【推荐1】The man was called Kevin, and he was a_________ at the gymnastics school. He made sure the students did all their _________, ate healthy meals and got lots of sleep, which helped to make them health y and fit.

The gymnastics school was _________ for Nadia. She liked doing maths and chemistry in the morning and doing gymnastic exercises in the afternoon! After getting her first exercise clothes, she was so excited that she went to bed with it in the evening.

Learning how to do _________on the balance beam (平衡本), the uneven bars or the mat wasn’t always easy. Sometimes, Nadia would get hurt and have to _________doing gymnastics until she got better but then she kept on practicing. She was a strong girl and wasn’t about to _________ her dreams!

When Nadia was nine, she went to her first national competition, which was a big _________ for her! She had been practicing for months, but this was very different from doing her routines (常规动作) in the school gym. She felt _________!

There was total silence as she began. When she climbed onto the beam to do her routine, she took her first steps _________. But while doing a big jump, she __________ her balance and fell off the beam. Red- faced, she climbed back on… only to fall off the other side! She __________ deeply as she got back up on the beam and continued her routine, just as she had practiced. But while doing a forward roll (前滚翻), she fell off for the third time!

Kevin had some __________ for her, “Don’t worry! Put your fears out of your mind and just do your best!”

Encouraged by his words, Nadia worked even __________, and in the next competition, she won some __________. She beat players from other countries—__________ most were older than her!

【推荐2】People _________ ask me about my life because I’m an astronaut and they think astronauts’ lives are _________. They think that we walk on the moon _________! They don’t know that, since 1969, only 12 astronauts have landed on the moon. Every day, we train, study and _________ research right here on Earth. I haven’t even been in space yet and _________ my days are quite boring.

Every day I get up at 6:30 am and usually _________ for an hour. I prefer exercising in the mornings when it’s still cool and _______. I have classes all morning and training all afternoon. I love _________ weightlessness. This _________ us for life in space and it’s usually fun.

When I get home in the evenings, I often switch ________ the TV. Sometimes I don’t watch it, but it stops me from feeling __________. I like talk shows but I ________ watch them. I listen to them and get on with other things at the same time! I __________ to Oprah right now actually. At 7 o’clock this evening, they __________ the names of the astronauts going on the next space mission. I __________ I’m one of them.

【推荐3】After a decade of climbing, I gradually started free soloing (单人徒手攀岩). I _________my comfort over time and slowly took on bigger and more_________walls.

The first choice was Half Dome, a 2,000-foot wall overlooking the east end of the valley. I didn't really know how to prepare, so I decided to___________the preparations and just go up there and directly start climbing.

I figured it would be easy, which,   _________,was not. Thankfully, it was pretty much the right way. I was slightly nervous, but I tried not to let it___________me.

I needed to be___________ It was a beautiful September morning, and as I climbed higher, I could hear ___________the of tourists chatting and laughing on the summit (山顶). But between me and the___________was a blank slab of granite (花岗岩平板) .There were no edges to hold on to, just a vertical (垂直的) wall. I had to trust the friction (摩擦力) between my climbing shoes and the wall, carefully climbing my way_______________.

Then I reached, a foothold that I didn't quite trust. I changed my__________and tried a foot further out. It seemed even__________.I started to panic (恐惧). My mind was__________in every direction. I knew what I had to do, but I was too____________. I just had to stand up on my right foot. And after what felt like a century, I accepted what I had to do and I stood up on the right foot, and it didn’t slip (滑). I didn’t die. And that move______________the end of the hardest climbing.

Eventually, I could enjoy the sound of the birds singing around. It all felt like a(n)   ____________

【推荐2】I cleared the dishes from the kitchen table, with Mama following close behind to carry our tableware to the kitchen. There was no stopping her. Despite everything, she still wants to _______ , I thought.

My mama had _______ in moving around and had lost much of her speech to Parkinson’s disease. After a recent fall that left her with a broken arm, the _______ suggested she use a wheelchair. It was _______ to see her like this. From the time I was a kid, Mama had always been an active person with a positive _______ . I could still see her in my mind, cooking and cleaning in the house I grew up in, sometimes humming (哼唱) while _______ .

Now I did my best to _______ her like she’d done for me. I made the long drive as often as possible to _______ her and help around the house. Independent as ever, she never _______ working. “You’ve done ________ , Mama,” I said when she took the towel to clean the table. Where does she get the ________ ？

I turned on the tap to wash our dishes and noticed a ________ coming from Mama’s direction. I turned off the running water. Mama was humming! I ________ as she moved around the table, her happy song filling the room. “What’s it that you’re humming, Mama?” “Count Your Blessings (常怀感恩),” she ________ with a smile on her face.

________ , it was where Mama’s strength came from. There was no stopping her from being thankful, always.