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When Jayce Crowder was in kindergarten, he was sad that he looked different from his classmates. They had two hands. He had one.

“It started when one boy teased him,” says his mother, Cortney Lewis. Jayce’s enthusiasm_______.He’d return to their home with questions: Why am I different? Why me?

Lewis admitted she didn’t know what to do at that point. How could she_______answers to her son’s questions when she had never found those answers herself?

A few weeks later, Lewis turned on the TV to a news story about an eighth grader from Washington, Iowa. Trashaun Willis, then 14, had become an Internet _______ after posting videos of his slam dunks (灌篮), and, like Jayce, he was_______most of his left arm. Lewis called Jayce in. He was completely attracted, watching dunk after dunk.

At the time, it seemed that watching Trashaun would simply be a(n)_______moment for Jayce. _______little did Lewis know that a family friend had already reached out to the Des Moines Register， asking the newspaper to help set up a meeting with Trashaun to build Jayce’s_______

The boys met at Washington Middle School on a Saturday afternoon a couple of months later， and instantly bonded. The day was not spent wallowing (沉浸) in sell-pity—it was lull of_______. They rode bikes around the school’s hallways， took photos, played hide-and-seek, and shot baskets. Trashaun_______gave Jayce a shirt that says “Ten lingers are overrated.”

At one point， Trashaun did get serious with Jayce. He said not to let anyone drag him down and not to let words ________ his confidence. Since that meeting， Lewis has seen a visible________in her son， who is now seven and in second grade. He recently started wrestling and loves it. Lewis points to Trashaun’s ________. “Meeting him，” she said， “made Jayce________that there are others like him.”

As for Trashaun， his relationship with Jayce made him look forward to________more kids， perhaps as a youth coach with a nonprofit organization devoted to coaching kids with limb disabilities.

“Honestly， it means a lot to know that I changed Jayce’s________，” Trashaun says. Still， he never dreamed that his videos would have such an effect. “I just thought my friends would see my videos and be like， ‘Oh，he dunked it!’” Obviously， he did more than that!

【推荐3】Reggie couldn’t hear a thing.   He was a____boy, but he had been born deaf.   He was well-known to everyone in town, and they were all____him. Unfortunately, though, he____seemed to end up being treated differently from everyone else. Children worried they would____him, and that maybe because he wouldn’t hear the ball being hit in his____. Adults acted like he was unable to____them, as though he was some kind of baby.

His friend Michael didn’t like this. He decided that things had to be____. Michael’s father was the town’s mayor(市长), and Michael____to convince him that this year, in honor of Reggie, they should offer one day of the____to deaf people. During that whole day everyone would have to wear earplugs(耳塞).

People liked the____. The day became known as The Day of Silence, and when it arrived, everyone stuck plugs in their____, in a spirit of great fun. That morning was filled with____and laughter. But, as the hours passed, people became more and more aware of how____life was when they couldn’t hear anything.

On that day nobody was thinking of Reggie as just a____person. This meant he could be____just like any other boy, and people saw a whole new side of____. Not only that, but Reggie had a bright and sharp mind. On that day, using his usual____, Reggie was the one who could communicate best with everyone. This meant that people paid more attention to what he was saying, and they were____by his intelligence and his ability to find solutions to almost any problem.   They____that he had always been like that, and that in normal life all Reggie needed was a little more time than others to____. That was the only difference.

【推荐1】A teacher gave his students a test. Most of the students finished all the questions without much_______until they all read the last one，which was “What is the first name of the woman who _______the school?”

All of the students thought that this question was some kind of   _______ . They had all seen the cleaning woman many times during each day at school. It was _________that she was tall and old, but how would they _______her name?

So they all   _______their test paper, leaving the last question_______ .Just before the class ended, one of the students_______if the last question would count toward the _______of the test.

“Sure,” said the teacher. He went on to say,“In your lives, you will   ________many people and they are ________individuals(个人), so they each are worth your________and care, even if all you do is ________and say “Hello”.”

Over the following days each of the students ________the importance of finding out the name of the cleaner and introduced themselves. They all learned that cleaner’s name was Dorothy and they never forgot the ________: everyone is important.

【推荐2】How far would you go to help a friend? Jeremy Savage, aged 17, and Ian Marshal, aged 16, had their friendship _________ on a recent trip to the Rocky Mountains.

On Saturday morning, the two boys decided to climb the mountain by themselves while their parents relaxed at the _________. After three hours, they reached the top and enjoyed the beautiful view from the mountaintop.

_________, trouble began when they started the climb down. On one very dangerous part of the mountain, Ian fell three metres off the side of the path. Jeremy climbed _________ to where Ian was and found him badly injured and not able to _________. He tried to help Ian stand up, but Ian’s right _________ was hurting too much. They had to _________ and hope that help would come.

Meanwhile, as darkness started to fall, their parents back at the campsite became very _________ that the boys had not returned. They got in touch with park workers and began _________ the boys.

While waiting for help, Jeremy gave Ian his food and water and let him lie on his jacket. As the evening grew __________ and the temperature dropped, Ian told Jeremy to leave him and go back to their parents but Jeremy did not leave. He thought it was __________ for Ian to be alone on such a cold, windy night. Jeremy used his jacket and an extra shirt to keep Ian __________ and they rested together through the night.

At __________, Jeremy started the long climb __________ Ian down the mountain. Sometimes on his back. Sometimes in his arms. Finally, after four long and tiring hours, they __________ their relieved parents, who were still looking for them on the mountain. “I will always remember what Jeremy did for me,” said Ian afterwards. “He saved my life. That is the greatest thing that a person can do for his friend.”

【推荐3】If you have been to Harbin in winter, but didn’t have a(n)________ to see people do winter-swimming, I am sure you will feel it’s a ________. Can you imagine swimming in a river with the temperature being about 10 degrees below zero? This would be ________ to the people from the South. If you were on the Songhuajiang River, you could not help ________ those brave swimmers.

I felt greatly excited as well as ________ when I first saw the winter-swimming, though it was very cold that day, the swimmers were only wearing _______ clothes, while all the people watching were having heavy clothes covering all their bodies with only two ________ visible. I had thought that the river was warm, but it ________ much cold when I dipped my hand into the river water. What excited me most was the way they ________ into the river from the high ice-platform and the styles in which they swam, ________ butterfly-stroke and back-stroke.

My uncle has been ________ about winter-swimming for several years. Now he is a member of the Winter Swimming Club. Once I asked him, “Aren’t you afraid of cold? Have you got a ________ from it?” Smiling, he said, “________ we have a strong will, we can surely overcome any ________ and difficulties. I haven’t got a cold at all. Instead, I have become ________ than I was before.” That’s true, he ________ suffer from bronchitis (支气管炎). However, since he began to like swimming, he has been fully ________ from the disease.

Today, more and more people are ________ joining in the winter-swimming, including women and children. This activity shows the great ________ and strong will of the people in Harbin which I think is just what we ________ in our work and study as well.

【推荐3】Backpacking through Africa, I always carried some food with me ________ I couldn’t find something to eat.

I was ________ through a local market one day when I chanced upon a jar of ________ jam. I could find tins of apple and strawberry in every corner store but this was the ________ time I had seen peach. I took it.

For the next few weeks, when I was feeling the need for a little ________ I would carefully ________ the lid and spoon a bit on to a biscuit. Mmm, delicious. I didn’t ________ it with anybody. It sat safely in my ________ taken out on only special ________.

One cold and cloudy afternoon, while I was waiting for a local bus, it started to rain. Everybody spread out for ________ and so did I. But I was already wet through so I quickly searched through my pack for some ________ clothes.

In my hurry to ________ further discomfort, I forgot that the jar of jam was ________ in my clothing. One forceful yank (猛拉) and my ________ jar of jam crashed to the concrete ground, breaking into pieces.

I was so sad that I almost cried. And then, in the corner of my eye, I noticed an old woman in rags ________. Without hesitation, she bent down and picked up the half of the jar that still looked ________.

Still ________ she stuck two fingers into the jar, scooped out the ________ jam and ________ it into her toothless mouth. Carefully, like fishbones, she spat out the pieces of glass. She studied the broken container ________ she was certain that there was nothing left. Then she left.

My bus arrived shortly after and, as we drove off, I wondered if the jam would taste the same to me.