【推荐1】Christy Nielson’s first memory of having a migraine(偏头痛) was in her third grade. She remembers a _________ headache that made it difficult for her to get home from school. And she didn’t have the words at the time to _________ the pain to her parents. Now 45, Nielson, a writer, not only has the words but a(n) _________ to the severe headaches that have _________ her since childhood.

In order to release herself from the _________, she often took several pills. “When one headache hit, I would show my husband the pills in my hand _________ if anything happened to me, he would know what was in my _________,” said Nielson.

“One day, one of my friends _________ a namropath (理疗师) named Nicola to me, and I _________ I should have a try.” She __________. Nicola tested her for possible __________ after listening attentively to Nielson’s symptoms (症状). While awaiting __________, Nicola put Nielson on a strict diet for 30 days, making her only __________ fruit, vegetables, and meat. “The first week of the __________ was very difficult,” Nielson recalled. “It was __________, but on day 13, it was as though a veil (面纱) lifted. Not only was the __________ gone, but I was energetic.” The lab results showed that Nielson __________ a severe sensitivity (过敏) to eggs and wheat, which had been in her diet as long as she could __________.

“I grew up eating a __________ diet like other Americans. But I had been in fact __________ myself for much of my life,” she said. Today, Nielson says the migraines are gone for good.

【推荐2】Since I was 12 years old, I’ve suffered from a condition called Compulsive Hair Pulling(强迫性拔毛症). The physical destruction was severe, but the emotional ____ was worse. When I was young, no one, ____ my doctor, knew how to help me. I was alone.

Growing up, I didn’t ____ anywhere and I suffered great shame knowing I’d brought this ____ upon myself. My hands seemed to have a ____ of their own. “What’s wrong with me，” I’d often wonder. Sometimes, people asked about my ____ of eyelashes(眼睫毛) and eyebrows. I was lonely, but I kept people at a distance. However, each night, ____ I fell asleep, I’d pray for wisdom, and for God to send someone who ____.

Then when I was 25, I read a letter from a mom whose child suffered from the same illness. I could ____ believe my eyes. After all these years, I discovered, I was not ____.

At that moment, my journey for ____ began. I took small ____ at first—telling only a few friends. Some of them tried to understand. Then, they began to ____ their secrets with me. I learned to see ____ the way God saw me, someone ____ love.

One day, my ____ happened. A friend called with wonderful news. She just met a woman with Compulsive Hair Pulling—someone just like me. She gave me her phone number. I was ____. I quickly dialed(拨电话), and from the minute Christina answered, we began to chat like old friends, both thrilled to find someone who understood our pain. We ____ to meet soon, only to find we lived only two blocks away.We immediately____ our phones, and in the dark of night, ran outside to the nearby parks in our pajamas, ____ we hugged, cried and talked for hours. I felt I’d just met my long lost twin, someone who understood my pain and struggles.

【推荐3】Year 2020 has witnessed the nation’s battle with the novel coronavirus pneumonia (肺炎). To prevent the _________ from spreading further, people from all over China have been making changes to their everyday lives.

Most people take their _________, wear masks, wash their hands often and don’t go out _________ it’s necessary. One of the most _________ changes was that many Chinese people didn’t _________ to celebrate the Spring Festival, a tradition that _________ over 4,000 years ago.

Indeed, people have _________ chosen to stay home to prevent further human-to-human spread.

The situation is quite unusual. Many schools and places of work have _________ their return date, although that didn’t stop _________ and students from working and studying at home.

February 17 was planned to be the first day of the new term. On that day, many teachers began __________ online lessons. Bored at home, some people began to learn new things to __________ their newfound time, such as baking a cake or knitting a sweater.

The film Contagion (2011) showed the worst-case scenario (可能的情况) after a worldwide epidemic. Fortunately, the situation in China couldn’t be more __________ than the movie. Rather than __________ and food storage, everything has worked out rather well in China so far. More than 30,000 healthcare workers in over 100 medical teams gathered and thousands of __________ workers came to build hospitals in Wuhan, Hubei province. Thousands of volunteers are working nonstop to help deliver supplies and ________ the affected regions.

It’s not the first time people have come together during a natural __________. When Hurricane Katrina hit the US in 2005, over 60,000 people, from both the affected communities and outside it, __________. These helpers brought food and water, removed waste and searched for __________ victims on rooftops.

“It’s a popular myth (谬见) that when disasters strike, people fall into __________. In reality, we’re more likely to rush in to help others than run past them to __________ ourselves,” wrote American psychologist Kelly Caldwell in Pacific Standard. “It’s an exercise in mass healing (集体治疗).”

【推荐3】Last week, we went to the park again. My little five-year-old daughter Ruthie seemed _________ standing at the base of the huge rock climbing wall. On our first visit, Ruthie had _________ me to let her try climbing the wall, but I had _________ her, afraid that she was undersized. _________, this time the tiny girl made it to the top, while kids twice her size _________ about halfway up. When she touched the _________, I asked, “How do you do that?”

“I just do it,” she said with a shrug, and started on her second pass. Seemingly, if l learnt the _________, I could climb the wall myself. _________ I doubted if I could even do it, with a little _________ I entered the arena (运动场). As I began my __________, I was excited by my own __________ for trying something so difficult. Then, only ten feet up, my __________ and my toes started to tire, and there was __________ no place to rest. My __________ disappeared with the anxiety that I was going to __________ and fall.

__________ will lock up our muscles and minds. To perform well, we have to stay relaxed. “Just do it,” I __________ myself, climbing bravely. One, two, three----I was at the top. I did it!

That day on the rock wall __________ me in my life. Whenever __________ envelope me in icy anxiety, I continue moving by __________ myself of the secret of doing something hard and scary: Just do it.

【推荐3】I was turning 65 in the fall. My mind was filled with ________ of a future loaded with bad senior moments. So how should I ________ the milestone? I knew I needed to shake off the ________ and celebrate my good health. An idea soon followed — I would________ five kilometres with my kids on my 65th birthday. I called it “5 at 65”.

After I mapped out a six-month plan, the ________ began. I started the first week with walking alternating with jogging. I jogged so slowly that I would have ________more ground if I had walked. But gradually my slow jog turned into a slow run, and the walking ________ decreased in length and number.

In mid-July I shared my ________ of “5 at 65” with my kids. With my secret out, there was no turning back. However, there were days when it was ________ to get out the door. The numbers that ordinarily ________ me became my enemy. Small hills became mountains. My legs ________ their new challenge. But the good days far outnumbered the bad ones, and I kept going.

I woke on the day of the birthday run feeling ________. But my nerves calmed as soon as we started. I set the ________ and there was no pressure to be fast. The kids regularly called out the distance and ________ me to keep running. I finished!

Becoming a senior might not be so________ after all.