2 . Ida Nelson was going to sleep when she heard the noise of a small airplane circling the nearby airport. It was already 11:30 p.m. in a small village of Alaska, and, as she told a local newspaper, “When a plane flies over that _________ you know there is something _________ .”

Nelson rushed to the window and saw the _________: The airport’s runway lights were out. She pulled on some clothes, _________ into her ATV(地形车), and drove it to the airport, where she found a local pilot trying to _________ the lights with his hands.

“_________, if you push the button 10 or 15 times, the lights will just light up,” Nelson said. But not this time. Meanwhile, she _________ the plane was a medevac(医疗直升机) which had a(n) _________ mission---to transport a seriously ill local girl to the nearest _________ 280 miles away.

Nelson had a __________. Driving her ATV to the end of the runway, she shone her headlights for the plane to __________. Great idea, but it wasn’t __________. More light was needed, so a neighbor __________ nearly every home in the village.

Within 20 rminutes, 20 vehicles arrived, many of the drivers still in __________. Following the pilot’ __________, the cars lined up on one side of the runway. __________ by the headlights, the plane finally landed safely. The young __________ was loaded onto the aircraft, and the plane __________ took off again.

In a world filled with uncertainty, the little community’s __________ action was a big deal. However, for Nelson, as she said, coming together “is just kind of a __________ deal.”

5 . One of the biggest complaints in modern society is being over-scheduled. Ask people how they are and the answer usually is “super busy,” “crazy busy” . _______ is just “fine” any more.

When people aren’t super busy at _______, they are crazy busy exercising, entertaining or parenting. And if   there is ever a still moment for thoughts—for example, while waiting _______ at the supermarket or sitting   in traffic—out come the mobile phones. So it’s worth noting a study published last month in Science, which shows how _______ people will go to avoid the examination for our thoughts.

“We had noted   that we   are   so   dependent on   our mobile   phones that   people seem to   find   any _______ they can to keep busy,” said Timothy Wilson, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. In his experiments involving 700 people, the majority found it _______ to be alone with their thoughts for just 6 to 15 minutes.

It could   be because human beings,   as problem solvers and   meaning makers, when _______, tend to       think about what’s wrong in their lives. When we aren’t _______ our Facebook page, the things we haven’t   figured out appear in our minds—_______ relationships, professional failures, health concerns, etc. Unless     there is a solution, these thoughts just ________ themselves in our heads.

But you can’t solve problems ________ you don’t allow yourself time to   think about them. It has        actually been ________ by our culture, which values doing more than thinking and believes answers are in        your hand ________ in your head. “We   all fell that busyness   is ________ but it’s really harmful,”   said        Timothy. “There’s a widespread belief that thinking will only slow you down and get ________, but it’s the opposite.” ________ negative feelings only makes them more powerful, he said. Allowing and ________ the   flow of thoughts is part of the solution itself, such as meditation(冥想).

Negative feelings are sometimes hard, but they are part of everyone’s life, ________ if you are busy. It is those deep   and troubling feelings,   and how you ________ them, that make you who   you are. While       busyness may seem to prevent the flow of sadness, it may also limit your ability to be filled with ________.

6 . 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 an index of the world's most-visited museums.

But the Louvre's uptick (小幅上升) in visitors is_____ too much for many of its workers, _____ by reception and security staff over the number of tourists______ through its doors have hit opening hours throughout the week.

"The Louvre is suffocating (令人窒的)," the workers union said in a statement. "The public has increased by more than 20% since 2009, but the palace has not grown,"it_____.

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_______ , 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 played into 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.

7 . Mike was 11. As his birthday was coming up，he _____ his father to buy him a bike, so that he could go to school cycling and not by _____ or relying on his father to _____ him at school, which was _____ a mile away from his home.

On his _____ , seeing a set of books wrapped nicely in his father's hand, though _____ , he thanked his father. Mike's father was _____ as he didn't have enough money to buy a bike.

After a week，when Mike was walking home from school, he saw a boy riding a bike. Mike _____ that the bike was too small for the big boy. _____，the boy ran into a post and fell on the street. Mike rushed to him and ______ him who was his schoolmate Sam.

Mike helped him stand up and provided him with water. _____ Sam was riding the bike fast, his left leg and hands were ______ injured. Mike asked him to sit in a corner and took the bike and rushed to a ______ nearby.

An ambulance （救护车）came and carried Sam to hospital. He then rushed to Sam's home and ______ his parents about the accident.

Sam and his parents thanked Mike for the ______ help. Mike in turn said, “It was all ______ just because I rode Sam's bike. ” He added, “The bike is too small for Sam to ride and that's why he was _______” Mike met Sam every day in hospital until he ______.

Sam got a new bike and he came to know that Mike didn't have the ______ to own a bike. He gave his old bike to Mike and with his parents' ______, Mike accepted the gift.

8 . We all love our parents and turn to them when we’re in need, but would you like them to hear the _______ you have with your friends in the school playground or lunch queue? Social networking sites, such as micro-blog, blog and the Facebook, have actually become _______ of the school hallways(走廊), so would you add your parents as “friends” and allow them to _______ your online _______ and conversations with friends?

In the past the generation gap included a technology gap, where children were _______ with latest technology and parents were left behind, content to continue their day-to-day lives as they always had because they had no _______ to be good at new technology. _______, more and more parents are beginning to _______ just how important social networks are in their lives. This realization has given many parents the _______ to educate themselves about social networking sites.

These days many people are ________ to social networking sites because they can choose who they have around them; there’s also a certain amount of control over ________ that we don’t get in real life. Sometimes we feel that privacy is ________ when we must accept a “friend” request from a parent or family member.

It’s a difficult choice whether or not to allow a parent to become a part of our ________ lives. On the one hand we don’t want to “refuse” their request because that might hurt their feelings or make them feel you have something to ________. On the other hand if you do accept, then you could have a(n) ________ of being watched and no longer feel ________ to comment or communicate the way you did before.

A recent survey suggested that parents shouldn’t take it personally if their child ignores their request: “When a teen ignores a parent’s friend request, it doesn’t ________ mean that they are hiding something, but it could mean that this is one part of their life where they want to be truly ________.” Perhaps talking with parents and giving explanations would help soften the ________ if you do choose not to ________ them to your friends list.

9 . We all have been taught that the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line.Moving forward along the straight line always represents the most _________ and productive course of action.

The other day, I visited an Australian friend.There I _________ a nice artwork which is the coat of arms of Australia(澳大利亚国徽).On it, there are two _________ which cannot be seen in other countries.These two _________ animals in Australia are the kangaroo and the emu(鸸鹋), a large bird. They aren’t too much   _________, but they do share one unique _________.Because of the length of their tails, kangaroos cannot back up. If they want to move in the _________ direction, they have to move forward and finish a U­turn._________ the structure and shape of their feet, emus cannot back up and must _________ move ahead.The wise person who designed this ____________ Australian coat of arms understood that we could learn ____________ from emus and kangaroos.

As we follow our enthusiasm and move toward ____________, there are days when progress isn’t evident to us. This could mean that no progress has been made, ____________ it could mean that we are moving forward in ways that don’t reveal progress ____________.If you are currently stuck in one location, you must be ____________ to move forward so that there is no time wasted or energy used, which does not ____________ progress.If you have a goal in your life that you would like to ____________, you should make progress toward it along a ____________ line.That progress needs to take big ____________ toward those things you want to do.As long as you don’t ____________ no matter what happens, the good situation will eventually present itself.

10 . A report has recently been published about what the earth might be like 20 years or so from now on. The report is a result of a three-year_______

According to the report, the picture of the earth in the year 2020 is not a_______one. The world will be more_______because the population will continue to grow. The population could be_______ 9,000 million, almost 3,000 million more than that in 2009. More people would move into cities, especially cities in_______countries. Cities in India and Thailand probably would_______have a population of 20 million by then.

Food production will_______, but not enough to feed all the people. Farmers will grow 90% more food than they did in 2009,_______most of the increase would be in countries that_______produce enough food for their people. Little increase is__________ in South Asia, Africa or the Middle East. Poor farming ways are__________   large areas of cropland, changing farms into deserts. More farmland is____________as cities become larger and more houses are built. ____________will get worse as developed countries burn more coal and oil. Many of the world’s____________could disappear as more and more trees are cut down. Energy will continue to be a serious problem. The experts say their____________of the earth for the year 2020 may be wrong. They only____________the situation as it is today. By changing the situation, by____________the problems, the picture can be changed. There is____________time for the nations of the world to__________ a plan of action. But they considered that__________   too long to make a decision would greatly reduce the chances of success