【推荐1】There once was a king in a faraway country. One day, he decided to______a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of ______. So many artists ______. The king looked at all the pictures. ______ there were only two he really liked, and he had to ______ between them. One picture was of a ______ lake. The lake was a perfect mirror with peaceful huge mountains all around it. Above was a ______ sky with light white clouds. All who ______ this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.

The other picture had ______, too. But these were not flat at all. Above was a (an) ______ sky, from which rain fell heavily and in which lightning played ______. Down the side of the mountain was a waterfall with loud sound. This did not look ______ at all.

But when the king looked ______, he saw behind the waterfall a small tree ______ in a crack (缝隙) in the rock. In the tree a mother bird had ______ her comfortable home. There, with the current of angry water, the mother bird was ______ her hungry children in the nest, taking no attention to the ______ things around them — in perfect peace.

Which picture do you think______ the prize? The king chose the second picture. Do you know why?

“Because,” said the king, “peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no   ______ or hard work. Peace means although noisy things are around you, you ______ keep calm in the heart. That is the real meaning of peace.”

【推荐2】The winter of 2008 was especially tough in one northwestern city, where it became extremely cold and it was also a difficult time for me. What’s worse, a(n) ________ injury happened to me and it might keep me in bed for several months.

One day I was doing my housework ________ there was a tap at the window from a branch of the troublesome fruit tree. On hearing this, with my eyes closed, slowly, I began to recall the fall of 1995 when somebody placed a pipe from my pump next to the ________. The earth was so wet that it ________ immediately with most of its bare roots upward. Seeing this, my mother ________ to pull it out, but I refused. “How hard it’s trying!” I said, ________ the direction of its strong holding of the earth. “It is ________ of a chance to survive.” With tools, we ________ dry soil around the tree and put up some supports into the ground, making it ________ upright.

Several months had passed before I could be ________ of it. Surprisingly, when spring returned, my “rescue stick” had grown some leaves and many ________. In 2008 it had grown into a towering tree. What an unbelievable miracle of life!

The day before the Spring Festival, the ________ at the window was continuing, the more fierce wind, the better sound, as if to remind me to look up and appreciate its powerful life.

That night I slept peacefully having a(n) ________. In the dream some flowers were coming out ________. The next morning I stood against the window. ________ the window was the tree bursting with life. Anyway, I had a wonderful Spring Festival that year.

【推荐3】We did homework in the kitchen while my mom cooked. Usually, I complained about my classmates treating me _______ . “She didn't even save me a seat.” or "He _______ my pencil."

One afternoon during my emotion-release time, my mom turned to me and said _______ , "If everyone around you is being a stupid person, then it is you who is behaving like the most stupid one of all." I was _______ and argued that it was the faults of other kids. I felt so _______ that I didn't think I could ever forgive my mother.

But a week later, after a _______ day when my classmates refused to play with me, I decided to see if Mom was right in action. It was a（n） _______ with my own behavior.

That Monday at school, I no longer _______ everyone there to change their behavior to fit me. _______ , I tried to change myself. Properly managing my emotion ________ everything. I no longer felt like I was a victim（受害者）, but a victor. I ________ my classmates.

Tolerance（宽容）in our own ________ helps us recognize and ________ the imperfections（缺点）in others. Now I ________ my mom`s words in this way, "If everyone around you is ________ , chances are that you are the kindest of all.”

【推荐1】I come from a broken family and my sister Jeanne and I had lost touch since we were teenagers. By age 19, I had moved to live on my father’s _______ farm in Virginia. Jeanne moved to Chicago. We lived separate lives in different _______ , and our connection somehow _______.

Fast-forward about five years, I was on a trip with my _______ to New york City, a place I had _______ been, which made it so _______ because I would raise horses and ride one to the corner store where everyone knew everyone and everything in the quiet _______ town of Driver, Virginia. One day. when we were crossing a very busy street _______ with people and I had laughed at something my husband said, I _______ heard my name yelled from somewhere ________ me: “Cherry!!” I ________ in my steps. Tears ________ up in my eyes and I knew without a ________ that it was my sister. I yelled back before even turning to ________ “Jeanne?” It was her. “Oh my God!” I screamed, and I began pushing people out of my ________ to get to her. The crowd started to part. so we must have seemed ________.

I later asked ________ she’d known it was me-she never saw me! She said it was my ________. I wouldn’t say my laugh is all that ________, but I guess to a family member it's infectious (感染的). I truly believe God played a huge part in bringing us together and I see it as a lesson, a reminder not to lose ________ with loved ones.

【推荐2】There are times when we feel as if our bad circumstances will never change. When we meet troubles or problems in our lives,we are _______ for a sign that tells us everything will be _______ and get better.

When in this mindset (心态), I think back to a _______ I once heard about a family having dinner at a Chinese restaurant. At the end of the meal, everyone _______ their fortune cookie and read their messages out loud. _______ , the youngest child did not, she went to get another fortune cookie. This _______ several times before the mom stopped her and asked, “What are you doing?” The little child responded, “I am looking for a cookie with the _______ fortune for me.” The mom said, “There is only one thing you need to _______ and it’s not in a fortune cookie. That is where there is a will there’s a way.”

When _______ are not going our way,we may ________ the right fortune. We seek the hope for our ________ so that it will be better than the present. Once the Israelis were expelled (驱逐) in a foreign country against their will. At that time, everything was ________ for them, but they didn’t lose hope; instead, they________to their new environment positively. Years later they returned to their homeland as they had________.

In life we need to take action and hope and believe that nothing is impossible to a willing mind. It does ________ that good things do come out of bad and difficult situations.

【推荐3】Sea turtles are considered a national treasure in Sri Lanka. However, in recent years, the sea turtles have faced great ________ .

Growing up on the beach, Chamara Indika, 35, was ________ about it. In the beginning, he ________ himself to the protection of sea turtles as a volunteer. He gave his spare time to raise ________ of caring for sea turtles and carried out sea turtle protection and rescue missions.

Later, he decided that this was not a long-term ________. “One person’s abilities are very ________ but I wanted to make real changes, big changes,” said Indika. ________, Jack Xiao, the founder of Chinese YIK International Volunteers (YIKIV), reached out to Indika and offered his help to protect sea turtles. With his assistance, Indika set up the Nil Manel Foundation in Sri Lanka.

The organization ________ professional training and guidance for the volunteers, spreads knowledge of turtle and carries out conservation activities. Volunteers can then work to spread their new knowledge to more people.

At first, the volunteers’ main job was to ________ and care for injured turtles locally. Then they found people and animals eat turtle eggs on the beach. So volunteers started transferring eggs from the beach to a protection center with ________ cultivation (培育), under the professional guidance of zoologists. It guaranteed higher ________ rates.

Thanks to their efforts, the living rate of newborn turtles has reached new highs, and conservation awareness has also been increased. Now straws and plastic bags, which cause many turtles to die ________, are being refused by many volunteers.

“It made me feel that all my work had ________. But it was not enough to rely on myself and the current volunteers. It would be important to ________ this knowledge down to future generations,” said Indika.

With persistence and hard work, Indika firmly believes they will make a(n) ________ to the sea turtles.

【推荐2】It is getting hot. It’s time to put on ______clothes and open up the windows.

Yesterday brought a(n) ______visit to the kitchen during the brief time we were out. Two daring sparrows(麻雀) had ______our kitchen.

When you come across such sudden visitors, you are ______to sense it as an action of intruding (入侵) into your comfort zone, or you might ______it as a lovely shining moment of life. We ________ the second option, without thinking twice. After all, we’ve never stopped feeling eager to strengthen the relationship with our sparrow each day.

We can’t stop ______and celebrating their dance from our window. We fed them with the ______ on our tablecloth after every meal. And we have ______ them with every kind of bases and stands on our terrace (露台).

______, they feel at ease in our backyard. And that has led them to ______courage to slip into our house. Perhaps because they have the feeling that we ______them as friendly neighbors who only leave some wastes from time to time.

The presence of our dear sparrow holds magical consistency(一致性) with real life. And we’ve been having lovely sparrows coming over lately, whose presence ______ us out of our boring daily routines and shows us the hidden beauty and charm.

Like different human beings, these sparrows often take different forms. We’ve met sparrows like those, of all shapes and colors. And they’re everywhere. Perhaps all of them are willing to call our _______, making us know they are there. They only ask from us not to be afraid of them or feel uncomfortable with their ______.

【推荐3】Zu Wenbao is a 23-year-old Chinese with autism (孤独症). That means it can be _______ for him to find a job or make friends. But he is doing better now because he is learning _______ and spending time with other young people at a _______ called Chen’s Studio in Beijing. Zu’s mother, Zhao Guorong, _______ her son to the school every Sunday so he can _______ with the teacher, Chen Shensi. It takes them two hours on three different buses to get to the _______ from their home outside of Beijing.

At the Beijing studio, Zu learned how to play the keyboards and _______ in a band called “Star Kids”. “Without music and these _______ , he wouldn’t have anything,” Zhao said. She said her son would not have any people to _______ if it were not for the music school.

Chen knows the young people with autism have trouble getting jobs, so he hopes music will help them make a ________ . The Star Kids band has already given some ________ . He did not know much about autism before he started teaching a bass player with the ________ in 2020. At the start, it was hard. Chen became ________ when he had trouble communicating with his students. However, it ________ became easier. He said, “I know it is hard for them to communicate. However, ________ , I think music might be their language.”