1 . As Norwood drove through the street, the laughter and chatter from the four teenage girls inside her car quickly gave way to screams. As they _________ a crossing, another car T-boned them, sending theirs _________ into a tree.

As _________ rose from the car, a bystander shouted, “It’s about to explode!” Shaken, but OK, she _________ herself through the window and ran for her life with two of her friends.

But halfway down the street, she _________ that her best friend, Simmons, wasn’t together. Norwood ran back and found Simmons in the back seat and not _________. She threw open the back door and _________ her friend, avoiding the broken glass. She dragged Simmons a few feet and laid her on the _________. “I checked her pulse and put my head _________ her chest.” No sign of life. “That’s when I started CPR (心肺复苏术).”

Kneeling on the grass and looking down at her __________ friend, Norwood knew she had little time.

She __________ Simmons’s chest with her fingers and breathed into her friend’s mouth to fill her __________ with the kiss of life. And after the 30th compression (胸部按压), Simmons began coughing for __________. The CPR worked!

Soon, doctors arrived and __________ Simmons to the hospital. And then she heard how her best friend had saved her life. “I wasn’t __________,” Simmons said. “She will always help any way she can.”

2 . The ambulance driver, Mr. Goodman, turned on his siren and flashing light, and started speeding towards the nearest hospital, fighting ______ time. Inside were the ______ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Black, the mother holding their baby daughter, Marley. The little girl had some food ______ in her throat and could hardly breathe. The ______ ahead of him pulled out of the way ______ Mr. Goodman drove through the busy traffic. From the back of the ambulance the parents were shouting at him to hurry, since Marley had almost stopped breathing. In front of him, he saw some traffic lights, with the red “STOP” light shining. Mr. Goodman knew that he had no time to ______, so he drove straight past the traffic lights.

Coming towards him from his right was a taxi. The driver had the windows ______, since the car was air-conditioned, and he was playing his radio. He did not hear the ambulance. The lights were green, so he drove straight on into the part of the ambulance.

Mr. Goodman tried to stop his ambulance but it was too ______. It hit the taxi. ______ was shaken but no one was hurt. Mr. Goodman looked to see how little Mariey was. He was astonished to see relief instead of ______ on the faces of the parents.

“Look!” cried Mrs. Black. “She is ______ again.

“It ______ have been the crash,” said her husband. “It ______ the food out of her throat.”

The baby’s color was turning to ______, and she was crying in loud but healthy voice. They were all joyful, and quite ______ about the accident, the taxi and the lines of cars all around them.

3 . The day I received my letter of acceptance to New York University, I was extremely excited. It was my dream university, and my _______ were pleased for me. But they also hadn’t _______ me to get into such a competitive school. In fact, the best thing they ever did for me was to _______ me     from doing things _______ — indeed, when I was in elementary school, they offered to buy me a     present _______ I got a C.

It _______ when I was in the third grade. An only child in an Asian family, I had just _______ with my family to Los Angeles. Months into the third grade, I developed a strong feeling of _______ about getting bad grades. Seeing my anxiety, Dad said, “Kate, tell you what. If you get a C or _______ , I’ll buy you a present. If you score higher than that, I won’t buy you anything, because you won’t __________ it.”

Clearly dad wasn’t the __________ Asian tiger parent, pressuring me to work tirelessly for the best __________ and neither was my mom. They didn’t want to push me. They wanted me to be __________ and healthy. Dad’s __________ of a “failing grade” gift amazingly __________ my worries and pressure. What’s more, I __________ getting A’s   and B’s   throughout high   school,   but without the added stress and fear of failing. I think it was my parents’ lack of stress on grades that gave me __________ to encourage my own desire for achievements.

I now realize I was __________ when I thought I didn’t receive a present from my dad that day.   He gave me two invaluable __________ : the space to develop my own desire for excellence, and the healthy mind to __________ it.

5 . The moon had gone behind a cloud and there weren't many stars in the sky. As I took a glance (一瞥) at my neighbour's house, I saw a flame (火焰) in his_________. I thought he was having a midnight fast food so I went back to my _________.

Soon, there was a burning smell in the air and I guessed something was wrong. _________, I jumped out of bed and went downstairs to _________. I saw fire coming out of my neighbour's kitchen. Right away, I _________ "Fire! Fire!" But there was no one nearby to hear my shouts for help.

I _________ into my house, called the fire department and went back to my neighbour's house. I rang the doorbell, hit on the door and called out my neighbour's name but there was no _________. I managed to _________ the house and rescued a cat and a rabbit.

I tried to throw water through the kitchen window _________ it was no use; the fire was too strong. __________, a fire engine arrived and soon the firemen put out the fire. They arrived just in time as the fire was going to __________ to the other rooms in the house.

When my neighbour came back, he was__________ because his kitchen was burnt down, but he thanked me for calling the fire department and for saving his __________. He wanted to give me some money in return but I did not accept it.

Weeks later, my neighbour repaired and restored his kitchen. He __________ me to see his new kitchen and there he gave me a medal that he had __________ ordered from a factory. It made me feel very happy.

6 . There are too many fat people in America, so many Americans are fighting against overweight. But the ________thing is that the French,who consume rich food, tend to stay thin. Now a ________by Cornell University suggests ________life style and decisions about ________may affect weight. Researchers concluded that the French tend to stop eating when they feel ________. However, Americans tend to stop when their ________are empty or their favorite TV show is over.

According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, a health expert, the French see eating ________an important part of their life style. They enjoy food and therefore spend a ________time at the table,while Americans see eating as anything to be squeezed between the other daily activities. Mercola believes Americans ________the ability to sense when they are actually full. So they keep eating long after the French would have stopped. In addition, he points out that Americans drive to huge supermarkets to buy canned and ________foods for the week. The French, ________tend to shop daily, walking to small shops and farmers' markets where they have a choice of fresh fruits, vegetables, and eggs as well as high-quality meats for each meal.

After a visit to the United States, Mireille guiliano, author of French Women Don't Get Fat, decided to ________about the importance of knowing when to stop rather than suggesting how to avoid________. Today she continued to stay slim and rarely goes to the gym.

In spite of all these differences, evidence shows that recent life style ________may be affecting French eating habits. Today the rate of obesity (肥胖)—or extreme overweight—among adults is only 6%. However, as American fast food gains ________and the young reject older traditions, the obesity rate among French children has reached 17%—and is growing.

8 . Have you seen people who take pictures of food for more than 10 minutes before eating? My friend Stella is such an example. Every time we went to a restaurant she would not take a bite until all the dishes we ________ were on the table. Then she would spend five minutes in ________ the dishes in a seemingly random but in fact ________ order. Then the most important part: taking pictures. After that, she would choose one of the ________ and click in the filter app. The food eventually looked 10 times more delicious than it really was, but we had no ________ to really enjoy it—it all went cold, actually Stella’s real life is much less elegant. For example, she hates to wash the dishes, so she leaves them in the sink for days.

Many people care too much about others’ opinions and try too hard to ________ others. They find it hard to be ________ and to accept themselves, and thus they are afraid to show their ________ life on social media. What they are trying to prove is ________ what they lack in reality. But this will not bring any ________ to reality, as they still ________ the same old pattern of life.

If they really want an elegant life, they should put more ________ into achieving it ________ fabricating it. Being more confident, ________ themselves and trying their best to be better are much more meaningful than ________ their life on social media.

9 . Masks that helped save lives during the Covid-19 are proving a deadly_________ for wildlife, with birds and marine creatures captured in the _________ number of abandoned facial coverings littering animal habitats.

_________ surgical masks have been found scattered around pavements, waterways and beaches worldwide since countries began _________their use in public places.

Worn once, the thin protective materials can take hundreds of years to_________.

Monkeys have been _________chewing the masks in Malaysia. And in an incident that captured headlines in Britain, a gull was rescued by the RSPCA (英国防止虐待动物协会) after its legs became _________in the straps (带子) of a disposable mask for up to a week.

The biggest impact may be in the water. More than 1.5 billion masks _________ into the world's oceans last year, according to environmental group Oceans Asia. (亚洲海洋组织)

Already there are _________ that masks are worsening threats to marine life. Conservationists in Brazil found one inside the__________ of a penguin after its body was__________on a beach, while French campaigners Operation Mer Proper found a dead crab caught in a mask in a saltwater lake near the Mediterranean.

Masks and gloves are ''particularly problematic” for sea creatures, says George Leonard, chief scientist from Ocean Conservancy. “When those__________ break down in the environment, they form smaller and smaller particles (颗粒), ” he told AFP. “Those particles then enter the food __________and impact entire ecosystems, ” he added.

__________, campaigners have urged us to dispose single-use masks properly __________ we cut the straps to reduce the risk of animals becoming captured. OceanAsia has also called on governments to encourage the use of washable masks.

10 . Here's a remarkable story of a Nepalese family. About a century ago, a boy named Bishnu was not _________ to go to school, while decades later his son helped thousands of Nepalis learn to _________ .

When Bishnu was a child, he was forced to work on a farm. He was so _________ to get an education that he ran away to Kathmandu where the only one _________ was located, walking for three entire days. As his children grew up, with the _________ of being put in prison, Bishnu _________ brought a teacher to teach them. _________, education was finally allowed in 1951. Dinesh,   Bishnu's third son not only went to elementary school, but he _________ college. With a teaching job came the _________ to travel around Nepal.

Dinesh was soon aware of how few poor Nepalis knew how to read. This __________ inspired Dinesh to follow in his father's footsteps as a __________ of education. He and his wife, a lively young woman who was also __________ to helping the poor, __________ an organization called the Non — Formal Education Services Center to educate poor Nepalis.

When they __________ to teach reading and writing, they quickly realized that they needed to do something about the __________ they saw. After talking with the villagers, they made painstaking efforts to __________ the development of the agriculture and production to reduce the poverty. The villagers were required to __________ one quarter of the money they earned. With their savings and some other financial __________       , they sent their children to the schools.

Since then, the campaign has guaranteed 20,000 adults and 5 ,000 children __________ to education as well as helped to __________ them out of poverty. They have built 15 schools and 56 drinking water systems and planted thousands of trees.