1 . When John asked his daughters which sculptures they like best, they shouted excitedly, “The Story birds!”. These birds are the _______ of Robin and John. Robin explains, “Made from plain clay (黏土), the colorful ceramic birds stand on metal legs. There is a little _______ in it. Together, we make something better.”

At John’s house, art is a family _______. Robin brings style to their ceramics. John crafts the metal elements of the sculptures, Their daughters, Ruby, Eliza and Carmella, help too. “The girls _______ into bodies,” says John, “Everyone contributes to the works, so every sculpture is a symbol of our _______ effort.”

There are lots of _______ to turn a clay into a bird. First, John breaks the clay and _______ it until about one-quarter inch thick. He covers it so that it won’t dry out and _______. Then, Robin _______. She thins the clay here and there, pushing in and out to make the bird’s body. John adds fresh clay on the drier clay and Robin ________ the body with bright colors. Then it is Ruby’s turn. She sculpts it. Eventually, the bird will go into an oven for firing-baking and ________. Robin programs the oven so that the temperature ________ bit by bit. Total oven time can be 20 hours. “That may be a long time.but the ________ you heat the clay, the more likely it is to crack.” Robin says.

Soon, the bird stands ________ on its feet, John shows it to his families. “I did the carving!” Ruby says excitedly. The girls gather for a closer look. The________expressions on their faces tell a story — they love making art together.

2 . More than 200 people were killed and 900 others injured in a major accident Friday evening involving three trains in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, officials said on Saturday.

At least 233 people ____ and about 900 were injured in the ____, and the number of death is ____ to increase further.

According to officials, the Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata to Chennai, hit the Yashwantpur-Howrah Express, which derailed (脱轨). A cargo train was also said to be ____ in the accident.

Officials said the ____ of the collision was so ____ that carriages of the two trains climbed atop each other, ____ deaths and injuries to passengers. A large number of passengers were ____ inside the derailed coaches.

____ after the accident, rescue teams, health officials, police, and fire services rushed to the ____. A large crowd of locals ____ reached the spot to help the injured.

All the health facilities nearby were ____ alert. Meanwhile, the injured were ____ to the hospital throughout the night.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ____ grief over the ____ of lives in the accident and condolences (吊唁) are pouring in from various quarters.

3 . In the early hours of the morning on April 17, Kevin Record, 43, was sleeping in his apartment on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, England. His dog, Shogun, jumped onto the bed and ______ him up. Record’s e-scooter (电动摩托车) was sparking. In a sudden, the scooter’s battery ______ and the bedroom was quickly set on fire.

Though suffering serious life-changing ______ on the right-hand side of his body, Record managed to ______ from the flat and survive from the fire. ______, Shogun lost his life. “Losing my hero dog especially made me ______.” Record said. “He was everything to me. I’ll never ______ what he did for me.” Record added: “I can’t explain the ______ of the fire. I had never seen anything like that. Within seconds, it was like a fireball that ______ to everything in sight. It was so quick and ______.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) ______ to the apartment fire. They put out the fire but could not ______ any of Record’s belongings. Fire investigators believed that the ______ in Record’s e-scooter had been overheated while powering up, causing the scooter to catch fire.

Speaking from his hospital bed, Kevin promised he would routinely check his e-scooter and make sure it is in good working ______. After Kevin recovered from his injuries, the 43-year-old was hoping his experience would serve as a(n) ______ for anyone storing or charging e-scooters.

4 . Like most of her schoolmates in rural Zimbabwe, 12-year-old Melisa has just one type of food in the meal container she brings from home. Today she finds____sweet potatoes. Her friend Nyarai has plain rice. Others’ tins ____roasted nuts, dried fish. Or boiled corn. “We bring different foods, but nobody has a______meal,” explains Melisa. Kids with too little food have fainted in class or _____dropped out of school.

But now Melisa and her schoolmates are getting_____when it comes to what they and kids with too little food are getting more, because they are sharing what’s in their tins. At lunch, students_______around the schoolyard in small groups that they call “lunch-tin clubs.” With their parents’_____, they split up their food. Nyarai finds her rice tastier when she shares it with Farisai and Linnet, who share their drink or dried pieces of meat with her. “_________brings variety to the food we eat,” Farisai says. “And it is good for our health too. ”

The clubs also_____ new friendships. Although Dennis and Prince live near each other and are classmates, they_____talked or played together before. Now, Prince says, “We are best friends at school and at home.”

Irene, a student teacher, sees another____to the clubs. Kids now freely share school supplies without quarreling. The school does not have enough for everyone, so two kids may sit on one chair, and four may use the ____book. “It’s difficult to share food when you are________” Irene says. “If you can do that, it becomes_____to share many other things.” TheLunch-Tin clubs contributes to sharing food and forming_______.

5 . Now we are small, but when we grow up then we can teach our little brothers and sisters, the younger generation, to understand what is good and what is bad.

Shamima is from Bangladesh. She is seventeen years old. She ________ people living in her community about safe water.

Many people living near Shamima do not have ________ or latrines in their homes. They do not have a clean supply of drinking ________ And there is a lot of rubbish in the river where people ________ their water. Many people are sick in Shamima’s community because of the ________ water situation. But, Shamima plans to ________ that.

Shamima ________ many homes. She carries with her a simple set of directions and a ________ that she made herself. The picture has two sides. Shamima calls one side good and the other side bad. She shows people her picture and ______ what a healthy community looks like.

She makes sure each family is drinking ________ water from the well. She also teaches them ______ to make drinking water safe. She asks if they are using toilets or latrines. She tells them where to throw their ________ . And she teaches them the importance of washing their ________ before eating or preparing food. Shamima is ________ the bad water situation in her community.

“I am the one who has hands and feet and mind. And AIDS is only something that is inside my ________ . So it will try to rule the inside. But outside I will be the boss. I will be in control,” said Shamima.

6 . An airline loses two suitcases belonging to two different travelers, Lucy and Pete. Both suitcases happen to be the same and also contain ________ antiques. An airline manager ________ to compensate for their loss figures that simply asking them for the price is hopeless, for they may ________ it. Instead, he has them write down the price as any dollar between 2 and 100 ________ so that they cannot negotiate with each other. If both write the same number, he will pay each of them that amount. If not, he will assume that the person writing the higher number is ________ and pay both of them the lower number with a ________ and a punishment-the person writing the lower number will get $2 more as a reward for ________ and the other will get $2 less instead. For instance, if Lucy writes 46 and Pete writes 100, Lucy will get $48 and Pete will get $44. What numbers will Lucy and Pete write?

________, Lucy’s idea is that she should write the largest possible number, which will earn her $100 if Pete’s similarly ________. Soon, it strikes her that if she wrote 99, she’d make a little more — $101. But surely this ________ will also occur to Pete, who will choose 99 too. Continuing with this line of ________, when both are unwilling to lose money or get less than the other, they will end up writing down the ________ price of the antique. Experimental studies conducted by economists, however, ________ this narrow view of reason. In their studies, most participants pick $100 or a number close to it, either without thinking the problem through or tending to believe they’ll ________ the “unreasonable” number. By doing so, participants ultimately get a much bigger ________ Based on this, researchers have concluded that people appear to have a natural tendency towards cooperation, which favors seemingly unreasonable but beneficial strategies.

7 . At the age of 12, I started playing golf when my parents enrolled me in a junior camp at the local public course. From that moment, much of my life has been _________ the game. The aspect of golf that attracted me was the sense of _________. There’s always a chance of making something _________ happen, maybe breaking a personal record or potentially making a hole-in-one.

When I decided to pursue journalism in college, I had to take a _________ from the game. I’d still go out _________ to play with friends, but for the first time since my teens, I was away from my community.

My _________ for playing golf reawakened when a friend invited me to the Langston course, which _________ me of the courses where I grew up: a _________ spot for people of all working-class backgrounds, and a far cry from the private golf _________, in which expensive memberships are a basic __________. When I get paired up with strangers to play, it’s usually more of a __________ crowd.

Some of the best walks I’ve taken have been out on the golf course. It’s where I __________ with old friends and meet new ones, who __________ me to practice and get better. We share experiences on the golf course that are __________ and laugh about for days after our rounds.

The sense of community I’ve regained with golf goes beyond my imagination. My circle only seems to be __________, and I’m eager to see what the future holds.

8 . Looking at a timeline of Kirstie Ennis’ life, it’s clear that to call her ago-getter would be a considerable understatement By 31, she has made remarkable _________, such as gaining three masters degrees, walking 1,000 miles across England, and climbing six of the world’s tallest mountains, all after _________ a tragic accident.

In 2012, the former soldier _________ survived in a helicopter crash. Undergoing surgeries. she eventually lost her left _________ to serious infection. Forced into medical retirement, Ennis needed to _________ a way to both process her trauma (创伤) and continue to _________ people, one of her main reasons for joining the army.

She found the answer in the great _________. She began snowboarding and diving, participating in events to raise money for nonprofits. Soon, she had a more specific goal in mind: She would mount all Seven Summits — the highest _________ on each of the seven continents. Since 2017, she’s checked six of them off her list. Next spring, she would set to explore her final _________, the most difficult climb, Mount Everest.

She has also setup the Kirstie Ennis Foundation, offering educational and __________ opportunities to people like her and introducing medical device technology to underserved parts of the world. Its mission is to __________ individuals to bravely get over the mountains in front of them.

Ennis __________ doubt about her capabilities. “People look at me and think ‘She’s small she’s a woman, she has one leg. __________ I enjoy the challenge, and being the underdog.” She added, “I’m __________ of myself and I want to show people that with self-belief and __________, nothing is impossible.”

9 . One morning, standing at the head of our class, John Evans, a ragged-looking boy seemed to be an unfortunate sight. We weren’t sure what to think of the ________ dressed newcomer, but whispers of ________ began drifting from row to row.

Mrs. Parmele introduced him, trying to sound _________. John looked around and smiled, hoping somebody would ________ back. Nobody did. I held my breath, hoping Mrs. Parmele wouldn’t notice the ________ desk next to mine. She did and pointed him in that ________ . John Evans slid into the free seat, which was quite ________ for me.

However, I gradually found him a pretty ________ boy, actually pleasant to be around . Through my nightly ________ , my mother had grown to know John quite well. One night before going to bed, I said to Mother, “Mom, tomorrow is John’s birthday, but he’s going to get nothing. Nobody even ________ .” Mom said, “I’m sure everything will turn out to be fine.”

The next afternoon, I heard a ________ sound coming from the hallway singing the birthday song. Mother came with a plate of cupcakes and a ________ wrapped present. She put the cupcakes and gift on John’s desk, saying “Happy birthday, John.” John graciously ________ his cupcakes with the class. Mother smiled.

Since then I’ve never heard from John again. Whenever I hear that familiar song, I remember the ________ tones of my mother’s voice, the glint(闪光) in a boy’s eyes and the taste of the sweetest ________ .

10 . Fifteen years ago, an earthquake in Turkey hit the school where William Jefferson studied and he was buried in the ruins

He was ________ after 24 hours, but his legs, severely injured, had to be ________. At first, William was ________ and didn’t want to talk to anyone. Later with his parents’ support, William had the courage to spend the following five months in ________ and learned how to get around with his prosthetic (义肢) legs.

________ his prosthetic legs, William regained the ability to walk. Then he was able to return to school. With ________ grades, he got admitted to Ankara University. Later, he ________ his master’s degree with straight A’s and began to work at an educational organization.

In his spare time, William ________ videos on social media about his life and received many________ from other disabled people. They wondered how he could walk so well. That was when it occurred to William that he could make a contribution by helping those ________ to find suitable prosthetic legs and train them to walk ________ again. So he found a job as a doctor studying in prosthetic recovery. It ________ William to see disabled people unable to get out of their homes because they cannot move freely or fear being looked at. This is what ________ his work with recovery.

“I hope that one day when we walk down the street with prosthetic legs, we are not treated ________,” said William. “I plan to continue helping more people with ________ to be less disabled, to move more freely and enjoy life in the way they want.”