Five years ago, I left my job to work on a ship. My friends said that working on a ship would _________ my career, but I was willing to take the risk.

_________ for the adventure, I boarded a ship with 2,000 passengers and crew. To my _________, the ship was well equipped. That first voyage was a learning experience. There was so much new information to _________. Even remembering which uniform to wear each day was a _________. The most confusing thing was that I often forgot to _________ my clock when the ship crossed time zones.

As a doctor, I was _________ for the 600 crew. The ship’s medical center was _________ a floating emergency room, and we didn’t have a team of specialists for a second _________. With long hours’ work, it required a strong will.

As many of the passengers were elderly, heart attacks could ____________ anywhere and emergency evacuations (疏散) were difficult to arrange. I remember one such patient, who was taken off the ship halfway. After a(n) ____________ ride in an old ambulance, I was relieved that the patient arrived at a hospital safely.

Thankfully, the job had several unexpected benefits to me. I ____________ the passenger facilities and I even ____________ as a tour guide on trips ashore.

Now, I understand being a doctor on a ship is not a job — it’s a way of ____________. I lose my career ambition, ____________ I know what happiness is in my life.

Filkin’s Drift, a band of two in UK, have been highlighting sustainability (可持续性) in their latest tour along the coast of Wales. The tour _________ over 40 shows along the 870-mile path, which started in Flintshire on Sept. 3 and _________ on Oct. 31 in Chepstow.

At one point, because of bad weather, the tour was _______ temporarily. When Filkin’s Drift was prepared to start touring again, they found too much of their time was spent in a car _______ in traffic jams, which wasn’t very good for the _______, or mental and physical health.

So Bye and Roberts,_________ of the band, decided to walk their tour along the coast of Wales. They walked between stops for the rest of their tour, carrying the _________ and just enough clothing to walk and _________ each day. Along the way, they collected songs, stories, and tunes to make their performances _________. Also, the band raised money for a charity to __________ this mission.

They shared their experiences of the walking tour __________ in videos on their website blog, hoping to ________ other musicians and the music industry as a whole to approach touring in a more sustainable way. They have shown that a tour on foot is __________, discovering that the music industry, as well as others, could also learn to reduce the ________ for vehicles.

Today, Filkin’s Drift __________ a growing number of artists and industry professionals working to spotlight sustainability and the environment in their work.

Miriam was born in a village just outside Warsaw in 1932. She had been leading a good life before World War Ⅱbroke out in 1939. Her entire life was _________ within minutes after the war. Miriam should have started first grade. _________, she spent that year and the following five years trying to survive. Cold and hungry, Miriam and her family ran from village to village, forest to forest in a continuous state of _________. Everything was horrible and in _________.

Her voice trembled as she _________ the period when family members froze and starved to death. Over the years, she _________ herself, keeping reading day and night, and mastered seven languages. Afterwards, she married and had two sons, both of whom were successful and _________ their parents, especially their mother, for her great determination in spite of the _________ situations.

However, getting a(n) _________ education was never an option for her, which was the greatest __________ of all her life. When interviewed by Kapiloff, a social worker, Miriam told him how __________ she was to have never started school and that having a degree had always been a __________ for her. Kapiloff decided to __________ Richard Nabel, the principal (校长) of the New England Academy for help, asking whether the school would __________ giving Miriam an honorary diploma (文凭) at its 2020 graduation ceremony.

Richard Nabel __________ the question on to the students. They had a class meeting and discussed how to respect her. They __________ reached an agreement that they should share their __________ with her and she deserved the honor.

Several months later, during a socially distanced ceremony in the school gym, Miriam was __________ with a high school diploma she had always __________, and her family members watched with excitement. She made it and everyone was __________ of her.