Our town is in the eastern part of our country. Once a year, we elect a girl to show how beautiful and great our _________ is. All the girls are _________ to get this position in an effort to become popular.

It was not a(n) _________ choice this year, since there were eight girls to _________. The elder judge finally _________ that either Sara or May would get the position. Both girls were beautiful with extraordinary appearance. _________, they had a good education and _________ how pollution had a bad effect on the earth. Most _________, both girls got up early to eat eggs at their breakfast. Eggs were important to people of the town because our economy depended _________ on the production of eggs.

The __________ round was held at the east edge of our town. Sara lived nearby so she did not __________ to get up early to arrive. However, she was the first person there. “You know __________ they say about the __________ bird,” she said with a smile.

However, May arrived fifteen minutes late to the __________. “It’s the taxi driver’s __________,” she said. “I told him to head east, but he was in one ear and thought I said Bread Cheese, our __________ town.”

I thought May would certainly __________ because she was late, but to my __________, she turned out to be this year’s winner. The __________ liked her answer to their last question, “If you could have anything in the world, what would it be?” Sara had replied, “World peace.” May, on the other hand, said, “Better market to have our __________ sell well.”

During the winter vacation,I was involved in an image-processing project. My task was to extract（提取）the shape of every cell from a(n)__ of microscope images. It seemed quite straightforward at first,but it turned out to be __.

Since I did not have any experience in image processing,I studied some basic ___on my own and started to use a very popular function library(函数库）called OpenCV. As the time was __,I just learnt to apply techniques without going into the mathematical rationale(原理）。As a result,I didn't complete the task in an efficient way and____lots of time.

Through this project,I got a good __ of the importance of studying the basic knowledge. I will probably ___to spend more time studying the theory before I ___another project. By learning their underlying mechanisms(机制），I will be able to ___the tools to suit my own needs. In this way,1 may achieve___ results.

Another challenge I met was about the brightness setting. When I sketched(勾勒）the __ of the cell by the computer,I first set the brightness value to 50,___that the computer could delete the dark places and extract the shape of the cell___. But it turned out that the standard didn't fit for every image. So 1____the brightness value to 30,but that didn't __ either. It was very hard to find a value that worked for all ____

From this,I began to appreciate human eyes. Our eyes ___the amount of light entering them automatically through a feedback system to achieve the best image representation,but computers are not that __. There is still so much that we don't know about the human body.

In summary,I think it is good for students to be involved in real projects___ they can begin to learn about various fundamental ___and get themselves ready for the future.

In 2016, Wanda, a grandmother meant to text details of her upcoming Thanksgiving dinner plans to her grandson. The person Wanda_______ texted was a 17-year-old high school senior, Jamal. Not _______ the number, Jamal asked who was texting him. Wanda still didn't realize her_______ so she replied “your grandma.”

Jamal asked for _______ and Wanda_________ a photo of herself. Jamal replied with a photo of himself, revealing the grandma had texted the_________, person. He jokingly asked, Can I still get a plate, though? “Wanda immediately replied, "Of course you can! That's what grandmas do. Feed everyone.” Meantime, she extended a(n)_________ to the stranger. It was the grandma's heart-warming _______ that made Jamal deeply touched and he accepted the invitation,_______ at her house with a plate full of turkey! Wanda and Jamal have remained close since their ____________ encounter in 2016. They not only __________ getting together each year for Thanksgiving but ____________ in touch plenty the rest of the year, too. In fact, Jamal and his girlfriend would __________go on double dates with Wanda and her husband, Lonnie.

Years later, Wanda and Jamal are still in each other's__________ . But sadly, Lonnie, Wanda's husband of 43 years, passed away in April, 2020 ____________COVID-19. As the annual Thanksgiving gathering __________, Lonnie's empty seat hung in Wanda's __________ . Still, Wanda overcame her deep__________ and got together with Jamal for a Thanksgiving meal. “Lonnie was__________ this year,” Jamal __________ . “But Wanda and I know for sure Lonnie would have been very angry if we didn't have Thanksgiving together.”