1 . UPS deliveryman Ryan Arens was making his rounds near a pond, when he heard a strange sound. It was December, and about 15 feet from the frozen bank was the _________ of that sound — a brown-and-white wire-haired hound（猎犬）had fallen through the thin layer of ice. An elderly man was already on the _________, determined to save her. He was trying to _________ the pond and was striking the ice with a rock to create a(n) _________ to the dog, but seemed to be struggling.

Arens, 44, thought he _________ a better chance. “Animals are my weakness,” he said, explaining _________ he chose to take off his overcoat, even though the temperature was minus 15 and _________ the rescue task.

After breaking the ice using the man’s rock, Arens jumped into the icy water. He surfaced in time to see the dog going under. Arens swam about five feet toward the dog, grabbed hold of her collar, and _________ her out of the water and onto the ice. He then put the dog into the boat and slid it back to the bank, where _________ bystanders carried the dog to the home of the rowboat’s owner, a retired vet. __________ in the house himself, Arens jumped into a warm shower with the dog. A few more minutes in the pond, the vet told Arens, and the dog would have likely __________.

The next day, Arens was again making his __________ in the neighborhood when the dog’s owner came __________ to thank him for saving Sadie. “Would you like to meet her?” he asked. Then he opened the door of his pickup, and Sadie jumped out. She went __________ toward Arens, leaping around him and kissing him. Arens said that special delivery was the __________ of his UPS career.

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

Take my friend Chen. 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 in setting 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 real life on social media. What they are trying to prove is ________ what they lack in reality. But this will not bring any change 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. Being more confident, ________ themselves and trying their best to be better is much more meaningful than ________ their life on social media.

3 . It’s common to post on social media to keep a record of the fun things you do. Although social media has its positive aspects, it can also have some serious _________ results. For example, have you ever been bored and decided to check social _________, only to find out that your best friend is at the Great Wall, one of your classmates is eating delicious noodles at your _________ restaurant, and one of your basketball teammates is visiting the giant pandas in Sichuan? Oh! You’re really _________ ! At least that’s what you might think.

Have you ever had that feeling that others are experiencing things and enjoying life _________ than you are? Researchers call that feeling the fear of missing out or FOMO.

FOMO is a real _________ that over 75% of young people experience from time to time. Social media is the cause, because it’s so easy today to _________ through to see what your friends are doing, eating, buying and talking about. _________, it would be impossible to enjoy all the same activities we see others take part in on social media. Rather than _________ this basic truth, though, we often let FOMO lead us to compare our lives to those of others on social media. This __________ leaves us feeling dissatisfied. Why? We know all the aspects of our lives—both good and bad. But all we see on social media are the __________ moments others share. FOMO makes us check social media more frequently, leading to a negative cycle that can be hard to __________. Researchers have found that social media and FOMO can cause feelings of __________, loneliness and boredom. Researchers advise that we stop looking for __________ on social media. If we let FOMO __________ us, the only thing we’ll really be missing out on is our own life. And life’s too short for that!

4 . Many cities around the world today are heavily polluted. Careless methods of production and ________ of consumer demands for environment friendly products have ________ the pollution problem. One ________ is that millions of tons of glass, paper, plastic, and metal containers are produced, and these are difficult to get rid of.

________, today, more and more consumers are choosing “green” and demanding that the products they buy should be safe for the environment. ________ they buy a product, they ask questions like these: “Will this shampoo damage the environment?” “Can this metal container be ________ or can it only be used once?”

A recent study showed that two ________ five adults now consider the environmental safety of a product before they buy it. This means that companies must now change the ________ they make and sell their products to make sure that they are “green,” that is, friendly to the environment.

Only a few years ago, it was impossible to find green products in supermarkets, but now there are hundreds. Some supermarket products ________ labels to show that the product is green. Some companies emphasize that their products are clean and safe in their advertising and have made it their main selling ________.

The ________ for a safer and cleaner environment is making companies rethink ________ they do business. No longer will the public accept the old ________ of “Buy it, use it, throw it away and forget it.” The public ________ is still here, and companies are ________ their act gradually.

7 . When I was 12, I went on a 720-mile cycling trip with my brother and father. Before the trip, we ____ for the journey by having smaller rides. We were all ____ cyclists. When setting out, I ____for an adventure and wanted to see beautiful sights. But what I hadn’t expected was that trouble was ____ the corner.

One night, we were getting to a campsite and cycling down a large hill with ____ to take a rest from ____ up a mountain with aching legs. Suddenly, my brother’s front tyre slipped and he ____ into the middle of the road. My father and I stopped, asking if he was okay. Obviously, he was not hurt too much, but his leg was ____ the bike frame. From the top of the hill, we saw a light coming. Realizing a car was speeding, my father and I were in ____.

Instinctively, I rushed out in front of my brother in the middle of the road, and ____my hands wildly. The car rushed forward, but abruptly turned ____, bypassing my brother and me. My brother was saved from being run over by the car.

My father said I was ____ brave then, but for some reason, I didn’t think I was ____ my life because it seemed like the only thing to do. And I believe that in times of danger we should do what we know is right rather than consider ____ carefully. If I had thought about what I was doing that night, my brother might have been ____from this world.

9 . Sixteen-year-old Corion Evans made a daring rescue to save three teenage girls. The 16-year-old was hanging out with two_______in a parking area near the Pascagoula River in July when a_______with three teenage girls inside propelled off a boat ramp (斜坡) and into the river. It came to rest some 20 feet from land, then sank. Actually, the driver had_______followed wrong directions from her GPS.

It was around 2:30 a.m. by the time Evans and brothers Karon and Caleb got to the river’s _______. In the darkness, they could barely_______the girls holding onto the roof,the only part of the car still,_______, above water. But they could hear_______.

Evans took off his shirt and_______,threw his phone down, then_______into the water, a river he knew alligators (短吻鳄) called home. He helped the first girl he saw and, ________ her head above water, led her ashore.

Just then, Police Officer Garry Mercer________. He dived into the river to help another of the   ________. But halfway back to shore, she ________and went underwater, pulling Mercer down with her.

Evans jumped back in the water and helped them get to the shore until they could stand. “If he hadn’t been there, who knows?” Mercer told the Washington Post.

There was still one girl in the water. Cora Watson, 19, could not swim. She was gulping (吞) water，________, struggling to stay afloat. “I heard Cora screaming ‘Help!’ and I thought she was done for,” Caleb told WLOX in Biloxi. Then, a jolt. “Corion had grabbed her.” The three girls and Officer Mercer were taken to the hospital and released. They’re alive because Corion Evans ________ his life to save them.

10 . In Asia, meetings do not begin until business cards have been swapped. It is no mere ________ Accept the card with two hands and carefully examine it, noting the giver’s ________ and other indicators of rank-essential ________ in business culture. It is so important to ________ this ritual in Japan (just how deep does one bow?) that numerous books and courses promise to transform starters ________ card-swapping masters. If a new acquaintance ________ to give a card to Glenn Lim, the CEO of a Singaporean business-networking company, “it makes me forget them,” he says.

Yet the pandemic has put the business card on life support. Socialization is ________ when white-collar workers have fled to home offices, business lunches have been cancelled and conferences have ________ online. Orders for business cards from Vistaprint, a multinational printing company, dropped by 70% in late March and haven’t yet ________ fully. Mr. Lim normally hands out about 200 cards a month. In the six months following Singapore’s lockdown in March, he only ________ about five.

“I’ve forgotten what business cards ________.” But it is still helpful to know who is who at meetings, even when they ________ online. Companies are ________ reimagining the business card for the era of social distancing. Sansan, a Japanese firm, allows companies to sort scanned business cards so bosses can see which employees have made new ________ . It also offers “virtual cards”. Scanning the code with a phone camera will present the user’s ________ business card. Some 4,300 companies have begun using Sansan’s virtual cards since they launched in June. But Mr. Lim, who uses Sansan’s virtual cards, does not plan on ________ the paper version just yet.

People tend to exchange virtual cards after meetings have started or as they end, ________ participants to ask who does what during the meeting itself. “That’s sometimes a little bit ________,” he says. Many others in Singapore are evidently ________ paper cards, too. Edward Senju, the head of Sansan, still keeps some in his ________ , “just in case”.