【推荐1】Growing up in Kenya was amazing because I learned so much, though the poverty and lack of resources were sometimes frustrating. I knew I didn't have much, but I was ________ .

There was only one thing I wasn't happy with: education. I wanted to go to high school and university. I had the drive, the will and the grades, ________ I didn't have the resources. Even basic things like food, water and shelter weren't readily available. Young people in poverty have little or no ________ to high schools and universities. Where I lived, it was challenging ________ someone helped. When I left primary school, I was in the same ________ as many other poor disadvantaged youth. ________, during that year, a charitable high school for girls, Starehe Girls Centre, was ________ and I received a scholarship. Today, I am on record as being the first student to be enrolled in this school.

In 2006, my school ________ The Global Give Back Circle, a not-for-profit organization for ________ disadvantaged girls to complete their education and gain __ skills. After graduating from high school, I was given access to a nine-month IT course. ________, its give-back attitude had taught us to not only care about ourselves but other people. With this in mind, 10 of us created a website called “Hey Sister, Get Clued-Up". Through this educational website, aimed at networking 10,000 African girls worldwide, all Sisters commit to sending information to their villages. This can be to ________ financial freedom, advanced information ________ to health issues and provide knowledge about social networking behavior.

“Hey Sister, Get Clued-Up" is only ________ to those girls who can access the Internet, which highlights the huge challenge in narrowing the divide between the haves and have-nots. But our plan is that these girls will ________ what they learn to other girls through the power of their voice".

【推荐1】It was Christmas Day and the previous month had been like a frightening dream. Just at that time, our father _______ us, which made me sad for quite a long time. What was _______, a fire broke out in our house then, destroying everything _______ within. We had nothing for a while, no clothes, no money and no place to stay, nothing.

After the fire, we went to _______ with my grandma in her one-bedroom apartment and _______ on her living room floor. Practically penniless, we had only the clothes on our _______. Immediately after remembering what day it was, I _______ that I didn’t have anything to give my mother for Christmas Day. We had _______ given each other something, _______ it was just a heart shaped cookie she baked or a paper card I made.

I stayed on the balcony of the apartment, feeling sad for I ________ not being able to give my mother anything, especially now. She needed _______; she was every bit as ________ as me. Then I saw it. The most beautiful ________ I could have ever imagined. The brightly colored sun ________ lightly on top of some clouds ________ unbelievable blues, browns and reds. The colors combined in pleasant ways. Something ________ in my head — that was the perfect ________ for my mother. I ran ________, too excited to talk, and pulled my mother out onto the balcony. The colors had filled the entire sky.

Mother was ________ but then happy. She told me in a breathless voice that no one had ever given her anything as ________, or as beautiful. She said she would take the light and colors of that sunset and keep them in her heart forever...

【推荐2】Children model themselves largely on their parents. They do so mainly through identification. Children_______ a parent when they believe they have the qualities and feelings that are _______of that parent. The things parents do and say — and the_______ they do and say to them — therefore strongly influence a child’s behavior. Therefore, parents must_______ behave like the type of person they want their child to become.

What’s more, a parent’s actions can also _______ the self-image that a child forms through identification. Children who see mainly positive qualities in their parents will likely learn to see themselves in a positive way. Children who observe chiefly_______ qualities in their parents will have difficulty seeing positive qualities in themselves. Children may modify their self-image,_______, as they become increasingly influenced by peers groups standards before they reach 13.

A positive attitude and self-image play an important role when children _______ something unexpected. Isolated events, even dramatic ones, do not necessarily have a _______ effect on a child’s behavior. Children interact such events according to their established attitudes and ________ training. Children who know they are loved can, for example, accept the ________of their parents or a parent’s early death. But if children feel________, they may interpret such events as a sign of rejection or ________ .

In the same way, all children are not influenced ________ by toys and games, reading matter, and television programs. As in the case of a dramatic change in family relations, the effect of an activity or experience depends on how the child ________ it.

【推荐3】In 1991, I went to visit my grandma in an old folks’ home. At the time, she was 89, and I was 28. I felt a bit _______, because the place was full of people at the last stage of their life. I didn’t know how to _______ that.

When I saw Grandma, they were having a _______ in the hall. After she introduced me, a woman in a wheelchair beside told me how much she _______ dancing. So I asked her to dance and she _______ accepted my invitation with a big smile. I _______ her to the open area, and I lifted her arm up and spun her wheelchair around, and we laughed a lot. When I wheeled her back, I _______ a lot of little old ladies smiling at me. So I _______ with them and we snowballed the party into a great dancing ball.

Of course, I danced with Grandma. While dancing, I asked how she dealt with _______. She said: “Just accept the number of candles on the cake. Life won’t stay the same. So accept the ________ and make every day count. There’s a ________ that golden years are a time to celebrate accomplishments and ________ gained from experience.” Then I realized how ________ it was for me to see the old as they saw themselves. They weren’t thinking that much about growing older. ________, they lived at the moment and ________ that room like stars.

【推荐2】Last year I decided to tell my family that I didn't want or need anything for my_________, but I wanted them to think of a way to share a_________in their world-for me. My husband and two adult children all did something_________and wonderful.

The week of my birthday my husband went to a local cafe and told a waitress that he wanted to_________pay for the breakfast of a family. The waitress was_________and said it was her last day at work there and this had never _______. When the family_________eating，the waitress told them their bill had been paid. The mom and dad stood up, trying to_________who might have done it, but my husband was outside watching the whole thing. He told me he had such a _________feeling in his heart and he would like to__________it a few more times.

My son bought gift cards at another local coffee cafe and__________them to his 4-year-old daughter. He asked her to__________some people and tell them that she wanted to__________them a cup of coffee because it was her grandmother’s birthday. One dad said he would__________have thought to include his little girls in something like this and that he was going straight home to tell them about it so they could make a(n)__________plan with all his daughters ________. My daughter was on a tight budget so she spent the week smiling more at people, being__________, and letting someone go before her at the market. She just took the time during my birthday week to slow down and be kind to a(n)__________and her co-workers.

When we finally all got together for Mother’s Day and my birthday, everyone was in tears as each person ________what they had done. As you can see, it was the__________birthday ever!

【推荐3】Jim Henson was born in 1936 in Mississippi. But he grew up in Maryland. His creative talents were _________ when he was a student at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville. He loved cartooning and creating the scenery for school _________.

While he was a freshman at the University of Maryland (UMD), Henson _________ puppets (木偶) for a local TV station. The station’s producers were so _________ that they asked him to produce his own puppet show. Called Sam and Friends, the _________ began in 1955. Viewers loved Henson’s playful characters, including an early version of Kermit the Frog.

While at UMD, Henson _________ Home Economics. At the time, it was the only major that offered _________ in sewing and textiles (纺织). Henson trained his creative _________ at the university, but he also did well in marketing and business.

In 1959, Henson _________ Jane Nebel, whom he had met at UMD. The couple __________ Muppets Company, which later became the Jim Henson Company. It was there that Bert, Ernie, and other Muppets were created for Sesame Street, a __________ children’s television program. Generations of children around the world have grown up __________ and learning from the Muppets.

Henson, who died in 1990 after a brief illness, created not just the Muppets, but also films, TV advertisements and variety shows.

Now a(n) __________ is being held with the aim of showing __________ every aspect of his career. This includes some lesser-known work. Visitors also get a __________ to appreciate Henson’s creativity through hands-on displays.