【推荐1】That holiday morning I didn’t have to attend school. Usually, on holidays, Mother_______me to sleep in. And I would certainly take full advantage of it. On this particular morning,  _________,I felt like getting up early.

I stood by my window overlooking the _________, having nothing better to do. But as it turned out, I was soon to learn about something _________ in life.

As I watched several people go by, get into their cars and go off, I _________ an old man on a bicycle with a bucket on its _________ and a basket rags and bottles on its back-carriage. He _________ from one car to another, washing and cleaning them. From the water on the ground, it seemed that he had already _________ washing and cleaning about a dozen or more cars. He must have begun to work quite early in the morning.

Several thoughts _________my mind as I watched him work. He wasn’t well-dressed. He had on a pair of shorts and a(n) __________ T-shirt. The bicycle he rode was not by any means the kind modern __________would want to be seen riding on. But he seemed__________ with life. There he was, working hard at his small business, __________ at passers-by and stopping to chat now and then __________ elderly men and women on their way to the market nearby.

There was a noticeable touch of__________ in the way he seemed to be doing things— __________the windscreen, then standing back to admire it; scrubbing the wheels and __________, standing back to see what they look like after the scrub.

It was a __________ to learn, I felt. At no age need one have to beg for a __________if one has good health and is willing to work hard. For a while I felt ________ of myself. Young as I am—just sixteen, and there was this old man who must have been usefully engaged perhaps before the sun appeared above the horizon.

【推荐2】“Are you going to the audition (试镜)?” Someone asked Connie, as we came out of ballet class.

“What audition?” I asked.

“Oh, nothing,” said Connie. “It’s for The Ed Sullivan Show. You wouldn’t be _______.”

The Ed Sullivan Show was a famous one-hour show on CBS. They constantly needed performers for their new shows. This time they were looking for six dancers to support the star performer Jimmy Durante.

“Why not? I’d love to go!” I _______.

Connie smiled at me and said, “I don’t think you are _______ yet, Eva.”

Later that night, I couldn’t fall asleep. It _______ me. Who said I shouldn’t go to the audition? Only because I was a young novice (新手)? How would I know if I didn’t try?

The next morning, I _______ I was going to the audition. I packed my dancing shoes, and put on bright red lipstick. As I looked at my _______ in the mirror, I saw one thing missing. I put on a smile.

I took the subway to the Eighth Avenue and walked to the rehearsal studio. I _______ and took my place nervously.

Connie and five of my other friends were there. “What are you doing here?” one asked.

I said simply, “Well, I have nothing to lose by _______.”

The look I got said, “Okay. _______.”

The audition began. All the other dancers had confident but expressions. I had a smile. ________

More and more dancers were knocked out. I was still there with my friends. Then we were asked to do a jeté en l’air ________: stand on one leg, kick the other one up and out as close to a split as possible, and then do a turn in the air. Hopefully, you’d land on both feet.

All the other candidates did the jeté beautifully. It was my turn. I took the preparatory step, and with that never-ending smile, I leaped up into the air, turned in mid-air and ________ flat on my back. But even then, the smile never ________ my face.

When everything settled down, my friends were instructed to go to the right. When I was told to go to the left, their faces told they felt ________ for me.

I picked up my belongings and prepared to leave when the choreographer called out to me, “Where are you going? You’ve got the ________if you want it.”

Did I want it? I certainly did. I thought I had been ________!

There were no jetés in the ________. I made my first appearance on national TV. I never stopped ________, and I always landed on my feet.

Had I not believed I could do it, and had I not tried, I would have ________ out on a thoroughly enjoyable experience.

It proved once again that a smile will get one ________ than a frown ever will.

【推荐3】Last year, I took an improvisational (即兴的) comedy class. I made a successful attempt to_______my comfort zone and to have fun. One of the first things our teacher, Myles Goldin, told us to do whenever anyone made a mistake during an exercise was to_______our hands high in the air and_______, “Wahoo!” Within a couple of minutes of starting our first game, some students_______to catch the virtual (虚拟) ball. Suddenly, Goldin was leading us in a round of yelling “Wahoo!” Goldin was conveying a central_______; Mistakes are not only okay, they’re necessary building blocks of learning and creativity. “We should embrace and_______mistakes, because we couldn’t grow and create cool things without them,” she said.

An increasing number of teachers are also doing so by encouraging students to_______in direct experimentation. They are replacing the traditional “sage (智者) on stage” teaching style with“_______on the side.” Students must instead attempt to think_______, guided by a teacher’s careful questioning. This requires a lot of__________and error. Along the way, students learn to__________how failure often leads – inadvertently (无意中) — to new discoveries and inventions.

One such program involves the design and construction of a pinhole (针孔) camera. Students use materials such as an old shoebox and oatmeal container, and must apply concepts from all four STEM__________— science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Despite the apparent__________of the materials provided, the challenge requires knowledge of light and optics (光学), engineering design processes (such as meeting the customer needs), mathematical modeling and scientific experimentation.

The researchers found that learning outcomes were higher for students in science classes that take a student-centered__________. Some of these effects were both significant and sustainable (可持续的). For instance, a __________influence was measured on scores for tests taken 5.5 months after the original instruction. And the results appear to__________to all students — from kindergarten through college.

Learning from mistakes is hardly a(n)__________teaching or life philosophy. A century ago, after live months and more than 9,000 experiments, famed inventor Thomas Edison still wasn’t able to make a new type of storage battery__________, according to a 1910 authorized biography. When a colleague__________all that effort had failed to produce any results, Edison retorted (反驳): “Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of__________! I know several thousand things that won’ t work.”

【推荐1】It is a story every bit as moving and magical as her Harry Potter books. The _______ between J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, and Carie Heeb, a Harry Potter fan from New York, began in early 2000, some three years after the then six-year-old had developed a fast-growing childhood cancer.

Her mother, Gina Peca, had read the first three Harry Potter to Catie. who was such a fan that she would wear her Harry Potter clothes, complete with big round glasses and a red short coat, as she _______ to hospital from home.

By the end of 1999, Catie had been through several rounds of surgery and chemotherapy (化疗), losing all her bair but none of her spirit. Ms Peca was _______ that there would soon be no more Harry Potter to read.

She sent an email to the book’s publishers with a _______ for J. K. Rowling, asking when the fourth book would be _______ and telling of the joy that the books had brought to Catie’s life.

A few weeks later, a reply come that had Cutie and her mother _______ for joy. It read, I am working very hard on book four at the moment-on a bit that devolves some new creatures. Hagrid has brought along for the Care of Magical Creatures classes. This is all Top Secret, so you are _______ to tell only some close friends and your mum, hut no one else…With lots of love, J. K. Rowling. Catie replied _______.

Unfortunately, Catie’s condition began to worsen. Her mother emailed Miss Rowling to tell her that Catie could no longer use her _______.

A few days later, the author __________ to read abstracts (概要) to Catie from the then __________ book four.

So it happened that at home in New York, a little girl with cancer became the first person in the world to __________ the latest adventures of Harry Potter, later published as The Goblet of Fire. Catie’s mother, father and two brothers sat with her, listening on speaker-phone.

When Miss Rowling came to America for a book tour, she __________ to meet her little friend. But time __________. On May 18, 2000, Catie died, aged nine.

Hearing the family had started a memorial fund in Catie’s name, Miss Rowling sent a letter and a check for $100, 000. “…I consider myself __________ to have had contact with Catie. I am crying so hard as I type. She left footprints on my heart. . .”

【推荐2】Ashoka advocates a world where everyone is a change-maker. The ability to adapt to and_________ change is essential for everyone to live well in a changing world. At the_________of the Everyone a Change maker movement is a_________to transform the way children and young people grow up so everyone has the power to create change for the_________of all.

Rebecca’s family keep cattle, sheep and goats and depend on farming the land for food. At school, Rebecca’s teacher says, “We have had many days_________ rain. Without plants to eat and water to drink, our animals die. “Everyone in the class is_________. They are worried for their families, their animals, and their_________.

At the school library, Rebecca searches for information about rain. She learns a new_________: “Climate Change”. What can just one girl do to help the whole world? “It is a big problem for the earth,” her teacher explains. “But there are some things we can do to help, like planting trees to make_________ stronger.” As Rebecca walks home, it is hot and she can’t stop thinking about the__________ of rain. Then she has an idea!

“Let’s write a letter to the President of Kenya,” Rebecca says. Rebecca takes the letter and shares it with her classmates. They each ask their families to__________their name at the bottom to show their__________.

Rebecca and her classmates share the__________ of protecting the environment and practical steps to take__________. Working hard for a better world, Rebecca says, “If I do succeed in my project, the world will be beautiful. The cattle will be fat, the children__________well. Everyone can be a change- maker.” Rebecca is now thinking about what to do next for nature and her community.

【推荐3】A simple project to help a family in need stopped Lack Mickelson in his tracks. In 2017, he and his family were_________to build and donate a bunk bed (双层床), after learning there were local children who slept on the floor. Shocked to discover how_________ this need was in his community, Mickelson _________ Sleep in Heavenly Peace, a nonprofit that builds and _________ beds to children in need.

Born and _________ in Idaho, Mickelson, now 41, had a good career. He _________ his kids’ sports teams and fished in the nearby river. But when he met children who were _________ on the floor, his_________ life changed.

Using his daughter’s bunk bed _________ a model, Mickelson started buying wood and supplies to build beds with his own money. He asked friends and family members to help during the holidays. As the word spread, more and more people were __________ in the projects. “That first project, we built 11 bunk beds in my garage,” he said. “The next year, we did 15. Then it doubled every year. In 2020, we built 612 bunk beds.”

__________ the motto “No kid sleeps on the floor in our town”, the nonprofit and its more than 65 __________ have built and delivered more than 1,500 free beds to children across America. But along with the __________ growth, Mickelson was faced with a tough choice: advancing his career or his nonprofit. He chose the __________ and went from making “great money to zero money”. He’s never looked back. “I found that the need I have isn’t financial,” he said. “The need I have is seeing the joy on kids’ faces, knowing that I can make a__________.”