1 . At the age of 104, Dorothy Hoffner achieved what few would dare — she _________ a Guinness World Record by skydiving from 13,500 feet From Chicago. Dorothy first tried skydiving at 100. This week, she beat herself, leaving her walker on the ground，_________ out of a plane, and _________ gracefully in Ottawa, Illinois.

Since her youth, Dorothy had taken up _________, even driving across the country on her own. Her _________ and love for life were obvious in her decision to take to the skies in her golden years.

When asked about her amazing achievement, Dorothy didn’t make a big deal about it and simply said, “Age doesn’t really matter.” Her words really showed the _________ and energy she had. Dorothy had faced many challenges throughout her long and _________ life. For example, she _________ the Spanish flu and other pandemics, and she never let those things get her down. She always had this unbelievable _________ that made her want to __________ herself and try new things.

As news of Dorothy’s __________ achievement spread, she became a __________ of hope and inspiration worldwide. Her story particularity awoke the passions (激情) of those facing their own challenges, __________ them to embrace life’s adventures despite their situations. Dorothy serves as a living example of the famous saying, “It’s never too late,” inspiring us all to __________ our passions and __________ regardless of our age.

2 . Young Chinese people in the new era are confident and responsible. With a ________ vision, they stand at the forefront of the times ready for a more global outlook.

After ________ from university in 2020, Danni chose to work in Africa for a year and then travel to seven ________ including Tanzania and Kenya.

A ________ school in Uganda put her travels on pause. The primary school is built on a hillside by the local government. The school’s walls are painted orange and the roof is painted in a ________ color like the sky, while the children’s uniforms are a bright green. She was assigned to ________ children grades one to four. She set up different kinds of classes for her students. Sometimes, Danni would ________ traditional Chinese cuisines such as fried eggs with tomato and buns in class. She had a good time getting to know the children at the school ________ .

Danni also tried to ________ the students during her volunteer experience. While staying at a preschool in Mafinga, Tanzania, she was responsible for preparing lunch for the kids. The preschool is so far from town and she needed to pass through a forest before ________ a bus and commuting for more than half an hour to get to the school.

To prepare a delicious lunch for Spring Festival celebrations, Danni raised over 1,000 yuan and went to the local town to ________ enough ingredients to make nearly 200 buns. The satisfied smiles on the faces of ________ while eating the buns ________ her to continue to find meaning in ________ work in different places.

In 2022, Danni arrived in Lebanon and ________ a voluntary teacher at a local school through a non-governmental organization. This time she taught arts and crafts to her students.

3 . Zhang Yingying, director of Shenzhen Yuyan Caring and Career Development Center for the Disabled, was awarded the title of 8th National Moral Model. She is the sixth person from Shenzhen to receive the ________.

Although she is ________ handicapped and needs a wheelchair, Zhang is committed to ________ the disabled with employment and entrepreneurship by establishing four social organizations, two enterprises and providing ________ for over 2,700 disabled people for 10 years.

Zhang had polio in childhood, which ________ her leg muscles. However, she didn't give up her passion for ________.With her family’s care, she grew up into an outgoing, ________ and self-reliant woman with a generous and helpful ________. The well-educated and optimistic woman ________ Shenzhen, a city with vitality, inclusiveness and friendliness to start her career serving disabled people after graduating from university in 2011. “It is not easy for people with disabilities to find a job, but Shenzhen's warmth and inclusiveness had ________ my decision to stay,” she said.

“I wanted to ________ stereotypes about the disabled. Their career choices are not limited to factory workers or massage therapists,” Zhang said. In 2016, she ________ her job, and registered and established Yuyan center. The center has 90 percent of employees from disabled people's families. In 2018, Zhang set up an employment and entrepreneurship base for the disabled, called IC Aichuang Space. The IC Aichuang Space project trains the disabled people to ________ various businesses’ needs so that they would ________ for more diverse positions in the job market. As of now, the project has developed more than 10 kinds of jobs for the disabled. Some people with ________ disabilities can even work from home.

4 . I didn't use to understand why everyone liked pandas so much. I thought they only got so much attention because they were ________. But my trip with the Chinese Felid Conservation Alliance (中国猫科动物保护联盟) ________ changed my opinion.

Our destination was the Baishuihe Conservation District in Sichuan province. The Conservation District used to have a panda ________, but since the Earthquake in 2008, no pandas had been ________. The goal of our ________ was to go deep into the Conservation District and set up a wildlife camera there.

On our first day, we set out in the morning and climbed until 4 in the afternoon. Upon setting up our camp, I unrolled my sleeping bag and was so ________ as to fall asleep immediately. The rest of the team was still busy making a ________, but I was already dead to the world, only ________ that the fire's heat made it nice and warm. Carrying our sleeping bags, we hiked along a ________ path in the deep mountains for two more ________.

During that trip, I learned a lot about pandas. It ________ that pandas aren't the way they appear in zoos. Instead, they have a(n) ________ ability to survive and can live comfortably in those ________ conditions, where I thought I was going to fall over and die.

The ________ has been doing its job this whole time. Although we didn't get any panda pictures the first year, we did ________ in the second year. That was the first time since the Earthquake that pandas had been seen in the Baishuihe Conservation District.

5 . About 10 years ago, I got a bad cold. I couldn’t _________, so I went to see a doctor. There they _________ me and I couldn’t believe I was 211 pounds. For a not tall man, that was overweight.

I decided I didn’t want to suffer from _________ any more. And I thought if I started to eat better and take part in _________ activity, I would feel better and get sick less.

My wife and I had just _________ a trip to Las Vegas for our wedding anniversary in May. My goal was to lose 15 pounds before we left. I had three _________ to do it. The unique thing was that I planned to lose weight, and then do what I had to do to keep it _________ in the long terms.

By the time we left, I had lost 22 pounds! I had to buy _________ pants before we left because I went from a 38 waist down to a 34 one. My _________ goal was to lose 15 pounds in ninety days but I __________ that goal by 7 pounds more. That’s pretty good, but why not push it further? After all, even after losing 22 pounds, I was still technically overweight for my __________.

The benefits of losing weight are obvious. It made me feel so __________ about myself and it’s also pretty cool to hear people __________ me, saying how good I was looking all the time. Therefore, I decided to keep the __________.

Six years later I’ve kept the weight off and I am in the best __________ of my life.

6 . Out in the Arizona wilderness, a very good boy is doing his part to save the planet. Chipper, an 8-year-old rescue dog who loves to _________, and his owner, Katie Pollak, are on a mission to help the _________ environment, picking up garbage wherever they _________ it near their home in Mesa, Arizona.

Pollak realized her dog had a(n) _________ passion for plastic shortly after _________ him from a shelter back in 2011, when he demonstrated an _________ in collecting water bottles. So she encouraged it and he motivated her to do the same. Soon they _________ a team and started getting out and picking up garbage _________.

Everywhere they go, they collect bags and bags of garbage— _________ beer cans, plastic bottles, old clothing and more - that other people have __________. Pollak always comes prepared with bags to collect the __________, and has been shocked at how much garbage she and her dog can pick up on a __________ day.

Pollak and Chipper often meet up with friends to do big cleanups. Many of them are part of an __________ called Wild Keepers, which plans to collect 1 million pounds of litter by the year 2023. They’ve been at it since 2016 and have collected over 200,000 pounds so far.

Chipper’s __________ skill has made him something of a celebrity. Over 28,000 people follow their __________ through Pollak’s social media account.