1 . A mother with cancer has been moved by the kindness of a stranger as she fights with the terrible disease. Jerina Edwards and her family were _______ at a Chinese restaurant when a customer offered to _______their bill.

In a touching note written on the bill for the meal, the _______ explained the inspiration behind his Christmas kindness. The kind­hearted stranger who offered help _______ how his own life had been affected by cancer five years before. “I lost my _______ to cancer five years ago,” he _______ on the bill. “I know how _______ it can be going through this. My children lost their mother. Your meal is on me.”

Ms Edwards _______ the kind stranger alongside a photo of the bill posted on the Love What Matters Facebook page. The widely­shared _______ has since been viewed more than 35,000 times. “We went out to eat last night at a little Chinese place after church. Right as we were getting ready to ________ our ticket, the waitress brought us this instead，” she said. “Someone in the restaurant had paid our bill and left us this ________. More than anything, having cancer has shown me that there are a lot of ________ people in this world and that I am ________ for my own family.”

Although her diagnosis (诊断) was not terminal (致命的), Ms Edwards said cancer had ________ her family and herself so much. “It has been hard,” she said. “I have fought; I have been sick; tears have been shed; I have missed out on things; I have lost my hair, but I will live. My parents will ________ have their daughter; my husband will have his wife; my children will still have their mother.” She ended her emotional post with a personal message to the stranger at the restaurant. “Whoever you are—thank you.”

2 . In denying ourselves the chance to see a situation from different perspectives, we rob (剥夺) ourselves of many wonderful opportunities. By choosing not to ________ all possible outcomes of a situation, we may choose a direction that actually________us rather than allows us to flourish (茁壮成长).

Since the moment I discovered music as a ________ of mine, I have always known that I don’t want to teach it. To me, music is something that cannot be ________. It is not a step-by-step ________ in my opinion. You must have some sort of talent to build on. ________ , as I began my reluctant (不情愿的) search for vocal teaching positions, you can imagine my ________ at how rewarding the profession sounded. The job advertisement was offering a teaching ________ in a highly reputable music school. They ________ that their teachers work to “develop students” and to “prepare them for performances at school and around the community.” This is something that________me. I didn’t realize just how much I ________ to give young students with a passion for music the same nurturing (培养) in their ________ growth that I received.

I was extremely ________ when I didn’t find many job ads requesting singers or entertainers which I planned to be. Had I not been ________ , I wouldn’t have considered music teaching nor would I have discovered all the ________   things that come along with it. By not limiting my path, I suddenly saw many roads I could follow. So, as the old saying states, “Don’t knock it, til you try it.”

3 . Venice is regarded as the most romantic city of the world. It’s a ____ that I always wanted to hold in my arms. Venice is most ____ in autumn with the sparkling (闪烁的) colors of glassy arts and crafts. More than that, a ____ can indulge in (尽情享受) the floating and happy feeling in Venice.

When we first walked out of Santa Lucia station, my friend and I smiled because we then ____ the reason why people can’t deny the ____ of Venice. In the light sunshine of autumn, Venice was so fantastic with the blue colors of the Grand Canal, the ____ of luggage (行李) being pulled by visitors chatting with each other, and of course the smell of ____ in neighboring restaurants that have been ____ guests for ages.

We ____ traveled around the Grand Canal by vaporetti (水上巴士). Passing bridges and some small squares, we arrived at Osteria Al Portego restaurant to enjoy a ____ of special dishes, including sarde in saor and baccalà alla vicentina. The dishes were ____ cooked following recipes dating right back to the 17th and 18th centuries! Since Italy is ____ for pizza, spaghetti, pasta and lasagna (千层面) worldwide, we tried to taste other dishes to truly ____ the local cuisine.

After lunch, we decided to explore Venice in our own way without a map. We ____ narrow streets, crossed big and small squares and viewed remarkable structures throughout the city. They all appeared so charming that ____ traveler would remark on the city’s beauty.

4 . I was an obsessive (痴迷的) lover of books, who was ______ at two and polishing off chapter books by kindergarten. In grammar school I worked my way through the library, gradually getting less picky as the options ______. However, what I wanted to read was science fiction. It was ______ to find. A sixth-grade teacher lent me a copy of Watership Down, a(n) ______ experience.

I am sick. My symptoms (症状) are odd, and no one really knows what my ______ is. I grew weaker and more isolated, but I got a ride to the library once a week and ______ all the novels I could carry. I kept reading ______ my disability.

Later, I met a technical nonfiction writer, who explained to me how to make a living ______ for magazines. At last, something I could ______! I subscribed to Writer’s Digest but wrote a fantasy novel instead.

After ______ that first novel, I made writer friends online. I thought my life ______ at last. Here was a career path where all my reading would ______ and where my disability wouldn’t shut me out. I wrote two science fiction novels, which later got published.

It turns out that in writing science fiction being unique can be a ______, practice eventually works, and persistence (坚持不懈) is really what matters. Without ______, I wouldn’t have had anything to aspire to, and I would never have ______ something I could share with the world.

5 . For a shape that appears often in our everyday lives, circles are very mysterious and might never be fully understood. This is _________ there is no way to _________ them. When you take the distance around a circle and divide it by the distance across a circle, you will always get Pi. _________ Pi is equal to about 3. 14, it is infinitely (无穷) long.

In 2009, U. S. Congress voted to _________ make March 14 Pi Day. For David Blatner, author of The Joy of Pi, the _________ of Pi Day goes far beyond math and science. “To me, Pi Day is really about _________ the fascination between what is knowable and what’s not knowable,” Blatner says. “My greatest interest in Pi is not the mathematical, but the fact that Pi _________ throughout popular culture.”

Pi has appeared in movies, music and more. In modern _________,any time the filmmaker wants to create a sense of mystery, the symbol Pi is often used. People also love working to _________ the digits (数字) of Pi and __________ against others to see who can remember the most. Many teachers hold contests to see how many __________ their students can memorize. The Guinness World Record for __________ the most digits of Pi is held by Lv Chao of China, who successfully recited Pi out to nearly 67,000 decimal (小数) places.

__________, Pi Day is about having fun with the number and with all that it represents. People will celebrate Pi Day by eating pie, and with __________ Pi-related activities. Events this year include a surprise __________ party for Albert Einstein whose birthday also falls on March 14. Just like the number itself, the possibilities for Pi Day are truly endless.

6 . I was 10 years into my career, happily working at my research as a biology professor, when something unusual happened and I had to _______ my focus to teaching undergraduate classes.

It was hard to drop a research program that had defined my career and fueled (激发) my passions. To _______ the research world, I began to include journal articles in my undergraduate course, _______ lively discussions about the latest discoveries. _______, my students rarely dived into (钻研) the papers fully.

My students were _______ with memorizing facts, but they lacked deep understanding of how the conclusions were drawn. The ingenuity (独创力) of research — what I loved most about being a scientist — was _______ on them.

This changed the way I _______. I spent multiple classes deconstructing a single paper with my students, _______ each figure and table. I then asked, “If you had co-authored the paper, what would you do next?”

Some _______, “I’m not creative.” But I asked them to give it a try. After taking part in some group discussions, the students changed their __________. They were amazed by the variety of follow-up studies their classmates had thought up. They argued __________ about which ideas were better, expressing surprise when other groups made different choices. I was __________ to see each student commit to an idea, in the process discovering something about their own powers of __________.

What I really wanted my students to do was to develop their own inventiveness and __________ their imaginations. I hoped that what they learned about their own __________ would be the knowledge that lasts.

7 . Fabiola Moreno Ruelas is an 18­-year­-old girl from Gonzales. She had suffered from_________in her childhood—her family had been evicted(驱逐) from their home for being unable to pay the rent. She was born in Salinas and_________to Gonzales when she was ten. In selection of (当选择) a(n)_________hometown, this time she would prove_________. Gonzales is home to 10,000 people, few of them _________. But Gonzales tries its best to support children there. People in Gonzales helped the poor family with clothes and other supplies.

No one in her family completed college,_________she realised that she could be the master of her own destiny (自己命运的主人) only through education, so she studied hard and was_________to (被录取) San Diego State University with $13,000 in scholarships (奖学金). However, she still needed $5,000 to_________ the cost of living and she couldn't afford it. Where would she get the_________? Fortunately, Maury Treleven provided $5,000 for such __________,   and Fabiola won it.

During Fabiola's freshman year (大学一年级), she received a $29,000 scholarship.__________that, Fabiola felt she needed to __________to the community that had helped her. So__________, she set up a scholarship program like the one that had __________ her. “Everyone in Gonzales was very__________when helping me grow up,” she said. “I should play a role in helping others.”

8 . Dirk Smutzler looks for ways to make science interesting and relevant in his classroom at Dickinson’s Hagen Junior High School.

Smutzler teaches seventh grade life science. “I try to engage them in ____ whenever possible. Junior high kids like to be active,” he said. “As far as labs go, we’ll look in depth at pond water. I ____ the students in dissecting a frog.”

When the unit is about genetics (遗传学), Smutzler makes the subject ____ through an experiment about taste. Some students can taste a certain ____, while others can’t. “The ones who ____ it think it’s just unpleasant. They can’t ____ a gene controls their ability to taste a chemical like that,” he said.

The ____ for taking up teaching? “I’ve always enjoyed interacting with kids when I coached Little League baseball while in high school and some parents approached me and said I should be a(n) ____. Although I’d never thought about it before, that ___my interest in teaching. But I didn’t give it full consideration until later in college,” Smutzler said.

Smutzler is ____ reviewing the district-wide science curriculum. “We’re looking at ways we can improve ____ education. That definitely is going to involve more collaboration (合作),” he said. “As we review this curriculum, we will ____ more technology in the labs.”

Smutzler also advises Hagen’s science club. He said, “It’s a(n) ____ for an extracurricular activity and it’s ____ to any student. It’s supplemental (补充的) to the classroom.” The club exposes (使接触) students to ____ not available in the daily classroom. Last fall, the eighth graders went on a field trip. They were ____ to go fossil hunting on private land.

Hagen Principal Perry Braunagel said, “I had the opportunity to observe him in the classroom and ____ how well he managed his classroom and ____ students to succeed. Mr. Smutzler worked hard to develop ____ learning opportunities for his students and provided them with the necessary resources to complete assignments.”

Braunagel also described Smutzler as an educator who has ____ professional development opportunities through in-service workshops and classes.

9 . Dominick Vandenberge was raised in the Bronx.He was forced to repeat first grade and already felt like a________at age 6. He hated school. And then his ________started to increase.

By high school Dominick weighed 220 pounds and he found it ________to make friends. He started skipping class(逃课).And then things got ________. His dad died.

Then Dominick moved to a new school and when he arrived that first day his teacher ________his weight in front of the whole class.Everyone laughed.So he became a serious truant(逃学者). Sometimes he didn’t________for a whole month. The principal(校长) called him in and said if he ________one more day he’d be out. Out he was.

At that point in his life, he said,“I can remember me wanting to ________” But how? He was fat,friendless,fatherless.He said“I was looking up into the sky at night and I was just ________that one day I could find someone, because I don’t want to be________, and I wanted to be successful.”

He ________that the first thing he’d do was try to lose some weight.

Dominick ________watching exercise videos. He told himself he was just going to“stretch a little bit.”He didn’t want to plan for anything harder in case he might________. He’d disappointed himself enough already

Then he added a little more ________each day.In seven months Dominick lost 80 pounds

10 . I cook because it brings me joy. My career at Ruth’s Chris began in 1994 in San Juan where I started out as a dishwasher. The ______ I worked on was given the nickname (绰号) FILO (first in, last out) because we came in ______ and stayed late each day. It was in these hours that I ______ the workings (工作方式) of the kitchen.

Our founder, Ruth Fertel, had a(n) ______ for everything. She also had successful methods for ______, treating everyone like a family. This was part of the ______ of Ruth’s Chris. It gave me a sense of ______ later in my career. Just after my mother had ______, I had to take some time off to go to her funeral (葬礼). During that time, I ______ a bouquet (花束) of beautiful flowers from my team at Ruth’s Chris and one from Ruth Fertel herself. This ______ act of kindness ______ me how important family was. And that was more than a ______; it was a place I could call home.

I am Executive Chef now. I love making a connection with our guests and serving dishes that leave a lasting ______ on them. For me, cooking is about families, friends, laughing and ______ together. That is how my love for cooking came to life and I am ______ to do this for a living.