1 . When I was fifteen, I wrote an essay about how excited all my friends were to be getting driver’s licenses. I was full of _______. I knew I’d always be walking everywhere I went or else relying on others to _______ me.

I have a condition called dry-eye syndrome (综合症). _______ I do have some sight, I never know when I _______ in the morning exactly how much vision I will have that day. The _______ for this is that my eyes do not produce enough tears.

There are many things I cannot do. I can’t drive or read a book. But there are far more things I can _______ do. In high school, I played basketball. My teammates gave me oral (口头的) _______ and I learned to judge where the ball was by their voices. I learned to focus extremely well and _______ the sportsmanship award.

Do I wish I could _______ like other people? Of course. But being blind hasn’t ________ me in any of the important ways. If I’ve had to depend on my friends, ________ I’ve learned who my friends really are. I don’t know why God chose to give me only a little ________. Maybe he did it so that I would ________ what I do have. Maybe he did it so that I would have to ________ my other talents to compensate (弥补). It ________.

There are many different ways to look at life. This is how I see it.

2 . A severe outbreak of cholera (霍乱) cast a shadow over Londoners’ life. Faced with two apparently contradictory theories about the possible cause, John Snow, a brilliant ________ scientist, was determined to ________ the disease once and for all.

Instead of using a microscope to study the ________ , he marked on a map where the victims ________ . He noticed that multiple deaths were near the water pump (水泵) in Broad Street ________ some households who drank free beer given by the pub they worked in. John Snow ________ that the pump water was to blame but still he needed concrete ________ . He had the handle of the pump________ so that it could not be used. Through this ________ , the disease was immediately under control.

John Snow subscribed to the view that there was a link between the________   and the Broad Street outbreak. He continued to discover that the water had been________ by raw waste. He announced his findings and urged that people drink ________   or boiled water. Soon, there was a substantial ________ in cholera cases. ________ his solid work, people were able to defeat cholera. Furthermore (此外), his use of maps and statistics transformed the thinking of the scientific world towards ________   diseases. That is why he is considered “Father of Modern Epidemiology (流行病学)”.

3 . Returning home from my university on a hot day, I longed for a cold sugary drink. I rushed to the fridge to ______ one, sat on my sofa and ________ playing with my mobile phone. That was where I ________ an ad for some burgers and fries. I decided to order because I was ________ and needed some ________ to finish my to-do list for the day.

I didn’t know at that point that eating this type of highly processed food would make me feel lazier, sleepier—and ________ my whole life in a harmful way.

I had moved away from home in 2021, when I was 18, to ________ my education. It was my first time living without my family and ________ myself independently. I was out of my comfort zone and felt ________. There were so many things to do, so I paid little attention to my ________ because eating highly processed food seemed the quickest and ________ thing to do.

About 4 weeks after moving away from home, I continued ________ whatever I wanted, until one day my stomach hurt so badly that I could ________ walk. My doctor told me it was the ________ of all the unhealthy food I had been eating. He suggested I make an effort to eat a healthy and ________ diet that gave me all the right nutrients.

4 . People with autism (自闭症) generally see the world through a lens different from the rest of the world. Such is the _______ with Anthony Schmidt. Anthony is driven by his love for cars.

Anthony’s large collection of model cars is _______, but his love for automobiles doesn’t _______there. He also has a good _______ of nearly every car. Show him a car, and he can _______ you the car’s make, model and year immediately.

Anthony lives with his mom, Ramona. She says her son’s car enthusiasm_______ when he was about two years old. By age 6, he’d begun _______ a photographing series of tableaux (画面) starring his model cars. Ramona started a page on a website to _______ Anthony’s extraordinary works.

With his mom’s _______, Anthony has gone on to launch his own product line that includes books, calendars and photographic prints. To keep________ of his model collection, Anthony uses an Excel spreadsheet. __________ many people with autism, organization and mathematics are intrinsic (固有的) to his worldview.

Anthony loves cars. His mom says he ________ to make them his life’s work. He hopes to ________others with special needs and their families. “You can set your ________ to whatever you want,” he explained.

Anthony’s determined focus opens a ________ to another world and another way of seeing altogether. And that is a priceless gift for all of us.

5 . Vel Scott is known for creating a bustling (热闹的) nightlife for Black Clevelanders in the 1960s. But now this grandmother has changed her life’s work into helping others change their eating habits and creating a(n) _______ lifestyle.

In 1963, Vel and her husband Don Scott _______ a nightclub. They brought in all kinds of performances from around the country to _______ people and served food and drinks. While the _______ husband-and-wife team continued to thrive (兴旺) _______, some alarming news was revealed about Don’s health. He was diagnosed during the 80s with heart problems and they knew they had to make some _______.

Vel took it upon herself to _______ new dishes. The things she learned helped her husband reverse (逆转) some of his health _______ in just a few short months. In 1998, she started Vel’s Purple Oasis — a community-based urban _______. It’s the place where people of all ages learned how to grow and eat healthier ________.

Dionne Thomas-Carmichael, a friend of Vel who suffered from cancer, said, “Vel has really helped to ________ me to eat really more fruits and vegetables.”

Vel brings the farm to the ________. And she brings residents to her community kitchen and gives them cooking lessons.

“The Black community has the highest rates of cancer and the highest rates of diabetes (糖尿病). It’s up to us to change our ________ and our eating habits,” Vel said.

Like Carmichael, many people have ________ Vel with helping them to take back their health, ________ at the kitchen table.

6 . I remember vividly the moment the doctor told me my daughter Annabelle was severely disabled. A thousand ________ raced through my mind. Will she walk? Will she talk? Will she be able to read?

“I couldn’t possibly ________,” said the doctor “But you should prepare yourself for the fact that she might never walk or talk.”

As well as ________ health, I wondered if she would have friends.

Now I know some of the answers. Although she has problems with the spine (脊柱), she can walk huge distances. She can’t hold a ________, but she can make her wants and needs known. And she has no friends.

Annabelle doesn’t get invited to birthday parties. To me, it’s this lack of inclusion (被接纳) that really ________me. Therefore, I was ________ when I saw a post on social media from a little girl with Down’s syndrome (唐氏综合症) at her friend’s birthday party. She was ________ having the greatest time of her life. There were photos of her wearing a wide smile, ________ for the camera, her friend’s arms around her.

“This is amazing!” I wrote, “I am so glad she gets________ in everything. My little girl was born with a spine problem. She hasn’t been invited to a single party in the last four years. ________ my heart.”

Later that day, a woman called Caroline, who I’d never met, sent me a message. Her son Luca was having a fifth birthday party and he wanted to ________ Annabelle.

As Annabelle set off for the party, she felt ________ and became hesitant. But once inside, she was relaxed and felt included in every element by two ________ — a five-year-old boy and his mum. It was highly ________.

My daughter now has memories that will last her a lifetime ________ that, she has her first ever friend.

7 . Two Michigan boys are being praised as heroes for saving another boy from drowning in a swimming pool. Noah Roche, 12, and his brother Weston Woods, 8, were at an apartment swimming pool when they ______ 7-year-old Griffin Emerson.

Griffin had been playing in the shallow end of the pool in his water wings (浮水圈) but then decided to ______ them and start to drift (漂流) over toward the pool’s ______ end. “I just wanted to ______ myself. Like, yeah, I can actually swim.” Griffin said.

But in surveillance (监视) video ______ by the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office, Griffin can be seen ______ to keep his head above the water. ______ other people around Griffin don’t seem to notice the boy and nearly a full minute passes with Griffin ______ to the bottom.

“I saw him at the bottom of the pool. So I told Weston to dive down to see if he’s OK,” Noah said. Weston jumped in and reached down to ______ Griffin to the pool’s surface. The boys’ mother, Sylese Roche, called 911, telling the ______ that Griffin wasn’t breathing and was receiving CPR (心肺复苏). “Griffin’s mom ran over to him and instantly ______ CPR,” Roche said.

Eventually, Griffin started to breathe again and his mother can be seen in the surveillance video patting his ______ as he spits out water. “I was ______ that I was going to drown. It felt all strange. I ______ some water and that’s it,” Griffin said afterward. Within 36 hours of the ______, Griffin made a full recovery and was released.

8 . Battling with cancer at the point of becoming a teenager was painful, but I chose to help and encourage those less fortunate children to build up confidence.

As I entered adolescence, a time when I should have been pushing boundaries and becoming increasingly _______, I felt terrified about moving forward, assuming my newfound freedom would be taken away from me through another _______ of the disease.

_______, 13 years on, I’ve remained in recovery. I’ve lived in many places, in the UK and abroad during university, and _______ a job in the NHS supporting children in schools with their mental health. I’ve turned the sufferings of my early experiences into _______ to support young people displaying early signs of mental illnesses, in the hope that this will provide them with the tools to _______ their own well-being.

My own experiences _______ me to pursue this career. The treatment I received for my physical health during my cancer _______ had luckily been timely and effective. But support for my mental health, both during my treatment and _______, was limited. I think the medical community and society generally still have progress to make when ________ children who have experienced ill-health, especially in terms of ________ health.

________, there have been worthy organizations and people, who provided me with the opportunity to connect with other ________ people with cancer through different kinds of activities. These strengthened my self-confidence after treatment, and I now ________ for them to provide this experience in treatment to other children in my ________.

9 .

It was a Sunday afternoon in May. Paul Blachut was busy working at a restaurant in scenic Augsburg, Germany. Many tourists came for food at the pretty place beside the river, where the meltwater was cold at this time of year.

A mother and her daughter were _______ the cooling water by the riverbank. They were playing with an inflatable tube happily when _______ the girl lost her footing and was caught in the river’s current. It happened so fast that the girl desperately grabbed (抓) on to the tube, which her mother was sitting in, throwing her into the river, too.

Blachut heard the sudden shout, “Two women are drowning in the river!” Then he hurried to the _______ , where he spotted them trying to grab anything they could. He was horrified to see that one of them kept sinking. Blachut’s mind _______ , “How can I help them?” _______ having no lifesaving training, he rushed down to the riverbank. Quickly he _______ his T-shirt and jumped into the river. He didn’t care about the cold; all he could think about was saving the women. It was obvious they were _______ .

As Blachut got closer to them, he could _______ that the mother seemed to be in the most trouble. She was drowning. He _______ a film in which a lifeguard grabbed a drowning victim’s body, pulling the person ashore while swimming on his back. Blachut tried this, but the woman’s clothing made her so ________ ; he kept being dragged under, too. He needed a new ________. He quickly dived under the drowning woman, ________ her upward and using that momentum (水势) to take her toward the shore. At that time, an onlooker was able to ________ the woman’s hand, pulling her ashore. Then Blachut jumped into the river again. He swam downstream, got hold of the daughter, and was able to get her out in the same way, too.

Several onlookers expressed their ________ for Blachut following the incident. However, Blachut was ________ about his role, “The whole rescue only took several minutes and I am happy to receive your praise.”

10 . Anyone who has felt a moment of joy when a favorite song comes on the radio at just the right moment or cried along with a singer expressing heartache will understand the emotional power of music. Now, a growing body of scientific evidence demonstrates that music can be _________ too.

In a review of 400 research papers looking into the _________ of music, Daniel Levitin, a psychologist and neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal, found that playing and listening to music had mental and physical health _________, including improving our immune systems and reducing stress.

One 2007 study from a team of Spanish researchers found that listening to music _________ surgery had the effect in reducing pre-operative anxiety. It’s a negative emotion which can affect pain after an operation and _________ time. Another study, conducted in 2018 in Barcelona’s Hospital del Mar, found that _________ participating in a music therapy (疗法) program experienced significant decreases in tiredness, anxiety and breathing difficulties, as well as an increase in feelings of well-being.

Music can have a huge effect on helping sick _________ too. Ruth Hunston is a music therapist in the “play department”at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, England, who helps give young patients back some sense of _________.

“When children are in the hospital, their worlds get much _________,” says Hunston. “They’re having so many things done to them and around them, but music allows them to create something themselves. I’ve had lots of babies in the hospital making sounds because I am __________ to them, and they want more.”

The parents also become part of the therapeutic process. “What’s really lovely is when you go in and you start to make music, and the children invite their parents to join,” she says. “There is this beautiful __________ between everyone. Sometimes I will __________ and just watch them play, laugh and have fun.”

Finding those __________ moments is the therapist’s role, but as music therapist Sarah Rose Black notes, people have been connecting with music for their whole lives—she is just helping them __________ it again at a time when they need it most. “We are born to be __________ people.”