【推荐1】Losing someone you love is never easy. But having to say goodbye to her mother during the COVID-19 pandemic (流行病), Debbie Money found a ________ way to remember her mum.

Debbie remembers the joy with which her mother discussed the ________ from West Africa, their homeland, to London. Mother was a great woman, and her attitude to life was ________ in her cooking. When Debbie’s husband was ill, before losing his ________ with cancer, Debbie and her mother cooked meals for him. They cooked and talked together. Sometimes Debbie felt she could not ________. It was her mother who ________ her, and now that mother has ________ the world, Debbie is able to feel close to her in ________ her food.

Now the community has a program. It starts with about 20 couples ________ in. Four will do starters, then they go somewhere else for a main dinner and it changes from group to group. Everyone is ________ so they can ________ different dinners. Living in a ________ community, Debbie is eager to try this out.

Despite her ________, Debbie is still ________ about herself and at times finds herself wanting to ________ the phone and ask her mother for information and support.

But, everything she is cooking is from her mother, as is the ________ sense of achievement she feels. When she began cooking with her mother as a ________，she was in charge of turning on and off the stove, to stop it ________ the food. Now she is ________ the spoon, adding the seasonings and still looking up from the ________ to her mum.

【推荐2】Go with your passion. It has been said that who see the invisible can do the impossible.

When I was nine years old, living in a small town in North Carolina, I found an ad for_______ greeting cards in the back of a children’s magazine. I thought to myself I can do this. I begged my mother to let me send for the kit. Two weeks later, _______ the kit arrived, I ripped off the brown paper _______, grabbed the cards and dashed _______the house. Three hours later. I returned home with no card and a pocket full of money proclaiming, “Mama, all the people couldn’t wait to buy my cards!” A _______ was born.

When I was twelve years old, my father took me to see Zig Ziegler. I remember sitting in that dark auditorium (礼堂) listening to Mr. Zigler, who raise everyone’s _______ up to the ceiling, I left there feeling like I could do anything. When we got to the car, I turned to my father and said. “Dad, I want to make people feel like that.” My father asked me what I _______. “I want to be a _______speaker just like Mr. Zigler,” I replied. A dream was born.

Recently, I began pursuing my dream of motivating _______. After a four-year relationship with a major fortune 100 company beginning as a salestrainer and ________ as a regional sales manager, I left the company at the ________ of my career. Many people were ________ that I would leave after earning a six-figure income. And they asked why I would ________ everything for a dream.

I made my decision to start my own company and leave my ________ position after attending a regional sales meeting. The vice-president of our company delivered a speech that ________ my life. He asked us, “If a genie would grant you three wishes what would they be?” After giving us a moment to write down the three wishes, he then asked us, “________ do you need a genie?” I would ________ forget the shock I felt at that moment.

I realized that everything I had ________ — the graduate degree, the successful sales career, speaking engagements, training and managing for a fortune l00 company had prepared me ________ this moment. I was ready and did not need a genie’s help to ________ a motivational speaker.

【推荐3】DeJuan Strickland now is a middle school student. He remembers what it was like to be _______ as a fourth grader at McCurdy Elementary. Though happening only once, that made Strickland determined to _______ no one at his former school would feel that way.

Strickland helped _______ his former elementary school’s unpaid student lunch debts through his GoFundMe fundraiser with the aim of raising $200. The result _______ that, with $400 raised for McCurdy Elementary. “Some school workers told me several kids once able to have lunch very _______ are stuffed every day now. It motivates me to go further because I’m able to see the _______.” says Strickland.

From there, Strickland _______ the initiative to remove lunch debts in all schools of the Hazelwood School District. The campaign has _______ over $4,000, $2,500 of which Strickland plans to give to the Hazelwood School District. He also searches for another district for the _______ of the funds. Strickland recalled being ________ when he learned the debts of a nearby district were over $50,000. “I’d ________ the problem was not common. This really opened my eyes to the fact that there was no ________ of food. ”

Strickland owed his ________ spirit to his mother. Her practice of creating “blessing bags” for those in need ________ his sympathetic outlook. Strickland also works on his books on Tech Boy. The teen says his future plans include becoming a computer programmer, and combining his love for ________ with giving back to the community.

【推荐2】When authoring his epitaph (墓志铭), Thomas Jefferson omitted his two terms as the nation’s third president yet included “Father of the University of Virginia.” The Founding Father spent the last years of his life not in the _____ but instead pursuing one of his most treasured missions: it was creating the University of Virginia. As mastermind of the university’s architecture and curriculum, Jefferson assured that what he _____ was sound.

Jefferson personally designed and oversaw the _____ of what he would regard as an “academic village.” At the front and center of a tree-lined lawn area, Jefferson _____ positioned the Rotunda, a round brick building featuring classical Greek columns in front. The domed (圆顶的) top of the Rotunda contained a library stocked with 7,000 books _____ by Jefferson himself, while the area beneath included two floors of classrooms. At that time, such noticeable placement of the Rotunda was a marked _____ from other universities’ designs, which generally featured chapels (小教堂) for the training of clergy (牧师).

_____ use of the grassy area in front of the Rotunda, Jefferson added ten two-story houses for teachers’ housing and connected them to student dormitories with colonnades, column- lined covered walkways. To keep teachers _____ while they were talking heated, Jefferson included dining halls in his design, referring to them as “hotels.”

In the spirit of his new nation, Jefferson introduced the notion of what we now call electives. Instead of a strictly dictated curriculum, students could _____ from ten academic disciplines. These disciplines were subject areas that _____ from ancient and modern languages to certain branches of science. To support the _____ components of the university’s curriculum, Jefferson included a botanical garden, an experimental farm, and an observatory. (Not one to _____ the slightest detail, Jefferson showcased the ten categories by placing a carefully chosen Roman symbol on each of the ten house.)

Although he didn’t live to see the full completion of the university’s construction, or _____ the graduation of the first senior class, Jefferson ensured that the university, which would later be named a World Heritage site, _____ free choice in classes, respect for classical routes, and curiosity about the sciences.

Those principles are forever remembered in the last part of his epitaph, which, if stated differently, could easily have read “____visionary for all Americans.”