【推荐1】The best way I can think of to describe this situation: We finally have time to stop and smell the dandelions (蒲公英).

Technically dandelions are weeds, so they don’t often ____ in any kind of decorations. When I pass dandelions in my lawn, my reaction typically is not to ____ them at all, or think we really need to get rid of the weeds. But for the past couple of days, my kids have been ____ by these little yellow weeds. They have filled my pockets with them, and we have even smelled them. We can be bothered by the weed and ____ by the weeding. But we are still giving it our time and looking at it for a glimmer of (一丝) good.

While before we may have been too ____ to smell the dandelion, now, with the spread of COVID-19, we are forced to stay at home and slow down and appreciate it. In fact, I’ve ____ a great deal about dandelions in the past several days. Like that they’re one of the first food sources for bees in the spring, and are ______ to eat, even nutritious. These little weeds are surprisingly useful, but I had ____ stopped to think about it before.

I’m longing for the days when we can ____ our friends and family again, and honestly even a handshake with a stranger sounds nice. I can’t wait for a time when we can go outside without ____ and send our health-care workers out into the world safely. Yet, right now we have the time to smell the weed. It’s a forced ____ to consider all the things we could or should have been doing all along ____ rushing off to the next big important thing.

As I dig a dandelion out of my pocket and let out a sneeze (喷嚏)，I realise this isn’t fun, but there are pockets of ____ . Dandelions don’t smell like roses, but they are ____ when you really look at them and important when you really think about them.

When this is all over, I hope I will still ____ to stop and smell the weeds.

【推荐2】Letting me move into my university dormitory wasn’t an easy decision for my parents. However, they knew if I wanted a good ________, I’d have to live away from home. I’d always dreamed of living alone: the life of no rules and regulations and being independent. So I was ________ about this new stage in my life.

________ during the first few months of living alone, I’d find myself crying every day. I’d call my mum every day. I ________ to fly back home as soon as I got any time off. That was the only thing I was concerned about. Coming from a big family, I was ________ to noises surrounding me. Therefore, the scary silence at night was the worst. I couldn’t even ________ without keeping the lights on.

As time went by, I started enjoying the ________ that came with living alone. I could do things in my own time: eat whenever I want, wake up whenever I want. The space of loneliness was also then ________ by friends who became like family, so I ________ missing my family less.

When it was time to say goodbye and go back home after my ________, I felt bittersweet. I’d enjoyed my time alone, learning things which wouldn’t have been ________ if I had never moved away from home. But I’d also missed my family too much.

I’d learned a lot from this ________. Living alone made me value ________ time even more. I realized that every second with them ________ though I might not get the freedom I had while living alone.

I guess it isn’t meaningful for everybody, but for me, there is no warmth in a house ________ it’s filled with loving members and people you love.

【推荐3】To escape my mother's firm grasp, I rushed forward. However, I made a vain _______. She insisted it would only_______for a second, and then it would be all over. But inside my four-year-old mind, I could only_______ great pain. Fearful tears streamed down my light pink cheeks_______ she slowly lifted up mu shirtsleeve. I attempted to break _______again, but she was clever and held me tight. She stared at the Band-Aid(创可贴) on my skin, urging me to _______, and she placed her hand on my pale skin, and in one quick movement, _______ the Band-Aid. I screamed.

Ever since that _______day twelve years ago, I have not been a fan. of Band-Aids. Their _______is to protect a wound, but is it really worth the suffering one ________at the end of it? Life gave me the ________I have been called “the indecisive one” in my family for years. Whether I am asked to make simple decisions about what to have for dinner or what movie to watch, my________is typically a meaningless shrug(耸肩).

One day, while I was driving a car, I came across a ________Superheroes by The Script filled me with a powerful feeling,________ me not to be afraid of decisions. I realized that in past years, the trust bonds I formed with others had been broken, which led me to being________. The faith and love I placed in a friend ________ after he repeatedly betrayed me. I built a firm wall around myself. The situation was like Band-Aids that________ pain.

Replaying the song over and over again, I made the ________to rip off(撕掉) the Band-Aids. It was. ________ that it would not be easy and that ________ did exist, but it had to be done.

【推荐2】From all the research I've done,a good learner possesses some key attributes(特质). I've actually found some quotes(引文)that _______ these attributes.

The first quote is_______ an ancient Chinese proverb:A teacher can only open the door.You must walk through.

Every school in the world should make this amazing quote its _______.When a teacher teaches you new information,she is opening the door in your brain to that new knowledge.However,that door doesn't _______Like most doors,it's_______ to close within a short period of time. If you don't pass through _______ it closes,then your teacher will have to open it for you again.

But there's a _______:You can keep the door open longer,even without your teacher.Good learners review new material while it's still_______ in their brain.If you don't review,then it's like asking a teacher to open the door and then standing _______while it shuts in your face.You and the teacher will both feel pretty ________.

Just like becoming fit is 10%working out and 90%eating right,learning English is 10% learning new information and 90%________.You'll never get ________if you don't review.

Our second quote,which is an________ powerful one,comes from Peter Drucker,the ________of modern business management theory.He said,"What gets measured gets managed."

Drucker is saying that if you want to manage the progress of something,you must ________ progress. For example,"I want to learn English”is untrackable,uninspiring,and unrealistic.As a result,we should ________ setting such goals.Instead,we should ________ Drucker's wisdom and make our goals trackable,such as“I want to master all of the English vowels(元音)”or“I want to learn and be able to use 1000 English words.”

________,you should set a period for achieving it.Don't make it too long,or you'll lose ________. 4 weeks-3 months is usually a good choice.Imagine learning to use 1000 English words in conversation in 2 months!That sounds ________

【推荐3】A middle school teacher has been praised for going above and beyond （超出）the call of duty to help one of his students with her math homework while _____ social distancing guidelines.

One day, 12-year-old Rylee Anderson had trouble figuring out how to ____ a math problem. ________her school being _______during the disease, her parents couldn't help her with the problem. After Rylee ____ her math teacher Waba for help, he replied with some ____ on how to work out the problem. However, he could tell that she was still __ at the homework. Since Waba was ____ that his student lived just down the street from his house, he took a white ____ and went to her front door, so he could ____ his points from the outside of the glass. He then spent the next ten minutes in giving a one-on-math lesson to Rylee as she _____ from inside her home.

Waba, who has been a math teacher for 27years, told the ____ that he is a better ____ face-face than on the telephone and he thinks students can learn ____ that way.

When it seemed like Rylee finally grasped the _____, Waba said his goodbyes and headed home. Before he left, however, Rylee's father Josh Anderson ________ the heartwarming interaction （互动）and posted it to Twitter.

Although thousands of social _____users praised Waba, he later ____       it was just part of the job. "That's what teachers are _____, those smiles. That' s the ___of being a teacher and that's what we do it for ,"   Waba said.

【推荐1】A new phone app uses vibrations from smart phones to warn people about earthquakes.

The phone app _______ sudden shaking of the earth’s surface through sensors in   smart phones. It is called MyShake. It is the work of four researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. They said they created a worldwide warning system that would _______ people and give them time to prepare. The MyShake app is _______ only for Android phones.

Smart phones are _______ accelerometers (加速度感应器). These instruments measure movement, like that of a car or airplane. MyShake uses phone accelerometers to measure seismic (地震的) activity. It has been _______ to know the difference between normal activity and earthquake movement. The software developers say their app is right 93 percent of the time.

A smart phone sends seismic information to the app developers. If the developers receive several notifications _______, it recognizes that an earthquake might be taking place or will take place soon.

Using information sent from the app, the network then _______ the   location and strength of the quake in real time. MyShake can record magnitude 5.0 earthquakes at distances of 10 kilometers or less.

MyShake uses very _______ power, according to its developers. Only when   seismic activity is   _______ by the app does it become active and sends data to the network. The app works best when your phone is resting on a ________ surface, like a table.

The developers hope that MyShake can add to information collected by the U.S. Geological Survey. That U.S. agency has created the Earthquake Early Warning System, also ________ EEW. The EEW has deployed (部署) sensors for measuring quakes in many areas.

In places where no such equipment ________, MyShake may be the only method of   early quake ________.   The app also shows ways to stay safer during an earthquake. The developers say it will become more effective as more people use it.

“Our goal is to build a worldwide seismic network and use the data to________ the effects of earthquakes on us as individuals and on society as a whole,” say the researchers.

The developers say they hope to add a feature that would ________ people   about a possible tsunami: a huge wave after an earthquake.