2 . My father often works very hard. And he has __________to see a film. Here I’ll tell you __________about him.

One afternoon, when he finished his work and __________ go home, he found a film ticket under the __________on his desk. He thought he __________to have not much work to do that day and __________ was quite wonderful to pass the __________at the cinema. So he came back home and __________finished his supper. Then he said __________ to us and left.

But to our ____________, he came back about half an hour later, I ____________ him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about ____________funny thing that had happened at the cinema.

When my father was sitting in his seat, a ____________came to my father’s and said that the seat was ____________. My father was surprised. He took out the ticket ____________ looked at it carefully. It was Row17, ____________. And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked her ____________ her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3. ____________? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering suddenly the woman said, “The ____________of the tickets are different.” So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh, ____________, I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left the cinema.

3 . Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis, cricket — anything with a round ball, I was _______,” he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the one always _______ in school gym classes in Devonshire, England.

It was a mountain _______ he received for his 15th birthday that _______ him. At first he went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to ride the bike along with a _______ friend. _______, Saunders set up his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and _______. At the age of 18, he ran his first marathon.

The _______ year, he met John Ridgway and was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s School of Adventure in Scotland, where he _______ about Ridgway’s cold-water adventures. Greatly ________ , Saunders ________ that this would be his future.

In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders ________ his first long-distance expedition (探险) towards the North Pole. It took ________ energy. He ________ frostbite (冻疮), ran into a polar bear and pushed his body to the ________, pulling his supply-load sled (雪橇) up and over rocky ice. Since then, Saunders has skied more of the North Pole by himself than any other British man. His old playmates would not believe the change.

Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, a 2900-kilometre journey that has never been completed on skis.

4 . Young children across the globe enjoy playing games of hide and seek. For them there’s something highly exciting about _________ someone else’s glance and making oneself unable to be seen.

However, we all witness that preschool children are remarkably _________ at hiding. They often cover only their eyes with their hands, leaving the rest of their bodies _________.

For a long time, this ineffective hiding method was _________ as evidence that children are hopelessly “egocentric” (自我中心的) creatures. But our _________ research results in child developmental psychology _________ that idea. We brought young children aged 2—4 into our Minds in Development Lab at USC. Each _________ sat down with an adult who covered her own eyes or _________. We then asked the child if she could _________ or hear the adult. Surprisingly, children replied that they couldn’t. The same ____________ happened when the adult covered her own mouth: ____________ children said that they couldn’t ____________ to her.

A number of ____________ ruled out (排除) that the children misunderstood what they were being asked. The results were clear: Our young subjects ____________ the questions and knew ____________ what was asked of them. Their ____________ to the questions reflected their true ____________ that “I can see you only if you can see me, too.” They simply ____________ mutual (相互的) recognition and regard. Our ____________ suggest when a child “hides” by putting a blan over her head, it is not a result of egocentrism. In fact, children consider this method ____________ when others use it.

6 . Exercise and I had never had a good relationship due to my fear of sports. From a young age, my dad _______ me into a dozen sports. I didn’t like any of them, _______.

When I entered the University of Regina, my dad _______ telling me “You have to find a way to stay _______.” or “You don’t want to get the Freshman 15, do you?” So I _______ to give swimming a shot, but I _______ managed to go to the pool twice during the fall semester (学期). Worse still, I was _______ to convince myself that’s OK.

The spring semester came. A friend of mine _______ me if I wanted to try Zumba (尊巴) with her. All I knew about Zumba was that it was basically a kind of exercise: dancing to Latin pop songs. It didn’t sound too bad, but I couldn’t be _______.

I went, and that was it. Zumba became my ________ of tea. The instructor would always say, “Don’t worry about the steps. Have fun. Do your own thing.” That removed my ________ of sports. I didn’t have to be ________. I didn’t even have to be good. I just needed to ________ the music and move. Zumba did ________ me from the Freshman 15, and it also did so much more. It let me make ________ with my unpleasant past about physical exercise, and enjoy staying healthy.

7 . Mobile phones are now everywhere. They are a(n) __________ way for us to keep in touch with friends and family. __________, it is important to know that there are __________ times when you should not be using your phone, the most important of these being __________.

There is no reason why you should feel the __________ to have your mobile phone during class. Aren’t you at school to __________?You should not be sending your friends text messages or taking phone calls __________ you are in class.

In America students would never be __________ to use their mobile phones during class. Anyone, who __________ the rule world be kicked out of class at once. It is OK to have your mobile phone with you, but you must ____________ to turn it off. It is very ____________ to hear a lot of tones and ringing during class.

As a(n) ____________ in China, I have to deal with students using mobile phones every day. I have told my class to turn off their phones, but many students do not ____________. The desire to be ____________ all the time seems to be stronger than the desire to learn.

It’s ____________ to understand why it is so tempting to have your phone on during class. It won’t ____________ anyone when you’re sending a short text message, will it? But you may ____________ be hurting yourself when you do this. Sending a text message also takes your ____________ away from what’s going on in class, so you may miss something ____________. The next time you ____________ to send a message in class you should think again.

8 . Everyone needs water and a diet of healthy foods. These foods should contain some fat, some fiber, a little salt and so on.

People need energy to live. They eat all kinds of foods _________ change into energy. Our bodies use different amounts (数量) of energy. The energy is measured in calories (卡路里). The more _________ we take, the more calories we burn. Even when you are _________, you are using energy — about 65 calories an hour. While you are at school, or walking home, your body is _________ up 100 calories an hour. When playing football or basketball, you might be using 400 calories an hour. On Sports Day, during the relay race, you will use most of all, perhaps as much as 650 calories an hour.

The Chinese diet is considered to be the healthiest in the world. It contains a lot of fruit and green vegetables. It is _________ in fiber and low in sugar and fat. The Chinese eat less sugar than many other countries in the world. That is 36 lots of people in China have white teeth.

People in the Western world do not eat such healthy foods. They eat too much fat and sugar and don’t take _________ exercise. _________ this, they _________ very easily. In order to _________ with the quick pace (步伐) of their life and work, they eat a lot of fast food. They eat a lot of sweets, soft drinks, potato crisps, chocolate, butter and ice cream and so on, which are called __________ food by some epicureans (美食家). The result is that many of them become fat. In order to avoid becoming fat and keep fit it is advisable (明智的) to eat a balanced diet and not eat too many foods that have a high calorie rating.

9 . There are all kinds of enemies, and one of the arts of living is to learn to tell them apart. There is a kind of enemy who ________ meant to be an enemy at all. He’s not mad at you; he’s mad at the world, and you are wandering around on his lonely battlefield and ________ lines of fire.

Let me tell you about one of them. Years ago, I ________ my two girls from South America and put them in school. They talked a ________ language that was neither English nor Spanish, and their ________ gave them a hard time, especially Lolla.

Pat and Peggy came home ________ almost every day, so I decided to cheer them up by ________ a party. Their tears dried ________. Right away they got ________ and offered many ideas. However, when I ________ which friends to invite, the tears started again. They said they had nothing but ________. Then I had one of my rare ________. “Let’s invite all your enemies and we’ll fill them up with ice cream and cake.” Little Pat and Peggy ________ knowing looks.

The party was a(n) ________, and the best time was had by the ________ enemy, Lolla, who rolled on the floor and screamed with. Pat and Peggy never came home crying from school anymore.

10 . I was doing well as a department head in a Mumbai firm, but my relationship with the boss had become strained (紧张的). Not wanting to ________ this, I resigned rather impulsively (冲动地). But with no other job offer in hand, I soon became ________.

Then, one morning, a Situations Vacant ad I spotted ________ a person like me. So, carrying my ________ typed CV (简历) in an envelope on which I had written both “To and From” ________, I took a train on a Monday morning to get to the post office, where I could have it weighed, stamped and ________. Getting off the train, I ________ the crowd of office-goers out of the station and on to the street. Suddenly, I noticed my envelope was ________!

I rushed back to the ________. The train was still there. A ________ of the compartment in which I travelled ended up with nothing. I waited ________ for the train to pull away. It hadn’t fallen on the tracks either.

The ________ thing to do was to go home, sit at my typewriter, make a new CV and covering letter and mail it. But losing the envelope was like a bad ________, so I gave up.

Three weeks passed. I ________ a letter that referred to my “lost” job application and inviting me for a ________ with the company’s managing director, I was ________.

I soon got the job, and ________ there as deputy general manager until I took voluntary retirement.

I still think about my application ________ its addressee (收信人). I imagine someone found it. He or she might have asked others on the train. Realizing it would be ________ to a fellow citizen, the finder took it to a post office, stuck the stamps and mailed it. To that ________ friend, I want to say: Thank you for a little act that proved to be so big for me.