1 . At around 3 p. m. on Monday, Erin Wilson stopped at a picnic area along Highway 299. She began walking her two-year-old sheepdog, Eva, along a path when a mountain lion _______ and attacked Wilson, who screamed, catching the _______ of her 2-year-old Eva. Eva, who had been wandering ahead, immediately returned to _______ her owner. The mountain lion then _______ the 55- pound dog and bit onto the bodyguard’s head. Wilson _______ without success to fight off the lion with stones, so she ran up to the road, frantically trying to flag someone down.

Sharon Houston, who was driving by, saw Wilson and _______. After learning about the mountain lion attack, without _______ Houston jumped out of her car with her pepper spray（喷雾剂）and also grabbed a stick. The two women _______ to the scene in the forest, where the struggle was going on, with the mountain lion still _______ to let go of the dog. They both started hitting it and yelling ________ it finally set loose the bleeding dog.

Eva eventually ________. Houston pepper sprayed the mountain lion in the face, and it immediately turned away and ________. Eva was gravely injured, and Wilson ________ drove Eva to a vet(兽医). After spending several days there, the dog was ________. Now Eva, lying on her own bed with her favorite toys, is on the road to ________. “My dog is my hero and I owe her my life.” Wilson said.

2 . Childhood should be full of friends, play, and happiness. But when children are_________ and without their peer(同龄) group, they may _________ a helping hand to get back on track. That’s why schools in India are teaching _________.

Actually, it is important to _______kids to be resilient (有弹力的). They needed a(n) _________that could teach students to identify emotions and ways to release them.

The happiness course was _______started by the Indian government in 2018. It _______ mental health, well-being. It also encouraged_______ peer interactions for elementary school children. The course included storytelling and teamwork activities.

“The happiness course is a(n)_______, and schools should welcome it. The objectives include developing self-awareness, mindfulness(正念减压法), critical thinking, and helping children ________ life skills to deal with stress,” said Shikha Banerjee, the principal of the Seth Anandram Jaipuria School in Kanpur.

“Mindfulness(正念减压法) is the cornerstone(基石) of the happiness course and its biggest ______________ is that every day 1.6 million children in Delhi start their studies in school with mindfulness. It has been________ as a turning point in the lives of students studying in Delhi schools and has relieved (缓解) children from stress and __________ their focus in studies,” deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said during the Mindful Education Awards 2021 program.

The award is good to recognize the efforts of schools in creating a mentally and ________healthy environment for the development of ________ through teaching mindfulness.

3 . On the first day of our science class, Mr. Whitson gave us a lecture about an animal called “Cattywampus”, an ill-adapted nocturnal (夜行的) animal that was_______out during the Ice Age, and he passed around a skull (头骨) as he talked. We all took notes and later had a quiz (测试).

When he _______our papers, we were shocked-a big red “x” each of our answers. We had written down exactly what he had said. There must be some mistakes!

“Very simple,” Mr. Whitson explained, “I had_______up the story about the Cattywampus. There had never been such an animal. The information in your notes was, _______, incorrect. Did you expect_______ for incorrect answers?”

“You should have _______ it out.” Mr. Whitson said. After all, at the very moment he was_______at the skull (in truth, a cat’s), hadn’t he been telling us that no trace of the animal_______? He had described its amazing night vision and the_______of its fur he couldn’t have known. He had given the animal a ridiculous (荒谬的) name, and we still hadn’t been________.

Every class was a/an ________ with Mr. Whitson. One day he told us that his car was a living organism (有机体). It took us two full days to________ our clarification (阐明). He didn’t get us out of   ________until we had proved not only the reasonable statement of an organism but also that we had the courage to stand up for the truth.

We ________ our skepticism (怀疑) into all our classes. Teachers and textbooks are not always right. In fact, no one is. Don’t let your minds go to________, instead, speak up if you ever thought the teacher or the textbook was wrong.

4 . This fall marks an especially memorable time for one family celebrating three generations walking onto Carthage College together. Samantha Malczewski, 19, the sophomore nursing student recalled. “It was really __________. I didn’t expect it.” However, Carter aged 18, said she had a(n) __________that their mom Amy Malczewski and grandmother Christy Schwan were interested in going back to school.     

Calling herself “Carthage’s biggest fan”, Amy Malczewski has a deep __________to Carthage College. “And Carthage has this amazing __________for the master’s degree in business and design, which is really __________ all the things that I love,” said she.

Meanwhile, when Christy heard of her daughter’s __________, she quickly realized they could __________on the journey together. The 71-year-old __________three years ago after working in employee benefits consulting. Amy said, “I think you ought to __________it too.” And I’m like, “OH, I think you’re right, we should do this __________,” Christy recounted. “It’s helped fill a(n) __________space for me.”

As the four settle into classes and busy __________, the two sisters said they’re __________to accompany them to class, have this little study group, or get dinner together in the cafeteria.

In a statement, Carthage College __________the family and their educational goals. “Spanning three generations, this family reminds us of the power of __________learning,” the school said, “Age isn’t a factor-we can all continue to learn.”

5 . Brandon and Derek’s mother, Beth Lash, shared a Facebook video on Dec. 25, 2017. It captured the moment when Bandon _____ his card out loud. On Brandon Lash’s 24th birthday, his little brother, Derek, presented him with a rather large card filled with an even bigger ____.

“I have always respect you,” Brandon reads from the front of the card, _____ by this brother．

“I love spending time with you. I’m so _____ I have you for my brother. You have always been there for me, even though I get on your nerves sometimes. You will always have a piece of my heart,” Brandon continues, opening up the _____.

“And now you will have my kidney (肾), too. We are a _____ match.” Brandon reads, _______ the card to the floor and burst into ____.

Brandon ,who has kidney disease, receives _____ three times a week, and was told that he had been recommended for the transplant list. Unfortunately, his parents are not a match, but _____, his brother is.

“I can’t believe Derek would _____ so much for me,” Brandon tells the publication. “ He’s giving me a _____ to have a healthy life again. I still can’t believe it’s happening.”

“I _____ seeing him sick and knew something needed to be done to make him healthy again.” Derek adds. “Not only was it the _____ thing to do, but the only thing to do. He’s my brother. We didn’t know when he could be on the transplant list, but I knew I just wanted my ____ brother back.”

6 . The bond between mother and daughter is irreplaceable. One of the most famous women scientists of the 20th century, Marie Curie, worked _______ her daughter Irene in the field of radioactivity（放射性）, each of them _______ earning their own Nobel Prize. Today, there are more _______ mother-and-daughter pairs showing what happens when _______ works together.

In April 2020, Dr. Cynthia Kudji and her daughter Dr. Jasmine Kudji have become the first mother and daughter to _______ from the medical school at the same time and be placed in the same hospital. Cynthia Kudji put her dream of becoming a _______ on hold when she became pregnant at 23. She worked as a nurse for almost a decade _________ making the decision to attend the medical school at the University of Medicine and Health Sciences. _______, her daughter Jasmine attended Louisiana State University School of medicine.

At first, it was _______ for them to live and study so far apart from one another. “I thought initially it was hard because my mom and I had always been really ________ so I had to get used to the ________,” Dr. Jasmine Kudji explains to Afro Tech. Although the experience was difficult, it also had ________ results. “Sometimes people struggle to find someone who ________ their struggles, so for that person to be my mom was extremely helpful,” she adds.

After years apart, both Cynthia and her daughter earned their M. D. degree. Then on “Match Day” when recent med school graduates ________ the results of their residency (高级专科住院生实习期) applications, Cynthia and Jasmine learned that they were ________ in the same hospital.

This pair of mother and daughter proves that family can do anything together.

7 . ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-driven chatbot (聊天机器人) programme that responds to user prompts, has gone viral in social networks in recent weeks. Its ___________ is such that within days of its launch, OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot, announced that 1 million people had used. In comparison, Facebook and Spotify took months to achieve that ___________of engagement (受人关注) . The attraction is obvious: ChatGPT can produce jokes, essays and computer code from a short writing prompt.

There’s nothing ___________ in software that produces fluent and logical writing. ChatGPT’s predecessor (前身), the Generative Pretrained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), could do that too. Both were trained on an unimaginably large amount of data to answer questions in a/an ___________ way. But ChatGPT has been updated by being given the data on human “conversations”, which significantly ___________ the truthfulness and informativeness(信息准确性) of its answers.

___________, ChatGPT still produces answers that seem reasonable but are incorrect or nonsensical (无意义的). Even the chatbot itself says, “My responses are not intended to be considered as ___________.” This might be a big problem on the Internet, as many web platforms (平台) ___________ the ability to protect themselves against a flood of AI-generated content (AI生成的内容). Such websites as Stack Overflow, where users can find answers to programming-related questions, had to ban ChatGPT-produced posts, as its human moderators (管理员) could not ___________ the volume (大量) of incredible but wrong replies. It is ______________ to give out tools that could be used to produce fake news and messages.

Using ChatGPT too much raises the question of whether content produced by it can be truly trusted. A human author is ______________ their own work but AI is not. Artificial intelligence is not artificial ______________: ChatGPT does not know what it is doing; it is unable to say how or why it produced a response; it doesn’t have human experience, and cannot tell if it is ______________. While OpenAI has safeguards to refuse inappropriate requests, such as to tell users how to commit crimes (犯罪), these can be bypassed. AI’s potential for harm should not be ______________. In the wrong hands, it could be a weapon to harm people and society.

No one knows what will happen to such technologies if the software engineers of the future will themselves be software programs. “Human supervision (监督) and ______________ are required,” OpenAI’s researchers have warned.

8 . After lunch I was napping near the window when there came a big bang. I ______ sat up and looked out. Across the street, a car had just backed into a chain-link fence, which was bent in exactly the ______ of the car’s back end.

The driver got off. After ______ the damage, the man tried to put the fence back into place. His first attempt ______ and he tried a little harder. He grabbed the vertical support pole and pulled with his full ______. All of a sudden, the pole ______ and the man fell hard onto the ground, the entire fence ______ him. I laughed till I cried. ______, as you could imagine, he climbed out of the ______ fence and went away.

That, I thought, would be the   ______ of it. However, the man ______ minutes later with some tools. For the next hour, I ______ out of my window as he doggedly fixed the fence and even ______   it. Now the fence would be stronger than ever.

This man was actually a hero and I was embarrassed by my ______ judgments. Years later, I still look out of my window at that fence almost every day. It makes me ______ what else that man has improved, and how I can make myself more, like him.

10 . 28-year-old Jermaine Scott set up in business as a barber in Madison. He gradually noted the kids were _______ to tablets and cell phones when they came to the barbershop. It was _______ to cut their hair when they were focused on those. That led to the _______ of Scott’s “Barbershop Books Day” when kids could come and get a _______ haircut. What was required? They had to _______ a book while they got it.

He created “Barbershop Books Day” to help not only the kids, but also the parents. Madison has many low-income families and many are focused on just keeping their _______ on. For people in this community, $15 for a haircut per kid is not easy to _______ so in some way a reduction in the price can _______.

Scott began his initiative (倡议) by _______ five library books and putting them near his chair. Book ________ began pouring in when a local news station ________ what he was doing. Scott plans on taking his initiative a step further by __________ his “Barbershop Books Day” to an “Ice Breaker Book Tour” where he ________ to get kids excited to learn while also giving them ________ role models through motivational (激发性的) speakers. Scott said, “If I step outside my comfort zone and tell them school is cool, ________ it will guide them in the right direction.”