _____ and call. It has become a symbol of status, and so much more than a telephone. Children as _____ as five years old have been in Britain carrying round _____ mobile phones. And for what reason? The answer lies in the _____ that the primary use for mobile phones is no longer a phone. More photos are taken using the iPhone than any camera in the world.

As an iPhone _____ myself, I am never without my phone. I check Facebook, Twitter and my e-mails several times a day, along with taking _____ and keeping in touch with friends and family. But do we _____ our phones too much? I love sharing things that I enjoy and keeping up with my friends’ lives, but I do think it’s got out of hand. Instead of talking together, friends sit round ______ in restaurants scrolling through Facebook, and we are more interested in photos of special moments than ______ enjoying them. I think it’s ______ to make time for each other. Turn off your phone every now and again. One _______when you go out with friends is to put all of your phones in the middle of the table, and whoever ______ his phone first has to pay the bill! Sharing and keeping in touch is ______, but don’t let your phone become more important than the people in your life.

5 . Chinese emojis(表情符号) In Everyday Use Abroad

This is not the first time the Chinese emoji takes the world stage. Earlier this year, one emoji from the Chinese basketball celebrity Yao Ming has been________through the Middle East region. In Luxor, a city in southern Egypt, Yao's smiling emoji has emerged ________in local traffic signs to remind people the road ahead is one-way.

And you may be surprised to find that many locals do not know Yao   Ming but are________with his emoji and nickname "Chinese Funny Face".________ , the emoji has been picked up by   the Egyptian English-language daily newspaper Egyptian Gazette as the title picture for its humorous column Serious but Funny.

What's more, due to the huge________of Chinese Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, many renowned western celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and Madonna have________their       personal accounts on the platform.

Many Chinese fans are excited about this and now choose to greet them with their own funny pictures, a behavior arousing the________of   foreign   media. American private   Internet media   company BuzzFeed reported on the cultural phenomenon.

As a newly emerging online language, emojis have risen to become an ________part of   people's daily life. Emojis are able to help people________their views in a more vivid and precise fashion. Also, it can help foreigners learn about Chinese culture and learn the language.

As Chinese emojis have slowly entered the world stage, how to properly use "the fifth innovation in China", a humorous name for emojis, ________hurting others and how to turn them into          commercial advantages still need answers.