3 . On the day he almost died, Kimbal Musk had food on the brain. The Internet startup talent and restaurateur had just arrived in Jackson Hole from a conference where chef Jamie Oliver had spoken about the benefits of healthy eating. This made Musk think a lot—how he might make a difference to the food industry—but beyond expanding his farm-to-table movement along with his restaurant, Musk hadn’t yet broken the code. Then he went sailing down a snowy slope (坡) and fell over, breaking his neck.

Musk eventually made a full recovery, but it involved spending two months on his back, which gave him plenty of time to come up with a plan. Since then, he has launched an initiative to put “learning gardens” in public schools across America; attracted Generation Z to the farming profession by changing shipping containers into high-tech, data-driven, year-round farms; and this year, is kicking off a new campaign to create one million at-home gardens.

Aimed at reaching low-income families, the Million Gardens Movement was inspired by the pandemic, as both a desire to feel more connected to nature and food insecurity have been at the forefront of so many people’s lives. “We were getting a lot of inquiries about gardening from people that had never gardened before,” says Musk. “People were looking to garden for a bunch of reasons: to save money on groceries, to improve the nutritional quality of their diets, or just to cure the boredom that came with the lockdown.”

The program offers free garden kits that can be grown indoors or outdoors, and will be distributed through schools that Musk’s non-profit, Big Green, has already partnered with. It also offers free courses on how to get the garden growing and fresh seeds and materials for the changing growing seasons. “It’s not difficult. Anyone can do this, no matter where you come from, no matter where you live. We are all able to grow something,” says Musk.

4 . For 31 years, Albert Lexie kept working hard, _______ before dawn and making the nearly two-hour journey to Pittsburgh by bus.

His destination was University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. With that kind of devotion, you’d think he _______ as a physician or nurse, some position that required long _______ and came with a high _______. But you’d be _______.

From 1982 to 2013, Albert _______ shoes. Sixteen to seventeen pairs, twice a week, $3 a pop. His annual income was about $10,000, not including tips. But it’s what he did with those tips that _______ him hearts and many awards. He _______ his tips, all $200,000 of them, to Free Care Fund, which helps cover the medical _______ for uninsured (无保险的) and poor children.

He only attended school through the eighth grade, but he __________ his first shoeshine box that year as part of a class assignment, and that’s the one he __________ from 1982 to 2013. And those years of __________ and devotion certainly didn’t go __________. He was honored and __________ by magazines and organizations.

Obviously, he wasn’t in it for __________, and getting to and from work at such unusual hours couldn’t have been __________, especially as he started getting older.

“I come to work every day because it’s __________ to see people and talk to people and have fun and do things. Children’s Hospital is my favorite place __________ I can see lots of __________ and shake their little hands and try to give little toys away, things like that.”

His life’s work was so touching and inspiring. By telling his story, we hoped to __________ more people to do good in the world.

5 . I am an ordinary 17-year-old girl. I go to school, chat to my friends and play my guitar. I don't have much in my mind. At least, that's what most people think. In fact, life changed drastically (巨大地) for me and my family in the summer of 2011, when I was 10. It was a beautiful summer's day when my dad had his accident. He had gone out for a bike ride and seemed to be taking a lot longer than usual. When Mum called him to check if everything was all right, a nurse answered the phone. I was inside the house and could hear her speaking to someone in the garden. As I looked out of the door.

I knew something terrible had happened. She looked stricken ( 受困 扰的) and I stood worriedly in the doorway until she hung up and told me Dad was in hospital. He had been involved in a road accident and had a severe injury. On that beautiful day, we didn’t have many details about what was going on because the nurse couldn’t disclose a lot through the phone and the unknown was the scariest thing. I had no idea whether my dad was going to live. My mum went alone to the hospital and I stayed at my grandparents’ house. I was too shaken to do anything, so I just sat quietly and hoped that everything would be OK. I don't have any siblings (兄弟姐妹), so Mum and I were the only ones in the house for the eight months when Dad was in hospital. It seemed empty and quiet especially as Mum was sometimes at work when I got back from school. Before Dad went into hospital there had always been someone there asking me about my day and helping me with homework. Now there wasn’t. I became more independent and tried to take care of myself as much as possible. When I think about my life, I split (分成) it into before and after the accident because I feel like a very different, more mature person than the one I was before. Most people’s childhood fades slowly into adolescence and then adult life, but mine ended abruptly (突然地). I was forced to grow up.

6 . I first heard about several cases of coronavirus in January, 2020. But I did not ______ the outbreak to have such a sudden and powerful effect on the rest of the world. In March, towards the end of winter quarter, it was ______ that we would take all the finals online. It was unexpected, and all university teachers and students were _______.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, our University of California at San Diego（UCSD） student-run free dental clinics are closed ______, and most research laboratories are only open for ________ personnel. Thus, I have had a lot more spare time than before, ______ most of the events have been switched to be held online. To ______ time, I learned to follow ______ to make different dishes. The period of quarantine（隔离） has become a time when I can learn some new life ______.

Besides cooking, I have been ______ a new hobby—playing puzzles. At first, solving a puzzle was just a way for me to ______ endurance（忍耐性） and patience. Then I realized that I learned much more than that. When I ______ 1,000 pieces of a puzzle on the table, I ______ not buying a simpler one. I suddenly realized how impatient I was that I couldn’t even focus on such a simpler task.

Electronic devices have been training me to constantly stare at a blinking（闪烁）screen and ____ what I was doing. I decided to solve a puzzle while ______ devices for several hours, and enjoy one simple task like a little child.

When I started to look for different pieces to see if they could fit in a larger ______, I started to look for shortcuts. I tried to collect puzzles with similar patterns or colors and ______ their edges.

During this time, I slowly forgot all the madness and ______ of quarantine life. Every time I got one piece in the right place, I was ______ awarded by such a small success and motivated to keep on trying. It was surprising and unexpected for me to receive so much ______ from focusing on solving puzzles.

Last week, 18-year-old Diana got her yearbook(毕业纪念册). She was looking through it when she noticed a very special student all of     1    sudden. It was a picture of a dog. Diana said,”I thought it was     2     (real) cute, and I knew that some of my     3    (friend) hadn’t seen it yet because they didn’t have their yearbooks so I took a picture and tweeted it.”

Her tweet has since been retweeted     4    (many) than 2500 times.

This very special student is called Alpha, and he’s a service dog for Andrew,     5    is 16 years old and has Type 1 diabetes (I型糖尿病). Alpha’s job is to remind him when his blood sugar is getting too low or high.

“The amazing thing about Alpha is that he knows 20 to 40 minutes before my blood sugar actually does go low or high because     6    his amazing sense of smell,” Andrew said.“He     7    (save) my life many times already, by    8    (wake) me up in the middle of the night to extremely low blood sugars, which are very    9     (danger),” Andrew said, “ I just brought it with me when I got my yearbook picture     10    (take).

Mark Twain was once traveling in French. He went on train to Dijon. He was very tired and wanted to sleep. He asked the conductor to call him up when the train came to Dijon. He explained that he was a heavy sleeper. “I may shout loudly when you will try to wake me up, but don’t take any notice of what I say. Just put me of the train.”

Then Mark Twain went to sleep. When he woke up, the train had already arrived to Paris. He thought the conductor had forgotten wake him up at Dijon. He was very angry that he ran up to the conductor and began to shout at him. “I had never been so angry in my life,” he said.

The conductor looked at him and said, “You are not half so angry like the American whom I put off the train at Dijon.”