【推荐1】When I settled (定居) in Chicago, my new city seemed so big and unfriendly. Then I had a ______ problem and had to go to hospital for a ______examination.

It seemed a small _____ compared to the one I was about to face, but things started to go ______ right from the beginning. Not having a car or______ the city, I was depending on the buses to get me from A to B.   ______I’d left myself plenty of time, soon it was _______ I was going to be late, because I had mistakenly boarded a bus that was taking me in the ______ direction.

I ______ the bus and stood on the road not knowing what to do. I looked into the eyes of a ______ , who was trying to get past me.   ______ , instead of moving on ,she stopped to ask if I was ______ . After I explained my ______to her, she pointed to a bus stop across the street , where a bus would take me back into the city to my ______ . Sitting there waiting, I felt ______that someone had been willing to help. ______ , hearing a horn (喇叭) nearby, I looked up to see a car with my new friend ______ at me to get in. She had returned to offer me a ______ to the hospital.

Such unexpected ______ from a passer-by was a lovely gift to receive. As I climbed out of the car at the hospital and turned to thank her, she smiled and told me not to lose ______, for all things are possible.

【推荐2】Cody Wilkins sat on the bench, while his soccer teammates were scoring goals on the field.

It had been a(n) _________ high school year for him. He was the only freshman on the team. He just watched his teammates _________ in the distance. He seldom got to play, feeling like a _________.

“My confidence was shot. I thought maybe I wasn’t as good as my coaches thought. So I thought maybe I should _________. ” Cody says.

Cody suffered once he discovered he wasn’t a good soccer player. But he _________ to keep going. “The struggle I _________ made me want to work harder. ” he says, “However, talented you are, you can always _________ in sports.”

Then Cody took advantage of his _________ on the bench to watch his more skilled and experienced teammates play the game, and by the time he was a junior, he had improved so much that he Was _________ captain of his team. He is now a senior and is being ______________ to play soccer for several colleges.

If you base your ______________ just on whether you win or lose, you will never be happy. Winning is always temporary(暂时的) because there is always another ______________ waiting for you.

No one is ______________. But you should learn about your strengths and weaknesses and know how to ______________ from failure. Once you accept that losing something isn’t the end of your world, you can get on with the business of living your life and learning from it. In the long run, this is ______________.

【推荐3】For the next few weeks, the team keeps moving higher up the mountain, setting up camp at greater altitudes. They _________ reach Camp 8—the highest camp for the team. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, two strongest climbers of the team, are _________ to try to reach the top of Qomolangma first.

Hillary and Norgay feel _________, yet calm, as they begin their _________ to the top. It is minus 27 °C, and they _________ eight layers of clothing and three pairs of gloves. Their backpacks _________ 18 kilograms each. The two men move slowly, _________ hacking steps into the ice with their tools. Parts of the climbs are really _________ —ridges(山脊)that are only as wide as a diving board. One wrong step could mean _________ .

Still, up they go, higher and higher, until they come to a __________ wall—40 feet high. It seems __________ for them to climb up it. But there is strong faith inside them: They haven't come this far only to __________! Suddenly Hillary sees a thin crack(裂缝)in the rock. He __________ a foot into it and begins to move up, taking hold of any handhold he can find. Norgay follows. I It takes almost half an hour to __________ up using the crack. They can hardly catch their __________.

The two men keep going up. They move from rock to __________ , and soon they can climb no more because there is no more mountain left. They have reached the __________ ! Their tiredness quickly __________ happiness as they look out at the __________ view all around them. They prove that __________ can move mountains.

【推荐1】A dozen years ago, William Dunn noticed his six-year-old neighbor, Camran, shouted at his mom angrily. He started a (n) _________ with the boy. Camran told him that his _________ wasn’t in his life.

William asked Camran’s mom for _________ to take him fishing. Camran was _________ by the experience from that first trip. The two fished together several times a week, and William saw _________ changes in Camran’s behavior. Soon William was teaching Camran’s friends and other kids in the neighborhood to _________.

On weekends, William and a few other _________ take 20 to 25 kids out fishing on a rented boat. Many have never been fishing or even on a boat, so William starts by teaching the _________. Then come the life _________ that fishing offers: patience, team work and the simple __________ of relaxing outdoors. He and the other volunteers have taken more than 600 fishing trips with almost 2, 000 __________ who don’t have a father in their lives.

William wants to share his __________ of fishing with kids who don’t have a father to take them. He said he just wanted to show the kids that he __________ them and that he was there for them. Because many kids go on several trips, William is able to build __________ with them. He and Camran, now 20, still __________ fish together, and Camran sees Big Willam as a father figure.

【推荐3】After persuading most of his patients, his wife and son to go back to France following the lockdown of Wuhan, Philippe Klein, a French doctor, decided to stay in the epicenter during the COVID-19 outbreak.

“I am a doctor, so I have to do my job and do my_______,” said Klein.

Before authorities in Wuhan_______the city, suspending all outbound flights and trains in late January to_______the highly infectious disease, Klein had_______about 500 foreigners living in Wuhan, most of them French.

Following the outbreak, he closed his_______ at the hospital to reduce the chances of infection for his patients. Instead, he began to give_______and treatment at patients’ homes.

But while he continued to see his patients, Klein found some had a fever and he might be_______ with the virus, so he decided to send his wife and son back to France.

“When I came back home after seeing patients, I didn’t feel very comfortable. I really did not want to put my family _______, so I asked my wife to leave Wuhan,” he said. “My son was crying when we_______, but it was better for them to leave Wuhan and let me do my job. Also they were very proud because I was doing my duty here.”

In addition to his sense of duty as a doctor, he said he also chose to stay because of his deep________for the people and the city.

“People in Wuhan are very friendly to French, and here I feel like a star sometimes,” he said. ________ the lockdown of a vast city with 11 million people, which is rare in human history, has made a big________ on Klein. He said he was touched by the________Wuhan residents had made to contain the outbreak.

“The last month was the craziest month in my________ life,” he said. “And I would like to say to the people of Wuhan and to Chinese people that they are going to overcome this epidemic. And their sacrifice, their courage and their unity, will________. It will be an example to the world to make such a sacrifice to protect the rest of the world.”