1 . Better starve free than be a fat slave. There is nothing worth so much as liberty.

There was once a Wolf who got very little to eat because the dogs of the village were so wide awake and _________. He was really nothing but skin and bones, which made him very_________ to think of it.

One night this Wolf happened to fall in with a fine fat House Dog who had _________ a little too far from home. The Wolf would gladly have eaten him then and there, but the House Dog looked so_________. So the Wolf spoke very humbly to the Dog,_________ him on his fine appearance.

“You can be as well﹣fed as I am if you want to,” suggested the Dog. “Leave the woods; there you will live miserably _________ you have to fight hard for every bite you get. Follow my _________ and you will live a beautiful life.” “What must I do?” asked the Wolf. “Chase people who carry walking sticks and _________ at beggars. _________ you will get delicious food of every kind — chicken bones, meat, sugar, cake and much more, besides, not to speak of kind words and care.”

The Wolf had such a beautiful vision of his coming happiness that he __________ wept. But just then he noticed that the hair on the Dog’s __________ was worn and the skin was red and sore.

“What’s wrong with your neck?” “Nothing at all,” replied the Dog. “What? Nothing?” “Oh, just a trifle!” the Dog added, “Perhaps you see the mark of the collar __________ which my chain is fastened.”

“What? A chain!” cried the Wolf. “Couldn’t you go wherever you want to go?” “Not always, but what’s the __________?”refuted the Dog.

“All the difference in the world! I don’t care about your feasts and I wouldn’t take all the tender young lambs in the world at that __________. ” insisted the Wolf. And __________ ran the Wolf to the woods.

2 . I met Nancy two years ago and we immediately became friends. Rarely would a day go by when I wouldn’t see her outside of work. I was ________ by her intelligence and sweetness. In the beginning, she was very supportive of my efforts and made me feel ________ about myself. After about a year, she told me that she is an alcoholic. This ________ prevented me from wanting to be her friend, but after she ________ that she is such a person, she became more ________ getting drunk around me when I visited her home. She would call and text me nightly asking me to come to her house, and I would ________every time. I felt obligated (有义务的) as her ________ to be with her when she was completely drunk. I was partly worried that something ________   would happen to her, and part of me was also very ________ , and I needed to have someone to care about me.

Last year, the cold, hard truth ________ me. I would always be there for her when she was drunk and help her use the bathroom, or walk up the stairs. I was letting her know I was OK with her alcoholism. I would listen to her problems and respond ________ advice. One night my dad was in the ________ because of heart problems. I was sad and anxious. I ________ Nancy, but she was so extremely drunk that she couldn’t even understand what I was saying. That night I learned this relationship was completely ________ . I could comfort her, but I couldn’t expect to be comforted in return.

She has chosen not to seek help for her alcoholism. ________, I need to end my relationship with her.

3 . David and Case are 12 and 11 years old. Like most _________, they don’t have much money. They get a little pocket money from their _________ for doing chores. And of course, they wish they had more _________ to spend on comics and candy.

One day, the two friends were walking through a parking lot when they saw something on the ground. It was a wallet. They _________ the wallet up and looked inside. The wallet was _________ loaded with cash. _________, there were $500 in bills.

The boys _______   to find the rightful owner. They didn’t even think about touching the money. _________, they found a driver’s license and _________ a plan. Case stayed at the __________ where they had found the wallet, while David took the wallet to a nearby __________ station. Pretty soon, the police officers were able to __________ the owner of the wallet.

Scott Ames was so __________ to get the wallet back. It wasn’t __________ the money. The wallet also had some __________ in it, such as a photo of his late mother. And of course, Ames was amazed to __________ that not one of the bills had been removed.

__________, a person with strong morals had found his wallet, he __________. When the police told him that two pre-teen boys had found the wallet, he was __________. Sure, there was no reason for him to be surprised that two boys were pillars (栋梁) of the community. But it didn’t exactly __________ the stereotype (刻板印象) of young people.

4 . When she first looked for her wedding dress, Gwendolyn Stuglis had a budget or $1,000. After trying on several dresses, she was _______ a champagne-colored dress with long sleeves by the salesclerk. “I got _______ in my eyes because it was the dress I really wanted,” she admitted. The only _______: it was triple her budget. After some encouragement from her mother-in-law, Stulgis _______ it. She explained, “Although I hadn’t enough money, that dress was _______ made for me.” She wore the gown with _______ when she became a Stulgis.

As most brides do, she hung her wedding dress in her closet when the _______ was over. Realizing the dress would be _______ if it continued to sit there, she decided to give it away. Stulgis turned to Facebook to search a _______ bride. In the post, there were two ______________: the bride must have their ceremony within three months and the dress must be ______________ others. More than 70 messages ______________ into Stulgis’ mailbox immediately. Margaret Hyde had planned on making her own dress before she saw Stulgis’ Facebook ______________. She told her sister-in-law, Alycia Ashley, that she wanted to enter but was ______________. So, Ashley secretly emailed Stulgis, ______________ Hyde as the most selfless person she knew.

Stulgis was moved by Ashley’s ______________. On June 4, Hyde was told she was chosen. “It was unbelievable,” she said ______________. Hyde promised to follow the traveling dress requests. After her post, Stulgis ______________ a Facebook group called Shared Dream Dresses. Since June, 200 dresses have been given away. Stulgis’ community of bridal donations started with such a ______________ emotion. She shared, “I want people to feel like they are worth something. I want them to ______________ their dress dreams without worrying about buying one. A dressing shouldn’t be kept in the closet.”

5 . 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?”

6 . 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.”

7 . An African farmer had heard tales about other farmers who had made millions of dollars by discovering diamond (钻石) mines. The farmer was so ________ that he could hardly wait to ________ his farm and go to search for diamonds himself.

So he sold the farm and spent the rest of his life ________ the African continent, searching ________ for diamonds. Finally, broke, worn out, and ________ with life, he threw himself into a well and drowned.

Meanwhile, back at the farm, the man who had ________ the first farmer’s farm happened to be crossing a small stream (溪) on the farm one day when he saw something ________ at the bottom of the stream. He ________ it up. It was a shining ________. He took it home and later put it on his desk.

Several weeks later, a visitor who had heard of the stone came to admire the stone. He looked ________ at it and weighed it in his hand. Then he asked the farmer if he knew what he’d ________. When the farmer said no, the visitor told him he had found one of the largest diamonds ever ________.

The ________ was astonished (惊讶的). He told the man that his ________ was full of these brilliant “stones”.

Needless to say, the farm the first farmer had sold, turned out to be the most ________     diamond mine on the entire African continent.

If the first farmer had not sold the farm, his dreams would have come true.

8 . 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.

9 . “Work” and “play” have long been seen as enemies. When you’re ________ for an exam or meeting a deadline, every ________ spent on anything instead of studying ________ to be a waste of time. Going to a movie or playing basketball with friends? It is ________.

In an article ________ in Nature magazine on April 29, Alex shared his experience of________ both his hobbies — soccer and violin — to make________ for his studies. And yet he ended up finding himself in a ________ condition: “more stressed and less productive”, he wrote. And that was when he decided to________ “play”back into the picture.

In fact, even many big ________ have seen the important role of “play” in their employees’ ________ and happiness. Huawei,_________, has gyms and swimming pools, which shows its idea“ to ________ the happiest, most productive workplace in the world”. And at Jungle, employees are________ to bring their dogs to work. “If I need to take a break, I ________ my dog out for a relaxation, ”Anna, an employee at Jungle’s headquarters, said. “It brings me________   ”

It seems that these people don’t ________ “work” and “play” as the two ends of a scale (天平) — when one end goes up, the other________ goes down. To them, “work” and “play” are more like two pieces of jigsaw puzzle (拼图), which ________ together and complete each other.

So next time when you prepare for an exam, try to take a break from “work” for a while, and let “play” do the ________   .

10 . Imagine your favourite song. Now________the way it makes you feel. Chances are, if you asked a friend how that same song made them feel, they would have the same ________.

Alan Cowen wanted to know whether people who lived in ________ countries would respond that way, too. He thought it was ________that music Americans consider angry would be considered scary by people who lived somewhere else.

Cowen is a researcher. He ________ a study of more than 2500 people in the United States and China. He and his fellow researchers________them many kinds of music.

They found that everyone had pretty much the same________response to the music. For example, “The Star-Spangled Banner” made people feel pride, ________Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” made them feel joyful. But even though people in China and the United States felt angry while listening to a________song, says Cowen. “They differed in whether they thought that________was good or bad.”

Past research by other scientists has shown that people across cultures________as many as six basic emotions: fear, anger, surprise, disgust, sadness and happiness. But Cowen’s study identified motional responses or ________ “felt through the language of music”. Perhaps coolest of all, the researchers ________an interactive map of those musical emotions.

Teachers around the world are using this map in their________. It is helping students find newwords to describe their emotions. This ability could help them control their own emotions or better ________ other people’s feelings.