2 . On July 20, Yu Yifei, a medical student, made his way home in a subway train after his first day’s training. When a downpour struck the city, he _________ about a dozen people trapped in a flooded subway train as the rainfall reached 201.9 millimeters between 4 pm and 5 pm, a totally new _________ in the history of Zhengzhou.

Flood _________ through a barrier and entered the underground area. The train came to a sudden stop before the water began _________ in the carriages, trapping passengers inside. Thus, Yu, _________ to leave and fearful of his life, made a _________ call to his father.

As water continued to flow into the carriages, passengers’ _________ rose. When subway workers arrived to rescue them, Yu _________ to get out. However, as he made his way to safety, he heard a cry for help. He quickly _________ the white coat given to him at the hospital __________ and returned to the platform to save other passengers. On seeing him, a number of frightened people were greatly encouraged and their spirits __________.

As more passengers were pulled from the __________, Yu instructed others in the key steps to save a victim from drowning. He __________ CPR (心肺复苏) on those unconscious and near death from drowning. One of the passengers, a female doctor, nearly died. After __________ consciousness, she joined Yu in treating others. Yu was very __________ yet he gathered up his strength and tried to provide help to those in need. In the end, Yu and the other rescuers managed to save many lives from the flooded subway train. Yu’s actions proved that even in the darkest of moments, there is always hope for humanity.

3 . A 35-year-old Australian mother makes around $ 58,000 a year by hugging strangers. “As human beings, one thing we often ______ in our daily life is the physical touch. Without it, we can fall into mental health problems. To satisfy this ______, I’ve become professional in hugging treatment.” said Jessica.

Jessica says that her hugs can ______ those who are suffering from loneliness or low self-confidence. A year ago, Jessica was a popular masseuse (女按摩师). She noticed that when she ______ her customers during treatment, they became relaxed and ______ her more. “I could see their tension disappear. Then I could get to their heart and do what I could to ______ them,” Jessica said. “Everyone has a totally different story. But the most common ______ are loneliness, depression (沮丧) and anxiety. They all just have that desire to ______ with someone. I believe my hug helps me and my ______ connect on a mental level.”

Jessica says most of her customers are ______, but she has a surprising number of female customers ______. Though many people think she must be ______ to do such work, Jessica is confident that she’s made the right ______. “It’s so much more rewarding (值得做的) than just working as a masseuse,” said Jessica. “In today’s digital age, many people are ______ than ever before. For people whose lives ______ physical interaction, hugging therapy can have an obvious effect on their mental health.”

4 . There have been countless books on living with teenagers, yet parents don’t seem to have _________ how to get their children to pick up their clothes from the bedroom floor. It might be difficult to accept, but a new approach to dealing with difficult teenagers is for parents to look at their own _________.

“The key to getting teenagers to respect you is to respect them first,” says Penny Palmano, who has written a best-selling book on teenagers. “You can’t _________ to treat them the same way that you have been treating them for the previous years. Imagine if you’d spent two hours getting ready to go out for the evening and someone said, ‘You’re not going out looking like that, are you?’ You’d be very _________. You’d never say that to an adult, because it shows a total _________ of respect.” Palmano has even allowed her girl to hold several teenage parties at her home. “I’ve found that if you have brought your kids up to do the right thing, and then _________ them to do it, usually they’ll behave well,” she says, “I make them sandwiches and leave them alone. But I make it clear that they have to clear up any mess. I’ve never had a(n) _________; in fact, the kitchen was sometimes cleaner than I’d left it.”

She agrees that teenagers can be annoying, enjoying a world free of responsibility, yet _________ for independence. She doesn’t think, however, that they are _________ to annoy you. Until recently, it turns out that the region of the brain that controls judgement and emotions is not fully __________until the early twenties. “This would explain why many teenagers can’t make good decisions or control their emotions. __________, they may find it difficult to make the right decision between watching television and finishing their homework. It means that they do not __________ do the wrong thing just to annoy their parents,” says Palmano.

The key to __________ for all is calm communication and compromise (妥协). If you want your teenagers to be home by 11 pm, explain why, but listen to their arguments as well. If it’s Saturday, you might __________agreeing to midnight. If they are up to 20 minutes late, don’t react angrily. __________, ask if they’ve had a problem with public transport and let it pass.

6 . This afternoon I was driving home after visiting my mom. I took the route that was more like a canyon(峡谷)drive with beautiful sceneries.________I heard a pop. I knew what happened-a big flat tire! I________ to the side, but this was a canyon drive with not much shoulder space. What’s worse, it________to be around a bend that people couldn’t see me, which made the situation________.

Cars were passing me with no________of slowing down. I got________in the car, feeling very________After what seemed a few hours, I________a car stopping at a distance behind me. A gentleman ________out and signaled to other drivers. With his help, I________to walk out of the car very carefully. Then he moved my car a bit out of the way while I was________the police to seek help. After much back and forth, they said________they gave me priority(优先权)since I was in a dangerous place，they needed at least 20-30 minutes to send________,The gentleman offered to check my spare tire while I was making the call. ________ ,by the time I was waiting, the gentleman had changed my________!I felt a wave of ________ coming over me. I told him if he hadn’t stopped by and helped me, I would have felt________.He just laughed.

Even after we________,I saw in my mirror that the car just followed me to________I was OK.I thought how lucky I was to be the________of such kindness in a hot dry afternoon.

Bad things can happen, but life will bend toward goodness.

7 . In life, we always feel as if our bad circumstances will never change. However, when we meet troubles or problems in our lives, we are eager for a _________ that tells us everything will be _________ and get better.

When in this mindset(心态), I think back to a _________ I once heard about a family having dinner at a Chinese restaurant. At the end of the meal, everyone _________ their fortune cookie and read their _________ out loud. _________, the youngest child did not, she went to get another fortune cookie. This _________ several times before the mom _________ her and asked, “What are you doing?” The little child responded, “I am looking for a cookie with the _________ fortune for me.” The mom said, “There is only one thing you need to __________ and it’s not in a fortune cookie. That is where there is a will, there’s a way.”

When __________ are not going our way, we may __________ the “right fortune”. We seek the hope for our __________ so that it will be better than the present. Once the Israelis were expelled(驱逐) in a foreign country against their __________. At that time, everything was __________for them, but they didn’t lose hope; instead, they __________ to their new environment positively. Years later they returned to their homeland as they had __________.

We need to __________ action and hope and believe that nothing is __________ to a willing mind in life. It does prove that good things do come out of bad and difficult __________.

8 . Three years ago, Liu Mama was an unknown middle-aged farmer from the Dongbei region, in northeastern China. Then she started _______ her life on the social-media platform Kuaishou. Liu Mama’s son-in-law _______ the live stream(视频直播) to her, and worked as the_______ of her trusty cameraman. They _______ to try it out for laughs. The first videos, each less than a minute _______, showed Liu, short and fat, dressed in a red cotton jacket — _______ on the kitchen chair. She was eating pork bones and fish heads while creating _______ rhymes(押韵诗歌) about the happiness of countryside life. Liu Mama’s funny live streams showed quite a _______ from other popular Chinese video-sharing platforms where the videos _______ famous people, fashion and urban life.

People were __________ attracted by the loud-mouthed and red-cheeked farmer. Within months, the number of __________ to Liu Mama’s channel(频道), “Liu Mama’s Everyday Life,” __________ from dozens to several thousand. Liu Mama began showing herself __________ corn, skinning potatoes, and driving a tractor(拖拉机) around __________. A few years later, Liu Mama __________ fourteen million followers on the Kuaishou platform.

Liu Mama’s __________ is one of many stories of live streamers in China. In the past five years, live stream in China has developed into a main __________ activity — more than half of the nation’s Internet users have given it a __________. While live stream is still __________ as an unimportant culture in other parts of the world, Chinese industries __________ from education to news to daily shopping have hugged it as a business tool.

10 . Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it, and to go to their offices, factories or schools every day by train, car or bus, even though this_________they have to get up earlier in the morning and reach _________ later in the evening.

One benefit of living outside London is _________ houses are _________. Even a small flat in London _________ a garden costs a lot of money. With the same money, one can get a little house in the country with a garden of _________ own.

Then, in the country one can be _________from the noise and hurry of the town._________one has to get up earlier and spend more time in trains or buses, one can sleep _________at night, and, during weekends and ____________ summer evening, one can enjoy the ____________clean air in the country. If one ____________gardens, one can spend one’s ____________ time digging, planning, watering and doing a hundred and one other jobs which are needed in the garden. Then, when the flowers and vegetables ____________, one has the reward of a person who has shared the secrets of ____________ .

Some people, however, take ____________ in country things. For them,____________ lies in the town, with its cinemas and theaters, beautiful shops and busy streets, dance halls and restaurants, such people would ____________that their life was not worth ____________ if they had to live it outside London. A walk in one of the parks and a visit ____________ the sea every summer is all the country they want.