1 . For many young Canadians, planting trees is more than just a job. It's a way of _________— and it could be catching on, thanks to a popular _________ by Leslie. While working for a logging company, the 29-year-old filmed herself using the _________ method that allowed her to plant 4,545 trees in a single day. She said that the work is truly _________.

Planting trees is not easy work, according to Leslie. Not only is it _________ tiring, but it also exposes laborers to the bad weather. "It could start the day off _________ and then minutes later, it will just be raining or snowing. You never know what to _________," she described. "There were some days that we were planting through a heat _________, so we had like 37-to-40-degree weather for several days straight and that was really _________."

So far, Leslie has planted a total of 372,290 trees in the past few years.__________, she's still nowhere near beating the Guinness World record. That honor __________ Kenny Chaplin, who once planted 15,170 trees in 19 hours. After 35 years on the job, he says he'd __________ it to anyone.

"I think every parent in Canada should __________ their kid out tree planting because it will turn them into a worker," he __________. "They'll learn how to work, they'll have __________ and they'll have money in their pockets."

3 . My wife and I moved into our home two years ago. We had a yard with a lot of ________. Very often when we have flowers, Denise or I would plant some between the rocks, just to add some ________ to the area.

Last summer, I found a tiny little plant in the yard that I could not immediately identify. I knew I didn’t plant it and Denise said she didn’t either.

We decided to let it ________ growing until we could find out what it was.

Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the ________ plant, it appeared to be a sunflower. I decided to ________ the weeds (杂草) around it. As I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds, I noticed something ________.The sunflower had not ________ where I saw it begin. It actually had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the ________.

That’s when I ________ that if a tiny little sunflower didn’t let a big rock stand in its way of developing, we too have the ability of doing the same thing. If we ________ ourselves like that little sunflower, we can reach where we ________ to go and get what we need for growth.

We need to believe in ourselves knowing we have the ________ to achieve our goals. Like the sunflower, it knew it had the ability to get over the rocks because it had ________ in itself that it would succeed. Stand tall like the sunflower and be ________ of who and what we are, and then the environment will begin to ________ us. We will find a way to go under or around any “rocks” in order to reach our goals.

5 . One Monday morning, while the children were enjoying “free play”, I stepped to the doorway of the classroom to take a _______. Suddenly, I _______ a movement of the heavy wooden door. This was the very door I _______ guided the children through to ensure their safety from the bitter cold. I felt a chill go through my body.

My legs carried me to that door, and I pushed it open. It was one of my kindergarteners who I thought was _______ that day. He had been dropped off at school late and was _______ to open the door.

He must have been _______ there for quite a while! Without a word, I _______ him to the hospital. He was treated for frostbite on his hands. He’d need time to _______, and wouldn’t come for class the next day, I thought.

The next morning, one of the first to _______ was my little frostbitten boy. Not only did he run in with ________, but his ________ could be heard as loud as ever! I gave him a warm hug and told him how ________ I was to see him. His words have stayed with me all these years, “I knew you would open the door.”

That cold Monday morning, he waited a long, long while for adults to ________. To a child, every minute feels like forever. He didn’t ________ to walk back home; he waited and trusted. This five-year-old taught me a powerful lesson in ________.

Bogues was only 1. 6 metres tall, which made him the shortest player ever in the NBA. Guess what? Paul was only 1. 6 metres tall, too! Paul knew that being shorter than other players meant that he had to practise more. During all those hours of doing jump shots on his own, he used Bogues as his     1    . Paul once said, “If Bogues could make it, why not me?”

Our coach was not so sure. Paul had to     2    many times just for making the team. He was still usually on the bench, being just a replacement,     3    was really tough on him. Everyone knew Paul had real skills, and was someone who worked really hard and had a strong     4    to play for the team. However, Paul didn’t get a chance.

7 . I was walking in a park on a cool autumn morning. The view was charming, and a pleasant breeze(微风) was kissing my face _______.

Then I saw a mother and her little baby. The mother wore _______ clothes that seemed to be found in a dustbin—How easy it is for fortunate people to _______ away things they don’t need, and they do this _______ thinking of the unfortunate! She was holding her baby, protecting her from the morning _______ and expecting some money from strangers so that she could _______ food for both of them. It was then that I realized how _______ I had been in my whole life for living a rich life.

Then a man _______ some money and food to the mother, and as she took them, her face was _______ as if she had been the happiest person in the world. And why not, she could now ________ her baby at least for the day.

Actually, happiness doesn’t ________ luck, your financial or your physical conditions, but only on yourself. It is just a ________ in your hands. If you choose to be happy, ________ can stop you from it.

How ________ it is that one observation(观察) can change your life! Life has a lot to offer if you observe very closely. One who observes can ________ real happiness.

8 . The party began shortly after Mr Wood, who lived in the flat below, signed to himself as he heard exciting voices and the noisy music. Luckily he had _______ some work home from the office, with which he kept himself busy for a couple of hours, thus managing to pay no attention to the noise _______. But by eleven o’clock he felt _______ and was ready to go to bed, though from his earlier experience he knew it was _______ trying to get to sleep. He undressed and lay for a while on the bed, trying to read, but he _______ himself reading the same page over and over again. He then turned off the light and _______ his head in the pillow. But even so he could not shut off the noise, finally, after what seemed hours, his _______ was gone. 

He jumped out of bed, _______ some clothes, marched _______ up the stairs, and walked into his neighbor’s flat. The owner of the flat, who ________ him in his dressing gown, came ________ the room and, ________ Mr Wood could say anything, cried, “My dear fellow, come and ________. I know our party would trouble you. I meant to send you ________.” Mr Wood’s anger disappeared then and there. He said, “I’d better go and get ________.” Minutes later, he returned, properly dressed, only to find that the party was nearly over.

8.

A．pulled on

B．dressed up

C．selected

D．wore

He climbed over the rail and under the bridge onto a platform below the roadway preparing to _________. Cars started _________ and the traffic backed up for miles. The _________ arrived with the fire department, officers and mental health professionals.

They began talking to the man and telling him not to jump. They told him that he might not die. He might become _________ and have to stay in bed for life. About half a mile back in the traffic there was an old _________. An elderly gardener got out of the truck and walked up to _________ the people were gathered.

He made his way through the people and shouted to the man, “Hey, I’ve got to go to work. Either jump or _________ the bridge. If you decide not to jump, tomorrow is going to be ____________!”

After hearing this, the man ____________ climbed back onto the bridge, which surprised everyone. The police surrounded him immediately and ____________ him in the back seat of the police car. The gardener __________ back to his truck, waiting for the traffic to move.

One of the officer ____________ a fireman, “Who was that?” The fireman said, “I don’t know. He just said he had to go to work!”

The police reported to the press that all the way to the ____________ the man kept saying, “Tomorrow is going to be better.”

One must see a future to have a future. As Mark Twain once said, “It is not what you do not know that will hurt you the most. It is what you think you know, however, it just isn’t so!”

A reporter from Jiangsu Province went to Australia and some other countries with his father for a 3-month trip, which turned out to be a miracle(奇迹).

The reporter’s father spent most of his life    1     (work) on the farm. The son started these     2    (amaze) trips with his father because the father got cancer-a serious    3    (ill).

The reporter wanted    4    (take) his father to travel in the hope that his father can find his younger self in his last days.They    5    (travel) more than 13000 kilometers and took over 110000     6    (picture) on their trips to different countries. Well, a miracle happened during the “rebirth”trips.    7     their surprise, his father got    8    (good)and became more open-hearted.

He even taught himself to play    9     violin, and then he played it very well after practice. After that miracle trip, now he is expecting another trip to Africa. He is the most stylish dad ever. Time carves the old father’ s face     10     youth(青春) flows in his blood.This is the real style.