【推荐1】The earthquake was over and the city was in ruins. I had no choice but to walk home as all the _______ had stopped as a result of the quake. On my way home I _______ an old lady at a bakery giving out free bread, which made my heart warm. A man was holding a sign saying, “Please use our toilet.” He was _______ his house for people to go to the restroom.

My friend, _______ wanted to be of help to others, stood in the cold with a sign, “If you don’t _______ a motorcycle, I’ll be glad to drive you home.” And then I saw him pick up an old man and drive him all the way to a faraway place!

Then the next day I drove to have my car _______. There was not enough _______ and many gas stations were closed or had very long lines. I got worried, since I was _______ fifteen cars. Finally, when my turn came, the man smiled and said, “_______ this situation, we are only giving $30 worth of gas per person. Is that alright?” “________. It’s nice that we are all able to ________,” I said. His smile gave me so much comfort.

At the escape centre I saw a man ________ when people brought food to him. It was the first time in three days that food had been brought to their centre. However, after he cleaned up the tears, his next ________ surprised me. “I am very grateful that we are provided with food. But people in the city next to us haven’t ________ any food at all. Please go to that centre as well.” Hearing that, I realised there was a bright future on the other side of this ________.

【推荐2】The Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary( 保护区 )________ by charity is now open to the public by appointment only, where the wild horses live in freedom under long-lasting protection. I called ahead about stopping by to ________   some 2022 calendars. After discovering that the Choctaw pony( 乔克托小 马 ) Imagine, was May’s   calendar girl, along with her mother Tahiyah,   I was________, and   wanted to share a few more calendars with my friends, I sponsor(赞助) the pony Imagine annually, and have the________to name her.

“How many________ do you want?” asked Susan, the president, and executive director of the   Sanctuary. I thought for a moment,________ in the sunshine through the transparent glass roof of the office, where Susan and 6 staff members were busy________ the documents needed to operate the 11,000+ acres of ________   area for hundreds of horses. Through the bank of windows, I could see a     herd of horses off in the________.

“Four. No. How about five?” I replied, trying to do the ________ in my head on how much that would be. “Do you take a check?” “Oh, I forgot my checkbook!” I laughed. “Credit card?”

Susan straightened the small pile of calendars and________, “How about we give   you these     calendars? They are our perfect introduction to our mission of________the awareness of protection.”

________, I took a deep breath and bargained, “How about if I________ to the Hay and Cake Fund?”

We   both smiled. Such a clever exchange of ________! It is in ________   that we receive. We   gave for the sake of giving and any reward was unexpected.

We   even went to ________   Imagine. With   her distinctive markings, she was easy to ________.   She’s________ and is bigger than her mother now. She was happily grazing( 吃草 ) in the same herd I had________ while in the office.

【推荐3】A few months ago, one of my fellow graduate students was offered an incredible career-building opportunity. His efforts on a student-led campaign to increase federal funding for basic research had _________ an invitation to speak on a conference panel (专家组). It would look great on his CV (简历). I was happy for him, of course. I had been a (n) _________ partner in the campaign. I felt that I deserved the same opportunity. Yet I hadn’t been _________ and I wasn’t sure why.

Growing up, I had been taught that the way to _________ was to put my head down and work hard. If my work was good enough, it would speak for itself and I would be _________. This view, coupled with a natural _________, meant that I _________ worked up the nerve to put myself forward.

However, I decided that I need to _________ my life again—by becoming my own biggest advocate.

So, with my heart beating fast, I asked my colleague to ask the panel organizers to _________ me. My mind was filled with a list of well-practiced __________. Maybe I didn’t deserve it. Maybe I was being too ambitious. But my colleague immediately contacted the organizers, who quickly agreed to __________ me to the panel. Now I’ve come to understand that I can’t be recognized for my word if I’m invisible. This isn’t a revolutionary idea which many people are unfamiliar with. I know, but as an introvert (内向的人) this is my __________ Mount Everest (珠穆朗玛峰).

I think advocating for myself will always make me a little __________. But I do plenty of other uncomfortable things to __________ I’m living my best life. I like getting flu shots. I suppose I can do the same for my __________.

【推荐1】When I entered college, I took Professor Black’s poetry class. Even though I finished every task and _______ no classes, I earned a “C” at the end of the term. Frustrated, I went to his office and asked in a low voice, my knees _______, “Do I have any talent?” He was a kind person. He pushed his hair behind his ears _______ he was thinking. “Probably not,” he said _______. “Thank you,” I said, feeling like a grafted (嫁接的) apple tree: part of me discouraged, another part _______ to accept it.

The latter part led me to another poetry class by Professor White. This time, I earned an “A”. Professor White told me that _______ in his class earned an “A”. I was shocked. His _______ approach reminded me of Professor Black, from whom I learned teachers don’t hold the keys to their students’_______.

Every human being is _______ born with talent. Some __________ souls are born with many talents. People are __________ to subjects they have a gift for,__________ nearly everyone in the writing class has writing talent.

But no one can __________ whether or when talent will bloom (绽放) into art that others __________ as good. Some people bloom early, others late, some not at all. Artists must have enough __________ to make art, and trust their own pleasure in making it. It was really the faith in myself as well as the __________ in writing poems that helped me __________ many years of writing poems without being recognized.

I’ve been teaching creative writing for more than 30 years. Students sometimes ask me, “Do I have talent?” I tell them my __________, and say, “Of course you do. But just __________ writing no matter whether anyone approves (认可，赞成)—or even __________.”

【推荐3】Brooke Ochoa was going to enter a restaurant for lunch when she saw an elderly lady approaching. The 30-year-old woman ________ to keep the door open for her. She thought she was just doing something ________. She didn’t know, however, that a —________— that the lady would make a few seconds later would produce a chain of events that would cause her to get countless likes on her Facebook post and ________ on social media suddenly... As Brooke entered the restaurant, she ________ the elderly lady ask for a “table for one.” Then she decided to do one more act of ________. Brooke walked up to the woman’s ________ and asked, “I also ________ alone, would you like to have lunch together?”

The lady, named Dolores, not only accepted Brooke’s ________, but she was very pleased to have ________. The two ________ up an instant friendship during their meal.

Dolores told Brooke that she’d been having a ________ time. “She spent the last decade living with her mom, who recently passed away,” Brooke wrote in a later Facebook post about the encounter. “She just kept smiling and saying ‘thank you for listening to me’, which made me ________ too!” Brooke and Dolores enjoyed their conversation so much that they ________ to have lunch with each other every Thursday from that point on. In a later ________, not long after their first meeting, Brooke ________ that Dolores had passed away.

If nothing else, this chance ________ is evidence that the smallest ________ of goodwill can quite exactly change a life. Neither of the two women knew that Dolores days on this Earth were ________, but they found ________ in each other, and that’s what matters.

【推荐1】I believe that life's toughest lessons are best learned through personal experience. Throughout my childhood, my grandmother ________ me with unconditional love but always stressed, "You're not ________ than anyone else, but you're just as good as anyone. Treat others with dignity, and you would earn respect ________.

However, I never really ________ it until I was seventeen and got a summer job as a janitor. As I cleaned floors and toilets, I watched people walk right by me and ignore my ________. This made me feel angry and wonder why they treated me so poorly.

When I ________ to my grandmother, she offered me some words of ________ and reminded me never to forget the feeling of being "________" and to do the best job, because it was still my work, in which I should take pride. She added that it would make me a better man someday.

Make me a better man someday? She must be ________, I thought to myself. But I needed the job to ________ college and there were few other jobs available, so I bit my tongue and kept on working as best as I could for the rest of the summer.

Today, when asked what job helped prepare me to gain the ________ of a key university, I tell people it was my summer job cleaning restrooms that ________ me as a man and, down the road, as an educator.

As you can see, ________ can only be understood by walking in a lot of different shoes. So I suggest students get out of their comfort zones and get deeply ________ in different work and community experience. It's essential for people to find ________ in every person, no matter who they are or what they do for a living.

【推荐2】Liu Cixin Imagines the Future

Perhaps no one knows the power of imagination better than Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin. Until four years ago, Liu worked_________as a computer engineer at a power plant in Yangquan, Shanxi province. He only wrote science fiction in his spare time. But it was during this time that Liu’s_________took flight. He did what he might never have the chance to do in_________life--wander in space, fight with aliens, and visit planets light-years away.

But even with such a_________imagination, Liu, 55, probably hadn’t expected that he would become the first Asian to win the Hugo Award, science fiction’s highest prize, in 2015. Perhaps neither did he think that former U.S. President Barack Obama would read his novel The Three-Body Problem, nor that on Nov.9 in Washington DC, he would win the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. It’s the first time a Chinese writer has ever won the_________.

In his acceptance speech, Liu said that he_________his imagination to Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), a famous UK. sci-fi author. He said that reading Clarke’s 1968 classic novel 2001: A Space Odyssey in the early 1980s had a great effect on him.

“My mind_________up like never before. I felt like a narrow stream finally embracing(融入) the sea,” Liu said. “That night, in my eyes, the starry sky was_________ different from the past. For the first time in my life, I was awed(使敬畏)by the grandeur and mystery of the _________.

But no matter how far away Liu’s imagination takes him, somehow his novels always stay __________.

In The Three-Body-Problem, for example, Liu tells a tale of aliens invading Earth. But __________other alien stories, with their fancy weapons and strange creatures, Liu talks more about relationships between civilizations, rules of survival, and the meaning of life. And in The Wandering Earth, Liu looks ahead to the day when our __________system comes to an end and humans have to look for a new place to live. However, all his visions and solutions are __________ “hard science.” Liu’s works aren’t simply daydreams.

__________, it’s the fact that his imagination is based on reality that makes it such a powerful tool. In this too Liu is like his mentor Clarke, who, we read on the website of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, believed that “Humankinds most powerful tool to __________ its future is its imagination.”

【推荐3】I was having a great morning until I sat down in front of my office computer. “Your password has expired(失效),”   a server message flashed on my _______, with instructions for changing it.

_______ a new code doesn’t seem like a big deal, _______ you work at my company, where we have to change it monthly with no less than eight characters.

Suddenly I was angry. What made it _______ was that I was deeply depressed after my recent _______. Of course, that didn't mean _______ to the empty input field waiting for me to _______ a password. I remembered a(n) _______ from my former boss. He'd said, “I’m going to use a password to change my life.” It _______ me，reminding me that I shouldn’t let myself be a(n) __________ of my recent breakup and that I was strong enough to do something about it.

I made my password Forgive® h3r, and I had to type this __________ several times a day for the next 30 days. The simple action changed the way I looked at my ex-wife. That __________ reminder led me to accept the way things had happened and adopt a new way of dealing with my depression. __________ the month wore on, I felt a slow recovery begin to __________. By the time my server reminded me of my password the following month, I felt __________. One month later, when I was asked again to __________ my password，it became Quit smoking4ever. I quit smoking and __________ it brings great results.

Seeing how these __________ helped to materialize my goals kept me excited and __________ to follow my mothly goal. While it's sometimes difficult to come up with your next goal, __________ at it brings great results.