【推荐1】"WELCOME TO HELL, LADIES!" says Mr. Smith, the _______ of the adult ballet class. I force a smile as he presses down on my stiff back, attempting to be a little more _______.

When I was a little girl, I _______ elegantly dancing across the stage like the Swan Princess. With several reasons, my hopes of taking ballet lessons were killed. But every so often, usually while watching a brilliant performance of Swan Lake, those little_______ of unfulfilled desire would speak up and say that I should take lessons before it's too late.

And here I am – more than 50 years – finally _______ for it.

I'm an absolute _______ , but 30 years older than the rest of the participants in the adult class. We are practising “port de bras,” a ballet term for the _______ of the arms. I flutter(挥动) my arms, awakening my inner _______,"Your hands, they look like claws of a chicken," Mr. Smith _______ ,"No one wants to look at that. It's ugly."He points his finger at various body parts while ________ giving feedback, "Head up. neck long, chest proud, stomach in, back straight, bottom tight." Every time he looks at me, I instantly know that I've missed something. So I take note of every previous adjustment to gain his approval.

After a few sessions, I find myself looking forward to taking ballet classes with a mix of anxiety and excitement. Between classes, I ________ my posture in every window I pass. I'm ________. My hands are less claw-like and my posture a little more straight. And I constantly imagine I'm on stage, holding the audience entirely in my ________.

Learning ballet as an adult has been a much bigger ________   than I expected, but I'm glad that l ________and that ballet still appeals to me as it did when I was a little girl.

【推荐2】China's Great Wall, Australia's remote Outback, Italy's ancient ruins, Jane Sun, CEO of CTip, Asia's largest online travel agency, connects people with the best destinations the world has to offer. She believes cultural experiences can_________ divides and conflicts, strengthen industries and create peace.

Actually she herself is a living breathing advertisement for how travel can_________a life. But her journey was much longer and more_________ than her recent completion of the Shanghai marathon.

While_________Peking University, Sun was invited to a program in the University of Florida, where she_________managed to further her study, majoring in accounting. Compared to her fellow students, Sun's life_________was rapid. She bicycled 6 miles to campus each morning, taking the earliest classes_________ so she could spend the rest of the day, and Saturdays, working to pay her education fees.

_________Sun recalls her UF days fondly. “I learned a lot from my experience in the USA,” says Sun.

Many discussions I had at UF still _________ my style of leadership today.____________, I have developed an appreciation for hearing other persons different ____________ over a certain issue.”

“I try to put myself in other people's shoes”, Sun says, “In a global market, you have to have a very good understanding of different peoples and____________ different cultures.”

Feeling it her duty-to help the next generation, Sun ____________ a scholarship to other students in need. Her tips for them include, “be open-minded,” give 100 percent effort to whatever you want to____________That’s the exact attitude she holds to life.

Now as a mother of two daughters, she shoulders the____________as CEO of what is now a $25 billion company.

“Some people ask me why I work so hard, but I feel mothers are best role____________for children,” Sun says. “I show them that to work is actually to____________ yourselves, but if you double your efforts at work and being a mother. it is doubly____________.”

As for her future____________Sun is preparing for the day when virtual reality, advanced vehicles and even space travel will change the travel industry.

One thing that won't change: the____________of travel to build bridge.

【推荐3】One morning when I was sending a package to a poor woman, I noticed a little dog in her yard. He was _______ from a terrible case of mange (疥癣). I asked her if he was her dog and she said yes. I asked why she didn’t _______ him and she told me there was nothing she could do about him for being short of money.

My heart broke as I watched him slowly trying to stand his _______ from the illness. I asked her if she would mind if I tried to _______ him. I told her I would try to get some _______ to make him feel comfortable. Instead of going to a regular chemist’s shop, I went to the local animal doctor and told him what the dog _______ like and he told me what I needed. When I _______ to the woman’s home I asked her if she would be sure to _______ the dog in the liquid medicine every day until it was _______. I made her promise because I knew I could not ________ every day to make sure it was done.

Two weeks later when I returned to the house, this ________ little ball of dog with red fur ________ me at the door. It was him, shaking his tail ________. I smiled and told the woman she did a great ________. I asked her if I could call him Firecracker (爆竹) because his fur was so red and lively. She ________ her head yes with tears in her eyes too. Every time I went to her home Firecracker always greeted me with a wave of his tail. That was the best $16 I had spent.

【推荐3】During the final term of my theater and performance degree at the University of Leeds, we planned to _________ some interactive workshops with elderly residents to try to _________ memory and social engagement.

I remember being _________, aware that we were working with old people who were almost nonverbal (不能说话的).

I had decided to play music at the end of the session. We went with the song My Way _________ those elderly residents would have been listening to the hit song in their late 20s. Once I pressed play, nearly everyone in the room stood up and _________ what seemed like every word. I was so deeply _________. Many of them were communicating much better. It looked and felt like _________.

Off I went to drama school, but I thought about that _________ almost daily. So when we were given the opportunity to write a script (剧本) for a _________ festival, I created a love story about __________ and dementia (痴呆), spanning 50 years of a couple’s life.

And now, 10 years later. the show I __________ is running again in London thanks to the Music for Dementia campaign.

I now know that music-based interventions (治疗) __________ the need for antipsychotic medication (抗精神病药物) in more than 60 percent of people __________ dementia. I don’t know what my My Way would be, but I certainly think we should all try to find our __________ and do our best to stay connected to the people we __________ it with.