1 . I’d been exploring the 40-hectare woods around our cottage my whole life and I knew the way well. So it was a _________ when I found myself lost there.

One dull cold February afternoon, I had a sudden _________ to hike the hill with my two daughters. Putting on our snowshoes, we immediately _________ northwestward. While making our way up the hill, my daughters stopped occasionally to investigate unknown plants and to look at the abandoned deer beds… These really made their _________.

As the shadows started to _________, we moved further up. Soon, weariness began to _________ enthusiasm. We decided to return. Instead of backtracking over our _________ route, I chose to walk down the steep (陡峭的) side of the hill, _________ my general sense that ahead of us lay the stream that would guide us to the road. But as the terrain (地形) leveled out, I had my first major moment of _________: Where was the stream? Were we off course?

I instinctively (本能地) pulled out my phone to get my location, but it __________ in my hand in the cold air. __________, I started feeling a bit panicky. However, I quickly __________ myself, reassuring my daughters to continue walking. Focusing on the landmarks, I spotted a familiar tree and eventually __________ the road.

That winter’s day taught me a valuable lesson about habitual reliance on technology. If my phone had __________ then, I might have directly followed the GPS, ignoring the old __________ of depending on surroundings and life skills.

2 . While many cats love to go outdoors, they usually do not venture far from home. But some cats are the _________. One cat has even made a busy railway station in the UK her second _________.

Although Nala, a four-year-old cat has a home in Hertfordshire and a loving owner, she always loves _________, with an adventurous spirit. Her owner, Natasha Ambler fitted her with a GPS tracking device. And Nala’s favorite place to _________ is the Stevenage Station where she _________ commuters every day.

She comes in every day to greet hundreds of commuters. Ambler says that Nala goes to the station when it is the busiest because she enjoys the _________.

The staff at the station have grown very _________ of Nala. They say, “Her _________ always makes people smile and encourages cheerful conversations between the staff and passengers.”

Nala wears a collar with _________, including her name and owner’s phone number. Ambler says that she received around 20 calls a day from people telling her they __________ her cat. She had to make a second tag (标签) to tell people that Nala was not lost but just on a(n) __________.

Nala is so popular that Ambler __________ a website page where people can post photos of their __________ with the cat. One passenger posted, “She __________ my day when I get the train to work.” Another said, “Nala is __________ a real celebrity of the Stevenage Station.”

3 . In February 2020, Max’s friend Rick was diagnosed with cancer. Max ______ Rick during the last month of his life, thus becoming ______ of the care provided to his friend by North Devon Hospice (临终关怀医院). “The hospital took such good care of him that I wanted to do something to show my ______,” says Max.

Max ______ a fundraising mission in March 2020. When Max first put up a tent in the yard of his house, he was 10 years old and had just ______ his friend Rick. “Before my friend died of cancer, he gave me a tent and told me to ‘have an adventure’,” says Max.

Through a years-long campaign, he became known as “The Boy in the Tent” and ______ more than £700,000 in 2023. Such a ______ allowed the hospital to ______ around 500 patients in their own homes, helping them face the ______ of an illness like cancer.

When he recalls his ______ experiences. Max says that he won’t ______ a single thing about the past three years. It’s easy to imagine, however, the past years weren’t free of ______ for Max: from collapsed tents to keeping warm throughout storms and snowy nights.

Max faced everything with his positive attitude and goal-driven mind. “One time my tent collapsed in the wind and rain at about 10:00 pm and I ______ to put it up again,” he says. “Despite all, I never regret it. I ______ love my one-of-a-kind adventure and I believe Rick would enjoy it as well if he were ______.”

4 . It has been another long, rough winter here in the mountains of my home. And today as I looked at the broken ________ littering my yard it brought back ________ from another rough winter several years ago.

A foot of snow had fallen and was rapidly melting. The ________ from the hills had swollen the rivers, filled the ditches and ________ puddles(小水洼)in the road. In addition to this broken and fallen tree branches were everywhere. I was ________ home and suddenly saw one of these branches had broken off a tree overhanging the ________ and fallen across it. It was big enough to damage my car if I didn’t stop in time so I ________ on the brake and hit my emergency flashers.

I got out of my car ________ and tried to pull the branch to the side of the road. This branch was a lot ________ than I thought it would be. Inch by inch I ________ it off the road. When it was finally safely moved to the side I________ and smiled. Just then a little red car raced around the curve(弯道), ________ a pool of water in the road and splashed my pants. I shook my head and laughed at the ________ of it all.

Sometimes we all do good things in this life only to get ________ with dirty water for our kindness. When this happens just remember that the real reason you do good is because of the ________ inside of you.

5 . Hurricane Ian hit Florida and brought with it flooding, winds and a record high storm.

Karen is 84 years old and relies on a wheelchair to _________ because she is missing a leg. Her son Johnny tried _________ to get her to leave, but she refused again and again — she _________ the intensity of the storm.

Johnny lives four blocks away. When Karen reported the water in her house had reached her waist, he knew he had to take _________.

First, Johnny _________ his kids were taken care of. He gave them food and opened the attic (阁楼) so that they could _________ through the roof if water continued to rise. Then, he jumped out of a window and began to _________.

Johnny was racing against the clock. He knew he only had a(n) _________ period of time to get there before the water rose above Karen’s _________. It took him 40 minutes to swim four blocks. The sound of Karen yelling was __________ to his ears! She was still alive!

Everyone in Johnny’s family is now __________ although they’ve lost everything they owned. But they’re __________ just to be here.

“I didn’t lose __________. Life is like a computer. There’re two __________: a reset and a power — and we are blessed that it was just a reset button, not the power, that got __________,” he said.

6 . During the lockdown, my husband, Bob, and I were offered a pingpong table. I am a non-athlete but Bob does well in pingpong.

“What are we going to do with that pingpong table?” Bob asked me.

“The two of us will _______ ,” I replied. Bob looked doubtful.

I lost every game and I told myself that it didn’t _______ that I always lost. I was playing for _______ and to provide a positive experience in a difficult time. But there were days when I _______ losing. Once I threw my paddle(球拍) across the yard angrily. Then Bob _______ I play with a handicap(让分) of 12 points. That _______ a lot—I sometimes won! I’d never been interested in any kind of sport. But pingpong became the _______ of my day. I began to get better and won more games. My handicap _______ to 8.

My husband and I _______ the worst of the lockdowns through pingpong. It ________ me that even a self-described bookworm can learn a new sport. The ________ was my husband’s suggestion that I play with a handicap so I’d have an equal ________ to win. He doesn’t like to lose either, but it’s more fun for him if I actually want to participate and ________ it. It takes two willing partners to play table tennis, after all, and two people with an equal chance in each other’s ________ to make a marriage. Simply put, when it comes to table tennis—or any other ________ —there is no ping without a pong.

7 . Huping Mountain features deep valleys and dangerous peaks. In 1990, Du Dengwen joined the local post station and was immediately_______with serving 13 villages across the mountainous area. For the past three decades, Du has been one of the few______between villagers there and the outside world. Despite difficult geographic conditions, letters and parcels always make it to their ______. Du has______mail and goods to the villagers from their loved ones, most of whom are in the distant cities for a living. His ______always brings joy to the mountain villagers, because it     ______letters or parcels of huge value are coming their way.

A round trip to______all of the villages in his charge runs about 180km, and the only thing he could rely on was a______that the post station offered. Even so, only two villages were______ by cycling, while the rest were ______roads, so Du had to walk.

Du also wrote down villagers’______and tried his best to meet them. Du had developed a close bond with the local villagers, and refused to______his job regardless of his family’s concern over his______.

Du’s kindness and ______have not only endeared him to the mountain villagers but also earned their trust and respect. He was called “Angel Courier” by locals heartily and ______as a “Touching China” role model for Hunan by the provincial government in 2015.

8 . For a decade, Xie Jincheng has been buried in his duties at the National Library of China (NLC) in Beijing. When asked how old he was, the 37-year-old had to pause for a few seconds to _________.

Each working day, he sits at a desk and focuses on handling ragged yet _________ pieces of paper in front of him. As one of 17 restorers of _________ books at the NLC, he shakes off centuries of old dust to _________ the works he deals with.

Xie doesn’t require a large _________ to use his skills. Using glue, scissors, tweezers (镊子), brushes and several other simple _________, he skillfully restores the pages in front of him.

It’s estimated that the NLC _________ more than 3 million ancient Chinese books. The world’s biggest _________ of its kind, it comprises about 10% of such books in the nation. In China, the term “ancient books” _________ works before 1911.

Xie, who majored in chemistry at college, __________ to cultural relies conservation at graduate school, realizing that there was a __________ of restorers of ancient books in China.

It took Xie more than two yeas of __________ his tutors and developing his talent before he was formally assigned to __________ his first page.

Restoration of books is like seeing a doctor. If the doctor is good, your illness will __________ immediately following treatment. But if not, you may die taking the medicine. So if you cannot see a good __________, you’d better keep your item as it is.

9 . You may have heard the name of Parkrun. But you may not know it was founded by Paul Sinton-Herwitt, who was ______ the Royal Society of the Arts' Albert Medal in 2019. He got the honor for his __________ in the field of social improvement.

Parkruns are free, weekly, community __________ all around the world. The events are 5km and __________ on Saturday morning in parks and open spaces. It is a positive and inclusive __________ where there is no time limit and no one finishes last. Everyone is __________ to come along, whether you walk, jog, run, volunteer or watch.

In 2004 Paul had lost his job and he was __________ in an accident. Down but not out, this was the time when the __________ of Parkrun first came to him. On 2nd October 2004,13 amateur runners arrived in Bushy Park, London. Parkrun was born. The first team _________ Paul and his wife Joanne together with a few of their friends. At that time, it was just called a time trial, the name Parkrun was not _________ until 2008, and no one knew what a phenomenon it would become.

The second Parkrun wasn't __________ until 2007. Shortly after Wimbledon, Richmond, Banstead and Leeds Hyde Parks started to host Parkruns. And then, __________ and the number of events have continued to grow. Parkrun is now a __________ phenomenon, represented in 21 different countries, stretching across five continents.

At the 2019 ceremony Paul gave a speech celebrating Parkrun, from the tiny _________ he planted fifteen years ago through to the worldwide movement. Paul went on to praise their movement of real people and communities, empowering themselves and those around them to do __________ things for themselves and one another.

10 . Dick and Rick Hoyt began their extraordinary father-son racing team more than four decades ago, when Rick, then, a high school student in a wheelchair, _______his father to push him in a 5-mile run, benefiting a classmate who had been paralyzed (瘫痪) in an accident.

Mr. Hoyt was nearing 40 and, _______, was no longer the athlete he had been in his youth. But he_______to race with son, having no sign of the thousands of miles they would_______together, letting alone the national _______ they would gather along the way.

Born with a_______cerebral palsy (脑瘫), Rick was unable to move his arms or legs. Even he could not_______. But he could_______with the aid of a computer that enabled him to tap out words with his head. After that first race, Rick declared to his father that when they were running, it felt as though his_______disappeared. Over the next 40 years, Rick and Dick would________in more than 1,000 races around the country, including 72 marathons. Team Hoyt, as the father-son partners were called, drove an active shift in the________of people with disabilities, one whose________reached far beyond their community.

“Team Hoyt________what it means to be an athlete, fully showing________, passion, and love,” the Athletic Association said in the________. “The pair's bond and presence has become synonymous (同义的) with the Marathon.”