【推荐1】No matter what life throws our way, having a positive attitude makes room for the future. Let’s read Hervey Bay teenager   Mark Farrell’s _________ story. At the age of 14, he took a dive into a swimming   pool,   which would _________his life forever.

“I jumped into the pool and broke my _________ ,” he says, “It’s a very unusual story because I jumped into the deep end, not the shallow end where most spinal (脊柱的) injuries   _________.”

Mark has been in a wheelchair ever since and now, at 27, is very calm about any _________life might     throw at him. In fact, he finds it _________to name any challenge. “ I just live my life and _________it day by day,” he says.

For the past few years, Mark has worked with the Spinal Education Awareness Team (SEAT) whose aim is to _________students to prevent   spinal injuries, telling his _________ to   young people   in the   Hervey   Bay region. “If I can __________ one kid’s life, it makes my __________worthwhile,” he says.

Mark stresses the importance of checking the __________of water before diving in and being more   __________in general. He says that if his talks can prevent one spinal injury in a young person, he’s   __________. Mark’s contribution to preventing spinal injuries was __________in 2017, when he was named Young Australian of the Year.

【推荐3】Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future but with no real idea of what I wanted to do. My degree in English literature had not really ________ me for anything practical. I knew I wanted to make a difference in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that until I ________ about the Lighthouse Project.

I knew being a volunteer in the project would be a lot of hard work, and I would be away from my family and friends. ________, I did not make my decision to apply for it. Neither did my family agree.

Eventually, however, I won the ________ of my family, and I sent in all the paperwork needed for application. After ________ interviews, I managed to stand out among the candidates and ________ the test alone. I would be going to a small village in Nigeria. Where? What? Nigeria? I had no idea. But I was about to find it.

After completing my training, I was sent to the small village. Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their food, homes, and even ________ as if I were their own family. I was asked to lead a small team of local people in building a new schoolhouse. For the next year or so, I ________ in that same schoolhouse. But sometimes I think I learned more from my students than they did from me.

Sometime during that period, I realized that all those things that had seemed so ________ to me no longer did, though I did not get anywhere with the local language. The Lighthouse Project had changed my life forever, and I returned to my city a(n) ________ man.

【推荐2】My father enjoys bike riding. Ever since I was little, I’ve always loved going biking with my dad.

_________, as I became a teenager, other things began to draw my_________. Suddenly, it was important to do things with_________. I saw my dad every evening at home. Why did I_________devote my Sundays to all day bike trips with him, too? If my indifference (冷漠) hurt him, my father kept_________, but he would always let me know when he was planning a bike trip_________I wanted to come.

It was a Sunday morning, and I was in low_________. Two of my friends had gone to the movies without inviting me. Just then my father_________my room. “It’s a beautiful day. Want to go for a_________, today, Beck?” “Leave me alone!” I impatiently__________.

Those were the last words I said to him before he left the house that__________.

Several hours later, the police called us, __________us that Dad had a traffic accident. My father’s injuries were serious. It took several days before he could__________speak. Beside his bed I held his hand gently, __________of hurting him.

“Daddy...I’m sorry...” “It’s okay, sweetheart. I’ll be okay.”

“No,” I said, “I__________what I said to you that day. You know, that morning?”

“Sweetheart, I don’t__________anything about that day. I remember kissing you good night the night before, though.” He __________a weak smile.

I felt regretful for my thoughtless remark, for I__________wanted him to leave me alone. My teacher once told me that__________have immeasurable power. They can hurt or they can heal. And we all have the __________to choose our words. I intend to do that very carefully from now on.

【推荐3】Spending two days wondering if your father will live or die brings you many things. It allows you to _______ every moment of life. It fills you with good memories, and it fills you with pain. It _______ you of something that can easily be forgotten as you run around in your _______ life: life is incredibly fragile (脆弱的), and can be _______ in an instant.

I sat there in this hospital room, feeding the man I’ve seen as _______ and capable in my entire life. It felt like the full circle of life had come around us. It was both _______and frightening. It felt_______to support him, yet part of me wanted to tell him to “be _______” again. I wasn’t sure if I was ready to _______ the full meaning of it: that my father may________ be that powerful and capable person again.

Pain and suffering have visited my family, __________ it will visit all families. And while we hesitate to __________ pain and suffering, it has great lessons to ________ us. Pain and suffering are well outside of the boundaries (界限) of our everyday life. When it __________, it broke these boundaries and turns our world upside down. We become a__________ with all of the others who have known pain and suffering. And we have another chance to tell what’s truly __________ in our lives.

This crisis (危机) will pass, and we’ll all be changed by it. The ________ hands of time will do their work. I’m thankful that I’ve told my __________ everything I’ve wanted to say to him. And I’m thankful to have my family to __________ during this difficult time. We’ll all be ________ by this to show more support, care, and love. This is as it should be.

【推荐2】Chris was born in a cardboard box with three other kittens. He was in a smaller cardboard box marked "free kittens" when Emily _____ him and took him home. After that, he loved boxes. He would be _____ a box to sleep in.

Chris slept in different boxes, even in Emily's sock drawer, if she left it ____ . He didn't just sleep in boxes, though. He also enjoyed sleeping in the bedroom of Emily's dollhouse with ____ everywhere. Emily's mother suggested Chris need a（n） ____ house of his own, but Emily thought little of it.

One day, Emily came home from school and she searched everywhere, but no Chris. ____ , she found the big cat ____ himself inside her mom's new glass vase. His fatty body almost ____ the vase. "We have to ____ the vase to get him out!” Emily cried. "No,"   said her dad, “If the vase is broken, the glass pieces might ____ Chris, maybe we can ____ butter （黄油）to the inside of the vase and pull him out.”

Emily's mom buttered a lot inside of the vase and her dad tried to ____ the unhappy cat out, but they ____ . Realizing the _____ situation, Emily suggested visiting a ____. Soon they were at his office with a（n） ____ , frightened, buttery cat in a vase. The vet had Emily and her parents ____ in the hall while she gave Chris a shot to make him sleepy.

An hour later, Chris was brought out to his _____ family. Not only Chris, but the vase was still in one ____ ! The next day, Emily brought home a refrigerator box and made it into a rocket ship. Now Chris sleeps in it and dreams of ____ space mice.

【推荐3】Molai grew up in a tiny village in India. The village lay near some wetlands which became his second _________. He learned the value and beauty of _________ there from a very young age.

When he was 16, Molai began to notice something _________ happening around his home. A flood had hit the area earlier that year and the _________ it caused had driven away a number of birds.

_________, the number of snakes had decreased as well. He _________ that it was because there weren’t enough trees to protect them from the _________. The solution, of course, was to plant trees so the animals could seek _________ during the daytime. He turned to the _________ department for help but was told that nothing would grow there. However, Molai went looking on his own and __________ a nearby island where he began to plant trees.

__________ young plants in the dry season was __________ for a lone boy. Molai built at the __________ of each young tree a bamboo platform (竹台) where he placed earthen pots with small holes to __________ rainwater. The water would then drip (滴落) on the plants below.

Molai __________ to plant trees for the next 37 years. His efforts have resulted in 1,360 acres of naturally-grown land that has become home to many plants and animals.