【推荐1】Besides her strong professional skills, the diving gold medal winner Quan Hongchan does have an unusual personality. She is always attracting audiences (观众), which has led to her _______.

At the 19th World Championships (锦标赛), Quan Hongchan _______ to Chen Yuxi by 0.3points. She made major mistakes, and still did not lose the audience’s _______ for her. It is believed that she will return to be the king. In the mixed all-around final, Zhang Jiagi was temporarily (临时) _______. Quan Hongchan took the place of her and had to challenge the 10-meter platform and the 3-meter board. However, with the first jump of Quan Hongchan, the doubts before the competition _______.

Quan Hongchan is really born for _______. She is the one that not only has excellent _______, but also trains so hard off the _______. From her challenge to the 3-meter board, you can see the results of her usual _______. In addition to ________ skills, Quan Hongchan has a particularly ________feature, that is, she won’t be influenced by the surrounding environment, and her ________ on the game is great.

Now, Quan Hongchan has become a world champion (冠军) and has become a “popular fried chicken”. She ________ the camera that she was a “funny girl”. Perhaps this is her ________. She is a child who is very ________, simple, and talkative.

【推荐2】British rower Helen Glover is preparing for her fourth Olympic Games, pushing herself to the limit. Despite enduring bloodied and blistered hands and pale skin, Glover knows that physical ________ are just one aspect of the intense training required for the Olympics.

For Glover, the real challenge ________ the day-to-day exhaustion and the constant ________ of waking up and training. With two gold medals from the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, her fourth-place finish in Tokyo was remarkable considering her ________ preparation. Just a year after giving birth to twins and four years after ________, Glover made the bold decision to ________ in the Olympics with only six months of serious training. Juggling (尽量兼顾) childcare with her ________ schedule, she managed to reach the starting line and ________ miss out on a medal.

After Tokyo, Glover initially ________ her retirement but later changed her mind and decided to compete in the coxless four (四人单桨无舵手艇) at Paris 2024. This time, her preparation is more straightforward, and her racing experience gives her an ________.

________ on her journey, Glover acknowledges that in the past, her happiness seemed dependent on results and success. However, becoming a ________ has shifted her perspective. Now, even on ________ training days, as long as her children are happy, she finds contentment.

Glover understands that her decision to continue rowing is a personal ________. Her growing success does not ________ her whole life, but she is determined to excel in the sport she loves and give her best.

【推荐3】Being in the right place at the right time can mean the difference between life and death. A ____ named Zhu Keming despite the bad weather pulled six runners to ____ in a 100-kilometer cross-country race in China’s Gansu Province.

The day of the race started with mild weather. Zhu was ____ his flock (羊群) as usual. Then in the space of a few moments, everything ____. As the temperature dropped quickly and freezing rain and snow began to pound the land, Zhu took ____ in a small cave he’d been using for years to ____ emergency supplies.

It was from this point that Zhu ____ that one of the runners appeared disoriented (迷失方向的) and in pain. Zhu brought the man back to the cave to ____ him up. After lighting a fire, Zhu returned to the mountainside, ____ five additional runners to the cave. There’s little ____ that he finally saved their lives. ____ for the sudden change in the weather, most racers were wearing lightweight clothing that was no ____ for the coldness. The threat of hypothermia (体温过低) was all too real.

“I want to say how ____ I am to the man who saved me,” runner Zhang Xiaotao posted on Sina Weibo. “Without him, I would have been ____ there.” While Zhu is being praised as a hero in his homeland, the ____ shepherd doesn’t see the reason for all the fuss. He says he’s just an ordinary person who did a very ordinary thing.

【推荐1】“I am like a shooting star, leaving light to the world,” Zhang Haidi once wrote.

At the age of 5, Zhang found she had a spinal tumor (脊髓血管瘤). Three big ______ to remove the tumor left her paralyzed (瘫痪) from the chest down. However, with a ______ will, Zhang has achieved much ______ one might think is possible.

Zhang is a former country ______, a(n) ______ writer and translator and now a promoter for the rights of people with disabilities (残疾). Many of her ______ have been made through ______.

At 15, Zhang moved to a small village with her parents in 1970. There was no hospital and the villagers had to walk more than 10 km to see a doctor. She decided to make a change and ______ enough medical knowledge to help villagers with basic treatments. During her years there, she treated more than 10,000 people ______.

Zhang also taught herself several foreign languages and later ______ several works of Western literature into Chinese. She also wrote a book called Beautiful English to tell about her experience learning English.

She has ______ so many young people and was ______ the title of “Excellent Member of the Communist Youth League of China” in 1983. In 2018 she was elected president of the China ______ Persons’ Federation (联盟). She has been using her ______ and influence to call for more rights for people with disabilities.

Through her life, Zhang has carried out her words – trying to be a ______ star.

【推荐1】Whether you knew the pianist’s story or not, Meng-Chieh Liu’s concert was brilliant. His performance was so________that the entire audience clapped their hands in excitement.

Meng-Chieh Liu’s success today is by no means ________. His backstory is a(n) ________of “triumph over all odds (战胜困难)”.

Once a competition-winning piano genius in Taiwan, Liu was on his way to a performing career after his________from Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music. ________, he came down with a bad cough at the age of 23. Soon his situation got ________. His hands grew stiff (僵硬) and he began losing ________and strength. Within months he could hardly lift his legs and thus could not ________unaided.

His doctors were ________. Neither the prescribed physical treatment nor chemotherapy (化疗) could________the advance of his mysterious disease. Soon he was ________in an intensive care at a hospital in Philadelphia because he ________a rare disorder of the immune system. For six months he remained in his hospital bed. His body was________to 90 pounds of skin over bone.

His hands were so weak, particularly his right hand, that following a 1997 operation, he could ________press the keys on an electronic keyboard.

“It was very difficult for me to________I would ever be able to play the piano again,” the pianist recalls.

Only after anti-cancer drugs were used did his condition begin to ________. He put on weight and started to regain strength and ________. Two months later his right index finger had an operation. He was practising the piano again. It was the________practice he made day after day that enabled him to ________his playing and teaching career.

In 1998, Meng-Chieh Liu gave his first public concert after his recovery. Although doctors ________he would never play the piano again, Liu is back making music.

【推荐2】Selvidge hopes to attend art or film school after graduation. Being a writer, director, actor and musician, Selvidge admits that his ability to adapt to his _______ environment is his strength. Of course, it is the very _______ that helps him with difficulties. However, he didn't gain it without _______.

At the age of 13, Selvidge _______ his hometown Dickson, Tennessee in _______ of a better life. In the following 4 years, he was just living with his friends and bouncing around wherever he could. That lasted _______ both his parents died off. The police were going to _______him over to a local shelter. However, at his father's funeral, his half-brother in Arizona offered to _______him to start over.

Selvidge saw the move as an opportunity to start a _______ life. The first day he came to Perry High School, he ________ to the Theatre Club and finally gained a role to play. That was the beginning of his ________ career. Last year he directed his own play and ________ in a musical and two comedies. Seeing his wonderful stage performance, debate coach Jim Fountain ________ Selvidge, believing his talents could take him far. ________, Selvidge did it well too. He won the state championship and will represent his state to ________ on the national stage for debate in June.

“He has suffered many that are ________ to kids his ages” his director, Shelley, explains why Selvidge can ________ the audience's eyes so well. “He has a ________ understanding of the human condition, which allows him to interpret emotions of various ________ with ease. In this sense, it is ________ that shaped what he is today.”