【推荐1】Have you ever monitored something about yourself? Perhaps you’ve tracked how many kilometers you’ve run, how many hours you’ve slept or how many calories you’ve_________in a day.

If so, you’ve _________a movement called the “Quantified Self Movement.” Individuals gather information about their daily activities in this _________movement, also called self-tracking. This may sound _________, but technology is making the process easier. Perhaps you’ve wanted to_________a bad habit and couldn’t. Self-tracking may be our answer. The idea is to take information about your everyday activities and analyze it to help get a _________lifestyle.

Recently, tools such as smartphones, journals and apps, along with newly _________wearable gadgets, are making self-tracking_________easy. Today, one can use Fitbit, the Jawbone UP, Google Glass or a smart watch to_________personal data including hours slept, stress levels, heart rate and mood.

So why does a person self-track? Someone may be trying to lose weight or improve their sleep patterns. Another person feels tired after eating. Self-tracking could help him to__________what foods make him sleepy and modify his diet accordingly.

Monitoring daily activities isn’t a new__________. In years past, athletes and their coaches kept notes detailing nutrition, training and sleep patterns in order to achieve an athletic goal.__________, doctors have also helped patients to document parts of their lifestyles and eating habits to help fight allergies, headaches and other health issues. __________, it wasn’t until 2007 that Wired magazine editors Gary Wolf and Kim Kelly, who started tracking every move they made, coined the__________“Quantified Self.” “, Dennis Nash, president of Data Speaks Health Solutions, says, “Although self-tracking has many advantages, self-tracking has its__________. Once people start tracking their daily activities, it can become an __________. Also, they might begin to worry too much about their health.”

While self-tracking doesn’t__________that one’s quality of life will improve, it can __________the importance of eating well and exercising daily.__________, the quantified Self Movements’ primary focus is__________people to employ enough energy to make healthier choices.

【推荐2】After having a child, I found my regular exercise interrupted. I was not only busy: I also lacked the motivation. Solo gym sessions or some quick______following the DVD while the baby sleeps didn’t______me at all. So I decided to sign up for a hiking______in Peru, hoping that it would get me______again.

Looking over my travel arrangements before I left. I______phrases such as “3-hour hike______primitive forests” and “sliding with a rope down waterfalls”, and I started to feel a little______.

However, as we made our way through the forests and were______with amazing views of______waterfalls, this team of strangers______me to go on. Being physically active with a group motivated me to reach the______or the valley below-rather than simply lying down on the forest floor and giving up,______I might have done if I were alone.

____confirm my experience: Group exercise can really start a new attitude toward fitness. “People get a better______in a group than they do on their own,” said Allison Kimmel, a group______instructor. That’s because other people______both support and competition. “Humans are______animals and the shared experience of facing a challenge______is compelling(不可抗拒的),” said David Ezell, the CEO of fitness provider Darien Wellness.

With the______of a group, I'm slowly getting back into a______lifestyle.

【推荐1】Harry Peck remembered sitting next to two frightened young sisters in a trans-Atlantic flight from Amsterdam to Minneapolis 23 years ago. After some chat, he learned how _________ their experience of escaping war was. They _________ him of his own daughters so before they got off the flight he reached into his purse, pulled out a(n)_________, wrote them a note and placed a $100 bill inside.

Harry had no idea then how much it would mean to both girls. And one of the sisters, Ayda Zugay, had been _________ for him for nearly a decade. With the help of social media and the _________ of friends and family, Harry and the sisters reunited on an emotional Zoom call.

Harry told the sisters how _________ he remembered what it felt like when he first met them. Zugay told Harry things she had wanted to _________ the note’s author for years -- how _________ she was, why the gift had meant so much, how valuable the _________ message was, how they had spent the money __________ pancakes and Coca Cola for an entire summer. Tears streamed down Harry’s face as he listened to Zugay’s __________. At a time when there was so much pain and __________ in the world, he hoped others would take more time to help people __________.

They also talked about the __________ of meeting up in person someday. Harry __________ the sisters that whenever they meet, he would make them the best pancakes they’ve ever had.

【推荐2】I was _____ of an evening paper in London.One day I was _____   to write a few articles _____   begging(乞讨) in London.It was then that all my adventures (冒险) _____.I made a decision that the best way of collecting _____ was that I would go deep into the realities of _____.I used to be_____；of course，I had learned all the skills of make­up(乔装打扮)，and I could still make the use of _____.Having finished all necessary preparations，I placed myself in one of the _____ streets.At home that night I was ______ to find I had received ______ a pound.

Well，you can imagine how ______ it was to settle down to work ______ the newspaper at two pounds a week.When I knew that I could make as ______ as that in a single day，I______ my job as a reporter，though my pride (自尊心) was______.My knowledge of make­up was so good that no one could recognize me even in the street and I quickly became a public character.All day and every day，money ______ into my cap and I usually ______ at least two pounds in a day.In the end，I was able to have a large beautiful house in the country，and later to ______.Nobody had any idea where my money ______ came from！   My dear wife only knew that I had business in London：that was all.

【推荐3】It was just after sunrise on a June morning. “Nicolo,” whose real name cannot be _________ to the public because of Italy’s privacy laws, _________ working the whole night at a factory in Turin. As he often did, he stopped by the “after work auction (拍卖)”. There, among many other things, Nicolo spotted two paintings he thought would look _________ above his dining room table. Nicolo and another bidder _________ until Nicolo finally won the paintings for $32.

When Nicolo retired and went to live in Sicily, he _________ the paintings with him. His son, age 15, who had _________ an art appreciation class, thought that there was something _________ about the one with a young girl sitting on a garden chair. It was signed (签名)”Bonnato” or so he thought, but when he _________ it, he only found “Bonnard,” a French _________ he had never heard of. He bought a book and was __________ to find a picture of the artist Pierre Bonnard sitting on the same chair in the same __________ as his father’s painting.

“That’s the garden in our picture,” Nicolo’s son told his father. They __________ learned that the painting they __________ was called “The Girl with Two Chairs.” The __________ called the Italian Culture Ministry; the official confirmed that the painting was __________ and worth as much as $50 million.

【推荐1】The story happened when Hurricane Ida swept New Jersey. Anibal Galiana, the principal of Hackensack Middle School, was_________ about the state of the school after seeing the severe flooding. The new _________ would start next week and the kids needed a building to_________. So he called Hemans, the head custodian (管理人员) of the school, on Thursday morning to let him know he was going to get to the school to assess_________. To Galiana’s surprise, the custodian said he was_________ at the school. Actually, he stayed the entire_________, running the pump to make sure the school didn’t_________.

At around 11 pm on Wednesday, a(n)_________ reached Hemans saying that water was_________ the school’s basement. He was at home then, but he__________________________ to brave the storm to make his way to the__________________________. Getting there from his home was difficult — he often found himself__________________________ by rapidly rising water. Once there, he started the pump to transfer water from the basement to the __________________________ outside. After that, Hemans skipped sleep to__________________________ it every half hour to ensure it was still working. If it had__________________________ at any point, water would have quickly made its way inside. He finally arrived back at his home at around 2:30 pm on Thursday for some__________________________ which he deserved.

__________________________ Galiana was shocked that Hemans went the extra mile to protect the building, on further reflection, he wasn’t all that__________________________. “He’s always been a hardworking and responsible custodian,” said Galiana.

During the hurricane, many schools saw destruction that made them__________________________ for weeks. But Hackensack Middle School__________________________ right on time. When seeing cheerful students studying and playing in school, Hemans knew it was all worth it.

【推荐2】Kim and I decided to go to see a new movie. We ___a little early and were talking about our day. Then came a young girl, followed by a man who we thought was her_____ They sat one row ahead and about two seats to the right. As they began to talk, it was ___that the man was her father, and that their family had been experiencing hard times.

The young girl seemed mature beyond her years. She ____ her father, saying that everything would be okay and that she loved him. As they spoke, Kim’s____ were filled with tears. He was thinking how fortunate this father was to have the love and ___ of his daughter. The young girl ___her dad of the past times when they used to go to the movies together, enjoying, talking, laughing and even crying. These were times she ___. She knew her dad missed ___, but he had devoted himself ___ to making money and supporting the family.

It became clear to us that they had ____ the early show because the tickets were ___. They had bought a small box of popcorn and were sharing it happily. This young girl had saved her money to enjoy this daddy-daughter “___.” The father felt grateful to his daughter, ___ that things would return to normal ____.

【推荐3】A Race against Death

It was a cold January in 1925 in North Alaska. The town was cut off from the rest of the world because of the heavy snow.

On the 20th of that month, Dr. Welch _________ a sick boy, Billy, and knew he had diphtheria, a deadly infectious (传染的) disease mainly affecting children. The children of Nome would be _________ if it struck the town. Dr. Welch needed medicine as soon as possible to stop other kids from getting sick. _________ , the closest supply was over 1,000 miles away, in Anchorage.

How could the medicine get to Nome? The town’s _________ was already full of ice, so it couldn’t come by ship. Cars and horses couldn’t travel on the _________ roads. Jet airplanes and big trucks didn’t exist yet.

_______ January 26, Billy and three other children had died. Twenty more were _________. Nome’s town officials came up with a(n) _________. They would have the medicine sent by _________ from Anchorage to Nenana. From there, dogsled (狗拉雪橇) drivers — known as “mushers”—would __________ it to Nome in a relay.

The race began on January 27. The first musher, Shannon, picked up the medicine from the train at Nenana and rode all night. __________ he handed the medicine to the next musher, Shannon’s face was black from the extreme cold.

On January 31, a musher named Seppala had to __________ a frozen body of water called Norton Sound. It was the most __________ part of the journey. Norton Sound was covered with ice, which could sometimes break up without warning. If that happened, Seppala might fall into the icy water below. He would __________, and so would the sick children of Nome. But Seppala made it across.

A huge snowstorm hit on February 1. A musher named Kaasen had to brave this storm. At one point, huge piles of snow blocked his __________. He had to leave the trail (雪橇痕迹) to get around them. Conditions were so bad that it was impossible for him to   __________ the trail again. The only hope was Balto, Kaasen’s lead dog. Balto put his nose to the ground, __________to find the smell of other dogs that had traveled on the trail. If Balto failed, it would mean disaster for Nome. The minutes passed by. Suddenly, Balto began to __________. He had found the trail.

At 5:30 am on February 2, Kaasen and his dog __________ in Nome. Within minutes, Dr. Welch had the medicine. He quickly gave it to the sick children. All of them recovered.

Nome had been __________.