【推荐1】Get ready! Robots are now teaching English. Robots are about to_________ our classrooms. From Korea to Japan to the United States, schools are putting English-speaking robots in front of their students. In Korea, robots are the new teaching assistants in some kindergartens.

The young students say that the robots are_________, but are these children really learning anything?

I_________think a computer will ever be able to do what a teacher does. A teacher has to be able to respond to students as _________. Each student is different, and a teacher has to _________ his or her teaching style to fit the needs of the students. I seriously doubt that a computer will ever be able to do this even though the big data is widely used in the world.

【推荐3】Until recently in the developed world, most married couples adopted traditional roles, with the husband working outside the home and the wife taking care of the children and the house. Although many families still follow this_______ , those roles have become less _______ . A number of factors have contributed to this change. _______, perhaps as a consequence of feminism (女权运动), people have begun to _______ that one’s _______ should not determine one’s role. As a _______, people feel they have “_______” to decide what they want to do in life. It’s no longer _______ for men to want to be the primary caregiver or homemaker. Similarly, many women would _______ to enter the working world instead of staying at home. Moreover, a large number of women have ________ advanced academic professional training,________ them with a significant earning potential.

On the other hand, factors other than personal choice have ________ to the fluidity (不稳定性) of gender roles. Life has become more expensive and it’s ________ for a family to exist on only one income, requiring married women to leave the home to ________ money to help support the family. ________ , the number of two-income households has________ rapidly. And despite the fact that women on average still earn ________ than men for the same job, their incomes have become an ________ component of survival and prosperity in today’s world. In similar fashion, a man’s decision to ________ at home may not be voluntary. In the event he has lost his job, his decision to stay at home might be one of ________, not choice.

【推荐1】83-year-old Mary Pan is the grandmother of Hart Park. Every weekday sees her take lunch to the _________ people living in the park. With money from her savings, she buys food, then prepares and _________ it to the men and women there.

Because Pan _________ them to eat all their vegetables and drink their milk, some call her grandma. “She makes me _________ my grandmother because she’s always trying to get me to eat too _________,” said Pete Sellers, who has been homeless for three years.

Pan is modest about her _________ to help the homeless. She believes she’s simply doing what’s necessary to help get them _________. It’s her habit to brush aside people’s praises.

On Tuesday the men and women who live in the park will _________ Pan’s 84th birthday: They’ll make her lunch. “I’m _________. She’s not going to have to do anything,” said Pete. Nothing comes __________ for the homeless and their __________ goes to her.

Pan believes helping others is her purpose in life. She also inspires her friends and relatives to __________ food and clothes. “Too many things are __________ in this world. We throw away enough food to feed a nation,” she sharply pointed out.

“I think I have what it __________ to be a selfless person,” Pan said. “I don’t need __________ things. I came into this world with nothing and I am going to leave it with nothing.”

【推荐2】82-year-old Willie Ortiz, an old solider, has a special love for cats. It started in 1995, when he _______ a hungry stray cat begging for food. While people were ignoring and driving the cat away, Ortiz instantly _______ that it needed help.

He started feeding the cat, which led him to a shocking _______ that there were several colonies of stray cats throughout Hartford in need of food and proper _______ . Since then, Ortiz has devoted his life to looking after stray cats. He would do it regardless of the weather; the only _______ was when it was snowing so much. Though not everyone understood his _______ , people’s negative feedback did not stop him from doing what he wanted.

However, the _______ of the cats’ medical care increased as he collected more cats. To continue his _______ , he has led something of a _______ life: by day he collects scrap metal to fund his continuing evening activity to help homeless cats. His friend Kathleen Schlentz set up a GoFundMe for Ortiz’s cats to help the kind veteran and to ________ his noble work.

“I have never met a more ________ person; Ortiz unknowingly ________ me in so many ways. I feel ________ to know a person like him. Knowing him has made my life better,” wrote Schlentz.

Willie Ortiz ________ that though he has a big and happy family, his life became even more ________ when he started feeding stray cats. While his calling is difficult, this is his life, and it brings him joy.

【推荐3】I’ve been into voluntary work since childhood. As a girl, I volunteered at animal _________ , played music at nursing homes, and _________ with community clean-up after tornadoes. In college, I volunteered _________ at a large conference every year for young adults, which is where I _________ my husband-to-be, who was on my team of co-volunteers. Since getting married in 2013, we’ve been _________ in Beirut, Lebanon.

Volunteering has been a way of life for me for a very long time, and I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t _________it. I can tell stories about special moments when I really _________ I was making a difference. Back when I was a junior in _________ , a group of friends and I volunteered to _________ to a distant nursing home which had only a few elderly members on a weekend. The building was in disrepair and the yard __________ attention. We stayed in the home of one of these old ladies that   __________ so we could clean and repair the nursing home. I’ll never forget how new life shone in her eyes as she ________ her house for us and brought a steady stream of frozen peach smoothies. She couldn’t   __________ broken doors or pull weeds, but she loved us like nothing else. It __________ my heart to remember this old lady smiling with joy for such small efforts that we __________ . Sometimes, volunteer work is __________ not because of the actual job you get done, but because of how your presence __________ the people around you.

Volunteering makes me a better person because it gets me __________ of myself. It puts my   __________ on others. It makes me   __________ for what I have.