【推荐2】I constantly felt like I was not good enough. This feeling transferred to secondary school where the focus on academia increased. In the first year, I ________ a lot with anxiety and had other ________ issues, one of which was my dad being diagnosed with cancer. The only aspect of my life that I felt I could ________ was my performance in school. I had always placed such ________ in this and I threw my-self into every project and test. Perfection to me was ________ a higher grade than the last time. My com-petition was now with myself, and I began to associate my ________ with my grades. When I got the result I was pleased with, I felt good about myself. However, when I wasn’t ________ with a result, I’d greatly suffer.

Sadly, as time went by, I learned that the more stress and pressure I put on myself, the less productive and ________I became. I often felt I couldn’t ________ works that were my best. As a result, procrastination (拖延) became a big problem for me. One day I came across this powerful ________, “Doing something ________ is better than not doing anything.” Washing your face when the thought of a shower sounds like too much ________ is better than not washing at all. Doing 10 minutes of yoga when the thought of doing 20 minutes of cardio (健心运动) seems too ________ is better than not moving at all. Starting a task doesn’t have to be the best piece of work produced ________ doing something is better than not doing anything. This advice really ________ my block of procrastination and I remind myself of it whenever I’m feeling unmotivated. It’s really helpful to me.

【推荐3】When I was about ten,my family moved to a neighborhood near a public library. Every evening, I would________to the library soon after school. On weekends, I would be there five minutes earlier than the opening hour of the library. Instead of________the librarian to do the cleaning, I would________ the kids’ section’s seats, turn on the lights and start my reading.

I was________ of the librarian at first, as I used to hear him being hard on people who had late returns. Every day, fifteen minutes before the________closing time, he would start to ask people to________Because I did not have a library card, I wasn’t ________ to take my half-read books with me. After a few days, the librarian must have silently________my long face, because he started making________ about closure only in other sections. He would leave the________ on just enough for me to read while he tidied up the rest of the place. ________, this gave me another ten minutes to read. Five minutes before closing, I would put the books back and join him in ________the doors. Very soon, in my head, we formed a team that opens and closes the doors of the library.

I lived there for about five years and the librarian and I had become ________. He would simply point at the new books and smile at me. If I missed going to the library, the librarian would be________and ask why I had missed my routine.

I love books,________ the silent librarian.

【推荐1】“How sick is she, Tim?” When Sandy came to herself, she asked her husband. Then, she recalled the sound of the doctor’s whispered “Oh, no”, but she had been too ________ to demand an explanation.

Sandy was________ for a glimpse of her newborn daughter, but as she ________ the nursery entrance, she________ , fighting panic. There in the box lay a tiny baby girl attached to lots of tubes.

“Hydrocephalus (脑积水). Your baby has the________ case I’ve ever seen.” A doctor spoke to them. “She will have a ________ chance of survival. And even if we give her a(n) ________ , she will also be likely to die of brain infection after the surgery.”

Gently, Sandy stroked the baby’s fist. Surprisingly, she grabbed Sandy’s finger. Immediately Sandy felt something ________ her heart: this pitiful baby ________ to her. “It’s like she’s asking me to fight for her. I________ to believe that there’s no________ for my daughter,” she said. “I want the operation done.”

Outside the operating room, the couple waited ________. After what seemed a century, “The operation worked out well”, finally came the doctor’s voice, which________ the whole world.

After so many years, the eight-year-old girl still________ with some health problems, but she was no longer________. The previous year, she gave Sandy a hand-drawn Mother’s Day card with words, “I love your heart.”

【推荐2】The 11-year-old Freddy was chasing a rabbit on Monday when he got trapped down a narrow hole in Blackroot Pool, West Midlands. His ________ Richard Hill said he could hear Freddy’s whimpers (呜咽) underground but was unable to ________ him. The 55-year-old man ________ gave up searching for him when it got dark. “I really thought I had ________ Freddy for the very last time,” said Hill.

But Hill ________ on Tuesday morning and decided to call 999 after he could hear Freddy’s cries for help. Freddy had already been ________ for 24 hours by that time. The West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service found them after Hill used an app on his phone to help firefighters find Freddy’s exact ________. Crews used cameras and listening equipment on their mission to find the ________ dog, and eventually dug a 6-ft by 9-ft hole.

________, after two hours’ digging, firefighters ________ the exhausted Freddy, who “ran out of the hole as they got closer to him”. “I have to say a huge thank-you to the firefighters.” says Hill. “It was just ________ when he ran out of the hole after the ________, it was just like nothing had happened.” Freddy is still showing an orange color after being ________ with the clay soil.

According to the ________ owner the 4-legged adventurer will “definitely be staying on the ________ the next time we go out for a walk.”

【推荐3】Several years ago, I was teaching students when Charley entered into the classroom. What _________ me most was that he was in rags. Other children in the classroom stared at Charley _________ as they had never before seen such clothes. When asked to _________ himself, he told us he was from a distant village and usually helped parents do housework.

One afternoon, we had a game, and Charley made a perfect start. Next was Bruce’s turn. Bruce was the least _________ and athletic child in the history of our class. After Bruce’s second failure, Charley came up and spoke quietly to the _________ Bruce, “Forget them. I believe you can _________ it next time.”

By the semester’s end, we had all admired Charley for his _________. He taught us how to _________ a tough math question, how to _________ ripe fruit from raw fruit before that first bite, and how to treat others, even Bruce, who never called me “Miss”.

That afternoon before winter vacation, Charley walked to my desk and bent close to my ear, “My __________ boxes came out last night. I’m leaving here and moving to another place with my parents tomorrow. I’ll miss you.”

As I grasped the __________, my eyes were filled with tears. Then, as I __________ my calmness, Charley broke the __________ silence by pulling something from a box, saying, “It’s for you. I have prepared it especially for you, you’re a(n) __________ example of hardworking teachers, I show great respect for you.”

It was a dry leaf, the most valuable __________ that I had had.