【推荐2】I have always been crazy about music since I was young. At 15, I started a _________ with three friends. We were nothing then, but to our great _________, many schoolmates liked our performance and slowly things began to_________. Two years later, we decided to quit school and _________ a record deal (合约) with Rolling Slone, a famous record company. We had tour concerts and built up a small but_________ group of fans. Al the end of 2002, a well-known rock band _________ us to play with them. My teenage dream came true; the band I looked up to seemed to _________ us.

Our first album _________ in 2003. A local newspaper declared it “a masterpiece of one of the most important bands of their generation". _________, no one bought the awful thing.

Looking back, I think that was ____________. Though I'm incredibly proud of the music we ____________, we were riding a wave of hype (大肆宣传) we could never ____________. Our label quietly dropped us and my lime in a band was ____________.

After I left the band. I asked my old school if I could ____________. They pleasantly welcomed me back, though I was ____________ than other students. 1 worked harder than ever and ended up at Oxford University, where I occasionally put on performances. My family even travelled miles to watch. Perhaps then they understood why I had made the decision to ____________ out of school.

The band had ____________ everything. It took me out of my hometown and around the world. I ____________ that with a little luck and a lot of hard work, anything can happen. Now I often tell my ____________ life to my students. And when they tell me their dreams, I will ____________ them. After all, if I managed to make it that far, why shouldn't they?

【推荐3】At 10:30 a.m. one day, Jiang received her first delivery order. She quickly planned her _________and began what would become a busy day on her e-bike. Jiang Xiaoxi, 23, is a driver and team_________of a food-delivery station managed by online service platform Meituan, in Shenzhen.

“You might be out of luck, but never lose the_________to keep going. Sweat is the scent of success.” Jiang recently posted that_________on We Chat. With her mother in_________health, Jiang moved to Shenzhen and became a food-delivery driver. “As long as you work hard and_________yourself well to the job, you can earn more than 10,000 yuan a month,” she says. During her first year as a driver, Jiang_________the debts her family ran up for her mother’s medical treatments.

Unpleasant things sometimes happen, but only heart-warming experiences remain_________in her memory. One day, a rainstorm hit the city. Jiang_________the heavy rain and sent the order to the door.__________, it had been late for a long time, and Jiang kept apologizing. But the customer didn’t ________; instead, the customer gave Jiang some milk and cookies. “At that moment, tear swelled up in my eyes,” Jiang__________

Jiang, who is always full of__________, holds the record of making nearly 100 deliveries in a day. Also, she is a living__________in Shajing, as she knows almost every corner within her delivery area. In 2021, Jiang became the station team leader in Shajing. “The harder you work, the__________you get. I hope I can build a better life, and realize my dream here,” Jiang says.

【推荐1】My son Lucas was intelligent and good - looking, but he possessed the disturbing negative attitude. Despite my ______, I couldn’t convince him to choose to count his blessings.

I decided to do something, so I bought a lot of books, and read every ______. If the Internet had been ______ then, I would have Googled for weeks to find the information I needed to ______ his negativity. With the help of great resources, I developed my ______.

The day came when I was ready to put my new ______ to work. Lucas came home from school and as usual began to tick off his list of the ______ things that had happened at school. I listened ______, making my eye contact and ______ with empathy (共情) before I asked, “What good things happened today, Lucas?” His response was what I ______, “Nothing.”

“Something good had to happen. You were there for six hours,” I ______. Then I waited. At last, he ______, “I did get to dust the erasers. With Brandon.”

“You mean you did it with your best friend? You’re one lucky child, if you ask me!”

“Yeah, I guess I am.” Lucas ______ with his head back and his shoulders squared.

This began a daily ______ for us. Lucas came to understand the ______ of a positive perspective, but the path to get there seemed to ______ him at times. Then I would encourage him to see things ______, and he would get back on the track of choosing to see the ______ and losing the negative attitude. It was a ______, but he was making headway. I was convinced my hard work was ______.

【推荐2】“When I grow up, I want to be a mountain climber,” Jack, my four-year-old son, announces. My husband, Jack and I are now _________Cradle Mountain. Here the sky is clear and the plants are green. We don’t know how our kid will progress, but we’re _________to give it a go.

Usually some parents, me included, would_________that bush walking would present a great opportunity for disaster. However, we couldn’t be more_________. We are swallowed up by the wonder of the nature.

My husband and I_________glances as Jack runs ahead of us. He keeps a confident and steady_________, staying three or four meters ahead of us. Who is this kid leading us through the bush? This can’t be the same boy who won’t play outside_________someone keeps him company.

“Hey, look at this!” Jack cries, pointing at a_________ in a tree. “Who lives here? It may be a snake’s home.” His dad and I_________and look on, nodding and predicting who might call the tree home. Before reaching a__________, Jack is off again, keeping a distance between himself and us.

I think about how I have often felt lost as a parent. Frequently I find myself __________to cross the tricky (棘手的) pass of boyhood: “Why won’t this child__________? Why won’t he do as he is told? Why is he so__________?” Yet, here we find ourselves in the wilderness, and the boy is showing us the way. The world is unfolding before him, and he is crossing it with__________and natural curiosity, and as his parents, we are only__________ on his journey, following in his size 12 footsteps.

【推荐3】My kids and I were heading into the supermarket over the weekend. On the way, we spotted a man holding a piece of paper that said, “_______my job. Family to Feed.”

At this store, a sight like this is not normal. My 10-year-old noticed him and made a _______ on how bad it must be to have to stand _______ in the cold wind.

In the store, I asked each of my kids to pick something they thought our “friend” there would _______.They got apples, a sandwich and a bottle of juice. Then my 17-year-old suggested giving him a _______. I thought about it. We were low on cash ourselves, but… well, sometimes giving from our need instead of our abundance is _______ what we need to do! All the kids _______ something they could do away with for the week.

When we handed him the bag of _______, he lit up and thanked us with _______ eyes. When I handed him the gift card, saying he could use it for ________ his family might need, he burst into tears.

This has been a wonderful experience for our family. For days the kids have been looking for others we can ________! Things would have played out so ________ if I had simply said, “No, we really don’t have ________ to give more.” Stepping out not only helped a brother in ________, it also gave my kids the ________ taste of helping others. It’ll go a long way with them.

【推荐2】When Alexis Lewis was 7 years old, he set out with his family on a trip to explore different parts of the country. During their many hours on the road, his grandfather, a rocket scientist, would _______ his cool ideas with Alexis about science. _______, everything his grandfather said _______ Alexis to become an inventor.  

Fast forward to the 2017 Kid Inventors’ Day event_______ on January 17 in Brooklyn, New York. Alexis, who is now 17, was one of seven kid inventors who attended the _______. With an audience of 50 people in _______ and more than 100 others tuning in on Facebook Live, Alexis _______ his award-winning invention, the Bamboo Travois. It is a lightweight device made of bamboo, a net rope _______ wheels. A person can use the travois to carry someone else while walking long _______.  

Alexis also __________ another one of his inventions: the Emergency Mask Pod. It is a football-shaped canister (小罐) that contains a smoke mask and can be thrown __________ the window of a burning building. People inside the building can put on the mask to __________ themselves from smoke inhalation (吸入). Local firefighters helped him test the __________ by throwing it hundreds of times into second-story windows of buildings.  

The world needs new thinkers like Alexis and other young inventors who __________ the event. Kids are the ones who can solve the problems that the older generation creates. It’s our job as adults to show kids the possibilities of __________ they can make and create.