1 . Last year I ruined my summer vacation by bringing along a modern convenience: the iPad.

Instead of looking at nature, I _______ my e-mail. Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading _______newspapers each morning. And that was the problem: I was acting as if I were still in the office. My body was on vacation but my _______ wasn’t.

So this year I made up my mind to try something _______: getting away from the Internet. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, _______ I’m not good at self-control. But I was _______. I started by handing the iPad to my wife. Then, a stroke of luck: The mobile phone _______ at our cabin was worse than in the past. I was _______, forced to carry out my plan. Largely cut off from e-mail and my favourite newspaper websites, I had little way to _______ the world. I had no ________ but to do what I had planned to do all along: read books.

With determination and the strong support of my wife, I succeeded in my vacation struggle against the Internet. I finally ________ that it was me, of course, not the iPad, that was the ________.

I knew I had ________ when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “Don’t need it,” I said. ________, as we return to work, a test begins: Can I survive when I’m back at work? I don’t plan to ________ my iPad completely. But I hope to resist the temptation (抵抗诱惑) to use it every five minutes.

2 . I believe that everything can be achieved through hard work and devotion. In life I had a______ that taught me this belief.

What______me of this belief is my Lewandowski jersey (运动衫). It has been an important______of my life for a long time. In college, I______it on many occasions to play soccer. The day when I_____ hard work and devotion could get a person successful was just the______day when I received my jersey. One day, my dad_____ me to first Polish International Friendly. This was the soccer______that was played in Poland. My dad______me my Lewandowski jersey before we entered the_____. Lewand-owski is a world famous footballer and is Poland’s______goal scoring striker (前锋).

The day when we went, Poland was playing against Germany. Germany was the ______team in the world, and Poland about the twentieth. _____, it was obvious that Germany was going to win easily. However, Lewandowski didn't_____ it that way. He was determined to work hard and score some goals, and to hopefully win. Lewandowski_____ alone and he together with his teammates continued to fight_____ hard. At last the Polish team won. I found Lewandowski extremely_____ after the incredible (难以置信的) game.

I saw what hard work look like. I made up my mind to become the best that i could be. The______for me is a sign of what it takes to be _____.It shows me that it takes hard work and determination to______the goals that we want to achieve.

4 . High school graduations are one of the most important moments in a teenager’s life. However, heading into the ______ on June 6th, David was stopped at the door by a gatekeeper. So you can imagine how ______ David was. Although his sneakers were not extremely unacceptable, David learned they were in ______ of the school’s dress code and he was ______ entry.

David was about to ______ his chance to walk across the stage with his classmate when he caught sight of a ______ face. Butler, a famous local educator, came to the graduation as a parent. Learning David’s unpleasant situation, he ______ the young man back to the entry to see if he could ______ the gatekeeper’s mind.

“I was hoping that she would let it go, but she ______ not letting this young man in, and I didn’t have time to ______ with her,” Butler said. “I wasn’t going to let him miss the most ______ moment in his life for anything.” Without missing a beat, Butler simply changed his ______ with David. Just as the ______ closed, David made it inside the hall. Eventually he ______ David from ruining his graduation day.

Although firstly ______ by the last-minute substitution, Butler’s family were thrilled that his quick thinking turned a very ______ situation into a joyful celebration. “I wasn’t ______ because Mr. Butler is always helpful,” a ______ parent of David’s said.

It’s said that a truly generous man will give the shirt off his back to someone ______. Now it seems, the saying also ______ to the shoes off his feet.

8 . The China International Search and Rescue Team (CISAR) was formed in 2001 and it is now made up of several hundred rescue workers (which is really awesome) and about 20 sniffer dogs. The team brings help and hope to those whose lives are _______ by a typhoon, flood, or any other natural _______.

After long and careful training (训练), the team went on its first international rescue mission (任务) in 2003. That year, the Chinese team helped to save lives after earthquakes in Algerica (阿尔及利亚) and Iran (伊朗). It was the first time that a Chinese team had worked _______ China, and the team won high praise for their bravery and skill. Since then, the CISAR has completed so many good _______. The list of people to whom help has been given is long. The team treated (治疗) more than 3000 people who were the most _______ in the 2006 earthquake in Indonesia, helped 2500 wounded people after the earthquake that _______ Haiti (海地) in 2010, and spent several months giving extremely, highly precious _______ to over 25,000 victims of the 2010 floods in Pakistan (巴基斯坦).

Rescue workers are trained to find people, treat injuries, and hand out food, water, and other _______. They have to be able to work under difficult and very dangerous _______. After a disaster, there is usually no ________ or water, and there may be diseases and accidents. ________ workers get to save lives, but they must also ________ the dead. That means they have to be strong in both body and mind.

Rescue workers must have big hearts, too. It takes a lot of ________ and courage ________ one’s own life to save someone else’s. The members of the CISAR have plenty of both and are always ready to go ________ help is needed.

9 . A professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test. All students were ______ and waited for the test to begin. The professor gave the test papers to all students with text facing down at the desk.______ he was done with handing out the test to all students, he asked them to ______ the test paper and begin.

Students were confused (迷惑) to see that there was just a black ______ in the center of the page. The professor told them, “I want you to ______ about what you see there.” The students were still confused but got started with the test. ______ the end of the class, the professor collected all answer sheets and started reading each answer from each sheet in front of all students. ______of them described about the black dot and tried to explain its position.

Now, professor began to explain, “Here everyone concentrated on the black dot and wrote about it ______ no one wrote about the white paper. The same is ______ our lives. The white paper stands for our whole life and the black dot ______ problems in our life.

Our life is a gift given to us by God, with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate -- our friends around us, the job that provides us with everything we need.______, we just focus on day to day problems like health issues, lack of money, problems in relationships, but we ______ see that these problems are very ______ compared to everything we have in our lives.”

We should try to take eyes off our problems and enjoy each moment ______ life gives us. Be happy and ______ your life positively.

10 . During my first three years of college, I put on weight quickly. Between classwork and a part-time job, I had zero time for ________. Besides, I ate a lot of fast food. Not surprisingly, I ________ a fat stomach.

After leaving college, I ________ to take exercise. Invited by a friend, I ________ working out with exercise machines three times a week. I was the kind of person who did not try something ________. I ate the same food; I did the same thing. Clearly, I ________ my routines (习惯). My friend, however, became ________. One day, he said, “We’re not getting enough exercise. We should play tennis instead.”

Me? Play tennis? No way. I was strongly against his ________. I was not good at sports and I was ________ the exercise machines. ________, weeks later, I found my-self standing on a tennis court (球场). As I held my racket (球拍), I felt ________. I ran after every ball he served to me, completely ________ about 90% of them and hitting the rest into the other court. The first few months were quite ________. But one day as the ball came flying toward me, my racket and the ball finally met in the place where it is most effective to hit a ball I watched ________ as my return landed where I had aimed (瞄准) it. I had finally ________ how to play tennis properly!