【推荐2】This summer, 14 students from the School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University went on a social practice trip to Nihegou village, Yulin, in Shaanxi Province. They walked across the countryside,________the land on foot and engaged in a series of activities. As their journey________, the students handed villagers a special and________gift—portrait(肖像) photos of each villager before their leaving.

The students________those portrait photos in a makeshift photo studio they had________in the village committee(村委会) building.________, with a basket of red dates(红枣), a freshly-picked watermelon, or a farming tool in hand, smiling,________their plain yet rich lives in front of the cameras. Some________next to their wives or husbands, or their grandchildren, posing for a warm and________family photo.

“Taking portrait photos for the________in the village is what we had thought about doing since our team was________,” wrote Zhang Yunling, a graduate student from the School of Journalism and Communication, “and we________that while we were in the village we could do something________for the villagers.”

Nihegou is a typical “senior village” where almost all________were above 60, and without a single photo studio, the villagers hardly had any________of taking photos, Zhang explained, adding, “We hoped to take this opportunity to shoot some ‘formal’ photos for them and to________these aging, hard-working people.”

“Throughout the day of the________, I had been________affected by their emotions and in their smiling faces I could read their pure________and the passion they had for life.” Zhang said. “Never before had I felt the________of photography.”

【推荐1】My mother has just recovered(康复) from a serious illness. She is very_________in a wheelchair, but still wants to go without one! She_________every day to stay mobile and walk. Recently she got two walking sticks and we started to go on_________walks together in a forest down the road.

Today the_________was nice, so we planned to stay outside a little longer. We_________to the lake near our house, and she said she wanted to swim in the lake. I was very_________because I never saw her in any kind of water before! We used to have holidays at the Baltic sea, but she always stayed on the_________.

So we were here and I swam around. When I_________, I saw her knee deep in the water! I swam back _______. However, she went in further and further and wore a big__________on her face. And then she took the last step and just swam!

It was less than ten seconds because her legs started to shake. I helped her back and she laughed heartily.

She told me that this was the__________she often visited when she was a(n)__________. Her mother would take her here nearly every weekend in summer to swim. She could even__________the last time she swam.

I was so glad for her. She even__________to walk back to the car without her__________!

【推荐2】Music is something I could never live without. Without music, I was shy, _________and the type of person that would only talk when asked to. _________allowed me to express myself. Singing my heart out during grade choir (合唱团) practice and trying out for the school play, I felt the most like myself. It made me _________. There was nothing that could keep me away from my passion (热情), until high school.

Every student wanted to be in the choir during high school. I chose show choir (dancing and singing). The other day I took part in the audition (试唱) held by the high school choir director. The audition went like this, introduction, song of choice and range check—“ding”—the director played a note on the piano which I had to match. I felt that I had done a(an) _________job. Weeks passed and the list of who had made it into show choir was _________.

“Have you seen the list? I got in!” one of my friends said.

“No,” I replied looking on the web page for the _________.

I scrolled down, not my name, oh congratulations, I thought as I was looking through the show choir list. I found my _________.

“Alice H.—alternate (替补).”

An alternate? Was my audition that _________? After I saw this, my confidence _________. I had no passion for the show choir. I was torn from something that I thought made me different from others.

A year passed, I was at a restaurant that also held karaoke to the customers. My parents begged me to go up and __________. I said no the first time, no the second time, finally I got enough __________to go up. It took me back to the moment I was auditioning for choir. The people eating __________for me, clapping their hands. I realized, I did not get into one program but that did not mean that I had to give up all __________. The lesson I learned was if you are turned down or do not get the outcome you want, and it is something you’re in love with, don’t __________up. I never did try out for show choir again but I knew I had taken back my passion. For the future I know that I won’t always get the outcome I want, __________I will continue to work just as hard.

【推荐3】“I knew when I saw you, I wanted to take you home,” my dad says to me. I am sitting beside him for our Saturday morning visit. While our conversation may repeat at times or be filled with silence, sometimes I get these _______ words.

My father has Alzheimer’s (阿兹海默症病人). It has been a long time since he _______ me by my name. When he says these words, my tears _______ . There is a deep-seated _______ of a father seeing his daughter when she was born. It makes me think of a rare photo I have of my father with me as a baby. In the photo, he is holding me, with arms outstretched as if inspecting me.

Another Saturday, it happens again. He is looking at a photo of me in high school. He points to the photo and says, “She’s smart. She can do anything.” I am shocked. The emotion catches in my throat. Does he _______ the same person is sitting beside him? It does not _______ . In that moment I feel his love and it’s a/an _______ of my pain.

Our weekly visits repeat. We sit. I listen. He talks.

The more I listen, the more I _______ that his words are tied to a memory from long ago. He may _______ to find a word but he finds a way to express himself. I am ________ to be by his side when he says these unexpected words. He’s giving me what he can.