Peyton Manker, an 18-year-old girl from Illinois, has been getting a lot of attention on social media lately. In order to _________ this year's Stuck at Prom (舞会) contest, in which participants can have a chance to _________ a $10,000 scholarship, she used dozens of rolls of _________ to make a unique prom dress.

“I decided to make the dress _________ the pandemic, because I knew no one in the _________ was going to be able to recreate it,” Manker said. “I knew I would _________ in that way and I wanted to base it off of what was happening in the world.” The pandemic infects many people, causes deaths, and has widespread social and economic _________.

_________ COVID-19, her prom and graduation ceremony were canceled this year, but this didn't stop Peyton Manker from _________ just under 400 hours of work and 41 rolls of duct tape into her prom dress. The amazing dress __________ various coronavirus-related scenes, __________ front-line medical personnel wearing face masks, people fighting with a giant coronavirus and a(n) __________ graduation ceremony.

“The entire dress is supposed to represent the pandemic in a __________ light,” Peyton said. “I don't want people to think about the dress as just trying to __________ a moment in history. It is a __________ that we go through it.”

When she was 41 years old, Deanna Mulligan stepped back from the top of her career. Now CEO of Guardian Life Insurance, Ms. Mulligan reflects on that move：

I was 41 then, when it is ________to be the peak of one's career. At the time, taking a ________was considered a really strange thing. People said to me, “You can^’t take time off. You'll never_________on a career path.”

Then I had a relative who________ . It was clear at her funeral that she had made a big ________on lots of people as a preschool teacher. I thought about my________ at the time： Could I be a person like her? I was a senior insurance manager. ________, I didn't gain such career meaning. So for me it was time to break, and I________ that job.

I took two years off. The first year I spent much time with my family. And, I have to say, time with_________. Time to really be alone and think about what I had_________ and what that meant for my future. It was a big reset.

The second year, I was able to________ on what I might like to do next. After many trials, I decided finally my____career in insurance was my real love. I find it to be very ________-it does help people's lives, especially when they are at their_________moments.

So I went to work for Guardian Life Insurance, from an employee in 2008 to CEO in 2011. I didn't________CEO. I just wanted to lead with________. Now I find purpose and meaning in my job every day. Once you find it, you don^’t really________it. So it is OK to take time to ________, as long as you're discovering what's________to your life. Life is not a straight line. And you'll get to the right place _________.

My life turned a corner two years before. I realized, my first and real enthusiasm is writing _______. As a child, I was introvert (内向的) , and basically a bookworm. The only thing I wished for, was _______, and I used to finish them as quickly as I could. Along with reading, I loved _______ — but at that time, it was mainly prose (散文)! My love for writing started with writing journals, and _______. Even before my teens, I had _______ in many countries, and then technology wasn't as _______as it is now. I guess my letters were quite poetic and charming, because my pen-friends told me that they _______ my letters even after I stopped writing to them as _______ was expensive!

Then my following life wasn't poetic anymore! I _______ pouring my emotions in journals or diaries. Many years passed! Was poetry my passion? Probably! One day two years earlier, one of my childhood friends wrote to me, “Hi there! How many books have you ________ ever since?”

That communication suddenly ________ me up, and lit my dream that I was eager to publish my own collection of poems. The ________ from my childhood came back, I ________ who I was. At that moment, I felt very excited and within a (n) ________ moment, I wrote my first poem! That poem was actually ________, may be one of the best of what I have written so far!

After that first ________, I realized what my real passion was! And poems started coming one after another! Sometimes I got up at ________, and thought about some lines! And I had to write them ________, otherwise these lines will slide away!

The terrible epidemic (流行病) ________ me to write several poems, which may ________ indescribable sufferings of people.