1 . I am Nasilele, from Zambia, working as a UN Peacekeeper for the past two years. Though Zambia is a very ______ country I was aware that there are other countries in Africa, where there has been a lot of violent ______. I felt it was my ______ to help innocent people who are caught in the middle of these conflicts, so I ______ the United Nations.

My ______ are from many different countries, which is a good thing as it ensures that there are many different cultures and ______ all working towards the same goals. Our ______ vary with many different tasks from one day to the next. We ______ cities and villages to ensure that no conflict is occurring, help bring ______ of food and medicine to those who need it and write reports on everything we do and see.

As a woman, I am particularly ______ by the United Nations Peacekeepers as I can act as a role model for many women and girls in the country, helping them feel that they also ______ to be respected and treated ______.

My life as a peacekeeper is all about long hours in a very ______ environment. I have basic ______ with just a bed in a shared room and a small kitchen and bathroom. However, I know that what I do is ______.

2 . I believe I have a personal duty to make a positive impact on society. I’ve tried to ________ this goal by choosing a career in public service. As a physician dealing with the challenge of infectious diseases, I consider my job a ________ which allows me to help ease the suffering of humankind. I have three principles to ________ my life, which I always think about.

Firstly, I have a strong thirst for ________. I regard myself as a(n) ________ student. I keep learning every day—from taking care of a patient to an experiment in the lab. Because of this, I ________ get bored. I think I will never know as much as I ________. This is what keeps the ________ of knowledge hot. And it is why I would ________ my job every day even if I cannot get high income.

Secondly, I believe in fighting for ________. I sweat over all the stuff, without feeling ________ for it. One of the byproducts of being a perfectionist is anxiety. But this anxiety creates a ________ tension that drives me to fulfill my limited potential. Without this ________, I wouldn’t be perfect.

Thirdly, I believe that my goal to be a physician is to ________ humankind. I have spent my ________ on public service. Most of it involved research, the care of ________ and the public health policy on AIDS. However, when I chose to ________ it in the 1980s, many of my col- leagues couldn’t understand it.

I think, to control this terrible disease ________ I must be guided by these principles: continually thirsting for knowledge, accepting nothing ________ of excellence and knowing that the ________ of society is more important than my gains.

5 . Gail Rodgers is proving that you don’t have to be young to make a positive impact on your community. Across the United States, pools have been cutting back _______ or closing entirely due to a shortage of lifeguards. When that almost happened at Montgomery Towne Condominiums, 66-year-old Gail _______ up.

Gail served as a lifeguard. But that was 50 years ago, and Gail quickly _______ how much things have changed since then.

“It’s hugely _______ now, ” Gail said. “The lifeguard back then would sit in the chair and might blow the whistle _______ to tell you to stop running or so. They had no flotation(浮标) device--all they _______ was a whistle. So they were really more police than anything else.”

The _______ exam needed to become a certified lifeguard is no _______. It includes a 300-yard swim and _______ a brick at the bottom of a pool. Still, even knowing these ________ didn’t stop Gail.

“I went and got the precertification, and then I went through the full training,” she ________.

Gail officially started ________ as a part-time lifeguard on May 27. She’ll likely ________ more shifts when summer comes, but for now, she’s able to have quite a ________ schedule.

Now, Gail hopes her ________ will give others the courage they need to give lifeguarding a chance.

6 . Zainab Amjad, a 24-year-old girl, is working on an oil rig (钻井架) as an engineer in Iraq, where companies _________ deep into the ground to look for oil.

Most of her women colleagues work in an office._________, Amjad chose to work in the oil fields. It is not a _________ job for women from conservative communities.

Petrochemical programs in the country's engineering schools are for students with the best _________. Amjad was in the top 5 percent of her graduating class at Basra University in 2018. She is part of a new generation of Iraqi women who are going against tribal _________. “ Many times many locals _________, ‘Sure, we'll see you out there,’ telling me I wouldn't be able to make it,” said Amjad, “But this only _________ me harder.”

Amjad hopes to help _________ a labor rights group for Iraqi _________ engineers in the future. In this war-tom country, women are more than likely to be __________, under-educated, employed in low-wage or unpaid work, and subject to __________ for getting married or having children.

Not only does Amjad face __________ within the industry, she also faces ongoing protests by local tribes (部落) and violence toward oil workers. But the woman is willing to __________ difficulties, such as poor services and high unemployment. Amjad said she has little __________ to even consider these difficulties, for even at night she is often working. “The drilling never __________.” she said.

7 . I could never imagine myself being in any other profession than teaching.

As a child, I often ________ I was teaching a classroom with my toy animals. However, it wasn't a ________ when I received a phone call about teaching a summer tennis camp to 3- to 5-year-old campers.

The first day of tennis camp arrived. I started the ________ by introducing myself and teaching the kids how to hold their tennis rackets(球拍)．Boom! They all ________ it right away. The next minute they were all doing it the wrong way. “Is this what it's like to be a________?”I thought. Instead of getting ________ or giving up, I found myself feeling encouraged to be patient and ________ my students until they understood certain concepts about the game.

The rest of the week reassured(使安心)me of my ________ to teach students the game of tennis and this ________ led me to an “aha” moment. I realized how much I________ working with younger children. And this is exactly what encouraged me to ________ teaching.

I'm in my fourth year of teaching kindergarten, and I'm often asked about my ________ to be teacher. People would make negative remarks about my________ . “You know you're not going to make any money, right?” was something I heard often. To me, teaching isn't about the money. It is about making a(n)________ to the lives of children. I knew I would encounter many challenges, but I also knew the positive would always________ the challenges I might face.

10 . I'm entering my eighth year teaching preschool. I've never got tired of it, because _________year is ever the same. Sometimes our school brings new staff and new students' families who are _________ with the purposeful aesthetic （美学）our school seeks for. So I am eager to show them around my classroom with the introduction of _________ to help them sense our school philosophy ——supporting creativity, learning and _________ for children. Their nodding and smile make me feel it will be another _________ new school year.

All of the walls in my classroom start out very _________They are plain in color. All I will do is give students the great beauty in the physical environment with my philosophy. First, I arrange all the children’ s first names in a circle on the wall, _________ traditional number lines or alphabet order, which may make students feel discriminated. I like it when children see their names and have a sense of _________ to our class community. _________ I have a sign on our paper towel holder that is a __________ of how many paper towels we use, because we are showing our __________ to the Earth and will be starting with what we can do for the Earth within our classroom. I also have a small sign about our voice scale, which gives a __________ to distinguish indoor and outdoor voice level, and then I use the language all the time __________,“Shh — Let's bring our voices down to a Number 2 or 3. ”For the __________ part, the walls belong to the children, and the children will __________ the lively color and decorations in the room through their paintings to __________ their tension between lessons. The walls I place value on give an excellent way to show that students' well-being and the talent of __________ are valued.

Aesthetics of the walls affect their __________ responses. Good decorations can calm them and make them feel safe and open to learning, while bad decorations can make them feel overstimulated and __________ to learning. I am proud I can provide such a class community where my students feel happy, __________ and respected.