【推荐1】While getting into Harvard Law School is not easy for anyone, Rehan, a sanitation worker (环卫工人) from Bowie, Maryland, worked hard to achieve it. And he doesn’t take all the _______ either — he gives most of it to the people around him.

When he was 8, his mother left the family and his father had to_______ to support it. Rehan’s grades dropped._______, his high school grades were so poor that he was_______ by many colleges. So he took a job at Bates Trucking and Trash (垃圾). For many people, getting the job would feel like a low point. _______, for Rehan, it was a really _______ time when his life began to turn around.

“It was the first time in my life that people who weren’t my father or my brother really just _______me to feel confident, told me I was_______.” His coworkers urged him to go back to school, and the company owner, Brent Bates, helped him get_______in Bowie State University. Rehan earned a 4.0-grade point__________and was able to go to the University of Maryland for further__________.

During his junior year at Maryland, his father was ill. To __________their family, Rehan had to return to work at Bates. __________dropping out of school, he woke each day at 4 a.m. to finish his __________before class. He scored very well in his LSAT test, and __________Harvard Law School. That school charges a high price. Luckily, the young man found another __________. Carmie McCook, a communications coach, started a GoFundMe page to help him with the __________. The goal was $75,000, but it rose to over $185,000 in __________, which helped make his dream __________. While most people heading to Harvard Law School have the grades and the financial support, Rehan just had his own __________story to stand on — the same story that makes him an inspiration.

【推荐2】That holiday morning I didn’t have to attend school. Usually, mother ______ me to sleep in on holidays. And I would certainly take full advantage of it. On this particular morning, ______,   I felt like getting up early.

I stood by my window overlooking the ______ having nothing better to do. But as it turned out, I was soon to learn about something ______ in life.

As I watched several people go by, get into their cars and go off, I ______ an old man on a bicycle with a bucket(木桶) on its ______ and a basket of rags and bottles on its back-carriage(后座). He ______ from one car to another, washing and cleaning them. From the water on the ground, it seemed that he had already ______ washing and cleaning about a dozen or more cars. He must have begun to work quite early in the morning. Several thoughts ______ my mind as I watched him work. He wasn’t well-dressed. He had on a pair of shorts and a(n)______ T-shirt. The bicycle he rode was not by any means the kind modern ______ would want to be seen riding on. But he seemed ______ with life. There he was working hard at his small business, ______ at passers-by and stopping to chat ______ with elderly men and women on their way to the market nearby.

There was a noticeable touch of ______ in the way he seemed to be doing things ---- ______ the windscreen(挡风玻璃), then standing back to admire it; scrubbing(擦净)the wheels and ______, standing back to see what they look like after the scrub.

It was a ______ to learn, I felt. At no age need one have to beg for a living if one has good health and is willing to work hard. For a while I felt ______ of myself. Young as I am — just sixteen,there was this old man who must have been usefully engaged(忙碌的) perhaps before the sun appeared above the ______.

【推荐3】My new Japanese friends stared at me from the other side of the small, square table. There ________ in the centre of the table, a bowl full of pasta, with black squid (乌贼) ink sauce. When I ________ that Italian food was my favorite, they just took me to the best Italian restaurant in the city. So there I sat, ________ clear on my face, as my three friends stared at me with big smiles on their faces. I had tasted and enjoyed a variety of spaghetti sauces. ________, I had certainly never eaten or imagined eating pasta covered in black ink sauce.

I took the fork and spoon and put a ________ serving onto my plate. The first feeling I experienced as the spaghetti noodle touched my tongue was not ________, but interest. It was weird, strange, but interesting. My friends smiled at me from ________ the table. With their teeth and lips as ________ as night, they looked like dead bodies. I tried to explain this to them and in the ________ I learned a new Japanese word. For the next twenty minutes we got ________ in calling the waitress over to our table and making her laugh as we ordered more drinks, smiling broadly the whole time.

________, like people, come in all shapes, sizes, and colours. It is said, “The true voyage of discovery lies not in ________ new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Our days are filled with mini-adventures that are ________ so quickly without a thought, I would have ________ this adventure completely if I had actually known what I was ordering when I ordered it, but I was ________ for the mistake.

【推荐2】Oseola McCarty

Late one Sunday afternoon in September 1999, Oseola McCarty, an elderly cleaning lady passed away in the little wooden frame house where she had lived and worked most of her life. It may seem like an ordinary _______ to an ordinary life, but there was something quite _______ about this woman.

In the summer of 1995, McCarty gave$150,000, most of the money she had saved throughout her life, to the University of Southey Mississippi in her hometown. The _______ was to help other African Americans _______ university.

She had _______ school in the sixth grade to go to work, never married, never had children and never learned to drive because there was never any place in _______she wanted to go. All she ever had was the work which she saw as a _______. Too many other black people in the countryside of Mississippi did not have even that. She had started her savings habit as a young child when she would return from school to clean and iron _______ money which she would then save.

When she retired, she decided that she wanted to use the money to give children of limited means the _______ to go to university. She had wanted to become a nurse, but had to leave school to look afire sick relatives and work. When asked why she had given her life ________ away, she replied, "I'm giving it away so that children won't have to work so hard, like l did. " After news of her donation ________ the media, over 600 donations were ________ to the scholarship fund. One was given by a media senior manager, Ted Turner, who gave a billion dollars.

She didn't want any fuss made over her ________, but the news ________ and she was invited all over the United States to talk to people. ________ she went, people would come up to her to say a few words or to ________ touch her. She met the ordinary and the ________, President Clinton included. In the last few years of her life, before she died of cancer, McCarty was given over 300 awards. She was honored by the United Nations and __________ the Presidential Citizen's Medal. ________ having no real education, she found herself with two honorary doctorates: one from the University of Southern Mississippi and the other from Harvard University. Her generosity was clearly an inspiration to many and proof that true ________ does exist.

【推荐3】A brave ICU nurse, who suffered a breakdown after working through the COVID-19 pandemic, ran the London Marathon for charity on October 3, 2021, hoping to beat the Guinness World Records as the fastest man to run a marathon dressed in a pint of beer costume.

Joan Laplana, a dad of three kids, ______ running after he was diagnosed(诊断) with post-traumatic stress disorder. He had been a nurse for 23 years and was ______ as a lead nurse. His mental health suffered when he lost a patient, who was the same age as him, with daughters the same age as his and had no underlying(潜在的) health conditions. Despite suffering from ______ attacks and anxiety, Joan still wanted to ______ his work in ICU when the second wave ______ the country.

But he went to pieces during it and was diagnosed with PTSD. His mood would often change quickly and he couldn’t slept through the night. He started getting counselling. Since his new fitness plan, Joan said he wasn’t ______ medicine anymore, and for the first time in 18 months he had ______ slept through the night. He said, “In March I joined a running ______ and on days when I can’t motivate myself, my friends from the club will message me. I knew I had to get ______ about my running when I got an email saying I got a ______ for the London Marathon. I am very proud of myself after everything that I have been through. Running has ______ my mental health. It helped with my ______, reduced my panic attacks and improved my mood changes.”

In July 2021, Joan ______ to the top of Snowdon, a mountain in northern Wales, dressed in a pint of beer costume also for ______. Though his first attempt at beating the Guinness World Records at the London Marathon failed last year, Joan will once again try to ______ the record at the 2022 London Marathon.