【推荐1】My daughter, Cassidy, was 12 years old. She’d been _________ from headaches and fevers for over two years. Doctors had ruled out (排除) everything scary. So, we weren’t _________ when a family friend-also a neurologist (脑科医生) — scheduled Cassidy for an MRI (磁共振).

I waited, _________ Cassidy to come out soon. _________ passed. An hour later, a nurse _________ me and said: “We would like you to go in.” I knew something was _________. I followed the nurse into my family friend’s office. My heart sank. His eyes were _________. “Well” he said, “it’s not _________.” He told me my daughter had a brain tumor (肿瘤) and she’d need brain surgery (手术) as _________ as possible. I had experienced something really bad in life but __________ ever hurt like this.

On the way to her room, I must have said “My phone is almost dead”, __________ a wonderful, teary-eyed nurse __________ me her charger (充电器) and said I could keep it. I __________ her help. Then, I accepted mail, presents for children, and books. __________, our burden became easier to bear because we were not __________ our grief (悲痛) alone. And in this comfort, something __________ happened. My daughter found her purpose. She __________ a YouTube channel called “Candid with Cassidy” to help other children __________ cancer. She thought that if she documented her __________, cancer would become less __________ for someone else.

【推荐3】I had been saying goodbye to my mom for ten years. That was how ______ she had breast cancer. At first, there was the fear that she would die. But as she ______ series of treatments, life took ______ a new normal. But cancer is an unrelenting (冷酷无情的) foe. It was a journey from ______ to hope again and again, and only painkillers could keep her ______ . At 66, my mom was dying, but we could do nothing. I ______ praying for God to heal her but rather to take her. I learned that dying is the ______ healing. How brokenhearted when a patient or family is ______ a death.

My mother showed me how to fight her foe with knowledge, humor and ______ . And when the time came, she showed me how to die with grace, dignity, humor and wisdom. ______ , while it is hard to escape from the ______ , I want to anticipate the joy of the day when all the pain and hurt of this world will be over. One day, I will die and ______ those I love. One day, those I love will die as well. I don’t want it to envelop me to the point where I cannot enjoy life and make ______ that will last not only in this life, but hopefully into the next.

In those ten years watching my mother die, I learned that we cannot ______ avoid grief in this life. But we can seek out and remind ourselves to anticipate the joy, no matter how ______ things are.

We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

【推荐2】In a letter to his daughter, Franklin questioned the choice of the eagle as the symbol of the US. He said that the selected design looked more like a(n) ________ . He then explained the respectability and morality of each animal.

”For my own part, I wish the eagle has not been chosen as the ________ of our country. He is a bird of ________ moral character. He is too ________ and does not get his living honestly. You may have seen him waiting on some dead tree near the river and watching the other fishing birds work. When they have caught a fish ________ , the eagle ________ them and takes the fish to his mate and babies. With all this injustice, he is never a good example but like those men who live by ________ the poor. Besides, he is a coward(懦夫). The little King Bird, which is not ________ than a sparrow(麻雀), attacks him bravely and drives him out of its area. ________ , he is by no means a(n) ________ symbol for the brave and honest Americans who have ________ all the British from our country.

“On this account, I am not ________ that the design does not seem like an eagle, but looks more like a turkey. In comparison, I think a turkey is a much more ________ bird. Though it is a little bit silly, a turkey is a bird of ________ . It will not ________ to attack the British who enter his farm yard with a red coat on.“

【推荐1】Liam Garner was just 17 years old when he started out on his big adventure—a 20,000 mile bike trip from Alaska to Argentina. In early January, he finally _________ his trip, 17 months after he started. He had a tent, a sleeping bag, a phone, a first-aid kit, and some _________ parts for his bike. Other than some _________ and water, he didn’t have much else. Initially, his parents were _________, but they became his biggest supporters as he traveled south along the West Coast, _________ Mexico by December.

_________ up with a friend, Logan, they overcame _________ like a bike accident, extreme heat, and even robbery in Colombia. In Mexico, they considered _________ because the incredible heat made biking extremely difficult. But things _________ once they reached Central America, and they decided to keep going.

Without being disheartened, Liam pressed on through rain, sun, heat, cold, deserts and mountains. Finally, on __________ 6th, 2023, he reached Ushuaia, Argentina, completing his __________ journey. Now, accompanied by his girlfriend, Liam is __________ home to California, fueled by ambition to __________ a book detailing his incredible adventure. He dreams of __________ others to start their own adventures, highlighting that everyone is capable of amazing achievements; the __________ is building confidence to attempt the extraordinary.

【推荐3】Patricia Thomas was only 17 when she married Narayan, a Hindu Brahmin (婆罗门) boy, against the wishes of her Christian family. She was disowned by her father, and, to make things_________her husband, Narayan turned out to be a drug addict and never_________his family.

Left with no_________, Patricia took financial help from her mother and started a mobile cart at Marina Beach. She_________two disabled persons to help her in_________snacks, fresh juice, coffee and tea.

Over the next years, her hard work_________off, as she started running canteens for offices across Chennai. By then, her husband's_________worsened. Narayan would beat her when he didn't get money from Patricia, and disappear for months. In 2002, during one such_________, he died. Two years later, her newly married daughter also_________in a road accident along with her son-in-law.

Broken-hearted, Patricia and her son____________their first restaurant "Sandeepha" in____________of her late daughter. Patricia loved and took care of her____________the way she would take care of her daughter. She won a national award for woman in 2010 for her____________life and struggles.

"I stared my business with____________two people. Now, there are 200 people____________for me in my restaurants. My lifestyle has changed too."