【推荐2】Invited to Kim’s graduation ceremony, my wife and I had our two kids with us there. The crowded auditorium (会堂)was filled with people ________ themselves with their speech drafts, who were in ________ of the calling of their names. Each graduate walked across the stage to receive this piece of paper that ________ his or her academic accomplishment.

Kim looked up at us and was trying to control the tears, but in ________. She was not doing a good job of it. ________ emotions is not something that Kim does very well. There she was, ________ in line, prepared to receive her diploma. There was a good ________, but to me it was as if she had been standing in front of me. That simple act of gently rubbing the tears of ________ and looking up at those loved ones really ________ me.

“Kimberly Anne Conway, graduating magna cum laude（以优异成绩）” was ________ over the auditorium’s sound system. She walked ________ across the huge stage and received this piece of paper, the ________ of her effort. I glanced at my wife and saw tears roll gently down as the ________ she had for her sister showed itself on her face.

Kim is not a(n) ________ college graduate. She is 38 years old, and has made an effort, ________ for the past four years. She attended college while working full-time, and ________ to obtain the college degree. Many times she felt like ________, and she would have done so without the ________ from other students.

Everyone in the auditorium was ________ by Kim that day. And I want Kim to know that I have the greatest________ for her.

【推荐3】I wrote my first novel when I was 22. It was a mess. I didn't know how to properly make a dialogue or _________ a plot. Those were all _________ I planned to work out later. I gave the book to my father to read, and within a day he left me a voice mail saying that it was _________ and that I was going to sell it for $300, 000.

_________ , and rather quickly, the book was refused by every publisher in New York. If there were a literary prize for Most Rejections (拒绝), I would have won it. I was _________ , of course, but I knew better than to _________ - writing wasn't an easy job, and if this book wasn't my ticket in, maybe the next one would be. I got back to work.

But the same thing happened again: I wrote books *** and then they wouldn't _________ . Still, my father's faith in me never shook, even _________ I worked a host of other jobs. Some of the jobs, like being a bookseller, were great and _________ to my writing life. Some, like selling overpriced jeans to 12 - year - olds, were only good as far as they were material for future __________ . And they were - because it finally __________ . I sold a book !

I completely agree with a motivational speaker and author John Maxwell's worlds, “Successful and unsuccessful people do not __________ greatly in their abilities but in their desire to reach their potential.” Life's not __________ . It never was, it isn't now, it won't ever be. But do not fall into the trap of feeling you are a loser, you are not. Get over it and __________ with it. And yes, most things are more __________ when you break a sweat to them.

【推荐1】Scottsdale was a typical American suburb in the 1950s, with children going to each other’s houses to play, or riding their bikes around the neighbourhood. But for Steven Spielberg none of these “normal” activities were very excitmg. Instead he made his own entertainment, like the time he _______ his younger sisters that he had a dead body in his bedroom and almost frightened them to death.

When Steven was about seven years o1d, he developed a _______ for television, despite the _______ his parents made to control the children’s viewing. His father_______ placed hair on the television “ON” switch to know when Steven watched TV. But Steven would _______ its position and replace it after watching hours of television.

A chance finally came for Steven to _______ his ability to entertain with his enthusiasm for television. When his father received a movie camera for Father’s Day, the movies he took, according to Steven, were _______. Annoyed by his son’s_______ criticism (批评), he gave the camera to Steven.

Steven proved to be a(an) _______ with the camera and quickly made several films using his own toys as the performers. His parents were __________ by how life-like they were and so he began a magnificent movie career.

【推荐2】You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. ________ they only fight with their fists. But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes ________ until one of the men crashes ________ a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead! ________ he isn’t really dead. With ________ luck he isn’t even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars of even ________ fire, are professionals. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they ________ tricks. There are two ________ to their work. They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not fall on to hard ground but on to ________ cardboard boxes covered with a mattress. Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they break windows, the glass is made of sugar! But although their work depend on trick of this sort, it also requires a high ________ of skill and training. Often a stuntman’s success depends on careful ________. For example, when he is “________ up” in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.

Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously injured, and sometimes killed A Norwegian stuntman, ________, skied over the ________ of a cliff a thousand feet high. His parachute failed to open, and he was killed. In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a profession for men only. Men no longer ________ as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action For nowadays there are stuntgirls too.

【推荐3】Kids who live a happy childhood dream about what they will be when they grow up. But less____kids, who live in poverty, sometimes wonder why they were born in the first place.

Children like these ____ Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's new film Capernau(《何以为家》),which arrived in Chinese mainland____ on April 29 , 2019.

In the slums (贫民窟)of Beirut, Lebanon's capital, Labaki saw kids selling gum or flowers or ____carrying heavy gas tanks. Some of them were alone on the street , unfed and __

One of these kids told her, "I don't know ____I was born if no one is going to love me, if no one is going to ____ me before I go to sleep, or if Fm going to be beaten up every day. ”

This is how Capernaum begins: A 12-year-old boy named Zain9 who lives in one of Beirut's slums, charges his parents for giving ____ to him, even though, he says, they knew they couldn't ____ him.

Capernaum is fictional but ifs as ____ as it gets. There are no ____actors in this film. Zain, for example, is __ by a boy with the same name, a Syrian refugee (难民)called Zain Al Rafeea. He had never slept in a ____ before the film, or gone to schooL He didn't even have papers to ____ he was a human being --just like his character in the film.

By making the film, Labaki wanted to "become the voice of these kids",, according to The Guardian. The voice is being heard. It ran first at Cannes Film Festival in May, 2018, and ___ the Jury Prize. Soon after the festival, under the ___of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Zain and his family got the chance to resettle in Norway. They now live in a house by the sea, and Zain is going to schooL

When Labaki told The New York Times that she wanted the film "to go beyond the borders of just being a film” and be "a ____ for help" , she wasn't ____ how big an impact it would have. “I might never get anywhere, but ____ I want to try," she said.

But she has certainly gone somewhere indeed 一 to say the least, the real-life Zain isnow able to ____ his future.

【推荐2】I was twelve, dependent on Mom. She raised me alone and except when I was at school, we were almost always together.

As a _______ she left at 5:45 a.m, leaving me _______ for waking myself up, fixing breakfast, and walking to the 7: 30 a.m. bus.

I _______ being left home alone in the mornings, especially having to take the bus. Once I _______ it, and I wasn't only late to school, but _______ Mom to struggle to find someone to drive me. After that I was so worried that I left _______ every day to make the half-mile walk. Before the other kids arrived, 1 _______ by myself in painful pre-teen _______ as commuters (通勤者) drove by.

One day as we walked through town, an older man _______ us. He suddenly broke into a wide smile, calling my mother's name. But l didn't ________ him.

“Hello," she responded.“How are you feeling?"

"Couldn't be better! This must be your daughter, right?"

"Yes." She replied.

“Nice to meet you. How ________ you are!"

I looked at him ________ with no idea what he was talking about.

"You have the most wonderful mother. When I was in the ________, she took the best care of me. I shall never ________ her."

I watched this stranger’s ________ in Mom. He kept thanking her.

Right then it dawned on me what it all ________ for Mom to do her job--serving and loving strangers often during their ________ times. I constantly witnessed someone ________ Mom, but it was the first time I had ________ why l stood at he bus stop every morning. My mom was a nurse; she ________ other people and me, too. I am not lucky. I am blessed.