【推荐2】I grew up on stories about Ernest Shackleton and all the great polar explorers. I had a really ________ mental picture of what the environment they ________ might be like. Those tales of exploration were the reason why I got into travel ________ in the first place.

I had wanted to go to Spitsbergen for years. I was actually ______on a trip with my wife, but we had to cancel — for the ________ possible reason that she fell pregnant with our first child. A couple of years later, I got the ________ to shoot(拍摄)a story on the Noorderlich, a ship that gets ________ into the ice every year — just as the boats of the old explorers did when they ________ in the Arctic. I thought the experience would be _______ because I love riding snowmobiles and dog sleds but it didn’t quite turn out well. It was an eight-hour snowmobile journey from the capital Longyearbyen to the _______ . We rode through snowstorms and it was one of the ____things I’ve ever done. It was really quite _______ and we were ______ about on ice during the last part of the journey. I began to think: “This had better be _______ it.”

And then I saw the ship, lit by the moonlight. It looked so strange and frightening, ____ on its own in the middle of nowhere. I almost didn’t want to get close to it because it was so perfect in its _______. It was exactly how I had _____ it to be. _______experiences are rarely like that---there’s usually some disappointment ____ somewhere. When you have held a mental picture of a place since your childhood and you see that it exists in ______, it really is a dream that comes true.

【推荐3】World Cup soccer fans in Qatar cannot spend all of their time watching matches. So some of them _________ the desert outside Doha for camel rides and _________. They want to have a tourist experience between games. Business is _________ for the animal handlers. They are making much more money than usual. _________, the interest is causing trouble for the camels.

Ali Jaber AI Ali has been in Qatar for 15 years. He grew up loving camels and can _________ them by their faces. On a normal day, his company would _________ at most 50 rides. But in recent weeks, he and his team are giving 500 rides in the morning and 500 in the evening. There is a lot of money _________ in. Al Ali said. “Thank god, but it is a lot of _________.”

Before roads were built, camels were important to _________ and trade in Qatar. Now they are __________ used in racing and giving rides. Al Ali can __________ when they are tired. The camels will sit back down after standing up. In __________ times, the camels can __________ after every five rides, but now, they give 15 or more rides __________. With little time to rest, the camels are __________ by making loud sounds. So don’t make Qatar camels tired and thin.

【推荐1】Five years ago, I left my job to work on a ship. My friends said that working on a ship would _________my career, but I was willing to take the risk.

_________ for the adventure, I boarded a ship with 2,000 passengers and crew. To my _________, the ship was well equipped. That first voyage was a learning experience. There was so much new information to _________. Even remembering which uniform to wear each day was a _________. The most confusing thing was that I often forgot to _________ my clock when the ship crossed time zones.

As a doctor, I was _________ for the 600 crew. The ship’s medical center was _________ a floating emergency room, and we didn’t have a team of specialists for a second _________. With long hours’ work, it required a strong will.

As many of the passengers were elderly, heart attacks could __________ anywhere and emergency evacuations (疏散) were difficult to arrange. I remember one such patient, who was taken off the ship halfway. After a(n)__________ ride in an old ambulance, I was relieved that the patient arrived at a hospital safely.

Thankfully, the job had several unexpected benefits to me. I __________ the passenger facilities and I even __________ as a tour guide on trips ashore.

Now, I understand being a doctor on a ship is not a job － it’s a way of __________. I lose my career ambition, __________ I know what happiness is in my life.

【推荐2】We had just completed a unit on community heroes, and my kindergarten class assignment was to draw their favorite hero. Each child was occupied in _______ colorful drawings. Several students had _______ to draw their brothers and sisters or moms and dads. _______, one little boy named Cameron was having difficulty with the task. He was on the autism spectrum (自闭症谱系), but that didn’t _______ to me or his classmates. We all loved him just the way he was.

I sat and watched as Austin, another little boy in my class, _______ Cameron. Austin had a wonderful way of interacting with Cameron, and assisted him _______his hero. Within a few minutes, Cameron began drawing blue lines on his paper.

_______, it was time for everybody to _______ their hero pictures. I listened carefully to each student’s _______ of his or her hero. It was finally Cameron’s ________ to present his hero. Cameron stood up and anxiously________his drawing in front of his face for the purpose of avoiding eye contact. We all fixed our eyes on the picture. He then said it was a picture of me. He added that I helped him learn things and then sat down in relief. Tears began to form in my eyes, but I hadn’t ________ myself for what happened next.

When Austin stood up and shared his picture, I was ________ it would be a policeman, but he ________ me when he proudly held up a picture of Cameron. He said Cameron was his________because he had a sickness that made it________to learn, but he was like Superman and was really brilliant. Cameron immediately stood up, and suddenly put his arms up in the air as if he were going to ________and fly. He ________ yelled out, “I’m Superman!” The entire class began striking Superman poses, too. Within minutes, we were all laughing.

What had initially started out as a simple________on community heroes had transformed into a moment that changed my understanding of teachers’________ . Teachers should lead their children in discovering their own amazing qualities and helping them find their inner superhero.

【推荐3】Payeng’s tree-planting project began when he was 16, when flooding wiped away a large part of forest. Wild life were left without enough ____, and Payeng watched ____ creatures begin to die off from heat. Deeply ____, Payeng determined to grow trees all his life.

“I ____ the forest department and asked them if they could grow trees on the sandbar (沙洲). They said nothing would ____ there. ____, they asked me to try growing bamboo. It was ____, but I did it. What’s more, there was nobody interested to help me,” Payeng said.

Payeng started his forest by ____ bamboo saplings (幼树) every morning and evening. He even brought red ants to the sandbar to help ____ the soil. When his bamboo trees grew, Payeng decided to slowly ____ other species of trees into the sandbar.

Through his ____ act, Payeng changed the sandbar into a thick, green forest that ____ numerous birds, and wild animals. Payeng’s forest went largely ____ until 2008, when a team of state officials ____ it.

“We were surprised to find such a big ____ on the sandbar,” Gunin Saikia, Assam’s Assistant Conservator of Forests, said. “We are ____ at Payeng. He has been at it for 30 years.”

Now, Payeng makes a ____ with his family in the forest he planted by raising cows and selling milk, and he has his ____ set on planting a second forest on another 1,300-acre sandbar.

“It may take another 30 years, but I am ____ about it, “Payeng said ____.

【推荐1】On June 23, 1970, I had just left the Army after completing my one-year duty in Vietnam. I was on ________ returning home in Texas. I had been warned about the ________ of our fellow countrymen. There was no ______ welcome for us when we came home from that unpopular war.

I sat, in uniform, in a window seat, _______ eye contact with my fellow passengers. No one was sitting next to me, which added to my ________. A little girl suddenly appeared in the passage. She ________ and, without saying a word, ________ handed me a magazine. I accepted her ________, her quiet “welcome home”. All I could say was, “Thank you.” Her small gesture of ___________ was the first I had experienced in a long time.

I always believe in the connection between _________ when they reach out to come another.

That girl __________ has no memory of what happened years ago. She might have been told to do that by her mother. It doesn’t matter ________ she gave me the magazine. The ________ thing is that she did.

Since then, I have followed her ________ and tried in different ways for different people, to _________ for them. Like me on that plane ride long ago, they will _________ know why a stranger gave a hand. But I absolutely know that my _________ since then are all because of that little girl. Her kindness of offering a magazine to a ________, scared and lonely soldier has been __________ all through my life. I have to believe that my small ________ have the same effect on others. And to that girl , now a woman, I would like to say again: thank you.

【推荐2】Lauren Turner spied a vehicle speeding past him while on ________ , so the officer managed to stop the car. He ________the driver only to find an unbelievably________woman racing to get medical help for a 12-day-old baby.

Mom threw open the door and ________ the baby to Turner for help. She________just after drinking some milk, the baby named Ryleigh struggled and then fell weak and ________.

Without ________, Turner grabbed hold of the baby and made a(n) ________to recover her breath. "Come on, baby. Cry for me. Come on, open those eyes, sweetheart." Those ________words seemed to work. However, the baby started breathing and then stopped. Turner held her chin and rubbed her lip so __________she started over breathing. Turner sighed in __________and people around were applauding everything the officer did to __________the baby.

__________what he did, Turner received the Life-Saving Medal from Berkeley County. He also was __________to Ryleigh's first birthday _________and was thrilled to be a part of her big day.

When the doorbell rang at Turner's home a bit later, in walked Ryleigh and her mom. They had a __________for Turner, which almost brought him to tears. It was a card __________: “Will you be my godfather?”

Turner could __________believe that and his __________was “certainly”. What began as a most terrifying moment for a family with a baby on the point of death __________forming an amazing relationship between an officer and the baby whose life he saved.

【推荐3】I was ready to pay for my bananas at the grocery one night,when fear seized me.My wallet was gone.I could only have left it on the G9 bus,which was now speeding in the dark to some ____ station. 

The heart-stopping moment was quickly followed by mental math.How much time and money would it cost to replace the ____ of that little wallet?The credit cards,the driver’s license,the cash,all lost to the bus. 

Two hours later,back at my house,I heard a knock on the door.My husband ____ it while I was on the phone in the dining room.“Does Jennifer live here?”I heard a lady say.In my husband’s hand was my wallet,with not a penny missing.She left before I could ____ make it to the door to offer my thanks. 

After sharing the story online,I heard from someone,who identified the lady as Erin Smith.Without ____,I called to thank her.She said she ____ my wallet on a bus seat.She calculated that going to a stranger’s house was a ____ move,but she decided to take the chance.“If I were in that ____,I would want someone to try to find me,”she said. 

This one stranger responded beautifully to my small ____,but she actually wasn’t the only one.Right after Erin ____ my wallet on the bus,she posted a picture of my driver’s license to an online forum(论坛),trying to see ____ anyone knew me.No sooner did she leave my doorstep than I had emails from two women whose kids go to my son’s nursery and who recognized my face.I’ve never ____ words with those moms beyond small talk,but they wanted to help.I read that people are more divided than ever,but that’s not how the people I encounter tend to act. 

____,I feel blessed someone had wanted to help a stranger.Erin had gone ____what almost anyone would have done,finding my house on a bitterly cold night,and for that I was extremely ____.