1 . I woke up with only one thing on my mind: what to wear. A billion thoughts ______ through my brain as wooden hangers moved back and forth. It was my first day of high school in a new State; first ______ are everything, and it was necessary to impress the people who I’d spend the next four years with.

It wasn’t insecurity that ______ me to madness but the fact that this was my third time being the new kid. ______ moving does something to a child’s development. I ______ finding reliable friends. But this time dad’s company ______ my starting and finishing high school in the same place. This time mattered, which made me nervous.

I emerged proudly in a patterned dress after riding (扫荡) my closet. I felt just as ______ as I stepped off the bus. But my jaw dropped to the floor when I found Mrs. Hutfilz, my English teacher, wearing the exact same ______ as I did. I kept my head down and tiptoed to my seat, but the first day meant ______ in front of the class, and ______ it was my turn. I made it through my minute speech, until Hutfilz stood up, ______ adding she liked my style. All the ______ that had accumulated throughout the morning surprisingly ______. The students raised heads as I shared my story. My smile ______ as I giggled with my peers. After class, I stayed behind, sharing with Mrs. Hutfilz my previous understanding about coming into a new school and state. I was relieved to make a humorous and genuine ______ with my first teacher in the coming days

This incident ______ me that these are the times to have fun, work hard, and make memories, not stress about the ______ details. Looking back, the ten minutes I spent ______ my speech were really not worth it. ______ my first period of high school may not have gone exactly the way I thought it would, Mrs. Hutfilz’s great sense of ______ certainly made the day unforgettable in the best way.

2 . A farmer owned an old mule(骡子) One day the mule _________ into the farmer’s well(井)unluckily   The farmer heard the mule _________ He tried every possible way to save the mule, but _________ .

After carefully thinking about the situation, the farmer _________ that neither the mule nor the well was worth greater efforts _________ , he called his neighbors together, told them what had happened, and asked them to help carry dirt to cover the old mule in the _________ and put him out of his _________ .

At first, the old mule was mad! But as the farmer and the neighbors _________ shoveling(铲土) and the dirt hit his back, an idea _________ to him.   Every time a shovelful of ____________ landed on his back, he would shake it off and step up!

This he did, blow after blow. “Shake it off and step up…shake it off and step up…shake it off and step up!” He repeated to ____________ himself.   No matter how painful the blows, or how ____________ the situation seemed, the old mule overcame his fear and just kept right on shaking it off and stepping up!

It wasn’t long before the old mule, tired out, stepped ____________ over the wall of that well! What seemed to have destroyed him actually ____________ him all because of the way in which he dealt with his adversity(逆境)

That’s life! We should face our problems and respond to them ____________ , and refuse to give in to fear, bitterness, or self-pity.

3 . When Jasmine Benton was just 9 years old, she realized that her love for creating art was more than just a _______ . Each night in her diary she wrote about the _______ she dreamed of starting, bringing it to her mother Jennifer Gormer one Sunday morning to _______ the important news.

“I want to start my own company.” Jasmine told Jennifer. When Jennifer looked at Jasmine’s _______ she was astonished to see the outline of a real, practical business _______ . “She had the name of her business, the _______ she was going to sell, and who her customers were,” said Jennifer. “She had the vision (远见). It was all there.”

Jasmine comes from a long line of _______. Her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother all started their own businesses. And with her family’s _______ , Jasmine started Precious Designs, a company that changes trash into treasure. She spent her adolescence and teen years creating artwork and _______ it at trade shows and art shows. Unfortunately, her friends were not very ________ , and she went through a ________ period when her work wasn’t selling. ________, she just kept trying and never ________ . Jennifer comforted and encouraged Jasmine and told her that sticking to her vision was ________ and asked her to ________ the naysayers (否定者).

Now Jasmine is 18 years old and her company is truly ________. After working part-time at the “Steve Harvev Show ”, Jasmine was tasked with redesigning Steve’s nursery. She recently ________ the Youth Entrepreneurship Shark Tank Challenge and won. Besides, she has also ________ her first bit of investor seed money.

Jasmine continues to excel in her career thanks to her innate business sense and ________ to succeed. We could all take a(an) ________ from this young lady’s vision and hard work! She has proved that if you can dream it, you can do it.

5 . My sixth-grade daughter was being kicked out of school. The teacher explained, “She may not be _________ what we’re trying to accomplish.” He was _________ saying she didn’t have the _________, which made me mad because I knew she was smart, just as my father had known about me when I was _________ in school. We had her _________ and found that the troubles she was going through were exactly what I had suffered from — dyslexia (诵读困难症). Just then I was a _________ television writer, and had been awarded Emmy Award for “The Rockford Files.”

If I had known earlier that something beyond my _________ could explain why I was a low _________, I may not have worked so hard in my late 20s and early 30s. I was working for no other reason than to hear people _________ me, because I did __________ in all my courses.

I once asked a friend why he always got an A, “How long did you study for this?” He replied, “I didn’t. I just __________ it.” So he must be smarter. “What if I’m not good at anything?” I began to ask. Despite my __________, I did become successful, and people now say to me, “So you’ve __________ dyslexia.”

No, I don’t. I learn to __________ it. I __________ making a call if possible, because I sometimes have to try many times to get the number right.

Despite these weaknesses, I view dyslexia as a(n) __________. Many dyslexics are good at right-brain, abstract thought, and that’s what my kind of creative writing is.

I can write quickly, and can get up to 15 pages a day. Writing is my __________.

The real __________ I have for dyslexic children is not they have to __________ in school, but that they will be quitters before they get out of school. Parents have to create __________ for them, whether it’s music, sports or art. You can make your dyslexic child able to say, “Yeah, reading is hard. But I have other pride.”

6 . 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 ________________.”

9 . It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the hospital. I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for all appointment(约会)at 9:30. The nurse had him take a _______ in the waiting area,_______ him it would be at least 40 minutes_________someone would be able to see him. I saw him_______his watch and decided, since I was_______busy—my patient didn’t_______ at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment. The gentleman said no and told me that he_______to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his_________. He told me that she had been_________for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be____________if he was a bit late. He replied that she __________ knew who he was, that she had not been able to __________ him for five years now. I was____________, and asked him, “And you__________go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?” He smiled and said. “She doesn’t know me but I know who she is”. I had to hold back __________ as he left.            

Now I __________ that in marriages, true love is____________of all that is. The happiest people don’t__________have the best of everything, they just__________the best of everything they have. ____________isn’t about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.