In my living room, there is aplaque that advises me to “bloom {#blank#}1{#/blank#}youare planted”. It reminds me of Dorothy. I got to know Dorothy in the early1980s, when I was teaching Early Childhood Development through a program. Thejob {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(responsible) requiredoccasional visits to the classroom of each teacher in the program. Dorothystands out in my memory as on one {#blank#}3{#/blank#}bloomed in her remote area.

       Dorothy taught in a remote school nearHarlan. To get to her school from the town of Harlan, I followed a road {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(wind) around the mountain. In theeight-mile journey, I crossed the same railroad track five times, giving thepossibility of {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(catch) by thesame train five times. Rather than feeling excited by this drive throughmountains, I found it depressing. The poverty level was shocking and the smallshabby houses gave me the greatest feeling of {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(hope).

        From the moment of my arrival at thelittle school, all my gloom disappeared. Upon arriving at Dorothy's classroom,I was greeted with smiling faces and treated like a queen. The children{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(prepare) to show me their {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(late) projects. Dorothy told me witha smile that they were serving poke greens salad and cornbread they madethemselves for dinner.

        Lonely {#blank#}9{#/blank#}she was far away from the moderncivilization and convenience, she never ran out of reports of excitingactivities of her students. Her enthusiasm never cooleddown. She passed all the tests {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(excellent)and I found that Dorothy was really blooming where life had planted her.

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    A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to play around{#blank#}1{#/blank#}every day. He loved the tree and the tree loved to play{#blank#}2{#/blank#}him.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} time went by, the little boy had grown up and he no longer came to visit the tree every day. One day, the boy came back and picked all the apples on the tree and left {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(happy). The boy no longer came back {#blank#}5{#/blank#}he picked the apples. The tree was sad.

    One day, the boy{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (return) and the tree was so excited. “Come and play with me,” the tree said. But the boy cut all the branches off the tree{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (build) his house. The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy never came back again. The tree was again full of {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (sad).

    One hot summer day, the boy came and the tree was delighted. “Come and play with me!” the tree said. This time the boy cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (sail) and never showed up again. The tree was heartbroken,{#blank#}10{#/blank#} the boy never knew.

    In the US, April is National Volunteer Month,{#blank#}1{#/blank#} recognizes and thanks volunteers who lend their time, talent, and support to causes they care about in their{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (community).

    The very nature of volunteering means choosing to work without being paid for it. As a result, people tend to do things they feel strongly{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (concern) about.

    For students, valuable lessons may be learned outside class.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (consequent), in many parts of the US, volunteering is often taken into consideration when vacations{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (plan). Unlike his classmates, Andrew Makhoul,{#blank#}6{#/blank#} university student, spent his 2012 spring break volunteering at an orphanage (孤儿院),{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (locate) in one of the poorest and most violent parts of Guatemala and depending{#blank#}8{#/blank#} volunteers to stay open. Makhoul's first time as a volunteer only lasted a week, but by the end of that week, he knew he{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (will) be back soon—because he saw love and hope. “If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, and you will fill{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (you) with hope,” former US president wrote on social media in 2016.

    Steam trains were replaced by electric ones many years ago, so when the newspaper I worked for {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (hear) that the Admiral steam engine had been restored (恢复), they decided to send me on {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (it) first trip. I wanted to go even though I {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(general) disliked travelling by train. In fact, I was looking forward to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (see) something I had never seen before.

    When I arrived at the station, lots of people had already been there for a while, enjoying the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (celebrate) of the rebirth of the Admiral. At two o'clock, everyone was ready {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (board) the train. I settled myself into a compartment (列车车厢) where I was soon joined by an old man {#blank#}7{#/blank#} claimed to be one of the original workers on the Admiral. He told me how much he had hated being covered in coal dust all {#blank#}8{#/blank#} time. His family had been too poor to buy more things {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the basic necessities. It was a pleasure to listen to him. At every station, people were waiting to greet the train, and it was {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(excite) to see their faces as the past seemed to come alive again.

     Howard Carter is one of the most famous explorers in the world. He was brave and loved to discover new places. By the 1920s, he {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (start)searching for the tombs of the Egyptian Kings. In 1922, Howard Carter and his team made their most {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (amaze) discovery of all. They came across the tomb of King Tutankhamun, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} contained more treasure than any of them had ever seen before, as well as the mummy of the king. After {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (look) into the tomb, they closed it. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (unlucky), many of the men who had something to do {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the opening of the tomb got ill or even died after that. Some people think the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (death) were just coincidence or the curse of mummy. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (other) believe there is a {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (science) reason. What is certain, though, is that She curse of the mummy' remains {#blank#}10{#/blank#} riddle to this day.