【推荐2】17-year-old Aarrav Anil, interested in robotics, has represented his country at more than 20 robotics competitions. Now, he has _________ a smart spoon that can help people with Parkinson’s disease preserve their _________ in dining.

Aarrav didn’t do this to win awards or honor; his _________ for this spoon came from seeing his uncle who has such a disease _________ to feed himself. Food kept falling off the spoon and flowing out of his mouth, so someone has to _________ him. The youth decided to help his uncle.

Not everything went _________ during the development. For example, he failed to _________ some special electronic parts in his country and had to import them from other countries. In the end, Aarrav made the first _________ successfully. But the handle was so slippery that it was _________ for his uncle. Now the original design has __________ a few changes. “I’ve been fine-tuning the version based on users’ feedback. It needs to be __________ so that it can be washed. And the spoon needs to be __________ to hold more food,” Aarrav said.

While similar products have already __________ the market, their cost is too high for most people. Aarrav’s smart spoon can be a help in __________ the price. His hope is that everyone with Parkinson’s will have a __________ to use it to eat by themselves.

【推荐3】Early on Saturday morning, parents and viewers walked in a line into the gym at the Einste Academy, a school in Illinois in the US. After the coach_________his opening speech everyone_________for the US's national song. After the song, judges dressed in black and white shirt took up their_________outside the playing field, ready for the games to begin.

While this sounds like the typical setting of a US sporting event, this one had a high-tech twist, was a competitive robotics_________—a game that turns the subjects of science, technology, engineerin and mathematics into a competitive sport.

_________by coaches, teams of students in grade 7 through 12 who designed, built and programmo their own robots competed against other robotics teams in the West Suburban League North Division the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC).

“Most students experience multiple-choice questions.” said Jonathan Weiland, who works f FIRST Tech Challenge in Illinois. “In FTC, there are hundreds of solutions to a problem and they see which solution_________the best.”

“Founded by a not-for-profit organization, FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science ai Technology) events are modeled after traditional sports like basketball to generate_________in robotic,” Weiland said. FIRST Tech Challenge is one of four FIRST programs.

During a FIRST Tech Challenge, Robotics teams either_________a robotics kit(配套组件), adjusting and upgrading their design, or custom build(专门制作) a robot using_________materials, recording the progress in engineering notebooks.

The robotics teams compete in games within a league, getting points throughout the season__________a national and even global competitions. There are 35 teams in the West Surburban Leagn North Division and only eight will go to the state, Weiland said. Teams earn awards based on the robot’s__________,design and other accomplishments.

“Judges__________pair two robotics teams to form a group that competes against two other teams. With multiple games played by all teams at each meet, a competitor in one game might be a__________in the next,” Weiland said. Students are taught to help each other at all times and to__________the other team, he said.

“One of the best things you can do with your__________is to share something with someone else,” student said. “It's fun being on the journey with them.”

【推荐1】Grandma Margaret, our neighbor across the street, was a good friend of my mom. One day near Christmas, we heard a knock on the door, and in walked Grandma Margaret with a(n) _________ bag. She walked over to the tree and placed that _________ under its branches (树枝). “For your mom and dad,” she said. Then she opened the bag and began calling our names.

After she left, we rushed to the _________ and started shaking the packages, trying to _________ what was in each package. I walked over to examine my mom and dad’s gift but could hardly _________ it.

On Christmas morning, we girls _________ downstairs to wake up our parents. “Hurry up, Mom and Dad! It’s Christmas!” They got out of bed, and we rushed to the living room. The night before, we’d _________ all our gifts in separate piles.

My dad thanked Grandma Margaret’s for her _________. Then we girls opened one present _________ until all our gifts surrounded (围住) us.

What I wanted to know next was what she had given my parents. You see, my dad was a __________ man who had trouble asking for help, especially when it came to __________. In fact, he seldom accepted gifts of money for his __________ family. Food and clothing for his little girls and wife were gratefully __________, but money was not.

Mom and Dad sat together and then Mom __________ the heavy package onto her table. She found a letter at the bottom. She __________ the envelope, and inside she found a $100 bill!

【推荐1】I was in a PhD program in history when I came down with schizoaffective disorder (分裂情感性障碍). I was forced to ________ my education and began a ________ period of treatment. The biggest ________ I faced was what I was going to do with my life if I couldn’t be a ________ professor anymore, my long-cherished dream.

Fortunately, with the help of my doctor, I soon found a(n) ________: I would become a nonfiction writer in my field of seventeenth-century British history. I tried my best to make the plan a ________. But it all seemed to be for nothing.

For some time, I was ________. But I refused to ________. It occurred to me that I could write a ________, an art I had once practiced but also had long since ________. I found that writing poetry was a source of the deepest ________. Before long, I spent as much time as I could writing poetry. When I was writing, I hardly felt sick anymore. I ________ my illness. In the end, I found the writer inside myself, branching out into ________ fields with hope and anticipation.

Through the experience, I’ve learned no matter what happens, always look to the future with hope. It may take a while, but you can________ in creating a rich and satisfactory life again. All you ________ is perseverance, motivation, and hard work.

【推荐3】If a person lost an arm, how could he or she play basketball? How could he or she _________dribble (运球) like a professional player? Zhang Jiacheng, a Chinese boy, has _________it and moved everyone who knows his story from the Internet.

Zhang soon _________tens of thousands of netizens’ attention and was highly praised for his _________skills, after a short video of his playing one-on-one was recently _________online. In the video, Zhang _________ his dribbling and shooting abilities with a professional player playing in _________. The audience watching on site gave a loud _________. “It is the power of basketball, so _________and inspirational!” a netizen who saw this video __________on Sina Weibo. Zhang also registered a personal account on a video platform, and __________15 short videos of practicing basketball, which had earned him over one million __________in just a few days. Born in Guangdong, China, Zhang’s right arm was __________by an accident when he was only five, which was a very __________event for a little kid. But Zhang hasn’t let that misfortune __________ his pursuing his dreams, and he has never __________his fate as his love for basketball grows deeper in a body with a physical __________. Basketball is by no means a __________for this one-armed teenager. __________, he dreams of being a professional athlete!

“Your heart is always the __________part of your body,” said Yi Jianlian, after watching the teenager's short video.