2 . In the summer of 2018, I decided to do a solo expedition (独自探险) across Antarctica. To get some ________, I did a two-week training course. I learned all the ________: how to camp in the snow, how to pull a sled and what clothing to wear. In October, I flew to Antarctica from Punta Arenas. I’d allowed 70 days, which would make it the longest ________ one-way expedition across Antarctica

I only took ________. I didn’t even take a hairbrush. The first few days were ________. The winds were about 60 mph, and my sled weighed 120 kg. Even if the visibility is good, you can’t ________ much — it’s a white horizon. I was on the move for 13 to 15 hours a day.

Then, I found the conditions to be much worse. There was more sastrugi (雪脊) and it felt colder. The last 40 hours were really hard. I ________ about 14 times every two hours. As a result, I fell behind ________. In the end, I ________ 922 miles and fell more than 100 miles short of my goal. Towards the end of my trip, a helicopter flew to pick me up. The ________ I felt when I saw the dot in the distance was unbelievable.

It took me a while to be ________ of what I’d achieved, because I had failed to reach my ________ goal, but I’ve learned it’s ________to move the goalposts. I don’t agree with the idea of conquering (征服) somewhere. You treat places with ________ and hope they’ll allow you ________ passage.

5 . For as long as I can remember, I’ve been part of a team of some sort of extracurricular (课外的) sport. I started swimming at a young age and then I was ________ to water polo (水球).

Water polo is a ________ sport. We grow together, we hang out together, and we succeed together. ________ in this sport depends on the successes of each other rather than the success of the ________. This is important because we all realize that ________ we can grow fast alone, we grow more and get closer to our goals ________.

I was never good when I first started a sport. To be honest, it was ________ when I first started playing water polo. My coach has always ________ me. She once said that we’re never going to be ________ at first and that’s okay because we can always get better. And get better? I did. No matter how ________ I got I noticed that there was always somewhere I was lacking and somewhere I could ________.

Being an athlete is ________. You have to wake up early every day. You have to ________ yourself every day. You have to balance your life outside of sport. But for me, ________ is never an option. I knew that simply throwing in the towel would cause me to be filled with great regret. So don’t let hard work ________ your desire to become someone greater than you are today.

7 . When the weather starts to warm up, we love heading to the beach for a few days. During one such trip, after a few days of being _________ on the beach and spending too much time walking the boardwalk, we decided to go for a _________.

We _________ a car for the day and drove to Key West. Our _________ was to enjoy a scenic drive on Highway 1 and maybe try some pie and head back, but the day _________ to be more memorable than that.

It was a breathtaking drive and we kept our eyes glued to the window. The scenery was _________ and felt like we were driving over water. When we were closer to Key West, _________ my husband-stopped the car, grabbed his camera, and ran out looking up at the sky—_________ me looking at him confused (困惑的).

After a few minutes of looking and pointing at a shiny object in the sky, he was pretty _________ to announce he’d spotted a UFO. I should __________ here that he loves sci-fi movies and UFO shows and strongly __________ we are not alone.

We eventually got back in the __________, stopped at a nearby store, and asked someone in the parking lot, “Do you see that shiny thing in the sky?” The man looked up and __________, “Do you mean that weather blimp (气象飞艇)?” The shiny object in the sky was not an unidentified flying object or alien craft but a weather blimp.

It is one of the short funny travel __________ that always come up when we talk about our __________. It starts with one of the kids saying “Remember the time when Dad thought he saw a UFO...?” and always makes us laugh.

8 . Michael Coyne has autism (自闭症), He began searching for jobs when he was 21 years old, but he had no ________. It was hard for his mother Sheila Coyne to see her autistic son get________repeatedly in his job search. She suggested to him that he take a________path in life. That’s when Michael began________business classes that were provided by a state-funded program for________people. Shortly after completing his course work, he________ a coffee shop of his own. Coyne says that the business is growing.

The store has a Facebook page that describes the________of the business. “We are a family. owned coffee shop serving up________a cup of coffee. We employ people with development a disabilities, encourage community engagement, and________the way the world sees those with disabilities. "

People have left________reviews on the company’s Facebook page praising the service they have received at the coffee shop. They also________the outstanding work that the family has done in succeeding with their business and in the transformative message their company has________.

Families who have children with disabilities have found the place to be a________spot to visit in their community. Seeing the success that Michael has had with his coffee shop. parents have renewed________that their own disabled children will find success in their________ as well.

9 . Isabel Navarro has proved that hard work and a love for learning can help you achieve your dreams. The elementary school cleaner never ______ her lifelong dream of becoming an educator. Now the 35 year old woman from Waco, Texas, has _____ a teacher’s assistant at Spring Valley Elementary in the Midway ISD.

Navarro grew up in Mexico, but at the time, her family _____ to make ends meet. Unfortunately, she had to _____ high school as a teenager so that she could work and start _____ for her family. She moved to the United States in 2009, and first worked in housekeeping for a while before finally _____ a job at Woodway Elementary in 2013 as a custodian (管理员). She got the work to ____ the classrooms at Spring Valley Elementary in 2016. However, she always knew she enjoyed communicating with the children and wanted to make a real ______ in the classroom as an educator.

“When I was a child, I ______ wanted to be a teacher,” she told KWTX. “I started working at 15 years old to ______ my parents at home and now I can finish my education and follow my dream.” She worked really hard to achieve that dream. The _____ mom of three obtained her General Equivalency Diploma (GED), which was extremely ______ for her as English is her second language.

Navarro ____ Spring Valley Elementary School Principal Kappy Edwards. “I’m very proud of Isabel’s_____ and commitment to furthering her education, obtaining her GED and transforming into a new role within Spring Valley,” Edwards said. “This ____ shows her admirable devotion and serves as an inspiring example for others.”

10 . A boat launched by American middle schoolers has been discovered in Norway, 462 days and more than 8,300 miles later. It was an ______ journey for the 5.5-foot boat.

In 2020, students of Rye Junior High School ______ an ocean-theme project. They assembled (组装) a boat and got ready to ______ it. However, COVID-19 ______ classes online. They figured out a way to beautify the boat remotely. The boat ______ in October.

The students kept the track of the boat’s ______ on a map whenever its Global Positioning System (GPS) sounded After about 10 months at sea, the GPS began reporting only occasionally. Then, on Jan. 30, the GPS reported ______ —this time from a small island in Norway. The school ______ a notice on its website asking for the safe collection of the boat if possible. The ______ also made its way onto the Facebook page of a nearby Norwegian community.

That’s where the family of a local sixth-grader, Karel Nuncic, ______ the boat. The family boated out to the island and ______ the boat. The next day, Nuncic brought the boat to his school, where students opened the hatch (舱口) to find the messages and the gifts that the middle schoolers had ______ inside nearly two years before. The Norwegian ______ said they would write a letter to their new American friends.

After 462 days and 13,412 km of ______ across the Atlantic Ocean, the messages inside the boat have formed a new ______ between schools.