【推荐1】About a year ago, my department invited me to submit a 5-minute video clip about my research laboratory to be screened at a secondary-school summer camp. With many ________ under my belt (已获得的) after five years as a main investigator, I was quite ________ about getting this ________.

Three seconds into ________ myself on my phone in my office, I realized that I had been too ________. I had to press ‘Pause’ ________ I couldn’t help looking around the room. And while watching myself on camera, I couldn’t obtain the excitement I brought to the classroom—all my ________ trained teaching method didn’t work well for a video clip. Admitting that my acting career had ________ a wall, I decided to ________ to a directing role and asked my graduate students to help me to film and present the video.

The 5-minute clip ________ taking 2 hours to finish, but it was so well received by the audience that it ________ me to create an account on Bilibili, one of the leading video-sharing websites in China. I got my lab to ________ making short films in Chinese on the main topics of our ________, which include digital fabrication (数字制造) in architecture and adaptive structures that can respond to stimuli (刺激物). In the nine or so months since I created that ________, our lab videos have attracted more than 20,000 subscribers and received nearly 3 million ________, mainly in China.

【推荐2】Few 17-year-old girls know how to weld (焊接) two metal pipes together. I have learned this skill in the past five years as an assistant for my father’s personal plumbing (管道装置) business. This summer job often needs to deal with the mess that causes physical and mental ________, and, to some extent, ________ a tough and elegant attitude. It is often difficult to cope with. But I________.

Every morning, I had to put on a pair of men’s jeans. Most of my peers are ________ to wear it in public. I ________ tied my hair when I rushed out of the house, and climbed into the front passenger seat of the plumber’s construction ________ .

When my peers were part-time babysitters or lifeguards, I was ________ my father in the dirty bathroom or the wet basement. Thick dust covered my nose and mouth, and my hands became black. There is nothing beautiful and neat; everything in front of you is ________.

Honestly speaking, I felt powerless, discouraged and unable to think hard. Pipe work is a tough job, and I sometimes hate it. I asked myself why I had to tolerate these dust and sweat. I can even find another job, a ________ job more like my peers. ________, just as I hate messy pipes, I also hate being affected by these little ________ emotions. After all, the world is built by people who are willing to get their hands dirty. Life is a process of ________ chaos (混乱) and learning to clean up, and pipeline work is no ________.

My dad and I not only create chaos, we also create ________. When customers are ________   for our work, I understand that we have brought order to their lives in small places. The physical and mental discomfort of plumbing work is worth it.

【推荐3】When I was in primary school, my school had an annual sports day. Usually, girls were _________ in sports like jump rope and boys did the high jump, which I was _________ to take part in. I went to _________up, but the coach said, “Girls don’t do the high jump.”

I went home and_________ Mom of the coach’s words. She visited the headmaster, Mr. White, the next day. “Sorry, Mrs. Martinez, but it’s our _________that girls can’t do it,” he said. “But I have no _________of any rules saying that.” Finding no such rules, Mr. White, feeling_________, said “I have to consider it” at last.

When we got home, Mom told me something I would always_________: This wasn’t just about me. Other girls_________wanted to do this, too. A week later, Mom came to Mr. White again. Finally, he __________. As it turned out, I won the high jump competition. To my__________, some of the cheers I got were from boys! My mother was__________— it wasn’t about me. It was about making people __________and see what girls could do. Later, I used this__________in my career as a building contractor—women weren’t__________to construct buildings. When I first__________the business, Mom said, “Go ahead. Start small, but think__________.” I started with small projects and now my company can handle large ones.

Those experiences taught me though people wouldn’t always__________us, we should be brave to jump over__________and take paths few girls and women would take. And this has really made a __________.

【推荐2】“Leave a place better than you found it.” It’s a _________ philosophy, but one that William Lindesay holds dear. On April 22, which was also Earth Day, he led twenty _________ to help clean up the Badaling section of the Great Wall.

He who _________ is the owner, William said in the _________ remarks of the cleanup event in 2000. “The Great Wall _________ China, and is also one of the greatest structures in the world. Everyone has a _________ to protect it. Every day should be Earth Day,” he said.

During the past three decades, he has spent most of his time _________ and exploring the Great Wall and has developed his own efforts to protect the cultural relic.

“It's a _________ thing that people are going out to enjoy themselves and to _________ the great history and heritage, __________ it's also quite dangerous if they don't __________ how fragile the historical sites are and how fragile the __________ is,” William said.

In 1989, his first __________ Alone on the Great Wall was published, and he has published another five books about the Great Wall since then. In 2001, he __________ International Friends of the Great Wall, an association whose efforts are aimed at protecting this __________ to the past.

His next step is to organize exhibitions about the Great Wall as a monument over the last 400 years. The exhibitions are expected to be held in Beijing, London, Paris and Washington D. C

【推荐3】Born and raised in Dunhuang, Northwest China’s Gansu Province, YaoYanbei _________ to Dunhuang as a promising _________ after graduating from a college in Xiamen.

In 2016, inspired by patterns in Dunhuang murals (壁画), Yao _________ a toy camel. “Through the toy camel, I intended to _________ the spirit of the locals who are usually tough-minded and hard-working,” Yao said.

In August 2017, Yao spent nearly a month inside grottoes (石窟) drawing the murals. “Staying in the grottoes from dawn to dusk, I felt _________ connected with the ancient artists who _________ the murals. It was an amazing _________,” she said. Inspired by the sculptures and murals, Yao later designed some innovative products, including T-shirts, bookmarks, pocket mirrors and key rings.

Thanks to the efforts of designers like Yao, the _________ and creative industry began to take root in Dunhuang. Starting from 2018, every year the city has _________ an international design week to help __________ the industry. “By pooling the wisdom of designers from home and abroad, we want to make Dunhuang’s creative __________ more fashionable,” said Liu Mengxing, a vice general manager of a local company.

Looking ahead at her __________ in design, Yao plans to __________ Dunhuang’s ancient art further and apply the wisdom of ancient artists to products of modern life. “I want to design more creative products that __________ to more international customers,” said Yao. “I hope my design can bring people __________ to Dunhuang.”

【推荐1】Seventy-year-old Tububatu and his wife Taoshengchagan live in a village on the edge of Badain Jaran Desert in China. They’ve been spending every day since they retired in 2002 fighting against _____. Before Tububatu, others had tried but _____ and he just wanted to make a difference. He started out by _____ just 50 trees, but kept doubling his _____ to the point where he now plants thousands of trees a year.

The couple have been growing their little desert forest at their own expense, so they live a very _____ life. Even though they mostly plant drought-resistant (耐旱的) types, they still make sure to water them at least once a day to make them grow _____.

Although they’ve been _____ by some neighbors who think they are sure to fail, they haven’t given up. The couple have planted over 266 hectares of desert over the last 20 years and have no _____ to stop.

Apart from _____ the spread of the desert, Tububatu is also making a living by planting, as the desert-living cistanche is a(n) ______ medicinal (药用的) plant that can sell for up to 100 yuan per kilogram.

It’s reported that so far they have planted over 70,000 trees, ______ more than 1 million yuan of their savings. The ______ conditions have damaged their health and they look older than they actually are, but they refuse to _____their battle against the desert.

The couple have received several ______ and honors from the government over the years, becoming good _____for all environmentalists.

【推荐3】Whatever makes you fall in love with horses happened to me.I often _______myself owning my own horse.

After taking riding lessons for a year,I decided to buy a horse and Dad agreed—if I _______ half the money.I worked and saved 100dollars,a _______ those days.

_______,200 dollars wasn’t much to buy a horse.But I was _______ to look for one on a limited _______.I was introduced to Rusty,a 20-year-old horse,who had been abused and had a mistrust of _______.When I approached,he looked _______ at me.However,he was my dream horse and I decided to take it!

Gradually,we became inseparable and he grew strong and energetic despite his _______.But one morning,Rusty was suddenly ill.The vet said he had cancer and suggested humanely putting him to ________.The next morning,Dad loaded Rusty into the truck and I waved goodbye to him,pretty sure it was for the ________ time.

Later that day,I was crying in bed when Dad called me.There,inside the truck was Rusty!I jumped up,hugging him and crying with ________.Rusty ________me for another happy year before the cancer finally took him.By then,we were a little more ________.

Rusty isn’t here ________,but love lives on,and Rusty will live in my heart forever.