Henry Tyler made the catch of the year on the weekend. When he saw a young child hanging from a sixth-floor apartment balcony (阳台), Henry ran one hundred metres, jumped over a 1.2-metre fence, and held out his arms to catch the     1     (fall) child.

Eric Brown, only three years old, knocked Henry down when he fell. The boy is in the hospital and doctors say he'll be OK.

    2     Brown family live in an apartment building outside Toronto. On the day of the accident, Mrs. Brown was at work and Eric was at home with his father. They both fell     3     (sleep) while watching TV.

Eric woke up a little later when he heard children playing outside. He pushed a chair onto the balcony, and climbed up     4     (see) them. When he looked down, he     5     (accidental) slipped and fell over the edge. He hung on for a few minutes     6     screamed for his father, but his father didn't hear him.

Henry     7     (fix) his car when he heard the screams. He looked up and saw Eric hanging from the balcony. He quickly     8     (throw) his tools aside, and started running, arms out.

"He saved my     9     (son) life," said Mrs. Brown. "I don't know     10     to thank him.”

"I just didn't want the boy to be hurt," said Henry.

25-year-old Wan Minghui is a girl from a small city of Zigong in Sichuan Province. When she was young, she grew up closely with her grandparents. Now her grandfather is 84 years old,       1    (live) alone after her grandmother passed away. During an unannounced visit    2    him one day in May, Wan noticed his loneliness,    3    made her sad. Then an idea came to mind that she would quit her job to accompany him and set out to help him realize some of his wishes on his bucket list.

However, neither her parents    4    her grandfather agreed with her decision to quit her job, afraid that it would harm her career development. To make    5    living after quitting,she got three part-time jobs,including writing advertising online. So they    6    (final) agreed. Wan began to record her grandpa’s life in videos, which were posted to Douyin (抖音). Recently，the short videos under the names “Fulfilling Grandpa’s 100 Wishes ” and “Taking Grandpa for Travel”    7     (view) more than 100 million times, receiving more than five million likes and a long list of    8     (comment), including praise for Little Wan, best wishes for her grandfather and discussions about the meaning of life.

Although Wan has to stay up late    9    (work) sometimes, she thinks it’s all worthwhile when she sees her grandpa smile more and more.“She wrote in the video, My grandpa accompanied me as I grew up and I will accompany him as he    10     (grow) old.”

Zheng Chao, who grew up in Jiaoyao village, a high-altitude mountainous area with poor land, was raised by tea. His family, which has been growing tea     1     three generations, used to have trouble putting food on the table,     2     now he earns 70, 000 yuan a year just from selling tea.

In 2019, Kuang and seven other young people in the village set up a tea cooperative. With the support of the economic cooperative in their village, they     3     (successful) integrated the resources of the tea industry, and carried out the model of unified (统一的) planting, fertilization, processing and sales, attempting     4     (achieve) high quality and a good flavor. An old house in the village     5       (transform) into a tea processing and exhibition workshop, while the house facing the green     6     (mountain)and the tea garden became a separate tea tasting room.

Last year, the cooperative assigned 40 percent of its     7     (expect) earnings to the shareholders in the village.     8     Mao Huayan, Kuang’s wife, received her bonus of 1,097 yuan, she felt like a child     9     (get) “lucky” money during Spring Festival. More important was the     10         (industry)development that helped them to accumulate wealth.

Peter lived in a village. He was always upset and treated others     1     (bad). He enjoyed himself by making other     2     (villager) unhappy. So the whole village avoided     3     (he) as much as they could. On the day when he turned eighty,     4     unusual thing happened. Everyone     5     (hear) the words. “Peter looks happy today. Instead of     6     (say) something bad, he smiles to everyone he meets.” When the whole village got together, Peter     7     (ask) why. He answered, “I’d been running after my happiness     8     eighty years, but it was     9     (use). And then I decided to live without it and just enjoy life. That’s the reason     10     I’m happy now.”

Disha Florence never thought she would become a web novel writer. The lady from Bangladesh, was trying to find a way to free herself from the restrictions faced by a woman,     1     wish she has had since she was 8. It was then that she observed that being a girl     2     (mean) she couldn’t play in the park like boys, and that she needed to learn to do housework.

As she grew up, she realized that     3     experience and knowledge, it’s impossible to be free. Therefore, while     4     (continue) her study, Florence worked as a volunteer, going to places and meeting people with or without her parents’     5     (permit).” Her father told her, “You need to make your own money to do as you wish.” Florence found this advice     6     (logic), but didn’t know what to do.

At 22, she noticed on the Chinese reading app Webnovel that the website was hiring authors who     7     (say) to be able to make much money.

Without thinking     8     (far), Florence started writing and became a professional web novelist.     9     (inspire) by popular Chinese “CEO novels” on the app, Florence wrote her first book. This story about self-respect and self-love,     10     characters are Chinese, is set in Europe.

Now Florence has about 164,200 readers on Webnovel and is working on another two books.

10 . 语法填空

Do you think obtaining an academic degree is a very difficult task? Try 145. Professor VN Parthiban, who teaches in Chennai, India,     1     (obtain) 145 degrees over the last 30 years and has no plans     2     (stop) studying soon.

Parthiban’s journey started after he struggled     3     his first degree. He was a disorganized student     4     would often mix up coursework and study for the wrong test— leading him to fail major exams and projects. After he graduated. Parthiban got a job working for the Judiciary Department, but the desire to study never     5     (complete) went away. Attracted by all the     6     (amaze) subjects and areas of study that were available to     7     (he) in university, Parthiban decided to go back and seek a second degree, and then 143 more. When asked     8     there was a subject he didn’t enjoy studying, Parthiban answered “mathematics” without any doubt.

Unfortunately, there have been some negative side     9     (effect) to his constant studying. The intense absorption of information has influenced Parthiban’s memory and now he even has difficulty in     10     (recognize) people’s faces and routes to places he is familiar with. These troubles have not slowed Parthiban down, however. He still studies while also conducting lectures on many subjects at several universities.