1 . Tan Yuanyuan, San Francisco Ballet’s first Chinese leading dancer, _______ audiences with her performance in the CCTV Spring Festival gala, _______ the Year of the Ox. It is the third time that Tan has performed in the CCTV Spring Festival gala.Her passion, joy and spring in her dance steps have _______ countless viewers and received thunderous claps.             

Tan’s relationship with ballet began at the age of 5 when she was _______ in the striking beauty of a performance of Swan Lake on TV.

Her _______ to enter a dance school was strongly supported by her mother, who also had a great affection for ballet.She began to train _______ at Shanghai Dance School and graduated four years later.Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.Her great efforts _______ paid off.She won many scholarships and awards at home and abroad.In 1995, Tan was admitted as a dancer by the company of San Francisco Ballet, soon after which she was _______ to be its leading dancer.

Looking back, she is _______ that her Chinese parenting has a great influence on the way she ________ dance, and she is proud of it.“My parents often say, ‘The best is that what you do today is better than yesterday’,” She recalls.“I know there is no perfection in the world, yet that’s how I keep getting closer to being ________ every day.The stage is always full of magic and potential.We need to remember to leave our comfort zone and stay ________ .I want to challenge my past, ________ my presence and try something more future.” She says in an interview.

When asked about her secret to career longevity, she says, “Put all the efforts into your career.Do things with ________ love and passion.Do not add age to your life but ________ to your age.”

2 . One afternoon, I had been clearing bush in the mountain for several hours. Feeling starved a bit, I decided to _________ myself with lunch. Sitting on a log, I unwrapped a sandwich and surveyed the scenery. My peaceful time would have been _________ if it had not been for a bee that began buzzing （嗡嗡叫）around me. Without thinking, I _________ it away.

_________ ,the bee came back and buzzed me again. Now, losing _________ I swatted （重拍） the insect to the ground and crunched it into the _________ with my boot.

Moments later the bee _________ again. This time I stood up and crushed the insect into the sand with all my 210 pounds.

Once more I sat down to my lunch. After several minutes I became aware of a _________movement near my feet. A broken but _________ living bee was weakly emerging from the sand. I leaned down and saw its right __________ was relatively complete but the left was crumpled （褶皱的）. Nevertheless, the bee kept exercising the wings slowly __________ and began to clean its sand. Next the bee struggled to __________ the left wing. I got down on my hands and knees to better see the fruitless __________. As a retired pilot, I was __________ the bee was finished.

But the bee paid no attention to my superior wisdom. At last it felt sufficiently confident to start a trial __________ but gently flew into a rise in the sand no more than three inches away. Again it lifted __________ this time flying six inches before __________ another mound （土堆）.Apparently the bee had not mastered the __________ control, like a plane without navigation.

Once more it took off, this time clearing the sand but heading straight toward a tree. Avoiding it __________, the bee checked its forward speed, circled and then flew slowly over the mirror-like surface of the pool as if to admire its own __________ As the bee disappeared, I realized that I was still on my knees.

3 . When I first met Molly, she became my best friend at once. We enjoyed the same things, laughed at the same jokes and_________had the same love for sunflowers. We were_________to find each other.

But when middle school began, we were not in the same_________. It seemed as if we were being put to a test. We both made_________friends. Molly started to hang out with a new group of people and was growing very popular. We_________less time together, and we even_________talked on the phone. At school, sometimes I tried to_________her, but one of her new friends would come up and Molly would just_________away with her, leaving me alone. It hurt.

I was confused about_________I should give her a phone call. To my__________, when it was just the two of us talking on the__________, we were friends again. It was the old Molly. I__________how I was feeling, and she did, too. It was at that time that I__________I was not the only one feeling hurt. There were also times when I didn’t notice her pass by. We talked for a long time, and I felt as if I had lifted a heavy weight__________my heart. We both wanted to be with our new friends, but we would never__________the fun and friendship we had shared with each other.

Today, I understand that things change, people change, and it simply means that you move on, and value all the memories.

4 . My father was raised in a poor family without a father. The family of five struggled hard to_________, which caused my father to be extremely _________with his money.

When we children—two older brothers and myself—asked him for spending money, his face turned cold, saying “If you are old enough to ask, you are old enough to ________”. So when the need ________, we tried to seek jobs in the neighborhood or sell produce from the garden.

His attitude didn’t ________as we grew into adulthood and went to jobs or college. Since none of us had a car, we had to take the bus whenever we came home. Though the bus stopped about two miles from home, father never met us, even in fierce weather. If someone ________, he would say, “That’s what your legs are for!”For me, the walk didn’t bother me as much as the fear of walking alone along the highway and country roads. I also felt that my father didn’t seem concern about my safety. That feeling ________one spring evening.

It had been an extremely ________week at college. Tests and long hours in labs had left me ________. I longed for home and a soft bed. As other students were met at their stops, I gazed ________out of the window. Finally, the bus stopped at my destination. I ________and walked home with my luggage.

A row of hedge(树篱) was along the driveway that climbed the hill to our house. Once I turned off the highway and saw the hedge, I was always ________because it meant that I was almost home. On that particular evening, the hedge had just come into ________when I saw a(an) ________moving toward the house along the top of the hedge. Upon closer ________,I realized it was my father. Then I knew—each time I came home, he stood behind the hedge, watching until he knew I had arrived safely. I swallowed hard against the tears. He did care, after all.

5 . On an ordinary day, Debbie's doorbell rang suddenly. Sixteen-year-old Amy from next door was there — “help, my brother Dylan is bleeding, ”^”she _________.

Debbie and her sister Ellen   _________to their house to find eight-year-old Dylan bleeding   _________from a huge cut in his arm. Debbie had recently taken a first aid   _________and knew what to do. "I knew I needed to   _________pressure to stop the bleeding. I   _________a towel from the bathroom and used it to press on the   _________，” she said.

Dylan was crying and   _________so Debbie told him not to panic while pressing on the towel to stop the blood   _________She told Ellen to call for an ambulance since she knew the cut would need medical treatment. Just as the ambulance   __________, Dylan^’s mum came home. She was deeply shocked but   __________held his arm, then the two of them travelled to the hospital together in the ambulance without   __________

A few weeks later the cut   __________and Dylan went back home. His mother thanked Debbie and Ellen the day after the   __________"I，m so happy that I learned first aid,” Debbie said. "I   __________thought I’d need to use my first aid skills so soon, but Fm very glad I knew what to do."

6 . Sophie, 13, won the 2019 New Zealand’s “Think kind” competition for student. “I_________ a beach clean-up, because it really_________ me that marine(海洋的) life is hurt by thoughtless decisions of humans.”

Sophie saw_________ on the sea floor while snorkeling(徒手潜泳). “It was the first time I’d seen marine life _________ among plastics.”

It was the trigger of her act. “We weren’t taking enough_________. Everyone needs to do their_________, otherwise we’re going to_________our planet.”

Sophie turned to media to get her_________out and ask for volunteers at the clean-up. To her surprise, more than 200 people turned up. 200 kilograms of rubbish were_________ that day. “It was horrible. We knew rubbish was there but we didn’t realize how__________ until we started collecting.”

Once ecological(生态的)__________had hit Sophie, it hit hard. On her l4th birthday, she decided to celebrate differently.__________ holding a party creating waste, she decided to__________ it. On her “party,” Sophie and her friends__________ to pick up the rubbish that__________ along the river bank near the town.

“If there is one thing everyone could do, it is to ‘__________ after yourself’,” says Sophie. “It’s hard for some families to__________plastic alternatives, but just not buying things wrapped in plastic will help.” She suggests using__________ materials like metal straws. “When there are more__________on the market, it will be__________for individuals to make a change.”

7 . It's a beautiful day in Jáen, Southern Spain. As a father of the bridegroom   _________his speech, a sea of wedding guests   _________applause, some of them even rising from their chairs to show hearty admiration. This is because 66-year-old Dave just delivers his speech   _________in Spanish, a language that he couldn't speak a year ago.

Dave and his wife Carol were in Southern Wales when their son Stewart called from Spain, _________his parents to meet someone so special to him. _________,the couple arrived in Spain and met the special lady, Atanea, and her extended family. _________they couldn't understand the language of each other. Atanea had to run nonstop as a (an) _________to ensure everyone was understood until eventually she felt exhausted and Dave felt _________ .He wanted to support his son and connect with his in-laws.

So the moment they _________down in the UK, Carol and Dave signed up for both day and evening Spanish lessons, the time of which   __________four hours per week. To study Spanish at any other time moreover, the pair __________a Spanish-learning app. The couple would set aside time every day, complete the exercises on their app and then __________ each other over a cup of tea in their kitchen. Just as they were making __________ progress and beginning to enjoy their Spanish and tea __________, they received another __________ from Stewart, telling them that Atanea had agreed to marry him and asking his father if he would make the father-of-the-groom __________. Having said “yes” to his son, Dave knew he had more work to do for the big day.

On the wedding day, the newlyweds hold hands and smile with __________. While the words get __________ in his throat several times during the speech, yet Dave's months of determination and hard work come together in one beautiful expression of __________ for his son and his daughter-in-law, and of __________ for the culture of his new in-laws.