4 . I was working on a novel based on the lives of chimpanzees(黑猩猩). To _______ them, I read every book written by Dr. Jane Goodall. One day, while visiting the website about chimpanzees, I _______ the chance to complete a six month internship(实习) with the Jane Goodall Institute(JGI) in Tanzania. _______ having a full time job, I knew I had to go. I was offered an unpaid internship after _______.

But then my logical mind jumped in, “You can't_______. What are you going to do with your house and your life?” The_______ were continuous, so I hesitated. I wanted answers to my questions about why this trip _______ so much to me, why I had so much _______ and what would happen if I let go of my _______ version of life.

I did have answers in my heart that helped me walk through my fear and take on a new________. So after several weeks' struggle, I ________ made my decision. I drove to my company headquarters and ________ .Soon I boarded a plane to Tanzania. On the trip, my heart pounded with ________ — unsure of what I'd find at my ________.

During my six-month internship, I slowly ________ my soul. I met wonderful friends and completed several community projects for JGI. I also visited Gombe which is home to chimpanzees and the________ staff there who offered to take us for chimpanzee tracking.

So much happened during my stay and all of it ________ the most wonderful unfolding of life lessons. I'll always carry the lessons and the light of those ________ in my heart. I experienced immeasurable ________ in learning how to listen to the desires of my soul and how to defeat fear, and being ________ to something new.

5 . Many people who work in London want to live outside it and to go to their offices, factories or schools every day by train, car or bus, even though this ____ they have to get up earlier in the morning and reach_____later in the evening.

One benefit of living outside London is that houses are_____.Even a small flat in London without a garden costs quite a lot ____.With the same money，one can get a little house in the country with a garden of ____ own. Then,in the country one can be ____ from the noise and hurry of the town.____ one has to get up earlier and spend more time in trains or buses, one can sleep ____ at night, and, during weekends and ____summer evenings, one can enjoy the ____ clean air of the country. If one ____gardens, one can spend one’s ____ time digging, planting, watering and doing the hundred and one other jobs which are ___ in the garden. Then, when the flowers and vegetables ____, one has the reward of a person who has shared the secrets of ___ .

Some people, however, take no interest in country things, for them,   ___ lies in the town, with its cinemas and theaters, beautiful shops and busy streets, dance halls and restaurants. Such people would_____that their life was not worth_____ if they had to live it outside London. A walk in one of the parks and a visit_____ the sea every summer is all the country they_____.

6 . Last year, I received an e-mail from my dad, under a subject line: “Mystery creature?” There was no body text, but_______was a ten-second video, shot in the dead of night. It_______a furry creature charging away from the camera and down a driveway. Midway through the video, the animal_______abruptly, turns slightly and stares back. Then it runs into the_______. Watching it again, I noticed that the driveway looked_______. It was my childhood home. There soon came more e-mails with more videos. And the mystery creature_______to be a raccoon(浣熊) without its tail.

For many years, my parents had been_______about setting up some camera traps, just to see what sorts of animals were quietly moving around the_______. But my dad had always thought the camera were a little too_______and complicated. About a year ago, my dad finally________two cameras at reasonable prices that were easy to use. He first________them toward a place where he had noticed a particular pile of scat (动物粪便), which always appeared in the same________. After leaving the cameras on for only one night, he________. To his amazement, right in front of a bench where he’d ________   one camera, a fox arrived. It ________ to the center of the sight line and squatted (蹲下), briefly, in the exact spot. “Can you ________ it? ”he said, playing the video for me again.

I could not, ________ there it was, clear to see. For me, the pleasure in watching these videos was that they would never be ________ believable and that the ________ would always be beyond my imagination. Rather than making the world more knowable, they seem to make it more ________. They’ve turned a backyard into a place full of mystery.

7 . I live in a rural community in the United States. A rural area is different from a city because there are _______people. My home is deep in a valley_______by mountains that are rocky and covered in trees. _____many farms are located in rural areas because they require large plots of land to grow food or_______farm animals, in my community the mountains and_______soil make it difficult to farm. This is one ______why few people live in my area.

What’s it like to live in the mountains? Since we have a lot of_____, we get to have horses and chickens. My family_______eggs from the chickens for breakfast. We also lose electricity a lot because the trees fall on power lines whenever there’s a_______In my community, people keep battery- powered flashlights and oil lamps stored in case the lights______. Some people also use a generator-- a machine that generates electricity from gasoline—whenever there are ____

Going to school in a rural area means having fewer classmates and_______longer distances. To get to my high school, I must drive forty miles to the_______city. This means I must get up much earlier than my______classmates in order to be on time. The roads in my community aren’t paved with asphalt(沥青) either, so during storms they_______ become too muddy or snowy to pass. In cities a snowplow(扫雪机)______ quickly, but areas where fewer people live aren’t the priority(优先), so days can pass before a snowplow______the road. Sometimes I must miss school because storms make it________to drive.

I am not sure________if I want to live in the country or in the city when I grow up. I like being in nature, hearing the creek and the birds, and having a big yard. I also like being in the city, though, where I can go howling or skating, or see my friends. It can get_________in the country, although I do love being around our animals.

8 . A hospital is needed by every living person at the time of birth, death, physical injuries, or sickness. It is always a _______ place where family members can gather around the person who needs the _______ of well-trained medical doctors and nurses.

As Nicole Hagen and Ricky Beebe were born into the Hagen family in 1998, the parents were both in the delivery (分娩) room. This is a _______ as the tradition has been for the father to be in the next room. _________ hospitals have a birthing room where there is an extra sofa and a chair for the father to either sit or even to sleep on next to his wife. Many _________ are taken of the new baby within a few minutes of his or her _________. Even a video can be made with the proud father taking pictures of the doctor, nurses, mother, and baby. A nurse may take a _______ picture of the father, mother, and baby. Young children will not see the baby _______ the doctor and nurses allow them into the room many hours later.

At the death of Grandma Hagen, the adult children _______ at her bedside. As she was dying, her children talked to her, read the Bible, and even sang some of her ________ songs. The nurses would check on her very often and the doctor came as his time ________. She was given pain pills ________ her last few hours would be as __________ as possible. When she died the family cried together in sorrow for the loss of their mother. Grandpa Hagen had died fourteen years __________. Grandma Hagen was 82 when she died.

Doctors operate on broken bones __________ by accidents in factories or car accidents. Children sometimes fall down stairs where an arm is __________. Athletes get hurt in ________ of football, basketball, baseball, track, and soccer. Most injuries are repaired very successfully __________ the great skill of the doctor.

Illness from disease, alcohol, or smoking often requires a person to stay a long period in the hospital. People like to recover __________. However, if medical care is needed, a hospital may be the __________ home for some patients.