【推荐1】When I was about twelve years old, my mother told us that we would not be _______ Christmas gifts for lack of money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d _______?” Then, three women _______ at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they bought a doll. I would no longer have to be _______ when I returned to school.

Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my _______ Christmas special and memorable there, I_______ remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create the same feeling of _______ for as many children as I could possibly _______.

So I _______ with a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, each with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were ________. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I ________ them that they couldn’t open their presents until every child had come forward. Finally the ________ they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles ________ up the room. The ________ in the room was obvious, and it wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling — the feeling I knew from that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody still remembered me. I know I ________.

【推荐3】Inspiration can be a strange thing. You never know when it might ________. And sometimes, it can come from the most ________ places.

I recently read about an author named Nnedi Okorafor. When she was in college, she had a serious spinal disorder（脊椎病）. Okorafor was told that a simple operation could ________ it. But when she woke up, she found that she couldn't move her legs and was in great pain.

Before she got well, she saw strange things in her hospital room. She imagined her ________ as a beast（野兽）that hunted her from the shadows. But she also ________ a woman-a woman who could fly, inspired her and helped her ________ her pain. "I felt myself become ________," she wrote in her book Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected.

We ________ know where we might find the inspiration to create. As a musician, most of my inspiration comes from other people's music. But I also find ________ in other places. Books, movies and ________ just moments in everyday life can lead to new creations.

________, I recently rewatched the film Blade Runner. I've seen it plenty of times before. But this time, for some reason, I saw it ________. I decided to make music that could create the same feeling as the film, which is heavily ________ by the movie's setting and characters.

Anything can ________ us. You just have to be ________ to catch inspiration when it hits.

【推荐2】When travelling in the Canadian Rockies by car, I often notice a road sign that says,“A fed bear is a dead bear.”_________, I did not get it. Why is a fed bear a dead one? According to a friend, many travellers used to throw their food from their cars for the bears._________,the bears turned to the roadside for food and slowly lost their ability to take care of themselves. When winter came, fewer travellers went to the mountains, which _________ less food for the bears, some of whom starved or froze to death. So the Canadian government _________ warning signs along the road, essentially advising people not to feed the bears.

This reminded me of a scientific experiment. Some white mice were _________ into two groups. One group spent their days only eating and sleeping,_________ the other, fed only with half the amount of food _________ for survival, had to search for food. Half a year later, scientists found that the mice that had to search for their own food were _________, while the fully fed ones were either ill or dead. It was _________ that the underfed white mice, in the __________ of searching for their food,had kept healthy by exercising in finding food, being adaptable,and __________ their immunity.

Many over-concerned parents are feeding their children like bears or white mice. At present, children are only good at reading and studying, and are not __________ to think independently and act for themselves.__________ placed in strange environments,they are lost, confused, and helpless. Parents do not understand what it takes to __________ their children’s long-term success. They forget the most important thing — and that is how to cultivate their children into __________ adults, so that they can bravely undertake challenges and succeed in the future.

【推荐1】Ring! Ring! Ring! It was early in the morning. Though I knew who was calling, I unwillingly _______ the telephone. I was a new supply instructor (代课老师) struggling to support my young family. Each morning I waited for a call that would take me to a different _______ that day. The last three classes had all been intended to _______ me and see just how much bad _______ I could deal with. I had replied by being _______ with the students. I didn’t really want to go to work that morning then, _______ since it was my birthday.

Still, I answered the phone and took the job. My family needed the money and I couldn’t _______ to be picky (挑剔的). As I was driving to work, however, I _______ to try harder to be the best teacher I could be. As school started, the students _______ me as their former teachers and once again were ready to see how I reacted to bad behavior. This time, though, I was strict but ________ with them. I did my best to make the ________ fun. I shared smiles, praised their efforts, and ________ them to work hard. The effect was amazing. My uncontrollable classroom was soon ________ . Students were laughing and learning and I finally felt like I was doing my job ________ . I went home happily and enjoyed the rest of my birthday with my family.

Every day we are given another ________ to get things right, to live our lives with love and joy, and to make this world a better place. Every morning arises and begins once again to be the best of you.

【推荐3】As a child, I was crazy about flying. I spent hours watching birds fly, noting how the angle of their ________ affected their flight. I would then waste tons of fresh printer paper, much to the disappointment of my parents, to ________ various wing types by constructing paper airplanes.

One day, I decided to ________. I built a plane out of a wooden clothes rack, with plastic bags as parachutes. After being in the air for a second, the world came ________ down around me as I fell onto the bed with pieces of wood flying everywhere.

As I grew older, my inner ________ to discover why produced a desire to solve problems, allowing my great ________ for flying to turn into a deep-seated love for engineering.

I began to ________ myself academically, taking the hardest STEM classes offered. I also selected to participate in my school’s engineering path. ________, I tried hard to solve problems that affect the real world. Inspired by the water crisis in India, I ________ a new purification system that can purify water more efficiently and cost-effectively than ________ plants.

Working on the project, I saw the raw power of engineering — a/an ________ idea gradually becoming reality. I was spending most of my days ________ the why behind things, while also discovering solutions to common problems.

Thirteen years have passed since that first flight, and I have yet to ________ the difficulty of physical human flight. My five-year-old self would have seen the crash as a huge ________. But the great curiosity that I found in myself that day is still with me. It has continued to push me to challenge myself to ________ ever more complex problems, absorbed in the promise and applicability of engineering.