【推荐2】Fee was asleep inside his tent last summer when a series of screams awoke him. _________ on his shoes and seizing a lantern his wife had handed him, he rushed out to investigate. _________the darkness, Fee could make out a neighboring tent. There, _________was a wolf, dragging something in his teeth. It was a (an) _________.

_________ earlier, Elisa and Matt, from New Jersey, were _________ with their two young children when the wolf tore into their _________. It was like something out of a horror movie. For three minutes, Matt threw his body in front of Elisa and the boys and _________ the wolf. At one point, Matt got the better of the wolf, pinning it to the ground. But the fierce wolf _________ its sharp teeth deep into Matt's arm, set its __________ legs and began tugging Matt outside while Elisa was pulling on the wolf's legs __________ to get him back.

It was then that Fee entered the __________. He ran at the beast, kicking it in the hip(屁股). The wolf __________ Matt and emerged(出现) from the tent. So __________ was the wolf that Fee felt like he had hit someone that was beyond his weight class.

Before the wolf could turn its __________ on Fee, Matt, whose arms were bleeding, __________ out of the tent to resume (恢复)the battle. The two men __________ threw rocks and anything else they could get at the wolf and eventually forced it back. Elisa called a (an) __________ and Matt was taken to a local hospital.

Matt has fully recovered. As for Fee, he __________ later, "The moment the wolf locked eyes with me, I immediately regretted __________ it."

【推荐3】I was so worried about handing my little boy over during his first week of school, but Miss Anna made it easier. Miss Anna smiled at him like a mother would at her own child. Miss Anna radiated (流露) warmth and her hugs were always on _________.

After a day in class with her, Ben would come home _________. Whenever I heard his song about the days of the week, I would _________ her. I didn’t tell her at the time, but I loved her morning song so much that I _________ it in my own class.

Her creativity was _________. I’ll never forget the children’s faces when she beautifully _________ the classroom into “the Deep Dark Wood”. I remember their _________ faces talking about “the Magnificent Tower Building” she’d created.

In the short time I knew her, she taught me about the type of teacher I am _________ to be. She never seemed _________ by the mountain of paperwork or impossible work-life balance that comes with the __________. Instead, she appeared to __________ every minute.

I can’t understand why she has been taken from us. Telling Ben was one of the __________ things I’ve had to do. I’m not sure whether he fully __________ where she is. I hope everything she taught him about the place where good people go when they die is __________.

I wish I had told her all of this when she was with us. I hope that she knew the extent of her __________, and how loved she was.

【推荐2】I will never forget the lunchtime when I was in the second grade. I had been ______ to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had practiced my ______ with me word by word. But no matter how easily I ______ at home, as soon as I stepped onstage, every word ______ from my head.

Finally, my teacher took me aside. She explained that she had created a narrator’s (叙述者) ______ to the play, and asked me to ______ as another role. When I got home for lunch that day, I started to cry as I told my mother what had happened. She listened and smiled encouragingly. Instead of having lunch, she asked if I wanted to walk in the yard.

It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine (藤) was turning green. Under the trees, we could see yellow dandelions (蒲公英) ______ out of the grass in bunches, ______ a painter had touched our landscape with drops of gold. I watched my mother ______ bend down by one of the flowers. “I think I’m going to dig up all these weeds,” she said, ______ a dandelion hard by its roots. “From now on, we’ll have only roses in this garden.”

“But I like dandelions,” I ______. “All flowers are beautiful---even dandelions.” My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower gives ______ in its own way, doesn’t it?” She asked thoughtfully. I nodded, ______ that I had won her over. “And that is ______ of people too.” she ______. “Not everyone can be a princess, but there is no ______ in that.”

“But you will be a beautiful narrator,” she said, ______ me of how much I loved to read stories aloud to her as a child “The narrator’s part is ______ as important as the part of a princess.”

____ the next few weeks, with her constant ______, I learned to take pride in the role.

【推荐3】In 2014, my boyfriend left me. What made it_______was that he decided to end our relationship in December, weeks_______ both my birthday and Christmas.

Dad sent me some money for the_______ to cheer me up. With it, I could have done many_______ things, such as adding it to my saving account, but I didn't_______,I bought myself French cooking lessons. I’d go to the lessons every_______ morning, and our little group, 12 of us,would listen sleepily to_______ of different recipes. Afterwards, we would _______ with another student and try to make our dishes together, which usually_______ to please anyone else.

Each week, the same faces would________ to embarrass ourselves before the professional chefs and cook something that________ looked like French dishes. Although the classes didn't turn me into a ________, they, as a matter of fact, gave me a ________ to talk to people who weren’t co-workers or friends, helping me________about my self-pity. It gave me a( n)________ to take it easy on a Friday night, and get out of the house________ on a Saturday morning.

The world can sometimes feel very cold and cruel, so we' d remember to ________ ourselves, every once in a while.

I'll always be________ to the few classes that I took. At a time when I was feeling so sad, it cheered me up to be________   and "irresponsible". And________ I still don' t know how to prepare a French recipe properly, I'm still glad I got to eat, drink and laugh with all those friendly people.

【推荐1】The pandemic has greatly changed the landscape of education. But that never _________ one brilliant girl’s resolve to reach for the stars.   

While most teens are tackling the challenges of middle school, Alena Wicker, has already

_________ her high school diploma. After virtually learning in a long-term program, she is   _________ to attend Arizona State University this summer. There, she will major in astronomical science and chemistry to _________ her dream of working at NASA where she hopes to _________ her extraordinary skills to build spacecraft after graduation. _________ she wanted to be an astronomer, but then she switched over to engineering.   

Alena’s space journey began with her early _________ for Lego (乐高), with which she’s always played since she was 4. So far, she’s built _________ of everything from the Taj Mahal to NASA rockets.   

She was always amused at her Lego pieces, and if you _________ her Lego pieces, it would be easy for her to put them together. This genius also had remarkable __________ in other aspects of life. Seeing the __________ of opportunities in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields for women, Alena wanted to make a change. She has __________ a website to encourage other girls with __________ interests to focus on the STEM fields. Alena hopes to set an example for other girls — never let the long-established concept keep us from __________ the course of our own life. “It doesn’t matter what you’re planning to do,” she said. “Go for it, and then __________ it.”

【推荐2】A school bus driver returned to college to become a high school history teacher, thanks to some ______________ students．

Clayton Ward is a history lover, and as such, ______________ the time he'd spend chatting with students about their history classes as he ______________ them to and from school．

"After several of these discussions, some of the students would tell me they wanted me to be their ______________," he said．"That small mention from those kids…it ______________ me and gave me the motivation to complete a goal I had started years ago．"

______________, Ward went to college after his high school graduation; but after a year, he had to leave and soon started driving buses．But he still valued ______________, and talking with the students on the bus route renewed his sense of passion for expanding and teaching young minds．

Ward enrolled（注册）at a community college in May 2019, and ______________ to take his classes full time while also still driving his bus．

"It wasn't always ______________．I would drive my route in the morning and afternoon, take classes in between shifts and take night classes," he said．"I would think of those students and all the years I wanted to make this happen, and it helped me focus my energy．"

"You wouldn't think that kids can do something like that, to give me the _______________ and ambition to go back to school," Ward said．"It's kind of crazy that such a small thing can make such an impact on your life．"