5 . It’s once again been declared the world’s most popular museum. _________, it may not be a _________ thing for the Louvre (卢浮宫) in Paris.

The museum broke its own _________ in 2018, welcoming 10.2 million _________ and claiming the top spot in the world’s most-visited museums.

But the Louvre’s uptick (小幅上升) in visitors _________ too much for many of its workers, causing _________ by reception and security staff over the number of tourists _________ through its doors.

“The Louvre is suffocating (令人窒息的),” the workers union said in a statement. “The public has increased by more than 20% since 2009, but the palace has not grown,” the union _________.

The museum was _________ on Monday and opened later than advertised on Wednesday, due to a __________ with the dissatisfied workers. Visitors have __________ outside the building throughout the week, and those without bookings have been __________.

Although tensions with its workers still __________, the museum’s bottom line is looking __________. The Louvre broke its 2012 __________ record last year, marking a dramatic __________ from a sharp downturn in visits in 2017 that was due to a sudden decrease in __________ in Paris.

The social media that are __________ about Beyoncé and Jay Z’s music __________ filmed at the museum may have contributed to that increase.

But while visitor numbers rose at the Louvre, overall attendance was relatively __________ among the top 20 museums in the world last year. Attendance grew among the top 20 by just 0.1% from 2017 to 2018.

6 . “We had no warning,” says Ron, 73, a technician, referring to himself and his wife Sharon, 74. And with winds at 70 mph that night, the fire was quickly ________ their way from nearby Echo Mountain.

They had 30 minutes to ________ what they could and go. As they rushed to gather their valuables, their growing ________ was for their safety.

Just as they were looking around, the ________ went off. “Now I had to find flashlights in a ________ room,” recalls Ron. Another ________ in their escape plan. Their new truck was parked in their brand — new RV bam (车库), which operates with electric doors, now ________.

Time was ________, though, and they needed to go. ________, their old truck helped them. As the fire started coming down the mountain, they ________ in one of their two vehicles. But they saw a ________ walking toward the fire. “The smoke was so ________ at that point that I could barely recognize him, but it was my neighbor.” says Ron. Ron turned around and ________ his neighbor.

While they were ________ down the mountain, emergency personnel were on the scene. The Echo Mountain Fire ended up burning over 2,500 acres and destroyed 30 homes in Otis. A ________ of high winds and dry conditions ________ the wildfires

While the couple has lived in Otis for just four years now, they felt at home immediately. The fire has only strengthened their sense of ________ — with neighbors ________ housed in nearby hotels and shelters. They are ________ regularly to compare notes and strengthen their collective will. “I’ve met more neighbors in the past couple of weeks than I have in the four years we’ve been here,” Ron laughs. “And make no mistake. As soon as we’re able to, we will ________ our homes.”

7 . A teacher let her class play a game. The teacher _______ each child to bring a bag _______ a few potatoes. Each potato will be _______ a name of the person that the child _______, so the number of potatoes that a child will put into his/her bag will _______ the number of people the child hates.

Some children had two potatoes; some had three and others had up to _______ potatoes. The teacher then told the children to _______ the bag wherever they go for a _______.

_______ the days went by, the children started to ________ because of the unpleasant smell coming from the rotten (腐烂) potatoes. And the students with five potatoes also had to carry______________bags.

After a week, the teacher asked, “How did you feel?” The children started complaining about the ________ they had to ________. When they had to carry the heavy and ________ potatoes everywhere they went.

Then the teacher said, “This is the ________ where you carry your hate for somebody__________your heart. The smell of hate will ________ your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot ________ the smell of rotten potatoes for just one week, can you imagine ________ it is like to have the smell of hate in your heart for your __________.

8 . I grew up in a small town and the main entertainment was Friday night high school football. It was just a sleepy little town where parents wanted to raise their children away from crime and danger of a big city, and where teenagers like me _______leaving to find something bigger and better.

All that _______one summer night. My friend Lisa, Kim and Tyler held a party for my eighteenth birthday at Lisa’s house. As they kept _______alcohol to me, I was pretty drunk. I asked Tyler to take me home. With some _______, we made it out to his car and drove home. News came next morning. Kim, my friend _______we were five years old, was killed in a car accident. That night after Tyler and I left, Kim, who was clearly more drunk than me, got into her car and _______towards the highway to go home. She was driving on the wrong side of the road and never saw the truck coming. The driver didn’t see her _______to avoid the car. They hit head on. Kim died immediately, and the driver was thrown _______the truck windshield (挡风玻璃) and died a week later.

Whenever I look back on that day, I can’t help thinking that it was my _______to drink so much that night, otherwise things would be different. I know Kim made the choice to drink and drive that night, but a part of me will always feel ________for what happened.

I may not change the world with my story, but I do hope that I can make people ________the responsibility that they have to themselves and others by ________it. Don’t ever think that your choices are yours ________. Every choice is like a stone dropped into ________water—each ripple (波纹) represents someone who your choice ________. That’s quite an influence, isn’t it?

Have you seen people who take pictures of food for more than 10 minutes before eating? How about those who beautify their selfie (自拍) so much that they can’t be____? There must be one or more who ____ in your social media. No matter _____they choose to share, they share the best but the most unreal.

Take my friend Chen for example. Every time we went to a restaurant, she would not take a _____ until all the dishes we ____were on the table. Then, she would spend five minutes on______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(滤镜) 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 Chen's real life is much less elegant. For example, she hates to wash the dishes, so she leaves them in the sink for____.

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(伪造) it. Being more confident, _____themselves and trying their best to be better is much more meaningful than_____ their life on social media.

10 . If you find it very difficult to drag yourself out of bed every morning, you probably wonder: Why on earth does school have to start so early?

A law in California, passed on Oct.13，________ that public middle schools begin classes no ________ than 8:00 am and that high schools start no earlier than 8:30 am. The law will ________ effect by July 1, 2022.

Starting school at 8:00 or 8:30 in the morning may not sound like too big of a change, but it could mean one ________ hour of sleep for students who used to start school at 7:30 or even earlier.

“In the short run, students’ school ________ should improve almost _________, ” said Kyla Wahlstrom, a researcher at the University of Minnesota’s College of Education. They also found that students who have enough sleep are more ________ in class and get better ________.

Some ________ say that urging students to go to bed earlier could have been a much easier solution than changing the school timetable ________ the whole state. But according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, teenagers go through ________changes when they enter adolescence, ________ makes it difficult for them to fall asleep___________ 11:00 pm. So, when school starts at 8:00 or earlier, they can ________ get the ideal 8.0-8.5 hours of sleep that experts suggest they need to do their ________ in the daytime.

This is ________ when the new law came out, its author, Anthony Portantino, said, “Generations of children will come to appreciate this _________ day and our governor for ________ bold (大胆的) action.”