1. 根据短文内容，从方框中选择恰当的单词，并用其适当形式填空（有两个多余）。

grow   they   physical   send   week   piano   hobby   resolution   drive   team   improve   foreign

    I am Linda. I am going to talk about our  for the coming New Year. Susan is going to study another  language. She may learn Chinese because she likes Chinese culture very much. Lucy's resolution is about  health. So she is going to exercise three or four times  to keep healthy. Jack likes playing soccer very much. He is going to make the soccer . His dream is to be a great soccer star when he  up. Tom wants to be a  in the future (将来). So he is going to practice more to  his skill. I'm going to take up a new . I want to write articles and  them to magazines and newspapers. Maybe I can be a reporter in the future. We know it's hard to make our resolutions come true, but we are going to try our best.

Mr. Green is a dentist who cares about young men's. He has some student patients and here he gives an example to tell us that we pay attention to (注意) the students' health.

Jim is a 15-year-old boy. His parents are so that they can't look after him well. Last week they saw Jim in the bedroom and found that he had a toothache. Then they took him to the . Mr. Green checked him carefully and was to see that he had 16 cavities(蛀牙). When he heard that Jim ate too much , he suggested that he must give up eating it. He also gave another that Jim should brush his teeth every day

At last, the dentist to Jim's parents, "You must take him to see a dentist 3 months."

A first-grade student's best friend is battling cancer. He decided that hours of playing and telling jokes was not . He wanted to show his friend how he  the difficult time he was going through.

Five-year-old Vincent Butterfield decided the only way was to shave his head in support of (支持) his best friend Zac Gossage, who his hair because of chemotherapy (化疗).

Zac got acute lymphoblastic leukemia (急性白血病) last June. He is receiving treatment but still goes to Union Elementary in Missouri every day, because that's where he gets to hang out with Vincent. When the little boy was asked why he shaved his hair off, he said, "To make Zac feel like he's not the only one  any hair.

Vincent is also learning about cancer (癌症) and raising money for his best friend after learning how his chemotherapy treatments are.

He made more than 20 scarves and sold them. He has raised more than $200 to give to Zac. The little boy's mum Karen told the reporter, "We were making these scarves. He just said it would be if we could sell them. "

Do you know about a woman called Zheng Xuan? She is China's first deaf doctor of linguistics (听障者语言学博士). She is good at Chinese Sign Language (中国手语) and American Sign Language. Now she is teaching at a university (大学) in Chongqing.

Zheng Xuan became deaf as a(n) of a medical accident (医疗事故) when she was only two years old. To make her speak, her grandmother stopped working and came to live with her. She spent all her time teaching the little girl to speak. After four years of hard work, Zheng Xuan started to speak.

When Zheng Xuan was young, she enjoyed reading picture books and like other children. At the age of six, she started school. She was very smart. she was deaf, she still did very well in all her lessons. In 1998, she started to study at Wuhan University. She met some other deaf people and friends with them. The next year, she learned to use the . From then on, she often went and talked with her deaf friends.

In 2009, Zheng Xuan became a university teacher in Chongqing and started to teach her students sign language. She is often very busy with her work and has any time to relax. , she always spares (匀出) some of her time for deaf people and helps them.

— Yes. I was walking when a bike ______ from behind.

—Yes, about fifteen minutes.

I'm Lin Yue. In March, 2022, COVID-19 started suddenly in my city. It was so serious that the whole city was locked down. At the very beginning of the lockdown (行动限制), some old people, especially those living alone, had difficulty getting vegetables.

One day, in the community WeChat group, an old man said that he was short of vegetables so I had an idea of setting up a food bank in the community, and my neighbors were also ready to offer help.

To keep social distancing (社交距离), I used a large box as the food bank, and put it in the public area. Neighbors could give away and get some food there. The large box was quickly filled with vegetables, rice and snacks.

One evening, I saw a bag of vegetables with a note saying "These are fresh vegetables. Please take them home if you need."

In the WeChat group, an old lady who got the vegetables said, "I was so moved by the good-will (善意), but I only took three tomatoes, because I wanted to leave the rest for those people really in need."

There were many similar stories in my city during the lockdown. Although COVID-19 keeps us apart, we can get through the hard times as long as we pull together.

English has some apologetic terms(表示歉意的用语). It seems that they mean the same thing. They almost do. However, what's the difference between "Excuse me", "I'm sorry", "Pardon" and "What"?

Pardon

Americans don't really use" pardon". If you do, they will probably joke that you're trying to sound pretentious(炫耀的) or joke that you're British.

I'm sorry

We often use "I'm sorry" for past events. That's to say, it is generally used to apologize for something you have already done. For example, if you step on someone's feet on a crowded bus, you would say "I'm sorry" or "Sorry".

Excuse me

This is generally a term to ask permission(允许) for something. For example, you're walking through a crowded space and someone is in your way. You would say" Excuse me' to ask him to move out of your way.

What?

Americans usually use it to ask someone to repeat himself. If you want to be polite you could say, "I'm sorry, what was that? "or" Excuse me, what did you say?" or any other such thing. Most Americans will just say "What?" though.

In our daily life, we can also use these terms by mixing them up. You could, for example, ask someone to move by saying "Sorry, would you mind moving?" It's an extra-polite way to make your request.

—________.