【推荐2】Music is part of every culture on Earth, which can be _________, sad, romantic, sleepy, healing—all kinds of things. But what is it? Some people call it an art that sounds _________time. Our ears receive it as loud or _________, high or low, rapid and short, or slow and _________. The sounds need to continue for a time in some sort of pattern to become _________.

Music, like _________, is a human form of communication. As with language, there are many different kinds. In North America, people listen to jazz, rock, classical, folk, country, and many other kinds of music. Each kind of music has its own rules and “_________” to us in its own way.

No one knows for sure when music _________. Perhaps while working, people sang to make it go faster. People who were _________ movements—picking crops or rowing boats, for example—could sing in time __________ for the work. Navajo Indians, for example, had corn-grinding songs.

Over time, people __________ musical instruments. They might have started by clapping their hands and stamping their __________. Sticks and objects that rattled (碰响) could have __________ the human body as early __________. Both instruments and music became more complex (复杂) with time.

Today, music in many cultures __________ art music and music of the people. Art music, which we call classical music, is more __________ than the music of the people—__________ music and popular music. Art music is __________ harder to write and perform. Musicians who perform it need a lot of __________. Popular and folk styles typically are easier to __________, perform, and understand.

【推荐3】In July, a two-minute-long video began spreading on the Internet. The video featured a _________ ballet student dancing in the rain. As the rain falls, forming small _________ between the unsmooth ground on which he dances, Anthony, 11, _________ round and round.

The _________ has been seen more than 20 million times on social media platforms, which has turned a _________ on the unlikely story of a ballet school in a poor suburb of Lagos, Nigeria: The Leap of Dance Academy. Founded by Daniel in 2017, the academy has _________ the lives of its students, affording them a place to _________ and to dream.

For now, the Leap of Dance Academy is housed at the home of its _________, Daniel. Every day after school, 12 local students make their way to his apartment. He _________ his furniture for more space and __________ a thin sheet over the cement (水泥) floor for class. What is the most __________ is that the mirror was glued by dozens of broken mirrors.

“We have __________ from so many people. We appreciate their letters, in which they say they are __________ by the students and by dance,” Daniel said. “They felt our __________ and came alive. They __________ us that art is here to stay.”

Some netizens remarked: “This is a realistic portrayal from a poor boy to ballet prince. Anyone with a dream is great.”

【推荐2】One snowy night, a pair of beagles（比格犬）was struggling on a rural highway. The father-to-be looked around anxiously, trying to seek _________ for his dear companion. Frequently he would look at her _________, feeling guilty she labored along, her way made heavier by the new life growing inside her. They _________ for a warm, dry place. When her _________ came, it must not be out here along the roadway.

As _________ would have it, Gus Kiebel, a county wildlife officer, who was driving home from work, spotted the pair. He _________ to the shoulder of the road immediately.

The beagles made no effort to _________ when Gus bent down and stretched out his hands to them. Gus _________ their tags（狗牌）by his truck’s headlights and tried to ring, but the falling snow _________ the screen. He placed the dogs in his truck, __________ his phone and called again. A man answered and instantly grew __________ when Gus told him why he was calling.

“I already gave them away,” the man responded coldly.

Obviously, these beagles were __________. Meeting their large begging eyes, Gus felt his heart __________. “Putting them back in the snow is out of the __________,” Gus thought to himself, “I must bring them home.”

It’s a simple story, but it speaks to the best of our nature: Kindness and love can keep cruelty and cold at __________.

【推荐3】Diana was out shopping in a busy department store one evening. Just five minutes before closing time, she heard a staff member saying, ”someone’s having a seizure(癫痫发作).”

Walking _______ toward the staff member, Diana saw a fellow shopper on the ground. The woman was shaking _______. A small group of people had gathered to _______ the woman, and a staff member called an ambulance. The store’s first aider soon joined them.

Diana knew that she could use what she had _______ on her first aid course to help as well. Knowing it was important to keep the woman _______, one of the employees brought over a staff jacket and they put it under the woman’s head so she wouldn’t _______ herself.

“The seizure probably lasted only a few minutes, but it seemed much _______ while it was going on,” Diana said. “When the shaking _______, a man helped turn the woman to her side. I then tilted(倾斜) her head back to help her keep _______. After the seizure, the woman seemed not to be able to ________ what we were saying and couldn’t speak. ________, I had learned that this could happen after a seizure and it may take some time for people to ________ feeling like their normal selves. It was such a ________ when she answered she was OK. So I started to make my way out of the store.”

As I was leaving, one of the store’s employees said, “Thank you for your ________.” I was very ________ by her words. Even though the incident left me feeling very shaken, I was glad I knew what to do to help.

【推荐1】Ben Kjar was born with Crouzon Syndrome. It is a disease that makes his _________ different from the other kids. They made fun of him, calling him ‘flat face’ and other things, as he _________.

However, with the firm support from his _________, Kjar learned labels didn’t have to _________ his life. “What my mom and my dad didn’t do is that my mom and dad didn’t _________ me in bubble wrap ever,” Kjar said. “They loved me, _________ me and accepted me, but they never ever spoil me.”

As a wrestler in college, Kjar went on to become a professional speaker and _________ a businessman decorating houses.

He’s been busy, selling nearly two hundred _________ in the last six years, some of which are extra special and serve an _________ purpose, benefiting Kjar’s nonprofit, “Flip for a Face.” Money from sales of Kjar’s homes is __________, so children with Crouzon Syndrome can have reconstructive __________ just like he had.

“You can’t change the world in every way. But you can __________ to do your best,” Kjar explained.

Now with a family of his own, Kjar has turned his challenges into a __________ of love and transformation. “Life is beautiful,” he said. “It’s not always __________. But guess what? We were born with a gift and the moment we realize that this __________ is actually a gift is the moment things change.”

【推荐3】It was his father’s dream to see one of his kids grow up to be a doctor. When he was in grade 12, his father told the youngest son that he wanted him to study biology and pass medical exams. His sister, who_______in biology, had earlier tried for Medical Degrees but failed even though she was very_______. In August, he asked his sister to teach him biology. The_______started to give lessons but soon she realized that the guy was not_______for it. She tried to tell the father that the son was no good at biology and that he should_______his dream of making one of his kids a doctor. The father called the guy and in a_______way, he told him to try up to his capacity. The guy_______his father and gave it his best shot. The result was_______in June the next year but he didn’t pass it in that_______.

Just 20 days later the family faced a serious________when the father died suddenly due to a heart attack. The guy was not even 18 and those were________hard times.

He remembered his father’s dream and decided to work on that. For a(n)________guy, medicine isn’t a child’s play. With great________, he studied day and night to fulfill his father’s dream which became his own dream, too.

He________for the medical exam again and this time, he made it. He finally________the top medical college in the state.