1 . John entered a college and often worked late until 12 at night.He fell into the _______ of smoking a year ago.He smoked so much that he_______had a cigarette on his lips.He_______ while he read，while he watched television and _______ while he drank a cup of coffee or tea.He smoked nearly forty cigarettes a day, but he was _______about it.

John's friend，Frank，_______many times to _______ him not to smoke.“Smoking is bad for your _______!” he said, “You’d better give it up.”But his advice didn’t _______.

Before long，John ________ that he often got a bad cough，________ he went to see a doctor.The doctor________ him carefully and asked whether he often smoked.John told him the ________.Then the doctor told him that his cough was ________ by smoking and he wouldn’t get any better unless he stopped smoking.

“If not,” said the doctor, “you will never ________ from your cough and some other illnesses may also be caused.” John became ________ and made up his mind to give up smoking.At the beginning，it was very ________ for him.Every ________ when he wanted to smoke，he got something to eat.At last，he was not ________ smoking at all.And he no longer had ________ .

2 . A Game of Light and Shade

It was a sunny day. I had gone up and down the tower when, outside the door at the foot, a blind man came toward me. In a moment, he disappeared up the stairs. I looked at the sign that said “To the Tower”, and decided to _______ him.

I caught up with him in the ticket office. There I was _______ to see the attendant (工作人员) selling him a ticket as if he were any other visitor. Then, with the ticket in one hand and _______ the wall with the fingers of the other, the blind man reached the stairs _________ to the hallway.

“That man is blind. What would a blind man climb up the tower for?” I said to the attendant, expecting him to show some _______, but he didn’t answer.

“Not the _______ certainly,” I said. “Perhaps he wants to _______.”

I bought a ticket and _______ up the stairs. The man hadn’t gone as far as I _______. A third of the way up the tower, I heard his ________. I slowed down and followed him at a little ________. He stopped from time to time. When he got to the balcony, I was a dozen steps ________. As I reached it, I saw him at the corner of the tower.

At last, after ten minutes, I ________ him. “Excuse me,” I said as politely as I could, “but I am curious to know ________ you came up.”

He smiled. “Coming up the stairs, you will notice how not just light but sun ________ into the tower through the narrow windows here and there, so that you can feel the ________ —the cool stairs suddenly become quite warm—and how up here behind the wall there is ________, but as soon as going opposite a window you can find the sun. There is no ________ so good as this for feeling the difference between light and shade. It is not the first time I’ve come up.”

The blind man seemed quite ________ just like a child who was enjoying his favorite games. He told me the truth that blind men can also find the beauty in life ________ they cannot enjoy the sights of the world.

3 . Paen Long has had a dream ever since he saw a plane for the first time at the age of six. His dream was to ____ a plane. Last year, the 30-year-old man started building his plane ____. “I was afraid that people would ____ me, so sometimes I worked at night,” he said. It was a long time ____ he put his dream into practice. Paen Long tried to build his own plane, using the money he had ____ from running his own garage (汽车修理厂). He has spent three years ____ YouTube videos in order to ____ how to make a plane.

It took him a year to build his plane, using mostly recycled materials. The plane’s first ____ came at 3 pm on 8^th, March. Local villagers gathered excitedly to watch the plane fly. ____, the plane only got 50 m in the air before crashing (撞击) to the ____. “When all people were looking at me, I felt very ____,” he said.

Although the first try ____. Paen Long remains ____. His next project is to build a seaplane. Paen Long thinks the plane will cost over $10,000. “I never feel ____ for spending all my money building a plane,” he said.

His wife, Hing Muoyheng, ____ about her husband, especially as they have two young sons. However, she has no ____. “I don’t know how planes work and he doesn’t have any ____ to help him. He can only search for information himself,” she said, “I tried to ask him to ____ a few times because I was afraid, but he said he wouldn’t ____, so I have to support his ____.”

4 . I had a student today who got his finger stuck inside a test tube in science class. It was really quite stuck. This young man’s finger _______to get whiter and whiter right before my eyes.

Remaining _____ , I suggested he carefully rotate (转动) the tube. It wouldn’t move a bit. He     _____soap and cold water. Still stuck. Meanwhile_______was breaking out in the class. Finally, I     _____the young man to our secretary, who was a miracle (奇迹) worker ______ three kids of her own. With her in charge, I was_______ all would be OK.

To get the students back in order, I _____ my own story of getting my _______stuck between the rails of a balcony. Same kind of curiosity, I remembered________then how far I could thrust (塞) my knee between the rails. Inch by inch, I kept _______and before I knew it, my knee was stuck and _____ before my eyes and in front of lots of _______at a popular Las Vegas hotel!

Hearing my story, many students followed with their own________of heads, arms, fingers stuck in places they shouldn’t ______. A few minutes later, the young man came back, test tube unbroken and finger________to a lovely shade of pink.

I just couldn’t _______this kid. He’s only twelve. I too got my knee unstuck, but not without great ______. The excuse for me, however, was not ______ but plain stupidity. I was ______ fifty years old when this happened.

5 . I was afraid to fly alone，but Dad put me on board anyway and a steward was keeping an eye on me through the flight．

___ came to land．

As we broke through the clouds，I could see lights below and knew we were getting close to the ____ ．When we came to the runway(跑道)，however，I realized we were going too   __ ! I turned and looked back：no one seemed to be acting   __—it seemed to be fine．The lights were gone when suddenly someone shouted，“Look，the runway’s   __   !”

I looked up ahead and saw a busy road．There were lots of ___   that must have seen us became some of them   __   their cars．We crossed the road，and I felt ____ ，not knowing whether we were going to ran over or be hit by the cars ! ____ was with us，but not for long．

We ____ nose down onto some ground．The steward came，“Have to ____ !”I didn’t   __   and immediately unfastened my seat belt．Through the window I saw ____ sign．A   __   thought crossed my mind that the plane could be sitting on gas tanks and it might   __   ！

The exits were opend and crow crew   __   to help get people down out．When I did touch the grotmd．I wanted to ___   ，still fearing the explosion．The gas tanks were ____ and the flight attent passed me my cell phone by which I called my grandparents，Who were waiting for ____ from me．Although they knew no one was dead，they were still glad I was ___ !

6 . At the age of 14, Harvey Bay teenager Mark Farrell took a dive into a swimming pool that would _______ his life forever.

“I jumped into the pool and broke my _______,” he says. It’s a very _______ story because I jumped into the deep end, not the shallow end where most spinal (脊柱的)_______ occur.”

Mark has been in a wheelchair ever since and now, at 27,is very calm about any _______ life might throw at him. In fact, he finds it _______ to name any challenge at all. “I just live my life and _______ it day by day,” he says.

For the past few years, Mark has _______ with the Spinal Education Awareness Team (SEAT), telling his _______ to young people in the Harvey Bay region. He also works as a whale ________, taking photos for various publications and calendars. “If I can ________ one kid’s life, it makes every single ________ I do worthwhile,” he says.

The aim of the SEAT program is to ________ students to prevent spinal injuries and help them to ________ understand the challenges and feeling of the people who ________ with a spinal injury.

Mark discusses the importance of checking the ________ of water before diving in and being more ________ in general. He has told thousands of school students his story over the years and says that if his ________ can prevent one spinal injury in a young person, he’s ________. Mark’s contribution to preventing spinal injuries was ________ in 2017, when he was named Young Australian of the Year.

7 . Double Trouble

When I was eight, I wanted a toy and needed $10 to buy it. But, as usual, I was broken. I decided to ask my 11-year-old sister, Kathleen, for a loan. I went to her room, _______her for the cash. Laughing, she agreed to_______ me the money, but added, “I will charge you 10 percent compound interest every ______until you pay me back.”

“Compound interest---what’s that?” I asked.

“Well, interest is what you call the_______money borrowers have to pay back on a loan,” she explained. “Compound interest means that the interest payments get bigger and bigger the______you take to pay back the loan. To repay the loan, you will need to give me $11 after one month. If you wait two months to pay me back, your______ will grow from $10 to $11. So I’ll be charging you interest on $11. Then I will add that interest to the $11 you already owe me, for a _____of $12.10. That’s what you’ll owe after two months.”

“Sure. I get it,” I said. Though truthfully, I was getting ______.

Kathleen lent me the money, and I bought the toy. My birthday came a month later, and my mom gave me $10.     _____,that was just the amount I needed to buy another toy I wanted ______. I put off paying my sister for a month. After another month, I_______about the loan.

Several months later, on Christmas morning, my sister and I each found a $02 bill in our stockings. I was just putting it into my pocket ______Kathleen tapped me on the shoulder.

“Sorry, kiddo. That’s mine. I’m ______on your debt.”

“Huh?” Then I remembered the loan. “Hey! How can it be that much? I ______borrowed $10.”

“True,” she said, “but interest has been compounding for eight months. Now you _____me $21.43.” She paused, then added. “You can pay me the $1.43.”

I ______to believe that a $10 loan could more than double so quickly. Much to my ______, my sister got her pencil and tablet and showed me exactly how it all added up.

My head _____as I tried to keep track of Kathleen’s ______, but this time, I got the basic idea of compound interest. I ______the hard way that borrowing money can be “double trouble” in no time.

8 . After work one day, I grabbed a pizza for dinner at the mall. As I was heading home, I saw a girl sitting in a corner of the mall. Her hair covered her face and her body was_______. I determined to walk past her_________that’s what we often do. But something made me turn_________. I learned her age, and why she begged for money and lived on the streets. Her parents_______years ago and she suffered from a serious skin disease. She was_______to work because of her disability and had to live in the safest place she could_______. She had stayed in shelters in the past, but was treated_______. She had to seek shelter from the mall to keep_________on cold days, but even the mall she said wasn’t_________because security(保安) always threw her out.

I’m one of those people who used to believe there was a system of ________ to help her. Ideally, I would like to believe in that. I used to think maybe one day I would________“them”. Maybe one day I would win the lottery(彩票). But when I________that girl, I thought to my self, what if no one ever helped her? What if this so called________system that I believed in didn’t even know or ________her existence? What if I didn’t ________any money? What if she was not going to be around long enough to __________that “one day”?

I didn’t really think about what happened next. I ________my dinner with her and gave her all the money I had. When security came, I talked them into assisting her ________driving her away like they usually did.

Don’t ________one day to come before you help someone. Now is that one day—not tomorrow, not next week. If you can do something to ease someone else’s ________, don’t wait for that distant one day. Be the one day. Be it now.

9 . The room in the workhouse where the boys were fed was a large stone hall, and at one end the master and two women served the food. This ________ a bowl of thin soup three times a day, with a piece of bread on Sundays. The boys ate ________ and were always hungry. The bowls never needed ________. The boys polished them with their spoons until they ________. After three months of this slow starvation, one of the boys told the others that so hungry was he ________ one night he might eat the ________ sleeping next to him. He had a wild ________ eye, and the other boys ________ him. After a long ________, they decided that one of them should ask for more food after supper that evening, and Oliver was ________.

The evening arrived; the soup was served, and the bowls were ________ again in a few seconds. Oliver went up to the master, with his bowl in his hand. He felt very ________, but also ________ with hunger.

“Please, sir, I want some more.”

The master was a fat, healthy man, but he turned very pale. He looked at the little boy in front of him with ________. Nobody else spoke.

“What?” he asked at last, in a ________ voice.

“Please, sir,” replied Oliver, “I want some more.”

The master ________ him with the serving spoon, then seized Oliver’s arms and ________ for the beadle (执事). The beadle came quickly, heard the terrible news, and immediately ran to tell the board.

“He asked for me?” Mr Limbkins, the fattest board member, asked in ________. “Is this really true?”

_____, Oliver was led away to be locked up, and a(n) ________ of five pounds was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work.

In 2014 I was 22 years old and had just come back to Brazil after 14 months in England, holding my Cambridge Proficiency certificate. After nervously _______ a short training course, I began to give class to my 12 students, all of them older than I was. I _______ hard to remain calm in class and _______ they wouldn't find out how unconfident I felt a lot of the time. I was quite _______, actually, until the end of _______ and the night of the final oral test.

The test was going to start at 7 pm, and at 6:50, I _______ myself in the teachers' bathroom to _______ all the test questions again. I really wanted to learn the _______ by heart so no one would think I was an inexperienced tester. The _______ is, I actually locked myself in the bathroom. I __________ couldn't get out! The bell rang at 7 pm and I could hear the noise in the halls __________ the students went to their rooms. I tried hard to __________ the bathroom door, but failed.

I heard the cleaning lady's voice and asked for help as __________ as I could. However, she wasn't exactly a thoughtful person, and started __________: “Diana's locked in the bathroom!” Shame had fallen upon me! __________ the course director, the secretary and some teachers were outside the bathroom trying to get me out, and, __________, my students gathered outside too, happily saying things like “Aren't we __________! No test today !” All I could do was __________, feeling miserable and utterly stupid. The door finally opened, and my entire __________ was waiting for me outside, naughty smiles on their faces. “__________! Teacher.” they said, “we know you are human too!”

They all passed their test. True to the Brazilian style, we all went out for a beer afterward, and laughed the whole thing off.