Up on a hill in Yorkshire, a crowd filled a pub (酒吧) on Friday to listen to Noasis, a band. Inside the pub, the _________ were cold, the fires were warming and the musicians were electric. But _________ , the winds were blowing and the snow was falling. The pub patrons (顾客) knew through the forecast that the weather was _________ , but not so much that piles of snow as high as three feet would _________ the pub’s exits.

After Noasis _________ its set, the local authorities said it was not safe to _________ home. So the patrons, the band members and seven pub employees _________ the night. And then another. And on Sunday night, they stayed another.

_________ the roads were not safe to travel, the group of sixty-one _________ was down to about fifty on Monday morning. A few hours later, a snowplow (扫雪机) passed through the area, allowing a majority of the people to __________ their journey home. By Monday evening, __________ the musicians had found their way home.

Guests were emotional as they said their __________ , because they’d had such a good time.

Some of those __________ in the pub already had rooms, while others had __________ their motor homes outside. The rest __________ the lounge (休息室) where they slept on sofas or on the floor.

Employees __________ them with blankets and pillows and kept the fireplaces burning. Everybody seemed to be __________ . Those who gathered __________ roast dinners, a couple of beers and even a buffet. Patrons __________ to wash dishes and took up a collection for the staff.

“The group may have started as strangers, but they would __________ as friends,” the pub’s general manager said, adding, “We’ve even talked about having a reunion next year.”

Tan Yuanyuan, San Francisco Ballet’s first Chinese leading dancer, _________ the audience with her performance at the CCTV Spring Festival gala _________ the Year of the Ox. Her passion, joy and spring in her dance steps have _________ countless viewers.

Tan’s relationship with ballet began at the age of 5 when she was _________ in the striking beauty of a performance named Swan Lake on TV.

Her _________ to enter a dance school was strongly supported by her mother, who also had a great affection for ballet. She began to train _________ at Shanghai Dance School and graduated four years later. Her great efforts _________ paid off. She won many scholarships and awards at home and abroad. In 1995, Tan was admitted as a dancer by the company of San Francisco Ballet, soon after which she was _________ to be its leading dancer.

Looking back, she is _________ that her Chinese parenting has a great influence on the way she ____________ dance, and she is proud of it. “My parents often say, ‘The best is that what you do today is better than yesterday’,” she recalls. “I know there is no perfection in the world, yet that’s how I keep getting closer to being ____________ every day. The stage is always full of magic and potential. We need to remember to leave our comfort zones and stay ____________. I want to challenge my past, ____________ my presence and try more things in the future,” she says in an interview.

When asked about her secret to career longevity, she says, “Put all the efforts into your career. Do things with ____________ love and passion. Do not add age to your life but ____________ to your age.

A group of Washington D.C. high school students took part in a service project to collect and hand out coats to people who needed them. These ______ kids did more than handing out coats. The high schoolers ______ encouraging notes and put them inside pockets as a surprise for receiver. Those notes made people ______ and feel special—that was as ______ as handing out the coats.

Josh and D’ Mani were two of the teenagers ______ this project. How they got ______ goes back to the summer when Josh and D’ Mani attended Wave Week, a leadership camp for kids who took part in community service. ______attending Wave Week, these guys decided that their high school needed a community service ______. They didn’t complain there wasn’t a club. They didn’t ask other people to start one. They didn’t wait for someone else to start one. They ______ founded their own. One of the club’s regular ______ is “sandwich days,” in which students ______ after school to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for ______ people. They have made thousands of sandwiches over the past year. Josh and D’ Mani are ______ marketers. They got approval(同意) to ______ their activities in the school’s main road; students walking by would ask ______ the club was doing and would often choose to get involved. In fact, classmates donated all of the sandwich ingredient(配料). Josh and D’ Mani got over 250 of their fellow students to join ______ sandwich makers or doners.

The club also did several “days of service” during the school year, which included ______ charity groups and helping out at a food bank. Like the notes in the coat pockets, some of the activities are ______ details, but important ones. Anyway, the camp is for kids who are passionate(热情的) about ______ teaches leadership skills, so the students can have a bigger ______ on their communities.