【推荐1】Eric Erdman is all about helping others, especially children. The 20-year-old Pennsylvania native _______ the Give a Child a Voice Foundation shortly after being diagnosed with a rare _______ of brain cancer. His foundation is not only _______ ending life-threatening childhood illnesses but also works to fight against child abuse. Erdman _______ two things firsthand.

“When I got diagnosed with cancer, I didn’t want to focus on the bad times,” he said. “I wanted to be happy and _______, and inspire people.” Erdman shared his story in September, 2021 and it was around that time that medical experts told him he had _______ five months to live.

Putting no time to _______, he has the last several months spent continuing to grow Give a Child a Voice and empower the youth. In his effort, he _______ the Give a Child a Voice Fitness Center Give Away, offering a school _______ a brand-new fitness facility.

“We had so many amazing ________ from schools,” he said. After reviewing the submissions, the foundation announced on February 20 that Life School Oak Cliff in Dallas would be the ________ of the new fitness facility. Life School Oak Cliff will be the third school to have a fitness center built by Give a Child a Voice, following Erdman’s ________ project at his own high school and a second at his high school’s rival’s campus.

“When I was being ________, I felt alone,” he said. “When I went to the ________ room, it built courage up inside of me to talk about it. I hope that one day a little kid going through a hard time finds their courage through the weight room like I did, to speak up and tell their ________ to others.”

【推荐3】When it’s not your time to go, it’s not your time to go. April 12th was not Kyle Semrau’s day to leave this earth.

The day started as usual, with one big _________: Kyle’s 6-year-old daughter Macie refused to go to kindergarten. She only sat in the basement room.

This _________ is unusual for the kindergartner, but she was just really missing her dad that morning. It was also the one-year anniversary of her grandmother’s death, so she needed some extra _________. When Kyle got home from his night job, he agreed to spend a _________day with his daughter and 4-year-old son, Caleb, while his wife was at work.

Kyle wasn’t feeling very well when he got home that day. Later that morning, he lost consciousness repeatedly. When he was _________, he was yelling for help.

As fate would have it, help was in the house! Macie heard her father and realized she needed to do something. While Caleb comforted their dad, she _________what happened like someone three times her age.

At one of Kyle’s conscious moments, Macie_________ him to tell her the password of the cellphone so that she could _________ the phone. Then, she called the police.

Administrative assistant Judy Smith picked up the telephone at the Eliot Police Department. To her _________, Macie almost __________everything, including her home address, her dad’s name and age, and how police could best get to him inside the basement room where he’d been resting.

Police arrived in just two minutes and __________ sent Kyle to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital.

Kyle spent three days __________in the hospital. “If I can say anything about this __________ experience, it’s for everyone to teach kids about awareness,” said Kyle. “If I hadn’t taught my daughter certain things she couldn’t learn in school, this outcome could have been __________ different. Macie deserves to be __________.”

【推荐1】Last May, my 15-year-old son, Benjamin, told my wife and me that he would attend a Kendrick Lamar concert. We ________ him that he was too young to go. But my son and his friend, Josh, ________ to take no for an answer.

Later I received a ________ from Josh’s father: “How about taking the boys to the Kendrick Lamar’ concert!?” While I felt ________ to attend a rap concert in my fifties, Josh’s father was as excited as the boys. He also knew how to get tickets and had started ________ the whole evening. By this ________ it was impossible to say no. I couldn’t imagine anywhere I would ________ less.

To learn about Mr Lamar and his ________, I downloaded and listened to all his songs days before heading down to the Scotiabank Arena.

The truth is the concert was really ________. The best part, of course, was how happy my son was. I stood when ________, I didn’t dance, and occasionally my son gave me an encouraging, accepting nod. ________ Kendrick Lamar is still not my favourite artist, I’m glad my son ________ me to him, and I’m glad I went.

It’s so easy to sit in our towers, ________ by age or upbringing background. ________, we have children, like Benjamin, to expose us to new experiences. If, of course, we have the ________ to listen to them.

【推荐2】I was at a neighborhood garage sale with my young son. My son was _________. People were all attracted by his cuteness. Everyone wanted to talk to him _________, he didn’t want to talk to anyone. He held my leg hiding his face in my jeans. It was the same _________ everywhere we went.

Three people at the sale _________ to talk to him and three times he hid his face. I just _________ “He is shy.” A fourth woman came up behind me and in a quiet voice said, “If you keep saying he is shy, he is going to be shy.”

I _________ almost knocking over my son who was firmly attached to my leg. We met eyes. Hers with truthful intention, mine filled with _________ and a bit of anger. Then the woman _________ down the driveway and into a car. I didn’t have the chance to _________ myself for stating what I thought was the truth—a protective statement to keep __________ away from my child. How dare she tell me what I should or shouldn’t say about my son.

The __________ I received kept me company as I went on with my day. Every time I replayed the interaction, it dug deeper and deeper through my heart. My anger turned into __________ when I realized she was right. Each time I said he was shy, it was embedded (嵌入) in my son’s mind, teaching him to be shy and __________ this character. I wondered how many times I had said it in front of him.

I have __________ forgotten this experience. I am __________ to the woman who gave me this lesson that made such an impact on me and my son.

【推荐3】I adopted (收养) Didga as a twelve-week-old kitten, and now she’s nearly 11. In 2017, Didga _________ twenty-four different tricks in less than a minute while skateboarding, which got her into the Guinness Word Records.

I’ve been in the animal-training _________ for 40 years. Eleven years ago, I thought about getting a cat—everyone said cats couldn’t be _________, but I wanted to prove them wrong.

I started searching for _________ kittens to adopt. I went to a shelter, and, _________ I was walking through, a kitten caused a ruckus (喧闹) behind me. I stopped and looked _________. She was really trying to get my attention. So I _________ the kitten.

Didga knows a handful of tricks that took over a year to _________. Skateboarding is one of her most impressive skills. She rides along with the motion (移动) of the _________, jumping on and over objects. It’s an unbelievable __________ when a cat does a trick I’ve been trying to __________ for so long.

The psychology of training a cat is fascinating. Because I understand how animals think and learn, I can adjust (调节) to the cat’s abilities. If Didga doesn’t like it, I stop or go in a __________ direction.

I started some social accounts to teach people to have a better relationship with their __________. The attention we get is surprisingly impressive.

Didga has __________ my life and taken me to __________ I would never have dreamed of. I won the lotto (乐彩), finding a cat like Didga.