1 . I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at 19. My first panic attack _______ nowhere, leaving me breathless and _______. Despite taking medication, my chronic(长期的) anxiety and panic attacks required me to _______ ways to deal with it. I've learned to treat _______ as a part of my character, alongside being free-spirited, funny, and creative. As a result, dealing with my condition has made me a _______ person.

Anxiety often makes me feel energetic, and I have two ways to _______ it: Either let my legs shake and mind race while overthinking everything or use that _______ to expand my advantage. Whether I'm at work, home, or my kid's soccer practice, I always find a healthy way to _______ my anxiety. At work, I might take the long way to the kitchen or grab my water bottle to regain my _______. At home, I take the dog for a walk, ________ on my bike, or use free weights. Physical activity not only ________ anxiety but also keeps me in shape.

During therapy, my doctor ________ thinking about something wonderful when my throat feels tight and anxiety strikes. Instead of convincing myself of the worst, I recall a________ in my early 20s in Paris. The thought of cheese, pastries, and the Eiffel Tower overwhelms me with happiness, helping me ________ control.

Although my life isn't ________, accepting that anxiety is a part of who I am has made me feel less like someone with an anxiety disorder.

2 . In March 1975, my mother brought my younger sister Cissy and me back to our hometown.

Cissy and I were ________ to moving. We had moved 23 times before I was 18. Altogether I ________ 19 schools. But at 13 and 11 years of age, we were ________ being the new kids in school.

Staying in a motel (汽车旅馆) for weeks, we ________ found a two-bedroom home for $80 a month, which was in the landlords (房东), Mr and Mrs Hendrix’s back yard. It was ________, but Cissy and I thought it was a palace. ________, in October my mother lost her job. November’s ________ went unpaid, so did December’s. Cissy and I knew we’d soon move ________.

On Christmas Day, Mrs Hendrix knocked on the front door. Mom was out, so I ________ it. I’d received eviction (驱逐) notices before, so I knew what to ________. Mrs Hendrix held out a ________ to me, smiling as she said,“I thought you girls might enjoy some bread. I bake it every Christmas.” Unprepared for such ________,I managed a “Thanks”. Closing the door, we ________ the box. There were bread, candy, and new socks and gloves for us three. No eviction notice!

We lived over five years in our twenty-fourth home. The Hendrixes gave Cissy and me something we had never known in our ________ lives: the comfort of belonging, and ________.

3 . I am a student. I go to school from Monday ________Friday. In ________ morning I get up at ten to six. Then I wash my face. I have________breakfast at six o’clock. After breakfast I go to school. I usually take a bus to school. ________ if I get up so late, I will go by car. I begin class at eight. I have four ________at morning. At noon, I have ________ time to go home. So I ________ my lunch at school. At two o’clock, I play ________football with my friends. My classes________over at four thirty. ________ that I go home and get home at twenty past five. I have supper with my parents at six. I often eat meat, ________, and some vegetables. ________ I eat dumplings. After supper I do the ________. Then I do my homework or ________ to the pop music. I go ________ bed about ten thirty.

4 . Without three key players, including the former captain, how did 55-year-old Jenny Lang Ping and her girls spent the 20 days before winning against Japan with 3-1? Getting the world title at the 2015 FIVB Women’s World Cup is _______. The three players, namely, former captain Hui Ruoqi, Yang Fangxu and Xu Yunli, all _______ a lot to Chinese national women’s volleyball team. Hui Ruoqi and Yang Fangxu helped the country win the silver _______ in last year’s World Championship, while Xu Yunli helped China win the third _______ at Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Facing this, Jenny Lang Ping, who is called “Iron Hammer”, never _______ in her weak team and prepared for the coming competitions at the 2015 FIVB Women’s World Cup by _______ the confidence of her girls. Head coach Lang Ping and her girls met their first _______ after failing to beat US women’s volleyball team on Aug 24, 2015, two days after the start of the 2015 FIVB Women’s World Cup. The girls couldn’t help crying in the face of the _______, but Lang Ping _______ them around and said: “Calm down, girls, it’s still too ________ to see who will win, since we can learn lessons from this failure”, after analyzing Chinese team’s problems during the game and thinking about the ________.

________ encouraging words and smiles, the head coach watched the video of that game until late night and just had a two-hour light sleep. But the 55-year-old did not fight ________. Her girls returned with ________ to fight until the end. And finally, they ________ it.

5 . I live in Sarasota, Florida, where sudden and terrible rainstorms can often come out of nowhere. People who are not from around here will never_______ to bring an umbrella with them every_________day.

One beautiful afternoon, my mother and I were heading for our_________in her car after taking my cat to hospital. Suddenly, as so often_________, a heavy rainstorm blew in.

While waiting at a red light, we noticed a_________over to the side of the road. Someone was crouching (蹲着) at the bus stop. Looking_________, we came to clearly see this was a young woman, crouching low to_________ her young daughter as they waited for the bus. She got wet all through.

As traffic began to move, my mother felt_________but was unable to think of what she could do. At the very next light,_________going home, she turned to the left and then circled back around the block to__________.

As they came into view__________, the young mother still covering her child with her own body, my mom__________.She grabbed her umbrella and ran over to them. Not saying a word, she__________handed the young mother the umbrella, smiling, and ran back.

I’m so glad I witnessed this__________on my mother’s part. I’m following my mom’s__________, always ready to warm someone else in need.

6 . Sometimes the small things will bring us warmth, offering the best of the world.

One day, as I left my airport hotel bound for my international _______, I noticed an elderly lady _______ in the same direction. She was pulling her luggage (行李), which was so _______ that she had to struggle. I had a luggage trolley (手推车) but I had just one light backpack. So I shared the trolley with her. She was so _______ that she offered to push it along the way but I _______. I could handle it myself.

As we _______ along, we had a lovely _______. It turned out that she was 20 years senior to me.

Then when I got to the international airport, I found a _______ of flight times. While waiting, I _______ my family to tell them my delay. A man sitting next to me said the same thing had happened to him. He said he was landing two hours later than his original ________. And he had no way to ________ his wife to let her know this, because his ________ had stopped working. Hearing this, I ________ him my phone to call her, which made him so thankful.

I'm not looking for pats on the back. I just wanted to ________ how easy it is to be ________ and how much difference it can make to others.

7 . Exercise and healthy eating go together to produce a healthy lifestyle! Many of us have internal (内心的) ________ why we can’t do either one! We have all once felt ________ for planning an activity but failing in the end! We are busy. We don’t have time to drive to the ________, the weather is too bad for that promised walk, and it’s too hot or cold out, or any other number of excuses!

The good news is that any exercise helps increase our ________. Fifteen minutes of activity a day, or 90 minutes per week, is enough to cut your risk of death by 14%, compared to ________ people. That is a healthy ________ to develop.

Please take the time to add ________ to your life. Start slow, if you are out of shape. You do not need to be a (n) ________ sportsperson. Fast walking is enough to help control diabetes (糖尿病)! ________ by adding a 10-minute walk to your daily life! Even adding 5 minutes to your walk each week can make a(n) ________ difference.

Try to ________ for at least 30 minutes per day. You can break it up into three 10-minute ________ if you need to. It all makes ________. Just get moving! Moreover, some apps on your phone can help ________ your steps. You do not need an expensive gym membership either. To ________ your health, just walk out the door!

8 . Do you have a sister or a brother? Do you get on well with each other? The film Sister tells the story of a 24-year-old girl named An Ran played _________ Zhang Zifeng. There was the one-child policy(政策)when An was a little girl. Her parents _________ that An was disabled so that they could have a second child—her little brother. After the boy’s birth, her parents seemed to give almost all of their love to their _________ son. An became an “unwanted” child and she felt very sad. And she didn’t_________ much time with her brother because of their age. Thus she made up her mind to live a good life by herself.

Unluckily, when An was preparing for an important exam, her parents were_________ hurt in a car accident and then _________. She became the only family of her brother. She was really stressed because she faced a difficult choice _________ pursuing(追求)her own life and raising her younger brother. At the beginning, An wanted to go to big cities to pursue her dreams and decided to send her 6-year-old brother to a foster family(寄养家庭), _________ some of An’s relatives didn’t agree to her opinion. They thought An should stay at their hometown and raise her brother. After several months, An _________   to be together with her brother and she could also feel the love from the only family. At last, the film has an open ending and nobody knows An’s final decision.

The film has brought tears to many people’s eyes. Many people begin to think about__________ role girls or women should play in a family.

9 . As a child, I would sit through movies I loved over and over. I dreamed of someday having the ability to create ______ .

But school was difficult for me for many reasons, so becoming a screenwriter seemed ______. When I was fourteen, I was shocked when my ______ were made into a brochure that was ______ to every student. For a week or so, I was treated very ______. Previously invisible, I was now “a published poet” receiving   praise and slaps(拍打) on the back. But an already deep-seated lack of ______ prevented me from having any serious hopes for a career in literature. I felt like those things only happened to other people. ______ I would look at thousands of books and ask myself, “Are all these people ______ than me, or did they just ______ harder?” So, I kept reading, writing and watching movies not only for ______ but to analyse how great stories are told.

The lack of confidence that annoyed me early in life took decades to ______ .

I had a job that paid well, but I ______ it. Suddenly, the company went out of business, ______ me to choose between getting yet another job I didn’t like and finally being committed to a career as a writer. My ______ was copyediting, which wasn’t writing exactly but almost.

I spent more years swimming in a sea of words, loved it and finally became a ______ as I had wished.

10 . The email hit me like a punch in the gut. It came from my ________ and when I saw it had several paragraphs, I frowned. Quickly scanning for the vocabulary of bad news, I discovered words like “________”, “I’m sorry”, and “end”. Sure enough, my column—Science Careers was being canceled.

But despite my________ shock, I wasn’t as sad or mad or ________ as I might have been in the past. Previously, when I have been ________, I embodied (表现) the loss by ragging on and thinking________ about myself: “They” don’t value me because I don’t have value. And indeed, when I got the message about the________, my instinct was to immediately blame myself, dumping me into the familiar hopeless desert of ________.

But then, I surprised myself by quickly ________ to a new mindset. It wasn’t actually a failure, was it? Instead of letting the disappointing news start________, I was able to take a positive ________.I set out to make this not the day I was fired, but the day I was fired up and________to move my career to the next level.

Sometimes life sucks and things happen, and we cannot ________.Business decisions often impact our careers and yet have very little to do with our outputs. This decision wasn’t a ________ of me and my value. So when I heard that the column was a ________, I knew I was going to grow.