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    “Hi!” Steller shouted. “I’m driving around giving free haircuts. Do you want one right now?”

The man looked to be in his 60s, heavyset and missing a few teeth. “Actually,” he said, “I have a wedding to go to. I was really _______ to get a haircut.”

The man, named Edward, _______ sat on Steller’s red chair. She began to trim his curly graying hair. Then he began to tell her about his childhood, about moving here to be closer to his adult children, and how he still talks to his mom every day. After the haircut, Edward looked in a mirror, exclaiming “I look _______! I’ll remember to put my _______ in next time. I look better with teeth!”

To date, Steller has given 30 or so such haircuts. These clients all live on the margins (边缘), and she is keenly aware of the _______ of her clean-up job. “It’s more than a haircut,” she says. “I want it to be a gateway—to show value and _______.”

Steller knows that a haircut can change a life. As a teen, she suffered from a(n) _______ which was so severe that her hair _______ drastically. Seeing this, her mother arranged for Steller’s first professional haircut. “To sit down and have somebody talk to me like a person and not just an illness, it helped me feel _______ about and less alone,” she says.

After that, Steller decided to have her own salon so she could help people feel the ________ she’d felt that day. Not long after finishing cosmetology (美容术) school, she began her Red Chair Project, ________ out to people on the streets. Although she can’t ________ their problems by giving free haircuts, she believes it might help them feel less ________ for a moment.

Steller listens to people’s ________ of loss and struggle to get back on their feet. The attention apparently ________. When she was cutting a woman’s hair one day, someone drove by and yelled, “You look amazing!” The woman in the chair beamed. “I’m not ________,” she exclaimed. “I thought I was invisible. Look, people see me!”

A Branch of the Red Chair Project is the Steller Kindness Project, in which people who ________ acts of kindness are invited for a free makeover (美容) at Steller’s salon. In exchange, they tell their stories, which Steller ________ on her website. Her hope is that by reading about kind acts, others will be ________ to spread their own.

So far, it’s working. And it all began with a(n) ________ in simple acts of kindness, such as a free haircut.

1.A.hoping B.learning C.promising D.hesitating

2.A.freely B.gladly C.patiently D.voluntarily

3.A.fit B.ugly C.good D.silly

4.A.feet B.hand C.heart D.teeth

5.A.energy B.force C.length D.power

6.A.reward B.respect C.sympathy D.determination

7.A.attack B.threat C.accident D.disease

8.A.thinned B.loosened C.whitened D.shortened

9.A.cared B.worried C.known D.thought

10.A.use B.way C.need D.reason

11.A.running B.calling C.reaching D.pointing

12.A.fix B.face C.raise D.present

13.A.afraid B.alone C.annoyed D.ashamed

14.A.complaints B.explanations C.desires D.stories

15.A.disappears B.grows C.works D.spreads

16.A.innocent B.invisible C.unimportant D.uncommon

17.A.appreciate B.discover C.commit D.witness

18.A.creates B.enjoys C.sells D.shares

19.A.urged B.allowed C.inspired D.persuaded

20.A.belief B.trust C.investment D.pleasure

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I honestly believe there’s a danger that the more connected we are, the more isolated we feel. I don’t think this is such an issue for my generation who’ve lived 1. technology for so long. We know how to be alone and, more importantly, we know that it’s OK to be alone. 2. the under 20s are another kettle of fish. They’re so busy that they never experience the feeling of solitude and run the risk of not learning how to enjoy their own company. In addition, they’re learning conversation through messages that can 3. (edit) and changed at the expense of learning the art of real conversation in real time with the person in front of you .

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It’s a popular 1. (believe) that fish can’t remember anything for longer than seven seconds. It may seem sad to think that they don’t remember what they’ve eaten or 2. they’ve been, and they don’t recognize you or any of their friends —every moment in their lives would be like seeing the world for the first time. But don’t be so quick to feel sorry for them. A recent study 3. (find) that fish have much 4. (good) memories than we used to think. In fact, certain species of fish can even remember events from as long as 12 days ago.

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Books were my true friends back then. I was so 1. (thank) that the authors wrote those books. The kindness they offered me with their books saved my life. After 2. (survive) terrible experiences at school and at home, I made a choice to take the optimistic, positive road in the next steps of my journey. My dream career, one I thought was only possible for the authors I loved, is 3. I am doing now. I have been a full-time author of teen novels since 2007 and am grateful for this amazing opportunity to reach out to readers every single day.

假定你是李华，你所在的杭州国际学校要征集一封英文感谢信，以致敬奋战在抗击新型冠状病毒第一线的医护人员。请你写一封感谢信参与投稿，内容包括：

1. 表达谢意；

2. 个人感受；

3. 表达信心。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.参考词汇：

传染病 epidemic 新型冠状病毒 novel coronavirus

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