2 . Some people are type A personalities. I must be type AA, like the batteries: I never run out of_______. My five sibling (兄妹) and I used to spend most weekends sweeping warehouses and _______ shipping boxes at Dad’s company. By high school we were filled with a sense of_______because we could work fourteen-hour days.

During the summer we did yard work until _______fell, and then we’d turn on outdoor_______to play kickball. Years later, when we spoke on the _______, we never asked “How are you?” but “What are you doing?”

After I started _______Matt, I would stop by his apartment and often find him_______ on his sofa. And I’d ask what he was doing. “Just sitting here,” he’d reply. Feeling _______, I’d continue to ask: “Yes, but what are you doing?” He’d________ he was just sitting there.

This happened so many times that he became ________: “Why do I always have to be doing something?” he asked. ________, he declared he would no longer________ the question.

Matt and I________ while I was buried in a challenging PhD program. I often ________ six to seven days a week. A few months into our marriage we adopted two kittens (小猫). One Saturday Matt was out, and I fell ________while studying, the kittens sleeping on my chest.

I________, to Matt staring at me, an affectionate smile on his face. Panicked, I searched for a(n)________. “The kittens were having ________sleeping, so I lay down with them.”

Matt________. “It’s OK,” he said, “You’re allowed to take a nap (打盹)”

4 . By day a cleaner, by night an artist. From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., 56-year-old Wang Liuyun _________ the floors, empties trash bins and cleans restrooms. After work, a 3-square-meter room where she lives and _________ her work equipment becomes her studio, in which her oil paintings _________ the outdoors. “Painting feeds my _________, while the _________ job helps make ends meet,” Wang says.

In 2016, she heard of a(n) _________ painting course in Shuangxi ancient town, Fujian province. Wang, the then farmer, knew that it was time to _________ her life. She left her home and started a week’s _________ at a charity program launched by artist Lin Zhenglu. “_________ paint, brushes and canvas for free, teachers told me to __________ whatever I wanted. On the fourth day, I finished my __________ picture, showing a springtime scene in the town,” Wang says. She completed another two paintings on the fifth and sixth day.

“Although Lin kept saying that I had a __________ for landscape painting, I didn’t __________ that,” she recalls, “My three paintings were sold, each for 150 yuan, which boosted my __________ and I began to take painting __________.”

She was once fascinated by Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, a famous landscape painting crealed by Huang Gongwang in the Yuan Dynasty. She even went to the Mountains in Zhejiang to appreciate the scenery, but found that the Mountains were not as __________ as that in the painting. “It was the moment that I realized what Huang painted was a scene in his __________,” Wang says.

It is also why she has been fascinated by painting, which she sees as a(n) __________ from reality and a tool to help people to __________. Wang says, “I __________ in the dirt, but I paint in the clouds.”