【推荐1】The day before my daughter’s sixth birthday, the entire family was busy packing presents. I _______ my little princess that I would wake her up early the next morning and hand out the presents to her _______.

I woke up at 5:30. After taking a _______, I planned to wake her up but as I came out from the bathroom, I realized that an earthquake _______. I screamed to wake my husband and my daughter up. We rushed out of our house. Outside we watched our house _______. It lasted for 3 minutes. The house remained _______ some cracks (裂缝) appeared on the walls.

Despite the _______ earthquake, my daughter and I went to her school at 8:00 as planned but no one was there except the teacher, who _______ us to go back as a tsunami (海啸) might come soon. On the way home I heard a policeman cry out loud, “Stay _______! No tsunami!”

At home, I ________ about the presents: to whom should we deliver them? After some discussion with my family, I decided to give them to the children in a nearby ________. Upon getting there, I was really shocked. There were hundreds of injured people waiting for treatment.

A boy ________ with a bandage (绷带) on his head. He looked at me with a(n) ________ look as if asking, “Could I have one?” ________ I handed over one present to him. He took it happily and ran to his mom, shouting, “Mommy… a toy car!” Never would I forget his shining eyes! I was happy that our presents could bring a little ________ to those suffering from a disaster.

【推荐3】My community and state are still recovering from the catastrophe that hit recently. A wall of storms with hurricane force winds_______late on a Friday evening, knocking down trees,_______roads, damaging homes, and destroying power lines.

Hundreds of thousands of people_______found themselves in the_______without water, electricity, air conditioning, telephones, Internet, and television. They found themselves cut_______from the modern world bearing 37℃plus heat with no help and no idea_______it would be over.

The most amazing thing happened,_________,as the reality of the crisis sank in：it brought out the best in us. While there were a few_________acts, they were overwhelmed(淹没) by the wave of_______and sympathy that came from the hearts of so many.

People shared their food, ice, and gasoline. People who still had power opened their homes to those who had________.People________to clear roads and homes of________trees. Selfless power crews worked around the clock to repair the damage and restore electricity.

People________on front porches(门廊) to talk. Strangers came together as one family to help one another in this time of great need. It was such a(an) ________seeing all these people acting like this under such tough circumstances.

Life's________strike all of us from time to time. No one is________We all get hurt. We all get challenged. We all get squeezed by________during our days here. How we respond to them, though, is________us. We can let them bring out the ________in us or we can let them bring out the best in us. We can react to them like demons of selfishness or like angels of love.

May you always bring the best from your heart and soul to whatever life may________at you then.

【推荐1】Face Blindness

When encountering new people, the first thing we notice about is their faces. The next time we see these people, we remember them because we remember their faces. This seems like a simple _________ . It turns out, however, that when scientists investigated the brain, they found that face recognition is rather complicated. The _________ of the brain that is responsible for face recognition seems to work differently for different people. Some people have great difficulty remembering and recognizing faces, while others almost never forget a face.

Normal babies are born with a _________ ability to recognize faces. In fact, their face recognition abilities are much better than their parents. For example, most adults can easily recognize faces that _________ their own. However, they cannot easily recognize faces of people of different races. At six months, babies are highly _________ at face recognition. But by nine months, their face-recognition skills are about the same as an adult’s.

_________ , some people are not born with this ability to recognize faces. The part of the brain that is responsible for face recognition doesn’t work for them. This _________ is called prosopagnosia, or “face blindness”. People with very serious face blindness cannot even recognize their own faces. In fact, people with this status can sometimes be frightened when they look in the mirror. They don’t recognize their own face, so for a second they are startled when they see this _________ face.

Face blindness is not always _________ . Some people only have difficulty recognizing faces of people they don’t know very well. Scientists believe up to 10 percent of the population may be affected by face blindness to some degree, __________ many people with mild face blindness might not even know they have it. They have no reason to know that they are different from anyone else __________ someone points it out.

Scientists became aware of another face-recognition case in the process of researching face blindness. They found that there are also “super recognizers” who remember every face they have ever seen. For these people, it is not __________ to forget faces. Super recognizer Jennifer Jarrett says, “It’s as if their faces are __________ in my brain.” Many super recognizers don’t just recognize faces they have seen before. They know exactly where they last saw that person.

Super recognizers don’t usually feel that they have a problem. Most people with __________ to serious face blindness, on the other hand, do. There is no cure for face blindness, therefore, for the time being, people with face blindness need to find simple techniques to __________ for their problem. They can try to recognize people by their hairstyle, their voice, or their glasses. Hopefully, in the future as scientists learn more about this situation, they will find a cure.

【推荐2】The 600-year-old Forbidden City is the world's largest palace. It _______ more than 17 million _______ in 2018. If we were to travel back to the past, this huge palace would be a _______ to us with a lot remaining to be discovered.

It was when all _______ in Beijing were low except for the Forbidden City, which was surrounded by high _______ and a wide moat (护城河). After _______ the golden roof from the outside, people could only imagine what it looked like inside.

_______ an area of about 720,000 square meters in the heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City was built from 1406 to 1420 by the third _______ of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, the Forbidden City was where the highest power of the country laid. Emperors were born, lived, fought and _______ there. Various historical events happened there. It saw the ups and downs of the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as how feudal monarchy (封建帝制) ________ came to an end in China.

The lives of the royal families were ________ through many documents. They ________ a large amount of valuable material for today's historical ________, as well as inspiration for literature and entertainment.

In 1987, the Forbidden City was ________ as the World Cultural Heritage. For the heads of state who come to visit China, it is a must-see tourist ________. When they pay a state visit to China, our top leader may show them around there.

【推荐3】In the United States, there have been few deaths from commercial airline accidents since 2013. In fact, for decades, there has been a general_________trend in the number of accidents per departure.

Complex systems are more likely to suffer from failures, but commercial aviation (航空) seems to be a(n) _________. Since the 1960s, US commercial aviation has become significantly more complex, and yet, flying has become safer. What lies behind this remarkable trend is a handful of smart approaches to_________. Here are two of them.

Teach people to speak up—and to listen

A common error during aeroplane accidents used to be the_________of first officers to question the captain's poor decisions. When the captain was flying the aeroplane, he was hard to challenge, and his mistakes went_________

All this began to change in the late 1970s with a training programme known as Crew Resource Management (CRM). The programme revolutionized the_________not just of the cockpit (机舱) but also of the whole industry. It reframed safety as a_________issue and put all crew members on more equal footing. It was no longer_________to question the decisions of a superior; it was required. And CRM taught crew members the language of disagreement.

The lesson isn't simply that people lower down in the_________should speak up and higher-ups should listen. What CRM has shown is that people can be taught to speak up and to listen. The ability to express and embrace__________isn't hard-wired in our personality or cultural background; it's a skill we can learn.

Learn from small failures and close calls

In 1976, the US Federal Aviation Administration created an industry-wide system to collect safety reports. The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) collects thousands of reports each month. Beyond receiving immunity (豁免权) for a mistake, it's a point of__________for pilots to submit ASRS reports. They know the reports make air travel safer. The reports are stored in a searchable database that anyone can__________, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) highlights safety trends in its monthly newsletter, CALLBACK.

Here, too, there is a__________lesson. Small mistakes and near misses can be a rich source of data about what might__________in our system. Mistakes shouldn't be__________. By openly sharing stories of failures and near failures, we can treat errors as an opportunity to learn.