【推荐2】Grandpa John had a huge collection of books stored in his vast home library. Almost every weekend, his grandson, Adam, would come to visit and would ________ for hours in his library. Both Adam’s parents and grandpa were very pleased with this, but once Adam started ________ a little too much time in the library they grew ________.

One weekend, grandpa went into the library and asked him, “My dear grandson, please tell me why you ________   spending so much time in my library.” Adam ________ for a few seconds while ________   his grandfather’s huge library, and he ________ answered. I love that I’m always ________ here, that I can pick any book I want and that there is always something new for me to read. I love that I can go on amazing ________ all without leaving this room. “Well,” answered John, “books are a wonderful thing. They keep the mind sharp and the ________ warm. They taught me many new things, made me laugh, and have taken me on faraway adventures.”

“Despite what you think about books having everything you need, the ________ outside this room is filled with________ that cannot be described with words.” “Go out and ________ the world, soon you’11realize that the best book ever________ is that of your life. It is a book which you can fill with all that you love. I ________ you that the stories you’ll write will be much more important, ________, and insightful.”

After his ________ with Grandpa John, Adam continued to read, but not at his grandfather’s library. He would read after playing with his friends, and later, he read while traveling the world.

When Adam finally ________ and got married, he built a large bookshelf in his house ________ his grandfather John. The first book which he placed in it was the ________ he wrote throughout his travels. He knew that one day, he’d want his children’s and grandchildren’s books placed right next to it.

【推荐3】Archer Calder is a 16-year-old school student from Utah. His sister is 14-year-old Della, who has a disease that makes her unable to_________.

In 2020, Archer was _________ online for an app that might help Della _________ her needs, wants, likes and dislikes. “It’s always been my _________ to be able to communicate with her the way I would with anybody else,” he said.

But the result is _________. The related apps were greatly expensive, and didn’t_________ everything he was looking for. So he decided to make his own app, completely open and free. That’s_________ Freespeech was born.

Freespeech helps people communicate by enabling them to press buttons that _________ words. Users can string together sentences by pressing many buttons_________. The app opens up a whole new world of communication for people who are __________ to talk.

“It was__________ growing up with a brother or sister that you couldn’t talk with,” Archer explained. “For the first time I was able to__________ with my sister because of this app, kind of like I would communicate with anybody else. It was kind of a special__________ that I had never experienced before.”

__________, Freespeech app still had some disadvantages, so Archer __________ other programmers for help by making the source code __________. He first put it on TikTok, and the reaction was so __________ that he shared it on GiHub, where experienced programmers helped upgrade it.

Archer says __________ Freespeech only helps one person, his sister, all the time and effort he put in was __________. Somehow, the public have a feeling that Archer’s app is going to help far__________ just one person.

【推荐1】Yue–Sai Kan’ s autobiography, Be a Pioneer, was released after three years’making. Her father ever told her that she should always aim to be the ______ to walk on the moon ______ no one remembers the second. That has been a driving inspiration for her over the years.

In 1968, while studying at the Hawaii campus, Kan got a ______ to travel around the world. The life-changing experience marked the ______ of her career in fashion, beauty and cultural exchange. Since then, Kan has been ______ to bridging the cultural gap between East and West. In 1972, she moved to New York and ______ the weekly television series Looking East, the first of its kind to introduce Asian ______ to a growing US audience. It won dozens of ______ , making her one of the first TV journalists to ______ East and West. In 1986, Kan ______ China, producing and hosting the television series One World. It gives ______ a transformative glimpse of the outside world through her journeys to every corner of the globe. Her projects ______   the ABC documentary China: Walls and Bridges, earning her Emmy Award.

“I worked in China for almost 40 years. I was there to ______ and contribute to the country’s breakneck pace of change. This ______ experience has given me a unique vision, I believe what I do will ______ the world. ” says Kan.

【推荐2】When I was in my final year of college, a good friend of mine was planning to visit a toastmaster(宴会主持人) club and invited me to join her._________I loved the idea of public speaking and hoped that the_________would be also where I would see myself someday, I was a self-doubting person filled with pessimism, which never gave me the_________to take that baby step.

Later, my another friend encouraged me to_________one of the forums. _________, I still never joined in it until I_________ . It was when I started working in a company and moved to a different city, and I was lonely that I_________myself harder to give this forum a(o)_________. Little did I know that it was this little forum that was really a start to bigger_________Since then I have started to__________the road to my career as a toastmaster gradually.

That friend doesn't know what a(n)__________his little encouragement has made on my life. Today I am a__________individual; pessimism no longer has the upper hand and I can__________call myself a public speaker. I still remember when I__________my first paycheck for my public speaking, tears weren’t enough to__________my emotions. I have been speaking on __________occasions to various audiences since then. Whenever I walk up to the platform, holding the microphone, I believe that I am nothing but myself.

I don’t just give a__________to the crowd. Sometimes, I tell them a story—one that has a__________reflection of my past pessimism, one that is related to my sincere__________for that friend of mine and one that__________my hidden passion and talent, which might have been forgotten had it not been for her encouragement.