1 . Mrs. Smith knew something was wrong with Miguel, one of her best students. Lately, he looked so _________ that he even no longer _________ on his studies. As a result, he was always _________ in his tests recently. Mrs. Smith was very _________ but Miguel told her he was all right until she found the boy in the _________, sitting on the ground and studying. Miguel looked so pale on the public road with people coming and going, seeming to _________ energy.

Mrs. Smith was told that as immigrants, Miguel’s families had no flat and had to live in a _________, which was provided by a charity. Miguel even didn’t have a table to _________ on, and what’s worse, it was so _________ that he couldn’t focus on his study.

Mrs. Smith knew she needed to do something to __________ Miguel. She arranged a small desk in the back of her __________ for him, got him extra school supplies and permitted him to stay back after __________. Then Miguel could do his homework in her office __________ in the street.

Every time Miguel finished his assignments, Mrs. Smith would drove him home. One day, she met Miguel’s __________, only to find his parents were disabled and hadn’t a(n) __________. She decided to help them, so she __________ the school principal（校长） to __________ his parents. The principal allowed them to work at the school canteen. With his parents’ salaries increasing, Miguel lived better and became more __________.

With Mrs. Smith’s help, Miguel was able to study attentively again and get his __________ back on track. As years passed, Mrs. Smith remained Miguel’s instructor and __________, helping him achieve his goals.

2 . Mother is a bit stooped (驼背的) with age, but her hair is only partially gray and her face has few old age spots. Her small and thin body however, is_________than thirty years ago by a head. And nothing seems to remain of her two hands_________a few blue veins (青筋) and bones.

When I was a child, I_________mother used to wash my hair, my body and my feet with her soft hands. As her hands ran over me _________, what a feeling of _________and warmth came over me!

Once, when I was a schoolboy, my_________ wanted me to play the part of a squirrel (松鼠) in a children’s play, I_________very much about the stage costume that, according to the teacher, had to be provided by_________. Mother set my heart at ease by saying, “Don’t worry! I’ll_________one for you all right...”

So, she bought a piece of gray cotton flannel (法兰绒) and __________cutting it out and sewing. On the early morning of the third day, when I__________, I was__________ to find her still sitting at the sewing machine. She __________ showed me the stage costume for a squirrel with a lovely tail. I __________ it on. It was perfect. At that time, however, little did I know about mother having spent quite a few__________nights working hard for her son’s development.

3 . Nunavut is a faraway polar area in Canada. Here_______ is so expensive that people regularly post photos in a Facebook group called Feeding My Family to _______ the prices at their local stores. Leesee Papatsie, founder of the Facebook group, says she has to _______ at least $500 a week to feed her family of five and that’s just for _______.

Because it costs a lot to fly food into the _______ area, there’s not much that can be done to reduce _______. That’s why “country foods”, such as polar bears, seals and whales, are _______.

Such _______ foods, which are often consumed raw, frozen or dried, are rich in the vitamins and nutrients people need to stay _______ in the hard conditions. The parts of the ________ that can’t be eaten, like the fur and skins, are used to create clothes and other products that hunters can sell to make a(n) ________.

People in Nunavut also hold community feasts to make sure no one goes ________. Hunters will share their ________and everyone enjoys the meal in each other’s company. This is especially ________ for families who may not have the equipment or skills to hunt.

Food sharing occurs on a smaller scale too, and is a(n) ________ part of life in Nunavut. Papatsie ________ how her parents would prepare large breakfasts every day and invite neighbors or community members over to ________.

“Eating together is one of the ________ that have kept us alive for thousands of years,” she says. “But the best way to ________ is to invest in programs that keep the traditions alive by teaching our ________ about hunting, harvesting and other arts and crafts and pass them on.”

4 . Not long ago I wasn’t doing very well in exams and I was full of disappointment and negative thinking. While on the _______, I met many new friends, but one in particular _______. His nickname is Colorful Day and we _______ on the Web. He told me he lost his _______ at age 15, and felt the whole world had closed its door to him.

He was _______ so fast that I couldn’t believe he was blind! But he continued to _______, “Five years ago, I realized it was time to change my life. I had read about Helen Keller and understood her life and _______. So I developed a website about her life _______ mine called Three Days to See.”

I visited his website which was well _______ and vividly presented.

I asked, “How did you __________ to build such a website?” He said: “Owing to the new technology, I can use software specially __________ for the blind. __________ I point the cursor (光标), it will just read it out to me. We can do far more things and __________ more information than we could before.”

I then asked: “Didn’t you have great difficulty with it?”

He hesitated and then began his __________ with a smiling face, “Yes, but I have faith in myself to __________ my colorful day, and modern technology gives me this medium and __________ to do it.”

His __________ attitude towards life made me believe that our fate (命运) offers, not the cup of despair, __________ the cup of opportunity. I returned to my lessons, and this time with a smile on my face and with __________ of a colorful future.

The Internet, which opened to me to experience __________ lives and cultures, has an attractive power you couldn’t find in another wise non-virtual world.

5 . It’s two o’ clock in the afternoon. Sophie Hanson is running a marathon. She’s wearing T-shirt that ____“Go the Extra Mile”, but she feels ____. She can hear her schoolmates ____and she knows she has to finish. She grabs a bottle of water,takes a long drink and ____. By the time she ____, she will have raised £200.

Halfway around the world, in Sierra Leone, Africa, Mohammed Koroma is ___, so he picks up a cup of water and takes a long drink. The water is from a new ____ in his village, so it isn’t ____. It’s cool and clear and Mohammed has not been ill for weeks.

Sophie and Mohammed are two teenagers with very ____ lives, but magically they are ____ by charity. Sophie is ____ a huge national event that raises money for people in the UK and abroad — a sponsored ____ for Sport Relief. Mohammed’s village has a new well that was ____ with money from the same event. Every year, Sport Relief and its sister charity, Comic Relief, raise money for good ____. By the end of this year, people will have completed more than 350 events and will have ____ over £50 million. That’s enough money to ____ the lives of thousands of people.

Teenagers play a big role in this culture of ____ . Although they may not have much money to give, they often ____ in other ways. They ____ their free time and volunteer, making a ____ to the world.

6 . The day started out as many others before. I was always in a rush, always trying to ________ too much in a day’s time. It seemed as though the kids were________ underfoot.

Many times I heard that these were the ________ days, that I should cherish the ________. I couldn’t see it, though. I was________ by the long list of things to do.

A warm morning, I took the kids outside and started________ the flower beds as Emily and Logan played nearby. I was ________ to have a moment to myself while the kids were occupied.

It wasn’t long before I________ that the two of them were sitting beneath a small tree in the backyard, looking up into the ________ and singing a song. We had dubbed (把…称为) it“The Emily Tree” simply because it had been ________ when Emily was a baby.

Days and________ had passed, and Emily had grown ________ as well. She had turned into a bright and curious child who was always eager to learn and ________ and help her little brother Logan do the same.

________ got the best of me, and I headed over to ask why they were sitting there, apprently________ to the tiny tree.

Logan only________, but Emily told me softy in her matter-of-fact little ________, “You have to spend time with something if you want it to ________ nice and strong. ”She turned to finish her song.

Well, the weeds didn’t get pulled that day. ________, I went into the house, gathered a blanket and a picnic lunch, and________ my daughter and son under the Emily Tree.

7 . Some polyglots, who can speak quite a few languages, may seem especially talented. Zhao Yuanren, a Chinese American _________, could speak seven languages and more than 30 dialects. England’s Queen Elizabeth I could speak about 10 languages. A famous Italian named Guiseppe Mezzofanti was reported to have been able to _________ in 30 to 40 languages. Polyglots are indeed _________, but American teenager Tim Doner is living proof that anyone can try to be one.

As a child, Tim studied French and Latin at school, but he found it difficult to be interested in just words and grammar rules. When he was 13, Tim _________ listening to Hebrew rap music. One day, he _________ the words in a dictionary and realised he could put them together to make _________! He started looking for people who spoke Hebrew so he could _________, and then, he decided to sign up for a summer Arabic class. One evening, just for fun, he posted a video of himself speaking Arabic and another of him speaking Hebrew. Hebrew and Arabic speakers wrote nice _________ on his videos and gave him advice. Tim loved it. He could _________ communicate with people! After that, Tim started looking for new languages to learn, and posting more videos of himself speaking new languages, including Chinese. Tim also began to use many other methods to make learning __________.

Tim wishes everyone would learn more than one language and not just as a school subject. “Knowing a language is a lot more than knowing a couple of words out of a __________,” Tim says. Languages are for communicating with people, learning about their __________, and understanding how different people think. “Open up your mind to the fact that language __________ a cultural world view,” says Tim. “You can translate words easily, __________ you can’t quite translate meaning. ” Or, as Nelson Mandela said, “If you talk to a man in a language he __________, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

8 . I’ve had the good fortune of spending a lot of time working in London over the years. I’m a typical American, _________ to making eye contact and smiling when speaking to others. But until I spent time abroad, I was never quite _________ of what my facial expressions could convey.

In the UK, I _________ not everyone made as much eye contact on the street as I did. And it was _________ to hold eye contact during a business meeting. My _________ smile could be considered as flirtatious (轻浮的). But my British colleagues _________: I was American. This forward attitude was not _________, but it was just my culture. _________, being expressively cheerful among those who keep _________ closer to their vest (背心 ) was accepted in the UK.

____________, in other countries a cultural misunderstanding of smiling can have serious results. While it’s unlikely that a mistimed smile will ____________ you a contract (合同),____________ interactions can make it much more difficult to build effective business relationships.

Different cultures ____________ smiling in different ways. In Russia, people do not smile because it ____________ that you are at best foolish or at worst, sneaky (卑劣的). Even in family photos, adults ____________ with stony faces. In Japan, smiling is a way to ____________ your feeling that you don’t want others to know. Australians have smiling cultures. While they might not have the same ____________ for giant white smiles as Americans, they smile more than our peers in Russia, Japan, Switzerland, and the UK.

If Americans have to work abroad, my ____________ is to make sure you do some research. It is ____________ to be yourself, but you should also learn about the culture you are going to visit. This will help you communicate ____________ and effectively with your peers.

9 . Alexa Bjornson was worried about how her son Landon Bjornson, who has high-functioning autism (高功能自闭症), would manage to fly alone to see his dad. She was so _________ that she gave him a note and $10 to _________ to the passenger next to him.

The note said that he had high-functioning autism and would often ask the passenger “Are we there yet?”, and the _________ was for the person to keep her son safe and _________. “I thought, how do I make it so whoever’s sitting next to him won’t _________ him? I need to help my son _________ the day,” Alexa said.

The person who ended up sitting beside Landon from Las Vegas to Oregon was Ben Pedraza. The two had a great _________ together. Pedraza said, “We were making _________, and after a while, he asked me to stop making bad-jokes.”

As they reached their destination, Pedraza took a(n) _________ with Landon and sent it to Alexa saying, “Landon did ask __________ we were there yet several times, but he was a great __________ partner. We played a few rounds of rock-paper-scissors. He’s a great kid and you’re a(n) __________ mom.” Pedraza said that he didn’t want the money. He donated the $10 to The Autism Society to __________ kids like Landon.

Alexa was __________ that Pedraza helped her son Landon. She was so glad that her son met Pedraza who was __________ and treated him with love and care.

10 . Angela Hernandez was driving to her sister’s home near Los Angeles, on July 6 when a small animal ran onto the road. Hernandez didn’t want to hit the animal, so she turned quickly, causing her to_________her car and fall over the cliff (悬崖).

“I don’t really remember much of the_________,” Hernandez said. “I just remember waking up in my car with water coming up over my knees. My head hurt and when I_________it , I found blood on my hands.”

By_________one of her windows, she was able to get out of her car and get to shore (岸边), where she fell asleep. When Hernandez_________, she began to understand her_________. She had been badly hurt. And she was stuck on a tiny beach.

Hernandez spent each day walking on the beach, searching for help, but was_________to make her way back up to the highway. She climbed as high as she could to_________people on the highway. She_________someone would hear or see her. But everyday, she would have to climb back down. No one had__________her.

Hernandez didn’t know it, but people were out looking for her. But foggy (有雾的) weather made the search__________.

On July 13, two travelers, Chelsea and Chad Moore, were looking for a place to fish. __________they heard a cry for help. Then they saw Hernandez. They called for__________, and Hernandez was rushed to hospital.

Hernandez is__________in the hospital. Her head is hurt and she has many broken bones. But Hernandez doesn’t seem__________these problems. “None of that matters,” she says. “I’ve met some of the most beautiful human beings that I think I’ll ever meet in my life. They saved my life.”