【推荐1】After being closed for a long time due to the epidemic, yesterday the local charity store opened again. I’ve always enjoyed shopping there, not so much for the bargain _______ on used clothes and books as for the _______ to explore.

But one experience always _______ in my mind. That day, I was at the store looking through the _______ for something I hadn’t read before. Suddenly, I _______ a tiny little voice. A small girl, about four years old, was sitting I sitting on the floor, totally _______ in the words she knew or not. It brought back a flood of _______ of me teaching my own daughter to read and I smiled _______ at her. “You read really well,” I said. She looked up at me with a big, _______ smile and then continued to read. I turned back and checked through the bookshelves again, ________ her sweet voice to fill me while I looked. ________ her mother finally told her it was time to go, she put her book back     ________ and smiled up at me again. Then she took a ________ forward, put her arms around my waist, and gave me a     ________ hug. All at once, I felt my heart warm, my eyes ________, and my face smile. I patted her on her back gently and she just ________ away to her Mom. It was just a ________. Yet, it will live in my soul forever.

What ________ things a kind word and a gentle hug can be! They can ________ into a heart and change it forever. They can turn a life around. The power to give and share ________ is the greatest power in the whole world.

【推荐2】I was working as a lifeguard at Tower 15 on Newport and two blocks to my right was another guard named Mike, working at Tower 17. He called me over the phone and said, “Hey, I have _________ two kids who are swimming in the dangerous zone. I have to give them a warning. Keep an eye on us.” I said “Sure.” In case of _________, anytime we got out of our tower, we were supposed to _________ somebody else.

Mike hung up the phone and _________ the lifebuoy (救生圈). Then he realized that these two kids had been _________ and that there was a great tendency for them to be _________ by the wave. _________, Mike rushed toward the ocean. I _________ the water and all I found was two small heads. The mother of the two kids knelt (跪) down on the beach with _________.

When I dropped my binoculars (望远镜) and reached the mother, Mike was in waist-deep water, ____________ the two kids. I turned to the mum and said, “Hey, it’s OK. They are safe.” I saw the terror started to ____________. Then she glanced back and got her first good look at Mike. A new kind of ____________ washed over her face as though there was another threat to her kids’ lives. She snatch (抢) her kids without ____________.

Mike had some seemingly ____________ behavior, and his shaved head showed a scar. Maybe he had no ____________ manners, but his lifesaving ability ____________ his unsatisfactory skills in PR (public relation). In the mother’s ____________, Mike was a really terrible guy. However, that couldn’t change the fact that he had just ____________ her kids.

Mike just glanced at me and smiled. As I jogged back to my tower, I promised myself I’d never let my own ____________ prevent me from ____________ a hero when I meet one.

Sometimes people come into your life. You know that they will help you_______out who you are or who you want to become. You never know_______these people may be，possibly your roommate, neighbor, or even a complete stranger. But when you_______eyes with them, you know at that very moment they will_______your life in some way.

And sometimes things happen to you that may seem_______at first, but in reflection you find that without them you would have never_______your potential ability.

Everything happens for a_______ Nothing happens by chance or_______good luck. Illness, injury, love all occur to test the_______of your soul. Without these small tests, life would be like a__________road to nowhere. The people affecting your life, and the__________and failure you experience, help to create who you are and who you become. __________ the bad experiences can be learned from, for they are__________the most important ones. If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, because they are__________you to love. If someone hurts you,__________ them, for they have helped you learn about__________and the importance of being cautious.

Make every day__________ Appreciate every moment, for you may never be able to __________ it again. Tell yourself you are a great individual and__________yourself. Create your own life and then go out and live it with absolutely no__________ Most importantly, if you LOVE someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

In the United States more than 80 colleges now accept just only women. Most of them were founded in the 19th century. They were set up to ______ women the education they could not get anywhere else. At that time _______ of the universities and colleges ________only men. In the past 20 years many young women have_________ to study at colleges that accept both men and women. As a _______, some women’s colleges decided to accept men students, too. Others still refused to change. Now the women’s colleges are ________ again.

The president of Trinity College in Washington D. C said by the end of the 1980s women had come to ______ that studying at the same colleges with men and women did not mean       ______had the same chance to _______ . The president of Smith College in Massachusette said “A women’s college ________ women to choose classes and activities   ______ . For example, if a woman student wants to learn maths, she will be given the chance. So the percentage of students who like to study maths in a women’s college is _______ than that in a college with men and women. ”

Experts say men students in the United States ________ have enough courage to speak in class.       _____ , women students can’t. In a women’s college, women feel free to say   _______ they want to. According to a report, women colleges also _______leadership ability in many fields. At a women college, every ______ office is held by women. Recent studies ________ that this leadership continues after _______ . The studies also prove that it is easier for the American women who went to women’s college to _________successful jobs later in life. Maybe that is why this kind of college is liked by people now.

【推荐1】How to Avoid the Coronavirus? Wash Your Hands

As a New York Times journalist in China, I covered the SARS outbreak in 2002 and 2003, during which a novel coronavirus was first detected in Guangdong. My two children _______elementary school in Beijing throughout the outbreak.       

The International School of Beijing, _______ my children were students, was one of the_______in the capital that stayed _______throughout the SARS outbreak.       

The school instituted a bunch of simple precautionary (预防的) policies: a strict note to_______reminding them not to send a child to _______ who was sick and warning them that students would be screened for _______ with ear thermometers (耳温枪) at the school door. There was no _______ of food at lunch. The teacher led the kids in _______ hand washing throughout the day at classroom __________, while singing a prolonged “hand washing song” to __________ that they did more than a cursory (草率的) pass __________ the tap with water only.          

With those precautions __________, I observed something of a public __________ miracle (奇迹): Not only did no child get SARS, but __________ seemed that no student was sick with anything at all for __________on end.

The World Health Organization __________ the SARS outbreak controlled in July 2003. But, oh, those __________ continued. The best first-line defenses __________SARS or the novel coronavirus or most any virus at all are the ones that Grandma and common __________taught us, after all.

【推荐2】I used to think my life was perfect. My mom had her dream job and a beautiful office, and I had my own room with a computer and a garden to _________. But one Sunday, everything changed. A hurricane _________ our neighborhood while we were visiting my grandparents in Raleigh. Our kitchen was damaged, and our clean and comfortable home was in ruins.

But something _________ happened. Our neighbors, the Flores family, came to our help. They helped clear broken pieces and _________ us a place to stay. Their _________ was most impressive. We had _________ spoken to them before, but they _________ their home to us and made us feel like family.

We started a new _________ of having weekend dinner together. We invited other families from the neighborhood to join us, and our _________ were filled with laughter and delicious food. It was a beautiful thing to see our __________ come together in a disaster.

I never knew Rosica, their daughter, before the hurricane. But she quickly became my friend. She had a gift for __________, and our evenings together were filled with adventure and __________ .

Looking back, I realize that the hurricane __________ unexpected advantages. It brought us closer to our neighbors and __________our lives in ways we never could have imagined. Sometimes, it takes a(n) __________ to bring out the best in people.

From the time I was seven, I had a dream of becoming a member of the Students Union. I always ________my school leaders for taking responsibility for all of us. So I dreamed of being a leader.

Years flew by, and soon I was able to take part in the election(选举), _______I would win. But the reality proved that I hadn’t had a chance. I wasn’t pretty. Girls in the school hardly knew me. I just did not have what it _______to win a school election. I was_______

As I cried in my room that evening, I suddenly took a deep breath and decided I wouldn’t stop dreaming. I decided that I would _______ for elections again in my final year at school—and I would _______the election.

I recognized that my _______ had a lot of things in their favor. What were in ________favor? I had good grades, and I was friendly and helpful. And my biggest ________was the faith I had. I would not allow my plain appearance to hold me _________from my heading forward. That evening, I _________my election plans a whole year ahead of time.

I realized that girls would have to get to know me and recognize that I had the ability to ________ them. I loved making friends and I liked being helpful, _________I decided that perhaps I could use these qualities to win. In order to learn how to give a great election   ________, I also attended a course on effective public speaking.

The day after the election, when the headmaster announced I won the second highest number of votes, the students ________ . That joy on the faces of all my friends showed me that my victory was ________theirs.

Suddenly, I realized that I had ________ much more than I had dreamed of. I had made many new friends and had helped people along the way. I had won the ________and love of my schoolmates and they ________me as somebody who would stand by them. I was able to put a smile on their faces and ________their day.