一、根据短文内容及首字母提示,填写所缺单词,使短文意思完整
Once in a common northern block in New York there lived a young man named Eric.
With no family to live with or friends to talk to, he often played the piano at home and felt 1. . He loved music and used to be a music teacher in a primary school in London. He stayed there for over five years. He has just returned from 2. because he had missed(思念) his hometown so much since he left years ago.
To make a change, recently he got a new job in a big car 3. near his house. Yet over the past two months since he worked there, he has noticed the problem of air 4. from the factory, which sent too much black smoke into the air from time to time. He 5. that he should do something before it was too late.
Although(尽管) most people thought it was 6. to improve the situation completely, he didn't give up. Instead, he tried his best to improve the environment by talking with the manager of the factory.
To our great joy, his 7. with the manager worked in the end. The factory stopped sending waste air and people's living 8. became better than before.
Besides, there were few people who liked to communicate with Eric in the 9. , but things changed for the better later. Eric became well known after the talk. He knew a nice girl named Helen who also worked in the factory and fell in love with her at first sight. Last week he got 10. with Helen.
The best thing about the famous talk is that Eric feels that a common person can do something to make a difference.

二、用方框中所给词的适当形式填空,使短文意思完整
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Yesterday I watched an interesting talk show. It was about a(n) 1. with a famous artist named Jim. He just moved to our town from a big city 2. month. The artist talked about the changes he and his wife Mary have made 3. .
According to the artist, he is the one who has changed the most. To be exact, Jim 4. to hang out with his friends from time to time after work and seldom did any sports on weekends. Yet, 5. he got married last year, he has been unable to spare enough time for his old friends. He finds it almost impossible 6. in touch with them as often as before. To be honest, Jim hasn't 7. used to his new life for the present. However, Mary has 8. him into a man who loves playing football in open space. As a result, he has become healthier and stronger than before.
Mary, on the other hand, who is a saleswoman, is good at communication and usually 9. with her husband well. However, she sometimes finds there are few things to talk about with her husband because they are different in many ways. 10. , she tries to live happily with him all her life. That is, if she can't change her husband as she wishes, she has to accept him as he is.