2 . If you need courage when facing a challenge, learn from Jessica Cox. Born in February 1983 in Sierra Vista, Arizona, Jessica Cox _________ her parents. Why? She had no arms. As Cox grew up, her mother _________ that her daughter had the _________ to live a normal life by doing things differently.

_________ independent at a young age, Cox learned to tie her shoes, get dressed and take a _________. She also got prosthetic (假体的) arms then and used them for 11 years, all the time _________ why. Getting called names like “Robot Girl” made her _________ and quiet. But at age 14,everything changed.

Cox remembers boarding the bus on the first day of 8th grade with a _________ by Eleanor Roosevelt running through her mind. “No one can make you feel inferior (卑微的) without your _________.” She decided to embrace her __________ and removed her prosthetic arms for good. Cox says that it is not until we are __________ to ourselves that we are able to overcome our challenges. That year, she also __________ her black belt from the International Taekwondo Federation!

After college, Cox was __________ by Arizona Daily Star, which kick-started her career. She has spoken to audiences in over 26 countries since then. Cox often __________ people through humor.

Cox conquered her greatest fear-flying-and in 2011 became the world’s first armless pilot. She uses her feet to fly the plane! __________ learn from Jessica Cox - challenges are opportunities.

For almost every morning, the sun rose to greet the day and the birds sang its songs outside an upstairs window of the house. Inside, Jeff and Jenna would wake up.

Usually, the brother and sister got along very well. They took turns nicely with the bathroom. They said “please” and “thank you” at breakfast. They often sat together on the school bus. Afterschool they worked together happily on their special project—their own backyard house.

But one gray morning they didn’t get along well at all! Maybe it was the weather, or maybe the birds slept late. But whatever it was, they got into an angry argument.

Jenna opened her eyes and stretched. Then she sat up and let her legs dangle (悬挂) over the edge of herbed—right in Jeff’s face. She didn’t mean it. It was just one of those things that happens with a bunkbed (双层床).

That morning Jeff was not in a very good mood.

“Jenna!” he shouted. “Get your silly feet out of my face!”

“My feet aren’t silly, and they’re not in your face!” she shouted back.

Before Jeff could answer, she skipped into the bathroom ahead of him. She took a very longtime brushing her teeth, washing up, and combing her hair.

“You’d better come out of that bathroom!” shouted Jeff, banging (猛敲) on the door.

“Jeff, ”said Mama, coming out of her bedroom, “you know better than to shout at your sister.”

“But she’s taking too long in the bathroom,” complained Jeff. “And she’s doing it on purpose!”

When Jeff banged on the door again, it opened and out came Jenna, all dressed up.

“Good morning, Mama,” she said, taking no notice of Jeff at all.

Jeff and Jenna kept avoiding each other that day.

“That’s enough, ”said Mama seriously.

5 . Imran, 22, is in his second year studying community development at college. But after he puts down his books, he spends most of his spare time helping ______ families.

Imran leads a team of 350 youth volunteers at IMVN, an on-profit founded by himself. Since 2020, Imran has ______ more than 200 small social events, like distributing food and raising funds. That’s pretty ______ considering that in 2020, Imran was just 19 years old.

Imran is committed to helping lower-income families, because he ______ first-hand how it was to be in need. When in middle school, he and his family ______ together in a one-room shelter. “It was tough living there because of the ______ constraint (束缚). There was no privacy; it also made studying ______,” Imran recalled. “But it also opened my eyes to the ______ of being less privileged,” he added.

They had to stay in that shelter for two years before managing to ______ for a rental flat. They have been living there since. It was his experiences living in a ______ that influenced his passion for volunteer work. “I know how it feels to have ______, so I really understand how our beneficiaries (受益者) feel, so it gives me ______ to continue assisting them,   says Imran.

His passion for volunteering was something that ______ overtime. ______, he started volunteering because it was a free activity that could keep him occupied. Now, he feels satisfied when he is able to help bring a ______ to people’s face.

6 . For me, nothing is more satisfying than discovering hidden precious stones in secondhand shops. After all, one person’s garbage may be another person’s treasure. I can spend hours sorting through boxes of old photography.

Two years ago, I came across a collection of loose, dusty photos. I looked to see if there were any names on the backs. I thought that if these were mine or my family’s, I’d want someone to return them to me. So I made it my goal to do so for others.

Since then, I’ve visited secondhand shops weekly, and have collected more than 50,000 of these items. I organize them in big boxes all over my house in New York.

I’ve also set up a social media account to help reunite items with their owners or other family members. The first item I posted was a video tape of a family holiday and I digitized (数字化) it. It was a video of two parents and a son of university age on a trip in the 1990s — the son was wearing a T-shirt with the words “Wesleyan swimming” on it.

My fans on social media contacted the sports departments in universities across the US and asked swimming coaches from the 1990s if they recognized the student. At last, the family was found. They couldn’t believe it and was overjoyed to be reunited with the tape. Then, the family revisited some of the memories together.

People are often quite affecting when seeing the items again — most of these items are lost after a house move or a family death, because they thought they would never see these items again. I have some rules, including not sharing sensitive photographs and removing posts if the family does not want their memories online. I want to encourage people to protect their own family history so that they don’t get lost.

Peter woke up early in the morning. He went downstairs in a hurry and started to have his breakfast as quickly as possible.

“Why are you in such a hurry, early bird?” Mum asked him. “We will have an English spelling test today, Mum,” Peter said. “Mr. White promised to offer prizes to those who get 100 scores. I’ve been studying the word list since last week. Although the words are difficult, I am well prepared for them.”

Peter reviewed the spelling of each word once more carefully when Dad drove him to school. At last, it was time for the students to have a test. “Responsibility,” Mr. White started. Peter wrote it on his test paper quickly and confidently.

“The second word: contribution,” Mr. White said.

“So easy,” Peter thought. He quickly wrote the word down.

Thirty words later, the test papers were collected by Mr. White. “I am to mark your papers now,” he told the class. After marking the test papers, Mr. White said, “Three of you won a prize today for excellent test scores. Peter, David and Mary got full marks on the spelling test!”

Mr. White praised them. Meanwhile, he gave the three students each a dictionary. Peter’s was an English-Chinese dictionary—the one he liked best. Peter was so excited that he held it high when his classmates cheered. “This is my happiest moment,” Peter thought.

After Mr. White gave the test paper back, Peter had a look at the words, feeling proud of his spelling. All of a sudden, the word “contribusion” confused him. It didn’t seem right. Peter began to compare them after taking out the word list. “C-O-N-T-R-I-B-U-S-I-O-N,” he whispered. He spelled it wrong.

“What am I to do?” Peter said to himself. “I expect my classmates to think I’m a master at spelling. If I tell Mr. White one of my spelling words is wrong, I’ll have to give my prize back, or I will become an example for telling a lie.”

Staring at the full marks written on his test paper, Peter was lost in thought. After a while, he remembered a lesson Mum used to teach him, “We ought to be an honest person.”

Slowly,Peter raised his hand.

Peter looked around.

9 . Lighting flashed through the darkness over Sibson’s bedroom skylight (天窗). Sibson was shaken by a clap of thunder _________ he knew what was happening. The storm had moved directly over his two-story wooden house. Then he heard the smoke alarm beeping.

Sibson rushed down the stairs barefoot to _________; he opened the door to the basement (地下室), and flames _________ out. Sibson ran back upstairs to call 911 from his bedroom. “I felt safe because the room had a separate outdoor stairway,” he explains.

But the phone didn’t work, and when he tried to go down the outdoor stairway, he was _________ by a wall of flames. Sibson realized he was trapped.

Sibson’s house was three kilometers _________ the main road and was so well hidden by trees that he knew calling for help would be _________.

Up a hill nearby lived Sibson’s neighbor, Huggons. He was lying in bed when something like a smoke alarm _________ his ears. He jumped out of bed, took his phone and flashlight, and headed down the hillside toward the _________. That was when he saw the rolling heavy smoke.

Huggons dialed 911，and the operator warned him not to _________ the house. But Huggons said, “There is no way I am going to listen to Sibson __________ and die in that fire.”

“Anyone, there?” Huggons called out. Then he heard “Help! I’m trapped!” coming from the second-floor balcony (阳台). He entered the house, but soon had to run back to catch his breath.

After one more __________ inside the house, Huggons gave up and __________ around back.

The wind parted the smoke just __________ for him to catch sight of Sibson. But there was no way to get to him. He shone the flashlight into the woods and noticed a ladder. He took it over to the balcony and __________ Sibson down just as the second floor of the house fell off.

Sibson is still __________ when he tells the story. “I was alone that night,” he says. “Then I heard the most beautiful sound in my life. It was Huggons.”