1 . Just several days ago, a violent storm hit our community. I looked out of the window and witnessed a tree being ____ by the fierce winds. The branches bent, and swayed back and forth, thanks to their ____ to avoid breaking. The leaves desperately stuck to the branches because their life ____ the tree. The powerful trunk that ____ the tree upright bent slightly backwards from the force in a battle to ____ its position.

After the storm had passed, the tree gracefully returned to its ____ position standing tall among the chaos. It managed to ____ the storm. It didn’t look the same as leaves had shed from its branches and the soil had loosened a bit, but what ____ is that the tree won the fight for its life.

For a long time I couldn’t understand why this tree ____ my attention the way it did. As time passed, it became ____ that it wasn’t just about the tree but about the roots, which, although unseen, dig deep into the soil providing ____ and nutrition. The roots allow the tree to be able to take a ____ because they are there to support them.

I couldn’t but ask myself how deep the roots are in my life. ____, the next time you catch your kids ___, when the job is driving you crazy, when you are underpaid and the ____ is tight, and when the storms of life are raging, go back to your roots. Life is full of ____. They will make you sway, make you ___, make you lose some leaves but the deeper your roots the stronger you stand.

Faced with ____ you might bend but don’t break. No matter how hard the wind blows don’t let life ___ you into an uncomfortable position. Your ____ lies in your roots.

2 . Last year,I met with a major accident.This accident totally changed the_______I used to look at things in my life. Like every day,it was time for my office for which I used to go_______a two wheeler vehicle.And that day I was not in the_______to wear the helmet.It’s very_______to ride a two wheeler in India and_______most of the Indians are ignorant about is wearing a helmet. And it was a _______for me too to wear a helmet every single day.

So I was riding the vehicle at an average speed of 30-40 mph when I thought to go_______of a scooter（小型摩托车）being slowly ridden (on the left end of the lane) by a middle-aged man in parallel. The only_______here was the wrong timing. The man without any hint or even looking at the back to check if any vehicle was approaching, _______ with his hand and immediately took a right turn to cross the street.

Unfortunately, just a second or two before this I had ________my vehicle to overtake the man. 3 seconds after, I knew our vehicles would bang as we were in a ________distance. In the very next moment, we along with our ________skidded for some distance.I got hit on the road directly on my back.It was a terrible jerk and the________developed pain gave me a serious sickening feeling. But for that moment I could only think about two things.“What would have happened if I hadn’t worn a helmet today?”“Was________person alright”?

Thankfully, the man was all night________he too was wearing the helmet.

That split second________of wearing the helmet changed my entire life,and turned this________accident into a minor one.I really thank myself for the decision I________that day. After this incident, I________myself I will always wear a helmet in any condition.This idea may not seem important to many of us, but it saved my life and the biggest of all, it made me realize how important small acts can ________to be!

3 . When I was a child in 1970s, my family was very poor, just     1     other average families in the countryside. The second-hand clothes and rain leaking roof of old house became part of my memory. However, the worst    2       (impress) is that I was feeling hungry all the time. Sometimes hunger bit me so severely     3     I regarded dried sweet potato slices as delicious snack. At that time, my dream was getting enough to fill my empty stomach.

In the early years of 1980s, with the reform and opening-up policy     4     (carry) out, the children’s dream came true. And then,     5     dream became clear and clear in my mind, I must try my best to escape out of my poor and backward hometown. I worked     6     (hard) at my study than most of my classmates, and, after lucky     7     (succeed) in the national college entrance examination, I realized my dream again: after graduation, I became a citizen working in a city. As the first college graduate out of a remote village, I set an example for my folks.     8     came to realize that schooling is a good way to change one’s fate. In the     9     (follow) years, there were fewer dropouts and more college graduates in my village, of     10     I am proud even today.

4 . When I was 16 years old, a boy gave me an important gift.     1    .It was the early autumn of my first year at a junior high school, and my old school was far away.     2    . I was very lonely, and afraid to make friends with anyone.

Every time I listened to other students talking and laughing, I felt my heart break. I couldn’t talk about anyone with my problems. And I didn’t want my parents to worry about me.[

Then one day, my classmates talked happily with their friends, but I sat at my desk unhappily as usual.     3     I didn’t know who he was. He passed me and then turned back. He looked at me, with a smile on his face.

Suddenly, I felt the touch of something bright and friendly. It made me feel happy, lively and warm     4     I started to talk with other students and made friends. Day by day, I became closer to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has become my best friend now!       5     I believe that the world is what you think it is. If you think it lonely, you might always be alone. So   smile at the world and it will smile back.

A．At that moment, a boy entered the classroom.

B．He’s living in Australia now and he loves it.

C．It doesn‘t matter because all the dark days have gone.

D．It was a smile.

E．That smile changed my life.

F．It’s practically impossible to make friends here.

G．As a result, no one knew who I was.