When Mills Godwin High School’s 11th grader Laasya Konidala isn’t studying, you’ll usually find her baking in the kitchen or doing a puzzle with her mother. For her, family is everything. But recently, her family received terrible news.

This past year her grandmother was diagnosed (诊断) with breast cancer. But she didn’t sit back and worry, she     1     (祈祷) for her grandmother and went to work.

“As someone who has a lot of natural curiosity and as a researcher, one of the first things I did was to d    2     into reading articles and papers as much as I can,” Konidala said.

Teaching herself to code (编码), she entered the MEDARVA Science Fair, presenting research that bridges the gap between predicting breast cancer sub-types with good classification models. And she won! It’s research that could help to     3     (发现) and treat breast cancer. As you can imagine, her grandmother is very proud.

“She knew I was into     4     (science) research, but she never expected me to do something directly related to her. She was at a loss for words,” she said.

Her mother, Rekha Rasineni is not. She tells you what a hard worker Laasya can be.

“Some days we tell her ‘You don’t need to be     5     (produce) and working all day. Take it easy.’ But she doesn’t like that. She likes to study and do puzzles and bake and maybe even save lives with her research.”

Mary has a daughter who has already been married and who lives in a city 300 kilometers away from her. Last month Mary received a call from her daughter asking her to move to live together. Before that, Mary       1    (已经独自在农村生活了20年). Although she didn’t want to leave, she packed up and set out the next day in order to take care of her little grandson there.     2    (她本打算乘坐首班火车), but she missed it, for it was the first time that     3     (她独自一人出远门). She had waited at the station for an hour     4     (在下一趟火车到来之前). After a three-hour journey, she finally arrived in the city where her daughter lives.     5     (她一走出火车站) when she got shocked by the prosperity of the city. So far, she       6     (已经逐渐适应了城市生活).

Last week at a dinner party, the hostess asked me to sit next to Mrs. Rumbold. Mrs. Rumbold was a large, unsmiling lady in a tight black dress.     1    .(当我在她身边坐下时，她甚至连头都没抬一下).    2     (她的眼睛盯着自己的盘子，被动句) and in a short time, she was busy eating. I tried to make a conversation. “Will you be spending your holidays abroad this year?”     3    (我微笑着礼貌地问道，“说”动词+副词+神态描写). “No,”    4    (她头也不抬地回答，“说”动词+介词短语). “Will you be staying in England?”    5     (我继续用温和的语气说，“说”动词+语气). “No,” she shook her head.     6     (我绝望地问她晚餐是否吃得好，间接引语，“说”动词+介词短语). “Young man,”    7     (她用一种恼火的声音回答，“说”动词+声音), “if you ate more and talked less, we would both enjoy our dinner!”