【推荐1】Three mornings a week, Iona walks six blocks from Eastern High School to Payne Elementary School. She ________ at the front desk just after 8: 30 a. m. and makes her way to a ________ , where she’ll be teaching second-and third-graders who are full of energy after the school day.

Iona, a senior at Eastern High, ________ this work back in the ninth grade. It’s run by Reach, a Washington D. C. nonprofit, which trains high school ________ like her to be reading tutors (教师) for elementary school students. It’s a tutoring program that works in two ________ . It’s serving a(n) ________ need in the city: Two-thirds of students in D. C. public schools can’t ________ and write at grade level when they start high school. Reach ________ these older students to become ________ readers by giving them the tools to teach younger kids.

Tutoring programs that ________ younger and older students are ________ . But most rely on ________ students. Reach turns the ________ on its head: Most of the teenage tutors start the ________ reading between the fourth-and sixth-grade level... The tutors ________ training in literacy (读写能力) instruction and they’re ________ as role models. With Reach, teens are given the ________ of helping a younger student. That’s a big ________ for them.

Iona says she ________ reading a lot more than she did when she started almost four years ago. She hasn’t decided on her future plans, but she does ________ one thing: She wants to work with kids.

【推荐2】My parents said that I started reading tomato soup labels when I was two. But my earliest________are of The Poky Little Puppy, comics I found on the bookshelf. I quickly moved on to the library. I_________Little House on the Prairie and absolutely anything by Judy Blume.

I don’t know whether I read because I was curious or I was curious because I read. Probably________I do know,________, that books were my refuge (避难所). They gave me________and comfort when life was confusing or uncertain. They were a(n)________and a shelter. Books transported me to places I never________and exposed me to ideas I had never considered. I preferred Watership Down to hide-and-seek with the neighbor________. My father worried that I was turning into a recluse (孤独者), but I was________. Maybe they made me smarter. I know they provided me with________.

So, when I had my son, it surprised no one that I filled his room with________. With a certainty I didn’t know, I read to him for hours, hoping that I would________the magic to him. It did. Now he writes________about fire engines, policemen and flying birds. He is becoming a(n)________storyteller--just like his parents. I________to him through stories in a way I didn’t envision (想象).

【推荐3】At 19, Vancouverite Karina Zhou launched her first book, Kai’s Tea Eggs, earlier this week.

Zhou first _________ the story as an entry for a picture book illustration contest. She _________ the gold award. Getting it out there for the world to see was the natural next _________: “Because it did so well in that contest, I really want to publish this,” she says. Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree _________ her style, and inspiration often struck as she _________ the pages of other books. “I went to every _________ I could find and sat in the kid’s sections (区域) for a long time.” she says.

Much of Kai’s Tea Eggs was drawn from Zhou’s _________. “The story is inspired by a day when I _________ tea eggs for a multicultural event at my primary school — it was a really _________ experience and everyone liked the food,” she remarks. Her book recreates that __________ through the main character Kai: a sweet child, who, with the __________ of a friendly dragon named Ming, finds the courage to embrace (接纳) and explores the foods of her Chinese heritage.

Zhou-noticed a pattern when sharing the story with people from different __________. Many said that they could __________ the experience of the main character Kai, who feels __________ about sharing the food of her Chinese culture. “Everyone has gone through the anxiety in their own unique way,” Zhou notes.

The book is Zhou’s first, but she has plans for more: “I do want to __________ finding stories that are meaningful and that I think need to be in this world right now,” she says.

【推荐1】Lexi Reed weighed 485 pounds at the age of 25—a weight that was quite ________ . Danny was overweight himself even though he came in at 280 pounds. But, the ________ part of everything was that the couple were both gaining more weight on what they already had with each passing day. Some of the daily activities, no matter how simple, became a real ________ for the couple. However, after celebrating their first ________ in 2016, they decided to make a positive change in their life.

The couple was making many plans to ________ in the new year 2016 like many other people around the world. They made a New Year’s resolution. But, it was not ________ to many that were made, as they decided to ________ a challenge that would change their lives forever--and for good! So many people make promises to themselves and others that they don’t really ________ , but the Reeds were not about to act like the others. Theirs were bound to come to ________ .

It was completely unknown to the couple that people were actually ________ them online when they started their journey. Their ________ attracted lots of attention, and people cheered them on. Lexi kept her friends and family ________ with her progress through Instagram. But they were yet to receive a major________ of their lives: They were ________ in a popular issue of People Magazine known as “Half Their Size”. Before long, the couple’s story had become a real ________ .

【推荐2】My grandpa was not tall. But to me, a five-year-old child, he was a giant. We would sit side by side, watching the sun go down behind the gas station across the busy street, a street that I was never _________ to cross _________ accompanied(陪伴) by an adult.

One day we sat _________ the traffic, counting cars and trying to guess the color of the next one to turn the corner.

Suddenly Grandpa asked, “_________?"

"Yes," was my reply." How would you like to run over to the gas station there and get _________ a bottle of Coke?"

I couldn't believe my _________. Had I heard right? Was he talking to me? On my family's modest（卑微的）income, Coke was not a part of our diet. A few sips(小口抿) was all I had ever had, and certainly never my own bottle.

I replied shyly, "Okay," already wondering how I would get across the _________. I thought Grandpa was going to go with me._________, after he gave me a dime(硬币), he said to me, "Okay, I'm going to stay _________ and tell you when it's safe to cross. You go over to the Coke machine, get your Coke and walk back. __________ me to tell you when it's safe to cross back."

I was very both excited and nervous when Grandpa __________ my hand tightly. Together we looked __________the street and down, and up again. When he told me it was safe to cross, he __________ my hand and I ran. I ran faster than I had ever run before. The street seemed __________. I wondered if I would __________ it to the other side. Reaching the other side, I __________to find Grandpa still standing exactly where I had left him,__________ proudly.

……

Coke in hand, I proudly marched back out into the early evening dusk, seeing Grandpa was waiting __________.

"Stop right there!" he yelled(喊). One or two cars sped by me, and once again, Grandpa yelled, "Come on now, run!" At last I crossed the street safely. "Don't ever do that __________," he warned.

One long swallow(吞，咽) of the cold Coke cooled my sweating body. I__________ felt so proud.

【推荐3】On Sunday morning, a man suffered a sudden heart attack and ______ down on Awad Street in the village of Tamra in northern Israel. ______ bystanders called medical services for help.

Sbri Diab, a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT (急救员), was at work when he received the ______ from United Hatzalah’s Command Center about the medical emergency. Sbri ______ left work and drove to the ______. When Sbri got there, he found the man lying on the ground with no ______ and started CPR (心肺复苏) for him.

After a few minutes, additional ______ arrived and got involved in the ______ to save the man’s life. After about 40 minutes the team was ______ and the man regained his pulse (脉搏). Then the man was ______ to the hospital in an ambulance (救护车) for further care.

When ______ after the whole thing ended, Sbri reported. “I’m glad the man came to. We worked hard trying to save the man. It’s very ______ to see a patient regain life after what seems like death for a long time. It’s very exciting and a great ______ to be able to save a life. We don’t have many ambulances in the north. This is one of the reasons I decided to ______ United Hatzalah so that I could help save people until the ______ arrives.”

【推荐2】I am one of the healthcare assistants in our neighborhood charity organization. Our _____________ is to support families and the individuals who are in the end-of-life stage. We do whatever they need us to do. We can’t change the inevitable, but we can make a   _____________   .

Working for the charity, we operate every single day of the year, and I find myself _____________even on holidays. You might assume that helping to _____________   a person facing death would be a sad experience. But what may _____________   you is that it’s not. The families make the most of the time they have _____________   . They remain _____________ . Everyone knows what’s coming; they understand that their loved one is _____________ , but it’s not a time for   _____________; it’s a time of togetherness and warmth.

I remember one particular family with three sisters and the fourth who was in the end-of-life stage. When I arrived, she was   _____________ , and I knew she might not   _____________ it through the night. But sitting with the sisters, talking about their childhood and sharing photos, it was a special time for me. The patient had asked for _____________ earlier that day, and they made sure she got them. She went to sleep, and we lost her that night. The sisters   _____________ it, they thanked me, and it was a(n)   _____________ experience. I’ll always remember the sweet and bitter peaches!

There are some heartbreaking situations, but when we are there   _____________ the end, making the affair easier for the families, love outshines darkness.