1 . Time magazine named its choice of the 100 “Most Influential (有影响力的) People in the World” on Wednesday. On the _________ were Barack Obama; Mitt Romney; Hillary Clinton; Warren Buffett; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge; Pippa Middleton; Tim Tebow; Jeremy Lin and Matt Lauer.

Jeremy Lin, New York Knicks starting point guard, is a person that many _________ can take as an example, according to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan who _________ the ball player for being one of the world’s most _________ persons. In the article, the secretary of education said kids can learn a great _________ from the injured Knicks point guard who is a _________ of Harvard University.

“Jeremy Lin’s story is a great lesson for kids everywhere. In life, there are many prejudices (偏见) that _________ hold children back. However, Lin’s success can show that these prejudices are _________. For example, in the past, many people didn’t believe an Asian-American could _________ in the NBA, but Lin has proved them wrong - and he’s shown that it’s ______________ to be a world-class athlete on the court as well as a(n) ______________ student off the court.” Duncan wrote.

“It’s great to see good values and the right attitude ______________ in professional sports because that doesn’t always happen,” Duncan said in the Time report. “Often it’s the selfish sportsman that gets celebrated - not people who play for the ______________ and work together to achieve a goal bigger than themselves.”

We spoke to Lin’s ______________, and they seemed to be proud of the young basketball star and praised the amazing effect he’d had on their team, but Lin stayed ______________ about the recognition, and reacted on Twitter by saying “Now I’m blushing (脸红).”

2 . A pencil drawing of a broken old man, head in hands, looking extremely exhausted, has been identified as a newly-discovered work by Vincent Van Gogh.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said yesterday that it had _______ the authenticity (真实性) of the drawing. Senior researcher Teio Meedendorp described it as a(an) “_______” discovery, shining light on van Gogh’s early career as an artist in the Hague, a time less well-known than his years in Paris or the south of France.

The drawing has been titled Study for _______. It was drawn in late 1882s when the 29-year-old van Gogh was two years into his career as an artist. He was drawing as many studies of _______ as he could. He often recruited models from an almshouse for the elderly run by the Dutch Reformed church, _______ them a modest fee and gave them coffee.

He called these models his “orphan men” and “orphan women”. A favourite was the man in the newly discovered drawing, Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland, the only one of these models whose name is known.

Van Gogh used a thick carpenter’s pencil on rough watercolour paper. The sheet _______ 48.8 cm by 30 cm.

Experts have _______ the drawing back to the end of November 1882, linking it to several other works made at the time.

Van Gogh talked about the two drawings in a letter to his brother, Theo. “Today and yesterday I drew two _______ of an old man with his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands.... Perhaps I’ll do a lithograph (平版印刷画) of it. What a fine _______ an old working man makes, in his patched bombazine (斜纹布) suit with his bald head.”

At the time Van Gogh was ________ to work as a magazine illustrator, so he could earn money in his own right and be less dependent on his brother.

The drawing, which has been in a ________ collection in the Netherlands since about 1910, goes on display at the Amsterdam museum from 17 September, 2021, until 2 January, 2022, after which it will be returned to the owner.

Meedendorp recalled his ________ on making the discovery: “I’ve worked with Van Gogh for a substantial part of my life, especially the drawings, and it is always a delight to have them in your hand and looking at them up close. These drawings from the Hague are ________ delightful to look at — you can follow the working process of Vincent so well... the way he ________ the pencil.”

“Whenever you have a ________ at drawings like this, you want to pick up a pencil yourself and start drawing.”

3 . Gary Vaynerchuk is a larger-than-life character who has established a series of successful businesses. He was born in 1975 in the town of Babruysk and then left for the USA with his ________ in 1978, where his father ________ a wine store in Springfield, New Jersey. Gary showed himself to be a ________ businessman as a youngster, running a lemonade ________.

When Gary grew up, his approach to the wine business soon brought ________ results. He created a strong online presence, ________ several media companies. Through this online ________, he promotes his ________ for business success.

Gary’s opinions are aimed at the business community, but there is much in what he says that can be applied just as effectively to your ________. One of the views is that social media can be used to make connections with those who can help you ________.

Wasting time is something Gary hates. He often emphasizes the fact that ________ is a limited resource. You should ________ the one life you have been given. To get the sense of well-being and ________, concentrate on the talents you have, and ________ about those you are bad at. By being yourself, you will ________ much more than if you try to be something you are not.

4 . 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.

5 . “Chinese civilization is the most fascinating and ________ (more than 5,000 years) in the world,” Frances Wood, a well-known British Sinologist, has said.

Wood studied Chinese at Cambridge University in the 1970s, before traveling ________ in China while studying at Peking University in the Chinese capital, Beijing. After ________ from University of London with a doctor’s degree in Chinese Architecture, she joined the British Library in 1977 and ________ the curator (馆长) of the Chinese collections for more than 30 years, until retired in 2013.

One of her main ________ in the role of curator was to purchase books in Chinese about China, ________ various subjects including humanities and literature.

“It was a wonderful and ________ job,” she says. “It was fascinating to watch China’s expanding number of ________ from the 1970s onward.”

Wood wrote several books related to China, including on Qin Shi Huang, the first ________ of the Qin Dynasty, Marco Polo and the Silk Road. Last month, Wood received a gold ________ from the 16th Special Book Award of China in Beijing for her contributions to ________ Chinese culture.

Wood’s ________ for Chinese culture is reflected in her daily life. The front yard of her house is full of bamboo, and her bookshelf is ________ with Chinese and English books related to China. She keeps numerous gifts given to her by Chinese friends, such as small Peking Opera masks, inkstones, Chinese calligraphy works and paintings.

Referring to her recent role as a ________ in the “Chinese Bridge” language contest held in London for British university students, she says she was ________ by their great enthusiasm in learning Mandarin.

6 . Einstein took a job as a clerk in the Swiss patent office. While working there, out of a strong ______ for knowledge, he continued to study, ______ a doctorate in physics in 1905. That same year, which was later ______ as a miracle year in science, he ______ four extraordinary physics papers. Following this, he gradually became famous ______ the world as the new Isaac Newton. After four years, he was able to ______ his job at the patent office and enter ______ full-time at a university. In 1922, he was ______ the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his ______ of the photoelectric effect.

Circumstances ______ in 1933, when Hitler came to power in Germany. Einstein, who was Jewish, found the doors of ______ institutions closed to him. ______, he had to flee Germany. After spending time in Europe, he finally ______ a job at the institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA. ______ that, he continued to make great ______ in physics and mathematics.

7 . As a physically fit 89-year-old big band singer, Tony Bennett performed timeless ballads (民歌，情歌) perfectly. He was an exception to the belief of aging and decline.

However, the trouble with his _______ concerned Bennett, especially since it might impact his ability to put on his signature fine-tuned show. Eventually, Bennett was _______ with Alzheimer’s disease in 2017.

After receiving the diagnosis, Bennett insisted on continuing to perform. “Tony has always had a very _______ attitude,” his wife Benedetto says. “He was going to keep going straight ahead _______ he always has.”

As one of only a few artists to produce chart-topping records every decade since the 1950s — _______ more than 60 albums — Bennett is an American icon (偶像). His _______ “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” and “Rags to Riches”, among many others — have earned him 19 Grammy Awards.

_______ the disease, Bennett’s desire to help others connect through music remained strong. He felt it _______ to make people feel good.

In February 2021, Bennett _______ shared that he was living with Alzheimer’s in an interview. Shortly after the news, the ________ from the public was overwhelmingly supportive. In October, Bennett and Lady Gaga released ________ is billed as Bennett’s final studio album, “Love for Sale.” Upon its release, Bennett earned the Guinness World Records ________ for the oldest artist to release an album of new material.

As the disease ________, music has a renewed importance in Bennett’s life. Over seven decades, Bennett’s brave and ________ voice is helping people find joy among life’s hardships. “He gives people courage and hope. And he is ________.”

8 . From a young age, Allison Gilbert loved to write-and now the award-winning _________is telling the story of a trailblazer (先驱者) whose ambitions were similar to hers. Gilberts___________ book is Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson:___________America’s Most-Read Woman. It is the first biography ever written___________Elsie Robinson, one of the most influential news___________in US history.

Gilbert, 52, got ___________in journalism by writing for her high school and college newspapers and went on to ___________major stories for The New-York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and other news outlets. She ___________The Week Junior that she discovered Elsie Robinson while___________her mother’s belongings after she died. When she found a____________attributed to Elsie Robinson and did some____________about her, Gilbert learned that Robinson was a great journalist in the 1900s. She was the highest-paid female writer at the Hearst media____________and the nation’s most-read columnist.

Gilbert was ____________by Robinson’s story. “She had no money, no resources, no connections, yet she had a ____________,” Gilbert said. “And through her own determination and hard work, she ____________it.” Gilbert wrote Listen, World!____________others could learn about Robinson and she would not be ____________ to history.

The advice for aspiring writers Gilbert____________with The Week Junior comes from Robinson. “Elsie would say that nobody is anointed (选定) a writer-you are a writer____________you say you are,” Gilbert said. “She would also say that writers____________, so just begin.”

9 . When Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field during the first quarter of a Monday Night Football game on Jan. 2, viewers around the world held their breath. I was one of them. I sat on the couch with my sons and ______ as trainers and first responders used CPR and an automated external defibrillation(AED) device for 10 minutes before ______ Hamlin to a hospital.

Doctors ______ that the then 24-year-old had suffered from commotio cordis, a rare type of cardiac arrest (心脏停搏). During his stay in the ______, people in Buffalo held vigils (守夜) to pray, and fans everywhere ______ Hamlin with cards and letters and donated millions of dollars to his ______ organization.

By April, specialists ______ Hamlin to return to football. At a news ______announcing his return, Hamlin said, “I just want to show people that fear is a(n) _______ , and that you can keep going in something without having the ______ and without knowing what’s at the end of the ______ . You might feel ______ , and you might feel any type of way, but you just keep putting that right foot in front of the left one, and you keep going. I want to ______ that.”

I was ______ by what Hamlin said, by the way the people of Buffalo rallied (集合) around him and by the outpouring of love he gave the city ______ . His situation captured everything we look for in our annual search for the Nicest Places in America.

10 . Do you enjoy the Olympics? I certainly do. Every four years we get to see the best of the best competing for the _______. But sometimes the best inspiration _______ those who don’t win.

In 1988, Eddie Edwards became the first athlete since 1928 to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping. He had no money, no equipment, no _______ — and some called him the great British loser.

“When you _______, it’s probably about 500 or 600 feet high. So you do have to be not a little _______ to go down, but probably a lot.” Eddie recalled, “I got out and the crowd started _______ ‘Eddie! Eddie!’. It’s the most _______ feeling in the world.”

How did Eddie do? Eddie’s British record of 71 meters _______ him in 58th place — 19 meters behind the competitor who placed 57th. But it didn’t _______. His fans loved him for other reasons. If you ask anyone in Britain, “Who won the Olympic ski jump in 1988?” Almost no one could tell you. ________, if you ask, “Who is Eddie Edwards?” They’ll tell you all about the crazy ski jump guy who they still remember and ________ to this day. The British people were proud of him for just trying, thus ________ didn’t matter a bit. He will be forever and ________ memorized by his country for doing what no one else had done in 60 years.

So what ________ thing are you afraid to do? Take Eddie’s example and just go for it. You might just become a ________.