1 . I don’t know when I became so focused on ensuring equality in all areas,including personal relationships.I was afraid of the sort of ______ where you give and give with nothing in return,and the other person feels much bigger than you are.I constantly worry that I ______ my friends more than they do.When the scale ______ to one side in my relationships,I feel like falling over too,like a branch ______ the edge of a cliff.

But when I entered high school,I began to make friends who gave ______ :advice,knowledge,help,and ______.______ they gave more than they received,they did so with a smile.My friend Alicia always ______ to help others with their work and assignments,which made me and all the other ______ of her kindness willing to help her if she ever ______ anything in the future.It wasn’t an exactly equal way of paying her back,but it was our own small way of saying thank you.I slowly came to understand that some people were worth the ______ ,and some things could be paid back in other ways or paid back later.

Today,I still ______ with ensuring equality in my life.However,I have learned that it’s okay to give more than you receive,if you are giving to the right person.It’s okay to let some debts exist ______ ,and to let some things go.Equality is a construct that requires two parties to build,______ but surely,each person ______ a little bit at a time.

2 . Is your life being restricted (限制) by limiting beliefs that you’re holding on to? Like many, you may find yourself stuck in an unhappy relationship and your life is unsatisfying.     1    

It’s probably not due to a lack of ability, physical or monetary reasons.     2     It’s those inner limiting beliefs that hold you back.

    3     Proven studies show that 80% of the time what holds you back most is your own belief system or, to be more exact, your limiting beliefs. If you allow these limiting beliefs to influence all future decisions, quite possibly they’ll ruin any chance of true success you’ll ever have!

    4     It’s important to clean out the old baggage (看法) from the past to make room for the new. First, identify behavior problems and limiting beliefs that keep re-occurring in your life. Take a few moments to think about beliefs you hold that might be holding you back, like “I’ll never meet the perfect woman because I’m ugly…” Second, choose a belief you would like to have instead-make the decision to let your limiting belief go and adopt new behaviours based upon new positive powerful beliefs.     5    

It is your choice that matters most. Let go of your limiting beliefs and begin moving forward.

The poem The Road Not Taken is very popular and has become one of the most famous American     1    (poem)of all time because of its natural style and     2    (thought)insights into human nature. Life throws many alternatives at us on a daily     3    (base)and the greatest dilemmas arise     4     moral problems.

Our choices may lead to specific consequences. Once we make a decision, in most     5    (circumstance), there is no going back. Although we may be free to choose which path     6    (take), we may wonder exactly what it is we’re choosing between when we     7    (present)with two choices.     8    (ultimate), the road ahead-the road through our lives-is a mixture of choice and chance. Part of the art of decision-making is learning to make     9     most of our decisions. Instead of looking back with regret, we should be facing our future with energy and optimism, for the choices     10    (be)ours, and ours only.

I live in a very urban area. I enjoy sitting in my yard and listening to children     1     (laugh) as they play flashlight tag when night falls The shouts of my neighbor reminding the noisy kids     2     (stay) off her grass are common occurrences.

In recent years, however, this type of activity     3     (fade) away. The sounds of children have given way to the ping of     4     incoming text and of a new Facebook notification.     5     (sad), I might not hear the typical sounds of summer communication the same way     6     I experienced when I was young and making friends.

The rise of modern technology has meant the decline of true friendship. Parents should show what     7     means to be a true friend to a neighbor. If parents value     8     (important) to friendship, so will children. This social skill of developing friendships may become a     9     (lose) art

if parents don't intervene (干预) right now. As Dr. Rosen put it, “A hug feels six times     10     (supportive) than an emoji.”

5 . An Ohio man is now the ________ parent of five brothers and sisters who were separated in different foster homes（收养家庭）.

Robert Carter of Cincinnati ________ Marionna, 10, Robert, 9, Makayla, 8, Giovanni, 5, and Kiontae, 4. He was ________ to keep the children together.

"I wasn't with my siblings（兄弟姐妹）. After my youngest brother turned 2, I didn't see him again ________ he was 16." Carter said. Carter is the third oldest of nine children. At 12, he was ________ in foster care as well. Carter said his experience made him want to ________ children with a safe home.

Carter became a ________ foster parent permitted by the government in 2017. In December 2018, the three boys, Robert, Giovanni and Kiontae, came into his ________ . Later, Marionna and Makayla joined.

"Once I ________ they had sisters, I started advising to visit them." Carter said. The siblings were ________ after not seeing each other for six months.

"Mr. Carter was the only foster parent willing and able to adopt all of the children." said Barton, an adoption worker, "His childhood background has made him ________ of the importance of keeping siblings together. He says that he ________ being their father. His life is busy, with a lot of love, ________ and happiness."

With all the ________ his family's story is getting, he wants people to know how important fostering and adoption are.

"As long as you have the means and love to give to kids, ________ , anybody can do it." said Carter.

6 . Once a student asked a teacher, “Why do people often marry a person that they don’t love?” The teacher said, “In order to answer your ________, go to the wheat field and ________ the best wheat and come back. But the ________ is that you can go through them only once and cannot ________ to pick.” The student went to the field, went through the first row, he saw one big wheat which he instantly ________, but he wondered maybe there was a better one ________. Then he saw another bigger one, but again he thought that maybe there was an even better one ________ him.

Later, when he finished half of the wheat field, he started to ________ that the wheat was not as big as the ones he let go off, he came to understand that he had ________ the best one in the search of a ________ one. So, he ended up going back to the teacher with a(an) ________ hand. The teacher told him, “You kept looking for a better one ________ letting go of the best one and later when you realized that, you couldn’t go back. This is the ________ often made by people who fell in love and lost the best ________ they could have in their life”.

Life is like a basket of fruits. Either you have to make a ________ of eating the fruit you love or be content with something that is healthy!

7 . Adam Harvison grew up in a poor family and his parents worked hard to support the family. _______, his dad lost his job, which added to their _______. Learning about this, community members did not look on. They brought them groceries and school supplies. Adam says, “I could see the_______of that even as a kid.” And he decided to pay it forward.

For Adam, it all started with an electric wheelchair. After _______ from the army in 2013, he got a job helping needy veterans (老兵). Then came a phone call about the wheelchair. Someone wanted to _______ it to a veteran who was in need only. Adam_______   to make that happen. Then word was spread and more and more people began to call in, _______to make a donation.

Therefore, in 2017 Adam_______a nonprofit organization Harvison House to provide _______ for low-income veterans for their homes, which are vital for a home, such as beds and kitchen tables. Adam and his team collect, clean and ________the donated items, for some may not function well, and then send them to veterans. Once it is ________, a photo of the donated object in its new home is sent to the donor. And the photo is usually along with a letter that ________the help.

Adam always believes that the personal________makes a difference. “We don’t advertise, but within 20minutes, I could get three phone calls with________ of household supplies.”

Adam, like all his staff, isn’t paid for his work. “For some things in life, you just have to put love before the ________,”he says.

8 . In his former life, Bunker Bean was tricked into believing that he was the great Napoleon Bonaparte. Believing this really lifted his life to great new _________. But then, later on, he discovered that his friend, the spiritualist, who _________ him of his past life, was revealed to be a _________, a man who lied to others to _________ their money.

Bunker Bean was broken by this revelation. So, he hadn’t really been Napoleon in a _________ life after all! He was just _________ old Bunker Bean. But the news came in a good way! Bunker realized that it didn’t _________ who he’d been in a former life. What mattered was what he had _________ himself to become in his present life.

His spiritualist friend had helped Bunker to believe in himself enough to change some of his _________, habits, and behavior. Bunker had learned to form a game plan __________ on what others had done in the __________ that made them super successful. He had learned the __________ of studying the thoughts of great men. He’d learned how to make those thoughts of __________ his own thoughts. He’d also learned the need for a goal and the need for a __________ method to reach that goal. And he __________ that one must follow his method religiously.

The story of Bunker Bean is told as fiction, but, ________ , his story is as true as any told. The principles of his success, as __________ above, can be the principles of each of us and our success. But to make those work, we must learn the ________ about ourselves and the truth is this: each of us has the __________ and ability to succeed if we believe in ourselves enough to make it __________. We are what, and who, we think we are.

9 . Standing by a lake, I was amazed at so many small rocks surrounding my boots. They were all created from_________surfaces, their edges softening over time.

Seeing them, I wonder what can be learnt from the rocks. As we know, even the tallest mountains can become flatter or_________, not as tall as they were 1000 years ago. Just like the rocks, I find my desire to better understand other people has_________with each trip around the world.

Once, I too was a_________rock. After decades of the water of life_________over me, my edges are softer and more understanding. I’m less likely to argue but more interested in learning how we can _________together.

Recently, while traveling in the Pacific Northwest, I watched a_________owner ask several young men to_________because they didn’t wear masks. On the door read a_________: “Please wear a mask before entering our restaurant. We don’t like it either, but let’s do what we can to__________this together.” The group of people argued about the note__________.

I sat__________, understanding both sides. I’ve been those men before, using my__________edges to chip away at (削弱，蚕食) the world.__________, now I realize that what I lost was the ability to put myself in others’__________. Learning to be more__________, I’ve found more happiness.

Time, like the waters rolling against once sharp stones, __________us and lets us see the world from __________point of view.

I placed a__________stone into my pocket. Mother Nature is__________a class again.

10 . Learning New Languages & Traveling

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, more young people than ever are using their spare time to develop their language skills.    1    , thus opening doors for cooperation and friendship, and new opportunities.

Many people have visited other countries and found themselves devoted to a worthy cause.     2     Organizations like Doctors Without Borders were established after the hardships ( 苦难) around the world were seen. We live in a diverse world. Much of the injustice and tension in our world comes from a large cultural divide. We can never appreciate the true beauty of our world if we don’t explore new things first-hand and test the limits ourselves.     3    . Whether you are twirling (旋转) with mariachi dancers in Mexico or catching a wave in Australia, traveling could change your life.

    4     It allows us to broaden our perspectives, learn about new foods and activities, meet like-minded people, and get involved in life-changing causes. By having respect for each other, we can come together and solve our problems together. Let’s learn to understand each other and start changing our unjust world, individuals by individuals. As a saying goes:     5    .