1 . Some of us regret that we no longer have parents to serve after their passing away. Then why not pay more attention to them when they were alive and with us?

A few days ago, when I went to a _________ for my evening walk, I _________ an old couple sitting on a bench and talking to each other. Feeling a bit _________ after a long way and curious to know about their _________ of discussion, I went over and _________ on the bench next to them. After a few moments, from their conversation I could _________ that their only _________ had moved to America and they were left alone here.

Every _________ they said to each other conveyed（传达）to me their desire, their loneliness and their selfless _________ for their son. My eyes were filled with tears and I realized just how __________ we have become as children.

To achieve our goals and purposes we __________ to care little about the two most important persons of our lives: our parents, who __________ us when we were young, raised us heart and soul and guided us __________ on each step of our lives.

What has the life of these parents become now? Most of them are staying in old houses and leading a __________ life. Most of them even couldn’t be taken care of when they fall ill. Why do we always __________ that we are what we are now just because of these two special people who brought us into this __________ ?

__________ , I would like to use a few words written by a wise man which say, “When you were __________ and just a little way off, I __________ you with blankets（毛毯）against the cool night air, but now you are tall and out of __________ , I hold out my hands and cover you with my best wishes. ”

3 . Losing someone you love is never easy. But having to say goodbye to her mother during the COVID-19 pandemic (流行病), Debbie Money found a ________ way to remember her mum.

Debbie remembers the joy with which her mother discussed the ________ from West Africa, their homeland, to London. Mother was a great woman, and her attitude to life was ________ in her cooking. When Debbie’s husband was ill, before losing his ________ with cancer, Debbie and her mother cooked meals for him. They cooked and talked together. Sometimes Debbie felt she could not ________. It was her mother who ________ her, and now that mother has ________ the world, Debbie is able to feel close to her in ________ her food.

Now the community has a program. It starts with about 20 couples ________ in. Four will do starters, then they go somewhere else for a main dinner and it changes from group to group. Everyone is ________ so they can ________ different dinners. Living in a ________ community, Debbie is eager to try this out.

Despite her ________, Debbie is still ________ about herself and at times finds herself wanting to ________ the phone and ask her mother for information and support.

But, everything she is cooking is from her mother, as is the ________ sense of achievement she feels. When she began cooking with her mother as a ________，she was in charge of turning on and off the stove, to stop it ________ the food. Now she is ________ the spoon, adding the seasonings and still looking up from the ________ to her mum.

Dear Worried: You might need to make a stark (无法回避的) choice between the     1     (possible) of your husband self-destructing in your absence, or of him self-destructing in your     2     (present).Your husband has alcohol use disorder, and as with other serious     3     (medicine) disorders (his cancer, for instance), in order for him     4     (get) well, he requires treatment and follow-up care.

If you want to continue to help him, it might be wisest for you to focus on his cancer diagnosis and     5     (treat). Make sure his physicians know about his alcoholism. Sometimes ultimatums (“Stop drinking or I’ll leave”) do work,     6     I believe it might be more powerful and useful for you to make a     7     (choose) based on your own needs and capacities. An alternative would be for you to     8     (simple) separate with no strings attached while you focus on your own self-care. You can then continue to make choices about the relationship,based on your own judgment and non-negotiables, as     9     as his needs.

And when     10     (deal) with the addiction disorder of a loved one, Al-Anon (al-anon .org) could be a game changer for you.

9 . The goal of the Egg Drop Challenge was simple -- you built a _________container to keep an egg from breaking when _________over the stadium wall.

We worked alone or with a(n) _________. My best friend, Cassie, and I always worked on projects together. She is_________; I'm brainy. We are the perfect_________.

I made my sandwich while waiting for Cassie to come and _________the container. Spreading the marshmallow(棉花软糖)cream _________me an idea - cushion the egg with some marshmallow creams to _________ the shock of the impact(撞击力). I told Cassie my brilliant_________when she arrived. Then, Cassie said,“Actually. I have a __________idea. We put the egg in a basket with a parachute(降落伞)__________. It will simply float to safety.” We agreed. Neither was__________and Cassie stormed out.

This is how the__________ worked: all the kids carried their egg containers up three stairs and dropped them. If your egg broke, you were out. If the egg __________, you walked up three more__________and dropped it again. This went on until the last egg broke.

Finally, only Cassie and I were left.

“Good luck, Laura.” Cassie said, turning to me. I didn’t __________ ， figured winning would be sweeter revenge(复仇). The class called out the count of three and I let go of my box. I __________down the steps. The sidewalk was already__________ , with egg shells from previous failed drops. I found my brave egg broken. I looked at Cassie's basket, Empty. Cassie looked at me __________and we laughed. It was a(n)__________. But we had won something more important. Our friendship can survive a little bouncing.