【推荐1】I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a goods yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I can dimly remember the ______ of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a(n) catastrophe(灾难) can do strange things to people.

It ______ to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don’t mean that I would prefer to ______ without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.

Life, I believe, asks for a continuous series of ______ to reality. In spite of the fact that they are never easy, I had my parents and teachers to help. The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have ______ and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself, I am not talking about ______ the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an ______ staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite ______ , a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself ______ .

It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball, I thought he was laughing at me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words ______ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it ______ . This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ______ : playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.

All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to achieve them, one at a time. I had to learn my ______ . It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of ______ because that only ______ the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway, but on the average, I made progress.

【推荐3】Entrepreneur （企业家）Brian Hamilton used to occupy himself with a six-figure job. But his life _______ in a prison. He wasn't _______ prison； he was accompanying his friend, Robert J. Harris, who went to local prisons to do ministry work frequently. During the   _______, Hamilton started talking to a prisoner and _______ what he was going to do when getting out. “He said he was going to get a job," Hamilton recalls. “I _______ myself, wow, that's going to be _______ with a criminal background. ”

The_______made Hamilton consider how the prisoners could_______from entrepreneurship. So in 2008， Hamilton _______ a nonprofit organization called Inmates to Entrepreneurs that     ________ people with criminal backgrounds to start their small business. He and Harris taught their   ________ course at a minimum security prison called “How to Start Your Own Business when You Get Out".

At the time, Hamilton was ________ his own company, Sageworks. As Sageworks grew, so did Hamilton's time ________ on entrepreneurship courses. __________, Hamilton decided it was time to transfer his ________ to the courses. In 2018, he sold his stake （股份）in Sageworks to ensure his ________ to Inmates to Entrepreneurs.

He planned to________the nonprofit as well as change the model to include online curriculum options. In addition, he visited schools and________ the curriculum to at-risk students as a preventative measure against imprisonment and provided loans （贷款）to small businesses.

Though he has received much praise, Hamilton insists he's not a（n） ________ person as a once profit-seeking businessman. “I just did what I knew to do. As an entrepreneur, there was a   ________, and I wanted to find a solution. he said.

【推荐1】A dozen children ran around laughing and playing in the yard, while we parents sat chatting. The barbecue had been cleared away when our host announced a(an) _________. A huge movable rock wall was loaded in with indented footholds (凹陷的立足点) that stretched straight up for what looked like at least a hundred feet. The_________kids rushed towards the wall. They swiftly_________to give it a try, and with the complete_________most children possess, scrambled to the top and rang the bell that hung at the highest point. There wasn’t really anything to be afraid of since they were_________into place.

“Come on, let’s go get in line,” my husband Neil_________, “No, you go ahead without me.” I had all sorts of good_________: I didn’t have the right shoes; I forgot my sunglasses. I have a unique talent for_________unthinkable danger in almost every situation, and this scene seemed _________ to me. I watched everyone else having fun, though, and finally__________myself to try it.

With all the__________I could gather,I started the climb. The belt wrapped around me so there was no way to__________. “Yes,” I thought, “this is safe!” I__________made my way up, concentrating on each foothold. I__________looking down to prevent any sudden panic, and finally I made it to the top and proudly rang the bell.

I enjoyed my success. It was such a relief that I__________my fear and reached the goal.