【推荐1】Earlier this month, I bought a new smart phone. I didn’t ________ it much at first, only to get a call from my daughter. Soon, however, I found it ________ to surf the internet on the smart phone than my large computer. Even with my ________ time I quickly found myself spending more and more of it on this phone.

Yesterday when I was ________ short videos on TikTok, suddenly a long and white nose ________ its way between me and my phone. ________ I put the phone down, took my glasses off and petted my dog. Soon we were hugging, and romping (嬉闹) around in the house. And I ________ something too. There was a feeling in my heart:a wonderful mixture of love, laughter, and ________. It was a ________ that I hadn’t gotten once during all that time I had spent on my phone.

It’s strange how it took a dog to ________ me of what is important. I ________ to spend less time on my phone and more time doing the ________ things in life like hugging my children, talking to my friends and even playing with my dog. ________ is here to stay. But we shouldn’t let it control us or our ________. We should use it only when it ________ us to do the important things like loving each other or making this world better.

【推荐3】We all know that “Practice makes perfect (熟能生巧) ” is a very popular saying both in Chinese and English. It means that if you want to learn ________, you have to practice (练习) it many times, and then you may remember

________ you learn. Also we can say the more you know something, ________ you can do it. No matter (无论) what we do, those words are very ________ to us.

We can take English study ________ an example. If we want to learn some new words by heart, we must learn them and read them again and again ________ we can remember them. Sometimes it will ________ a lot of time for us to remember, but once we remember, we can use them freely. If we ________ our best, we will do it very well. When you take an English exam and ________ some meanings and usages (用法) you don’t remember, how will you feel

________ that time? You must feel sorry. So English study means that you ________ practice (练习) more and more.

We can look at ________ example in learning. When we read the same story for many times, we can remember it ________ well that we can tell it to others. At the same time, we can also ________ some stories from what we have heard. So in our study and life, we should keep the sentence “Practice makes perfect” in our ________. In this way, we can study well and live a better life.

【推荐1】It’s never easy being the new kid in school, especially when you look a little bit different from everyone else. Aside from the usual ________ about not knowing anyone at Henderson High School in Tennessee, 15-year-old Sergio Peralta worried that people would pick on him for his ________. Sergio’s right hand didn’t form fully at birth.

It turned out that his fellow students were a lot more open-minded than he ________. In fact, when the school’s engineering teacher noticed Sergio’s ________, he suggested the students in his class should be able to ________ him.

The school is ________ with online modeling software and a 3D printer, so the teacher suggested a real-life application that would ________ both Sergio and the other students. Several engineering students ________ began working on a prosthetic (假肢) for their new ________.

Students ________ with Sergio to get the prosthetic right, and when it was ________, it went beyond all expectations. Sergio was now ________ to catch a baseball in his right hand for the first time in his entire life.

Beyond the practicality of having a(n) ________ prosthetic, Sergio felt something even more powerful: He ________. Rather than being laughed at for his difference, he was celebrated and helped. “They ________ my life,” said the grateful teen.

【推荐2】I grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it. I was born with a cleft lip (唇腭裂). My classmates often ________ me. By the age of seven, I ________ that no one outside my family could ever love me. Then I entered the second grade, Mrs. Leonard’s class. Everyone loved her. But no one ________ her more than I did for a special reason.

The time came for the yearly “________ tests” given at our school. I was ________ able to hear anything out of one ear, and was not about to tell people another problem that would make me ________. So I decided to ________.

I had learned to ________ the other children and raise my hand when they did during group testing. The “hearing test”, however, required a different kind of trick. Each child would go to the door of the classroom, ________ one ear with a hand and the teacher would speak something from her desk very ________, which the child next to her would ________. Then the same thing was done for the other ________. I had discovered before that nobody ________ to see how tightly the untested ear was being covered, so I only ________ to cover my good ear.

My turn came. I turned my bad ear to Mrs. Leonard. I ________, and then heard the words that God had surely put into her mouth; seven words that changed my life forever. Mrs. Leonard, the pretty teacher I adored, said softly, “I wish you were my little girl.”

【推荐3】In my freshman year, I asked myself, “Why am I in school?” I thought I was forced to be there, but I decided just to get along with it until I could find it _________.

One day it finally hit me. We were studying Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in our _________ class. Each of us was asked to _________ a part, and I jokingly _________ to play the nurse. They all laughed, thinking that I, a boy, couldn’t play it, _________ I decided I was going to be the best nurse ever to appear on the stage of the freshman writing class. On the day of the _________, I walked slowly onto the stage and put my heart and soul into the play. The _________ look on my peers’ faces let me know that my performance was excellent, and then I knew what _________ meant to me. School was then a place where I could explore _________ areas in my mind. Perhaps this realization had __________ appeared before I had never been brave enough to __________ it.

To feed my new-found hunger for learning, I decided that I wouldn’t be __________ any more. I began raising my hand higher in class discussions; I was at the point where I no longer felt __________ to take part in, but did because I wanted to. In oral communication class, I chose unpopular speech __________ like “The Flat Tax” and made them __________ by creating characters. In British literature class, I chose to write a song for a creative project on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. __________ these creative activities, I made classes interesting not only for me, but also for my classmates and teachers.

In short, I’ve discovered that __________ is not something teenagers are forced to experience. __________, learning is a way teenagers grow. What I want to __________ my classmates is that I’m a brave and creative actor, musician and writer, whose __________ each of my teachers knows by the end of their first class, and will be reinforced each day through my brave behavior.

【推荐3】Harts Ali is a Bengaluru-based animal rescuer and entrepreneur. He________ Sarvoham Welfare Trust to rescue injured________ from across the city.

As a 12-year-old boy, Harts Ali loved________ a little family of dogs near his home—a mother with three puppies. With his daily pocket money   of Rs 2, Harts would________ a small pack of biscuits and feed them.

However, the boy________ a very sad scene, where one of the puppies was beaten to death by his neighbour. "The________ event shook me hard, but as the years passed by, I began to________ about it," Harts shares with SocialStory.

"On December 31, 2016, many years after that________, I came across a dog that was very________. Despite the many calls to NGOs and hospitals, nobody________," he says. ________, two women stepped forward to take care of the dog and provided treatment. That night Harts joined a WhatsApp group, where people would share________ about injured or ill dogs that needed________.

In 2017, he set up a________ in a small room. Once he got used to carrying out rescue operations________, he moved it to a________ plot in J. P. Nagar to accommodate the rising number of dogs. Thus, Sarvoham Welfare Trust was________ .

Talking about the way forward, he says, "In the next five years, we would________ our services for the welfare of other________ animals. We also hope to end cruelty, and conduct more awareness________ around the laws that exist for animals," he signs off.