【推荐1】The e-mail request came in to Ekiben Restaurant in Baltimore late on a Thursday afternoon. Brandon was writing on behalf of his mother in-law, Rina, a/an _________ customer of the restaurant. For the past six years, every time she visited Baltimore, the first place she wanted to go was Ekiben so she could order that one dish--broccoli tempura (西兰花天妇罗). Brandon _________ she was now in the final stages of lung cancer at her home in Vermont and that he was hoping to get the_________ to make it for her there.

Steve Chu, one of the restaurant’s co-workers, read the email and quickly replied with an alternative _________. He wrote, “ We’d like to make it _________ for you in Vermont.”

That Friday after work, Chu _________ his truck with a hot plate and some cooking facilities filled with ingredients and then headed for Vermont with his two _________. They stayed overnight in an Airbnb rental and _________ the next day to Vermont.

On their arrival, they _________ the gate of the truck, hooked (钩住) the hot plate to the truck’s power port, and started __________. They also made tofu with peanut sauce and fresh herbs. After neatly __________ everything up, they knocked on their customer’s door. As soon as Rina opened the door, she __________ the fragrance.

Brandon said his mother in-law was so __________ to enjoy her beloved broccoli with a side order of remarkable __________ one last time.

“It was an honor to help fulfill the family’s __________.” Chu said.

【推荐2】As my dad got a new job in southern Florida, we moved here from our old home, school, friends and everything. There were so many_______for me. In a new school full of strangers, could I make friends? Would I _________? My mind was filled with_______.

Being shy and quiet, I read a lot. Loving books and reading helped me get excellent results. Teachers _______me for that. But other kids disliked me getting top_______and answering questions in class. I felt like a ( n ) _______.

Then one day, a tall strong boy in English class walked right over to me. He_______himself. He said he was on the school basketball team. I _______that - he was the star player!

“ Hey,” he said.“ Do you think you could _______ me? You do really well in English class.” I could, and________I would. From that moment on, life at school________. Basketball players walked me to classes and ________ me in hallways. As the team tutor (导师), I fit in. Nobody ________me anymore. I was thankful to be________enough to help the team.

I taught the guys about grammar. They taught me how to dribble (运球) a basketball. More importantly, they gave me the________to be myself - and to be a short girl who really knew how to dribble a basketball!

【推荐2】The first signs of distress came not with panic, but positivity, “Hope you all are feeling safe and at peace sitting down with your family,” one influencer wrote, paired with a selfie _________ her adorable children in pajamas. The new coronavirus provided an opportunity to reflect, to _________, to use code RACHEL for 30 percent off on home fitness classes.

The influencers carried on in a casual dress, drinking coffee, modeling a sense of _________ in the face of disaster.

Privately, though, some influencers have watched with a growing sense of fear as the world collapses, taking their earning potential with it. Brand deals have dried up; sponsored posts have been delayed. The great reckoning (算总账) is unlikely to destroy the influencer industry—by now, it’s already too big—_________ the business of influence is going to change. “If you think about the way an economic recession works, some companies survive and some companies don’t,” says Angela Seits, senior director at the digital agency PMG “I think that could be _________ to what happens in the influencer industry.

For years, the influencer economy has operated in _________ times. Large marketing budgets funded closets full of expensive clothes and paid vacations to exotic resorts. With more Americans taking cues from social media about where and what to buy, _________ had started to go all in; a survey by Mediakix, an influencer marketing agency, found that 17 percent of companies spent over half their marketing budget on influencers in 2020 One report estimated that influencer marketing would grow to $9.7 billion in 2021.

It’s not all mega-influencers, either. Micro-influencers, who have targeted followings under 100,000 make up the _________ of the industry. Even people with just a few thousand followers can earn hundreds of dollars for a single sponsored post. It’s not hard to earn an income this way. Eight-year-olds can do it, provided some adult   _________.

As the new coronavirus sends the world dashing toward a recession, though, more appealing aspects of the influencer lifestyle have come to a(n)   __________. Paid trips have no place amid lockdowns, nor do street-style photo shoots to model __________ clothes. And it’s not clear that those opportunities will reappear in the future — __________, not for everyone. “The pandemic is having a major impact on the overall influence industry, and it’ll likely have lasting effects, “ says Seits.

For one thing, there’s just __________ money to go around As of March, the market research firm eMarketer found that about a third of influencers were already seeing fewer collaborations. Some of those may return as the economy recovers, but other brands will cut ties with influencers who haven’t shown they can __________ sales. Even before the pandemic, ‘‘brands were already starting to __________ longer-term cooperation with influencers versus one-off partnerships,” says Jasmine Enberg, a senior analyst at eMarketer. Now, Enberg expects that trend to accelerate.

【推荐3】As a nurse, Fawcett jumps around from the emergency room to the COVID-19 units upstairs. The unique _______ has allowed her to see all aspects of the disease—from patients on their death beds to those _______ enough to recover. But her fellow nurses in the emergency room have been so _______ and helpless, who don’t see any light at the end of this dark tunnel. “The patients are just _______ ,” the nurse said.

At a morning meeting, Fawcett decided to _______ what she witnessed with her fellow nurses. It really gives them a little _______ in their step. Fawcett has worked overtime since an old man was admitted. “This man came in, looking very _______ . His wife was accompanying him,” she recalled. “We cried together and _______ together. I did not think he was going to make it.” However, the turning point came a week later. He had been taken off the ventilator(呼吸机)and was _______ . He was sitting in a chair, smiling at his wife! It was just ________ .

The ________ has become a motivation for the nurses who struggle to keep up their ________ during growing pandemic(流行病). They feel more ________ to everyone there because they’re all going through this war together. ________ the awesome death rate, they are firmly convinced that the pandemic will surely pass and everything will ________ be fine.