Make the Most of What You Have Got

    For Nick Vujicic, life was going to be difficult from the day he was born. When Nick arrived into this world, he1everyone. He was not like the other babies and it was2obvious to his parents and to the doctors in the hospital.

    There was no3or answers for his condition. Nick was born without any limbs, that is, he was born without any arms or legs. But despite (尽管) being physically4, he was mentally5and the rest of his body was functioning fine.

    6he had loving parents, Nick would find school hard as he would often be looked down upon by the other children and at the age of 10, he considered 7 his life by drowning (淹死) himself in a bathtub (浴缸). These dark thoughts were8by his negative attitude to being disabled and at the time, he thought that he would never be able to do9by himself, that he would never have a job and that he would always have to10on his parents for help.

    However, with his own efforts, things totally change when he becomes an adult. Nick is now a successful public speaker and is famous for his encouraging 11 which focus on life with a disability, hope and finding meaning in life worldwide. He12so many people with the story of his life, how he has 13 so many difficulties and most importantly how he is happy every day.

    Despite having no arms or legs, Nick lives14, even finding ways to do almost something15like brushing his teeth on his own and swimming. He has to work harder than a full bodied person and he achieves his goals.

    At the first impression, you may look at Nick and feel16. You may feel sad that this man has no arms or legs and you might feel his17and upset that he could find everyday situations difficult. But we should18Nick, as he is extremely positive and he gets on with life. He19 every day and makes the best of what he has: a positive attitude, a creative mind and a powerful 20. He also has a very kind and very beautiful wife and they are truly happy and in love.

    Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous scientists in this century. The disabled writer of A Brief History of Time, was on his second journey to China in Hangzhou of Zhejiang Province. His first 1was over ten years ago. The great theoretical scientist has been invited to 2 a mathematics research institute at Zhejiang University, Metropolis Newspaper reported.3Sunday evening, he made his appearance at a press conference 4 at Shangri-La hotel, Hangzhou. Hawking 5 at about 5: 00 pm with his wife. The elderly man answered a total of nine 6 with the help of his 7. “I find the real universe much more 8 than the one in the film Star Wars,” Hawking joked. “I 9 young people to study theoretical physics first 10 they are interested in it. But the talented man 11 has produced such rich work suffers from 12 motor neuron disease（运动神经元病）. He is one of the 350,000 sufferers in the world. The disease 13 over 100,000 people every year. “I like life and I love life, my family ,and music give me the 14 happiness,” smiled Hawking, who can 15 move two fingers.

    In the speech, Hawking said he was 16 to write a new edition of A Brief History of Time 17 young children. “A Brief History of Time is my first book for 18 people. But I later found that I could write it in a 19 way,” he answered. “So I decided to rewrite it 20 all people can read it easily.” Unfortunately, he left us forever on Marchl4 this year. We remember his words “My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”

    In mid-January the weather stayed clear and cold for several days. Jess had to 1 a week of school to stay home and2 his father to manure（给……施肥） the fields. This was his bad3, for he would have to make up his lessons as best as he could. It wasn't4, though. All the boys and girls at Pumpkin Hollow School were often kept home when they were needed.

    Jess5 manuring, but he couldn't get out of it. Filling the wagon（马车） with heavy manure was a tiring 6. With a full load（装载）, his father drove over the fields; Jess stood in the back and spread the manure.

    After several days at this job, both Jess and his father grew7 and impatient. It seemed as though life was too8 to stand. They fell into bed at night worn out, with nothing to 9 but another day of the same hard work. Jess was even 10with it. "Why does brother Ben stay in a warm prison while I myself tried to do his work？ It's 11!" Jess thought.

    His mother watched him 12. "You're looking thin," she said. Then she turned to Jess's father and said," Joseph, couldn't we hire（雇）somebody to help13the manuring is done？"

    Mr. Wright didn't 14, and Jess guessed why. His father couldn't15 to hire a man. The hundred dollars he had paid for Ben's fine had wiped out the family's savings. Jess said, "No, Ma, we don't 16 to hire anybody. Pa and I can manage.17 I'm tired, and so is Pa. We'll18 it in a few days."

    The19 look his father gave him for understanding the problem was reward enough. When they went to the fields and were silently working together, Jess was 20 he'd spoken up.

    It's about 250 miles from the hills of west-central Iowa to Ehlers' home in Minnesota. During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting. Ehlers 1about the small dog he had seen 2alongside the road. He had 3to coax(哄) the dog to him but, frightened, it had 4.

    Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that 5dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove 6. After a long and careful 7, Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving 8away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with 9. It just started licking(舔) Ehlers' face.

    A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one 10as lost in the local paper. The ad had a 11number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers 12the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had 13their dog.

    Jeff had 14in Iowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched 15for Rosie in the next four days.

    Ehlers returned to Minnesota, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan. "It's good to know there's still someone out there who 16enough to go to that kind of 17,"says Lisa of Ehlers' rescue 18.

    "I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as 19to it as I am to my dogs," says Ehlers. "If it had been my dog, I'd hope that somebody would be 20to go that extra mile."

第三部分，英语知识运用，

I was born in a poor village in Uganda. I spent the 1 days of my childhood there. My mother died when I was born. My father never cared about me, which 2 me to leave when I was ten. For the next three years, I helped people do something and they provided me with shelter and food 3 . Luckily, a 4 family paid for me to go to school. For the first time after leaving home, I felt 5 . Then, I attended school and got a job. I always 6 to help children in need. Yet I 7 felt I could do something more.

In 2016, I got passed to be a foster (收养) parent. By the end of 2019, ten kids had filled my house. In 2020, I got a call from a center for 8 children. When asked if I could take Anthony, I 9 it because ten kids were all I could do with. 10 , I was talked into taking Anthony just for the weekend. I didn't ask about his situation 11 .

Anthony arrived that night, "Can I call you Dad?" he asked.

"No." I needed to keep my 12 .

Monday morning a worker in the center came to 13 Anthony. From their talk, I learned he had been 14 three times, but nobody would take him in.

Looking at Anthony, I saw something that made me think of the 15 boy I had once been. "I'll take him in," I said.

Griffith was driving alone to the Bay Area on a work call Saturday morning, thinking he was having a heart attack. He was in 1 . He was in the fast lane（车道） and he started to work his way over to the 2 lane. He drove his car at such a high speed that his car crashed off the exit ramp（匝道） and hit a big tree. All the while everything became 3 before his eyes.

A young man and woman 4 . They left their car and 5 to Griffith's car. They knew 6 what to do. They didn't 7 Griffith from the car but instead left him where he was and got right to work, doing what they could.

"They kept 8 to keep me awake because I was not doing well," recalled Griffith.

9 under pressure, they called the ambulance and took care of everything until professional 10 got there.

They found Griffith's wallet and ID in the car and 11 them to the rescuers. They even 12 to find Griffith's telephone list and 13 his family of what was happening in no time.

Griffith now knows a rare nerve impingement（神经压迫症） in his neck is what 14 him to black out. He left the hospital a week later. He said he was lucky to be alive, owing 15 to the helpful couple and other rescuers.