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.

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!"