Ben is a basketball fan but he is in     1       total mess now. After losing a basketball match, he thought the team     2    (let) down by one member and told a close friend what he thought. To his sorrow, the friend shared his     3    ( disappoint) with others. Now Ben is turning     4     Agony Aunt for help. Agony Aunt shared an old American saying, “Loose lips sink ships.” She asked Ben     5    ( apologise) to his teammate first     6    talk to his friend because friendship is one of the    7    ( great ) things in the world. And most     8    ( important ) , Ben should think about his own behaviour.     9     (fill) with anger, we tend to speak out our minds quickly without thinking clearly. Agony Aunt suggested Ben raise his     10    (concern) with his team coach.

There was a state     1     (call) Zhou (周) in the Chinese history. One day, the king of Zhou asked his officials for advice on     2     (deal) with prisoners of war. An official said, “If you love someone, you     3     (suppose) to love even the crows on the roof of his house. The prisoners of war are enemies fighting     4     us. In my opinion, we’d better kill them all.”

But the king didn’t agree with him. “I think we should treat the prisoners of war     5     (different) by differing them into those     6     are guilty or not. The guilty ones will be sentenced to death in order to avoid future disasters.”

Then another one said, “Your majesty, I think all the prisoners should be set free and sent back home to work in the fields and support     7     (them) by their own labor.     8     , you should keep strictly the rules for reward and     9     (punish). The people are sure to believe in you if you govern our country by morals and laws.”

The king thought the official’s proposal was quite reasonable so he accepted and followed it. As a result,     10     domestic situation soon settled down and gradually the country became stronger.

An old story is told of a king who had a close friend. The friend had a habit of commenting “This is good!” to others and     1     (he) on terrible situations.

One day, the king and his friend were hunting. The friend would load and prepare the guns for the king. The friend had     2     (obvious) done something wrong when preparing the gun, for after taking the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb was blown off. Examining the situation, the friend argued as usual, “This is good!” The king replied, “No, this is not good!” and sent his friend into prison (监牢).

About a year later, the king was hunting in a forest alone.     3     (familiar) with the forest, he lost his way. Some cannibals (食人者) caught him     4     took him to their village. They tied his hands and stacked (堆积) some wood. As they came near to set fire to the wood, they noticed that the king missed a thumb. So they sent him on his way.     5     did they do so? Because they never ate anyone that was not whole.

    6     (return) home, he remembered the event that had taken his thumb. He was in     7     (eager) to go to the prison and speak to his friend, “You were right,” he said, “it was good that my thumb was gone.” He told the friend everything     8     had happened. “Sorry for sending you into prison for so long.”

His friend just gave     9     same reply, “This is good! ” The king was     10     (confuse), “What do you mean? How could it be good that I sent you into prison for a year?” “If I had not been in prison, I would have been with you.”

Yesterday I went to the shops, I was a bit tired but     1     (extreme) happy to be out and about. I bought some flowers for my neighbour Amanda.     2     has just become my friend. About two     3     (week) ago. I dropped in and she told me how much she loved flowers. So I bought her the flowers     4     that reason and dropped in again, But I didn’t know that she had had a small stroke (中风) while she was driving.

Thanks to the timely medical treatment, she was recovering. We held hands.     5     (talk) sweetly. I made her day as she hadn’t been given flowers in years, I spent the rest of     6    day with her and looked after her. Amanda lives alone without any family member after she lost her husband last year. Tomorrow, I’m going to look through my DVDs to give her something     7     (cheer) and happy. 1 think she     8     (discourage) after what happened. 1also think of getting a taxi and shopping together with her after her full     9     (recover).

I’m really glad that I can be of service, and that I can be directed in ways     10     (show) my love.

Last week, I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Rush Hospital. In one of the rooms a patient, who was an old man, got up from his bed and moved slowly towards me. I could see that he hadn’t a long time to live, but incredibly he came up to me and placed his right foot close to mine on the floor.

“Frank!” I cried in surprise.     1     response to my cry, he couldn’t answer, as I knew, but he tried to smile, all the time keeping his foot close to mine.

My thoughts raced back to more than thirty years ago—to the dark days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The scene was an air-raid shelter (防空洞), in which about a hundred people slept every night. The aim to stay there was to guarantee     2     (we) safety. Among them were Mrs. West and her son Frank, who lived nearby. Sharing wartime problems, we got to know each other very well. Why Frank interested me was     3     he was not normal. He had never been normal ever since he was born. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had less of a mind than a baby had. Mrs. West, then 75, was a strong, able woman, as she had to be of course, because Frank relied on her completely. She had to watch     4     her disabled son carefully.     5     (raise) her disabled son was no easy job. She was often stressed out. She was a     6     (represent) of a kind and devoted mother, who was     7     (worth) of people’s praise.

One night a policeman came into our shelter and told Mrs. West that her house     8     (destroy) already. That wasn’t quite true. Though     9     (damage) badly, their house could still be used because the Wests went on living there for quite some time. But they certainly lost nearly everything they owned.

Before we separated that morning, I stood beside Frank and measured my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night then, I took a spare pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. As soon as he saw me, he came running-and placed his right foot against mine     10     (repeated). After that, he always greeted me in the same way.

An elephant was standing and picking leaves from a tree. A small fly (苍蝇) came,     1     (fly) near his ear. The elephant waved it away     2     his long ears. Then the fly came again, and the elephant waved it away again. This was repeated several times. Then the elephant got impatient and asked the fly, “Why are you so restless and     3     (noise)? Why can’t you stay for     4     while in one place?” The fly answered, “I     5     (attract) to whatever I see, hear or smell. My five senses pull me constantly in all     6     (direct) and I cannot resist them. What is your secret? How can you stay so calm and still?” The elephant stopped     7     (eat) and told it, “My five senses do not rule my attention. Whatever I do, I always focus on it,     8     is my secret. Now that I am eating, I     9     (complete) focus on eating. In this way I can enjoy my food and chew (咀嚼)     10     better. I rule and control my attention so that I can enjoy everything that I am doing.”

Last summer, Katie Steller was on her way to work. She stopped at a traffic light, where a man, in his 60s,     1     (apparent)looking out of luck, was sitting alone. She rolled down her window.“Hey!”she shouted.“I’m driving around to give free haircuts, Do you want one right now?”The man, missing a few teeth, paused and laughed.“Actually,”he said,“at this time tomorrow, I    2    (attend)a funeral(葬礼)of my friend. I was really hoping to get my hair cut.”

Then, Steller unloaded a red chair from the car. The man, named Edward, took a seat. As his curly graying hair was being cut by Steller, he told her about growing up in Mississippi, about moving to Minnesota, and no matter    3    busy he was, he still talked to his mom over the phone every day. He said his family consisted    4    four people and that he had been living in Minnesota for about ten years. The    5    (interact)between them was very relaxing and constructive.

Steller knows that a haircut can change a life. One changed hers: As a teen, she suffered from ulcerative colitis(溃疡性结肠炎)that was so serious, her hair thinned severely. Seeing this, her mother arranged for Steller’s first professional haircut.

“To sit down and have somebody look at me and talk to me like a person and not just a sick person helped me feel cared about and less alone,”she says.

After that, Steller knew she wanted to have her own hair salon so she could help people feel the way she’d felt that day. Not long after finishing cosmetology school(美容学校)in 2016, she realized her dream. Two years later, she began what she now calls her Red Chair Project,    6    (reach)out to people on the streets.

Steller said,“As you know, I can’t have their problems    7    (fix), but maybe I can help    8    (they)feel less alone for a moment.”Steller listens to people’s stories of loss, addiction, and struggle to get back on their feet.

An offshoot(衍生物)of the Red Chair Project is the Steller Kindness Project, in which people who commit acts of kindness are invited for a free makeover(美容)at Steller’s salon, In exchange, they tell their stories, which Steller shares on her website. It is her hope that by reading about kind acts, others will be inspired to do their own.

    9    is evident that it has been working well.“You have no idea what people are going to do with the kindness that you give to them. Kindness and generosity can contribute to a    10    (harmony)society,”says Steller.

Way Bandy has graduated from the University of South Florida St.Petersburg(USFSP)nearly 50 years after he was last in school.

The grandfather of eight,81 years old,     1    (earn)his bachelor's degree on Dec.15,when he walked across the graduation stage     2    （receive)his diploma.His wife Nancy and youngest son Kyle were cheering for him in the audience.The ceremony came after a longtime promise to his mother,     3    died in 2003."The thing my mother drilled into me as a child was,'The two most important things       4    (be) your health and your word of honor.I want your word of honor that one day you'll go back and get your degree,"Bandy recalled.

Bandy dropped out of school to get married and started     5     family.But after his mother's death, Bandy collected his college transcripts(成绩单），    6    (apply)to USFSP since he required one course to graduate.     7    (final) after studying hard to pass his exam in biology,Bandy,as the class of 2019's     8    （old)graduate,earned a B in the class.

Bandy hopes to inspire other     9    (student),of any age and generation,to complete school if they have the opportunity to."Take your time,stay ahead of your goal and promise     10    （you) you'll finish. Whatever motivates you to do it,do it.If I can do it,anybody can-and I promise that from the bottom of my heart."he advised.

My first day at senior high     1     （final） arrived after I had pictured it over and over again in my mind. I woke up early and     2     （rush） out of the door in my eagerness to get to know my new school.

The campus was still quiet when I arrived, so I decided     3     （explore） a bit. I was looking at the photos on the noticeboard     4     I heard a voice behind me.     5     （turn） around, I saw an older man. When my English teacher stepped into the classroom, I was surprised to see     6     same older man I had met earlier. He asked us to introduce ourselves to the class one by one. When I introduced my name, everyone started laughing. I looked at them in panic. At last I found I shared the same name     7     my teacher. However, I had been too nervous to pay attention when he introduced himself!

When we had all introduced ourselves, the teacher also advised us to keep calm and prepare     8     （we） for the unknown.

People say, “ Well begun, half     9     （do）. “   I guess this was a good     10     （begin） to my new school life.