【推荐1】Feeding wild cats in my neighborhood used to be part of my daily routine. I did it out of compassion (同情心) and ________ for animals.

But last month, my favorite cat named Ginger entered a new ________ of life: She gave birth to a litter of cute kitties! Thrilled and excited, I bought them a brand-new cat ________, food bowls and even a large pack of cat food so that Ginger could take care of her babies with a ________ stomach. I placed the whole package of ________ behind the bushes so that they’d be safe and sound.

________, a few days later I found out that what I bought for Ginger was ________! I started searching for Ginger and her nest right away. To my ________, a property manager (物业经理) showed up and told me something that was hard to ________. “I know what you’re ________, ” said the middle-aged man. “Relax. The cat family is ________, and they didn’t need what you bought for them. ”

My mind was filled with questions and anger, but he seemed ________. “Ginger, if that’s her name, is an ________ creature. She can manage herself with or without you. I understand your ________ to help, but you are not going to keep her as a(n) ________, right? Ginger should take responsibility for herself. However, by providing her with every refinement, you’re making her more and more dependent on human beings. You’ve been making life way too ________ for them — and that’s no good for any wildlife. ”

I ________ his point. For Ginger and her kitties, my care and love are a ________, but they may weaken their ________. As a helper, I was doing too much. I should let them be who they really are. A helper doesn’t ________ have to “help”.

【推荐2】I met Miss Jane when I joined a stage decorating project for a play in my ninth grade. _________ she had an unpleasant voice, she was very good at _________ me.

During the work, she kept asking me for my _________. She always wanted to know how I thought we should _________ certain parts of the stags. At first I kept silent because I was shy and did not want to make _________. But she would persuade me to respond to her _________.

Usually, Miss Jane would _________ me and say. “Try to _________ your ideas. We can do better together.” Little by little, I began to take _________ and told her my thoughts. Eventually, I started to express myself ____________.

She kept the ____________ going on. If I succeeded in something simple, she would ask me to complete more ____________ things. She told me not to be ____________. She trusted me so much that I began to ____________ myself. When we ____________ the project, I was recognized as “The Best Art Assistant” in the program.

Working with Miss Jane changed me ____________. She let me do things that I never imagined ____________. She taught me not to ____________ the difficulty in my life. It was my ____________. Miss Jane, that showed me a world I had never known before and led me to ____________ the rest of my life to stage design.

【推荐2】As a teenager in the 1990s, Melissa Blake was interested in fashion. Unfortunately, fashion wasn’t much interested in her.

Blake, who has a genetic bone and muscle ________ and stands a little under four feet tall, couldn’t find jeans or dresses in her size. ________ through Glamour(时尚杂志), she didn’t see a single person who looked like her, and it ________. “When you’re a teenager—disabled or not—you deal with issues of ________. If I had seen someone who looked like me, I would have felt really seen.”

Blake, now 39, has spent her adult life trying to ________ for that. She is a disability-rights ________ as well as a little-known freelance writer, but she gained a national following in 2019 after ________ at those who made ugly comments about her online.

She tweeted, “people said that I should be banned from ________ photos of myself because I’m too ________.” In one of the preatest “I’ll show you!” ________ of all time, over the next year, Blake displayed a new selfie every day.

Her fans went wild, calling Blake a goddess and a powerful woman. Among her ________ is Mindy Scheier, the founder of Runway of Dreams, which showcases fashion for people with ________. Last fall, Scheier asked Blake to be one of the event’s 24 models.

“Getting Melissa in this year’s biggest fashion event just makes people understand how important it is to ________ who consumers are in the fashion industry, or what we ________ represent in the word ‘model’.” says Scheier.

“It was a little ________,” Blake says of modeling. But she’s glad she took the ________. Often, when we think of ________ for people with disabilities, we think of buildings and employment. But it’s also ________ to have access to what’s fun and enioyable.

“Fashion isn’t going to solve all the world’s ________,” says Blake. “When disabled people are included, it sends a message that we ________ a seat at the table in all aspects of life, frivolous or not.”