Although Lahongsang is only in her early 20s, she is a video blogger with eight years of experience, who is acquainted with video recording and social media sharing. Still in high school, she started her journey as a _________ on the Chinese platform Bilibili. “I felt bored during that summer vacation after finishing my homework, _________ I decided to try recording my life through videos and _________ a student’s ambition for the upcoming semester,” she recalled. She consistently updated her content with _________ topics such as study, anime, snacks, weight loss, and makeup. She _________ shared her life, creating a youth full atmosphere for her audience.

“Whenever I encounter something worth recording. I _________ it.” she said. “I’m not exactly sure what draws people to my videos, but many _________ say watching my videos makes them happy, so maybe that’s it.” Despite her _________ behavior in videos, she _________ that she is actually an introvert (adj.内向的). However, she has __________ spreading positive and __________ energy to her audience. Her unique, sincere, and easygoing video style, along with her attention to life’s details, has __________ increased her viewership (n.收视率) from 100,000 to 10 million views. By the end of high school, she had amassed (v.积聚) over 200,000 followers.

__________ her videos attract her audience greatly, she has to struggle with creative inspiration and face negative feedback at times. “Some scenes may appear to be everyday shots, but the storytelling and main idea are particularly __________ and planned,” she said. “What viewers see is only the final product. __________ witnessing the production process, they can’t judge or undermine others’ efforts.”

The pandemic has greatly changed the landscape of education. But that never ______ one brilliant girl’s resolve to reach for the stars.

While most teens are tackling the challenges of middle school, Alena Wicker, has already ______ her high school diploma. After virtually learning in a long-term program, she is ______ to attend Arizona State University this summer. There, she will major in astronomical science and chemistry to ______ her dream of working at NASA where she hopes to ______ her extraordinary skills to build spacecraft after graduation. ______ she wanted to be an astronomer, but then she switched over to engineering.

Alena’s space journey began with her early ______ for Lego (乐高), with which she’s always played since she was 4. So far, she’s built ______ of everything from the Taj Mahal to NASA rockets.

She was always ______ at her Lego pieces, and if you ______ her Lego pieces, it would be easy for her to put them together. This genius also had remarkable ______ in other aspects of life. Seeing the ______ of opportunities in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields for women, Alena wanted to make a change. She has ______ a website to encourage other girls with ______ interests to focus on the STEM fields. Alena hopes to set an example for other girls --- never let the long-established concept keep us from ______ the course of our own life. “It doesn’t matter what you’re planning to do," she said. “Go for it, and then accomplish it.”

After a tearless farewell with my daughter, we left her new dorm room. But soon in the campus we saw her running against the August heat. I quickly _________ down the car window and Sarina didn’t miss a step as she turned and happily waved goodbye. I was in _________ why the tears hadn’t come when we parted on her first day in university.

Our first _________, the day she left my body, was a nightmare of pain and suffering. _________, our togetherness following the birth was so sweet that I felt her small body still seemed to be _________ to mine. In the years to come, the sound of her feet running around our house was like the gentle _________ that reminded me that my little girl was here and that someday she would run the _________ I couldn’t follow.

Last year Sarina turned 16 and decided to _________ art in college: She was _________ about college life with so much to expect, but I was uneasy because it would be a long plane ride away from home. I tried to imagine what separation would be like, but I couldn’t. Separation, although on the __________,still felt distant.

Until the next morning when I awoke in a house __________ of her footsteps, the tears __________ came and wouldn’t stop. I understood that Sarina had left the house, and I     __________ the memory of her running. When the tears stopped, I was __________ that with our love and support, she had the __________ to run to an unfamiliar distance, to glance back, yet to keep moving forward.