【推荐1】Matt Shaha, 27, grew out his hair for two years to make it into a wig (假发) for his mom, Melanie Shaha, who has been _________with a benign tumor (良性肿瘤) since 2003.

Melanie underwent two _________to remove the tumor between 2003 and 2006, but it returned in 2017 and doctors _________radiation treatments. Three months later after radiation, she lost all her hair _________. “When you wear a hat everywhere, it makes you _________from the crowd,” she said. “I don’t mind being sick, but I do mind looking sick.”

Matt was _________to make his mom look like herself again when he saw his mother’s _________. Although his mother initially didn’t want to accept his _________, he persisted and grew 12 inches of hair by March 2022. And Matt had it cut and _________with a hairdresser to create a wig that month, Matt said, “The whole_________was super rewarding for me.”

By mid-June, the wig finally arrived, Melanie — wearing her son’s long blonde hair — said she felt _________that she could feel like herself again. “The coloring is a remarkable _________to my complexion (面色), as you can imagine, as we are family and _________the same coloring! Two years was a long time for him to have longhair. Matt _________so much to give such a thoughtful gift. I am able to have a more normal _________with it,” Melanie said.

【推荐3】My mother had a beautiful evening dress. Each time after wearing the dress, she always_________placed it in a box and hid it at the top of a wardrobe (衣柜). From time to time, it would be_________out of its box and shown to me, and as a small girl I would_________the day when I might be allowed to try it on. But that never_________

The wardrobe where the dress was_________happened to be in my bedroom. One day, I had a strong_________to try it on. I quickly pulled the dress over my head and then moved it slowly down. My mother’s waist must have been extremely_______as it fitted my waist with little room to spare.

Suddenly, I realized that my mother would be home_______, so I hurriedly undressed but I_________spilt a bottle of ink (墨水) over the dress. I was so__________that

I stuffed it into the box and pushed it back onto the wardrobe. I__________the fear throughout my teenage years that it would eventually be discovered with painful__________

Many years later, my mother grew old and became__________One day, I__________an afternoon tea with a group of her closest friends to keep her company. Somehow the__________turned to the dress and my mother said she could never understand how it got a terrible ink stain (污迹).

Suddenly, I found myself in front of my mother red-faced,__________washing over me. I was so__________that I forgot the outcome and finally told my mother the__________My mother forgave me as all the mothers do, and at last I was freed from that awful__________buried deep inside me from my childhood. Honesty gave me__________

【推荐1】Near the top, Peter and Michael had climbed onto a rock of the pine-covered mountainside to admire the view far below them. While climbing, Peter had _________ awkwardly to the ground, his leg bent at a painful angle beneath him. Unable to _________ , he was forced to wait where he was, wrapped in Michael’s jacket, while Michael _________ down the mountainside to fetch help.

Michael looked down on the mountainside from the window of the helicopter (直升机). He felt increasingly _________ , as it looked totally different from the _________ and the network of tiny paths was mostly _________ from view by the thick covering of pine trees. Worse still, the light was fading fast and a thick _________ of mist was starting to form. Eventually the _________ and the three mountain rescue workers in the helicopter agreed that they would have to go back and continue the search for Michael’s friend, Peter, on foot.

They had left the helicopter in the village and _________ a mountain rescue team of fifteen men. Michael felt scared for his friend’s __________ . Slowly they started searching the numerous paths for Peter. The only __________ were the footsteps and the noise on the walkie-talkies that the rescue workers carried to talk to each other. The mountainside was a __________ place after nightfall and gradually Michael started to __________ that they would never find Peter at all.

Suddenly Michael heard a voice come over one of the walkie-talkies, “We’ve got him. We’re taking him down. ” “I’m sorry,” said Michael to his friend the next day in the warm safety of the __________ , “I didn’t realize it would take so long to __________ you.”

【推荐2】Many years ago, I swam the English Channel and people think I’m a superhuman and fearless. Last year I _________ for a 10 km mass-participation swimming race. I _________ last year’s results and calculated that, at my current _________, I would probably have come last. I was _________ about pulling out.

But when January came around, I decided to have another _________. For a few months, I trained hard, but I didn’t get any _________. Then on June 5, the event kicked off at 9:30. As the day wore on, I somehow didn’t mind that, _________, almost everyone was ahead. Certainly, there were a _________ of swimmers still near me, and _________ we shared the same river, we quietly occupied our own spaces. As I __________ doing my own thing, I realized I was enjoying myself.

In the end, it took me four hours and 29 minutes to complete the __________ journey. As I struggled out of water, I was greeted with __________ cheers and applause. I noticed there were many swimmers, behind me, out of a __________ of around 300 event-goers. At that moment, I was just __________, proud and happy to finish. My __________ of coming last gently died away.

【推荐3】When Simon Beck creates artwork, he doesn’t use paint or pencils. _________, he takes his snowshoes and _________ and walks to a wide-open area of fresh _________. Mr. Beck makes huge designs in the snow by walking and leaving snowshoed footprints in _________ patterns.

The idea to make a snow picture _________ him after a day of skiing in France. Mr. Beck noticed an inviting area of undisturbed snow and _________ it would be fun to draw a _________ in it.

At that time, Mr. Beck _________ as a mapmaker. . He is also an expert at orienteering (越野识图比赛) an activity in which people race on foot to a destination they must _________ using a map and a compass. Mr. Beck used these __________ to create a perfect star in the snow.

He then __________ more details to the design. The result looked impressive, especially when he viewed it from above on a nearby hill. After fresh snow covered the artwork, Mr. Beck __________ again with a new design. Since then, he has continued to make snow artwork at the ski area.

__________, a snow design takes Mr. Beck 10 hours to make. Because he’s out in the cold all day, he dresses warmly and brings extra __________ in case he gets wet.

Mr. Beck has worked to build a collection of __________ to publish in his book Snow Art, which is popular in the world.