1 . On Tuesday, I was having a hard day. I went to _________ in Philadelphia about 5 hours away from my hometown. Going to college so far away is really hard on me _________, especially when I get upset. I hadn’t seen my own family in months, so _________ something like that happening to my parents or sisters was a(n) _________ feeling. This sense of sadness _________ me and stayed with me for a couple of days. I felt more and more homesick the more I thought about the tragedy—it really made me _________ my family.

On top of this _________, was the stress of coming exams and homework assignments. On Tuesday, I just couldn’t shake my feeling of _________. I called my mom and she made me feel instantly better. She always seems to have the perfect _________ for me in any situation. “You can’t __________ your happiness in the hands of anyone or anything outside yourself, Amelia,” she told me. She was so __________ and so concerned. She sent me a few inspirational __________, and called 3 more times that day to check in on me.

It became evident to me later that day how amazing my mom’s __________ for me was. I just felt so __________ to have a person who cares for me so much. I __________ that no one else I meet in my life will ever love me so much.

2 . Some people touch our lives, perhaps making us think or smile, often without even realizing it. A few years ago, I worked at a church and since my_________was home schooling, he went with me to the church every day. Most mornings, we’d stop at a local convenience store, getting a chocolate drink for him and a_________for me.

There were other stores we could have frequented, _________we passed many stores along the way. But the clerk at the store we chose to visit refreshed our lives each day, and so we returned again and again. Perhaps the store clerk had_________worked in a fast food restaurant, where she learned to ask, “Would you like fries with that?” Perhaps she’d been_________in another store, where she learned, well, about multiple selling.

I think that she had found her own_________ way of enjoying life and her job. I’m not even sure that she was aware that her_________for life and her job put a smile upon the face of each customer. Customers did, indeed, return again and again for a bit of good cheer as only that special clerk could give.

With my_________in hand, every time I went to the counter, the clerk never asked me if I wanted a cake with my coffee.   _________， she asked, “Would you like some batteries with that coffee?” Of my son with his chocolate drink, she enquired, “Would you like a__________with that drink?”

Yes, life is what you make of it. This clerk’s method of dealing with what some__________is a boring job made the hours in her day more enjoyable. And in doing that, she also__________the lives of others and made them laugh.

Sometimes, if my day at the church had been particularly__________, or if my son’s__________rather difficult, we’d stop at that store before heading home. We’d__________as we left the store, the clerk’s words resounding behind us. “Would you like some shampoo with that soda?”

3 . James Charles is the manager of Kiplin Automotive Group. For about two months, he has been _______ people to use the company’s parking lot as a safe place to sleep at night.

Charles was first _______ to pursue (从事)his labor of love after he found there was a woman _______ in a car. Knowing the woman was _______, Charles tried to get her into a shelter. However, he was _______ to find that every shelter in the city was full. _______ he paid for her to stay in a hotel for a few nights, he knew there were other people experiencing the same situation. “That was really the _______ I got at that time and I realized I needed to do something for those people without delay (耽搁),” he said.

Then Charles _______ made a post online asking community members to _______ the word about his plan, so that people in need could know his good ________. “For those going through ________ times, we would like to ________ a safe place for you. We can’t put everyone in a hotel, but ________ we can get you a parking lot, a safe place for the night,” wrote Charles.

Since more and more people have ________ his social media post, more and more people joined Charles in reaching a hand. “Any ________, no matter how small, will go towards helping the homeless,” Charles said, “One hand washes the other; two hands wash the face.”

4 . The first astronauts

Since the earliest times, people have looked up at the stars, the moon and the planets. Today people use modern machines ________at the sky. This is very different from the situation________years ago when people could only use their eyes. Perhaps they dreamed of________the universe.

When did humans first go into space? The story began not so very long ago,________the first astronauts were not people﹣they were animals.

Scientists wanted to make travelling to space as ________ as possible for humans. So they decided to experiment with animals and test________ in spaceflights. Insects, mice, frogs, dogs and monkeys were some of the animals________first went into space. Many of them ________, but they helped to make space travel safer for humans. For their great service, we________forget these animals.

Albert Ⅱ was the first monkey to go into space in 1949. Sadly he died ________ his spaceship landed back on Earth.

________ the result was different for Ham the Monkey. His story ended happily when he return to earth________very good health.

Scientists wanted to know the answer to the important question: could ________ animal like Ham do the same things in space as he could do on Earth? The answer came when Ham________ into space in 1961. Yes, he did everything well and lived for ________ 16 years.

5 . In the early 1990s, Eric Domb, a highly successful lawyer, came up with the idea of building a bird park. His father-in-law ________ the idea in the beginning, but when the ________ started to make shape he backed out. Domb thus had to ________ money from former clients, his two brothers and father as well as a bank to build a zoological park known as Pairi Daiza.

After the park opened in 1994, his inexperience led to many ________, but he pushed on with his venture (冒险). By 2000, the park was turning a profit, and Domb’s ambitions were ________. The park needed more than birds, he believed, and other creatures and cultural gardens would help turn it into something ________.

Since his childhood he has been fascinated by Chinese ________. In 2006, he built the first Chinese garden, Dream of Han Wu Di in his zoo. It was said to be the largest Chinese garden in Europe. Domb kept ________ new elements. It finally took more than six years to complete the project.

Domb felt ________ by the joint panda breeding program. Domb and his people spent the following months ________ building giant panda houses with no guarantee that Pairi Daiza would be fortunate enough to ________ giant pandas. The huge enclosure built includes a pool, cave and ________ plantation.

Now, Domb is eager to tell how he ________ a pair of giant pandas, Xing Hui and Hao Hao in February 2014. The sense of ________ is all the more profound in that Pairi Daiza is one of the few private zoos outside China to ________ giant pandas.

6 . In February 1970, a group of activists gathered in Vancouver, Canada to discuss a planned nuclear test on the Alaskan island of Amchitka. They eventually agreed to sail to the test site and _________ against the explosion in person. At the end of the meeting, the chairman raised two fingers to the room and shouted “Peace!”. After a brief pause, one young attendee _________ with a monumental line: “Let’s make that a green peace”. The group were so _________ the phrase that they named their first boat the Green Peace.

Over the last 50 years, the _________ movement has become so closely associated with the colour green that it’s almost impossible to see a green poster, label or recycling bag without thinking about our planet’s future. But though that connection is the product of a very recent crisis, its _________ go back some way. We have _________ green with nature and its processes for thousands of years. Indeed, the very word “green” comes from the ancient Proto-Indo-European word ghre, meaning “grow”.

The human species, which emerged in the green forests and grasslands of Africa about 300, 000 years ago, has a special _________ link with green. Our eyes might even have _________ specifically to see the green in plants. Unlike most animals, who are red-green colour blind, we humans developed a third cone cell, an additional photoreceptor enabling our _________ to spot ripe red and yellow fruits against a backdrop of green leaf, and to distinguish different green leaves from each other. In daylight conditions, human eyes are more ____________ to green than any other colour.

With the rise of farming, we started to use green as a(n) ____________ for nature and its processes. Archaeologists have recently found an extraordinary store of green jewels in the Levant, ____________ some 10, 000 years. The researchers believe that these objects, many of which had come from hundreds of miles away at great cost, were chosen because they ____________ young leaves and might have been used by early farmers to pray for rainfall or fertilise crops.

The ancient Egyptians, who were farming the banks of the Nile from about 8000 B.C., ____________ use green as identification for their crops. Egyptian painters often represented their god of ____________, Osiris — who was responsible for flooding the Nile’s banks, filling the soil with nutrients and pushing the first green shoots up through the fields — as a bright green being.

7 . When Vance Hinds learned of comedian Bert Kreischer’s no-wine October challenge last year, he felt inspired. Hinds decided to prove to himself that he could also achieve something _________ he tried his best. In early 2019, he _________ it.

The Georgia native began his weight loss journey weighing in at 475 pounds. To make sure he stayed on_________, he recorded the weekly weigh-ins and _________ his progress on Youtube. While his aim was admirable, one of the most special aspects came from his friends’ consistent _________.

From the very beginning of his decision to change his life, Hinds’ friends willingly _________ him for a walk around the park. As the weeks went by, not only did he _________ strength, his walking group grew as well. After a while, he was _________ to walk around the park once without stopping. It’s a milestone, and he _________ recorded it on video with his supporters __________ behind him.

Day after day, Hinds made his __________ a priority (优先考虑的事), completing some form of exercise six times a week. Not long after __________ to lose pounds, he received a tweet from a fitness instructor and motivational speaker, Diamond Dallas Page. He __________ to help him take his progress to the next level.

With Page’s help, Hinds __________ to lose weight every single week. The pounds __________ and as 2019 began approaching, he became closer and closer to __________ his goal.

When he weighed himself one year after beginning his challenge, he felt really __________. The number on the scale (秤) read 277 pounds. He had lost __________ 200 pounds in one year, gained significantly more __________, and kept his spirits high.

Hinds’ excitement and __________ attitude are obviously a heartwarming reminder that all you need to realize a goal is a healthy mentality and continuous efforts.

8 . Virtual reality: Is this really how we will all watch TV in years to come? Virtual reality (VR) is often used to illustrate the concept of being trapped within the cyberspace, or as a form of advanced technology. This technology ________ its place in popular culture through films such as The Lawnmower Man and The Matrix, as well as books such as Ready Player One, which Steven Spielberg is ________ for a movie. They presented ________ of technology by using a VR headset, which enabled people to explore virtual, computer-controlled worlds.

In 2017, these cultural touchstones are freshly in mind for the ________ industry, as it tries to understand whether real-life headset can be used to deliver new forms of drama, documentary and storytelling.

The promise connect a headset to a computer or your smartphone and you can watch video, play games and ________ virtual worlds, turning your head around for 360-degree vision, and interacting by means of a controller.

VR experiences in their current form ________ from fending off zombies (抵御僵尸) in survival - horror game Resident Evil 7 to exploring the ocean depths or exploring a Syrian refugee camp.

TV firms want to know more. At this month’s MIPTV industry conference in Cannes’ VR was a major ________ for producers, broadcasters and tech companies alike. “We will all have superpowers. Because in Virtual reality you can be anyone, you can go anywhere and you can create anything,” said HTC’s Rikard Steiber in a keynote speech. “We’re just at the beginning of what the ________ can do. It’s a new computing platform: it’s going to be the next mass ________.”

Still, with research company Green-light Insights ________ that by 2021 headset owners will spend $9bn a year on VR content, TV producers and broadcasters are keen to start ________ with the technology now.

This is as much a creative ________ as a business one. Many VR experiences to date have either been games or non-interactive video the equivalent to early television shows adopting the rules of radio, and early cinema doing the same with theatre. But like TV and films VR has the ________ to evolve its own language and formats.

Good VR has a value that is ________ to VR. It sounds really obvious, but it’s key. It has to be better in VR, or only in VR. A lot of media companies have a tendency to take what they have and put in VR. That might be a good bridge but it’s not the final ________ for VR.

9 . There is a tree full of ripe plums(李子）with branches hanging over our house . Every single morning when I see plums on the ground , I am _________ . " Wow , plums ! " I say to myself and look up at the _________, and sure enough there are plums there .

I imagine the tree saying, "If I put the plum here, _________ where you walk,maybe you will see it." I step over the plum on the way out and see it on my way back, thinking how often I_________ it and step over it. Every time I _________ and see a plum, I feel as though someone has given me a _________.

"For me?"I said to the plum tree one morning as I _________ some plums. "You could have."Maybe we're supposed to offer our gifts to the world with generosity(慷慨）and love.

It seems that I have a hard time _________ that fruit falls freely from the sky. Is the tree_________ with me on purpose? Is there part of me that doesn't feel worthy of receiving __________ plums from the sky? Is life__________ to have moments that are so sweet and easy?

Sometimes it feels as though the tree were __________ to me and she were saying, "For you. For you. For you. "When I listen to her, I feel the __________ of her offering, and this is when my heart breaks. Despite the__________ of a day, there can be tender, touching moments in nature that feel to me like there's a force out there that__________ me refreshed(振奋的）.

10 . Teens around the world use social media a lot. But is this a good thing? While you can say nice and _______ things on the Internet, you could also say mean and hurtful things too. When someone says something mean or hurtful _______, it's called cyberbullying (网络欺凌) .

When people say mean things to us, we feel _______, depressed and powerless. These are just some of the possible _______ effects that could affect teens who are cyberbullied. When people are often sad or depressed, they could begin to _______ suicide (自杀) . They think that their lives aren't worth anything or that their lives are too _______ to handle. It's difficult to believe that one person saying mean or cruel things to another person could make him think about _______ himself, but it's true and it does happen. Now, you could _______ everything that was said. You could say that teens can just turn off their computers or their phones. They can just block (屏蔽) the person who _______ them or just simply ignore him. __________ people, especially teens, love going on the Internet and talking to people. It's part of their daily lives. It's __________ to tell teens to turn them all off. In addition, __________ they block someone, the person can just __________ coming back on a different account or as someone else. Also if it's a publicly posted video, picture or message, everyone can see it and __________ report or share it. It's impossible to block everyone.

And finally no one can just __________ so many mean words that are being said to them.

Overall, cyberbullying is a terrible thing that people do. There should be laws to protect people from cyberbullying.