agent   option   essays   demands   project

trustworthiness   ivory   dash   shrinking

difference   abundance

Equally interesting in the Southampton ____ is the conviction that students should be aware of the wider community, and find ways to make ____ to it. In today’s ____ world, students are increasingly ____ that a university is not an ____ tower of learning, cut off from the real problems of the world. On the contrary, university can be an ____ for change for a better world. There are ____ ways in which students can make a ____ to the world. For example, volunteering before, during, or after degree courses has become very popular among students. However, with courses making heavy ____ on students’ time, a popular ____ is to take a gap year before or after university.

new-found   career   dramatic   appointed

catered   lining   exciting   dashing   paraded debt

In the old days university life was easier, and you didn’t need to worry about finding a job. You spent your time chatting late into the night with ___ friends in coffee bars. You played your ___out on the football pitches and cricket fields, or ___ across the stage as a ____light of the university dramatic society. Whatever your interest, university life ___ for it. And you would usually ___ up with the work, too, by doing the required reading and ___off the week’s essay at the last minute. The only thing you didn’t find time for was thinking about what came afterwards, at the end of those three ___ years. But you didn’t need to, because whatever your chosen ___, the companies were all ___up to offer you a job.

imitation   upset   confused   mimicry

distinct   sympathy   comprehend

empathy   theory   trace   stroked

Such motor ___, as it is called, is an ___ form of empathy. The term “___” was first used in 1909 by ___ E. B. Titchener. His ___ was that empathy came from a physical imitation of the ___ of another person. This ___ created the same feelings in oneself. He ___ a word that would be ___ from “___,” which can be felt without sharing the same feelings.

empathic   regulate   empathize

attentively   effective   adults   view

While it is easier to train a person from childhood to be ___, it is also possible for ___ to increase their levels of empathy. Ways to improve ___ may include reading fiction to practice understanding characters’ actions from their points of ___, listening ___to understand how others think and feel, and trying to understand people outside our community to broaden our ___ of empathy. For example, we may ___ with people anxious about tests by listening carefully to their ___ and fears. We could also share how we ___ our own anxiety to encourage them to develop ___ self-regulation strategies.

miraculous   generate   celebrity   athlete

competed   viewed   tried   highlight

essential   description   spots   token

resemble

Of course, there was no medal placed around Moussambani’s neck. But he was treated as a 1) ___ for his inspiring swim, and 2) ___ by some as the definition of the Olympic spirit. Although de Coubertin developed the Olympic motto that 3) ___ athletic ability, he also said, “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the 4) ___ thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.” The 5) ___ fits Moussambani perfectly. It was almost 6) ___ that Moussambani had even made it to Sydney. As the story goes, he heard a radio advertisement for 7) ___ on the Olympic swimming team, and he was the only person who 8)___  out. However, Moussambani was anything but an Olympic-caliber athlete. Instead, he was a 9)___ invitee by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to 10)___ interest in various sports in developing countries.

12 "In that last 50 meters, I was so tired I was going to stop. I couldn't feel my legs or arms. Everything was very heavy," Moussambani said immediately after his race. "Then something happened. I think it was all the people getting behind me. I was really, really proud. I felt like I had won a medal or something." 

About twenty minutes he waited, and then a tall man in a long ___, with collar turned up to his ears, hurried across from the opposite side of the street. He went directly to the waiting man. 

About twenty minutes he waited, and then a tall man in a long overcoat, with collar turned up to his ears, hurried across from the ___ side of the street. He went directly to the waiting man.