【推荐2】Meta was born in Guam, a tiny island in Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean. Like others in his family, Meta himself is not tall.

Bigger kids bullied (欺凌) him when he was young. As he _________, he couldn’t join his favorite soccer team because they thought he was too _________.

But then, Elijah was born. Elijah is Meta’s nephew (侄子). He’s also quite short. Meta started to _________ for him. Would he face the same challenges and _________ that Meta faced?

“I didn’t want him to _________ himself... but how could I do that _________ I was doubting myself?” he said in a TED speech. And so, he started to _________ himself: In what ways am I strong?

He came to _________ that one’s strength doesn’t _________ one’s size only. It is one’s character and abilities that __________ one strong.

Meta once __________ himself as a tiny kid from a tiny __________. But actually, Meta said, he should see himself as “a young __________ from Micronesia, a place rich with culture and talent.”

“And I should have seen that right next to Guam is the Marianas Trench (马里亚纳海沟), the deepest __________ on Earth,” he said. “It is a __________ so wonderful, just like the depths of our character and our abilities.”

【推荐3】On a recent cold windy day, I was working as a volunteer to clean up around the roundabout（环形交叉路口）at the Boothbay common. A car I didn't recognize _________ right behind me，and a woman I didn't know go out. I was _________what she wanted to do because not everyone liked the roundabout and COVID-19新冠病毒疫情 didn’t _________.

To my complete _________，this woman was holding a hot chocolate and a donut._________，she had driven by me and thought I must be _________. She decided to do something about it and went to _________these items and bring them to me. I was so _________ by this simple act of kindness from a total _________. I thanked her again and again. But my __________was that I didn't get her name.

This incident has stayed with me ever since，__________the goodness of people in our region and the impact of a simple act of __________. I have made a promise to myself to __________ it on whenever I can. It was __________ to be the receiver that particular day，and I believe it feels just like that to be the giver. A big thank-you to that very __________ woman who stopped；you know who you are!

【推荐2】It’s not easy to be a parent, especially when your kids are having a hard day.

Devon Linden’s children go to practise swimming every week, usually without much trouble, but a recent visit proved to be very_________. Both of her kids’ were having meltdowns (崩溃), and the mom was struggling to _________them down.

“I was really, _________, near to tears just as a mom trying to comfort my kids and get them out of there,” Devon shared.

At that moment, a stranger handed her a _________of encouragement. Devon didn’t get the chance to_________it until she got in the car but, once she did, she couldn’t _________crying loudly.

“Your life and purpose is huge,” the note read. “Life is so meaningful. Every day is a_________, so make it count. Be happy!”

In addition to these _________words was a $100 bill.

“The moment she saw me _________, she didn’t have__________on me, my kids and anything that was__________,” Devon said. “She just chose to bless(祝福) me.”

After__________such kindness, Devon now tries to be like this kind stranger, so she can be helpful in the best way.

They may never meet again, but if this __________mom could tell this kind stranger just one thing, she’d say, “Really just thank you for seeing me in a __________ time and giving me exactly what I __________at that moment to feel like I can spend my day being a good mom.”

【推荐3】On a Monday morning, a bus full of bright-eyed kids was on the way to school along with Connor and his brother Seamus. The bus was being driven by a 60-year-old driver, McDougal. _______, both the brothers heard McDougal fall to the floor of the bus.

“I didn’t see him fall. I heard him _______ the ground, and then the bus started veering (转弯) all over the road,” Connor recalled the moments before _______ set in.

After the bus driver fell down, Connor and Seamus _______ the emergency situation. They realized that they must jump into action. Otherwise, the students on the bus would be in danger of getting _______. Connor knew that no matter what happened, he needed to get the bus to stop moving. So he _______ and pressed on the brake (刹车) and told Seamus to call 911.

Meanwhile, Seamus tried to keep his fellow classmates _______ and in their seats. He told everyone it was going to be okay and the police were on their way. Seamus even gave one crying frightened student a _______.

The bus didn’t veer off the road because of the _______ thinking and actions of these two brothers. The bus could have hit another vehicle or perhaps something worse could have happened. Thanks to the ________ efforts of these two young men, they managed to save the lives of everyone on the bus.

【推荐2】The biology class was very interesting. Peter’s teacher asked everyone to thank him as he had made it possible for them to study a butterfly so _________.

While going back home, Peter carried a bottle with the butterfly. On the way, whatever small creature Peter_________, he felt like putting them into the bottle. And he also checked to make sure to give _________ space to his butterfly.

Peter woke up around midnight suddenly. He returned to the table where he placed the butterfly and lightly patted the bottle. The butterfly did not move. Peter thought it must be _________. He shook the jar, but still no _________. All of a sudden, Peter was scared. He poured a little water into the jar. The water seemed to _________ as the butterfly moved a little. Peter let out a sigh of _________. Sitting on his bed, he _________ the jar and found the butterfly was still again.

After a while Peter got up, holding the bottle tightly, ran out, quickly _________ the lid of the bottle and started shaking it gently. The butterfly started to move slowly like waking from a deep sleep. It __________ itself on the edge of the bottle and __________ there, and Peter also waited.

Then butterfly began to flutter its wings. To Peter, the tiny __________ of the fluttering wings was musical. Later, there was a loud thud. Peter looked at the jar and found the butterfly ___________ He sat looking at the empty bottle, feeling a little __________. But he was happy that the butterfly was back to where it __________ —nature.

【推荐3】A woman, Li Li, aged 25 in China, recently decided to have an operation to reduce the size of her stomach. She had begun to take weight-loss pills seven years before but had put on 100 pounds instead of losing weight.

Li Li bought some weight-loss pills after seeing a (n) _________ on TV. She weighed around 100 pounds at that time. However, she felt like she needed to lose a bit of weight. If some _________ could help her do that, then why not? The young woman said that the experiences were _________ at first, but as soon as she stopped taking the pills, she not only put on all the weight she had _________, but added a few extra as well. Little did she know that this was the _________ of a vicious (恶性的) cycle that would see her spend around 200,000 yum on weight-loss pills, only to have her weight double.

Li Li’s _________ was recently published by Chengdu Business Daily. She arrived at the Chengdu Peopled Hospital and told the doctors there that she had _________ for seven years. But to her disappointment, there was nothing positive to show for it, so the operation was her only _________.

The woman said that after her first experience with weight-loss pills, she _________ going online and searching for other pills and weight-loss plans. But the results were always the same. She couldn’t even __________ all the different drugs she had taken in the past seven years, but what she did know was that none of them worked as advertised. Yes, some pills __________ helped her lose 29 pounds a month, but as soon as she stopped taking them, she soon came back to her previous weight and even __________ more weight.

Li Li said she wanted to remind people not to __________ advertising which was different from reality when it came to weight loss products, because she was a clear __________ of that. Losing weight is a long-term process, no matter how __________ the advertising for weight-loss pills is.