When a person wakes up in the morning, seven items are necessary and unavoidable in his or her life: firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea.

The saying     1     (update) recently, and it is now widely accepted     2     the seven items have been integrated into one thing-a parcel.

The     3     (adjust) saying illustrates the importance of parcels in Chinese people’s lives nowadays.

Although the delivery industry has boomed in the past decade, and many people rely     4     (heavy) on parcels to maintain their normal lives, it is easy     5     (forget) the most important part of the network-the millions of couriers who transport the items to their recipients.

In China, these essential people usually have busy schedules     6     handle heavy workloads. For example, in big cities such as Beijing, each courier usually collects and delivers 200 to 300 parcels a day, even during off - peak     7     (period).

They often wear colorful uniforms and ride electric bikes through the streets and communities. People call them “busy bees” in honor of       8     (they) hard work.

Sometimes, they rush to meet their schedules and aim to deliver     9     large number of parcels, raising the risk of traffic accidents. Sometimes they work overtime to complete deliveries. Occasionally, they are subject     10     unreasonable complaints.

7 . As a child, I would sit through movies I loved over and over. I dreamed of someday having the ability to create ______ .

But school was difficult for me for many reasons, so becoming a screenwriter seemed ______. When I was fourteen, I was shocked when my ______ were made into a brochure that was ______ to every student. For a week or so, I was treated very ______. Previously invisible, I was now “a published poet” receiving   praise and slaps(拍打) on the back. But an already deep-seated lack of ______ prevented me from having any serious hopes for a career in literature. I felt like those things only happened to other people. ______ I would look at thousands of books and ask myself, “Are all these people ______ than me, or did they just ______ harder?” So, I kept reading, writing and watching movies not only for ______ but to analyse how great stories are told.

The lack of confidence that annoyed me early in life took decades to ______ .

I had a job that paid well, but I ______ it. Suddenly, the company went out of business, ______ me to choose between getting yet another job I didn’t like and finally being committed to a career as a writer. My ______ was copyediting, which wasn’t writing exactly but almost.

I spent more years swimming in a sea of words, loved it and finally became a ______ as I had wished.