1 . A screen door (纱门) allows for an open view while at the same time affording a degree of privacy. _________, communication between parents and their child away at college should have openness in expressing viewpoints but, at the same time, it should demonstrate a respect for privacy. Staying in touch with each other is important because without _________, there is no connection and worry can take over. All involved should try to be _________ in listening to，understanding and dealing with special concerns or needs that arise whether they may be from the students, parents or friends.

For the happy student adjusting well at school, calls to home can be infrequent. This is not necessarily a cause for parents to _________.While parents are naturally _________ about what their child is up to, the majority of students are busy getting accustomed to their new home, making new friends and _________ to new schedules and activities. The fact is that without any ill intention on purpose, they can spend little time thinking about home and they may not appreciate the degree of their parents’ _________ curiosity.

For the student who is not adjusting well at school, calls to home will probably be made more _________. This circumstance can bring a _________ period for both parent and child. For the parents at home, it can be terribly __________ to sense their child is unhappy. It is difficult to judge how we should react to this challenge: as __________, we want to bring our children home to the safety of our nest; in our parent-teacher role, we want to __________ the ties and allow our child the opportunity to make it on his/her own.

For the student away at school, unhappiness can be lonely and frightening and in some cases, it can lead to depression and illness. There is a sense of __________ for some homesick students who fear that Mom and Dad will __________ their inability to cope with the new environment. This is especially true when the homesick one sees classmates adjusting somewhat effortlessly. No matter what the circumstances are that have created __________, communication between parent and child must remain open, honest and in balance.

2 . We found him at our front door, frightened and shaking. My mom said we’d take care of him until we found out who'd________him.

I’d always wanted a dog, but we couldn’t have one because my sister was________. Now at twelve years old, I still________a dog. So far, my wish had been________. But the little puppy gave me the ________ to play with, feed and care for a dog. I didn’t ________ to think of him as my own, but when a whole day went by with nobody claiming (认领) him, I began to ________. I touched him all night, ________that I was his very owner. Another day went by. The puppy and I were becoming ________. However, I had to remind myself that somebody would claim him________.   

In the evening, somebody ________ to ask about the puppy. My heart________. When she hung up the phone, my mom had a ________conversation with my dad. A few minutes later, they came out and told us that the puppy, called “Fuzzer”, belonged to some other ________.They already had an older dog that didn't get along with Fuzzer. Their mom had never ________to keep Fuzzer and wanted to find him another________! My parents saw how well I’d________with and cared for Fuzzer, and they knew I had always wanted a dog.

________, my sister had not had an allergic reaction to him. Mom told us that Fuzzer was________now.

Fuzz and I grew up together and he was my true________throughout my teenage years.

5 . Ruby Kate, 11 likes to spend time with residents at the local nursing homes where her mother Amada works as a nurse.

One day last summer, Ruby_______that a resident named Pearl was staring out of the window and looking very_______. Ruby and Amanda learnt that Pearl’s dog had just left. She couldn't _______to have someone take care of her dog and it was basically homeless. After a little more _______, Amanda and her daughter found out that Pearl only gets $40 each month from her Medicaid check. Many of the other residents received just as little — if _______ — spending money at all.

Pearl’s story_________Ruby. She wanted to do something to_________her and the other residents. So she got out a_________and wrote down a simple question: “What are three things you wish you had?”

Amanda was_________of Ruby’s broad question. She didn't think her daughter would ________with anything helpful. “In my adult mind, that question is not going to ________” said Amanda. “They're going to tell you that they want things you can't give them.”

She went door to door at the nursing home, __________residents to list their three wishes. When Amanda saw what her daughter wrote in her notebook, she was__________that the list was filled with just________ requests like new pillows, books, razors and peanut butter.

Ruby and Amanda________all of the items on the first list and that started a chain reaction of ________ and kindness. They launched a GoFundMe page to__________money to fulfill more wishes. Soon after, Ruby's story went viral and she's now collected more than $250,000 and__________ her own nonprofit called Three Wishes for Ruby's Residents.

“I'd like it to go on ________ and ever and ever,” she said. “Because I just want it to go________and I want it to go around the states and even in different countries.”

6 . Nine years ago when I went to an English corner for the first time, nobody tried to talk to me. However, I have now become a(n) _________  participant at the English corner. I always give a(n) _________smile to new comers.

There have been times when I feel unable to _________ those who have an excellent command of English. But as long as I remember the _________ I received nine years ago, I feel better _________ for the challenge, for I_________ there is no point in being sorry for my own inability and the only_________way forward is to start again from the very beginning with full_________.

The determination to start again indicates your_________ of the many opportunities ahead. You’ve all __________ read the novel Gone with the Wind, and are __________  by Scarlett, the heroine, who brings herself and the family through the  __________ years of the Civil War and Reconstruction and regains her footing in Atlanta. At the end of the book, she says __________, “After all, tomorrow is another day.” Scarlett’s persistence (坚持) and self-confidence in face of difficulty probably __________  the ever-appealing attraction of the character, and the everlasting popularity of the novel.

It is true that the age in which we live is not __________. There are a lot of hardships and barriers ahead. But, if we__________ that we always have tomorrow before us, we will not be that__________ with everything around us now. Tomorrow will be a new day. This is the__________ on which we rely. With this faith, we will__________ all that was disagreeable yesterday and discover golden opportunities to achieve that which we’ve never before __________.

7 . Acts of kindness are wonderful in so many ways. They_________the recipient and they're also a great reminder of all the_________acts that are taking place in the world. With the media full of CO VID-19-related_________, these selfless acts are increasingly important. This was just the_________when Steve Farmer shared a recent uplifting event on his Facebook page that_________him.

Farmer posted how he'd gone to work after the quarantine(隔离)was lifted and had forgotten his work pass. _________, he had to lock his bike just outside an underground station next to his office. When he returned for his_________in the evening, he found just his lock that had been cut and the bike was_________

The London worker thought he'd never_________his bike again. However, as he went to ask at the station about any potential__________that had filmed the robbery, a rail worker, Abdul Muneeb, rushed over to him and asked him to unlock the__________bike lock to prove he was the__________. Farmer. then explained how Muneeb said "I have your bike" with a__________he would never forget.

With the lock undone, Muneeb told Farmer how he'd__________someone cutting the bike lock earlier on during his shift. He stopped the man from__________the bike and then wheeled it to a__________place. Muneeb__________four hours after his shift had ended so he could see the bike__________to its rightful owner.

As Farmer quite__________posted, “The world needs more Abduls, who is a legend(传奇)of a man and a__________to his employer.”

9 . Over the past 10 years, Chen Jinying, 90, has paid off 20.77 million yuan to her lenders. Chen used to be a doctor and she discovered there was a _________ market for down coats for elderly people, so after she retired in the early 1990s, she _________ her own company. Her business went well for the first few years and Chen was also_________ in public welfare, _________ 570,000 yuan for elderly people. But in 2011, the company_________ poor sales. She was forced to_________ her factories.

In 2012, Chen rented a factory to produce the coats, _________ sales would turn better. But the stock piled up and she even had no money to pay her workers, so she stopped _________ in 2016. Some people suggested she _________ bankruptcy (破产) to avoid paying the debt, but she __________ to do so. “I will try my best to pay off the debt, __________ I won’t feel at ease.” Chen said.

Chen’s story gained media __________. People were moved and came to her __________. When asked if she worried about having so much debt, she replied with a smile. “I have to keep myself healthy so I have the__________ to pay back the loans. People cared for me, and I want to __________ that care.”

6.

A．destroy

B．build

C．design

D．sell

On a sunny day, a yellow school bus heads to Elver Park in Madison, Wisc. The seventh graders inside are excited to_________ the rockets they've built in class.

At the park, the students find their assigned flag posts, armed with their rocket, notebook, pencil and angle finder（量角器）. Two at a time, they march to the platform and_________their rocket for take-off. They wait for their teacher's_________to start the countdown: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…Go!

With the angle finder and a little math, they estimate each rocket's maximum_________. They calculate how their rocket_________against 90 others made by their classmates and teacher.

"With the rocket unit, I teach the_________principles of physics and motion（移动）," explains David Ropa. He teaches science at Spring Harbor Middle School and advocates learning by_________. That includes taking math and science into the park.

"Kids, like all humans, are doing science all the time," says Ropa. "They_________the world through play," he_________, "whether it's stacking toys or building bike ramps." They have a hypothesis（假说）. They set up a test. They____________the results. Then they adjust their____________.

"The____________his students use at school," says Ropa, "are similar to those that many adults use at work." Some of these adults____________a white lab coat and carry a business card with the word scientist". Most don't.

In Madison' s Elver Park, the students make their____________fly as high as they can. That teaches them the physics of____________. "It also develops a sense of creating____________and hopefulness," says Ropa.

Some kids will never____________that rocket launch. For others, the "calculation" may hook them on____________.

"Kids are____________," says Ropa. "Just watch them when the sea____________a dead fish. That's what scientists really are-very curious people who keep that curiosity going in their jobs."