1 . Tobias, a 35-year-old Belgian musician, has become popular on social media for his excellent grasp of the Shanghai dialect. He has been sharing his everyday experiences, which he _______ in Shanghai dialect, on video-sharing and lifestyle _______ Douyin and Xiaohongshu, winning thousands of followers and millions of _______

In the videos, he speaks_______ Shanghai dialect, which many non-locals believe is as difficult to learn and _______ as a foreign language. He talks about walking on the city’s streets, enjoying the food and music, and _______ his daily life in the city. Tobias started shooting and _______ these short videos for his own practice purposes. He didn’t expect so many people would be watching them, following him and sending him _______ and encouragement.

Tobias did not bury his nose in textbooks or _______ intensive study to learn Shanghainese. He said his learning __________ involved getting immersed (沉浸) in a language environment, having a positive attitude, and speaking __________ “without being afraid to make mistakes” . He was not thinking too much when he started learning the Shanghai dialect — it was just for __________.

Tobias said he did not expect he would __________ the promotion of the Shanghai dialect, but it would be an __________ and pleasure if his posts encouraged his followers to learn and pass on the dialect. “I believe a dialect is the heart of a local __________” said the musician.

2 . Who says only adults can influence the world? Teenagers can too. A good _________ is Canadian singer and songwriter Shawn Mendes.

Medes was once on Time magazine’s list of the most influential teens of the year. He is _________ as a role model who always shares _________ ideas on social media.

Indeed, unlike others, Mendes _________ social media in a good way. In 2012, he was still a high school student. One day, he put a clip (片段) of _________ singing Justin Bieber’s song As Long As You Love Me on Vine, a video-sharing app. In only six seconds, he _________ to show his sweet voice and cute smile. By the next morning, he had 10,000 likes.

From there, he became a _________. His first album (唱片集) Handwritten topped the Billboard 200 chart in 2015. He’s been the youngest artist to do so _________ Bieber who topped the chart in 2010.

Mendes _________ tries to be himself. “There are lots of people __________ say ‘act this way’ and ‘talk this way’ on social media (媒体), but what __________ for me was just being myself,” he told Seventeen, a US magazine for teens.

He does so in life as well. During his first __________ in Toronto, he asked for the house lights to be __________ and he sang without a microphone. “So I can see their faces, and see there are real people, that it’s not just a __________, ” he told The Telegraph.

“I’m not the __________ singer in the world. I’m just good at picking up what I want to sound like,” he added.

3 . His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while ploughing in field, he heard a cry for _________ coming from a nearby bog (沼泽). He _________ his tools and ran to the bog. There, with his waist _________ in mud, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to _________himself. Farmer Fleming saved the boy from what could have been a _________ and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage _________ to the Scotsman’s poor surroundings. A(n) _________dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the _________ of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved. “I want to _________ you,” said the nobleman. “You saved my son’s life.”

“No, I can’t accept the __________ for what I did,” the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the __________. At that moment, the farmer’s own __________ came there.

“Is that your son?” the nobleman __________.

“Yes!” the farmer replied __________.

“I’ll make you a __________. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the boy is anything like his father, he’ll no doubt __________ to be a man we both will be proud of.” And that the nobleman did.

Farmer Fleming’s son attended the __________ schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become __________ throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the __________ of Penicillin.

Years afterward, the same nobleman’s son who was saved from the bog was __________ with pneumonia (肺炎).What saved his life this time? Penicillin!

4 . Derek Paravicini is lucky to be alive. Born three and a half months early, he weighed only 0.6 kilograms and almost _______ three times while he was in hospital. _______, Derek’s early birth left him with some disabilities — he is blind; he can’t tell left from right; he can _______ count to ten.

Yet Derek is a _______ talent. The 41-year-old remembers every one of the thousands of pieces of music he has ever heard and can play them without _______ on the piano — even if he only heard the song once. years ago. Because he is blind, he cannot _______ music. All of the music he plays is in his _______. His brain has been described as a perfectly programmed musical _______. When he hears a chord with ten notes in it, he can even _______ all ten, while most professional musicians can only recognise about five.

Derek was two years old before his family discovered his ________. When he was given an old keyboard, he ________ his family by reproducing the songs he had heard outside. His family then arranged for him to go to a school for the ________ where he met a university professor who helped him to ________ his musical talent.

By the age of nine, Derek had ________ at a large concert hall in London with a famous orchestra, Since then, he has appeared on TV shows and travelled the world ________ performances. He has recorded his own CDs and there is even a book about his life.

5 . In 1995, two years before Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash in Paris, she said in a TV interview that she’d like to be a queen. She wanted to be a queen in people’s hearts.

In the 24 years since her _________ on August 31, 1997, it’s become _________ how well she fulfilled that hope. Every August, tributes (颂词) _________ to celebrate her life and legacy. She used her celebrity to raise awareness for a number of _________, from leprosy (麻风病) to mental health.

She made _________ in 1987 when she _________ shook hands with an AIDS _________, challenging the previously _________ idea that HIV/AIDS could be spread through _________. At the time, Princess Dianna was opening the UK’s first unit that __________ cared for HIV/AIDS patients at London Middlesex Hospital. She was famously the first member of the __________ family to shake hands with someone with AIDS.

She was, in the words of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, “the people’s __________”. When Blair used that phrase in a speech following Dianna’s death, he was __________ words to help a nation feel sorry for and sad about a shockingly sudden __________. “People felt so emotional about Dianna because she had a(n) __________ connection with everybody,” says Anji Hunter, Blair’s former adviser. “People felt so close to her. It was like your own beloved friend, mother and sister had died.”

The following was Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ’s __________:

Ahead of Dianna’s funeral, Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ gave a speech, __________ Dianna as an “exceptional and __________ human being”. And at the funeral, the Queen took an additional __________ to pay tribute.

“The Queen bows to nobody—ever,” says historian Jane Ridley in the CNN series. And yet, as the funeral procession (队列) __________ past Buckingham Palace, the Queen was seen making a bow to her daughter-in-law.

6 . The notion that mothers can simultaneously nurture their children and their careers is often seen as a modern phenomenon. ________ history is full of mothers who reached beyond the house — courageous women who overcame societal barriers and changed the world for people ________ their own children.

The ________ for Mother’s Day, Ann Jarvis, was a social activist and pioneer in the public-health movement in the U.S. As a mother Jarvis suffered the loss of eight children. Determined to combat infant ________ in the area, Jarvis began to organize Mother’s Day work clubs to provide education, medicine and supplies. After the Civil War began, Jarvis strived for soldiers’ well-being. Jarvis’ impact was so powerful that she inspired her daughter to ________ for a national holiday honoring mothers, formalized in 1914.

In the early 1900s, Lillian Gilbreth also raised her children alone after her husband’s death. Gilbreth was a woman of ________: first woman to receive the Hoover Medal for significant public service by an engineer, first female member of the Society of Industrial Engineers, and first female psychologist on a U.S. stamp. Her accomplishments in psychology, ________ and organizational management were so vast she is considered one of the founders of industrial engineering. She not only advised six successive U.S. presidents, but also improved surgical operating procedures and invented many ________ appliances, from refrigerator door shelves to the pedal-operated trash can.

________ masses of historic milestones, these resilient mothers and so many more like them, are not exactly household names. The obstacles that keep many women from ________ a happy balance between work and motherhood are real. But lack of awareness of the women who overcame such obstacles, and broke away from the roles society ________ on women, is, paradoxically, an obstacle too.

________ out impressed bias is one of the most challenging aspects of gender equality efforts. We can pass laws and demand reform, but changing mindsets is more subtle. Mothers are uniquely devoted to ________ that change.

On this Mother’s Day then, in addition to honoring the women who have had an impact on our lives ________, let’s take a moment to recognize the ________ mothers of history — the women whose names we may not recognize, but whose impact we feel even today.

7 . Tang, who retired two years ago, had taught physical education for 34 years in primary and middle schools in rural areas. Apart from_________, Tang is also well-known and seeks out many young _________ to train in Hunan's Xinning county of Shaoyang city.

For more than 30 years, athletes with disabilities are_________ by Tang, and they have won championships in many _________. Tang is also _________ as a world champion's first teacher for taking village children into the world of sports.

For him, being _________ does not mean the end, but makes him get more time to help rural children _________ their sporting dreams. Tang's _________ place for the children is in his former home, in a room _________ less than 30 square meters. Walls that have fallen into __________ show the house's age, and the rings and hemp (大麻) rope hanging from the__________ have also helped many athletes to__________ their skills.

“Get in line!” Tang asks his students to line up for their warming-up __________. “Rural children are more__________ and they enjoy running and jumping. Sometimes it is difficult to__________ them,” he comments. “_, they are really enthusiastic about sports and can __________ much difficulty.”

Tang often__________ kindergartens and elementary schools in the county to find more sports-loving and__________ talented children. He asks the children to __________ the standing long jump and the short running. For so many years, Tang has been engaged in sports teaching in village.