It was the Easter holidays, and school was closed for two weeks.For me, the Easter holidays were so boring that it was impossible to find something fun to do. My mom had suggested that I do some studies since the promotion test was coming up. However, I didn’t follow my mother’s suggestion. Instead, I went outside to seek out my friends to play with. When I had successfully contacted some of my friends, none of them seemed to be much in a playful mood, but one friend Jimmy agreed to play with me. He suggested we go down to the river and just relax there. The river was not far from my home, and we arrived there quickly.

Just relaxing on the river bank with nothing but some waste logs (木头) , it wasn’t fun for us at first. Clearly what was on our minds was to jump into the river and just take a swim in the clear cool water. So we took off our clothes down to our underwear and walked into the shallow part of the water. The water was truly cool and refreshing and we were starting to have fun then, playing and laughing, as we splashed the cool water onto each other’s faces. Then we started to chase each other around on the river bank and then we ran straight into the river. We were having so much fun that we didn’t notice danger was around the corner.

Before Jimmy could know it, and before he could do anything to keep his balance, he lost his footing on a tree branch, which was in the shallow part of the water, and slipped, bringing his whole entire body into the deep water. He tried to resurface from the water but found it extremely hard to keep his head above the water.

I was scared to see him struggling in the water but I knew I must rescue him. I took a deep breath to keep calm. Looking around, I found a waste log, so I threw it to him immediately and asked him to hold it. At the same time I yelled for help, hoping someone could come to our rescue. Luckily, my mom heard my cries, rushed out of the house and raced towards us. She jumped into the water without hesitation and reached out her hands to pull him. Several neighbors also quickly joined the rescue.

Finally, Jimmy was pulled out of water by my mom and the neighbors.

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2 . Throughout history, female scientists, engineers and mathematicians have changed the world. But while their_______have been remarkable, their names and their stories have_______received a lot of attention. Physicist Jess Wade wanted to_______the stories of great scientific pioneers who may be ignored and she_______a unique way to do that: writing Wikipedia pages.

Wade told CBS News that while the_______of women in science is small in comparison to that of men, she has always had_______in the field. When she was a graduate student, Wade_______an inspiring woman in science, Kim Cobb, who is a climate scientist at Brown University.

“So when I met her I thought she is a(n)_______person and I need to learn more about her. When I did a little search, I couldn’t_______any information about her. What I________was a Wikipedia page but it wasn’t there.”

That’s how Wade got the________—to start writing Wikipedia pages for diverse people in science who don’t yet have them.

In her free time, Wade searches the Internet to________information, and then she gets to work writing Wikipedia pages. She’s written more than 1,700 so far.

Wade is now making a__________for herself in science and she knows she wouldn’t be here without those who came before her. “We all have a role to________in making science a more diverse and________place,” she said.

6 . Nothing in life is more exciting than the sudden insight that leaves one a changed person—not only changed, but changed for the_________. Such moments are not many, but they come to all of us. Sometimes from a valuable book, and sometimes from a(n) _________friend.

One cold afternoon I was in a restaurant feeling extremely_________. Because of several_________, the research of great significance in my life had failed.

Then my neighbor, an old psychiatrist (精神科医生), _________in the restaurant. “What’s troubling you?“ he asked. I told him what had happened and_________blamed myself for the failure.

Hearing my words, he said nothing but_________me to his office, where he took a tape out. “On this tape,” he said, “there are short_________made by three of my patients. Listen and pick out the two-word phrase that appears_________in all the three cases.

The three voices all__________themselves, and the phrase “if only“ was said out loud__________six times.

“That is poisonous”, the old man explained.

“The trouble with ‘if only’ is that it doesn’t__________anything. But if you let it become a habit, it can become a real__________ so that you won’t want to try more.

“What should I do?” I inquired.

“Change ‘if only’ to ‘next time’,” he smiled. “This phrase will help you to__________the past,

learn a lesson from a failure, move forward, and take__________.”

Once there were two     1    (mouse) who were friends. One mouse lived in the country,     2     other mouse lived in the city. After many years the Country mouse saw the City mouse. He said, “Do come and see me at my house in the country.” So the City mouse went. The City mouse said, “This food     3     (be) not good, and your house is not good. Why do you live in a hole in the field? You should come and live in the city. You would live in a nice house     4    (make) of stone. You would have nice food     5    (eat). You must come and see me at my house     6    is in the city.”

The Country mouse went to the house of the City mouse. It was a very good house. Nice food was set ready for them to eat. But just as they began to eat, they     7     (hear) a great noise. The City mouse cried, “Run! Run! The cat is coming!” They ran away     8     (quick) and hid.

After some time they came out. When they came out, the Country mouse said, “I do not like living     9     the city. I like living in my hole in the field. It is     10     (nice) to be poor and happy than to be rich and afraid.”

8 . There was once a lazy crow (乌鸦). He thought it was too much trouble to _______ food. “Caw! Caw!” he said. “If someone brought me my food every day, I’d be very _______ !”

One day, he saw a fat pigeon (鸽子) flying by. “How happy and _______ it looks,” the crow said to himself. So the crow _______ the pigeon until they came to a park. There were some other _______ there too.

Before long, an old man came along and brought them a large bag of food. When the man had gone, the crow flew over to the pigeons. “Caw! Caw!” said he. “Can I _______ you?”

“No, you can’t!” shouted the pigeons angrily. “We don’t know you. ”

The crow went home feeling _______. But he suddenly had a(n) _______. “I’ll paint my feathers gray, ”he said,“ and then the pigeons will _______ I am one of them.” After he finished the painting, he flew off to the park and was ________ by the pigeons. The crow was so hungry that he got very excited at the food. “Caw! Caw! Give lots to me!” he said loudly. ________ , the pigeons found he was a crow. They flew after him and made him leave.

Sadly, the crow flew to his own forest. But when his old friends, the other crows saw him, they asked him to ________. They did not know him because of his gray-painted feathers. So the crow felt ________ than before. His own ________ did not want him, and the pigeons wouldn’t let him into their group.

“What looks easier isn’t always so,” the crow said to himself. “ I ________ I had never painted my feathers gray!”

Alexander sang all the time. He simply liked singing and practiced it all the time. He sang in the shower, and he sang while he walked to school. Personally, Alexander believed his voice was imperfect. “There will be tryouts for bays’ choir this weekend in our school.” he heard Kevin announcing in class.

Everyone around school knew Kevin had a fantastic sing voice. More importantly, warm-hearted and helpful, Kevin was always generous to give someone a hand.

With the tryouts in mind and an initial surge of interest, he kept imagining himself as a member of the boys’ choir, his heart thudding (砰砰直跳). However, he would explode with anxiety when he thought of singing with others. After school, walking slowly, he debated (反复思考) whether to attend it, for fear of being a drag (拖累) on others. “It would be nice if I could solo(独唱) he thought to himself. Just then, out of the rom walked Cevin, whose eyes brimmed with smile. Kevin patted his shoulder and whispered,” Let’s sign up together. “Inspired, Alexander signed his name.”

The next morning, Alexander came to the tryouts. Taking a deep breath, he walked into the building, and then noticed the other boys who were all practicing delightfully. Alexander was seated on the chair alone, looking at other competitors nervously and not knowing how to join them.

Later, the choir director walked in and declared: “The whole selection process includes the individual performance and the group singing” Immediately things started. When Alexander’s turn came, his voice filled the room, loud and clear. He felt satisfied when he was done. After a short pleasure, however, the fear of singing with others flickered across his mind, casting him a surge of gloom.

Then came the group singing.

10 . Early on the morning of October 13, LaPierre was heading to the Chicago Marathon on the city’s Blue Line L. The ______ was full of energized marathoners. Before long, LaPierre noticed a man moving from passenger to passenger, asking for spare ______ . His behavior struck LaPierre as “really strange,” especially the way he stared down anyone he felt hadn’t ______ him enough.

At the Cumberland station, most of the passengers suddenly ______ the car, LaPierre rushed out to see what was going on, only to hear ______ people shouting that the man asking for money was, in fact, armed and ______ people.

As the armed man hopped onto the next train gar, LaPierre followed him. “I could not ______ knowing there were innocent children and people just trying to get to a ______ ,” he says.

The man turned and saw LaPierre, his head down, bull-rushing him. Although the man was far ______ and younger, LaPierre crashed into him and managed to press him ______ the closed door. “Once I got a few feet from him, I knew he wouldn’t be able to react fast enough to ______ me, ”he told the Chicago Sun-Times. The two men fought for the gun—and their ______ . The man tried pushing past him, but ______ , LaPierre grabbed the gun and handed it to a passenger. Then the police poured into the train, and LaPierre let them ______ . He had a marathon to run.

This was not the first time LaPierre had jumped into a(n) ______ . A few years back, he helped prevent a drugstore robbery. “I just happen to be at the right place at the right moment,” he says.