1 . Foster decided to leave behind her life in Texas to Alaska with her husband. They had just _______ a flight to Alaska without much of a plan. So when they _______, they had to hitchhike (搭便车) because of having a little money, which made them feel _______. 

As they walked down the _______, none of the cars slowed down to pick them up, so they even doubted the humanity._______, a car pulled over. Sitting in the driver’s seat was a middle-aged man with bright blue eyes. He told them to _______. 

“I’ll never _______ glancing over at him while we were driving down the road and seeing that he _______ the steering wheel the same way my father did,” Foster remembered. “When I saw that, the way his hands were positioned on the steering wheel, I took it as a(n)_______that I could trust this man.”

The man’s ________ in picking them up restored her faith in humanity. And it didn’t ________ there. When he heard the couple was ________, he offered them summer jobs and a ________to live in on his farm near Homer, Alaska. They gladly accepted.

The ________ impacted Foster so much that she wrote about it in a book titled More Than Everything. Looking back on that time, she says she’ll never forget that man with the bright ________ eyes.

2 . My journey to isolation (隔离) was a little accidental.

I saw an advertisement for a job as a leader for an expedition (探险) to Antarctica — and I have to _________ it was the penguin in the ad that _________ my attention. The ad noted that they were looking for someone to lead a _________ of expeditioners in one of the most _________ and isolated places on the planet. I took part in an _________ and then got a job that I knew I would regret if I didn’t _________ it. Leading 18 strangers for a full year-through months of darkness and with no_________from the freezing cold — I learned some _________ lessons.

After the journey, I wrote two best-selling books and became a motivational speaker. Being in isolation meant I had to do lots of self _________. I kept a ____________, and every day I would think ____________ of how I had operated as a leader. Assessing (评价) myself ______________ me how to tell right from wrong.

I often think back to ______________ I saw the picture of the penguin that ____________ me to look at the ad for the job. It’s a moment that ______________ my life completely.

3 . Hello, Mr. Wi­Fi. Life without you is next to impossible now. We're happy to sing your name from morning till evening, sometimes till dawn. _________I know you help me, sometimes you're making me do things with _________ attention. Many times I promise myself that I'll _________my feelings towards you, but you're _________ me closer and closer... You've entered both my home and my workplace. You're just a window for our _________ and information. But we people aren't _________only with the window. So we open all our doors for you. Is this a(n) _________ or some kind of attachment (依赖)? If this is an illness, is it curable? And if this is an attachment will you _________ me the lifelong togetherness?

We want you all days. Can't you take a few days off so that both you and I can _________? You're a poison — not a slow one but a super fast poison which holds our mind and makes us dance __________ its tune. Nowadays you're so __________ that anyone can buy and make you our companion. You'll never be bothered about our health but we'll __________ be concerned about your “health”. Because you accompany us everywhere and never let us be alone.

If you were a __________person made of flesh and blood (血肉之躯) would we love you the same? You control us with your numerous talents and we even can't get rid of you. We're all your __________. Sometimes I wonder how people in the previous generations __________, but if they did why can't we?

4 . Sam was very nervous. It was his first day in new _________, and lunch was only thirty minutes away. For most students, lunch is the _________ part of the school day. It is time when you talk with your friends, get to know what interesting things everyone is doing, and, of course, _________. Sam, however, didn’t know anyone or anything, like where to sit or with whom to sit at lunch.

Sam’s _________ was in the army, so his family moved a lot. He had really liked his old school and _________ leaving his two best friends. They still talked to each other through phone calls and emails, _________ he couldn’t see them every day. He wondered if their _________ would continue. He didn’t want to lose them, but he knew it would be _________ for them to stay close.

“I know this is hard on you,” his mother said as he got ready for school this morning, “and I’m really _________ you have to keep changing schools.” Sam could see __________ in her eyes, but he didn’t want her to feel that way. He gave her a smile and told her not to __________. Even if he was still worried, he decided to do something to fit in with the new school.

The __________ time came quickly. As Sam was walking to the dining room, a voice behind him said, “Excuse me.” Sam __________ and saw five friendly faces.

“Would you like to join us?” asked one of them.

This __________ invitation was exactly what he needed. Sam nodded yes __________ and joined them. He was sure about his future school life now.

5 . It started with my shirts. They were too ___________. I thought I was fatter and I needed a lifestyle ___________. But I didn’t know where to start. At the time, I thought ___________ was the answer. I had to do something that would not take too much time out of my day. I decided to start taking the stairs. Climbing stairs was a good way to exercise ___________ going to a gym.

I kept climbing stairs and soon I was up to twenty flights of stairs per day. Although my endurance (耐久力) increased and I started to feel more energetic, I didn’t lose much ___________.

After ___________ it with my wife, I decided to take part in a weight loss program. I studied different programs, and decided on one that was considered the most successful.

The instructor helped me to ___________ where weight comes from; it comes from ___________ without thinking. If I didn’t keep track of what I ate, I ate a lot more. So I started writing down everything that went into my ___________. I also learned how to make ____________ choices and read nutrition labels. We weighed ourselves every week and that helped me to stay on track. I began to see that eating ____________ was like sticking to a budget. I only had so many calories to  use each day. I decided that junk food wasn’t worth the price.

I began to see ____________ almost immediately. I lost 10 pounds in the first three weeks. I ____________ to a rate of losing about two pounds a week. After nine months I had lost 85 pounds and 14 inches off my waist line. People were ____________ at the change. Some said I looked younger.

If you learn the principles of weight loss, and live those ____________, you will lose the excess pounds. It takes work and discipline, but losing weight can be done.

6 . When I was 13, my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant beating out Miller King, who was the best ___________ at our school.

Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for ___________.

Just before September, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he came back from ___________. He looked very ___________, but he didn’t cry.

That season, I ___________ all of Miller’s records while he ___________ the home games from the bench. We went 10­1 and I was named most valuable player, but I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller’s ___________.

One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller ___________ going over a fence—which wasn’t ___________ to climb if you had both arms. I’m sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept ____________ from, but I did it. When we were finally ____________ on the other side, he said to me, “You know, I didn’t tell you this during the ____________, but you did well. Thank you for filling in for me.”

His words freed me from my bad ____________. I thought to myself, how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated, he was ____________ ahead of me. From that day on, I grew ____________ and a little more real.

7 . The concept of solitude (独处) in the digital world is almost non-existent. In the world of technology, e-mail, social networking and online video games, information is meant to be________. Solitude can be hard to discover________it has been given up. New technologies have ________our culture.

The desire to be connected has brought solitude to a(n) ________as we’ve known it. People have become so reachable in the world of networks and connections that one can often be contacted ________they’d rather not be. Today we can talk, text, e-mail, chat and blog, not only from our computers, but from our mobile phones as well.

Most developed nations have become________on digital technology simply because they’ve grown used to it, and at this point not using it would make them an outsider. ________many jobs and careers require people to be________. From this point of view, technology has changed the culture of work. Being reachable might feel like a  ________to those who may not want to be able to be contacted at all times.

I suppose the positive side is that solitude is still possible for anyone who________wants it. Computers can be shut ________and mobile phones can be turned off. The ability to be “connected” and “on” has many advantages, as well as disadvantages. Travelers have ended up ________on mountains, and mobile phones have saved countless lives. They can also make people feel________and forced to answer unwanted calls or________to unwanted texts.

Attitudes towards our connection as a society________across generations. Some find today’s technology a gift. Others consider it a curse. Regardless of anyone’s view on the subject, it’s hard to imagine what life would be like without daily progress in technology.

8 . At my heaviest, I weighed 370 pounds. I had a very poor relationship with food: I used it to ________ bad feelings, to make myself feel better, and to celebrate. Worried about my health, I tried various diets but nothing ________. I came to believe that I could do nothing about my ________. 

Then something enlightening (启迪的) happened when I was 50. That year, I attended a seminar (研讨会). One participant ________ me with her project, where she not only lost 125 pounds, but also raised $25,000 for homeless children. What a perfect ________ of healing oneself and healing the world! ________ by her story, I created the As We Heal, the World Heals project. My goal was to lose 150 pounds in one year and raise $50,000 ________ a campaign to end hunger. 

As I began my program, I was afraid that I would ________ the same difficulties that beat me before. But there were also signs that I was on the right ________. I sent letters to everyone I knew, telling them about my project. It turned out perfect. Donations began to ________ from hundreds of people. 

Of course, I also took some ________ steps to lose weight. I ________ a physician, ate healthy meals, and most importantly, exercised ________. 

A year later, I ________ my goal! I feel that I’ve been given a second life to devote to something that is ________ and enormous.

10 . It was December 2022. I was finishing up my Ph. D. in the United Kingdom, and a professor I admired invited me to interview for a position in his lab in Japan. The interview went well. I was sure everything would go _________ in 2023.

Then, in April, my mother told me about some strange symptoms she was _________. “Have you submitted your thesis (毕业论文) yet?” she asked me. “Almost, Mom,” I said. She seemed to be _________. But I was buried in finishing my experiments, so I brushed away my _________. A week later, the doctors had an update: It was lung cancer. During the next 2 months, I was _________ between my research and my family as I prepared for my defense, _________ for mid-July. My Ph. D. supervisor (导师) encouraged me to take all the time I needed to be with my mom, but my _________ always pulled me back to the lab. In the meantime, cancer had spread throughout my mother’s body.

Yet my scientific _________ still occupied me. I was set to attend a conference in New Zealand in early July. But on my way to the _________, I got the news that my mother had 1 or 2 years left. So I flew back to Madrid instead. I __________ my Ph. D. defense. Meanwhile—in just 3 weeks—the rest of my mother’s life was changed to 1 year, then months, weeks, days. Cancer __________ my mother at the end of July. I am always __________ for losing precious time with my mother. I had never slowed down before, knowing what it takes to secure an academic __________. Losing my mother put things into perspective for me. I saw the humane side of science in the __________ and flexibility offered by my Ph. D. supervisor. And the work I missed felt __________. I defended my thesis in September and moved to Tokyo later.

Please, take my advice: If your loved ones need you now, be there for them.