【推荐1】I never really enjoyed running. But my _________ with running has changed. I’m a _________ living in London. When my mom became ill with cancer and there was no _________ of her living much longer, I decided to move back to Harrogate. My work as a musician didn’t _________ and I just wanted to be with my mother.

I have been _________ psychotherapy(心理疗法) for more than three years, which has helped with my anxiety, but back in Harrogate, I _________ to do something else positive for myself, as looking after my mother _________ me. I wanted to do something physical and running _________ that need.

Getting up before six was _________ for me. But I made myself go running three times a week. After starting last summer, I would run with __________ members and talk about my mom with those I’d known better. It helped me put my __________ in the right place to face another day. And it helped me process my feelings after my mom __________ in October.

Although therapy has been the __________ for all the positive things in my life, running has added to that. Together, they have changed my __________ to life and I’m now less anxious than I was. While running, I feel grounded and I live in the __________.

【推荐2】I am very lucky because I enjoy my work very much. I’m a fitness instructor at a gym near where I live. I _________six aerobics(有氧运动) classes a week and also tell my students about ________ and nutrition. As they say, “You are what you ________ .”

To be honest, I worry about the ________ that many people have today. So many people are overweight. Because they eat the ________ foods and they don’t do any exercise. When you work in an office all day, I know it is difficult to find ________ to keep fit, but you only need to do 20 minutes a day!

It’s also very important to have a ________ diet, starting with breakfast in the morning. It’s not a good idea to ________ breakfast although many of us just have a cup of tea or coffee. Eat as much ________ food as possible — lots of fruit and vegetables — and ________ not to eat too much fried food.

One ________ why a lot of people feel less than 100% fit is that they don’t drink enough water. You need to drink two liters(升) a day — and water   ________ water, not tea, coffee or sugary drinks.

Keeping fit is fun. However, a lot of people think it’s boring to go jogging or cycling. They just want to ________ their food. Well, of course, it’s fine to have cakes and ice cream, but not every day! I would say we like what our bodies ________ and if you eat more healthy food, over time, you might find yourself wanting to eat them more than anything else. Try it, I think you’ll be ________!

【推荐3】I started training in tae kwon do (跆拳道) by accident. But in the first class, I learned something exciting—how to ________ someone grabbing your arm. I loved it, so I kept practicing and earning higher ranks.

At every rank, I found something ________, whether it was the kicks in the air or the increasingly complex patterns. But over time, “I can’t” ________ “How can I?” which then became “How will I?”

One day, I showed up to class and students were ________ wooden boards. I was convinced that they were all crazy and “I can’t” voice yelled again.

I watched, in ________ as student after student walked up to solid pieces of wood and broke them with their hands or their feet. When I was given the opportunity to ________ I chickened out. But my ________ were extremely patient. They invited me to work individually with them. I refused their first and second offer, but ________, I agreed to try.

They told me that board breaking was more a mental ________ than a physical one and taught me how to line up to break that board. And the first time I went to ________ it, I was so afraid that I missed and accidentally kicked the board holder’s fingers. I felt ________ but he encouraged me to try again. I told that doubting voice in my ________ to “shut up!”

I focused on the ________ I thought about how much I had improved and how I had surprised myself. I told myself I ________ to believe that I was able to do amazing things. And then—suddenly that board looked a lot less ________ I kicked with everything I had and it worked.

【推荐1】A gentleman lost his family when young. He was homeless and went to the local _________ every day. Although the church never let him in, they left one of the windows _________ so he could hear Mass(弥撒曲). It gave him _________ and comfort. Many times we would bring him into our home for a hot shower, or a hot meal. Those were the times when his eyes lit up, almost like he _________everything he was going through.

Every winter I would get nervous for him and other _________ people. I would take blankets(毯子) and gloves to hand out. It never felt like _________. This winter was the _________. One night, concerned about our friend, I headed out with warm food and extra blankets. I found our friend’s _________ but didn’t hear a sound. Worried, I opened the tent and was _________ by what I saw. Another elder gentleman that was new to town was sleeping __________ under a pile of blankets. Our friend had __________ him with all of the blankets to keep him __________. Our friend sacrificed(牺牲) himself so another fellow human could __________ a cold night.

Our friend was buried in our local cemetery(墓地). The only people that __________ were our town’s few homeless people, my husband, my dogs and me. No matter how many blankets I buy, it will never be enough, but it’s __________. The whole society should make efforts.

【推荐2】After graduation I managed to work at a news organization .As I was new to the world of ___________ , I was often sent to finish ___________assignments, but I was eager to ___________ myself in tough things. All I wanted was to make a ___________ impression on my seniors.

I ___________a senior colleague named Joy to let me follow him to his meeting with a major leader. Joy ___________ me with recording the process on tape. It was simple, but I was ___________. I would learn a little about how interviews were done.

After we got back to the office, Joy asked me to ___________ the tapes for editing. To my ___________, they were all blank! Was this going to cost me my job? Tears welled up in my eyes, with my hands ____________. I didn’t know how I’d face Joy. He had ____________ me, and I’d let him down. I could imagine him angry at my ____________and asking me to leave.

When Joy ____________ and asked me for the tapes, I ____________ and cried, apologetic and embarrassed. “I think I saved them, but...” I said. However, Joy, with a lot of ____________as a journalist, had strange ____________on his face. He sat down and looked me in the eye. “You have to make ____________to learn how you can do the job better next time, right?” he smiled.

I stared at Joy____________. He taught me the most important lesson in my life: Mistakes are ____________, and what we learn from them is what ____________the course of our success.

【推荐3】When Anika Puri visited India with her family years ago, she was surprised to come across a market in Bombay filled with rows of ivory jewelry (象牙饰品) and statues. _________, ivory trade has been illegal for more than 30 years, and elephant hunting has been___________India since the 1970s.

“I was quite ___________ ,” the 17-year-old recalls. “Because poaching (偷猎) is illegal, how come it is still such a big issue? ”

Curious, Puri did some research and discovered a shocking___________: Africa’s forest elephant population had ___________by about 62 percent between 2002 and 2011. Years later, the numbers continued to drop. Puri, a wildlife lover, wanted to do something to help protect the species and others still___________by poaching.

Over the course of two years, Puri___________EISa, a low-cost product of a machine learning-driven software that___________movement patterns in thermal infrared (热红外) videos of humans and___________. The software is four times more____________than the existing most advanced uses a $250 FLIRONE Pro thermal camera with 206 *resolution (分辨率) that plugs into an off-the-shelf iPhone 6. The camera and iPhone are then____________to a drone (无人机), and the system____________real-time inferences as it flies over parks as to whether____________below are humans or elephants.

Its potential impact on society earned her the Peggy Scripps Award for Science Communication. “____________isn’t a straight line,” Puri says. “It makes me resourceful. It helps me____________a more creative thinker.”