1 . What do you usually keep on your desk? Maybe a box of candy, pens or a glass bottle. Sure, these everyday objects have their own _________, but did you ever think they could be made into music?

Recently, Zhang Yuxuan, better known as Vicky Xuanxuan _________ the spotlight on Chinese social media for her music. With all the media focusing on her, the 15-year-old girl revealed that she recorded sounds using _________ objects around her and mixed them into her songs. Upon the _________ of her English song She, it has been viewed more than 14 million times and _________ over 1 million thumbs-up emojis (表情符号) on Bilibili, China’s video-sharing and livestreaming platform.

“A melody _________ popped into my head when I was having math class,” Zhang, a student at the Shenzhen Arts School, majoring in violin, said in her video titled How to Turn a Melody into a Song. “I quickly wrote down four _________ of lyrics and the melody in my notebook and after class, I _________ home and took less than half an hour to finish the rest.”

Now, Zhang has nearly 1.7 million followers on Bilibili. Some are strangers but firmly _________ her. Popularity has given her the opportunities to cooperate with __________ people, such as pianist Lang Lang. But just as the old saying goes, “a coin has two sides”. Internet __________ can also attract criticism. Viewers have left remarks like “you look too old for your age”. Although she felt bad about these __________ at first, Zhang tried to get used to them. Later, she even turned the __________ reviews into a song.

No matter how __________ some people are online, to be seen and heard by more people has motivated Zhang to keep posting her singing clips. Her song Runaway Forest may indicate her __________ facing difficulty—“You don’t have to be upset/Just walk straight forward/... I’m the one with the shining light.”

2 . After winning gold with three perfect scores in the women’s 10-meter diving on Thursday, the 14-year-old girl, Quan Hongchan, has won the nation’s heart with her innocent and honest talks at news conferences. When asked about what was her _______, she replied, “I don’t know. Some people say my splash (水花) into the water is even _______ than the splash they make when they throw a dumpling into a pot. I don’t know and I never _______ them. I just dived every day. Each day, I needed to _______ about seven hours, and some days I did for 10 hours.”

Quan was born and _______ in a poor village in Zhanjiang City. When she was still in primary school, Chen Huaming, the diving coach at Zhanjiang Sports School, _______ that Quan jumped much higher than the other kids. After giving her a _______ on a diving board, he _______ knew he had discovered a true talent.

Chen suggested to the youngster that diving could be the _______ to her family’s financial problems. Quan immediately made up her mind to become the best in the sport.

“My mom was ________ then. I really wanted to make money to help her ________ better treatment,” Quan admitted at a news conference.

After four years at the sports school, Quan was ________ for the Guangdong provincial team. In October last year, she won her first national title, presenting her with the opportunity to ________ her country.

Her participation at Tokyo 2020, ________, was only made possible by the postponement (延期) of the Games ________ the health crisis, which let the teenager pass the competition’s minimum age limit.

3 . 78-year-old Nora Langdon has become an inspiration to people of all ages. She _________multiple days a week at the gym training for three hours at a time.

At 65, Langdon was determined to live a _________lifestyle. In 2007, she weighed over 210 pounds and often struggled to catch her _________while going up the stairs. She knew it was time to _________

“On the first day I started, I told myself that I’d give up because it was too _________for me.” Langdon told Good Morning America. “Then I heard my _________saying from within, ‘go back.’ So, I went back and here I am today.”

After joining the gym and watching her trainer prepare for a powerlifting meet, she _________his competition and decided to try it herself. She began with the basics — using a broom (扫帚) as a barbell before _________moving to weights. It wasn’t long before she discovered _________was her love.

Langdon has __________19 world records and quickly became one of Michigan’s best in her age range. Although Langdon has some world records under her belt, she shows no signs of __________. Her next __________? To powerlift a total of over a thousand pounds!

Langdon wants others to know that with__________and strong faith, anyone her age can get into __________. “You were __________to continue until the Lord takes you away,” she said.

4 . If a person lost an arm, how could he or she play basketball? How could he or she _________dribble (运球) like a professional player? Zhang Jiacheng, a Chinese boy, has _________it and moved everyone who knows his story from the Internet.

Zhang soon _________tens of thousands of netizens’ attention and was highly praised for his _________skills, after a short video of his playing one-on-one was recently _________online. In the video, Zhang _________ his dribbling and shooting abilities with a professional player playing in _________. The audience watching on site gave a loud _________. “It is the power of basketball, so _________and inspirational!” a netizen who saw this video __________on Sina Weibo. Zhang also registered a personal account on a video platform, and __________15 short videos of practicing basketball, which had earned him over one million __________in just a few days. Born in Guangdong, China, Zhang’s right arm was __________by an accident when he was only five, which was a very __________event for a little kid. But Zhang hasn’t let that misfortune __________ his pursuing his dreams, and he has never __________his fate as his love for basketball grows deeper in a body with a physical __________. Basketball is by no means a __________for this one-armed teenager. __________, he dreams of being a professional athlete!

“Your heart is always the __________part of your body,” said Yi Jianlian, after watching the teenager's short video.

5 . Fourteen-year-old Quan Hongchan has struck gold for China at the Tokyo Olympics. Starting the competition as a dark horse on the national team, she’s made _______ with amazing performances in the 10-meter women’s diving platform event. She _______ her name in the history books.

Quan is a genius who walked out of a small seaside town. She started _______ at the of seven. In her first training school, the springboard was made of _______ and it got burning hot in the summer. She could only use a towel to squeeze the water to _______ the springboard, and then jumped into the water again and again in the terrible _______.

“Even in such tough_______ Quan Hongchan’s hard work and seriousness in training slowly showed,”   Coach Chen Huaming said, “Her success is not entirely _______ talent”

“Our coach often reminds us that we should take those successful big brothers and sisters as our role models. However hard the training is, they just _______ it to the last second. ”   Quan told China Daily. With the role models in her heart, Quan Hongchan became more __________in training. She kept practicing physical stamina and basic skills, fuming on the tossing machine and jumping off   the platform repeatedly.

Having stood out in a series of competitions, Quan Hongchan managed to __________ the national team at the end of 2020. Due to the __________ training, talent and hard work could finally be perfectly __________ to achieve her goal. This little genius __________ the world with three perfect 10 scores out of five dives after she __________ a near splash-less dive.

6 . 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.

7 . 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.”

8 . Preet Chandi, an Asian woman, returned from a trek（徒步旅行）across Greenland last year. She hopes to ________ an unsupported trek across Antarctica to the south pole by herself. The 700-mile journey will take about 45 days. She will face the ________ cold of -50℃ while dragging a sled weighing 95kg when she ________.

Preet Chandi ________ it is a tough journey. But she feels well prepared after years of ________. In recent weeks she has been ________ tyres around the streets near her home. She has received a number of curious questions from ________. “If you come from a community that is not involved in ________ at all, it can be really hard,” she said, adding that a number of people thought she was to ________ for Southall, in west London, not to the south pole. “It’s just beyond their________.”

In the south pole, one may ________ nothing in front for days except snow. It is quite a mental________. Thus, her partner has left messages inside her tent, while friends have ________ voice notes for her to listen to on the journey.

When she returns, she plans to put aside some money to ________ more women to try outdoor adventures. She is pleased to see change in what has ________ been a male-dominated area. What an inspiring woman!

9 . After the Civil War, Mark Twain briefly served in the Confederate Army (南方邦联军), then rejoined his brother Orion, who had recently won a position in the Nevada territory government as ______ for his work on President Abraham Lincoln's re-election campaign. Twain traveled with his brother to Nevada then began a year's work panning for gold and silver. These experiences would later provide the basis for his volume Roughing It (1872). In 1862, he joined the publication and assumed the Mark Twain pseudonym (笔名) almost exclusively when ______ his humorous reports with conventional pieces.

Throughout the remainder of the 1860s, Twain traveled widely and ______ his observations to various West Coast publications. For much of this period he even served as an official journalist for the San Francisco Daily Morning. One of his most celebrated and notorious writings from this period, ______ came as a journalist for the Alta California, whose editors he ______ to finance a five-month journey aboard the Quaker in Europe and the Middle East. Upon returning to the United States, he compiled (编写) the Quaker City correspondence as The Innocents Abroad (1869) and agreed to widespread demand for his ______ as a public lecturer.

With The Innocents Abroad, Twain enjoyed considerable commercial and ______ success. Its popularity was rather ______, for the book was published by a subscription house，which sold works door to door before publication. Interested readers would pay in advance for the book, which would ______, realize actual publication only after sufficient sales had been ______. Twain, who significantly filled the book with 61 chapters of real-life stories - great length was a disadvantage for sales -______ succeeded in producing a work that appealed to readers with its lively humor and ______ insights and depictions. Notable in the book are ______ in Venice, Italy, where the boatmen are inevitably ______ as cheery opportunists, and in Palestine, where deceitful beggars exploit the company's more vulnerable members. Perhaps because of the work's broad, seemingly bitter humor, The Innocents Abroad still ______ among Twain's most accomplished works.

10 . Armenian musician Astrid Poghosyan ________ great pride in the Chinese name she picked for herself, Ma Xingxing. The given name “Xingxing.” literally meaning ________ is inspired by her Armenian first name, while the surname “Ma” is taken from Ma Chao, a famous ________ from China’s Three Kingdoms Period（220-280 AD）.

Poghosyan always puts all her ________ into the projects in which she is involved, whether they are offline or online events,________she believes that every little effort will help her realize her ________ dreams. “I believe music knows no borders, and that cultural exchanges via music are especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic,” she said.

Having studied and worked in China for 12 years, Poghosyan has now become a real China hand, versed in the country’s language and culture. Such a multicultural background has ________ helped her good at her current job because she knows how to use the ________ of a multicultural background in her work.

Her ________ for Chinese culture, including Jackie Chan movies and stories of Mulan, helped her ________ the difficult language-learning process. As she gradually ________ herself in the Chinese language and culture, she also started to make Chinese friends and ________ the vibrant city life of Shanghai.

“Since I first came to Shanghai, I have always been ________ by the kindness and friendliness of the people here. Even when I couldn’t speak Chinese, in the first days, everyone I met gave me a big ________, whether they were sanitation workers on the streets or cashiers in convenience stores. Their smiles have made me feel the ________ of the city.” she said.