2 . By my third day in the hospital, I realized Owen didn’t visit. I couldn’t understand ________ my best friend wouldn’t come to see me. Struggling against the ________ , I called his ________ . His mom answered, and when I asked for Owen, she got ________that she didn’t tell ________ . “He’s not here right now,” she said. I thought it was ________ me where he was or to have him call me. But I was so weak, I just let it ________ . I found out later that Owen’s mom telephoned my parents right ________ we rang off. My phone call really made her ________ , and she ________ they talk to me. Later that night, my mom ________ . Did I remember drinking? Did I remember being in a car? I had ________ what she was talking about, so she finally told me the news: I’d hit a tree. Owen, in the ________ seat, was thrown from the car and killed instantly. The only reason I’d lived was because of my ________ .

My first ________ was of shock. I’d been drink-driving? Hit a tree? Killed Owen? I felt like the ________ person in the world. Even after I was able to ________ several weeks later, I didn’t want to eat, I didn’t want to talk. I just ________ at the wall in my ________ and cried. The only person I wanted to see was ________ . I didn’t feel like hanging out with any of my old friends.

3 . I'm standing in a class of wild 14-year-old girls as they throw paper and howl (大喊) with laughter. They won't _________ me. I was 23 and I didn't know what I was doing. I never wanted to _________. I wanted to be a writer. But when I arrived in London, they were short of teachers.

My efforts at teaching were _________. When the bell finally rang, I rushed to the staff room, red with anger. The other teachers weren't _________. “That's 4B, the worst class in school,” one said.

I dreaded (害怕) our next _________, but I couldn't give up. I needed the job. So. I _________ formal lessons. Instead, I brought _________ for class discussions. One of the liveliest talks was about the arguments they had with their parents. They paid attention and shared about their lives. I was _________. So I had them write about themselves. Most wrote about families with little money and big problems. As time went on, their essays became a _________ between us. I admired their humor, toughness and insight, and I think they ____________ my interest in their lives.

The musical My Fair Lady was playing in the West End, but they had never seen a ____________stage performance. They lived just a few subway stops from the West End, but none had ever been. I asked if they'd like to see the musical. They thought I was ____________. No teacher had ever ____________taking them out. A few weeks later, 4B and I were sitting in a ____________. They loved the music, the costumes and the characters. It was the ____________ of their year, and they talked about it for days.

Near the end of the semester, someone knocked on the door of the staff room. The two most rebellious (叛逆的) girls in 4B were there — with flowers. I was proud to know I had ____________their lives. I enjoyed teaching and getting along with ____________.

When I returned to Australia several years later, I still wanted to be a ____________. For the first time in my life, I stopped ____________ and started writing. My first story was titled. My Fair Ladies. Teaching wasn't the ____________ of my writing career; it was the beginning.

5 . A small airplane went down on Jan.4,2014 off the Southern California coast. The pilot said it never occurred to him that he wouldn’t survive the _________.

“I was pretty _________, you look at the situation and you realize this is what you have to _________. I knew what I needed to do,” said David Prizio. Prizio said he and his lone _________ were flying at 6500 feet when the engine _________ died.

“I did some quick math and realized I wasn’t going to make it to the _________,” said Prizio. So he decided to _________ and get the airplane down near some boats six miles northeast. “I wanted to _________in front of them, _________ they would spot us.”

The rush of water broke the glass. He broke a finger but was otherwise __________. His friend escaped injury. “We were lucky that the __________was smooth and the plane didn’t flip over,” Prizio said.

Lifeguards and helicopter were quickly __________ to the scene, but a small boat reached the pair__________. Drew Naffziger was on his way to Catalina Island with his brother and wife when he __________ the plane. “I told my brother, Hey, this plane is pretty__________ and I don’t hear an engine either. I think it’s going to crash.”

The plane went into the water 100 yards from his boat. The wheels __________first, and then its nose dipped in, sending its__________straight up in the air. The two men spent only minutes in the water. Naffziger__________ them a life preserver and pulled them onto the boat. Naffziger’s wife, a nurse, grabbed blankets to keep the two men__________.

Prizio said he would probably get another plane. “I was pretty nervous, but not so nervous that I won’t __________again,” he said.

6 . Sandra was a businesswoman in Orlando. Approaching her 50th birthday, she decided to___________ her love of cats and her work experience to start the Orlando Cat Cafe.

As a lifelong cat fan, Sandra's main goal in opening the cafe was to help _________ cats up for adoption with proper pet parents. What she didn't ___________at the time was that her café would help human visitors as much as the cats!

“The most___________thing in the cafe is that they always have new cats and cats need socialization, so both sides ___________!”says Laurie, who is one_________guest. She, like many other cat lovers, who _________have pets at home because of allergies (过敏反应) in the family, often comes to the cafe to experience the benefits of ___________with cute animals whenever she likes.

Plus, Sandra's cat-adoption ___________aren't the only charitable initiative happening at the cafe! The coffee and food______________for visitors are made by Axum Coffee, a company that was also started to____________others. Axum is a city in Ethiopia where fresh water is ____________and even poverty is widely visible. In fact, the coffee and food are sold at a low price at the cafe, some of whose____________go to the people of Axum, Ethiopia, to help improve their____________ of life.

“My cafe and Axum Coffee have a(n)____________ mission to reach out to others. We hit it off and became partners, ”says Sandra.

Maybe the next time you visit Orlando，you'll____________Sandra's cafe, and hit it off with one of the cats up for__________ ! Adoption specialists are always on-site to help match the personalities of potential ____________ with those of the cats in the play area. And it ____________ ! More than 80 cats have been adopted since Sandra__________ her business in 2016.

7 . The art world in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is very active. But talented local artists _______ struggle for international recognition.

One of those artists is 26-year-old Eddy Kamuanga. Kamuanga says Congo’s cultural and mineral (矿物的) wealth has _______ his artistry. He says _______ influence is his country’s painful colonial history. His paintings have been shown in South Africa, Europe and the United States. One of his pieces can sell for _______ $30,000 at an international auction. That makes him one of Congo’s _______ paid artists.

_______ art industry experts say his work only gets _______ prices when compared to artists worldwide. Kamuanga says African artists are _______ differently in the arts world. He adds, “I think it is a _______ for many artists in Africa to get the ________ recognition.”

Another artist, Freddy Tsimba, says one problem is the lack of ________ in DRC. Tsimba creates sculptures. His works are shown internationally, but get little ________ in his home country.

Congolese artist Vitshois Bondo has shown his art work and lived around the world. But he returned home to Congo to work at a recently ________ studio for young Congolese artists. Currently, the studio has two women artists. One of them is Dina Ekanga. She says it is not easy being both a woman and an artist ________ the men push you around from all sides. She ________ that the art scene is rather difficult, ________ in Congo.

Younger artists, ________ painter Romario Lukau, also say they struggle to establish themselves. Lukau is one of four young painters who are trying to find ________ as artists. They sell their paintings for about $1,000 each.

Lukau says his biggest dream is for people to talk about Congolese art the ________ we talk about American, German or Belgian art. He and other Congolese artists say they are ________ that dream will come true one day soon.

8 . Hello, Mr. Wi-Fi. Life without you is next to impossible. We’re happy to sing your name from morning till evening, sometimes till dawn. _______ I know you help me, sometimes you’re making me do things with ________ attention. Many times I promise myself that I’ll ________ my feelings towards you, but you’re ________ me closer and closer… You’ve entered both my home and my workplace. You’re just a window for our ________ and information. But we people aren’t ________ only with the window. So we open all our doors for you. Is this a(n) ________ or some kind of attachment? If this is an illness, is it curable? And if this is an attachment, will you __________ me to the lifelong togetherness?

We want you all days. Can’t you take a few days off so that both you and I can __________? You’re a poison – not a slow one but a super-fast poison which holds our mind and makes us dance __________ its tune. Nowadays you’re so __________ that anyone can buy and make you our companion. You’ll never be bothered about our health but we’ll __________ be concerned about your “health”. Because you accompany us everywhere and never let us be alone.

If you were a __________ person made of flesh and blood, would we love you the same? You control us with your numerous talents and we even can’t get rid of you. We’re all your __________. Sometimes I wonder how people in the previous generations __________, but if they did why can’t we?