【推荐1】A Colorado pair brings new meaning to the word “determination”. When one couldn’t walk and the other couldn’t see, they _______ up to share their love of the great outdoors.

Melanie Knecht has to use a wheelchair to get around due to born spina bifida (脊柱裂). Trevor Hahn only recently became blind after he _______ an eye disease five years ago. Both living in Fort Collins, Colorado, the two met at an adaptive boxing class — and they soon ran into each other again at an adaptive rock-climbing class.

They immediately _______ over Knecht’s lifelong hobby of camping and Hahn’s passion for outdoor sports. When she told him about her recent trip to Easter Island, where she got the _______ to be carried on another person’s back, an unusual idea occurred to her.

_______ his lost sight, he’d been able to scale a Himalayan peak, using poles and _______ directions from his companions.

They started small, but next month — with her vision and his _______— they will trek to the top of a 14,000-foot mountain.

“It just seemed like common sense. He’s the legs, I’m the eyes! _______, we’re the dream team.” said Knecht.

At the start of each hike, a friend lifts Knecht _______ a carrier on Hahn’s back. From that point on, she gives him oral directions to lead the way.

Hahn said, “It made me so happy to help someone experience what I’ve been able to experience my whole life. The best part is being able to make her smile — that gives me ________.”

In addition to this sense of purpose, the two share an understanding of how ________ it can be asking able-bodied or sighted people for assistance in everyday life. They get immeasurable ________ from being able to do this on their own.

While the two accept that others ________ what they’ve been able to do, they’re not looking for ________— they just want others to encourage solutions for their friends with disabilities. Don’t ________ them because you think they won’t be able to do something.

【推荐3】As I walked along the Edgware Road, I felt as if the _________ was closing to me. All the sounds I take for granted had gone. I had entered into a world of _________ . This unsetting experience _________ a few weeks ago when I agreed to "go deaf for a day" to support the work of the charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, for _________ I am an ambassador.

When I managed to take a cab to take me to the office of my manager, Gavin, I couldn't hear _________ the taxi driver was saying to me. Conversation was _________ . Then, when I reached the office, I had to ring the intercom five times as I couldn't hear a response.

Everybody said I was _________ them—I simply wasn't _________ the volume of my own voice. Gavin kept telling me my   _________ was ringing, but I didn't realize. I was too busy trying to concentrate on __________ his lips. And when he tried to tell me a code to type in my phone, I had to keep asking him to repeat it, __________ . Eventually he lost his __________ and snapped at me, "Just give me the phone!" I was shocked.

People couldn't __________ to repeat themselves, so they kept trying to do things for me that I was perfectly capable of doing myself. I felt I had __________ .

Being deaf for a day was extraordinarily __________ . I had to work so hard to "listen" with my __________ , get people's attention and use my other __________ to make up for my lack of hearing. It was a huge, exhausting effort.

Until that experience I didn't __________ how much I took my own hearing for granted, or the sorts of emotions and experiences deaf people __________ . If a __________ person asks you to repeat something, never say," It doesn't matter. "It does matter.

【推荐2】A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill. Usually she _______ play in the small garden. She could see over the garden fence and across the valley a wonderful house with shining golden windows high on another hill. _______ she loved her parents and her family, she desired (渴望) to live in such a house and _______ all day about how wonderful and exciting _______ must feel to live there.

At the age when she gained (获得) some _______skill and sensibility (识别力), she _______ her mother for a bike ride _______ the garden. Her mother finally allowed her to go, _______ her keeping close to the house and not _______ too far. The day was beautiful. The little girl knew ________ where she was heading! ________ the hill and across the valley, she rode to the ________ of the golden house.

________ she got off her bike and put it against the gate post, she focused on the path (小路) ________ to the house and then on the house itself. She was very disappointed (失望) when she ________ that all the windows were ________ and rather dirty.

So ________ and heart­-broken, she didn’t go any further. She ________ and all of a sudden she saw an amazing (令人惊奇的)________. There on the other side of the valley was a little house and its windows were golden. Looking at her little home, she ________ that she had been living in her golden house filled with love and care. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her nose!

【推荐3】John Carpenter didn’t like to buy toys. He liked the fun of _______ them himself. The thought that they were his own works _______ him.

Tom, one of his playmates, thought a toy was worth nothing _______ it cost a great deal of money. “Come and look at my horse, ” said Tom, one day. “It _______ a dollar,   and it is such a beauty! ” John was soon _______ his friend’s horse, and he was examining it _______ to see how it was made. The same evening he tried to make a _______ one for himself. He went into the wood shed and _______ two pieces of wood — one for the head of his horse, the other for the body. It took him two or three days to shape them to his _______. But what about the wheels? This ________ him. With great efforts, he finally got some ________ pieces of wood which could suit his ________. He ran to his friend Tom to show his great work.

“You made it yourself! Oh, well, it’s a good horse for you to make. But it is not as good as mine. Mine cost a ________, and yours didn’t cost anything, ” said Tom.

“It was real fun to make it, though, ” said John, and away he ran with his horse ________ after him.  

Does it really cost nothing and all his efforts are ________? Of course not, I will tell you. John Carpenter now is a master workman, and will soon have a shop of his own.