【推荐1】Brenda Bongos was a girl with one big ambition- to play the drums in a band. But a(n)________lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to practice a lot, but she lived next-door to lots of________people in a care home. The sound of beating drums would really annoy them.

Brenda was________. She always tried to find a way of practicing her drums without bothering other people, but without success. However,________to practice as much as she could, Brenda tried all kinds of ways.

One day, while watching a science documentary, she heard that________cannot travel in space without air. At that moment, Brenda bongos decided to become a________astronaut.

So Brenda built a space bubble connected with a machine, which drew out all air. Inside was a________of drums. Once inside, Brenda________the machine and played like mad!

It wasn't long before she had become________. Many people came to see her play in her space bubble.________ afterwards she started giving concerts out of the bubble.________ Brenda became a real musical astronaut as the government asked her to be part of a space journey, and had gone far beyond her first________of playing drums in a band.

When asked how she had________all this, she said, “If those old people next-door hadn't________so much to me, I wouldn’t have gone to such ________to find a solution, and none of this would have ever happened.

【推荐3】I love music. From the time I was a preschooler, I remember ______ my father play jazz on the piano and my family sing with ______. As I grew up and took piano lessons, I became very ______ of classical music. In the early 60s the Beatles was ______ and I was attracted to “pop” and “rock” music.

As time went on, I ______ to like almost every type of music, from opera to new age. Music did ______ for me. It helped me in every mood and ______ me up. My husband and I can go to a Broadway musical, or an opera. What is it that ______ us to music? Why do we have iPods today with thousands of songs? It’s ______ music is a part of the earth and our nature.

Music is for every ______. It is thought that babies hear ______ before they are born. Mothers sing lullabies (摇篮曲) to their babies and are able to put them to ______. When ________, pre-school children listen to music. It is also thought that it helps them ______ the beginnings of mathematics. It has been used in ______ settings as a way to comfort and help cure victims of stress syndrome(综合症). It also helps people keep ______, when music is played and sung during a memorial.

While we ______ music every day, we don’t think about all of this. ______, we listen to music regularly because it is a (n) ______ part of our earth’s rhythms. So, the next time you listen to music, think of it as a ______ that you share at any time and can have with you always.

【推荐1】As is known to all, most stories of kindness do not begin with formerly drug-addicted celebrity (名人) bad boys. ______ does.

When this ______ took place, I was accompanying my grandmother at a huge garden party. ________, Robert Downey Jr., in a nice cream-colored suit, came in. I pointed out this big movie star to grandma ______, but she was far more interested in piling her paper plate with cheese.

As my 80-year-old grandmother rose for the ____ after the party, she fell into a wheelchair ramp (踏板) nearby. The sharp ramp ______ her leg open and it was bleeding.

I should have quickly taken control of the ______ —but due to my blood faint, I didn't. Luckily, Robert Downey Jr. _______

He called an ambulance immediately, and asked someone to ______ a blanket. He took off his suit and ______ his suit around her leg. The cream color turned dark red. Robert surely knew how to speak to her, ______ , distract her. He stayed with my grandmother until the ambulance came, ______ her hand and telling her she was breaking his ______ by leaving so early. I hurried into the ambulance without a word, feeling too shy to thank him.

Some 15 years after that garden party, and five years since he'd been set free from prison for possession of drugs in his car, I came across Robert in a fancy restaurant. I was ______ to respect people's privacy and never ______ someone having a meal. But on this clay, I decided to ______ the code.

“I don't have any ______ if you remember this. . . "and I told him the story. “I just wanted to tell you that it was simply the kindest act I've ever ______ .”

It's never too ______ to express our appreciation for kindness which lies in everyone, even a celebrity bad boy. ______, appreciation itself is a sort of kindness.

【推荐3】In 2019, after Ane Freed-Kernis retired, she decided to build a home workshop and devote all of her free time to stone carving. “I might be ________ head to toe in dust but I’m happy.” she says.

This ________ has its roots in Freed-Kernis’ childhood. Growing up on her father’s farm in Denmark, she used to wander through the fields with her ________ fixed on the ground, looking for stones to ________ to her collection.

After moving to England in 1977 and training as a social worker, Freed-Kernis soon became ________ with her busy career and the demands of raising her son. Stones were the ________ thing on her mind, until her father died in 2005. “He took a stone carving course in his retirement, and I always thought it seemed so ________ but never had the time to look into it myself,” she says, “After he died I became determined to learn ________.”

“It was really ________ at the start because you would spend hours just hammering.” She says, “I’m glad I kept going, though, because eventually you begin to see the ________ that was in your mind emerging from the stone-and it’s ________.”

When she turned 60 in 2019, she realised this had become a passion she needed to ________ to. “Everything else ________ and I only love the creative process of seeing a design I have ________ in 2D drawing become something real,” she says. “It felt like a new ________ of life.”

【推荐1】During my junior year of college, I signed up for a volunteer Teaching program in Costa Rica. I taught at a school which was located (位于) within a _________ and every day birds and butterflies flew throughout our school. It was beautiful. We were _________ on Costa Rica’s school system, the country, the language and how to plan a lesson.

The experience was beneficial to my English writing _________ when I got back to college, I began writing. I wrote so much that a piece of my writing about that experience was _________ in Folio’s Literary Magazine. Because of that, I was more _________ to continue working abroad.

After _________ , I moved to China and worked in schools to teach reading and writing. It was a life-changing _________ of my life. Culture differences _________ me and even consumed me in the beginning, but___________I fell in love with the people, their schools and their history.

Upon __________ to my home, I became a teacher in Trenton, New Jersey. The moment I stepped into the classroom. I could empathize (感同身受) with my __________ . I truly feel volunteering in Costa Rica was where it all __________ and working in China enriched my teaching life. If I could do anything __________ , it might be volunteering or working abroad more before settling down.

The __________ I’ve made through volunteering and working abroad are an English major’s dream and I hope that every English major __________ the chance to study or work abroad.

【推荐2】If life were a book and you were the writer, how would you like the story to go? That is the question that_________my life forever.

One day I went home from the training of snowboarding with what I thought was the flu, and less than 24 hours later, I was in a_________on life support with less than two percent_________of living. It wasn’t until days later that the doctors told me I had a serious blood infection. Over the_________of 2.5 months, I lost the hearing in my left ear and both my legs below the knees. When my parents_________me out of the hospital, I felt like that I had been put together like a patchwork(拼缝物) doll and I had to live with_________legs. I was absolutely physically and emotionally _________, tears streaming down.

But I knew in order to move forward, I had to let go of the Old Amy and hug the New Amy. It was at this moment that I asked myself that significant_________. And that is when it_________me that I didn’t have to be five-foot-five anymore.____________I could be as tall as I wanted. And____________of all, I can make my feet the size of all the shoes. So there were____________here.

Four months later, I was back upon a snowboard. And this February, I won two Board World Cup gold medals,____________me the highest ranked snowboarder in the world. So, instead of looking at our____________and our limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin looking at them as a wonderful____________that can be used to help us go further than we ever know we could go.