1 . Generous billionaires are not hard to come by, but it is definitely a challenge to find a billionaire who spends all his fortune on charity just to end up broke. This is ________ what happened to “former” American billionaire Charles Feeney.

Feeney, who grew up in a poor neighborhood of New Jersey, is a ________ at finding business opportunities. Since childhood, he would take any job to make a few cents for his family — jobs like ________ umbrellas in summer and selling Christmas cards in winter. In his college years at Cornell University, he sold home-made sandwiches to other students and is still ________ there as the Sandwich Man. Then, in the 1960s, Feeney ________ airport retailer Duty Free Shoppers (DFS), which helped him reach his billionaire ________ by the 1980s. However, Feeney never felt ________ with the lifestyle of the wealthy. He lived modestly, and often thought of what to do with all the money he made.

Influenced by his own experience, Feeney decided to give away all his money to those in need in his lifetime. In 1984, the then 53-year-old Feeney ________ everything — his DFS shares and the various businesses and ________ he had acquired worldwide — to Atlantic Philanthropies, a charity ________ he established. In the following decades, Feeney donated through the organization more than $8 billion anonymously (匿名地), to charities, universities, human rights ________, and foundations worldwide. Such incredible secret generosity ________ him the title “James Bond of Philanthropy” from Forbes magazine.

________ the idea of “Giving while Living,” Feeney is a ________ model for many famous billionaires today, including Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. He encourages people to donate at least half their fortunes before death. In September 2020, Feeney’s go-for-broke mission was ________, and he now lives happily with his wife on a pension (养老金) in a modest apartment in San Francisco.

2 . Enjoying a swim at their local beach was once a daily pleasure for Melati and her sister, Isabel. But in 2013 when Melati was 12 and Isabel just ten, the sisters started to lose ________ for swimming in the waters near their home on the island of Bali. More often than not, plastic bags would circle around them as they ________. Then as they walked back to shore, red and white plastic shopping bags would ________ their legs and body.

Melati didn’t think much about it until later in 2013 when her teacher gave a lesson on world ________ like South Africa’s Nelson Mandela and England’s Princess Diana, whose efforts had inspired movements of ________ change. That day Melati walked home in ________, thinking something needed to be done to preserve the beautiful island from becoming ________ by waste.

Melati and Isabel started by sharing the idea with others. Soon they’d ________ a team of 15, made up of schoolfriends. They ________ their group ByeBye Plastic Bags(BBPB). Its mission was ________ stop people in Bali using plastic bags.

The following year the BBPB team spent their lunchtimes ________ meetings and organizing an online petition (请愿) to collect signatures to ban plastic bags. Within 24 hours of ________ more than 6000 people both local Balinese and people from around the world had ________. “This was the first moment when we knew, we were onto something,”Melati says.

Years later, the girls’ enthusiasm has resulted in big changes. In 2017, they organized Bali’s first beach clean up. Around 12,000 people collected 36 tonnes of rubbish. In 2018 BBPB ________ the government to ban single-use plastic bags and straws. The ban took effect in July 2019.

Today BBPB is a global youth movement and has over 50 teams in 29 countries. “We didn’t start with any clear ________,”Melati admits. “We didn’t know how we were going to complete a seemingly easy task but we knew that we wanted to and had the desire to figure it out.”

3 . COVID-19 entered my life in the form of an e-mail. My friends and I were in a small café as I read that our university had been ______ down for the following week.

It was three days later when the ______ hit. I watched my friend throw all her ______ into a suitcase and take the next flight out of the country. Her ______ words: ‘‘better locked out of Venice than locked in’’ caused fear and ______ inside me. I wondered: ‘‘Will I be able to graduate from school?” and “What if everyone leaves and I am alone and ______ in Venice?’’

I turned to my roommate and the ______ and rational (理性的) voices of my parents. I decided to ______. We all thought it would be two weeks, maybe three and then life would return to ______ and our semester (学期) would go on as planned.

Things changed so fast, I felt like a ______ out of water, turning between thoughts and ideas every time I read another news ______. Every day my phone ______ new information that made me uneasy. Life was ______, but life was continuing.

Then Italy went into a full lockdown and I was restricted to Venice. Two days later, I joined the few ______ exchange students for pizza but we were told we must only ______ two at a time and stand a metre away from each other.

I am taking ______ of this time to do yoga on the roof, take Italian lessons on YouTube with my roommate, cook on our hotplate and ______ afternoons studying and writing on my balcony.

I have learned things that I could have ______ learned in a lecture hall. I have learned how to step back and let go of ______ my semester abroad could have been and instead ______ the small things that fill me with happiness.

4 . During university, I moved to New Zealand for a working holiday. A friend I made there________me that my time in New Zealand would not be complete without going bungee jumping-________, it was invented there.

So we headed to Queenstown. We both________the Nevis Bungy, the highest bungee jump in New Zealand with an astonishing 134-meter________. After signing our lives away, we were________in a minibus and driven out to a canyon.

As we approached the canyon. I began to________a small metal structure hanging in the middle of the canyon by a wire. Fear________as soon as I realized that I was going to have to________out of that structure.

I tried to remain calm as I stepped out of the minibus and got________into the harness (保护带).________, I lost my calmness as soon as I stepped into the________that would take us out to the hanging structure. We slowly________out into thin air, and just the________in the basket was enough to get an adrenaline (肾上腺素) rush.

I was the________to jump, so I sat in the hanging structure watching each person get their feet tied together and________into the canyon depths.

It was in the moment, watching people________the jump, that I learned a lesson. As the employees counted down, some people hesitated, while others did not. Once they________themselves, there was no building the________back up again. It was only those people who pushed against their fears and jumped—no second guessing—who were________.

The hardest part is taking the leap. When it was my turn to go, I was________. But I made it.

5 . Sheela’s 93-year-old grandpa suffers from Alzheimer’s and has lost his memory. He’s unable to ________ her name and her relationship with him and constantly asks the same ________ questions.

But the music provides a(n) ________ for the two—a shared moment of ________. Though Sheela demonstrates rare musical skills, yet she didn’t expect music had such great magic as to ________ Grandpa with severe Alzheimer’s disease.

That afternoon, Sheela was asked to ________ Grandpa owing to her mother’s absence. But absolutely ________ by Grandpa. Sheela felt bored. Pacing ________, she saw a piano in a corner that remained untouched for years. Sheela opened it and began to play a piece by Chopin. Attracted by the fantastic music, Grandpa got out of his bedroom and slowly ________ the piano, his eyes shining brilliantly and a pleased smile climbing from his mouth. He seemed to be completely absorbed in the beautiful ________.

After she finished, Grandpa even gave her the thumbs (大拇指) up on her ________. Sheela was moved to tears by Grandpa’s ________. Grandpa then made his way to his armchair, closed his eyes in peace and fell asleep soon. The moment was all too brief but quite ________.

Sheela shared the experience online and urged people to ________ the present: “Make space for love and treasure the present moment with your loved ones.” Now Sheela has her eye on what does ________!

6 . We had just completed a unit on heroes, and I had given my kindergarten class a task to ________ their favorite hero. Each child was ________ with the task, creating colorful masterpieces.

However, one little boy was having ________ with the task. Cameron was with autism, but that didn’t matter to me or his classmates. We all ________ him just the way he was. I sat and watched as Austin, a precocious little boy, ________ with Cameron. Within a few minutes, Cameron quickly began drawing and then coloring his paper.

Finally, it was time for everybody to share their pictures. I listened as each student ________ stood in front of the class, picture held high, and ________ his or her hero. It was finally Cameron’s ________. He stood up and anxiously placed his drawing in front of his ________ to avoid eye contact. We all fixed our eyes on the picture.________ to know who it was. He then said it was a picture of me. He added that I helped him learn things and then ________ sat down. Tears began to form in my eyes, but nothing could have ________ me for what happened next.

When Austin stood up, he proudly held up a picture of Cameron. Austin shared that Cameron was his hero because Cameron had this ________ that made it really hard to learn, but he was like Superman and was really smart.

Cameron immediately stood up, and put his arms up in the air as if he were going to ________, yelling out, “I’m Superman!” The entire class began striking Superman poses, too. Within minutes, we were all laughing as though we had truly discovered the secret of becoming ________.

7 . Ye Ziyi, a young 32-year-old Beijinger, becomes the first Chinese winner of the International Earth and Sky Photo Contest. She has ______ to more than 40 countries to capture the ______ of the starry sky with her camera.

Before becoming a photographer, Ye had a ______ job in an advertising company. But her ______ to astronomy made her decide to become a full-time photographer. However, making a ______ out of her hobby has not been easy, but she has never ______ pursuing her dream, and she hopes more people will be able to ______ the power of nature and pay more attention to the issue of light pollution ______ her works.

The purest view of the sky is always ______ in the corners of the world and star seekers need to overcome a lot of ______, including suffering unpredictable weather, climbing high mountains and knowing how to avoid being ______ by wild animals.

To get good ______ of the Milky Way, she once went to Nam Co Lake in Xizang alone at 2:00 am while the temperature was -5℃. While taking her photos, ______, Mother Nature suddenly grew changeable and the clear night sky suddenly clouded over and brought two storms. The next day, she ______ from severe high-altitude diseases. But when she looked at the beautiful Milky Way photos she took, she felt it was all ______.

8 . In life, there’re a mass of choices we have to make. What we choose may ________ our destiny (命运). Therefore, it’s ________ to make the right choice at stake. To tell the truth, we should do many things about making a _______ choice, but I believe the two ________ I’ll mention are the most significant.

Firstly, we’d better think about and compare the positive and ________ sides of specific objects and get the one whose ________ are more than that of the other or the one which is more ________ for us. The process is like choosing a person between two ________ for a job. the relevant qualities such as previous work experience, academic record in college will be ________, and then naturally, you’ll ________ the most qualified candidate for the job.

Secondly, we also ________ observe objective both on short terms and on ________ terms. Take hunting for a job as an example, when we think about different kinds of ________, we should not only take the short-term salary or treatment into ________ but also we should see the employee training and promotion so that we can learn a lot and have a ________ development in the future through hard work. There’s also an example. It often takes ________ for a start-up to begin an undertaking (事业) in the beginning. It seems that he doesn’t make a good choice. ________, he may become a successful businessman after ________ for years and solving problems in the way.

All in all, whenever we face ________, it’s wise that we not only select the option with more ________ but also see objects on long terms, and then make a choice finally.

9 . Like many young people, Jessica wants to travel the globe. Unlike most of them, this 25-year-old is doing it _______ . She and her husband have spent the last two years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore. It might sound like one long, expensive _______ , but the couple has an unusual way to make their travel _______ .

They’re part of a new form of the _______ economy: an online group of house sitters. Throughout their no-cost stays in _______ homes, they feed pets and water plants in the homeowner’s _______ .

It’s not all sightseeing. The two travelers carefully _______ their trips, scheduling their days around the pets that are sometimes difficult to _______ . But house sitting also offers a level of _______ they can’t find in a hotel. “It’s like ________ at a friend’s house,” Jessica says.

The couple has a high ________ rate in getting accepted as house sitters and they always go beyond the homeowner’s ________ . For Jessica, that means ________ plenty of pictures of happy pets, keeping the house ________ and leaving a nice small gift before heading to the next house. “You want to make the homeowner feel that they made the right ________ ,” she says.

10 . People often say that “failure is the mother of success”. This cliché might have some truth to it but it ________ tells us how to actually turn a loss into a win, says Emmanuel Manalo, a professor of educational psychology at Kyoto University in Japan. As a result, he says, “We know we shouldn’t give up when we fail - but ________ we do.”

Manalo and Manu Kapur, a professor of learning sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, put together a special issue of the journal Thinking Skills and Creativity last December on ________ failure. The issue’s 15 studies provide teachers and educational researchers with a guide for ________ success. One study reported, for example, that the sooner and more often students fail at a task such as building a robot, the sooner they can ________ and improve. Another confirmed that feedback on failures is most ________ when the giver comes across as caring, and the receiver is prepared to weather negative emotions.

Manalo and his co-authors also contributed their own study focused on overcoming one fundamental, everyday form of failure: not ________ a task. They asked 131 undergraduates to write an essay about their school experiences. Half of the students received ________for structuring their writing, and half were left to their own devices. All, however, were ________ before finishing. Afterward, the researchers found that those in the structured group were more motivated to complete their essays, compared with those who lacked guidance - even if the latter were ________ to being done. Knowing how to finish, ________, was more important than being close to finishing.

The researchers named this finding “the Hemingway effect” for the author’s self-reported ________ to stop writing only when he knew what would happen next in the story - so as to avoid writer’s block when he returned to the page. Manalo believes that leaning how to fail temporarily can help people avoid becoming ________ failures at many tasks, such as completing a dissertation, learning a language or inventing a new technology.

Demystifying failure and teaching students not to ________ it make goals more attainable, says Stephanie Couch, executive director of the Lemelson-MIT Program, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and supporting inventors. Couch, whose work was also featured in the special issue, ________ that we “should really be thinking of failure as part of a process of iterating toward success.”