1 . When Muhammad Ali was 12 years old, someone stole his bicycle. It was a shiny new bike. Ali was very __________ and told a policeman he wanted to use his __________ to kill the thief. The officer __________ him to back up those “fighting words” by learning how to box.

During the next 25 years, Ali had a burning __________ to become one of the best boxers of the 20th century. He won a gold __________ at the Olympic Games. He went on to earn the title of world heavyweight boxing champion three __________ times. __________ his fights became major events watched by millions of people around the world.

Young Ali quickly made his mark in the __________ ring (拳击场). Instead of being a(n) __________, he turned professional after winning a gold medal in the Olympic Games in 1960. Four years later, he __________ Sonny Liston to __________ his first world heavyweight champion title.

In 1974, Ali __________ the world heavyweight title again by __________ George Foreman. Then he met Joe Frazier in the Philippines, to do __________ for the third time. It was __________, but Ali won that fight. Ali __________ his heavyweight title six more times before he __________ to Leon Spinks in February 1978. But Ali beat his __________ and got back the title seven months later.

Ali __________ in 1981 with a record of fifty-six wins and five losses. In 2005 he was __________ the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

2 . Despite the fact that the ocean plays a role in everything from the air we breathe to daily weather and climate patterns, we know very little about our ocean. And, most of our _______ of the ocean lies in shallower waters. Deeper waters remain a _______ even though we are relying more and more on these areas for food, energy, and other resources.

Ocean exploration is about making discoveries, _______ things that are unusual and unexpected. Such searches, however, are not done randomly (随意地) _______ finding something new. They are disciplined and _______ and include rigorous (细致的) observations and documentation of biological, chemical, physical, geological, and archaeological aspects of the ocean.

Findings made through ocean exploration are fundamental to reducing _______ in deep-ocean areas and providing the high-value environmental intelligence needed to _______ both current and emerging science and management needs. Exploration helps to ensure that ocean resources are not _______ managed, but managed well, so those resources are around for future generations to _______.

Information from ocean exploration is ________ to everyone. Unlocking the mysteries of deep-sea ecosystems can ________ new sources for medical drugs, food, energy, and other products. Information from deep-ocean exploration can help predict earthquakes and tsunamis and help us understand how we are ________ and being affected by changes in Earth’s environment.

Ocean exploration can improve ocean literacy (认识) and ________ young people to seek careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The challenges of ________ the deep ocean can provide the basis for technology and engineering innovations that can be ________ in other situations.

3 . Jack is a retired worker from Rio de Janeiro. Now he is sharing a close relationship with a penguin which is ______ to South American’s Patagonian region. For the past five years, the penguin seems to have ______ his natural migrating route just in order to be able to ______ Jack several times a year.

The unusual ______ began in 2011, when Jack found the bird, nicknamed Jinling, trapped in oil on the beach near his house. He brought the penguin home, ______ him up, and offered him a good meal and a shady spot to ______. Since then, the penguin has ______ stayed away from Jack for too long.

The kind man tried to get the penguin to ______ to the open sea after he got better, ______ the bird just kept coming back. He even took him out in a boat, far from ______ and let him loose in the ocean, but by the time he got back home, with ______, he saw Jinling was already waiting for him.

______ penguins migrate thousands of miles between Patagonia and Rio de Janeiro, Jinling doesn’t stay away from Rio for more than four months at a time. He always runs back to Jack’s little ______ by the sea, sometimes ______ as long as eight months to a year with the old man. And he is a little ______, too – it seems that he can’t stand other animals getting anywhere close to his ______.

The local fishermen show their kindness to the penguin and they think it is a great ______ not only for Jack himself but also for all the villagers. Jinling has been regarded ______ the village mascot (吉祥物) since 2012. However, some are ______ about this unusual relationship thinking about Jinling’s identity. But good friendship will last for long regardless of the ______, isn’t it ?

4 . People usually communicate by speaking or writing. However, some occupations rely on hand gestures to communicate.

Railway workers on the _________ must communicate with other employees such as engineers on the trains. _________ this, they use lanterns or flags. To _________ go’, a railway worker stretches out his arm with the lantern _________ his head and moves the lantern up and down.

Soldiers in battle often cannot hear each other. It has been_________ that soldiers use a complex _________ of gestures to communicate with each other. When a leader wants other soldiers to follow him, he points to them, and then he uses his arm to point _________ the direction they should go. Soldiers in different countries use similar signals so that they can understand each other even if they are not from the same group.

In classical concerts, musicians such as pianists and violinists _________ the directions of the conductor. He or she will direct the other musicians during the song through hand movements and by _________ a small stick known as baton. Therefore, hand gestures also __________ an important role in the orchestra.

5 . All over the world, people admire the beauty and grace of butterflies. Butterflies come in every color imaginable, and their_________display an incredible variety of patterns. The largest butterfly, Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing, has a wingspan (翼展) of up to 280 millimeters and lives in Papua New Guinea. The smallest, the Western Pygmy Blue in the southern U.S., has a wingspan of only 12 millimeters. Sadly, some of these beautiful creatures are now _________.

Estimates indicate that between 15 and 20 thousand species of butterflies exist around the world. A number of these species are endangered, over 20 in Japan_________. Although that number may seem small, losing even one species would be_________. Nowadays scientists even look to butterflies as a _________of the environment’s health, since they are _________ to environmental changes. Many environmentalists around the world are eager to protect the endangered butterflies from extinction. The American Museum of Natural History in New York, for example, has an unusual butterfly exhibit. This exhibit _________ the important role that butterflies play in our environment.

In recent years, environmental groups have made significant progress in _________endangered butterfly populations. Governments throughout Asia have passed laws to help protect endangered wildlife, including butterflies. An area called Butterfly Valley in Assam, India, has become the focus of conscious _________ to protect the butterflies’ habitat (栖息地). Other projects in Serbia, Japan, and Canada are also hoping to __________. Some of these efforts are already starting to work. The population of the El Segundo Blue Butterfly in California, for instance, has increased by 8 percent since 2010.

Finding a cure for the butterfly crisis is, __________, not just for environmental groups. __________citizens can plant butterfly gardens to support and enjoy these gentle creatures. A group of female prisoners in Belfair, Washington, are helping to rescue an endangered species called Taylor’s Checkerspot. They recognize how__________ seemingly insignificant creatures can be. The world cannot afford to lose any butterflies. As environmentalist John Muir once__________, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it __________ to everything else in the Universe.”

6 . Feeling lucky and want to try your luck on the lottery (彩票)? The chances of becoming a millionaire are definitely few   (in fact you are more ___________ to be struck by lightning). But millions of ordinary people, like you or me -- or John Goodman, this week’s lottery millionaire-- regularly buy our tickets, just ___________. Maybe, we too will join the hundreds of people who win jackpots (头奖)on national lotteries every week.

John Goodman, 42, an unemployed father of two from Sweden, is the latest to join the jet set. John was having a quiet drink in his local pub with his mates when his ___________ came up on the TV and he found out he’d won ￡17 million. According to locals, John is already planning to buy the pub.

___________, people like John and his fellow lottery millionaires aren’t the only winners. The turnover (营业额) for the ___________ industry in the UK alone is over ￡42 billion per year-- that’s over ￡115 million a day. And over ￡1.5 billion of this goes to the government in taxes.

The lottery has always been popular with ___________ as a way of raising money. When the British government was looking for ways to spend more on sport and the arts in the 1990s, it ___________ the lottery. When America was recovering from the Civil War, lotteries helped ___________ the building of more than 50 universities, including Harvard and Yale. And over 2,000 years ago in China, the Great Wall was partly paid for with lottery money.

But where there are winners there are also ___________. It is well-known that the poor play the lottery more often than the rich and some ____________ of the lottery call it a tax on the poor. People on ____________ incomes can end up spending hundreds of pounds a year on lottery tickets and some will become lottery addicts. Meanwhile, the rich play it ____________ by investing their money in less risky ways-- buying stocks and shares, ____________.

Large sums of government money go to charities every year and charities certainly ____________ it. But at the same time, when lottery money starts coming in, governments usually ____________ the amount that they normally spend on good causes (事业). This means that many charities, and especially the low profile ones, can suddenly find themselves with a lot less money.

So who actually wins in the end? It’s something to think about next time you find yourself tempted to buy a lottery ticket.

7 . Ben Blumenfeld is a web designer. He used to work for a big TV network and was asked to design ____ for main shows. He ever made a breakthrough which ____ great growth in the audience (观众) for a TV show. However, when its social influence was considered, more people spending more time watching TV was ____ a good thing. Obsessed with (沉迷于) their screens, people always ____ less in real life.

From then on, he ____ thinking of his career as something separate from the values that were ____ to him. He always wished to bring something ____ to his community, but his day-to-day work just went against that. He realized it was time to find a new ____ that mixed his hopes with his career.

One day, he received a(n) ____ from Jeff Hammerbacher, a manager of a social networking startup (初创企业) with 8 million student users. When Ben mentioned he wanted to do some really ____ work, the CEO — Mark Zuckerberg — told Ben that what they did would influence the very way the human race ____ with each other, bringing the world together. Attracted by the great expectation, he ____ to join them.

When he began to work there, he ____ its influence was even bigger than he thought. “It was strange to design something that was ____ by millions of people,” Ben said. But, he knew that the ability to connect so many people offered a huge ____ to stay true to his goal of making a difference in his community, even the world.

8 . Environmental problems have been recognized as one of the main challenges that we have to overcome in the 21st century. The fact that the environment is getting worse and worse is believed to have become a _________ to our survival. To solve this problem, all the countries in the world should join together _________ working individually for their own interests. 

People support international cooperation for the reason that the _________ of environmental problems is normally on a global scale. It is common sense that we_________ the same biosphere (生物圈), whose components are linked. For example, a stream in one country can be polluted by the dirty water poured by the _________ country. It should be noted that some countries do not have _________ resources to reduce pollution, even though these countries have realized the importance of environmental protection. 

These countries can _________ with the developed countries and obtain technology and experience so as to carry out environmentally friendly policies continuously. 

_________ the importance of international cooperation, countries should take measures to make some changes. It’s fair to say that countries are_________ with different environmental problems. For example, greenhouse gases in China are __________ created by the power generation industry__________ those in the United States are primarily due to the increase in car__________. 

The technologies and methods that are__________ in most countries may not be effective in some countries. In addition, countries should enforce some environmental laws and raise citizens’ __________ of protecting the environment. 

__________, countries should make a joint effort to solve the global environmental problems.

9 . “You can do whatever you want.”

I ever moved out of school because of my_________ social abilities. But at the end of the school term, I had to move back to _________  for my exams. During that time, I felt_________  about almost everything. I was afraid to_________  my tests and let my parents down. I also_________  that I would always be an unpopular person.

One day, I stood at the walkway in front of my_________  , looking up at the night sky and thinking about who I was. Suddenly, someone walked out of the darkness and _________ stopped about three feet to my right. We had seen each other a few times before but never spoke.

“Hey.”

I _________ to make sure he wasn’t talking to someone else.

“Hey,” I said in a low voice.

“You look_________ . What are you doing out here?”

“Just ... thinking,” I muttered (低声地说).

“About what?”

“A lot of things. Just not sure what to do with my life.”

“ __________ , you can do whatever you want.”

I__________ back. He was smiling, probably at my surprised expression.

We talked for hours, about our studies, personal relationships and family expectations. He encouraged me to rethink my__________ about myself and helped me realize how much power I had to __________ my situations. And most importantly, he made me realize that I__________  to truly understand and value myself if I wanted to solve my problems and control my life.

I was so __________ and thankful that our paths (道路) crossed.

10 . One day, my friend and I went to the Moth Café.

The ________ of this Café is absolutely superb. There are cute lights with plants________ from the ceiling. Some of the tables have marble tops and there are seats________ in fur. It is so pretty________ and has a pleasant feel about it at the same time.

The________ is huge pages with drinks and food. The drinks were so interesting — herbal drinks, ________, smoothies and coffee with so many flavors. I________ to try the peppermint (薄荷) tea latte (拿铁) and it was really delicious! My friend________ the rose tea latte and that was super delicious________. These drinks are expensive! It was $8 but I would definitely get it ________ because it was great!

For food we________ the moth breakfast bowl. We also________ the Indian tea pancake, which was so thick and it was a lot of food for one person so we just got one and________ it.

To be________, I liked the food but I didn’t love it. I would________ for the decoration and the drinks though!