【推荐1】Although no one in my family was in nursing，my grandmother whom I respected worked at St.Vincent’s hospital in New York city.My family and I often   _____   the hospital to see her and came to   _____   the wonderful hospital staff as our extended   _____.

When the time came for me to decide upon a school to study nursing，my only   _____   was St.Vincent’s School of Nursing.After my graduation I chose to work in the   _____   hospital as my grandmother._____ I had to face so much blood and so many wounds，I never felt   _____   for my decision.

Every time in my life while others are beginning to “_____”，I am still moving “fast forward”．I _____ find new ambitions within my nursing career.I have developed a true   ______   for writing about nursing or topics related to nursing，teaching in the Master’s Program at the university and now I have a new plan，which is to     ______   my pursuit of a doctoral degree soon.

My passion for the nursing job   ______   to have rubbed off on my family as well.My daughter has   ______     that she will go to study   ______   next year when she goes to college.She has had several personal ______   with the medical and nursing profession when she was younger and would also like to follow in her mom’s footsteps.I   ______   her it would be great to   ______   her own footprints along the way as there are so many opportunities to     ______   from in the field of nursing.

Now my children feel a(n)   ______   connection to the wonderful hospital staff that have become their extended family.I’m so   ______   with my job choice.

【推荐2】Scientists find that hardworking people live longer than average men and women. Career women are _________ than housewives. Evidence shows that the _________ are in poorer health than the job-holders. A study shows ___________ the unemployment rate increases by 1%, the death rate _________ correspondingly (相应地) by 2%. All this comes down to one point: work is _________ to health.

Why is work good for health? It is _________ work keeps people busy, away from loneliness and solitude (孤独). Researches show that people feel _________, worried and lonely when they have nothing to do. Instead, the happiest are those who are _________. Many high achievers who love their careers feel that they are happiest when working hard. Work serves as a _________ between man and reality. By work, people __________ each other. By collective (集体的) activity, they find friendship and warmth. This is helpful to health. The loss of work __________ the loss of everything. It affects (影响) man spiritually and makes him liable to (易于) __________.

__________, work gives one a sense of achievement (成就感). Work makes one feel his __________ and status in society. When a __________ finishes his writing or a doctor successfully __________ a patient or a teacher sees his students __________, all of them will be happy beyond __________.

From the above we can __________ the conclusion (结论) that the more you __________, the happier and healthier you will be. Let us work hard, study well and live a happy and healthy life.

【推荐3】About 30 years ago, Marie Roth taught a painting class. When some of her ______ expressed an interest in purchasing her works, she turned painting into a profession.

She’s 70 now, an age when many folks are starting to be ______ on the sofa in front of the TV. But ______ are if there’s a (n)______ barn (谷仓) coming down somewhere in northeastern Illinois, Marie will be there. Wearing leather gloves, Marie will pick through the piles of wood and ______ pieces that, as she describes, “whisper” to her. She’ll remove the ______ boards to her home, where she’ll ______ them and allow them to dry out before ______ the pieces together and gluing them into place. But it’s only when Marie ______ painting them in the eye-catching, beautiful colors loved by every American that it becomes clear what she’s ______. From the broken-down barns, she constructs fine wooden reproductions of the American ______.

“The wood is continually ______ by animals, or sometimes nailed and hammered by humans,” she said. “Recently, I had a piece of wood from the floor of a barn that was ______ by hooves (蹄子). I used it to paint flags from the Civil War era—the marks made me ______ all those brave soldiers.”

Marie comes by her love of barn wood ______ because her father is a carpenter. She painted her first flag on a shipping pallet (托盘) more than 30 years ago. The old pallet, she ______, “______ looked like a flag.”

The self-taught artist paints American flags ______ she is really good at drawing straight lines. Creating art is ______ she has to do. She sometimes ______ that she hopes one day she dies with a paintbrush in her hand.

【推荐1】“I am leaving home.” When Timmy, my 10-year-old son eagerly announced that he couldn’t wait to ______, the feeling of guilt peaked as I tried to figure out the ______. “So, I can get a dog,” he stressed.

But I stayed ______ — we didn’t need a dog to complete our life — and he gave up. Until the day I ______ Timmy, with his brother, discussing his moving plan. Suddenly, the situation ______: gain a dog or ______ a child. I felt my determination______. “We can look into it,” I replied doubtfully, but the kind of dog we wanted cost a (n)______ $ 1, 000! Yes, love had a price. I ______ for thought, again.

I shared my present ______with my friend whose love for dogs was quite sensible. He ______ me to his pet keeper friend who got a pregnant dog and the baby dogs were due soon.

A few days later, we took a surprise trip to the countryside when the little dogs were ______. I would admit that all my previous ______ reappeared after watching a group of blind things, but it was too late. Among screams of ______, we chose one of the little dogs as ours.

We attempt to ______ our kids in a healthy way — I didn’t realize the added dimension (方面) of love and ______ that a dog would teach my kids. On a hot day, Timmy cut short his outing to ______ if Odie, the dog, had enough water. When Odie was sick, my elder son made fresh soup and ______ fed it to him.

My children no longer talk about leaving home ______ there is the troublesome issue of who will take the dog. They quietly learn how to give and receive love. If having a dog means linking my children even closer together, it will be a mother’s prayer_______.

【推荐2】Skateboarding in Syria

Skateboarding has been my life since I was 8 years old. Before I knew how to stand up, I would sit on my cousin's board and ______ down the hills of Caceres, my hometown in Spain.

Being at university, I ______ Skate Aid, an organization that builds skate parks for children in ______ communities. I always want to make a ______ impact on the world, and if there were a way to do that through ______, I would be there,

I got a call in early 2019 that the next ______ would be in Syria. I was ______ .We flew to Lebanon and drove to Damascus. We ______ at checkpoints every few minutes, and all the men I could see were______. Our ______ was Qudsaya, a city near Damascus. Damage from the war was everywhere: roads were cracked and buildings were ______ with holes from shooting.

We built a skate park in an area that had been largely ______, except for a small structure where a family was living. The mother was so ______, bringing us tea and coffee every morning.

It took 28 days to build Syria's first skate park. The kids ______ watched us skating. When we ______ the bowl, I put them on a board one by one, and they were ______ amazed by the feeling of rolling. One boy was a(n) ______ ; he who had never skated before, but within a week he was already skating well.

We stayed for two months. I ______ the kids, and they send me videos of the ______ they've learned. When we left, there were 400 children going to the ______ every day.