【推荐3】This week, I will hike along the Appalachian Trail alone to look for what can be hard to find in the city: solitude. In the _________, I can find places to be alone, but it is much harder to find true solitude. The _________ between cities and mountains is the secret I find that the _________ comforts.

For many people, the idea of being alone in mountains can be _________. It’s understandable because we are, _________, social animals. But being in the wild without others doesn’t mean being _________. In fact, it can be quite the _________. Life is there already. There are the bird calls in the air and frogs crossing the trail.

And there is more.

When you come to a(n) _________ where the sunlight makes it to the forest floor, you can sometimes catch a hint of something. I don’t know what to call it. Words _________. But it feels something like a root or a(n) ____________ song of the world’s own presence.

If that moment is just between you and the wild world, then you are ____________ indeed. That is when you can ____________ what Henry David Thoreau meant when he said, “I never found the ____________ that was so companionable as solitude.”

So, as the great John Muir ____________ it: “Keep close to Nature’s heart once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the wild to wash your ____________ clean.”

【推荐1】One morning a student was walking with his teacher when they noticed a pair of old shoes by the roadside. They ________ the shoes might belong to a poor man. In fact, the ________ of the shoes was working in a field nearby, and he had nearly ________ his work. The student said to his teacher, “Let’s play a trick on the man; we hide his shoes, and wait to see what he will do ________ he can’t find them.” “My young friend, we should never have ________ by tricking others like that,” answered the teacher. “________, let’s put a ________ in each of the shoes, and watch what he will do.” The student did so, and then they ________ nearby. The man soon came back to get his ________, but when he slipped his foot into one of his shoes, he felt something ________ in it. He bent down and found the coin (硬币). ________ appeared on his face. He looked at the coin for a minute, and then ________, but nobody could be seen. He then went on to put on the other shoes, ________ he was even more surprised to find the ________ coin. He then knelt down (跪下), looked up to heaven and said ________ aloud, in which he spoke of his wife, ________ and helpless, and his children without bread. The student was deeply moved (感动的), and his eyes were filled with tears. “Now,” said the teacher, “you must be much more pleased than if you had played your ________.” The boy replied, “You have taught me a lesson which I’ll never ________. I feel now the truth of these words, which I didn’t ________ before: “It is more blessed (神圣的) to ________ than to receive.”

【推荐3】Cardi B gave back to the middle school that “made her” who she was.

The rapper surprised students and staff at IS 232 in the Bronx on Sept. 13 and announced that she would be _______$100,000 to her alma mater (母校). Cardi shared in an Instagram post that she had been trying to visit the _______ since last year but couldn’t because of COVID-19 rules at the time.

“This middle school, IS 232 in the Bronx, has a very _______ place in my heart! It turned me from an 11-year-old girl into a little teenage _______,” the artist wrote. “Kids in the Bronx have to grow up _______ due to our circumstances and environment. While some young teens like around 11-13 still live in that Disney world, these kids have to _______ fast and quickly.”

She _______ that like a lot of those kids, she went through so much while attending middle school. “Those experiences changed me forever and _______ me who I am today,” she wrote, adding that she hopes her donation “can help _______ an amazing after school program that will help ________ stay out of the streets or a troubled home and ________ allow them to learn something that they can take with them through ________.”

Cardi went on to ________ Community Capacity Development and its founder and executive director K. Bain for ________ with her and helping her visit other schools and programs in Queens and Brooklyn. “I love being ________ to help young kids however I can,” she said.

WNBC reporter Kay Angrum shared video of the moment when Cardi ________ everyone.

“We are thrilled to welcome Cardi B back ________ to IS 232 in the Bronx, and we are so grateful for her ________ contribution to her alma mater,” said Schools Chancellor David Banks in a statement. “Cardi B’s ________ of $100K for the arts will help the school’s kids ________ their highest heights. Thank you, Cardi!”