【推荐2】There once was a little boy who wanted to meet Angel. He knew it was a long trip to where Angel lived, so he packed his ______ with bread and a six-pack of root beer and he started his ______.

When he had ______ three blocks, he met an old woman. She was sitting in the park just ______ some pigeons blankly. The boy sat down next to her and ______ his suitcase. He was about to take a drink from his root beer when he noticed that the old lady looked ______, so he offered her some bread. She ______ accepted it and smiled at him. Her ______ was so pretty that the boy wanted to see it again, so he ______ her a root beer. Once again she smiled at him. The boy was ______! They sat there all afternoon ______ and smiling, but they never said a word.

As it grew ______, the boy realized how ______ he was and he got up to leave, but before he had gone more than a few steps, he ______, ran back to the old woman and gave her a ______. She gave him her biggest smile ever. When the boy opened the door to his own house a short time later, his mother was ______ by the look of joy on his face. She asked him, “What did you do today that made you so ______?” He replied, “I had ______ with Angel.” But before his mother could ______, he added, “You know what? She’s got the most ______ smile I’ve ever seen!”

【推荐1】“I just think, a year ago, at 54 years of age, I couldn’t swim. I was terrified at the thought of going into the water. Now, I have just _________ my 200 meters. It is all thanks to Everyday Swim.”

It’s never too late to learn swimming. Angela King, 55, is a perfect _________ of it. In August 2020, the family went to an attraction they hadn’t _________ for 15 years. Angela thought, “All this time, I still can’t swim. When I get back home tomorrow, I’m going to find out more about swimming _________.”

In the cold light of day, she felt a little _________, but her husband David searched the Internet for swimming classes. He found Everyday Swim at the local Hadleigh pool and _________ Angela to sign up. When she turned up for her first training, she said, “I felt a bit sick and _________, but this soon passed. The instructor really put me at ease; so did the other people in the class.”

As the lessons _________, she learned to become more _________ in the water. At first, it was a simple __________ of learning she wasn’t going to sink. Then during the third lesson, the Olympic gold medal winner Duncan Goodhew turned up to offer __________ “I couldn’t believe it. He held my hand and we all held hands in a circle and splashed under the water. What he did made me believe that I could __________.”

When the 10 lessons for £ 100 offer finished at the pool, she __________ to sign up for lessons. In fact, from originally being __________ of the water, Angela is now becoming a regular swimmer and __________ some certificates (证书) along the way

【推荐3】When Sheppard began to go blind in her 40s, she cried. Hadn’t she suffered too much since she became partly deaf as a child? That _______ had made her strong and determined.

“This isn’t fair,” she whispered. The doctors said she’d never regain her _______. Since childhood, Sheppard has always been a dancer. But she was so scared that she _______ left her apartment. She worried about her appearance. She wondered, “What if people _______ me differently?”

However, several months later, Sheppard wanted to show her work still _______. As hard as it was, Sheppard forced herself to _______. She attended a party for people with sight problems, and was shocked to find they all sat,still and physically _______. “No!” she told herself. “That’s not the way I want to live!” She pushed herself not to be _______.

Sheppard continued to work until her vision further _______ in her 50s. She kept dancing, just as her ________ since childhood had instructed her. Sheppard was 61 when she ________ a summer camp for the blind, where she taught line dancing. Then, she was invited to teach at a community center. Her classes proved to be so ________ that she was hired soon.

Sheppard taught over thirty students, most of whom were ________ whose eyesight had worsened. With ________, she equipped them with confidence and independence. These days, Sheppard ________ a light exercise class for those blind elders via conference call. As Sheppard says, we may be blind, but we can make a difference.