1 . Emma and Zoe are both good swimmers. With great _______ and quick thinking, the two teenagers recently became _______ while swimming in Barbados.

The incident happened when the girls heard a _______ cry for help while relaxing on the beach after their swim.

“I heard someone shouting for help in the distance. I then looked around and _______ her, about 50 feet out from where I was,” Zoe, 13, told Global News.

The anxious woman, _______ as Belinda Stone from London, England, informed Zoe that her husband, Robert Stone, was even _______ and struggling to swim. Without hesitation, Zoe and 14-year-old Emma quickly _______ , risking their own safety to rescue the Stones.

After _______ Belinda back to shore, the girls started a five- or six-minute swim through challenging _______ to reach Robert, who was about 150 feet from shore. “When we reached him, he was trying to swim but we could tell he was struggling. He was breathing very ________ ,” Zoe stated. Despite the difficult ________, they successfully brought him back to safety.

Emma shared her experience, saying, “It was a long and ________ swim. I learned from both my parents that when there is a really strong current, you should never swim against it. You should swim parallel (平行) to shore until it ________ or you are completely out of it; otherwise, you will be pulled out into deep ________ .”

The grateful Stones expressed their ________ , “We are just extremely grateful to Zoe and Emma. They saved our lives.”

2 . One day, I was appointed to be a volunteer to welcome Alex Haley, the author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I was _________ because I feared that I would embarrass myself in front of this famous gentleman. After meeting him, I was struck by how _________ he is.

“I’d like to become a writer, but I don’t know if I have the _________. You’ve accomplished so much. How did you _________ that you had a gift for writing?” I raised my question without hesitation. Mr. Haley laughed,_________, “I didn’t, and I don’t.” “_________ is a craft (技艺),” he said. “I learned to write through practice and persistence.”

He explained that when he entered the Coast Guard in 1939, he was _________ some boring work. He became so bored that he bought a portable typewriter. He began to write letters for sailors who wanted to _________ their parents and others back home but lacked writing skills. He wrote every day. As his writing skills improved, he _________ became a journalist for the Coast Guard.

“If you want to become a writer,” he __________ to say, “don’t worry about whether you have some magic al gift. Put in the work. Write every day, and don’t give up until you __________ it.”

This was not the answer I __________. I thanked him for his advice. After my __________ with Alex Haley, I no longer care about whether I have the “gift” to become a writer.__________, I start writing every day. Within two years, I published three stories in national children ‘s magazines. I’ve been writing and publishing ever since. Had I not met this extraordinary man, I would never have received the benefit of his wise advice and the __________ that followed.

3 . Biar Kon, a 17-year-old student, whose parents were working in neighboring Sudan, moved to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, to attend school. Once he _______, he needed to get some documents from the Sudanese embassy(大使馆). But when he went to look for the embassy, he couldn’t find it. He asked a few people for _______, and no one knew where it was. Then an older woman tapped him on the back.

The woman told Kon that she had seen him asking questions of multiple people as they _______, and she wondered if he needed money for food, or a place to stay. Then Kon realized that the woman thought he was _______.

They cleared up the _______, and the woman was able to offer her help. The woman’s _______ left a deep impression on Kon. And it inspired him to _______ five years later, when he moved to Boston, Massachusetts. One day, outside a coffee shop, he _______ a man who was begging for change. Kon _______ that moment five years earlier, when the woman in Nairobi had ________ him for a homeless person. So he went up to the man to see what he could do. “He told me why he was on the street—because he made a（n） ________ mistake when he was in high school, and he couldn’t get a ________ now,” Kon recalled. Kon bought the man some breakfast, and gave him a little bit of money.

Today, it’s an encounter he ________. For him, it is a ________ that you never know what people are going through unless you talk to them ________ — the way the woman in Nairobi made an effort to talk to him.

4 . I wasn’t raised to be a fan of snails (蜗牛). I was always taught that if we see a snail on a plant, we should pick it off and_________on it. This brought us the kind of giggly (咯咯傻笑的) _________that only children experience. We loved it. However, my_________on snails has changed, as I’ve grown older. They bring me a different kind of happiness.

The first time I thought of snails as more than a_________was when I saw something that_________ me in my garden. A small snail, _________a hard shell, moved slowly toward one_________bud and explored it. The exploration lasted for quite a while and, _________enough, the bud turned into a full bloom. Watching the snail carefully touching the flower_________me of the lyric: “Snails see the beauty in every inch.” I realized that the snail is probably a best representation of__________and taking life slowly.

Then, I__________the snail in my palm. It was scared by the sudden move and immediately__________back into its shell. I thought it would__________inside for several minutes, but shortly after gutting used to the takeaway, the snail poked its head out again. It was not just hiding but__________.

Giving ourselves time to nourish (滋养) inside and out, and waiting for the right__________to reenter the exciting life, is extremely restorative and worthwhile.

5 . I am a student. I go to school from Monday ________Friday. In ________ morning I get up at ten to six. Then I wash my face. I have________breakfast at six o’clock. After breakfast I go to school. I usually take a bus to school. ________ if I get up so late, I will go by car. I begin class at eight. I have four ________at morning. At noon, I have ________ time to go home. So I ________ my lunch at school. At two o’clock, I play ________football with my friends. My classes________over at four thirty. ________ that I go home and get home at twenty past five. I have supper with my parents at six. I often eat meat, ________, and some vegetables. ________ I eat dumplings. After supper I do the ________. Then I do my homework or ________ to the pop music. I go ________ bed about ten thirty.

6 . Without three key players, including the former captain, how did 55-year-old Jenny Lang Ping and her girls spent the 20 days before winning against Japan with 3-1? Getting the world title at the 2015 FIVB Women’s World Cup is _______. The three players, namely, former captain Hui Ruoqi, Yang Fangxu and Xu Yunli, all _______ a lot to Chinese national women’s volleyball team. Hui Ruoqi and Yang Fangxu helped the country win the silver _______ in last year’s World Championship, while Xu Yunli helped China win the third _______ at Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Facing this, Jenny Lang Ping, who is called “Iron Hammer”, never _______ in her weak team and prepared for the coming competitions at the 2015 FIVB Women’s World Cup by _______ the confidence of her girls. Head coach Lang Ping and her girls met their first _______ after failing to beat US women’s volleyball team on Aug 24, 2015, two days after the start of the 2015 FIVB Women’s World Cup. The girls couldn’t help crying in the face of the _______, but Lang Ping _______ them around and said: “Calm down, girls, it’s still too ________ to see who will win, since we can learn lessons from this failure”, after analyzing Chinese team’s problems during the game and thinking about the ________.

________ encouraging words and smiles, the head coach watched the video of that game until late night and just had a two-hour light sleep. But the 55-year-old did not fight ________. Her girls returned with ________ to fight until the end. And finally, they ________ it.

7 . I live in Sarasota, Florida, where sudden and terrible rainstorms can often come out of nowhere. People who are not from around here will never_______ to bring an umbrella with them every_________day.

One beautiful afternoon, my mother and I were heading for our_________in her car after taking my cat to hospital. Suddenly, as so often_________, a heavy rainstorm blew in.

While waiting at a red light, we noticed a_________over to the side of the road. Someone was crouching (蹲着) at the bus stop. Looking_________, we came to clearly see this was a young woman, crouching low to_________ her young daughter as they waited for the bus. She got wet all through.

As traffic began to move, my mother felt_________but was unable to think of what she could do. At the very next light,_________going home, she turned to the left and then circled back around the block to__________.

As they came into view__________, the young mother still covering her child with her own body, my mom__________.She grabbed her umbrella and ran over to them. Not saying a word, she__________handed the young mother the umbrella, smiling, and ran back.

I’m so glad I witnessed this__________on my mother’s part. I’m following my mom’s__________, always ready to warm someone else in need.

8 . Exercise and healthy eating go together to produce a healthy lifestyle! Many of us have internal (内心的) ________ why we can’t do either one! We have all once felt ________ for planning an activity but failing in the end! We are busy. We don’t have time to drive to the ________, the weather is too bad for that promised walk, and it’s too hot or cold out, or any other number of excuses!

The good news is that any exercise helps increase our ________. Fifteen minutes of activity a day, or 90 minutes per week, is enough to cut your risk of death by 14%, compared to ________ people. That is a healthy ________ to develop.

Please take the time to add ________ to your life. Start slow, if you are out of shape. You do not need to be a (n) ________ sportsperson. Fast walking is enough to help control diabetes (糖尿病)! ________ by adding a 10-minute walk to your daily life! Even adding 5 minutes to your walk each week can make a(n) ________ difference.

Try to ________ for at least 30 minutes per day. You can break it up into three 10-minute ________ if you need to. It all makes ________. Just get moving! Moreover, some apps on your phone can help ________ your steps. You do not need an expensive gym membership either. To ________ your health, just walk out the door!

9 . In present times, stress is one of the major causes of mental illness and physical illness. Stress is no _________ to us. Everybody has met and experienced it. It lives in our homes, workplaces, and _________ follows us wherever we go, in some form or other. But do you know why you can’t _________ it?

You get stressed because you _________ to get stressed. This is ridiculous (荒谬的), you might say. You’re right. Who would _________ that stress is a choice that we make? And why in the world would we choose stress? Well, it is because we do not realize that we’re doing that. It happens _________. Choosing stress is easy, but the other way around is a _________ task.

Most of us would take the easy _________, the path of minimum efforts. We’re under stress at times _________ we don’t do anything that we should do — just because either we’re __________ or we don’t have __________ in ourselves. When you don’t complete your task on time, and the __________ draws near, stress envelops you.

If you did your task or carried your __________ as it should be, then you would not be stressed. Choosing not to get stressed is like swimming against the tide. Initially (最初), it __________ effort because you are used to going with the flow of your __________ behavior. So we need to overcome our laziness and self-abasement to be stress-free.

10 . Tommy hated school and was always looking for excuses not to go.

If he sneezed, he _________ his mother to write a note to tell his _________ that he had a cold. If he had a headache, he asked his mother to take him to the doctor _________ school hours.

He spent _______ time at home than he did at school. On the days that he did go to school, he _______ for excuse to come home early.

One day he came home from school in the middle of the _______.

His father was _______.

“You are home early,” he said. “Is the school closed today?”

“_______, Dad,” Tommy said. “It’s open. I came early.”

“_______ did you do that?” his father asked him. “ What did you ________ to the teacher?”

“I told her that I had a ________ baby brother and that I had to come home and help ________.” “But your mother has had ________,” his father said, “a boy and a girl. You have ________ a baby brother and a baby sister.”

“Yes, I know, Dad,” Tommy said. “I’m ________ up my baby sister for next week.“