1 . Adventure is in my blood. And I had been considering how I was going to celebrate my high school graduation. I didn’t just want a small_________in the backyard. I started thinking about doing a solo_________somewhere out of the ordinary. I took out_________, and drew the 1,500-mile route along which I would be________from the northernmost point in Norway to the southernmost section of Sweden. When I_________my plans with my dad, he agreed as I thought he would.

I had only been away from my home three days now, but there was an inner_________going on inside of me. Part of me was homesick and doubting whether I___________could make it. The other part of me was ready to__________to myself and my family that I could do it by myself.

On the road, I met another__________who was quite a bit older than I was, He had just finished his bike journey. I could tell he had a great sense of_________. It encouraged me not to __________

There was________around me for miles. Actually, that wasn’t completely________. There were mosquitoes—millions of them. My arms were so dotted with_________that they looked like a topographical map(地形图). But, no matter how__________it would be, nothing could stop my advance towards the destination. As you know, adventure is in my blood.

2 . A couple in Ohio accidentally dropped off a bag containing almost $ 100,000 at an Ohio charity shop. Thanks to _______ employees, they got the money back.

The employees were going through _______ last week when they came across a _______. Inside was $ 97,004. “It was so much cash,” employee Kelsey Croy said. “I looked in the bag and we _______ it right there on the desk. And it was $ 97,004.” Thankfully, the owners _______ a receipt for tax purposes when they dropped off _______ that morning. The employees _______ called the couple but there was no _______.

Not wanting to _______ that amount of cash in the store, they called the Zanesville Police Department. ________ repeated calls, officers finally got a hold of the couple. The couple hadn’t realized the money was ________. They told the police they withdrew all their money to deposit it in another bank. On the way, they ________at the charity shop to donate a bag of clothes. That’s ________ the money ended up there. “When we finally ________ them, they just asked if they could get it back tomorrow,” the officer said.

The couple has made contact with the original ________ who found the money to thank them. “I’m just glad that I meet with a bunch of honest and loyal people,” Croy said.

3 . We’ve all been there before. You’re driving down the road when suddenly a pothole(凹坑) seems to appear out of nowhere and sends the _________ bumping. Most people think potholes are _________, but artist Jim Bachor sees them as canvases (画布) for his artworks.

Bachor uses the _________ art form of mosaic(马赛克) to create eye-catching and colorful images of famous people or simple every day _________ like food. He even makes less-appealing visuals of insects.

Bachor was a graphic designer for 20 years before he began his _________ in mosaic. He regards an incidental trip to Europe as his motivation for changing his career. While _________ in Italy, Bachor fell in love with Pompeii, the preserved ancient Roman city. A tour guide pointed out a mosaic, mainly made of glass and marble, and told Bachor, “Glass and marble don’t _________. So, this looks essentially the same as the artist intended.” Bachor says, “That kind of staying power just _________ me so much.”

A year later Bachor returned to attend a mosaic class in Ravenna, Italy, to learn the proper way to _________ the ancient technique. Years after that, he mastered the technique. He __________ that mosaic could be just as significant today as the art form over 1,000 years ago. “I just saw that there was a(n) __________ to bring it into the new age as a contemporary subject,” he says.

So, Bachor decided to make a series of __________ for those potholes. He has __________ mosaic art around Chicago, Detroit and New York City.

While he may not get __________ from drivers or passengers, Bachor’s art is __________ a pleasant surprise to discover.

4 . Raynor Winn and her husband Moth became homeless due to their wrong investment. Their savings had been _______to pay lawyers’ fees. To make matters worse, Moth was diagnosed (诊断) with a _______disease. There was no _______, only pain relief.

Failing to find any other way out, they decided to make a _______journey, as they caught sight of an old hikers’ guide. When leaving home, Raynor and Moth had just £320 in the bank. They planned to keep the _______low by living on boiled noodles, with the _______ hamburger shop treat.

This turned out to be a long journey of _______ hardship and _______ recovery. In order not to cause any trouble, the Winns set their tent up _______ and packed it away early in the morning. Soon they ________ that daily hiking in their 50s is a lot ________ than they remember it was in their 20s. Raynor desired a bath often, which though, was no longer a daily thing. Moth, ________ after an initial struggle, found his symptoms were unexpectedly ________ by their tiring journey.

________ the couple found that their bodies turned for the better, with re-found strong muscles that they thought they had ________ forever. “Our hair was fried and falling out, nails broken, clothes ________ to a thread, but we were alive.”

During the journey, Raynor began a career as a nature writer. She writes, “ ________ material thing from me and left me torn bare, an empty page at the end of a(n) ________ written book. It had also given me a ________, either to leave that page ________or to keep writing the story with hope. I chose hope.”

5 . In a national spelling contest, an 11-year-old girl was asked to spell a certain word. But with her ________ voice the judges were not sure whether she spelled the word with the letter A or E. Finally, they decided to ask her what she had said. By now, the girl knew she had ________ the word. But instead of lying, she told the truth that she had said the ________ letter-so she lost the contest.

As the girl walked off the stage, the entire audience stood up to applaud her ________. Later, dozens of newspapers reported her honesty, even when it cost her the contest. But the fact is that she ________ the biggest contest that day-the contest of her ________.

Probably the biggest test of our character is what we would do if we knew we would never get ________. This young girl could easily have ________ and nobody would have known it but herself. But that’s just it: she would know she did wrong. It’s been said, “If you ________, you make yourself cheap.” Her respect for herself was more important than any ________ others might give her for winning a contest. She knew she would have to live with herself and the ________ she made at that moment will have a long-lasting influence.

It’s so true that the choice you make today ________ what you are tomorrow. Our children will ________ our behaviour much more than our advice. So if we want them to ________ to be honest, we must show them the way by being honest ourselves. Remember, our kids are ________ what we do and how we live even when we don’t think they see or know.

6 . When I was in primary school, I got into a major argument(争论)with a boy named Tom in my class. I can’t _______ what it was about, but I have never forgotten the _______ I learned that day.

I was sure that I was right and he was wrong—but he strongly believed that I was wrong and he was right. Our teacher decided to teach us a very important lesson and _______ a good idea. She _______ both of us up to the front of the class and placed him on one side of her desk and me on _______. In the middle of her desk was a large, round object(物体). I could clearly see that it was black. She asked the boy what _______ the object was. “White,” he answered in a _______ voice.

I couldn’t believe he said the object was white, _______ it was obviously black! Another. _______ started between my classmate and me, this time about the color of the object.

The teacher told me to go to stand where the boy was standing and told him to come to stand where I had been. We changed ____________, and now she asked me what the color of the object was. I ____________ answer, “White.” It was then ____________ I realized I was wrong. In fact, it was an object with two differently colored sides, and from his side it was white, ____________ from my side was it black.

My teacher taught me a very important lesson that day: You must ____________ yourself in the other person’s shoes and look at the ____________ through their eyes in order to truly understand their view.

7 . I was ready for bed. My eyes fell on the musical _________ on my bedside table. In it was a photo of Dad smiling, and once opened, it would play his _________ song recorded before his death. It was propped (支撑) open just enough so the recording wouldn’t play.

Dad was a _________ man. He was always singing me his little made-up songs to share joy although he was _________ off-key, not hitting every note.

Dad was a man with big heart. When my house burned down a few years ago, Dad _________ my family into his home. When we tried to offer some _________, he said with his characteristic voice, “Don’t be _________!”

With happy _________, I fell asleep.

“Beautiful and marvelous!”

Suddenly, I was awoken hours later by the _________ song. The card! I snapped it shut (啪的一声合上).

How did that card just start playing? I checked the windows, all tightly shut. But why couldn’t I __________ the feeling that something was wrong?

I decided to __________ downstairs. Opening the door to the laundry room, I was hit with a strong smell of __________. The heat lamp had fallen, and the carpet was burning.

The __________ wasn’t too bad. I let out a shaky breath with __________. What could have happened? Perhaps another house fire. But we were safe. All thanks to Dad’s one-of-a-kind __________.

8 . As a high school coach, I did all I could to help my boys win their games. I cheered as hard for________as they did. A dramatic incident, however, following a game in which I was a referee(裁判), changed my ________on victory and defeat.

It was a league championship basketball game between New Rochelle and Yonkers High. New Rochelle was________ by Dan O’Brien, and Yonkers by Les Beck The gym was ________, and the noise made it impossible to hear. The game was well played and ________competed. Yonkers was leading by one point as I________ at the clock and discovered there were but 10 seconds to play. New Rochelle, in possession of the ball, passed off and shot. The ball________ around the rim(篮筐边沿) and off. The fans________. New Rochelle recovered the ball, and tapped it in for what looked like victory. The noise was deafening.

I looked at the clock and saw that the game was over. I hadn’t heard the final buzzer(终场哨) because of the noise. I ________with the other official, but he could not help me. So, I________ the timekeeper, a young man of 17 or so. He said, “Sir, the buzzer________ before the final tap-in(托球入篮) was made. Yonkers won!”

I had to tell O’Brien the sad news. His face clouded over. The young timekeeper came up and said, “I’m sorry, dad. The________ ran out before the final basket.”________ , like the sun coming out from behind a cloud, O’Brien’s face lit up. He said, ”That’s okay, Joe. You did what you had to. I’m ________of you.” The two of them then walked off the _________together, the coach’s arm around his son’s shoulder.

9 . About one year ago, a couple with three children moved into the apartment next door to me. I never heard any noise from the children. Instead, I often heard he parents yelling angrily at the kids, not in a nice tone, but in a ________ one.

We often ________ in the hallway. I always greeted them, but the only ________ I ever got was a “hello” from the eight-year-old girl. I usually went out to see my doctor and one day when-I returned, they were just ________ their apartment and the little girl was ________ the outside door open for the others. I remained in the car doing ________ things because I wasn’t eager to be snubbed(冷落) again. Finally, I got out of my car and walked towards the door. The parents were telling their daughter to hurry and get into the car, but the little girl was holding the door, ________ me! I hurried although I was still in pain from my injury.

I forgot to tell her how grateful I was for her kindness. Later I wrote a note saying how much her act of kindness had ________ an old man’s heart.

The next day there was a/an ________ on my door and it was the little girl and her father. She said she was grateful to me for my note. Then I ________ her mother standing there, too. Her parents ________ me. From then on when we met in the hallway we always greeted each other, in a friendly ________.

Last night there was a heavy snow. I looked out at my car and ________ how I was going to keep my doctor’s appointment because I could not walk for a short time. This morning when I opened the front door, all the snow was ________. Isn’t it ________ that the small kind act of an 8-year-old girl can change so many things for the better? It is said that good things come from small acts.

10 . Last spring, I was fortunate to be chosen to par ii pate in an exchange study program. In my application letter, I was careful to _______how much I wanted to see France; evidently, my excitement really came through in my words. Once I_______that I was going, all I could think about was the fun of foreign travel and making all sorts of new and _______friends. While traveling was inspiring and meeting people was exciting, nothing about my term in France was what I_______.

The moment I arrived in Paris, I was _______by a nice French couple who would become my host parents. My entire experience was joyous and exciting _______I received some shocking news from my program coordinator (协调人): there had been a death in my host parents’ extended family. They had to travel outside France for several weeks. That afternoon, I had to_______out of one family’s house and into another. The exchange coordinator told me I’d have a roommate this time and asked whether I could share a bedroom with an English speaker. To avoid the temptation (诱惑) to_______my native language, I asked not to be placed with an English-speaking roommate. When I got to my new room, I _______myself to my new roommate Paolo, a Brazilian (巴西人) the same age as I, who I was surprised to find playing one of my favourite CD! In just a few hours, we knew we’d be good friends for the rest of the________.

I left France with many ________so when people ask me what my favorite part of the trip was, they are always ________to hear me talk about my Brazilian friend Paolo and the scores of weekdays in class, weeknights on the town, and weekends ________France we enjoyed together. I love how people can seem so different, but end up being so ________. The most valuable lesson I gain from studying in France wasn’t just to respect the French people but to respect all people, for your next best friend could be just a continent away. I would recommend an exchange program to anyone who wants to experience foreign culture and gain meaningful ________.