【推荐1】Dowell may never be able to drive a car, but she can sail a boat around the world. Dowell is blind and competes in the Regatta, a（n）___________ she has competed in since losing her ___________.

Each year, dozens of ___________ with disabilities participate in the event. The ___________ is to provide a space for them to compete. Athletes with various disabilities---___________ from those missing legs to those who are blind---are invited to show off their ___________." They have done very well." Regatta president, Judy said. "That you may not have a leg or you have a disease-driven issue doesn't ___________ that you are not a whole person inside." Dowell is ___________ sailing so much. She ___________ often lives on a sailboat with her guide dog. She says that it is always a ____________ to live on a boat and sailing has given her a new beginning. Being part of a team is huge for her.

Munden is one of Dowell's closest ____________. Because of an eye disease, Munden ____________ blind. She found sailing six years ago. It gave her a whole new world of freedom and self-confidence. Dowell and Munden have ____________ many competitions against sighted and non-sighted athletes. They find the sport of sailing to be equal for all participants. ____________ physical ability.

Sailing can be adapted ____________ competitors' physical abilities. For Dowell and Munden, they compete with the assistance of a sighted guide whose only job is to ____________ them if there is a barrier. For other competitors, equipment can be altered（改动）on the boat to consider an athlete's ____________ needs. This is the ____________ for Sarah, who was paralyzed（截肢）from the waist down.

"I will be sitting in a scat that keeps me in the boat when sailing," Sarah said. "Everyone out on the water has a different ability. It's about ____________ your abilities and not worrying about the abilities you don't have. The disability is just another aspect of who we are, ____________ we are sailors out on the water."

【推荐2】As a high school coach, I did all I could to help my boys win their games. I cheered for victory as they did. A dramatic incident, however, following a game in which I was a referee (裁判), changed my ______ on victory and defeat.

It was a league championship basketball game between New Rochelle and Yonkers High. New Rochelle was ______ by Dan O’Brien, and Yonkers by Les Beck. The gym was ______ and the noise made it impossible to hear. The game was well played and ______ competed. Yonkers was leading by one point as I glanced at (瞥一眼) the clock and discovered there were but 10 seconds to play. New Rochelle, ______ the ball, passed off and shot. The ball ______ around the rim (篮筐边沿) and off. The fans yelled. New Rochelle recovered the ball, and tapped it in for what looked like victory. The noise was ______.

I looked at the clock and saw that the game was over. I hadn’t heard the final buzzer (终场哨) because of the noise. I ______ with the other official, but he could not help me. So, I ______ the timekeeper, a young man of 17 or so. He said, “Sir, the buzzer ______ before the final tap-in (托球入篮) was made. Yonkers won!”

I had to tell O’Brien the sad news. His face ______ over. The young timekeeper came up and said, “I’m sorry, dad. The ______ ran out before the final basket.”. ______, O’Brien’s face lit up. He said, “That’s okay, Joe. You did what you had to. I’m ______ of you.” The two of them then walked off the ______ together, the coach’s arm around his son’s shoulder.

【推荐3】My 11-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, does not like swimming contest. She gets horribly________   because she is afraid that she will let everyone down. She started to talk about ________ swimming, which broke my heart because she loves swimming.                                

Recently, Elizabeth’s team ________ a T-shirt relay, which works like this: one person puts on a T-shirt and a pair of ________ and swims 50 meters. The person takes off the clothes and the other members, ________ put them on and swim another 50 meters until everyone on the team has completed a lap.

I told Elizabeth I really wanted her to go. She ________ back angrily but finally agreed.                                             

When the day arrived, Elizabeth was ________ to swim the anchor leg (最后一棒). By the last leg, Elizabeth’s team had built up a ________ lead. Then it was Elizabeth’s turn.

________ the halfway mark, she was still in the lead. Then somebody noticed that one of Elizabeth’s socks had ________ and was floating in the pool. “She has to get that sock on before the end of the race,” a swimming ________ told Elizabeth’s team, “or you will be ________.”

Everybody on her team started shouting, but she couldn’t hear them. ________, a girl in Lane Two was ________ on Elizabeth. Just then, a girl on my daughter’s team jumped in the pool, ________ the sock, swam after Elizabeth and put the sock on Elizabeth.

The sock finally on, Elizabeth swam with all her ________ for the last 15 meters and won! There followed much ________. And, for a few minutes, Elizabeth was the heroine.

On the ride home, she relieved her moment of glory ________. She told me that if the T-shirt relay were an Olympic event, her team would win the gold medal. I told her that in my ________ opinion, she was ________ right.

【推荐1】I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it, when I was 13. My parents took us there for camping. On the way out, I asked them to wait while I ran up to E1 Capitan, a _______ rock of 3,300 feet straight up. I touched that giant rock and knew _______ I wanted to climb it. That has been my life’s passion (钟爱) ever since — _______ the rocks and mountains of Yosemite. I’ve long made Yosemite my _______

About 15 years ago I started seeing a lot of _______, like toilet paper, beer cans, and empty boxes, around the area. It’s _______ me why visitors started respecting the place less and treated such a _______ home-like place this way.

I tried _______ trash (垃圾) myself, but the job was too big. I would _______ an hour or two on the job, only to find the area trashed all over again weeks later. Finally, I got so ________ it that I decided something had to ________.

As a rock-climbing guide, I knew ________ about organizing any big event. But in 2004, together with some climbers, I set a date for a ________. On that day, more than 300 people ________. Over three days we collected about 6,000 pounds of trash. It was ________ how much we were able to accomplish. I couldn’t believe the ________ we made — the park looked clean!

Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere. In 2007 alone, 2,945 people picked up 42,330 pounds of trash and ________ 132 miles of roadway.

I often hear people ________ about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I would say the only way to change things is by ________ rather than complaining .We need to teach by ________. You can’t blame others unless you start with yourself.

【推荐2】An Unexpected Gift

Twelve-year-old Mathew Flores is different from other kids. He loves junk (垃圾) mail, and these advertisements were the only reading materials _______ to him. Once he asked his mailman if he could offer him some.

The question _______ the mailman. He asked the boy the reason, and then recorded his _______ in his Facebook. “Today while delivering mail, I saw a boy reading ads, and he asked me for extra mail. Actually he wants to go to the library, but his family is very poor and can’t _______ the bus.”

The mailman then asked his Facebook friends if they could _______ some books for the boy. He wrote, “Most kids want electronic products! But what he wants is books. It’s great to see his rare _______, and you may have seen him smile when I said I could help him!” “He is counting on me,” he concluded. “So I am counting on you!”

The mailman thought the Facebook post might _______ 50 to 60 books. But his _______ was passed on quickly. People from around the world, including the UK, Australia and India, have sent books. Hundreds of books have been delivered to the boy’s door, with hundreds more _______ on their way.

When books first started arriving, Flores was shocked by what happened. “I thought they were ________, but they indeed were for me.” He says that he can’t wait to share the books with other kids, and has promised to read every one.

【推荐3】I was a young newspaper reporter, and I wanted to succeed. My first _________ was in Latin America. It was almost my last job. I had not planned to stay in the village of Zacate, _________ it had been raining hard for a whole day. So I had to stay there.

I found people there full of _________. This village was at the foot of a volcano (火山). It was becoming more _________. Men, women and children came to the square. A few _________ each other and went out of town to get as far away from the volcano as possible, with large and full _________ in their hands. Suddenly, I felt a strong _________. The villagers in the square ran away as _________ as they felt the earthquake.

At the right time, I saw black smoke _________ down the side of the mountain towards the village. Trees and grass burned up in a second. The volcano eruption was coming so __________ that in less than a minute the roads to the villages were __________. All I could do was watching and __________. Suddenly, my landlord (房东) cried out, “Look!” He __________ to a small hill. The lava (岩浆) was not coming over it but __________ on each side of the village, __________ the village center undamaged. Luckily, for a time, at least, we were __________.

My landlord gave me a __________ blanket to cover myself to avoid the __________ and we poured water over our heads to cool ourselves. We could hardly breathe because of the heat and the __________ of the burning houses. Thanks __________ my landlord, I survived the volcano.

【推荐1】The girl Guo Yujie got a perfect gift on Saturday — a gold medal of Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games. The teenager, who turned 18 on March 16, sped to the ________ in the women’s sprint standing event (短距离站姿比赛) to claim the first-ever Winter Paralympic gold medal for a Chinese woman on ________. She hoped to tell the young people with disabilities that they should keep ________.

Guo was born in Shangyi county, Zhangjiakou, with ________ on her left hand. She first tried ________ when she was 11. “I was happy when I was skiing,” Guo said. She then ________ to become a cross-country skier and biathlete. Her decision was also ________ by her family.

In biathlon (冬季两项), Guo ________ her lack of stamina (耐力) in skiing with accuracy and speed in the shooting part. “I just ________ the quick change between high-speed racing and controlling my breathing for ________. I hope more young people with disability can find their ________ in snow sports. Actually, disabled people are not ________ at anything. We can take part in the Winter Paralympics and become ________. People shouldn’t look down on themselves just because of their disabilities,” Guo said.

Guo’s ________ is the result of five years of hard training. She said that her parents, relatives, and friends watched her compete live on TV. “They are all very proud of me. ________, I have lived up to their expectations.”

【推荐3】It sounds crazy to start your first business at 24,straight out of college,alone in a foreign country.But it's_______what the successful entrepreneur（企业家）Irina Alionte did.As the_______of several successful businesses,she speaks from experience.

While still at university in the UK,she made a(n)_______: Girls on campus didn't try their best in_______at gym.She compared this with a nightclub: "_______is it that in the nightclub they can be themselves and_______calories（卡路里）at a whole different level,but at the actual class where they are_______to get their body moving,they don't?”_______,she thought,why not combine the two?She_______it Club Cardio.

"I thought of having an encouraging instructor on the stage,________the crowd with a microphone.People can just let go,express themselves and burn calories in the dance floor." But it wasn't easy.Before Irina started,she________plenty of opposition.Her friends thought it was________.

Irina made a(n)________On campus and got 50 girls to test the concept.What was the________?People loved the idea. Afterwards,she moved to London to________Club Cardio.She got in touch with Ketan Makwana of the Rockstar Mentoring Group.She told her partners,"I am no longer________.I have you now." She finally had the concept tested ________professional mentorship（指导）.

Club Cardio did work and became________-media exposure,expansion to other universities,nightclubs in London and so on.We all know Irina had a huge________-an understanding of her ideal customers.She spent a ton of effort ________ her customers.And in Club Cardio,she and her partners applied this everywhere.