【推荐1】Nikki Halkerston, 45, from Scotland, was looking for sea glass, pottery and shells on Broughty Ferry Beach on Thursday when she saw a small, one-inch porcelain (瓷) doll. “I was just looking for a certain type of shell when it _______ my eyes and I just thought ‘oh wow’!” Halkerston told SWNS.

“There wasn’t a mark on it, it wasn’t even _______ or chipped and it’s probably been in the _______for years and years,” she _______.

According to SWNS, the doll is called a Frozen Charlotte, which is _______ a 19th-century American folk tale about a woman who refuses to dress _______ on her trip to a New Year’s Eve ball — _______ her mother’s wishes —and _______ to death on the 20-mile journey.

Halkerston said that _______ she knew the dolls were called Frozen Charlottes, she didn’t realize at first how special her find was until she __________ a picture online.

“I got about 450 people saying ‘wow that’s probably the __________ find.’ It’s really hard to find them in one piece like that, and __________ they’re broken and you find a head or an arm,” Halkerston told SWNS.

SWNS reported that today, Frozen Charlotte dolls __________ for between about $21.23 USD (£15) and $141.54 USD (£100), though Halkerston thinks her find is on the __________ end, since it’s in such good __________.

__________, her daughter Melissa likes the doll, so Halkerston __________ to keep it. “I was thinking at first I was going to sell it but now I know it’s so __________ that I wouldn’t,” Halkerston said. “I think it’s __________ that it’s lived through that amount of __________ and was found by me.”

【推荐3】When I was in middle school, I had a classmate named Alice. She liked to tell me my shortcomings (缺点).

One day, Alice said to me,“You are too short and too proud!” Hearing this, I felt very sad and _______. I ran home to tell my father _______ it, with tears in my eyes. My father said nothing. He just _______ me carefully. Then he said to me, “Are all the shortcomings Alice has told you true? You can write them down and check whether they are true or not.” After _______ them down, I was surprised to find that about half of the things were true. For some of the things, I couldn’t change them. But for many of the things, I could _______ them. For the first time, I knew about _______ better than before.

Later, I showed my father what I had written down, _______ he didn’t read it. “That’s just for you,” my _______ said. “You know about yourself _______ than any other person. If something that is said about you is true, you’ll find it useful. Listen to others patiently, but hear the truth only.”

My father’s advice came to my mind at many important moments. It is the best ________ that I have ever had in my life.

【推荐1】Louis Tewanima seemed born to run. Like other Hopi people in the late 19th century, Louis ran for his mental and_________well-being.

In 1907, Louis _________ himself riding on one of the locomotives(火车头) that had amazed him as a boy. With no knowledge of the English language, he_________ east to the CarlisleIndian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.

The _________ in Pennsylvania was much colder than what Louis was used to. He missed his family and his way of life. He turned to something _________, running. He’d seen the school’s track team practice, so he _________ the coach, Glenn S. “Pop” Warner, and asked if he could run for him.

After watching Louis run, Warner_________ realized Louis had talent. Warner coached him on _________his stamina(耐力) and strength to track and field. It wasn’t long before medals, and _________ filled Louis’s room at the Carlisle school, and he __________ a celebrity(名人) in distance running in America. Even when he was __________difficulties, Louis prevailed(战胜). He once missed his train to a __________in Harrisburg. Instead of calling it a loss, he ran 18miles to the event,__________on time. He proceeded to compete in the two-mile race, and he __________ first!

In 1908, Louis entered his first Olympic, and placed ninth in the marathon. Four years later, he __________ in the 1912 Summer Olympic in Stockholm, Sweden. This tim, he ran the 10,000-metre race and finished in second place.

【推荐2】Caitlin Hernandez was regarded as the uncrowned queen of education in America in 2020. When she was in graduate school, she was asked the ________ question over and over again： Can someone who is blind really be a ________? The doubt she heard made her all the more certain that she did want to ________ teaching. She hoped that her students-many of whom have autism, dyslexia, and physical ________—would have a role model who really knew what they were ________ She wanted them to learn from her ________ not to question their own ambitions.

Then came COVID-19, and Ms. Hernandez's blindness made the ________ to online learning all the more ________, But it is not just Ms. Hernandez who is experiencing the difficulties of_________ learning. She has heard from her disabled students that they are ________ emotionally. Most troubling to Ms. Hernandez is the widening ________ between her students who get support from their families at home, and those who have to ________ themselves through virtual learning and even provide child care to their younger siblings, because their parents are struggling too. "It's unfair," she said. "Some students have ________ at home and others just don't."

Ms. Hernandez has provided comfort by arranging activities they can do together ________ "I asked the kids what books they had at home that they really enjoyed." she said. “Then I would ________ it so we could read together."