2 . Afroz Shah, a lawyer in Mumbai, hasn’t had a weekend off in four years. But he hasn’t spent this time preparing for _________.

His mission? Saving the world’s oceans from _________ pollution.

It’s a calling he found in 2015 after moving to a community in Mumbai called Versova Beach. He had played there as a child and was_________to see how much it had _________. The sand was no longer _________ because it was covered by a layer of garbage more than five feet thick — most of it plastic waste.

“The whole beach was like a_________of plastic,” he said. “It hurt me. The _________ mess.” What Shah had seen is part of a global environmental crisis. More than 8 million tons of plastic _________in the world’s oceans each year. It’s predicted that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. “Plastic in the ocean is a _________. And the sea species have no choice at all, ” Shah said. “We are ______________ their habitats.”

In October 2015, Shah began ________________ up plastic waste from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began calling on others to join in. Word ________________ and with the help from social media, more volunteers got ________________.

For Shah, the work has always been a ________________ journey, but it has earned global attention. After he was ________________ as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Shah now devotes nearly all of his free time to this ________________.

He’s now spent 209 weekends on this mission, ________________ more than 200,000 volunteers, some of whom are young students, to join him in what’s been called the world’s biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was ________________ clean and Shah’s cleanups expanded to another beach as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.

“This world talks too much. I think we must talk ________________ and do action more, ” he said when interviewed by CNN in October 2019.“We are a smart species. Well adapt. We’ll learn. And with these youngsters rising up, I see ________________.”

4 . An old man lived in a nice farmhouse with a large garden. He was seen tending his flowers     ______. Because of his hard work and care, many colourful flowers blossomed (开花) all the year round. The garden was so beautiful that it attracted every passer­by.

One day a young painter ______     the old man’s garden. He looked at the garden, ______how happy he could be if he lived in such a beautiful place. Then he found the old man was ______. He asked, “Why are you busy tending these flowers you cannot see?” The blind man smiled, “I can tell you ______ reasons. First, I was a(n) ______ when I was young, and I’m really familiar with this job. Second, ______ I can’t see these flowers, I can ______ them. Third, I can smell the sweetness of them. As for the last one, that’s you.”

“Me? But you don’t know me，” replied the painter.

“It’s ______ that I don’t know you. The beauty of my garden will get everyone into a good ______. At the same time, it also gives a       ______       to me to have a word with you here and to ______ the happiness these flowers have brought us.”

The blind man grows flowers in his heart. Though he ______ see the beauty he’s created, yet every flower has ______ with which they can see the ______ of the man’s heart.

5 . You should see the photo. I’m sitting in red dirt, ________ an ugly purple T-shirt. My face is pink and my hair is wet with sweat. Flies buzz around my head. I’m in the northwest of Australia, on a school trip with 20 parents and 20 kids.

It was a strange choice for a holiday. I like sitting by the pool with a cola, not flies and frogs. I like being ________ and quiet, not a busload of kids. I like ________ washed sheets, not dirty-looking blankets.

But here’s the thing about that photo: I am smiling!

The trip sounded good when I ________. We were told that guides would take us into the heart of the place and I would see a new part of Australia and learn about local ________. Besides I knew it would be a valuable chance for me to stay with my youngest daughter. I would also stay with 40 strangers. I just hope there would be good coffee.

In Darwin we got onto a bus. It quickly became tiresome. The kids were ________ and kept on talking but I hate making small talk.

But later when I looked out at the large empty land, I was surprised at and moved by its ________. Our local guide told us about the land and his culture. I felt far from home.

Finally we reached our ________. There the small room I shared with my daughter was a brick cell, full of crickets (蟋蟀), but too dark to see them.

It didn’t matter. The next nine days were ________. Waterfalls, lakes, community visits, and a trip around Katherine Gorge where we even saw giant crocodiles!

On our last night, a water pipe (管子) ________. We awoke to a mess, everything in water. Usually I would have ________, but it just seemed ________ to be dirty.

Indeed, it was ________ to stay clean. We were hiking in red dirt with temperatures of 35 degrees. Still, I felt a kind of energy I hadn’t ________ in years.

Yes, the coffee was bad, but I was too focused on keeping crickets off my face.

I love that photo of me in the dirt. I look messy but happy. Sometimes it’s another way of traveling. There is beautiful ________ and there is dirt. There was always someone to talk to, someone to laugh with.

7 . In the doorway of my home, I looked closely at my 23­-year­-oldson, Daniel. In a few hours he would be flying to France to _________ a different life. It was a transitional (过渡的) time in Daniel’s life. I wanted to _________ him some words of significance. But nothing came from my lips, and this was not the _________ time I had let such moments pass.

When Daniel was five, I took him to the bus stop on his first day of kindergarten. He asked, “What is it going to be like, Dad? Can I do it?” Then he walked _________ the steps of the bus and disappeared inside. The bus drove away and I said nothing. A decade later, a similar _________ played itself out. I drove him to college. As I started to leave, I tried to think of something to say to give him _________ and confidence as he started this new stage of life. Again, words _________ me.

Now, as I stood before him, I thought of those _________ opportunities. How many times have I let such moments _________? I don’t find a quiet moment to tell him what he has __________ to me. Or what he might __________ to face in the years ahead. Maybe I thought it was not necessary to say anything.

What does it matter in the course of a lifetime if a father never tells a son what he really thinks of him? __________ as I stood before Daniel, I knew that it did matter. My father and I loved each other. Yet I always __________ never hearing him put his __________ into words. Now I could feel my palms sweat and my throat tighten. Why is it so __________ to tell a son something from the heart?

My mouth turned dry, and I knew I would be able to get out only a few words clearly. “Daniel,” I said, “if I could have picked, I would have picked you.” That’s all I could say. He hugged me. For a moment, the world __________, and there were just Daniel and me. He was saying something, but tears misted my eyes, and I couldn’t understand what he was saying. All I was __________ of was the stubble (短须) on his chin as his face pressed __________mine. What I had said to Daniel was __________. It was nothing. And yet, it was __________.

8 . A US mum and her six boys decided to grow their hair together. They would donate some hair to children _______.

On Monday, Mary and her six sons had their hair _______ in a special activity. Mary told HuffPost that the hairdresser (理发师) helped the family _______ their goal. The hair was donated to Children with Hair Loss. It is an organization that _______ hair for children and young adults with hair loss for free. The proud New York mum shared photos of the _______ on Facebook.

The family’s decision to grow and donate their hair was a _______ decision.

“Three years ago, my friend _______ her son because of cancer. He was a twin and very close in _______ to my twins,” Mary told HuffPost.

One year after his death, Mary’s eldest three boys donated their hair in honour of him.

“Since their _______ two years ago,” she said, “our lives have continued to be affected by cancer. It’s everywhere. My boys want to __________ the people who suffer from hair loss. Donating their hair is __________ they do it.”

Despite their kind acts, the journey hasn’t been easy for the boys. “They have been __________ by everyone because of their long hair,” Mary wrote in a Facepost. “But they didn’t let that slop them. They had a __________ and stuck to it. They really set a good example to their little sister.

“I am so __________ of my boys,” she said.

The day after their cuts, Mary was still getting used to her newly short-haired sons. “I didn’t __________ my own children,” she told ABC News with a sigh.

10 . Anger isn’t a pleasant feeling. Some of us bottle up the emotion, while others ______ in a wild anger. Both habits have bad effects on our bodies, our minds, and our relationships.

Anger may feel uncomfortable, but it’s also normal and healthy. “A lot of people think they have to ______ their anger,” says Patrick Keelan, a registered psychologist. “But anger is an emotion built into us to signal that something needs to be ______.” When we take notice of that signal and actually ______ the problem instead of ignoring it, we’re usually much better for it. ______, many of us have been conditioned to keep our emotions hidden. Increasingly, research is suggesting that this can have ______ effects on our health. Investigators noticed that people who make greater efforts to ______ their emotions tend to have shorter life spans. They’re more likely to die earlier from cancer, ______. When we’re angry, stress hormones (激素) are released, which can ______ a wide range of diseases, including diabetes and depression, and abnormal immune conditions.

Is it better, then, to scream and cry whenever something makes you ______? That’s the fundamental behind the “rage rooms” that have appeared in many American cities, where folks are ______ to let off their anger by violently smashing stuff in a safe environment. “The ______ is that you get the anger out of your system through ______ actions,” says Keelan. “But the research indicates that when we display our anger sharply, it can actually increase the intensity of the anger and increase the ______ of aggressive actions in the future.” It doesn’t take much imagination to predict how they can ______ your relationships with your family members, or your coworkers.