1 . Gurnah, growing up in Zanzibar, an island off the coast of Tanzania, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.

He is the first Black writer _________ the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993, and some observers saw his _________ as a long delayed corrective (矫正)after years of European and American Nobel laureates (获得者). In his 10 novels, Gurnah has often explored the _________ of exile(流放), identity and belonging. They _________“Memory of Departure” “Pilgrims Way” and “Dottie,” which all deal with the immigrant(移民)experience in Britain.

Gurnah’s first language is Swahili, but he _________ English as his literary language. He drew on the imagery and stories from the Quran, _________ from Arabic and Persian poetry, particularly “The Arabian Nights.” The news of Gumah’s Nobel _________ by fellow novelists and academics who have long argued that his _________ deserve a wider audience.

Gurnah was born in Zanzibar, which is now _________ of Tanzania, in 1948. Then, in 1964, he fled to England. __________ , poor, homesick, he began to write scraps(片段)in his diary, then __________ entries, then stories about other people. In his 20s, he started __________ fiction. Then he finished his first novel, “Memory of Departure,” about a young man who flees a failed uprising, at the same time he was writing his Ph. D. dissertation(论文). __________, he became a professor of English.

Though Gurnah hasn’t lived in Tanzania since he was a __________, his homeland always inspires him of his imagination. __________, he said “my homeland always asserts myself in my imagination, even when I deliberately try to set my stories elsewhere”.

3 . Brad Ryan had been feeling burnt out from veterinary (兽医的) school when he visited his 85-year-old grandma back in 2015. He hoped that spending some _________ family time in his hometown would help to lift his spirits.

As he was telling his grandma some _________ of his travels, he was _________ to hear her confess (承认) that she had never seen the sea or mountains. Ryan then asked his grandmother if she would like to _________ the Smoky Mountains with him. Needless to say, she was more than _________ to go with him. Then Ryan made a plan and they set out on their _________.

They have since visited 29 different national parks across America-from the breathtaking slopes (斜坡) of the Great Sandy Dunes in Colorado to the attractive shores of Acadia National Park in Maine.

Over the _________ of the last three and a half years, Ryan says that he and his grandma have _________ driven 25,000 miles through 38 states, and it has _________ his quality of living.

“Seeing it through my grandmother’s eyes, who every morning wakes up and is __________ to be alive, has taught me how to __________,” Ryan said. “With her, I’ve had to __________ and see my life in a different way, which has made it much __________.”

“I __________ my grandma, and our journeys really gave me a lot of peace before she eventually passed on. I can __________ these places and feel her spirit and feel connected to her, because she set her eyes on the __________ things,” he added.

Ryan, who has been __________ all of their adventures online, hopes that their social media presence will __________ other youngsters to spend more time with their elders.

“I want people who are still __________ to know, it is cool to hang out with your grandparents,” Ryan said. “There’s so much __________ and knowledge we can get from our elders.”

6 . Vasco da Gama, born around 1469 in Sines, Portugal, is best remembered as the first European to sail from Europe to India. The sea ________ he found helped Portugal build a rich empire overseas.

As a young man, studying navigation, he served as an officer in the Portuguese ________. In 1497, he ________ the king of Portugal he could find a sea route to India by sailing around Africa, which would allow Portugal to ________ the rich Indian spice (香料) trade.

Earlier Portuguese expeditions had ________ the southern tip of Africa. But these trips were long, difficult, and ________. Was it possible to travel from Europe to India in a single ________?

In July, Gama ________ from Lisbon with four ships. By January 1498, the expedition ________ Mozambique on Africa’s southeaster coast. But Arab traders in Mozambique ________ disliked Portuguese. They ________ Gama away.

Farther north, on the coast of Kenya, Gama hired an Arab to ________ his ships across the Indian Ocean. In May 1498, for the first time, they arrived at Calicut in India, where pearls, jewels and wonderful spices were ________ for sale. But the king and local merchants refused to ________ with Portuguese.

Then in 1502, Gama made a ________ voyage to Calicut with warships and soldiers. After many ________ battles, Gama ________ the enemy’s warships and killed many locals ________ the king of Calicut surrendered (投降). Gama sailed home ________ with lots of spices. In 1524, Portugal built a valuable trading empire in India. ________. the Portuguese king named Gama the governor of Portugal’s possessions there.

9 . In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare, who dropped out of school and was nearly _________, won a big ticket lottery prize, $31 million. However, he _________ bought himself a $1 million house, a Nissan Altima, and a Rolex watch.   _________, he ended up blowing most of his money on his relatives and friends. “I wish I’d been _________ broke... I thought these people were my friends, but contrary to my _________, all they want is just money.”

He suddenly disappeared. One year after his disappearance, his body was found- he was _________ by one of these people who _________ to be his friend, Dorice Moore. Moore had used various _________ to get Shakespeare to give her millions. She even carried out a(n) _________ with him that she was going to run.

In the period between his __________ and his body being discovered, his family had thought he’d just become fed up with the __________ stream of people begging for money and left to start a new life. Eventually, they grew __________ of Moore’s attempts to make everyone think Shakespeare was still around, such as __________ people from his phone, which was a major red flag __________ he was nearly unable to read or write, and __________ people to say they’d seen him, including offering $200,000 to Shakespeare’s son to __________ detectives he’d seen his father __________. Further investigation __________ the case. She even attempted to pay someone $50,000 to __________ that he murdered him. Shakespeare’s body was found after she attempted to pay someone to __________ it elsewhere, and she was finally arrested.

10 . I was having a much-covered (渴望的) weekend lie-in when my four-year-old kid came in to inform me it was time to get dressed. ________ to find I had wasted nearly two hours looking mindlessly through my phone instead of resting, I got out of bed feeling more mentally ________ than on mornings when I get up at the crack of dawn.

My husband has been ________ about my screen addiction for months. I ________ it off. But somehow those two precious lost hours led me into ________: My phone was controlling me.

Considering what sort of digital ________ to put myself on, I came across a company named Mind Over Tech. The product is a physical deck (实体牌) of 50 cards, each ________ bite-sized experiments to help users ________ technology more mindfully. Over a 24-hour period I tried a few out, including: “________ early morning tech use”, which ________ me to try to delay the first moment when I ________ my phone each morning, and “Post-It note on your phone screen”, to help me notice when and why I pick it up. The goal is not to force yourself to change, but to try to build a new healthy ________.

I decided I would only keep doing something if it stuck naturally, and kept a diary of my progress. The first two cards ________ well for me. Over two weeks, I practised them each day and found myself feeling more positive about my relationship with ________. And I was more able to exercise self-control when it came to my phone. I will stick to these habits ________, as I’m afraid I’ll relapse into (退回) old ways.