1 . In 2011, a law was born. A kind of ladybug (瓢虫) became the state insect of North Dakota. When the governor (州长) ________ the bill (法案) into law, four kids stood behind him! 

Jaden, Logan, Megan and Isabel were in first grade ________ their idea for a law was born. Megan and Logan were farm kids and they had been ________ with the ladybug already. They knew that farmers had difficulty in controlling crop-eating pests called aphids (蚜虫) and that ladybugs tended to ________ on aphids. The more ladybugs were around, the fewer ________ the farmers had to use. 

They decided that this ladybug should be their state insect. This ladybug was of great ________ to the crops on the farm and deserved a place of honor. But they had no idea how to ________ a law. So they asked help from their teacher, who happened to ________ their local state representative. When they all met, he told the kids they would have to present facts and reasons to ________ lawmakers that North Dakota was in need of the ladybug as the state insect. 

The students spent much of that first-grade spring ________ ladybugs. There was no doubt that their research was hard work, ________, they fell in love with it. “Even if we hadn’t achieved what we wanted,” says Jaden, “even if the bill hadn’t been passed, I think it was really ________ a lot.” 

In the fall of their second-grade year, they were invited to speak to a committee. In excitement, Megan wrote ________ for the group to sing, they contacted more experts for support, and they practiced their presentation a lot! They showed up at the state building in ladybug costumes and presented their case. ________, the bill was passed! 

The students want everyone to know that kids can make a ________ “Whether you are 8 or 80,” says Isabel, “you have a voice in your community.”

2 . Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact _________ she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished _________ a driving offence (犯规，犯法).

Then one day she nearly _________ her record. A police car _________ her, and the policemen in it saw her _________ a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed _______ that she would be punished.

_________ Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was _________ old to drive a car, and that the _______ why she had not stopped at the red ________ was most probably that her eyes had become weak ________ old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished what he was ________, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was ________ and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she ________ a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt.

When she had __________ done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed ________ the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your __________. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight.”

The judge took the __________ and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case (案例) against Mrs. Jones was __________, and her record __________ unbroken.

3 . The teenage years of an individual is marked by evaluating one's values,experiencing a shift in outlooks,and a tendency to act rebellious. It can also be a time when someone becomes extremely____ to negative influences,and is drawn towards dangerous situations. On the other hand,for parents, the period of their children's adolescence means regularly worrying about their safety and formation as a citizen. Thus, a method of _____teenagers' security is needed, and curfews(宵禁)are often seen as such a measure，since they have proved their ______the same time, certain peculiarities exist about establishing curfews for children.

The issue of teenage curfews is widely debated in the United States, where this method is still rather _____, and in European democracies, where this measure is yet not so widely used .The first and foremost reason for establishing curfews is children's security. ____curfews require teenagers under 17 years to stay out of streets starting from 11p.m.or midnight. This is believed to protect them from crimes committed after nightfall,as well as from breaking the law, and there exists serious evidence _____this belief. For example, when New Orleans enabled a dusk-til-dawn curfew in 1994, the rates of juvenile crime were reported to fall more than 20 percent.Even more impressive _______were recorded in Dallas, which reported a 30-percent decrease in violent juvenile crime,and a 21-percent decrease in the overall rates of crimes committed by young people (The New York Times).

On the other hand, curfews can be seen as a preventive measure that rob young people of their rights,____ their freedom. This opinion is _____ supported by the fact that curfew violations(违规) and the respective charges are among the most often committed juvenile crimes in the United States. _______, there were reports claiming that police arrested more non-white teenagers for curfew violations.All this can cause a teenager to believe they have crossed a psychological line dividing them as criminals; thus,such teenagers may start to see themselves as outlaws, which can _____ committing more serious crimes than a curfew offense.

What is important for a parent to remember when establishing a curfew for their children is that a teenager's misjudged view of certain______may cause them to misbehave in some other way; this is proved by research conducted by the University of Minnesota, according to which teens tend to protest against what they see as _______. Considering this,parents should ______the authoritarian style of establishing curfews; instead, they should have a conversation with their teenager that would be aimed at finding ideal conditions for a curfew that would ______both sides.