1 . Days after Argentina (阿根廷) canceled all international flights to protect the country firom COVID-19, Manuel Ballesiero ______ his journey home. He stepped aboard his small ______ for an 85-day journey back.

The 47-year-old sailor could have stayed on the tiny Portuguese island of Porto Santo, to ______ the time of lockdowns (封锁) in a scenic place largely free of the ______. But the ______ of living away from his family, especially his father who was soon to turn 90, was ______. So he loaded his 29-foot boat with canned food and ______ in mid-March.

A particularly ______ aspect of this awful period was the inability (不能) of an untold number of people to rush home to help loved ones. Friends tried to ______ Mr. Ballestero from starting the risky journey and the ______ in Portugal (葡萄牙) warned him he might not be allowed to re-enter if he ran into trouble and had to ______. But he was determined.

Sailing across the Atlantic is challenging in the best of circumstances. The added ______ of doing it during a pandemic became ______ after three weeks into the trip. On April 12, the autborities (当局) in Cape Verde ______ him to dock at the island nation to get a new supply of food and fuel. He was experienced in spending long time at sea, but being ______ on the open ocean is frightening to even the most experienced sailor.

Learning about his ______, people bored at home were impressed. He ______ created a Faccbook account to ______ the final leg of the trip. “Entering my port where I learned how to sail gave me the taste of a(n) ______ completed,” Juan said.

______ Mr. Ballestero didn’t get to celebrate his father’s 90th birthday in May, he did make it home in time for Father’s Day.

2 . When the Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon in 1969, millions of people were rather sad. The person ________ for this was an artist named Chesley Bonestell. For many years, Bonestell had been creating ________ detailed paintings of the Moon and planets. Viewers of his artwork were unhappy ________ the real Moon did not look like Bonestell’s pictures of it.

As a space artist, Bonestell tried to make his drawings look exciting and as true as the Moon is. He worked closely with ________ and scientists to get the most up-to-date scientific information available. But in the 1940s and 1950s, no one ________ another planet up close. Yet Bonestell’s paintings looked so real that some people thought they were ________.

Even though Bonestell was interested in astronomy, he did not ________ his career as a space artist. As a young man he studied architecture—the art and science of ________ and making buildings. In 1938 Bonestell became a special effects artist in Hollywood. It was here ________ he learned he could improve his paintings by following the methods used in the ________.

In 1944, a popular magazine published a series of Bonestell’s paintings of the planet Saturn (土星). He drew Saturn as if it were seen by someone standing on each of the planet’s moons. The effects were ________. Within a few years, Bonestell’s artwork was appearing regularly in magazines and books ________ astronomy and space flight.

Many of Bonestell’s artworks had been right all along. ________ the biggest surprise was the Moon. Someone asked Bonestell what he was thinking when he saw the first   pictures from the Moon. “I thought how ________ I was!” he said. “My mountains were. sharp (陡峭的), and they aren’t on the Moon.”

But he shouldn’t have felt bad. No space artist had ever before taken so many people to so many faraway worlds. In the years just before the first manned space flights, Bonestell’s artworks prepared people for the amazing space adventure ________.

3 . Burdon decided to host an improvised (临时安排的)graduation ceremony (典礼) for her daughter Angela in their backyard. After hers was _______due to COVID-19(新冠病毒)，Burdon wanted to make it up to his sorrow-stricken daughter in some way. Best of all, his daughter didn't _______about it beforehand.

Angela wasn't the only one _______ by the cancellation; her father Burdon could hardly _______his daughter's sadness. The devoted dad _______to host his own graduation ceremony for Angela in her _______in Memphis rather than see his daughter's sorrow.

Over six weeks, Burdon _______to reserve a photographer and a stage when his daughter knew nothing about it, which_______ her greatly.

When the _______ day finally came, Angela was shocked to find a full-sized stage waiting for her in her yard. 40 people ________the ceremony, and it met COVID-19 prevention guidelines (防疫要求), all sitting six feet apart with ________ on, and her father even played sacred(神圣的) music as she walked up to get her   ________.

"Angela never saw anything until she came out to ________," Burdon said. "At that moment, I didn't have any worries. I was ________. To see my baby walk across the ________ and all her friends, family, neighbors and people that we don't even know ________in the street to witness this. I couldn't ________anything better. "

"My daughter couldn’t have her official ________due to the pandemic(流行病)so I ________one for her !" "Now I am________ that I made it happen!"