I had to wait for them to call number 63 before I could get my food.     1     (give) a plate by a lady, I felt ashamed, embarrassed. I wondered if she thought that I was worse than her.   However, before I knew it, I received my food: a little container with a meal and some pudding. I did not have to look at the woman any more.     2     feeling of shame slowly disappeared.

Ivon suggested that we walk to Bayside. When we arrived, Ivon told me     3     desperately had to use the bathroom. He began to take     4     from his pocket that he wanted to leave with me. I thought it was a phone,     5     it was a knife. “You never know when you have to use this,” he said.

After about twenty minutes, Ivon came back. He suggested     6     we move nearer to the Miami River where it was cooler. I walked down the street,     7     (hold) the plastic bag with my food. We settled down under some coconut trees. He pointed out some police officers     8     (stand) in an area where the     9     (home) used to sleep next to a hotel.

“I guess they didn’t want us next to the hotel. You can’t have people looking     10     of their windows and seeing us,” he said.

Lynn Colwell is a mixed-media artist in Redmond, Washington. In primary school, a teacher told her she     1     (have) no artistic talent and Lynn believed her. Until 2015, that is, when she retired, looking to start     2     new interest, she took a year-long online painting class.

She started painting striking portraits of women’s faces,     3     (combine) with short messages of hope. In five years, she’s completed about 1,000 paintings. Lynn gives her paintings away. She started with friends, but that only went so far. Then she read about a     4     (move) called Art Abandonment,     5     encourages artists to leave their art in public places for anyone to pick up. That gave her the idea of     6     (put) her work into the hands of strangers through Facebook.

Nearly every day, Lynn posts a painting on her Facebook page. Five years later, she’s still     7     (amaze) at the results. So far, her paintings     8     (raise) more than $57,000 for nonprofits such as animal rescue centers, homeless shelters     9     food pantries (食品分发处) as well as for people who have lost     10     (they) jobs or been overwhelmed with medical bills.

Xing Yifan was born with CMD (先天性肌营养不良). The disease resulted     1     Yifan having little muscle growth. The disease also affected his fingers, making     2     more difficult for him to write.

“The disease makes him lose independence. He has never walked on his own and can only sit with a support,” his father Xing Dacheng said. “Every 30     3    （minute）, to have a rest, he has to lie down, even in the classroom.”

“We are so     4     （thank）to the teachers and leaders from his primary school to senior high school,” the father said. “They never refused to give him chances     5    （receive）good education,     6     Yifan and the other members of our family will remember forever.”

After entering high school, the young man studied more seriously. Over the past 3 years he     7    （win）many prizes and set an example to classmates. Now, Yifan has been admitted to Beihang University with a score of 645 out of a possible 750 points in this year’s national college entrance examination.

When     8    （ask）what motivates him to study hard, he said, “I was     9    （complete）inspired when I read the story of British physicist Stephen Hawking. I’ll continue working hard at the university in the hope of     10     （be）a person like him, who changed the world with knowledge.”

A wise and wealthy man bought a beautiful house with a huge garden. However, not all people     1     (feel) happy for him. A man who disliked him lived in one of     2     old houses next to him. He constantly tried     3     (make) his fellow neighbour’s stay in the beautiful house as terrible as possible. And he     4     (regular) threw garbage under his gate and did other bad     5     (thing).

One fine day, the wise man woke up in a good mood (情绪). He opened the gate and a big bag full of garbage     6     (see) right in the doorway. He emptied the bag of garbage and cleaned the bag. Then he filled the bag     7     many freshly-picked apples and went to his neighbour’s door.

    8     (hear) a knock on his door, the neighbor excitedly thought, “I finally got him! ” He answered the door, ready to quarrel with     9     (he) wealthy neighbour. However, the wise man gave him the bag of apples, saying, “The person     10     is rich in something shares it with others.” The neighbour felt ashamed and said sorry to the wise man.

As a foreigner, I think life in China is amazing, but     1     sometimes worries me is just the     2    (absent) of manned payment counters. The first time I scanned barcodes (条形码) on goods, I ended up paying 40 yuan more. I went to look for a salesperson in the store, but she couldn’t explain how     3     (get) my money back, despite our     4     (use) translation apps.

I didn’t go to that store any     5     (much) until a Chinese speaking friend helped me claim     6     money, which I paid for goods by mistake. Then I went back to buy things from there again.

However, I ran into trouble one day after a software was upgraded. I was unable to include the hot chocolate after scanning the code of other     7     (buy) things. I again went to seek help     8     the salesperson. She helped me find it, clicking an icon (图标) that showed 5 yuan. “That’s 5 yuan?” I asked. I didn’t know why I     9     (assume) it cost 3.50 yuan before. Had there been a manned counter, I would have escaped this embarrassment. Before rushing away, I was spared further shame when the salesperson said, “It doesn’t matter.” But now, I     10     (gradual) feel the convenience of mobile payment and fall in love with shopping in China.