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.”

5 . A 9-year-old boy is called a hero after he rescued his dad when a car fell on him. Brave J.T. Parker’s ________ thinking saved his father’s life.

________ dad Stephen Parker said that last July, he and his sons J.T., 9 and Mason, 17, were in the backyard working in a Toyota car when the ________ happened.

“ We were ________ the engines out of the car and, after we got it jacked (用千斤顶顶起) up, I climbed under there to take the parts off,” he said. “The one part came off pretty ________ but the other side was not coming off.”

At that moment, Mason had gone inside the house ________ he cut himself, but the dad ________ working. Suddenly, the car fell on top of him.

He said he _______ at J.T. to jack the car up but he didn’t think his young son would ________ it.

“ I couldn’t move at all,” Parker said. “I was totally ________ , and then I passed out. It was all in his hands.”

J.T., who weighs about 50 pounds, said he, too, didn’t think he would be able to   ________ the car off his father, but he started jumping up and down on the jack right away.

It took him   ________, but J.T. was able to save his father   ________. He then ran to get his brother out of the house. They called the   ________ immediately.

Parker was then sent to the nearest hospital with 13 broken ribs (肋骨). He was   ________ two months later thanks to the timely rescue from his young hero.

6 . “Working long hours poses an occupational health risk that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year,” the World Health Organization says.

People working 55 or more hours each week face a(n) _________ 35% higher risk of a stroke and a 17% higher risk of dying from heart disease, _________ to people following the widely accepted standard of working 35 to 40 hours in a week, the WHO says in a study that was published in the journal Environmental International.

“No job is _________ the risk of a stroke or heart disease,” WHO Director — General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, _________ governments, businesses and workers to find ways to protect workers’ health.

The global study, which the WHO calls the first of its kind, found that in 2016, 488 million people were _________ to the risks of working long hours. In all, more than 745,000 people died that year from overwork that resulted in stroke and heart disease, according to the WHO.

“Between 2000 and 2016, the number of deaths from heart disease _________ working long hours increased by 42%, and from stroke by 19%,” the WHO said as it announced the study, which it conducted with the International Labour Organization.

The study found the highest health _________ from overwork in men and in workers who are middle-aged or older. Regionally, people in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific region had the _________ exposure to the risk. People in Europe had the lowest exposure. In the US, less than 5% of the population is exposed to long working hours, according to a map the WHO published with the study. That proportion is _________ to Brazil and Canada — and much lower than Mexico and in countries across most of Central and South America.

Several steps could help __________ the burden on the workers, the study states, including governments’ adopting and enforcing __________ standards on working time. The authors also say employers should be more flexible in scheduling, and to __________ their employees on a maximum number of working hours. In another step, the study __________ workers arrange to share hours, so no one is working 55 or more hours in a week.

To compile (编写) the report, researchers reviewed and __________ dozens of studies on heart disease and stroke. They then estimated workers’ health risks based on data drawn from a number of sources, __________ more than 2,300 surveys on working hours that were conducted in 154 countries from the 1970s through 2018.

8 . Every Christmas, the firm I worked for raised money for disadvantaged kids. I’d dress up as Santa and _______ out with some colleagues to deliver gifts. Some years ago, we were returning and _______ right in front of the lights as they turned red.

I became aware of a car coming up behind us at speed. It ran _______ another vehicle and then they both came to a stop. I asked my workmates to _______ the police and fire department. In order not to put others at risk, I turned my truck sideways (向旁边) to block the traffic. Then I jumped out and ran to the cars. There was a loud bang and _______ shooting from one car’s front. As a volunteer firefighter, I knew the car’s battery had _______ and that there was no time to lose. Still wearing my costume, I _______ to tear the door open and walked the driver over to the safety of my truck.

Other than some cuts, he was fine. I left him with my workmates and went to check on the driver of the other car. _______ , he was also unhurt. Then I headed back to direct traffic around the burning vehicle _______ the emergency services arrived. The first two police officers on the ________ laughed as they jumped out of their car. “What’s happened here, Santa? OK, you probably have ________ to make,” one of them said. “We will ________ from here.”

Weeks after the accident, I agreed to meet the guy I’d ________ from the car in a local park, where he was sitting with a girl, his daughter, Amber. It ________ out that she had been estranged (疏远的) from her mum and dad, but ________ home after the accident. What’s more, she was the girlfriend of Jordan, my son.

9 . I glanced at the magazine covers while paying for some goods. Then I _________ Taraji P. Henson confidently on the cover of a magazine. The caption(标题)_________ “All I can be is me.” Considering that I run a non-profit organization _________ positive perception(认识) of the body and helping people to accept their bodies, I’m _________ about the fact that it took me so long to know it.

I used to make _________ to my mom that she looked young for her age; her skin didn’t have lots of winkles(皱纹)and she had few age spots. But that day I suddenly realized with a _________ eye that I had been _________ forcing a young value system on my mom. So I apologized for telling her that, and she accepted with a smile.

I want my mom to grow old and enjoy everything during the process. It’s an honor to grow older. _________, we lose sight of this when we are _________ with countless perfect pictures of aging women and anti-aging fever. The phenomenon(现象)shows a larger cultural problem that the perfected and forever youthful appearance has become the norm(标准)—or __________ the popular norm.

Now I value the __________ older women have acquired through their life experiences. I believe we need to praise them for what they’ve __________ in life. I want to see older women __________ as themselves with loose skin, grey hair, and everything else that comes.

Wanting to be __________ to others isn’t a bad want, but our culture’s addiction to staying young has ruined an entire age group of women. To restate the magazine’s __________, let women actually be themselves.

10 . On July 20, Yu Yifei, a 26-year-old medical intern (实习医生) at People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou, made his way home in a subway train on Line 5 after his first day’s training. When downpours struck the city, he _________ about a dozen people trapped in a flooded subway train as the rainfall in Zhengzhou reached a _________ 201.9 millimeters between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Floodwaters _________ 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 fearing for his life, made a _________ call to his father.

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

As more passengers were pulled from the __________, Yu instructed others in the key steps to save a victim from drowning. He __________ CPR, or first aid, to those in low-temperature shock from the cold water and near death from drowning. One of the passengers, a female doctor nearly died. After __________ consciousness and strength, she joined Yu in treating others. Yu was __________ and needed all his concentration to perform another CPR procedure.

That night on a subway station platform, he __________ an exhausting six hours giving CPR to passengers who __________ survived drowning. He also treated the injured. He__________the subway station at about midnight, with the white coat spotted with blood and __________. Three hours later, he met his father. With tears in eyes, his father and people __________ smiled and gave him the thumbs-up.