1 . Snowy wanted to be a show jumping horse. Every day she would _______ her mum to allow her to jump. Finally, her mum decided she was _____ enough and they went into the jumping arena (竞技场).

Snowy was very excited, but when she saw how ______ the jumps were, she started shaking." I can't jump that high. It's a good idea that we ________." she said. Her mum said,“I wouldn't expect you to _________ that high. There's a log (原木) on the ground. Why not start jumping over that?" Snowy gathered (积聚) her ________, walked to the log and then managed to jump over it.

“I did it!" she shouted happily. _________, her mum said,“You can't just jump over logs if you want to be a show jumper. ________ the low jump over there."

Again, Snowy was ___________but she tried it and found she could do it. As time went on, Snowy progressed to taller jumps, until finally she ________ the arena and looked at the tallest jumps. Over the past few weeks, something had _______. These jumps seemed much less ______ to Snowy. She jumped over them easily. Her mum looked with ________ at her and said,“This is what happens when you start ________ and build your way up."

So never be afraid of ________   in life, but start small and keep trying. Then you'll be able to do anything.

2 . Some kids are too young. Maybe they will not remember this time of social distancing and ________during the global pandemic (流行病)．Other ________ teens will remember schools closing, playgrounds off-limits and no ________ to family or friends forever.

My father-in-law, Hub, bad a great memory, He often told of his special time. However, what ________ me most was the detail about his teddy bear.

He was 5 at the time. His oldest sister Alice got sick, and the doctor diagnosed it as scarlet fever (猩红热)．Outbreaks of scarlet fever in the early 1900s were often ________ or left children with lifelong disabilities. It was also highly contagious.(感染性的)

The doctor said Hub and his another older sister Mabel had to stay away ________ Alice got better.

Later in life, Hub put his memories to paper. He wrote, “There was no place to go except to Grandpa and Grandma's just down the road. We ________ and were sent off to their house. My teddy bear fell off the wagon, but ________ , a man found it on the road and gave it back. It was so important to me. It ________ me out of the days spent waiting out in the front yard, watching the men work on the highway and waiting for my sister Mabel to return from school.”

They stayed with their grandparents for three or four weeks. "It was a happy day. ________ Dad told us we could go home"

What will be our memories of this time in history?

I hope we remember family, friends and neighbors caring for one another. I hope we remember the ________ medical personnel sacrificing their own health, the truck drives, food service workers and all the cashiers who kept grocery stores ________. Besides, never forget the garbage collectors sand that the mail kept coming.

I hope we remember the plants ________face masks and ventilators (呼吸机), and the scientists racing to find a vaccine.

I hope we remember how fears ________ a long shadow and how we renew soul searching.

We are writing history. ________ we write it well.

3 . A sobbing (哭泣) little girl stood near a small church from which she had been turned away because it was too crowded. “I can’t _________to Sunday school,” she sobbed to the pastor (牧师) as he_________by. Seeing her sad appearance, the pastor took her inside and found a place for her in the Sunday_________class. The child was so touched that she went home thinking of the children who have no places there.

Some two years_________, this girl died and her poor parents called for the kind-hearted pastor,_________had treated their daughter kindly, to handle the final arrangements . As her poor body was being moved, a worn wallet was_________ . Inside it was discovered 57 cents with a_________, which read, “This is to help_________a church big enough so that more children can go to Sunday school.”

For two years she had_________for this offering of love. When the pastor tearfully__________that note, he knew what he would do.

A newspaper learned of the__________and published it. It was read by a rich man who offered them the land worth many thousands. When told that the church could not__________so much, he offered it for a 57-cent payment.

Church members also made large subscriptions (捐献). Checks came from far and __________. Within five years the little girl’s gift had __________to $250,000—a huge sum for the church, with the money they built Temple University , where tens and thousands of__________are trained .

4 . “Leave a place better than you found it.” It’s a _________ philosophy, but one that William Lindesay holds dear. On April 22, which was also Earth Day, he led twenty _________ to help clean up the Badaling section of the Great Wall.

He who _________ is the owner, William said in the _________ remarks of the cleanup event in 2000. “The Great Wall _________ China, and is also one of the greatest structures in the world. Everyone has a _________ to protect it. Every day should be Earth Day,” he said.

During the past three decades, he has spent most of his time _________ and exploring the Great Wall and has developed his own efforts to protect the cultural relic.

“It's a _________ thing that people are going out to enjoy themselves and to _________ the great history and heritage, __________ it's also quite dangerous if they don't __________ how fragile the historical sites are and how fragile the __________ is,” William said.

In 1989, his first __________ Alone on the Great Wall was published, and he has published another five books about the Great Wall since then. In 2001, he __________ International Friends of the Great Wall, an association whose efforts are aimed at protecting this __________ to the past.

His next step is to organize exhibitions about the Great Wall as a monument over the last 400 years. The exhibitions are expected to be held in Beijing, London, Paris and Washington D. C

6 . When high school started， Becky and I became best friends. We _______ many interests and quickly became inseparable （分不开的）. When high school ended， we both cried _______ we would attend different colleges in the fall.

Our first term of university life was ______. We had a huge telephone bill and our emails were incredibly long. In the second term， I found some new friends with whom I felt very_______. These， were friends with whom I could be myself and _______ out my feelings. I was eager to share my new friends with Becky.

When Becky finally visited me at my school， we were excited. She brought a toy bear to me as a present and told me about her college life. However， something unexpected happened when I _______ her to my new friends. Her eyes grew dark and I could see the _______ within them. My new friends tried to share their friendship， but Becky seemed _______ to accept it. I didn't understand why the people I loved most couldn't love each other.

Becky left. I knew she was not happy. I thought long about what had happened. After many unanswered questions， I understood that she was jealous. She saw me with my new friends and _______ that we no longer shared the same experiences. She saw all the fun I was having ______ her and wished she could be a part of it. She wished she could be in their position.

I wrote a letter to Becky explaining she's always my best friend. I told her everyone had friends from home and friends from school， and all the friends were indeed life's greatest _______ . Becky wrote me back soon. She was in _______ and felt sorry about what she had done.

I think Becky and I both learn an important lesson from it. _______ can influence our friendship and change the experiences we've shared. We are now walking on two different paths of _______ While new friends are special and exciting， old friends are always there， _______ to share their heart and soul， no matter how far apart.