1 . About a year ago, my department invited me to submit a 5-minute video clip about my research laboratory to be screened at a secondary-school summer camp. With many ________ under my belt (已获得的) after five years as a main investigator, I was quite ________ about getting this ________.

Three seconds into ________ myself on my phone in my office, I realized that I had been too ________. I had to press ‘Pause’ ________ I couldn’t help looking around the room. And while watching myself on camera, I couldn’t obtain the excitement I brought to the classroom—all my ________ trained teaching method didn’t work well for a video clip. Admitting that my acting career had ________ a wall, I decided to ________ to a directing role and asked my graduate students to help me to film and present the video.

The 5-minute clip ________ taking 2 hours to finish, but it was so well received by the audience that it ________ me to create an account on Bilibili, one of the leading video-sharing websites in China. I got my lab to ________ making short films in Chinese on the main topics of our ________, which include digital fabrication (数字制造) in architecture and adaptive structures that can respond to stimuli (刺激物). In the nine or so months since I created that ________, our lab videos have attracted more than 20,000 subscribers and received nearly 3 million ________, mainly in China.

4 . People often drop into a gloomy life and are unable to get rid of the mood.

There once was a poor and discouraged salesman, _________ every day that there was no platform for him to display his ability and the fate was often pulling his legs.

On Christmas Eve, every family decorated their houses _________ lanterns. But he was alone sitting on a bench in a park and _________ the past. It was on the same day last year when he was also drinking his Christmas day away _________, without new clothes, new shoes, _________a new car and a new house.

“Damn! I have to spend this Christmas day with these old shoes again.” he _________ and began to _________ the old shoes. Suddenly, he found a young man in a wheelchair passing by him with his hands painfully pushing the _________ forward. It _________ him that he was so lucky to have shoes to wear while that man did not even have the __________. Afterwards, the salesman did everything with a calm mood and cherished every opportunity to __________ himself. He worked hard and tried his best to make progress every day. Several years later, he __________ changed his life totally and became a millionaire.

If you look all around, you will __________ there are so many people who were born disabled in the society but they are __________ in life and never complain about the unfair destiny. They are also not to beg others’ alms(施舍). __________, they constantly strive to make themselves stronger and more __________to serve the society. __________, we should feel ashamed. We are born __________, but we complain about our colleagues and — dissatisfied with our jobs.

Maybe all of us would feel afraid when we __________ we have fallen into such discouraging state of life, but worse is that you even do not realize you have fallen into such a __________ situation.

6 . More than 30,000 runners, selected from 160,000 applicants both in and out of China, took part in this year’s Beijing Marathon on Nov 3.

Wearing colorful T-shirts and posing for photos, they __ at Tian’anmen Square before taking their __ at the starting line.

Nearly a decade ago, Chinese marathon ___struggled to make full preparations. Now, at big __ like the Beijing Marathon, runners must win a lottery (彩票) to enter.

This is __ of the world’s running boom. For millions of runners around the world, the real reason they __ to pound the roads until their legs hurt is more than weight loss or fitness.

Chasing records like the three-hour __, for example, is important, but it’s not the reason people run mile after mile, up hills, in wind and rain, when they could just stay __ in their beds. Record times are __ the carrots they hang in front of themselves.

Last year, a runner in the United Kingdom __ with the goal of running a marathon in less than three hours. In the end, he __ in three hours and two minutes. However, he was __ afterward. “If I’d done it, that would be it,” he told the Guardian. “Now I’ve still got my___, I can try again next year.”

Although running is __ and requires effort, it also brings joy. __ children. When they are excited, they can^’t stop running back and forth, __.

Indeed, when we race through the streets of a city, splashing (踏过）through puddles (水洼), getting __ in the rain and ruffled (吹乱的）in the wind, we can __ that childish joy again. As Holden Caulfield, the main __ of the novel The catcher in the Rye (《麦田里的守望者》), said, “I don’t __ know what I was running for — I guess I just felt like it.”

7 . Last Sunday, our family went to a nice restaurant. The meal was ____ and we all had a good time just being together. When the waitress ____ the check I looked down at it. The gift card (代金券) covered almost all of it. I reached into my wallet to get enough cash to cover the rest. I saw two ____ in the front of it. The first would cover the rest of the bill and give the ____ a nice tip. The second bill was much larger so I reached down to ____ the first one.

At that moment my ____ flashed back to 30 years before. I was working in a restaurant. It was long hours of hard work for low ____. I went home just barely making enough to feed my young family. I also ____ how more than once I saw the waitresses ____ about how they were going to pay the rent and buy their kids the things they needed. I saw the ____ in their eyes and the sadness in their faces at the end of the day.

I was back in the present ____ my fingers touching the smaller bill in my ____. I smiled, pushed it back down, and ____ the much larger bill. I ____ it around the gift card (代金券) and covered both of them with the ____. As we all got up from the table I ____ them to the hard working waitress. “You keep the ____”, I said with a smile and a ____ heart.

We are all one family in this world. We live together, rejoice (庆祝) together, and suffer together. Do your best to be ____ then. Do your best to be a good person. Do your best to replace the ____ with joy.

9 . Chris Person lost his wallet outside a Publix store. After he searched his pockets and the parking lot _________ with the store manager, but came up empty, he’d completely _________ his hope.

The wallet contained his license, credit cards, plenty of cash, and even a gift card that could easily be _________ by anyone.

The next day three _________ who Chris Person never met before drove to his home in Palmetto Bay, Florida.

15-year-old Lucas Perry had _________ the wallet in the parking lot by chance, which had fallen out of Chris’s _________ and he with his father and sister had decided to drive to Chris’s address to _________ it in person.

Chris became impressed with the _________ that Eduardo Perry had _________ to his children, __________ because every note of the more than $1,000 in cash was still in the __________.

“They all refused my offer to __________ the money that was inside it. They only wanted to do the __________ thing — and they did,” Chris told CNN. “Eduardo __________ on teaching his children the meaning of a selfless and __________ act, but I have a strong __________ that these two teens would have done it anyway. Besides, I found that the good boy liked rock and roll, which reminded me of my school days.”

The __________ weekend Chris and his wife got a new surround sound system. Chris __________ Lucas is very much into __________ so he called him up and asked if he wanted it — and he was __________ by the offer.

10 . Six weeks before his 97th birthday, Giuseppe Paternò realized the dream of a lifetime. That is, he got a university _______.

Mr. Paternò’s graduation has _______ news coverage around the world, _______ because of his age. But he has also drawn _______ because his life story _______ commitment. It’s a theme that has been _______ to what people think as millions of schoolchildren in Italy and elsewhere face extraordinary _______ during the coronavirus pandemic (新冠疫情).

Born in a very _______ family in Palermo in 1923, Mr. Paternò was the first of seven children. He began to _______ soon after finishing elementary school. It was only after he retired, in the mid-1980s, that he returned to his ________.

“His story is a ________ that dreams can come true and that you can remain ________, if not in age at least in spirit, if you develop ________,” said Rossella Cancila, his adviser and a professor of history at the University of Palermo.

Italy’s university system is based on a three-year degree, followed by a two-year master’s ________. University officials are hoping that Mr. Paternò will ________ his studies.

Mr. Paternò isn’t so ________. “I have to admit that in this moment, I don’t know whether I would ________ it with the same spirit,” Mr. Paternò said, ________ that all the attention had been a bit tiring. ________, Mr. Paternò said, he would probably register ________. “I want to keep my options open.”