1 . Being in the right place at the right time can mean the difference between life and death. A ____ named Zhu Keming despite the bad weather pulled six runners to ____ in a 100-kilometer cross-country race in China’s Gansu Province.

The day of the race started with mild weather. Zhu was ____ his flock (羊群) as usual. Then in the space of a few moments, everything ____. As the temperature dropped quickly and freezing rain and snow began to pound the land, Zhu took ____ in a small cave he’d been using for years to ____ emergency supplies.

It was from this point that Zhu ____ that one of the runners appeared disoriented (迷失方向的) and in pain. Zhu brought the man back to the cave to ____ him up. After lighting a fire, Zhu returned to the mountainside, ____ five additional runners to the cave. There’s little ____ that he finally saved their lives. ____ for the sudden change in the weather, most racers were wearing lightweight clothing that was no ____ for the coldness. The threat of hypothermia (体温过低) was all too real.

“I want to say how ____ I am to the man who saved me,” runner Zhang Xiaotao posted on Sina Weibo. “Without him, I would have been ____ there.” While Zhu is being praised as a hero in his homeland, the ____ shepherd doesn’t see the reason for all the fuss. He says he’s just an ordinary person who did a very ordinary thing.

2 . I am a teacher and I love children. I set up a classroom library of books that I bought_______my own money. The library looks beautiful, like a _______. And my students _______ it very much.

I read the children a story. It is about a girl who is _______ poor that she wears the_______ dress to school every day. But she says she has a hundred dress _______. The other girls laugh at her until she goes away. _______, her classmates discover she really has a hundred dresses – a hundred beautiful drawings of dresses. Oh, God, every child_________when I close the book.

_______ a moment everything is quiet. Then a boy________in my ear, “I have to tell the class something.” He shows me that he has half a finger________ .

I turn him towards the class and put my________ on his shoulder. He is a bit ________ . “I …I only have nine and a half fingers.” He ________ his hands. “Please don’t laugh at me about it.” The students become ________. Then one boy calls out,

“Anybody who makes fun of you, I’ll kick them.”

“Me, too,” says another.

When the boy sees the class become united (团结) , he is very happy 60 and smiles at me .

3 . In 1991, Davenport played in her first professional tennis match when she was 15. She was ranked (排名) the Number 1 woman _________ player in the world eight different times.

I had the chance to _________ Davenport at the 2012 US Open. _________ that night, she answered some questions from our group and I asked her, “Ms Davenport, _________ can teach people a lot of lessons. What lessons did you _________ during your time as a professional tennis player that you didn’t learn _________ an amateur (业余运动员)?” To be honest, I had a personal reason for asking this question. I played baseball in college, but not _________. So I wanted to know what I missed.

Davenport’s first _________ was to talk about how she had to grow up _________. She mentioned the power of the media and learning to live her life in front of a(n) __________. But then she changed the __________ and talked about improving her skill and the lessons of competition, hard work, and perseverance. Those things, she said, were learned long __________ she became a professional. In other words, to learn about what it’s like to __________ as a professional athlete, you need to be a professional athlete. But to learn the lessons of playing sports, you just need to __________ your sport.

Take note: you don’t need to be the best in order to be __________ or satisfied, but all that matters is that you play the game.

4 . For almost 20 years, he was there, a little guy in a metal cart (金属推车), selling rice-and-bean pie at 17th and K streets in Washington. All day, his ________ came, workers, students and officers who had made Carlos Guardado a part of their ________. They thought he was one of the ________people in the city.

“We did become really ________,” said Robert Tigner. He was ________ that he’d spoken with Guardado almost every workday for 10 years. Judy Sheahan drove to work every day. She started every morning with a stop at the cart for ________ and a chat. And she knew the ________ for Guardado’s wide appeal (吸引力). He kept people ________by recalling (回忆) not only the food they liked, but also the names of their children and standings of their sports teams. Workers who moved away would come and ________ him on their visits back. He once got a postcard from a customer. It was addressed “CarlosPie Cart, Corner of 17th and K.”

“________ he told you he hoped you would have a good day, he really ________it,”said Sheahan. “I don’t think he had any idea what a(n) ________ he had.”

In fact, Guardado often did speak of the influence his customers had on him, according to his wife, Carmen Diaz. He came home filled with ________he heard from the customers. “Every day, he’d come home ________ and tell me, ‘Carmen, they ________ me and like sharing their experiences,’” Diaz said. “The people in the city, they were his family _________ . We shared him with them.”

Guardado meant the cart to be a stop on the way to a proper ________. But his talk of opening a restaurant faded (减弱) in recent years. “I think he was ________,” said Sheahan. “He always talked about the cart being a ________ window on the world and he ________ more on that corner than most people do in a lifetime.”

5 . A few weeks ago I was traveling by train to visit a friend. After a few stations, the food supplier came around to _________ hot meals and drinks. Just behind him rushed in a little girl who put out her hand to _________ some food. The man was _________, throwing her out of the coach (车厢) and shutting the door.

Something in me, maybe the pleading (恳求的) look on the child’s face, made me _________.I stepped outside the door and saw the child still standing there. I took her hand and said I would _________ her some food. We walked back to the coach. The passengers there had a(n) _________ expression seeing the little girl with me. I asked her to choose whatever she wanted.

_________,there was so much food and I was _________ how her little stomach could eat all that food. While I turned to the cashier to pay the bill, she ran away. The cashier shook his head and said the girl must be laughing for having _________ me into believing her misery (悲惨).

The cashier’s words __________ on my mind and I started __________ if the little girl had really fooled me, __________.I decided to follow the__________ she had taken to see what she was up to. When I walked to a deserted (废弃的) __________, I saw her sitting in a circle with two other little boys. The girl had put all the food in the __________ and was putting food into the hand of a young boy. When they sensed my __________ they went quiet. I bent down to the young girl, smiling and asking them to __________ eating.

I realized that I had received far more than I gave. This little girl taught me that there is more joy when you __________ and that even in poverty (贫穷) one can __________ his/her kindness. Above all, kindness springs from our__________ and not the richness of environment.

6 . The part of the environmental movement that draws my firm’s attention is the design of buildings. Today, thousands of people come to ________ building conferences, and the idea that buildings can be good for people and the environment will be increasingly ________ in years to come. Back in 1984 we discovered that most manufactured products for decoration weren’t designed for ________ use. The “energy-efficient” sealed commercial buildings constructed after the 1970s energy crisis ________ indoor air quality problems caused by materials such as paint, wall covering and carpet. So for 20 years, we’ve been looking for ways to make these materials ________   for people and the planet.

Home builders can now use materials, such as green paints, that release significantly ________   amounts of chemical compounds, which people believe don’t ________ the quality of the air.   ________, our basic design strategy is focused not simply on being “less bad” but on creating ________ healthful materials that can be either safely returned to the soil or ________ by industry again and again. For example, the world’s largest carpet manufacturer has already ________ a carpet that is fully and safely recyclable.

Look at it this way: no one ________ to create a building that destroy the planet. But our current industrial systems are basically causing these conditions, whether we like it or not. So   ________ of simply trying to reduce the damage, we are ________ a positive approach. We’re giving people high-quality, healthful products and an opportunity to make choices that have a ________   effect on the world. It is not just the building industry, either. Entire cities are taking these environmentally positive approaches to design, planning and building.

7 . It takes a village to raise a child. People in the High Point community have stepped up in a big way after a young boy experienced _________. Ronald White is 11 years old. He knows the emptiness that comes with tragic _________ at that young age.

“Ronald’s _________ passed away two years ago. She went to help someone on the side of the road and a truck _________ her,” said Shauna Greene of Anointed Cutz Barber Shop. Since then, Ronald _________ with his grandparents.

Being a(n) _________ young man, he tried to get a _________. “He wanted to help his grandmother pay bills and he also wanted to _________ a bike,” Greene said. So he asked his barber if he could _________. “I sweep. I take the trash out,” Ronald said. He’s been doing so __________ in his work that the owner, Shauna Greene, praised him and __________ Ronald’s story on Facebook. The story has got more than 1000 likes. “They sent money, and here we are today with the bike,” Greene said.

“I’m so __________ that I don’t know what to do,” he said with a surprise when seeing the bike. People with big hearts are making a big __________. “His mom has passed away, and she was no longer here, but the village is __________ here, and we’re going to keep him __________ and do whatever it takes,” Greene said.

8 . Rogers saw a woman sitting on the side of the road. She had long hair and expressive eyes. What he didn’t see was that she was also in ________. Her right leg was injured. She tried to stand but failed. So she dragged herself to the ________, like a badly wounded animal preparing to die. She’d called a ________, but after 30 minutes, her friend said he was lost.

At first, Rogers tried to play it cool. He ________ to ride by-at a slower speed and ________ asked if he could help. The woman ________ her problem and asked for help.

With Rogers holding her ________, she tried to hop(单脚跳) along, but the pain was too severe. After a brief discussion, Rogers decided to ________ her down the 0.6-mile trail over his shoulder.

To avoid the ________, the pair introduced themselves, discussed life goals and future plans. ________ laughed a lot along the way. 40 minutes later, they arrived at the parking lot, where her friend was waiting.

Rogers ________ loaded her into the back seat. Though she was in pain, she looked at Rogers through expectant eyes, wishing he would make the first move. Rogers also wanted to ask for her number, but felt that the ________ wasn’t right. After she was rushed to the hospital, Rogers went to get his bike.

At the hospital, the girl looked for Rogers on Facebook. No luck. At the same time, Rogers was ________ her online, with no luck, either. On the trail, they’d fallen so deeply into conversation that such details as last names had seemed ________. So she contacted the local newspaper, which published her story the next day. Rogers happened to read the article.

Immediately, he got in touch with her and arranged their first ________: a trip to the same spot after her recovery.

9 . Once a farmer bought a well (井) from a man . The next day when the farmer went to draw the water from the well, the man did not________him to do that . He said , “I have________you the well. Not the water.”

The farmer became very________and came to the court (法庭). He________everything to the judge and asked for justice (正义).

The judge didn’t know how to deal with it. So he called a wise man named Birbal and handed over this ________ to him. Birbal met the man who sold the well to the farmer . Birbal asked, “________don’t you let the farmer use the water of the well? You have sold the well to him.” The man replied , “I sold the well to him, not the water. He has no ________to draw the water.”

Then Birbal smiled and said to him, “Good, but look, ________ you have sold the well to the farmer and you say the water is yours, then you have no right to keep your water in the farmer’s well. So you should pay rent to the farmer to keep your water in the well, or you should take the water out of his well ________”

The man understood that his trick ________. His face turned red and he ran away in shame.

10 . I strongly believe that everyone must have their own interesting and exciting experienes in their lives. For me, I also have my own _________ experience.

On one sunny morning, my cousin Ana and her family suddenly _________ in front of our house.

That afternoon, my parents and Anas family went shopping for food for us, leaving Ana and me at home. We were excited playing in the house. But soon, we were both hungry, and then we saw a bag of flour (面粉) at the top of the kitchen cabinet. So Ana _________ making some pancakes ourselves.

Ana told me that she seldom cooked at home so baking a pancake would be _________ for her. I told her I was not a good cook either. But we didn’t have much _________ .

Luckily, both of us had seen our mothers make pancakes before and knew the basic process. Ana and I put the flour into a large bowl and _________ it with hot water. Then we kneaded the dough (面团) and it became hard. We were _________ as we looked at our pancakes which seemed much _________ from those our mothers made. But we still put them into the oven. A few minutes later, we saw that the dough of our cooked pancakes had not expanded and they had got burnt.

Suddenly, our mums and dads arrived home. They went to the kitchen and were _________ to see our faces covered with flour. Ana and I looked at each other and we laughed. Fortunately, my parents had __________ some food for us. We took the food and quickly ate it in the dining room.