2 . A 35-year-old Australian mother makes around $ 58,000 a year by hugging strangers. “As human beings, one thing we often ______ in our daily life is the physical touch. Without it, we can fall into mental health problems. To satisfy this ______, I’ve become professional in hugging treatment.” said Jessica.

Jessica says that her hugs can ______ those who are suffering from loneliness or low self-confidence. A year ago, Jessica was a popular masseuse (女按摩师). She noticed that when she ______ her customers during treatment, they became relaxed and ______ her more. “I could see their tension disappear. Then I could get to their heart and do what I could to ______ them,” Jessica said. “Everyone has a totally different story. But the most common ______ are loneliness, depression (沮丧) and anxiety. They all just have that desire to ______ with someone. I believe my hug helps me and my ______ connect on a mental level.”

Jessica says most of her customers are ______, but she has a surprising number of female customers ______. Though many people think she must be ______ to do such work, Jessica is confident that she’s made the right ______. “It’s so much more rewarding (值得做的) than just working as a masseuse,” said Jessica. “In today’s digital age, many people are ______ than ever before. For people whose lives ______ physical interaction, hugging therapy can have an obvious effect on their mental health.”

3 . There have been countless books on living with teenagers, yet parents don’t seem to have _________ how to get their children to pick up their clothes from the bedroom floor. It might be difficult to accept, but a new approach to dealing with difficult teenagers is for parents to look at their own _________.

“The key to getting teenagers to respect you is to respect them first,” says Penny Palmano, who has written a best-selling book on teenagers. “You can’t _________ to treat them the same way that you have been treating them for the previous years. Imagine if you’d spent two hours getting ready to go out for the evening and someone said, ‘You’re not going out looking like that, are you?’ You’d be very _________. You’d never say that to an adult, because it shows a total _________ of respect.” Palmano has even allowed her girl to hold several teenage parties at her home. “I’ve found that if you have brought your kids up to do the right thing, and then _________ them to do it, usually they’ll behave well,” she says, “I make them sandwiches and leave them alone. But I make it clear that they have to clear up any mess. I’ve never had a(n) _________; in fact, the kitchen was sometimes cleaner than I’d left it.”

She agrees that teenagers can be annoying, enjoying a world free of responsibility, yet _________ for independence. She doesn’t think, however, that they are _________ to annoy you. Until recently, it turns out that the region of the brain that controls judgement and emotions is not fully __________until the early twenties. “This would explain why many teenagers can’t make good decisions or control their emotions. __________, they may find it difficult to make the right decision between watching television and finishing their homework. It means that they do not __________ do the wrong thing just to annoy their parents,” says Palmano.

The key to __________ for all is calm communication and compromise (妥协). If you want your teenagers to be home by 11 pm, explain why, but listen to their arguments as well. If it’s Saturday, you might __________agreeing to midnight. If they are up to 20 minutes late, don’t react angrily. __________, ask if they’ve had a problem with public transport and let it pass.

5 . In life, we always feel as if our bad circumstances will never change. However, when we meet troubles or problems in our lives, we are eager for a _________ that tells us everything will be _________ and get better.

When in this mindset(心态), I think back to a _________ I once heard about a family having dinner at a Chinese restaurant. At the end of the meal, everyone _________ their fortune cookie and read their _________ out loud. _________, the youngest child did not, she went to get another fortune cookie. This _________ several times before the mom _________ her and asked, “What are you doing?” The little child responded, “I am looking for a cookie with the _________ fortune for me.” The mom said, “There is only one thing you need to __________ and it’s not in a fortune cookie. That is where there is a will, there’s a way.”

When __________ are not going our way, we may __________ the “right fortune”. We seek the hope for our __________ so that it will be better than the present. Once the Israelis were expelled(驱逐) in a foreign country against their __________. At that time, everything was __________for them, but they didn’t lose hope; instead, they __________ to their new environment positively. Years later they returned to their homeland as they had __________.

We need to __________ action and hope and believe that nothing is __________ to a willing mind in life. It does prove that good things do come out of bad and difficult __________.

6 . Three years ago, Liu Mama was an unknown middle-aged farmer from the Dongbei region, in northeastern China. Then she started _______ her life on the social-media platform Kuaishou. Liu Mama’s son-in-law _______ the live stream(视频直播) to her, and worked as the_______ of her trusty cameraman. They _______ to try it out for laughs. The first videos, each less than a minute _______, showed Liu, short and fat, dressed in a red cotton jacket — _______ on the kitchen chair. She was eating pork bones and fish heads while creating _______ rhymes(押韵诗歌) about the happiness of countryside life. Liu Mama’s funny live streams showed quite a _______ from other popular Chinese video-sharing platforms where the videos _______ famous people, fashion and urban life.

People were __________ attracted by the loud-mouthed and red-cheeked farmer. Within months, the number of __________ to Liu Mama’s channel(频道), “Liu Mama’s Everyday Life,” __________ from dozens to several thousand. Liu Mama began showing herself __________ corn, skinning potatoes, and driving a tractor(拖拉机) around __________. A few years later, Liu Mama __________ fourteen million followers on the Kuaishou platform.

Liu Mama’s __________ is one of many stories of live streamers in China. In the past five years, live stream in China has developed into a main __________ activity — more than half of the nation’s Internet users have given it a __________. While live stream is still __________ as an unimportant culture in other parts of the world, Chinese industries __________ from education to news to daily shopping have hugged it as a business tool.

7 . Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it, and to go to their offices, factories or schools every day by train, car or bus, even though this_________they have to get up earlier in the morning and reach _________ later in the evening.

One benefit of living outside London is _________ houses are _________. Even a small flat in London _________ a garden costs a lot of money. With the same money, one can get a little house in the country with a garden of _________ own.

Then, in the country one can be _________from the noise and hurry of the town._________one has to get up earlier and spend more time in trains or buses, one can sleep _________at night, and, during weekends and ____________ summer evening, one can enjoy the ____________clean air in the country. If one ____________gardens, one can spend one’s ____________ time digging, planning, watering and doing a hundred and one other jobs which are needed in the garden. Then, when the flowers and vegetables ____________, one has the reward of a person who has shared the secrets of ____________ .

Some people, however, take ____________ in country things. For them,____________ lies in the town, with its cinemas and theaters, beautiful shops and busy streets, dance halls and restaurants, such people would ____________that their life was not worth ____________ if they had to live it outside London. A walk in one of the parks and a visit ____________ the sea every summer is all the country they want.

8 . It was raining heavily. I was driving to go to the fitness centre and I was ______ at Fort Campbell, where traffic was moving slowly. I was probably going to be late and growing more and more ______.

The pace slowed almost to a standstill as I ______ Memorial Grove, the site built to honor the soldiers who ______ in the Gander airplane crash. A small American flag had been ______ in the ground next to each soldier’s memorial plaque (纪念牌匾), because it was close to Memorial Day.

My ______ at that time was getting past the traffic jam, getting out of the rain and getting to the fitness centre on time. ______, just as the traffic was getting started again, the car in front of me stopped. A soldier ______ in the pouring rain and ran over toward the Memorial Grove.

I couldn’t ______ it! This stupid man was ______ everyone. I ______ sounding the horn (喇叭), with the purpose of ______ the same worry and anger for him.

He was getting totally ______. He ran up to one of the memorial plaques, ______ the small American flag that had fallen to the ground and set it straight again. After that, he came to attention, took a(n) ______ salute (敬礼), ran back to his car and drove off.

I’ll never forget that incident. That soldier ______ me more about duty, honor, and respect. That simple salute—the act of ______ his fallen brother moved me. All the army values were in one ______.

I thank heavens for ______ like that. I will remember all those who gave up their ______ for our freedom as well as the soldier who honored them in the heavy rain.

Have you seen people who take pictures of food for more than 10 minutes before eating? How about those who beautify their selfie (自拍) so much that they can’t be____? There must be one or more who ____ in your social media. No matter _____they choose to share, they share the best but the most unreal.

Take my friend Chen for example. Every time we went to a restaurant, she would not take a _____ until all the dishes we ____were on the table. Then, she would spend five minutes on______the dishes in a seemingly random but in fact ____ order. Then the most important part: taking pictures. After that, she would choose one of the ____ and click in the filter(滤镜) app. The food eventually looked 10 times more delicious than it really was, but we had no ____ to really enjoy it — it all went cold. Actually Chen's real life is much less elegant. For example, she hates to wash the dishes, so she leaves them in the sink for____.

Many people care too much about others’ opinions and try too hard to ___ others. They find it hard to be ____ and to accept themselves, and thus they are afraid to show their ____ life on social media. What they are trying to prove is____what they lack in reality. But this will not bring any_____ to reality, as they still____ the same old pattern of life.

If they really want an elegant life, they should put more____ into achieving it_____fabricating(伪造) it. Being more confident, _____themselves and trying their best to be better is much more meaningful than_____ their life on social media.

10 . Society has the responsibility of improving the quality of life of disabled people. You can judge a society by the way it _______and cares for its disabled population. Disabled people are not. _______of their families nor of the society they belong to. In fact many of them are able to _______their own careers and do very well in their own fields. How many great men of all ages who _______some forms of disability but reached the top of their _______and helped shape the lives of governments and peoples!

_______we have reached a certain standard of existence, it is the moral responsibility of society to meet the special needs of these people. All of us will _______this stage in our human existence- that is, being a disabled. If now you are physically _______, with no physical impairment, time will come when you will grow old, and you’ll need that special attention. _______discoveries of new medicines and better methods of health care, a great part of the population of the world can. _______longer. You may be a part of it in the near future. So a great many will _______difficulties if alleys and passages, buildings and structures and means of transportation are ‘not’ suited to a disabled-friendly environment.

Society’s government must be able to. _______ramps (人造斜坡) in buildings or structures, or a barrier-free environment. The blind or the visually-impaired must also have_______ ‘to computers with Braille (盲文) system. The deaf-mute need _______，or if not, their co-employees must be able to do _______ language and special children must be given   _______ care and education.

_______, only those advanced countries can provide these. _______, and those disabled who are living in. _______countries have to stay at home, and have to bear with many barriers, living in a( n) _______environment.