【推荐1】During university, I moved to New Zealand for a working holiday. A friend I made there________me that my time in New Zealand would not be complete without going bungee jumping-________, it was invented there.

So we headed to Queenstown. We both________the Nevis Bungy, the highest bungee jump in New Zealand with an astonishing 134-meter________. After signing our lives away, we were________in a minibus and driven out to a canyon.

As we approached the canyon. I began to________a small metal structure hanging in the middle of the canyon by a wire. Fear________as soon as I realized that I was going to have to________out of that structure.

I tried to remain calm as I stepped out of the minibus and got________into the harness (保护带).________, I lost my calmness as soon as I stepped into the________that would take us out to the hanging structure. We slowly________out into thin air, and just the________in the basket was enough to get an adrenaline (肾上腺素) rush.

I was the________to jump, so I sat in the hanging structure watching each person get their feet tied together and________into the canyon depths.

It was in the moment, watching people________the jump, that I learned a lesson. As the employees counted down, some people hesitated, while others did not. Once they________themselves, there was no building the________back up again. It was only those people who pushed against their fears and jumped—no second guessing—who were________.

The hardest part is taking the leap. When it was my turn to go, I was________. But I made it.

【推荐3】Two heroic teenage lifesavers were praised after rescuing a drowning man from Lake Mul-wala.

Grace Creenaune, 17 and Erica Montgomery, 18 were on duty ________ as lifeguards at the local water park on Tuesday, when two men bought tickets to go into the park.

Staff ________ the men had been drinking and they were ________ to leave. After getting their money back, the men left quietly crossing the road to Lake Mulwala where they ________ into the water. They were swimming out of sight of the staff when one of them got into ________. So his partner ran for ________, straight back to the park where they had been asked to leave.

Grace said that was when their training ________. “He was probably about 20 metres out, and when we got to him, he was completely underwater and we ________ to pulled him back onto shore,” Grace said.

The pair had ________ been lifeguards for a short period of time. Erica said it was quite a(n)________. “Looking back on it now it’s a lot more ________ than it was at the time.”

The girls’ boss said she was extremely ________ of them, saying they had put themselves in danger. “There is no ________ that if they had no training or quick response, the man would not have ________,” she said. “I really appreciate their courage to take the ________.”

【推荐1】Joe Whale is known worldwide for his black-and-white doodles (涂鸦) and all paintings. Nicknamed the “Doodle Boy”, he has more than 100,000 ________ on Instagram.

Joe, who is 12 years old, lives in England. He has been ________ art since he was a small child. “I always ________on the blackboard, which made my ________ angry, and brought me much ________. So now I just do a few in school.” Joe told me in a recent interview by video.

Fortunately, his parents recognized his ________ and signed him up for an art club. When the art club ________some of Joe’s doodles on Instagram, a local ________ asked Joe’s dad if he could doodle on their wall. It proved to be a real ________ to customers.

“I wasn’t really ________ painting on a tall ladder (梯子), so it took me about 12 hours to ________ do it all,” Joe said. He developed his painting further, as his ________ increased with every doodle he made.

Joe has some favorite ________ in his artwork, including aliens (外星人) and monsters. If he gets ________, he uses his surroundings for inspiration.

Joe ________ all kids to have fun with art. He thinks that it’s ________ to trust your own heart, even if you are ________ . “If you’re doodling, be creative,” Joe said. “Most importantly, have fun doing what you ________.”

Joe is the illustrator (插画家) of a new playful ________ by Eric Luper called Bad Food: Game of Scones. The book is ________ with Joe’s black-and-white doodles.

【推荐2】As the saying goes, “Interest is the seed of everything”. Since childhood, Cantero had been living with football that had a _________ effect on her. She had always loved football as well as art, and fortunately she found a way to _________ the two things.

Lili Cantero prepared a new colorful show of her works to take to the World Cup in Qatar. The 29-year-old artist was famous for _________ soccer shoes for stars. Her new artworks included shoes and balls with pictures and designs. Many of them were _________ by the Middle Eastern nation, Qatar, and especially its capital Doha brought her lots of _________ ideas. The city welcomed national teams from the world to _________ in the World Cup.

Cantero _________ sent a pair of shoes to Argentine star Lionel Messi. The shoes had fancy details with black and white image of the _________ and his family. She didn’t know if Messi would even receive the shoes. But _________, she received a photo of Messi holding them. That marked a turning point in her__________. Then her colorful designs __________ other stars. She even met a famous former Brazilian star and gave him a pair of __________ and a football showing a kiss his mother had given him after winning an award in 2005.

In Qatar, Cantero planned to show eight footballs with designs that showed her __________ for eight countries winning the World Cup, thinking that they were __________ of the admiration of all. Finally, the footballs were the centerpiece of the World Cup exhibition, while the boots were presented within three-dimensional __________ looking like the stadiums that Qatar built for the World Cup.