【推荐1】I tried to keep my car in control. I pulled by the nearby _________ and parked on a slope (斜坡). I opened the _________ and took out the jack (千斤顶), _________ for centuries, dust-covered piece of metal. I thought, “I can _________ it.” I loosened the nuts and placed the jack down. Half an hour later, I _________ the tyre. The only thing supporting front was the rusty jack. Back in the trunk, I pulled out the spare tyre, _________ the entire car. I saw the car going downhill. Bang! The jack collapsed and the car collapsed.

An inner voice said, “You’re stupid!” Then another voice, “_________!”

The people at the distant bus stop opposite the gas station were looking at me curiously. I was _________.

In the gas station, behind the counter _________ a big man with a smile. The name tag said, “Jay C”. He said, “My friend, was your car doing push-ups?” I told him I did something __________ and I asked him for __________. We got out. Jay C looked at the car and said, “You were right; that’s stupid. Let me __________ you.” You never know who you’re going to find when you reach out. I found a (n) __________ jack master!

Jay C helped me lift the car up skillfully. That night, I stopped to change a tyre, __________, the tyre changed me! I used to believe to reach out was a __________. I discovered my weakness was refusing to reach out. When you reach out, you attract ideas that lift you up.

【推荐2】It was an extremely busy day. I was so tired of my life that I was getting a little ________ with myself and everyone around me. On my way home, I ________ my old friend Paul in the street. He looked happy and ________ me to his home for dinner. We had not seen each other for many years, so ________ I was tired I accepted his invitation.

As we entered the door of his house, Paul started ________ “I have a dream, a song to sing, to help you ________ everything.” I felt ________ his behavior, but in no time I understood. Two ________ walked to Paul and hugged him. They couldn’t walk ________ or speak clearly, but their faces were full of ________ and sang the same song.

We talked about our ________ and work, and I learned from Paul that his daughters were born as “special children”. They were mentally changed. Their mother ________ years ago. Paul was both mother and father to his beautiful daughters. But Paul said he was ________ that the little angels were together with him and that ________ could stop him from living actively.

That night, we ________ a lot, and his happy smiles made my anger and ________ fade. I forgot how many times I   ________ about my life and my work, but Paul’s life was a(n) ________ to me. The man smiled at his life and treated any trouble as a________of life. I owe my thanks to Paul, for he taught me to deal with life ________ and move on.

【推荐1】On May 29, 2022, Rut Larsson, who was 103 at that time, became the oldest skydiver in the world. And yet she had just become the oldest parachutist (跳伞者) in the world. This Swedish grandmother turned her dream into ________ by jumping at Motala airfield, 240 km southwest of Stockholm.

When Rut Larsson was in her 90s, she became________ with flying and started experimenting with paragliding (滑翔伞运动) and ballooning as a way to enhance her physical ________. In 2019, she did her first parachute jump at 100 years old. But it was not a world ________. In the same year, American Kathryn Hodges had completed a ________ at 103.

Now Rut Larsson was going through the respectable ________. At 14 o’clock on Sunday, she was ready to ________ the world record, in the same place where she jumped three years ago, just outside Motala. Rut Larsson completed her world-record jump accompanied (陪同)by parachutist Joackim Johansson. Her family and friends were also there to ________ her accomplishment, along with a(n)________ from the Guinness Book of World Records.

With this jump, she became the oldest ________ in the world, at 103 years and 259 days, improving by 78 days the record ________ so far by an American of 103 years and 181 days.

“At first, slowly ________ and then jumping down from the top，I found that nice,” said the record holder. “An American broke the record. So I had to ________ his,” laughed Rut Larsson. “It was ________to do this. I had been thinking about it for a long time. It all went as ________.”

【推荐3】My office is almost twenty kilometers from my residence. On my way back home, I ________ a while after getting off the bus I take from office, have some peanut s as refreshments in between, and then take the bus whose driver ________ me near my home.

The boy selling peanuts is a thin, ________ guy of around fifteen. I usually hand him out a two rupee coin (卢比币).________, he gives me peanuts worth two rupee wrapped in a piece of paper and then, without any fail, some more peanuts in my hand with a smile on his face. I never ________ to give any extra coin for that and usually take his ________ for granted.

One evening, as I was chewing peanuts, a certain bus ________ came to him and asked for peanuts worth five rupees. The bus conductor handed out a two rupee coin after ________ the peanuts.“But the peanuts are worth five rupees as you asked for,” the boy protested (抗议). “Hold this two rupee coin and be quiet,” said the ________ bus conductor. “I asked for the price of the peanuts and not your kindness,” said the boy returning the two rupee coin to the bus conductor. The bus conductor left with the peanuts; how ________ he behaved!

That evening I had the heart to offer five rupees to him so as to show my concern for the ________ that he had suffered. “I wanted five rupees from him; why should you ________?” he told me smilingly. I could not gather the courage to ________ further.

The young peanuts ________ taught me a lesson in dignity (尊严) and self-respect: Regardless of his low income and so-called low social status he would not take any injustice lying down; nor would he ________ any favour.