Yesterday afternoon John and I were walking along the road when we heard someone shout. “ _!” He called out several more times  __we could find him. He was in the lake, and there was a small boat nearby. At     we knew he had fallen from the boat and couldn’t swim  ___enough to reach it or to get to shore. As we ran toward the lake I saw him  _ , and I was sure that he had drowned. But after a moment his head     again.
Quickly John took off his shoes,      into the water, and started swimming toward the    man. He reached him just as the man was    down again. He was      enough to stretch out his hand and try to catch    of the man’s clothing or his hair before he sank. But the man     out his arms, caught John    the neck and began to   him down under the water. John fought to   his head above the water, and at the same time 
to swim toward the boat, pulling the man with him.
I also jumped into the water to help,      the boat with one hand and swimming with the   . The man looked dead, with his heart    weakly. We did what we  _  to save him. At last we succeeded.

I went to India for a 2-week vacation to visit my relatives. We stopped on a red light, and as always, there were a lot of activities outside the cars near the      . People walked in, between the cars       newspaper, water and a number of kids looked for a bit of charity from the car owners. It’s a familiar      in most poor developing countries.
While we were     for the red light to turn green, I noticed a man outside a couple of      in front of ours trying to sell bottles of water. It’s       unusual at first. He was a man in his 40s with relatively      clothes. But he walked around in a strange way. He kind of      his way around the spaces. He was blind.
Carrying a couple of water bottles on one hand, he     got to the outside of our car. Out of       , my mum decided to buy one water bottle. As she gave the man the money, the light turned green. The car behind sounded loudly and     , trying to get ahead of traffic. Seeing this, my mum kindly told the man to      the change. However, with his       sense of touch, he quickly went through his shirt pocket and threw the money at my mum’s       . It was the exact change. The cars behind us were really getting out of control,     we decided to go on our way.
I broke down and even      when I got home. Here’s a blind man, born in       , trying to sell water bottles on the streets to make ends meet. He        our sympathy. Life hasn’t been       to him, yet he’s giving it his best shot. I think that is what        is all about facing life bravely.

Father’s secret
My father grew up in a fatherless home. At that time, the family struggled hard to _   _. The childhood experiences caused my father to be extremely mean.
When we children became knew  that other children got spending money from their parents, we made the ______of ask our father from some.His face turned cold, “If you’re old enough to ask you’re old enough to_____” he shouted. And we went about the neighborhood seeking odd jobs.
There was a period of time when _  _of us had a car, so we had to ride the bus home. _  _the bus stopped more than two miles from home, Dad never met us. If someone _   _, he ‘d say in his loudest voice, “That’s what your _   _are for!” When I went to senior high school, I had to _  _a long way each time I came home. The walk didn’t _____me as much as the fear of walking alone. I also felt that my father didn’t care about my _   _. That feeling was _   _one spring evening.
It had been a quite difficult week at school. Tests and long hours in labs had left me _ _. As other students were __at their stops, I looked out of the window __. Finally ,the bus pulled into my stop, and I _  _off, beginning the long journey home.
On that evening, I saw something gray moving along the hedge(樹籬) towards my house. Upon a closer watch, I __   it was the top of my father’s head. Then I knew, each time I ‘d come home, he had _ _behind the hedge, watching, until I arrived safely. He did __ after all.
After that, that spot of gray became my focus. I could hardly wait to watch for its ______movement on my way home. Upon reaching home I would find my father sitting in his chair. “So, it’s you !” he’d say, pretending to be _____.
I replied, “Yes, Dad, it’s me. I’m home.”

A man was bitterly envious of his neighbour．He spent long hours in prayer，wanting to be     to his neighbour in every aspect of life．
One night，God appeared before him in a dream and said，“I am pleased with your       ．Ask for a gift     your neighbour will get the same gift in double amount．”
He was glad but sad that his enemy would get a greater gift．He requested，“God，      the sight in one of my eyes．”
With his single eye，he peeped at his neighbour but was     to see his neighbour's sight was not lost! Confused，he       to God，“Why don’t you keep your word?”
God said，“Son，I always keep my word．              is not a gift，but a curse．You have the gift of sight in only one eye now，as asked by you．But your neighbour has sight in both of his eyes．I       the gift．”
He suddenly       from his dream and was sure that it was a message from God．Englightened by the dream，he went to his neighbour and begged his pardon for thinking and acting       him．They embraced each other and were good friends thereafter．

Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother.
I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father  36  me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the fellow who is  37  for being the worst boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no  38  than tomorrow morning.”
My stepmother walked over to me,  39  my head slightly upward, and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied, “ You are  40  . This is not the worst boy at all,    41  the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet for his enthusiasm.”
That statement began a (n)  42  between us. No one had ever called me smart. My family and neighbors had built me up in my  43  as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.
She changed many things. She  44  my father to go to a dental school, from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the country seat, where my father’s career could be more  45  and my brothers and I could be better  46  .
When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand  47  and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her enthusiasm, I  48  it, and I saw how it had already improved our lives. I accepted her  49  and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of  50  that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life’s work later. I wasn’t the  51  beneficiary(受益者). My father became the  52  man in town. My brothers and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president.
What power  53  has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one’s purpose and is  54  strengthened by faith, it becomes an irresistible force which poverty and temporary defeat can never  55  .
You can communicate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do with your enthusiasm.

Nowadays fashion speaks aloud.Then do you choose what you wear or does the ____ choose it for you？I am one of the million Americans who struggle with ____ the new trends.The newspapers and magazines work their hardest in trying to ___ us to buy new things for home，work，and family.Many large ___ spend millions of dollars for a one­minute commercial on one of the ___ stations such as FOX and CBS.Television and magazines ____ carefully not only what to wear and when to wear it but also what others are wearing such as movie stars，____ and music artists.Television，one of the ___ mediums of the media world，talks with us about who is wearing what and what is fashionable for the ____.Television shows give us information on new trends ____ all different types of people and in all different countries.Designers such as Calvin Klein，Levi’s and many others try to ____ us to their cool commercials.Indeed，they get ____ from the commercials after their designs are sold.
Television influences the way we ____.It searches each and every one of our wardrobes(衣櫥) with telling us what is ____ and what is not.Teenagers，____，give a lot of their attention to these television programs.They even wish they could ____ like the models immediately.The commercials try to ____ the younger generation because they will have them in the palm of their hands for the ____ of their lives.Also teenagers are ____ influenced by television with the billions of dollars spent on advertisements.These advertisements have them ____ widely—they really know what teenagers like.

Historically, the term “fair trade” has meant many things. The Fair Trade League was  36   in Britain in 1881 to restrict  37  from foreign countries. In the United States, businesses and labor unions 38  “fair trade” laws to construct構(gòu)建what economist Joseph Stiglitz calls “barriers to imports.” These so called “anti-dumping(反傾銷)” laws allow a company that  39  a foreign one of selling a product below cost to request that the government charge收費(fèi)special taxes to protect it from “unfair”  40  .
Such dark protectionist thoughts are far from the  41  of the organizers of the United Kingdom’s annual “Fairtrade Fortnight”. Their  42   aim is to raise the price paid to developing-country farmers for their 43  by cutting out the inflated profits虛抬利潤of the middlemen on whom they  44  for getting their goods to distant markets. Fair-trade products  45  cocoa, coffee, tea, and bananas do not compete with domestic European production, and  46  do not have a protectionist motive(動機(jī)).
This is how it works: In  47  for being paid a guaranteed price and meeting “agreed labor and environmental standards” (minimum wages, no farm chemicals ), poor-country farming cooperatives(合作社) receive a FAIRTRADE mark for their products, given  48  by the FAIRTRADE Labeling Organization. This mark 49  supermarkets and other businesses to sell the products at a higher than  50   price . Third-world farmers get their income increased,  51  first-world consumers get to feel virtuous: a marriage made in heaven.
The fair-trade movement,  52  in the 1980’s, has been growing rapidly. In a significant breakthrough in 1997, the British House of Commons   53   to serve only fair-trade coffee. By the end of 2007, more than 600 producers’ organizations,   54  1.4 million farmers in 58 countries, were selling fair-trade products. Today, a quarter of all bananas in UK supermarkets are sold under a FAIRTRADE mark. But FAIRTRADE-labeled products still represent a very  55  share—typically less than 1%—of global sales of cocoa, tea, coffee, etc.

The western world has always been divided into two types of people—the cool and the uncool. It is a   11   that starts in school. The cool kids are good at sports. They are popular with the opposite sex. They are good-looking and people want to   12    their style. They can do their homework but they don’t make a big effort. That would not be cool.
The    13    kids are in the other corner of the playground. They are very bright, but they don’t have great    14   skills, not popular with the opposite sex and they are    15   at sports. When they are not programming computers or doing calculus (微積分) , they are watching shows like the “X Files”. They are known as the geeks.
But the geeks are taking over. Make friends with them now or they will put virus in your computer and    16    your maths homework to ruin. Geeks might not be popular at school, yet they do pass their examinations. They   17   good degrees, though they might not be too popular at university.
The most important   18   of the 21st century, computers and IT, has been at least partly created by geeks. Geek heroes like Bill Gates    19   others to follow their examples. Being a geek is a way of earning good money. And the creation of the Internet gave them a    20    of their own to work and play in, making them a global force.    21  , the effect of the geeks on popular culture has started a new trend. It is now cool to be    22  . Geek culture is becoming an important part of general popular culture, in which what you    23   is more important than what you look like.
But there are also    24  . Geeks were often bullied (欺侮) or laughed at in school. Now a geek may be your    25  . Perhaps it is time for punishment.

An increase in students applying to study economics at university is being attributed to the global economic crisis awakening a public  36 for knowledge about how the financial system  37  .
Applications for degree courses beginning this autumn were up by 15% this January,  38 UCAS, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. A spokesman for the Royal Economic Society said applications to do economics at A-level were  39 up.
Professor John Beath, the president of the society, and a  40 lecturer at St Andrews University, said his first-year lectures—which are open to students from all departments—were  41 crowds of 400, rather than the  42 250.
“There are a large number of students who are not economics  43 who would like to learn something about it. One of the things I have done this year is to  44  my teaching to contemporary events in a way that one hasn’t  45 done.” He added.
University applications  46 7% last year. But there were rises  47  average in several subjects. Nursing saw a 15% jump, with people’s renewed  48 in careers in the public sector, which are seen as more secure in economic crisis.
A  49 study showed almost two thirds of parents believed schools should do more to teach pupils about financial  50  and almost half said their children had asked them what was  51 , although a minority of parents felt they did not understand it themselves well enough to explain.
Zack Hocking, the head of Child Trust Funds, said: “It’s possible that one good thing to arise from the  52 will be a generation that’s financially  53 and better equipped to  54  their money through times of economic  55 .”