A household robot named Tony was going to     1     (test) out in a family by Claire. Claire didn’t like the idea at the beginning, but she agreed     2     it at last. At the first sight of Tony, Claire was alarmed, for the robot seemed more like a human     3     a machine, handsome with smooth hair and a deep voice. When Tony offered to help her dress, Claire felt embarrassed. Claire complained that she wasn’t clever and Tony showed sympathy for her,     4     she thought was quite ridiculous.     5     (gradual), Tony began to win Claire’s trust. As a favor, Tony helped Claire make     6     (she) smarter and her home more elegant. In     7     expensive clothes shop, when the saleswoman was rude to her, she rang Tony up for help. Tony made the woman change her impolite attitude and Claire was grateful to Tony,     8     (say) that he was a “dear”. However, the scene was discovered by Gladys Claffern and thus Claire felt     9     (guilt). Claire wept sorrowfully after arriving home. To comfort her, Tony suggested that she     10     (invite) Gladys and her friends to the house which would have been completely transformed by them.

5 . In October, our student union held an online culture cafe to allow our schoolmates to learn how to make Chinese dumplings together. The international group ________ members from China, India, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia.

After ________ the process of making dumplings, we wrapped the meat filling into the center of the dumpling. Some foreign schoolmates were quite ________ because they didn’t know how to do that. Therefore, we Chinese people taught our schoolmates step by step. To make a beautiful dumpling, it’s important to pinch (捏) its edges a little ________ and push the sides toward the center to seal (封入) them to ________ that the filling will not ________ while they are being ________.

One schoolmate from Australia said she ________ knew how much fun it was to make dumplings before, and she was curious about why dumplings are so ________ Chinese people. Born in a traditional Chinese family, I shared my ________ with her.

When I was a kid, my grandma told me the culture of dumplings is its inclusiveness (包容性) and ________. Different types of fillings suit different eating ________ for Chinese people. For example, there is no one ________ filling for all types of dumplings. Furthermore, dumplings will come with a ________ of fillings, such as pork, cabbage, chicken, mushroom and shrimp fillings. No matter what types of fillings are in dumplings, people focus more on their ________ and expectation.

The online session (课程) was ________. Not only did we have an enjoyable ________ about making dumplings, but we also ________ a positive and inclusive attitude toward cultural diversity. It was a positive ________, and the foreign schoolmates got a better understanding of Chinese ________ and culture.

6 . Wanda Smith always dreamed of becoming a teacher. When other _______ stood in her way, she ended up being a school doorkeeper. But she never _______ her real love. 30 years after graduation, she made it.

Wanda was _______ in a special way on National Teacher Appreciation Day this year. The mayor _______ an annual day to be “Be The Best You Can Be Day” as a prize after it’d come to his _______ that Wanda always tells her students to “be the best you can be”. School president said, “Wanda is a real _______ for our staff. Her story touches and influences us all.

It all _______ when she first learned to read. She was _______ by what she read and wanted to go into teaching. Wanda held onto her _______, but when graduating high school, she had to put college plans ________ to look after her sick mother and younger sisters. After she married, her husband Darron gave her much ________. Darron kept encouraging her to follow her dream and________ to take on all housework. At 37, Wanda was admitted to college. There were times when she couldn’t ________ work, school and family, and wanted to ________. Darron stepped in again and gave comfort, making her ________. After nine years of studying hard Wanda gained educational ________ eventually. She successfully realized her ________ dream, becoming an educator.

Wanda ________ teaching the ABCs, trying to help the young learn community and responsibility. She shares her life ________ with all: Just be the best you can be and never give up, and ________ your dreams will come true.

She was growing up, Camille Roberts always saw science in her future. Her parents are both doctors of chemistry and she wanted to follow     1     (they) example by going into research about     2     (medical).

The 24-year-old girl says her parents taught her the importance of giving others a hand, so she saw medical research as a way of     3     (help) improve society. Looking for education in such a field would     4     (probable) lead to a highly-paid job. So, in 2013, Roberts     5     (begin) studying biomedical engineering(生物医学工程) at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. During her four years there, she not only volunteered to do something     6     (use) in the city, but also worked as an assistant (助手) to several teachers, which introduced her     7     more personal ways to help people.

After completing     8     series of studies in 2017, Roberts took a research position at the National Institute of Mental Health. But she soon felt deeply unhappy. So in 2018, she was determined     9     (take) a job that she felt much more pleasant: teaching.

Many of Roberts’ former classmates and coworkers now have jobs     10     pay them much more than she makes, but Roberts says she would not trade more money for the creativity and purpose she now finds in her work.

8 . My friend Tammy works from home. Her aunt Jess who lives near her, got ______. Tammy was the only one with the ______ to stay with her aunt.

Since there was almost no ______ in Jess’ house, Tammy decided to go shopping. She made a (n) ______ list so that she wouldn’t have to be gone longer than necessary. However, when digging around in her bag at the checkout stand, Tammy ______ she’d left her wallet(钱包)in the apartment.

Everything was already checked out and there was a line behind her, so she felt ______ as she apologized to the cashier(收银员) and ______the situation. The cashier began to ______ the order, but the gentleman behind Tammy ______ up. He looked at the ______, and told the cashier to add Tammy’s food — over $100 worth — to his tiny purchases(购买的东西)

When everything was checked through, the man took his soda and bread and walked away. Tammy asked for his name and ______to pay him back. He told her not to ______, and he was glad to help. He just kept ______. Tammy couldn’t catch him, so she went back home to ______ Jess.

When Jess was better, a few weeks later, Tammy ______ the man. But the______ thing she knew about him was where he shopped, ______ she worked on her laptop in a cafe nearby and ______ watched for him. And it took a week and a half of “spying out” before she saw him again.

She ______ him as he was coming out of the store, and asked if she could buy him dinner to thank him. She told me she wasn’t sure which was nicer: being able to thank him, or the ______ on his face at seeing her again.

9 . When The Alchemist was first published twenty-five years ago in my native Brazil, no one noticed. A bookseller in the northeast corner of the country told me that only one person purchased a copy the first week of its publication. It took another six months for the bookseller to unload a second copy. And who knows how long it took to sell the third. At the end of the year, my original publisher decided to cancel our contract. I was forty-one and upset.

But I never lost faith in the book. Why? Because it was me in there, all of me, heart and soul. I was living my own fantasy. A man sets out on a journey, dreaming of a beautiful or magical place, in search of some unknown treasure. At the end of his journey, the man realizes the treasure was with him the entire time. I was following my personal legend (传奇) and my treasure was my talent to write. And I wanted to share this treasure with the world.

I started knocking on the doors of other publishers. One opened, and the publisher on the other side agreed to give The Alchemist a second chance. Slowly, through word of mouth, it finally started to sell — three thousand, then six thousand, ten thousand — book by book, gradually throughout the year.

Eight months later, an American visiting Brazil wanted to translate the book and help me find a publisher in the United States. But it still took some time to sell, slowly finding its audience in the United States by word of mouth, just as it did in Brazil. And then one day, Bill Clinton was photographed leaving the White House with a copy. Then people from different walks of life were suddenly talking about it.

The Alchemist became a phenomenon. The book hit the New York Times bestseller list and stayed there for more than three hundred weeks. It has since been translated into more than eighty different languages, and is widely considered one of the ten best books of the twentieth century.