【推荐1】My high school is one that sets the stage for students to explore new aspects of life. I myself went through this ______ process and found ASL—American Sign Language（美式手语）.

The ______ began during my first week at college. I watched as the ASL Club ______ their translation of a song. Both the hand movements and the very _____   of communicating without speaking ______ me. What I saw was completely unlike ______ I had experienced in the past. This newness just left me ______ more.

After that, feeling the need to ______ further, I decided to drop in on one of ASL club's meetings. I only learned how to ______ A to Z that day. Yet instead of being ______ by my slow progress, I was excited. I then made it a point to ______ those meetings and learn all I could.

The following term, I ______ an ASL class. The professor was deaf and any talking was ______ . I soon realized that the silence was not ______ . Instead, if there had been any talking, it would have ______ us to learn less. Now, I appreciate the silence and the new way of communication it opens.

A terrible fever made Anne Sullivan nearly lose her eyesight in her childhood, and the doctors said she was a hopelessly mad girl. She had been_______in the basement of a mental hospital (精神病医院) in Boston. Sometimes, little Annie ______hit anyone who came near to her. She ignored everyone who appeared in front of her most of the time.

However, an old nurse ________that little Annie had hope. She went to_______little Annie every day. The child ignored her in most cases, but the old nurse ________stopped seeing her every day in the basement. The_________lady left cookies for little Annie and spoke words full of encouragement to her. She believed that as long as she showed__________, little Annie could get better. Finally, the doctors noticed the_______in little Annie. They moved her upstairs and her condition continued_______.Then her last day there came, and the child who seemed to be “_________” went out of the locked door of the mental hospital.

After she grew up, Anne Sullivan hoped to__________others, just as the kind old nurse helped her. She became the________of Helen Keller. She_______her, trained her strictly and worked with her________she lit the candle that brought________to the whole world. Anne Sullivan________a miracle (奇迹) in the life of Helen Keller. But first it was a kind nurse who had full________in little Annie that turned a(n) _________ child into a great teacher.

If there had been no Anne Sullivan, the name of Helen Keller would not be________But if there hadn’t been a________who kept showing love, Anne Sullivan wouldn’t be known to the world, either.

【推荐2】Like every new father, Bryan Shaw enjoyed taking pictures of his son, Noah. When Noah was about three months old, Shaw noticed something _______. The flash on their digital camera created the typical red spot in the center of Noah’s left eye, but a white spot in the right eye. After a series of _______, doctors told them bad news: It was cancer (癌症), and Noah’s right eye couldn’t be _______.

The disease is treatable if caught _______. Bryan Shaw couldn’t help but _______   whether there were _______ he’d missed. He went back over every baby picture of Noah he could find and discovered the first white _______ in a photo taken when Noah was 12 days old. As time went on, it appeared more _______. It was too _______ for Noah’s eye, but Bryan was ________ to do something. He created a database that charted (绘制) the cancer’s ________ in every photo. He also collected photos and the data from eight other children with the same disease.

________ that data, he began to ________ a smartphone app that can be used to search for white eye. Called White Eye Detector, it is now for free in Apple’s App Store.

“I just kept telling myself, I really need to do this,” Bryan told People. “This disease is tough to ________. Not only could this software save ________, but it can save lives.”

【推荐3】My nephew Tyden and I were attending another nephew’s birthday at a local amusement center, Tyden won quantities of _______ for scoring points on the games, so we went to _______ them in and select his prizes. I was feeling nostalgia (怀旧) because my loved one and I had our first date at this center and had _________ little decorations from the showcase. I noticed a lion and _______ my partner loves them. I asked the young man behind the counter if I could just buy it without tickets. He said _______ that was not a choice.

I decided I needed to _______ 350 tickets. I left Tyden at the counter to finish choosing his _______ with his grandma. I bought game coins and entered the games room with all the happy little faces busy with fun and _______ . I had just chosen a game I thought I could win when I heard Tyden’s excited voice, “Auntie, Auntie! _______ !”

He pulled the lion out from behind his back and presented it to me. My eyes ________ up with tears and my heart burst with love. He had ________ that whole conversation and chosen to give instead of ________ whatever he wanted. Before I could thank him, he said, “I wanted you to have it so you didn’t have to spend ________ because you work hard.”

I ________ him up, hugged him close, and told him how much I love his heart., his thoughtfulness, and him. I am ________ to have the title of his Auntie.