【推荐1】Ironing has been my love since my mother taught me how to use it. I was delighted at seeing the _________. Ironing was also a great thing to do while I was _________ my favorite TV programs. My mother had the ironing board _________ in our TV room. When I went to college, my mother ensured that I had an iron _________ for a college dormitory room. _________ I began to work, I could _________ spend time in ironing, for I was always busy. However, I found it relaxing, and still _________.

I’ve now retired and started to _________ other passions. My parents have passed away, and I’ve been _________ their home and things. Throughout the house, I’ve found closet after closet of __________ironed bed covers, table cloths, and clothes — all done by my mother.

After almost a lifetime of ironing, I now realize that my __________ is grounded in much more than delighting in neatness. Ironing was central to my mother’s __________: She was lovely, thoughtful, and careful. Her approach to caring for our family and home __________ those personalities. I even still __________ playing happily at my mother’s feet while she was doing the ironing. Until now I come to realize that my __________ in ironing was deeply __________ by my mother. For my mother, ironing was a good way to __________ her enormous gratitude for her life.

Recently, I have been ironing my mother’s __________ of old table cloths, clothes...

I think it is really a good way to show my __________ for her. It is also an important task to iron them. __________, it’s also become a good way for me to show my gratitude for life!

【推荐2】Eleven years ago, the world I was familiar with ended. My _______ was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Over the course of seven months, Bill went from_______ me at tennis to needing my help to go to the bathroom.

It was the_______ time of my life. Maybe not_______. But it was certainly the time when I felt most alive. I _______ that a flat tire or the small complaints of a child with the sniffles (抽鼻子)_______ in comparison with the beauty of sudden laughter, the night sky, the _______ of a bakery. I found I could _______ myself to see more beauty.

In the days after Bill’s diagnosis and brain surgery, being his caregiver _______ me to find clinical trials and talk to different oncologists, which gave me a sense of________. In the later days, it meant being fully present for almost every moment. During his last weekend, a relative________ him. I noticed that she’d changed her appearance, and not in a good way. It was the kind of thought I’d ________ keep to myself. Just then, Bill ________ exactly what I’d been thinking, in that ruthlessly (鲁莽地) truthful way he had, and I found myself________ out loud.

“I could live with this man forever, even________ as much care as he does,” I thought. However, he would be dead in four________!

Eleven years later, I still try to be the ________   I became during those seven months. I try to be a little more ________ and generous, a little more grateful for the small __________ in life. It was my husband’s last, best __________ to me.

【推荐3】When I was in primary school, I had a big argument with a boy in my class. I can’t ______ what it was about, but I have never forgotten the ______ I learned that day.

I was sure that I was right and he was wrong. ______, he strongly believed that I was wrong and he was right. The teacher decided to teach us a lesson. She ______ a good idea. She brought both of us to the front of the class and placed him on one side of her grey desk and me on ______ . In the middle of the desk was a large, round object. It was ______ for me to see that it was black. She asked the boy what color the object was. “______,” he answered in a loud voice.

I couldn’t ______ that the object was white, considering that it was certainly black! One more argument started between the boy and me, this time ______ the color of the object.

The teacher told me to go stand where the boy was standing and told him to come stand where I had been. We changed ______, and then she asked me what the color of the object was. I ______ answer, “White.” It was then that I knew what was wrong. It was an object with two ______ colored sides, and from his side it was white ______ from my side was it black.

My teacher taught me a very important lesson that day: You must ______ in other person’s position and look at the ______ through their eyes in order to truly understand their ideas.

【推荐2】Cooperation and competition are __________ important. They're necessary ________a person to achieve success in life．

Learn to be cooperative with others. No one likes a selfish or greedy person. However, everyone likes a________and friendly person. Everything we do today, _________in doing business or making friends, depends on our ability to _________with one another. In our society, most tasks need the cooperation of many people __________they can be finished successfully. So we must try to be cooperative. Each person _________a small part of a machine. If only one part is out of order, the machine can't be running well. ________transportation and communication systems are developing quickly and people all over the world can keep in line with each other__________. It's hard for a person _________is away from the society to have a deep understanding of the world he___________. Cooperation___________more and more important for a person to get a good life.

Being competitive also has a place in life. If you want to get more success and be better than others, you must work harder and study more___________. The desire（愿望） to succeed and do better than others___________us to work harder. If there were no competitions, a sports meeting would never be____________and successful, and we could never have champion.

【推荐1】The Cambridge University Library in Britain received a “gift” in early March. 2022. Someone ______ a pink gift bag near the building with a note wishing the librarian a Happy Easter. Inside the bag was the “gift”: two small notebooks from the famous British naturalist Charles Darwin, who is ______ for his theory of evolution. One of the ______ has a famous drawing in it called the “Tree of Life”. Darwin made the drawing in 1837.

The university talked about the ______ on Tuesday. Cambridge believed the notebooks were ______ 20 years ago. They were first thought to be ______ inside the building after they were taken to be photographed. But, after searching through 10 million books, maps and documents, the university reported the notebooks ______ to police in 2020.

British investigators notified police around the world, and a ______ began. The notebooks are valued at millions of dollars. They were ______ , however, in good condition. Darwin’s notebooks contained writings about his famous trip around the world on the ship H. M. S. Beagle. The research ______ his book on evolution called On the Origin of species.

Cambridge University Librarian Jessica Gardner said she was ______ to see the notebooks. But she said her true feelings were profound and almost impossible to adequately express. Gardner said the notebooks would go back into the Darwin Archive. The library is also ______ to the works by scientists Stephen Hawking and Isaac Newton.

The notebooks will be on ______ later this year in a Darwin show at the library. Local police said they are continuing to ______ who may have taken the notebooks and asked for help from anyone who has ______ about the case.

【推荐2】The famous scientist Albert Einstein died in 1955. His _____ now is in the central state of Kansas of the U.S. It belongs to a retired _____ doctor, Thomas Harvey. _____ did this happen? And why?

In the 1950s, Albert Einstein and Thomas Harvey _____ each other when they both lived in Princeton, New Jersey. Einstein was working at Princeton University _____ Doctor Harvey was working at Princeton Hospital. When Einstein died, Doctor Harvey was _____ to examine his body. It was then that he started to study _____ has become a long time examination of Einstein's brain. His goal was to _____ some physical evidence of the scientist's genius.

Doctor Harvey, _____, did not tell Einstein's family that he ______ the great man's brain. It was only later ______ the family learned of Doctor Harvey's work. They did not ______ the idea at first. After Doctor Harvey explained his idea to them, they agreed to ______ him to study the brain. Doctor Harvey then asked ______ scientists to help. They cut the brain ______ three pieces. They marked each piece before placing it in containers ______ chemical formaldehyde (甲醛) to protect it. Doctor Harvey has been ______ Einstein's brain since then. He has carried it with him as he moved from place to place. He has also lent parts of the brain to other scientists ______ study.

Only one researcher has found something ______. A doctor at the University of California found that the left part of Einstein's brain has more certain cells (细胞) than ______. Such cells are known to feed brain. This may mean that the cells could affect intelligence.

【推荐3】Stephen Glenn is a famous American research scientist who has made several very important medical _________. When asked why he was able to be so much more _________ than the average person, he responded that it all came from a(n) _________ with his mother that occurred when he was a child. 

Stephen tried to remove a bottle of milk from the refrigerator but spilled(洒出) it all over the kitchen floor. Instead of _________ at him, giving him a lecture or chastising(指责) him, his mother said, “What a great and wonderful _________ you’ve made! Would you like to get down and play in the milk for a few minutes _________ we clean it up?” 

Indeed, he did. Then, his mother said, “Stephen, whenever you make a mess like this, _________ you have to clean it up.” And together they cleaned up the spilled milk. His mother then said, “You know, what we have here is a _________ experiment in how to effectively carry a big milk bottle with two tiny hands. Let’s see if you can discover a way to carry it without _________ it.” The little boy learned if he grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could __________ without dropping it. What a good __________ to him! 

This famous scientist said it was at that moment that he knew he didn’t need to be afraid to make __________. Instead, he learned mistakes were just __________ for learning something new, which is, after all, what scientific __________ are all about. Even if the experiment doesn’t work, we usually learn something __________ from it.