【推荐1】Ranjan and Sumer were good friends. They went to the same ________ and were in the same class.

Ranjan was not ________. He could not play football or other ________ with boys of his age. All that he did was to watch Sumer and other boys play. He usually went with them to the ________. When they ran off to ________, Ranjan would sit under a tree and read storybooks. Books became his best friends. Reading made him ________ in all the exams. He always stood first in the class.

Sumer was ________. He spent most of his time running, swimming or riding bicycles. He was an extremely good player in every game. He was a member of the school’s football team. The PE teacher ________ he would make it big in the game when he grew up.

One day, the two friends went for a ________. Ranjan got ________ soon. “I can’t walk further. I have no strength. What is the ________ of all this knowledge if I am not healthy? I would ________ all my knowledge ________ I could be half as healthy and strong as you,” said Ranjan. Sumer was surprised and ________, “So you are not ________ with yourself either? I ________ wish I could do as well as you do in the ________. I even thought I could give away my sporting ________ for better grades in those exams.”

The two friends looked at each other and ________ at the same time, “The grass looks ________ on the other side of the hill.”

【推荐2】My husband grew up on a farm. After I knew more about farm life, I _______ to go back to the way he grew up.

In 2015 we started to _______ the perfect little farm. It was a year-long process. In 2016, we moved to a little _______ with a small orchard(果园) of about eighty apple trees. We have a good size garden where we _______ as much of our own produce as possible.

We've been on our farm one year now. And I must say it's pretty _______.

As a homeschooling mom, I love any chance we have to _______ .Over the past year, my children have learned so much about healthy food and how our food _______ our bodies.

Knowing how _______ it is to grow good food, we have all developed a deeper appreciation for what we_______. Tomatoes are not just tomatoes. It's planting, watering, picking and preparing. An egg is not just an egg. It's daily ________ for a chicken.

I focus(集中注意)on my children. But I must ________ that I've been learning just as much as my children by ________ on a farm. Growing up I didn't have any assigned(分配的)family ________. My mom did everything. In one year, with the help of my husband, I've ________ my-comfort area and started helping with duties I ________ thought I would be able to do.

I ________ that I get to keep learning right along with my children. We are doing this ________. My goal this year is to research how to keep a chemical-free orchard. We were so ________ this past a to invite lots of friends over to ________ from our orchard, knowing that the apples had not been sprayed(喷药) at all.

I never want to ________ learning. And I don't think I ever will here.

【推荐3】I'm a geologist. I have been researching changes in the Antarctic ice sheets to help governments plan for floods and other_________of a changing climate.

I first met Tom on the tip of Antarctica. He is a professional mountaineer who_________geologists with their research. We were_________here together, hundreds of miles from anyone else, for a two-month_________. My task was simple: to_________rock samples from as many peaks as possible. It is physically exhausting work, and not without _________, as some of the crevasse（裂缝）fields we crossed left me shaking. I relied on Tom for my_________; my life was in his hands.

Trust quickly grew between us, and our_________did, too. Within a week we'd_________deep topics: the meaning of life, and what follows death.

When I got the date for my return journey, I started to feel__________. I didn't want our time there to__________. We felt we had to make the most of the final few days to plant__________.

Saying goodbye to each other was a（n）__________. I was heading off to start another mission, so I was__________the man who'd been through it with me. I looked down at him as my plane took off, knowing what we had just been through together was__________in time.

【推荐2】In the 1860s, John Roebling, a creative engineer, launched the idea of building a bridge connecting Manhattan with Brooklyn, New York. ______, other bridge building experts thought that this was ______ and told Roebling to forget the idea.

John ______ about it all the time and he knew deep in his heart that it ______ be done. He then ______ the dream with his son, Washington, an up-and-coming engineer. Working together, the father and the son made a ______ of how it could be done and studied the problems they might ______.

After these preparations, they hired their crew and began to build their ______ bridge. The   project started well, but a(n) ______ on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was ______ and left with a certain amount of brain damage. He wasn’t able to move or even talk. However, Washington did not ______ and still wanted to complete the bridge. One day, an idea ______ him. All he could do was to move one ______ and he decided to make the best use of it.

He ______ his wife’s arm with that finger, ______ to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the ______ method of touching her arm to tell the engineers what to do. Then the project was underway again. For 13 years, Washington tapped out (敲打出) his ______ with his finger on his wife’s arm, until the Brooklyn Bridge was finally ______.

Perhaps this is one of the best examples of a never-give-up attitude that ______ a terrible physical disability and achieves an impossible ______.