【推荐1】It's amazing how friendships can blossom in such a short time. I met Julia in December, but we have been _________ since. Being in lockdown is really _________ and I ever said to her that we should both go shopping in the same supermarket. That way we could see each other at a _________ of six feet away.

This morning when she _________ me, asking if I was going to the store, I told her I was feeling really low and just didn't have the _________ to even go to the store. Actually, the _________ of being inside has set in. It's been getting, _________ and today was one of those days. We have had pouring rain these days so even going for a walk hasn't been a(an) _________.

A short time later, she came to my _________ with a bag of shopping and from six feet away, she __________ a bag of stuff for dinner, my favorite chocolates, a face mask, and hair products! From six feet away, I felt like crying __________ tears. I was so moved, although not being able to __________ her.

That's what best friends are! They don't __________ how much money you make and what you do for a living. If you've hit rock bottom, they just __________ you back. And that's what she proved: __________ aren't necessarily about people who you've known the longest, but those who come into your life and say, "I'm here for you."

【推荐3】In 2001, my wife, Leslie, and I flew to France to host Justice Ginsburg. The law school where I was president had a summer ________ there, and Justice Ginsburg had agreed to give some lectures. We hadn’t met her before, so we were pretty ________, but the perfect justice and her wise husband, Marty, were easy to be with.

One day we were standing outside our hotel when Justice Ginsburg said, “That looks like ________.” Parasailors (滑翔跳伞员) were flying above the sea. “I’d like to try it.?”

Leslie and I laughed nervously, but Marty took his wife’s thinking ________ “You’re crazy,” he said. Though I had no real ________ to parasail, I did feel it a duty to ________ Justice Ginsburg, so when she said she intended to go, I ________ to join her.

The next morning, we all ________ to the beach. With a little dark humor, Marty told his wife, “You will be ________ by our grandchildren. Fastened to equipment attached to a boat, we took off with a flash of fear, but we got ________ pretty quickly. The view was splendid, and the silence was very peaceful. When we started ________ toward the water, Justice Ginsburg seemed concerned, but once I ________ that we’d go only low enough to touch the warm Mediterranean with our feet, she ________. Minutes later, we were greeted on the ground by our ________ spouses (配偶).

By! the end of the week, we had become friends. I saw Justice Ginsburg from time to time over the years, and the parasailing story was ________ mentioned.

【推荐2】One day I was in the hotel kitchen and my manager walked in quickly and said “Come with me”. I felt a little _________ by this but decided to go and see what he was talking about.Then he took me to the door and _________ me how to lock and unlock it. He said he had seen me _________ to unlock it the night before. So he gave me a small _________ on it. It wasn’t necessary at all. I had already _________ how to unlock it myself. I didn’t tell him that though.

I wonder why I just _________ him when I didn’t know where we were going. I suppose it is because I was ordered to _________ the voice of authority. So, since he was the _________ manager, even though he has much less _________ in life than me, I obeyed him when he __________ me to follow him.

At that time, some __________ came with me. Why did I obey him? Did I believe he would show me something that would __________ me? Yes, he just wanted to give me a hand, and that was the point.

I didn’t __________ at the time there was kindness. But now I am “wiser”. __________, what I want to do is that I let him think that he was helping me and I __________ him telling me.

【推荐3】In many parts of the world, forest land has been changed into cities, farmland or even deserts, which affects the climate, forces animals to _________ or die, and causes deserts to become larger.

China needs to plant trees with many of its forests _________. So it has a great number of tree-planting _________. China plants more trees than the rest of the _________. Who are some of the people behind these huge _________? Let’s find out.

In Jiangxi Province, 83-year-old Zou Lianying has been planting trees for almost 20 years. She _________ that planting trees is good for the _________. Therefore, at 64, she _________ her cows and pigs and also borrowed money to open a forest farm, which has more than 8 million trees _________ about 4 km². Her trees are worth around 12 million RMB but she won’t __________ even one tree and still lives very __________. Why did she do so? She believes the __________ will be a gift to future __________.

Near Beijing, 20 km² of hills have turned __________, thanks to millions of trees planted by Wei Guiying in the past 20 years. It hasn’t been __________ for her. She has borrowed a lot of money to pay for young trees. However, she says proudly that she’s not a __________ but she has millions of trees.

A lot of __________ is still needed to prevent deserts from getting __________. But if more of us can be like these tree __________, it will certainly make __________ better for everyone.

【推荐1】If you attempt hard things again and again and eventually succeed, you will be certain about your capabilities. ________, if you fail repeatedly, you come to ________ that you can’t succeed. Even if you try a third time, you might also end up ________. My daughter Amanda had such a(n) ________.

When Amanda was in seventh grade, she attended an advanced math class. That fall, our little house shook with her weeping as she was ________ to keep up. I, like Amanda, began to ________ that this math class was just too difficult for her.

But my husband didn’t think so. He would sit next to Amanda and take out the piles of papers to ________ her. They would start with the easiest problems, then the more difficult ones, and finally — the most ________ math problems. They would work late into night to solve a problem. ________, Amanda caught up with her classmates. With each milestone, her ________ grew. By her second year of high school, she became interested in math and even started to do math problems with her friends for ________.

Do let your children ________ their confidence and let them understand that there is no shortcut to the journey of learning, and that they have to be ________. As the psychologist Albert Bandura puts it, “If people only experience successes without effort, they come to ________ quick results and are ________ discouraged by failure.”