2 . A gentle wind blew through Jennifer’s hair. The golden red sun was _______. She was on the beach, looking up at the ball. She was amazed by its _______, deep red in the middle, _______ fading into yellow. She could hear nothing but the waves and the seagulls flying up above in the sky.

The atmosphere _______ her. After all she had been through, this is what she needed. “It’s getting late,” she thought, “I must go home. My parents will be _______ where I am.” She wanted to know how her parents would react when she got home after the three days she was _______.

The sun had set by now and it was getting _______. She _______ having her favorite jacket on until she saw the front door. It seemed different. _______ had taken care of the outside garden for days. She was ________: her father was usually so strict about keeping everything clean and tidy, and now... It all seemed ________. She couldn’t understand what was going on.

She entered the ________. First, she went into the kitchen where she saw a note written by her father. It said, “Dear Ellen, there is some coffee ready. I went looking.” Ellen was her mother but where was she? On the right side of the hallway was her ________ room. She went in. Then she saw her mother, lying on the bed sleeping. Her face looked so tired, as if she hadn’t ________ for days. She was really pale. Jennifer just fell asleep beside her. When Jennifer woke up she found something ________. She was in her cozy bed in her nightclothes.

It felt so good being back home. Suddenly she heard a voice. “Are you feeling better now, dear? You know you got us very, very scared.”

3 . Contact between adolescents (between the ages of 15 and 19) and their peers (同龄人) is a universal characteristic of all cultures. However, the nature and the degree of such contact ________ a great deal. In American contemporary society, adolescents spend much more time with their peers than with ________ or adults.

This pattern of age segregation (隔离) in American society did not become usual until the beginning of the industrialized society. Changes in the ________separated children from adults, with adults working and children attending school. The dramatic increase of mothers in the workplace has ________ contributed to (促成) the reduction in the amount of time adolescents spend with adults. School reform efforts during the nineteenth century, which ________ age-segregated schools and grades, have reduced the amount of time adolescents spend with younger children. Finally, the changes in population are considered a(n)________that may have contributed to the emergence of adolescent peer culture. From 1955 to 1975, the adolescent ________ increased dramatically, from 11 percent to 20.9 percent. This increase in the number of adolescents might be a contributing factor to the ________ in adolescent peer culture in terms of growth in size as well as in terms of its impact on society’s other cultures.

Research ________ the view that adolescent s spend a great deal of time with their peers. Reed Larson and his colleagues examined adolescents’ daily ________ and found that they spend more time talking to their friends than engaging in any other activity. In a typical week, ________, high school students will spend twice as much time with their peers as with adults. This gradual withdrawal (退出) from adults begins in ________ adolescence. In sixth grade, adults (excluding parents) account for only 25 percent of adolescent social ________ . Another important characteristic of adolescent peer________ is its increasingly autonomous (自治的) function. While childhood peer groups are conducted under the close supervision (监管) of parents, adolescent peer groups typically make an effort to ________ adult supervision and usually succeed in doing so.

4 . “I just think, a year ago, at 54 years of age, I couldn’t swim. I was terrified at the thought of going into the water. Now, I have just _________ my 200 meters. It is all thanks to Everyday Swim.”

It’s never too late to learn swimming. Angela King, 55, is a perfect _________ of it. In August 2020, the family went to an attraction they hadn’t _________ for 15 years. Angela thought, “All this time, I still can’t swim. When I get back home tomorrow, I’m going to find out more about swimming _________.”

In the cold light of day, she felt a little _________, but her husband David searched the Internet for swimming classes. He found Everyday Swim at the local Hadleigh pool and _________ Angela to sign up. When she turned up for her first training, she said, “I felt a bit sick and _________, but this soon passed. The instructor really put me at ease; so did the other people in the class.”

As the lessons _________, she learned to become more _________ in the water. At first, it was a simple __________ of learning she wasn’t going to sink. Then during the third lesson, the Olympic gold medal winner Duncan Goodhew turned up to offer __________ “I couldn’t believe it. He held my hand and we all held hands in a circle and splashed under the water. What he did made me believe that I could __________.”

When the 10 lessons for £ 100 offer finished at the pool, she __________ to sign up for lessons. In fact, from originally being __________ of the water, Angela is now becoming a regular swimmer and __________ some certificates (证书) along the way

5 . Nathan was a boy in my band class as well as in my math class. I never really liked him. He didn’t have any friends at all and always sat _________ at the lunch table listening to music with his phone. People just walked past him without _________. In class, whenever he was asked a question, he would take a long time to answer it, which made the whole class get _________. Whenever he got an answer _________, the whole class would _________.

One day, when I walked into band class and was _________ to play my flute (长笛) , Mr. Kohler began the class. After we had played _________ for a little while, Mr. Kohler asked the class, “Who can tell what _________ it is just by hearing the pitch (音高)?” Nobody raised their hands except Nathan. When I saw him, I laughed and thought he couldn’t do anything _________. How could he possibly guess the note when the pitch was played?

Even Mr. Kobler laughed a little and then told Nathan “Come here, buddy.” Nathan __________ and went to the front of the class. Mr. Kohler had a tuner (校音器). He played a pitch and asked Nathan to __________ it. Nathan said, “E flat.” Mr. Kohler said, “OK. Good.” He played another pitch. “F sharp,” Nathan said. The whole class went __________. Mr. Kohler __________ Nathan by playing two pitches together. “C and B flat,” Nathan said. “Good job, go back to your seat.” he said.

Then I got surprised. Nathan had guessed all the pitches __________. That day I realized I shouldn’t judge people __________ little things I saw and that I needed to see the great things people can do.

6 . My husband had just bought a new washing machine for me. I decided to_______ it the very day, and I washed a lot of things. Everything worked _______, but I couldn’t find_______ of my husband’s socks though I had looked _______ for it.

The next morning, I got ready for_______ as usual. When the bell rang, the students came in. I greeted them and told them _______ we were going to do _______.

When I turned _______ to write on the blackboard, the class burst out _______. They laughed and laughed. They laughed so much, in fact, that I was ________ the headmaster would be in to see all this.

I asked the class to ________, but the ________ I talked, the more they laughed. So I thought I had better pay ________ attention to them and continue to write on the blackboard. When I did this, they laughed even more.

Before long, the teacher who had the room next to ________came to see the reason ________ all the students were laughing . When he came in, he started ________, too.

“Good Heavens!” I said. “Will ________ please tell me what is so ________?”

“Oh, God,” said the teacher, “you have a brown________stuck to the back of your shirt.”

So that’s ________ I found my husband’s missing sock.

“Oh, well,” I said to the class, “let’s just say you have had an unforgettable lesson on static electricity (静电).”

8 . I am a teacher and I love children. I set up a classroom library of books that I bought _______my own money. The library looks beautiful, like a_______. And my students_______it very much.

I read the children a story. It is about a girl who is_______poor that she wears the_______dress to school every day. But she says she has a hundred dress_______.The other girls laugh at her until she goes away._______, her classmates discover she really has a hundred dresses – a hundred beautiful drawings of dresses . Oh, God, every child_________when I close the book .

_______a moment everything is quiet . Then a boy________, “ I have to tell the class something .” He shows me that he has half a finger__________.

I turn him towards the class and put my__________on his shoulder . He is a bit________. “ I …I only have nine and a half fingers .” He________his hands. “ Please don’t laugh at me about it .” The students become________. Then one boy calls out , “________who makes________of you , I’ll kick them .”

“Me , too ,” says________student.

When the boy sees the class________united (团结) , he is very________and smiles at me .

9 . My nephew Tyden and I were playing at a local amusement center. It was the kind of _______ where you get tickets for scoring points in the games and then cash them in for prizes.

Tyden won top prize of tickets, so we went to _______ his gift. I felt a little _______ because my loved one and I had our first _______ at this center and had exchanged little things from the showcase. I _______ a turtle and remembered my partner loved it. I asked the assistant behind the _______ if I could just buy the turtle without _______ . He said, “ _______, that isn’t a choice.”

I needed to _______ 350 tickets to cash the turtle in, so I ________ Tyden choosing his gift alone there. I had just bought game tokens(代币) when I heard Tyden’s ________ voice, “Auntie! Look!”

He pulled the turtle out from behind his back and gave it to me. My eyes filled with tears and my heart ________ with love. He had listened to that whole ________ and chosen to give the turtle to me ________ getting whatever he wanted.

I held him tightly in my arms, and told him how much I ________ him. I am beyond thankful to have the title of his Auntie.