2 . Even though I’ve lived in Walnut Creek for four years, I don’t know many of my neighbours. Now, during the mask-wearing, stay-inside weeks of the pandemic (大流行病), it would be great to have a socially-distanced _______with a neighbour, but how would I _______ meet any of them? Anyway, at least I had my cat Junior for _______.

Last week, Junior ______ through the open window while I was cleaning the windowsill (窗台) but I didn’t think too much of it, ______ he is sometimes gone for an hour or two before he ______ the window to let him back in. But this time, it had been almost a whole day and Junior hadn’t come back. That never ______. I kept worrying he might ______ to death. I cooked and ______ a chicken breast and put it on the windowsill. Junior would never be able to ______ a special treat like that.

But when he returned with more than 25 hours gone, he ______ over the plate of chicken, ______ it completely. The next morning the chicken still sat on the plate, ______. Oh no, was he sick? I was ______ when there was a knock at my door. I opened it to see a familiar-looking woman, ______ and standing six feet back. “I’m from Apartment 4334,” she said. “Your cat was outside meowing and I thought you might be too ______ to feed him, so I chopped up some fish sticks and he ______ them down. I just came by to see if you need anything.” I thanked her for her ______.

How wonderful it was to meet such a neighbour, because she was kind enough to think about us. Nevertheless, I’m going to keep Junior on lockdown. I can’t have him getting ______ because of my generous and ______ neighbour!

4 . Last year, I found a part-time job. I was working as a__________ at Tower 15 on Newport and two blocks to my right was another guard-named Mike, working at Tower 17. He called me over the phone and said, “Hey, I have spotted two kids who are__________ in the dangerous zone. I have to give them a warning. Keep an eye on us.” I said, “Sure.” In case of emergencies, anytime we got out of our tower, we were supposed to__________ somebody else.

Mike__________ the phone and seized the lifebuoy.Then he realized that these two kids had been__________ arid that there was a great tendency for them to be__________ by the wave.__________，Mike rushed toward the ocean, I____the water and all I found was two small heads. The mother of the two kids knelt down on the beach with__________.

When I dropped my binoculars(望远镜) and reached the mother, Mike was in waist-deep water,__________ the two kids. I turned to the mum and said, “Hey, it's. OK. They are safe.” I saw the terror started to__________. Then she glanced back and got her first good look at Mike. A new kind of__________ washed over her face as though there was another__________ to her kids' lives. She snatch her kids without appreciation.

Mike had some seemingly boring__________, and his shaved head showed a scar. Maybe he had no__________ manners, but his lifesaving ability__________ his unsatisfactory skills in PR(public relation). In the mother's__________, Mike was a really terrible guy. However, that couldn't change the fact that he had just__________her kids.

Mike just glanced at me and smiled. As I jogged back to my tower, I promised myself I'd never let my own__________ prevent me from__________ a hero when I meet one.

5 . One morning our new neighbor saw my grandfather planting two rare tree saplings(树苗）in our garden. And he also planted the same kind of tree saplings in his garden. My grandfather gave________enough amount of water to his plants and didn't always give them full ______while our neighbor gave a lot of water to his plants and ______them too well. My grandfather's plants were simple but looked good, _______our neighbor's plants were much fuller and greener.

Normally, in summer, we have strong thunderstorms called "Kalboishakhi" which can bring great damage to life and _______. After a "Kalboishakhi", my grandparents and I came out to________the damage to our garden and saw the neighbor was in his garden, too, but look ______as his plants were uprooted. Our plants weren't damaged and were standing ______ on the ground, our neighbor was______ to see this, and he came up to my grandfather and said with______, I actually looked after my plants better than you did for yours. ______, my trees came off from the roots, but yours didn't. How is this_______?"

My grandfather smiled and said, "You gave your plants more attention and water, so they didn’t have the ______to work themselves for anything. I gave them just the ample amount of and manure (肥料），letting their_______ search for more;thus they went deeper and made their position   stronger, That is why my plants________ With an expression of deep_______ our neighbour nodded_______It made me realize then that though my grandfather was ______with me on many occasions even during our vacations with his do's and don'ts, I became aware that anything ______got or can go off   that much more easily and we will not ______the hard work it takes earn those things. "

6 . Years ago, I was on a long flight, during which a voice from the speaker said, “We won’t _____ drinks or the meal because we are facing a storm ahead. Please make your seat belts fastened. ”Many passengers became _____, talking about it with each other. At once it became _____ in the plane.

Soon, lightening _____ the darkening skies, and within moments the _____ was like a boat on waves in the storm. One moment it was _____ up by the storm；the next,it was thrown as if it were to _____ onto the ground. All the passengers were _____. Some cried. Some prayed (祈祷). The _____ seemed hopeless. I wondered if we could ______ it through the storm.

Then I noticed the little girl next to me. Surprisingly, the storm seemed to mean ______ to her. She was ______, looking through a picture book. Sometimes she closed her eyes, then she would ______ again, but she never showed a(n) ______ of worry or fear. The little girl wasn’t afraid at all ______ all the adults were scared to death. Finding me watching her,the girl smiled at me and said,“Don’t worry. My father is the pilot. He is taking me home. Take it easy. He will take us home safely.”

When the plane was out of ______, I smiled at the girl and she gave me a big smile in ______. “I said my father would take us home safely.”

Many kinds of storms may ______ us: diseases, difficulties... They can easily darken our skies and ______ our planes into hard times. Let us ______： Love is the pilot. It will help us out of trouble. So take it easy.