1 . In high school, I became the editor of the school paper. My whole _________ class traveled to New York City for a newspaper conference during the winter vacation, and we even went to Elvis’s (猫王) show.

Peg, Lynn, and I went to the stage door before Elvis’s concert; we wanted to arrange a(n) _________. Just as we got to the stage door, a taxi _________ and Elvis got out. I had never seen Elvis before, so I wasn’t _________. One of the girls asked him, “Are you Elvis?” With a deep Southern and sexy voice, he answered, “Why sure, baby.” One of the girls said, “Could we take a picture of you?” Before the question ended, my _________ was in Lynn’s hands.

I said to Elvis, “We want to interview you for our school paper.” Elvis said, “You’ll have to get _________ from my manager Colonel Parker.” We spoke to Colonel, who told us to come back to the stage door _________ the show. “No matter what you hear, don’t go _________,” Colonel said. My two friends and I left our seats _________ and waited outside the stage door in the ____________. Three times they said, “Elvis has ____________ the theater.” But we kept waiting and waiting. ____________, the door opened and Colonel let us inside the stage door. Elvis was joking around with us a lot.

We went back and ____________ the story for our April 1, 1956 edition of the school paper. Everyone ____________ us even though it was April Fool’s Day. We sold about 50 pictures at school for a dime (一角硬币) each. We didn’t make a fortune but being with Elvis was my fifteen ____________ of fame.

2 . Zhong Nanshan was born in October 1936 in Nanjing, Jiangsu. He grew up in a family of doctors. _______ the family tradition, he was admitted to Beijing Medical University in 1955.

Many know Zhong as a famous _______, but few know that he was once a(an) _______ athlete. Zhong has displayed athletic _______ early on. During his time at university, he broke the school's _______ for the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdles. In 1958, Zhong, then a junior year student, was _______ to join the Beijing sports training team to _______ for the first National Games of the People's Republic of China in 1959.

Although Zhong did not _______ to be a professional athlete, his love for sports never _______. In spite of his busy schedule as a doctor, Zhong _______ 3 or 4 times every week. Years of physical exercise gives him a healthy body, _______ him to continue marching forward in the medical field.

"You need to _______ in mind that the most important thing is not treating the disease, but treating the _______," said Zhong during a lecture at Guangzhou Medical University.

Zhong's life has always been closely _______ to his patients and to the development of the nation. When SARS _______, Zhong personally examined the mouth and throat of every _______ ill patient in his hospital, giving them comfort and _______ to fight the disease.

At the age of 84, Zhong is still _______ on the frontline of the novel coronavirus(新冠) outbreak. With his _______ medical skills and unwavering perseverance (不动摇的毅力), Zhong has become a _______ anchor (支柱) for Chinese people at this difficult time.

3 . Very often, it seems that the athletes we watch on TV effortlessly win the game. However, it’s _________ to remember that things don’t always go their way. At one time or another, everyone has a bad game or becomes _________. Here two top athletes tell us about a time when they had to _________ back and what they _________ from the experience.

Maya Moore was a member of the U.S. women’s basketball team that won gold at the Olympics in 2012, “My team was playing at the national championships when I was 13. I could not hit a _________ during the whole game. We _________ and I felt like I let my team down. I was extremely _________. My mom helped me see that my _________ does not define who I am. She helped me realize that it is how I respond to difficult times that _________. I learned to bounce back from __________ times in life.”

Swimmer Natalie Coughlin has ever won 12 Olympic gold medals. “By the time I was 16, I had already worked for years to __________ for the Olympic team. __________, I tore a muscle in my shoulder, which meant I had to temporarily __________ my goal. It made me hardly wish to __________ because swimming was my whole world. The injury __________ me to seek things outside of swimming, like friendships and hobbies. It helped me realize that swimming was not life and death.”

4 . Teenage diver Quan Hongchan set the women's 10-meter platform final alight on Thursday when she scored perfect 10s in three of her five dives to win the gold medal.

Snacks, game machines and medical services have_________into the family of Quan Hongchan, the 14-year-old gold medalist at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, after the story of the_________diver striving to win the Games to support her low-income family and earn money for the_________of her sick mother deeply touched Chinese people.

As the youngest athlete among China's delegation, Quan_________audiences around the world with her_________performance in the women's 10-meter platform.

The baby-faced Quan, the latest prodigy of China's diving training system,_________made a ripple（浪波，水花）in the water during her final's performance and tallied 466.2 points to dominate the field.

Quan immediately became one of the most-discussed Olympic athletes on Chinese social media and a "sweetheart'' of many people not only for the spiky-haired snack-loving girl's likeable persona, but also for her maturity and good heart after it_________that she was supporting a low-income family of seven.

Quan said she wanted to "_________a lot of money" to cure her mom's disease and visit an amusement park, which she has never been to.

Quan's efforts have_________and her dream is coming true.

A hospital in her hometown Zhanjiang, Guangdong province announced that it would provide a full range of medical services for her mother.

A hospital official said they were__________of the Olympic champion and were more than willing to help out her mother.

Several amusement parks, zoos and resorts said they would offer lifetime free__________for Quan and her family.

A local businessman even offered 200,000 yuan in cash to Quan's father, but was declined.

Over past three days after Quan's winning, her family has received floods of guests coming around to offer congratulations, many sending boxes of the snacks and game machines that Quan likes.

"She__________all the glory and gifts," said one netizen on Sina Weibo.

Former men's Olympic champion gymnast Li Xiaopeng__________on Weibo that "I might make a bigger splash than her dives__________a coin in a cup of water."

The passion for the young champion's family, however, has appeared to become overly heated after some fans and internet__________tracked down to her village home causing local traffic chaos.

Reports claimed some live-streamers even intended to climb up the trees planted at her house and take a jackfruit as souvenir.

A resident from Quan's village said there were people coming to the village for live streaming even after midnight or in the rain.

5 . In Brazzaville, where art stalls can be found everywhere, local artist Andre N'Kitengue finds his inner peace on canvas in spite of traffic noise. At his _______studio，Andre starts his day as usual in front of his paint stand. Unlike other artists who see silence and_______during making art, he_______to take the inspiration from the_______street.“ The noise here actually gives me the strength to stay_______,”he says.

Though coloring his canvas and dealing with_______are his bread and butter, Andre insists that he is always an artist, not a businessman, as he_______ a sense of responsibility for his local community. With cases rising in Africa, he now_______paintings that serve as prevention_______for local community.“As cars pass by my studio, drivers and passengers would be able to see my ________about the virus and be aware of the fact that the pandemic is not over yet," he says. He________that it is in this hard time that we need to stay________ and that by________ the real life, he wants to________the image of his country to the world.

“Brazzaville is an artistic city because of its unique history and we need to pass it on to our younger generations," he says. Andre is also an active teacher who________students during school vacations.________, Elvis, Andre's son, is on his way to become a professional like his father. Impressive________keep coming out of this father-son studio.

Andre is ________ to see that more Chinese visitors and artists have ________here. He says he is looking forward to the________ of the artists from two countries.

6 . This is a real story about an old man in China. Sixty-three-year-old Zhuang Guorong is a _______ rural (乡村的) primary school art teacher, who has had a life of _______ for more than 40 years.

Every year, the strong, younger-than-his-actual-age pensioner (领养老金者) goes to “the farmers’ home” of Chenyang Community to paint or _______ other villagers how to _______.

“The farmers’ home”, a public building, _______ the venue (聚集地点) for a branch of the Sheyang Farmers Painting Institute.

The institute is a government _______ cultural organization in Sheyang County, in the north of Jiangsu Province, east China.

Zhuang works at the _______ part time, and each year he _______ up to ten paintings, which are then bought by the local government.

He makes around 5,000 yuan — that’s about 740 US dollars — a year by doing this _______.

As well as earning himself some money, Zhuang says the job gives him an opportunity to express his views of life to his fellow countrymen, ________ the elderly.

“This painting is about a nursing home. We now live in a(n) ________ society. We can no longer ________   the traditional way of taking care of our elderly just with our children doing it. ________, professional nursing homes are important for elderly people’s welfare.”

“In this painting, I described a ________ of young people celebrating the birthday of a senior citizen. The message I want to convey is that life in one’s later years can still be happy. And all of my paintings are like this one — based on our ________ lives.”

7 . Diving in the oceans, marine biologist Erika Woolsey has seen first-hand how coral reefs and sea life are being damaged by climate change. It has made her determined to _________a way for others to share her experience.(Including those who can’t _________explore the ocean).

Through her non-profit, Tic Hydrous, Woolsey is_________virtual (虚拟的) reality to “bring the _________ to everyone.” The San Francisco-based collective of scientists, filmmakers and divers is taking people on immersive(沉浸式的) virtual dives to create a (an)_________ of “universal ocean sympathy,” raising awareness of reef damage and inspiring action to _________ our seas.

As a habitat, coral reefs can be comparable to the biodiversity of rainforests, with an estimated 25% of marine species depending on them. _________ climate change, pollution and overfishing have _________ around half the world’s shallow water coral reels.

Two decades of underwater _________ have given Woolsey, an intimate understanding of the __________ facing reefs. ‘I’ve seen first-hand this ... change from a __________ colorful vibrant coral reef; to what __________ a moonscape,” Woolsey says.

It is this experience that The Hydrous team __________ to recreate with their award-winning film “Immerse.” Intended to be watched with a VR headset, viewers __________ Woolsey for a nine-minute guided virtual dive on the coral reefs off the western Pacific Island of Palau.

Woolsey __________ advances in camera technology will allow her __________ to “take more and more people to places in the ocean that are underexplored.” The VR technology __________not only the state our oceans are in but how they have a chance to __________. It is this that Woolsey says people take away with them after the __________. “When we go up, we go up with a message of hope that we bring back to __________” she says.