2 . Time magazine named its choice of the 100 “Most Influential (有影响力的) People in the World” on Wednesday. On the _________ were Barack Obama; Mitt Romney; Hillary Clinton; Warren Buffett; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge; Pippa Middleton; Tim Tebow; Jeremy Lin and Matt Lauer.

Jeremy Lin, New York Knicks starting point guard, is a person that many _________ can take as an example, according to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan who _________ the ball player for being one of the world’s most _________ persons. In the article, the secretary of education said kids can learn a great _________ from the injured Knicks point guard who is a _________ of Harvard University.

“Jeremy Lin’s story is a great lesson for kids everywhere. In life, there are many prejudices (偏见) that _________ hold children back. However, Lin’s success can show that these prejudices are _________. For example, in the past, many people didn’t believe an Asian-American could _________ in the NBA, but Lin has proved them wrong - and he’s shown that it’s ______________ to be a world-class athlete on the court as well as a(n) ______________ student off the court.” Duncan wrote.

“It’s great to see good values and the right attitude ______________ in professional sports because that doesn’t always happen,” Duncan said in the Time report. “Often it’s the selfish sportsman that gets celebrated - not people who play for the ______________ and work together to achieve a goal bigger than themselves.”

We spoke to Lin’s ______________, and they seemed to be proud of the young basketball star and praised the amazing effect he’d had on their team, but Lin stayed ______________ about the recognition, and reacted on Twitter by saying “Now I’m blushing (脸红).”

4 . When our first son Brendan was born in Sydney in 1966, we planted a golden elm tree in our front yard.It and Brendan _________ together and when we _________ the house, eight years later, the tree branched (长出枝条) out over our heads. We were _________ we had to leave it behind when we moved to New South Wales.

A young couple bought our home and were _________ it.Over the next 37 years, when travelling to Sydney, my family _________ couldn’t help stopping to see the tree. With time, the golden elm grew more beautiful.The owners still loved the home and seemed not to _________ at all that we didn't completely leave them alone.

Recently on the way to Sydney, my husband _________ to see how the house and the owners were getting on. It had been about ten years since we had last _________ and the tree had been removed some years earlier._________, the owner, Gillian, suggested she would contact (联系) us some time in the future, so my husband gave her our ____________.

When I heard about her ____________ message, I wondered what she meant. One day in December, we had a phone call from Gillian. She wanted to drop something in to us for our ____________. I told Brendan that there was a mysterious gift being ____________ for him that day, so it was indeed ____________ when Gillian handed him a package containing two carved wooden bowls. Gillian had asked a local woodworking company to make the ____________ from a piece of the trunk of the golden elm, which she had ____________ several years earlier. My husband’s ____________ had driven her to follow through with her idea.

What a pleasure it was to ____________ that package. We were ____________ by her thoughtfulness (体贴), and amazed that her long­term plan actually did ____________.

5 . I have never been a very self-assured person. Leaving India for the United Kingdom to pursue my research career, I felt more out of_______than ever before. At work, I_______away from engaging in_______or putting forward my opinions. I was afraid my colleagues would find how weak I really felt. I started to_______more and more to myself.

That began to change after consultant suggested I _______a nearby concert by a famous singer from my home country. So, there I was in the_______concert hall, surrounded by_______— all of us clapping and singing along to the_______songs. It proved to be a turning point.

I began to do more things_______, including going out for ice cream and to the movies. I even planned a day trip to a picturesque city a few hours away. Soon I wanted to venture farther away. I decided on a________solo hiking and sightseeing trip to the Alps. At first, I________to join the chance conversations with strangers. But eventually, I started to enjoy listening to others’ stories and telling mine.

My growing________carried over to work, where I started to________and put forward my opinions. I________colleagues to design and conduct experiments. I finally felt like a________and active member of the group.

9 . Tim Robinson, a former soldier of the British Army, was on holiday in Bridport, Dorset. While enjoying a walk down the beach, Robinson ________ on a piece of seaweed lying in the sand and fell, breaking his ________.With no phone and no one around, he could either just _______ anxiously, or he could try something else. As he lay _______, he remembered his ________ training and thought about what he could do.

Though his leg had made him partially ________ to move, Robinson still had the ability to crawl (爬), and so he did. The choice was easy but the crawl was ________.Having crawled for a while, he started ________ his torch in SOS and spinning it over his head to create a Buzz-Saw signal to ________ helicopters in the armed forces nearby.

No one seemed to be around. So he _______ crawling and signaling. In what appeared to be a(n) ________, Robinson finally got a response. It was his wife, who was shining the torch ________ his signal. The former soldier kept on his crawling-signal routine while ________ his way to his wife. All the while his broken leg hurt increasingly worse and was at risk of infection. He needed an ambulance and medical care________.

When the coast guard finally came, they couldn’t believe what Robinson had ________.They were ________ that this man had the ________ to crawl more than a mile in total, after suffering such a wound.

_______ it weren’t for his training and knowledge of Morse code, he might not have   ________ it. Mrs. Robinson is grateful that her husband was ________ and tough enough to bring himself back to safety.

10 . A graduate student from the Michigan State University (MSU) wore a skirt she made using rejection letters while defending her dissertation(论文) last week. To make the skirt, she _______ seventeen rejection letters out and folded each one into a fan, connecting them in rows until they _______ a skirt. Caitlin Kirby still had many left over.

“The whole process of _______ those old letters and making that skirt reminded me that I have to apply for many things to succeed,” she said. “It is _______ to get rejected along the way. What is important is that you need to recover from the blow soon enough and regain the strength to move on.”

Those rejections and what she learned from them _______ heavily on her mind when the day of her dissertation defense came. Having gone through all those bitter experiences, she was ready to face all possibilities.

“Despite all the frustrations, rejection can be a(n) _______ thing,” said Julie Libarkin, Kirby’s adviser and a professor from the MSU. Therefore, she _______ her students to seize every opportunity that comes across their desk to apply for things. Getting used to applying for things and being rejected gives her students the experience they need to gain _______ .

“It’s a learning _______ ,” Libarkin said. “It’s part of life.”

All of her students have been rejected from something, and it led to ________ in the end, she said. Kirby and another student ________ applied for small grants(助金) but kept getting rejected. Along the way, their proposals kept getting better, leading them to apply for an even larger grant. Kirby ________ obtaining a large grant through the Fulbright Program.

“It can be ________ for my students to face rejection for the first time,” said Libarkin, “but it ________ makes them stronger.” “When I think about rejection, I think about how it builds________,” she added.