【推荐1】At just 21 years old, Nija Charles is one of today’s most popular songwriters.

She has been _______ with Beyonce, Jay Z, Cardi B, and many other today’s popular music artists. Their works have been _______ . And she was even _______ in three Grammy nominations (提名).

But just a few years ago, Charles was only a(n) _______ in the crowd. Growing up in New Jersey, she was _______ in a musical family. “My dad is a DJ. My mom is a dancer,” Charles _______ . “So growing up in this family, I was always _______ by music and crazily chased after musicians.”

Charles said she first _______ music at age 13, when she asked her mom for a mini keyboard because she was _______ to produce. “So she got one for me, and right then and there. I started tapping on the ________ ,” she said.

Charles continued to learn ________ at New York University, where she’d make songs in her dormitory and post them online. Soon she was ________ in flying across the country on weekends, performing on stage and then studying at school.

“It was ________ for me. There were some classes I ________ had to skip. But yeah, it was just ________ management and I had to ________ and finish my homework before I got on the plane or I’d finish the ________ on the plane. I wrote songs during the weekend. I made sure I studied hard so I could finish ________ that year,” she said.

Talking about her success, Charles said, “It’s ________ that my favourite artists are now the people I cooperate with. Several years ago, I was at their ________ but now I’m in the studio with them.”

【推荐2】Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. However, her _______ nearly ended in 2010. A car accident left her paralyzed (使瘫痪) from the waist down.

For most people, that would have _______ any hope of a dancer’s dancing career. For Hill, it was the beginning.

_______ Hill did it, rolling her wheelchair right alongside her high school dance team. “It feels as if half of my body were _______ from me, and I have to move it with my hands,” Hill said. “But it’s not easy to do it. It definitely took a lot of _______ and patience.”

After graduation, Hill wanted to _______ her dance network to include women like her. She began to meet people online who had suffered similar injuries. Then in 2014, Hill moved to Los Angeles and formed a team of dancers with disabilities called the Rollettes. “I want to _______ the stereotype (刻板印象) of wheelchair users and show dance is dance, whether you’re walking or you’re _______.”

In disabled dance competitions, her team danced to the popular tunes, _______ their upper bodies, shaking their heads to the special beats and __________ their wheelchairs in well-timed, highly designed routines. They were having fun, and as the audience’ exuberant (热情洋溢的) reactions showed, the fun was __________.

Hill has attained what many of us never will obtain: her childhood __________. She’s a dancer. And the Rollettes have helped her find something else just as __________. Every year she holds a dance camp for other wheelchair users to help them find their inner __________. For participants, it was the first time they’d felt __________.

【推荐3】My history with music was not good. I still remembered when I took my short-lived piano lessons, my grandfather said _________ to my grandmother, “Why didn't he make any progress with much practice?” I _________to make my piano performance attractive. However, my efforts were _________ .

So I gave up playing any musical instrument until my old friend Leroy _________ me to play the violin with him when I was 57. It made me enjoy the joy of playing music again. One day, Leroy _________ a text informing me that there was a music performance and he wanted me to join him. Thinking of my past, I _________ his invitation. I expected to hear his words that I would become _________with practice on stage. But he said, “OK, only play if you want to.” I was totally _________by the unexpected answer and made no ___________ except to tell him goodbye.

No one was forcing me to participate(参加), but I faced a special ______________. Should I play on stage or just watch a movie? I had chosen the “movie route” too many times and this time I was ______________to grasp the opportunity. After a long and careful ______________, I played my violin with Leroy. ______________I didn’t lose all my nervousness, it was enough for me to overcome my fear. Finally, I ______________a full performance in front of the audience.

A short time later, my friend Leroy passed away, but his ______________ stayed. It helped me not only in music, but in all aspects of life. When I focused on what I wanted to do, fear will be replaced with joy.

【推荐1】Chinese experts, based on the result of clinical trials, have __________ that Chloroquine Phosphate(磷酸氯喹), an antimalarial drug, has a certain _________ effect on the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a Chinese official said here Monday.

The experts have "unanimously" suggested the drug be included in the next version of the treatment guidelines and __________ in wider clinical trials as soon as possible, Sun Yanrong, deputy head of the China National Center for Biotechnology Development under the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), said at a press conference.

Chloroquine Phosphate, which has been used for more than 70 years, was selected from tens of thousands of existing drugs after _________ rounds of screening, Sun said. According to her, the drug has been under clinical trials in over 10 hospitals in Beijing, ___________ in south Guangdong Province and central China's Hunan Province, and has shown _______ good efficacy.

In the trials, the groups of patients who had taken the drug have shown better indicators than their parallel groups, in abatement(减轻) of fever, improvement of CT images of lungs, the percentage of patients who became _________ in viral nucleic acid tests and the time they need to do so, she said. Patients taking the drug also take a shorter time to recover, she added.

Sun gave an example of a 54-year-old patient in Beijing, who was _________ to hospital four days after showing symptoms. After taking the drug for a week, he saw all indicators   __________ and the nucleic acid turn negative.

_________, no obvious serious adverse reactions related to the drug have been found among the over 100 patients enrolled in the clinical trials, she said.

On February 15, several departments including the MOST, the National Health Commission and the National Medical Products Administration called a video conference to _________ drug research and clinical experts’ opinions on the drug’s efficacy on COVID-19.

The expert team, led by Zhong Nanshan, a __________ respiratory specialist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, agreed that Chloroquine Phosphate can be used to treat more COVID-19 patients, Sun said.

Previous in vitro (体外的) experiments showed that it can block virus _________ by changing the acidity and basicity value inside the cell and interfering receptors of SARS coronavirus. It also shows immune-modulating (调节) activity, which may __________ its antiviral effect in vivo (体内的) and is widely _________ in the whole body, including the lungs, after oral administration.

【推荐2】They had to get as many people out of the burning building as quickly as they could. So they told them to jump out of the window.

The first one out of the window was a man, who was followed by his two children. Next, a baby and then the baby’s mother _______the third-story window. All of them did this in _______. At that moment the smoke was billowing (涌出) from the apartment in Columbus, Ohio, Brian Smith and Corey Boykin tried their best to _______them.

It happened last November at around 4 am, when a _______ started on the second floor. “I got my family out, ”said Smith. “Then I started knocking on doors on the first floor but no one answered. I tried _______ the second floor, _______ the smoke was too black. I couldn’t _______; nor could I breathe. So I _______ and came outside. That’s when I saw people outside the _______.”

Boykin was at his ________ Melanie Nunemaker’s house, across the street from the apartment. He knew something was ________, saying, “I saw a baby drop out of the window, and Smith was ________ the child below.”

Boykin ran to a nearby house to get a ladder and ________ to help. He found Smith outstretched (伸开) his arms, shouting, “________! I’ll get you.” He caught several people.

Boykin ________ the ladder to ask those on the third floor to turn around and go toward him ________ they couldn’t see through the smoke.

“I ________ walking out through the front door, but a big cloud hit me. The smoke was getting to me so ________ that I couldn’t breathe,” a man called Chase Ray told 10TV. “He ________ my life, for sure.”

And it didn’t ________. When Boykin saw his burned-out neighbors, he took 20 or so of them back to his friend Nunemaker’s house. “We gave them clothes, shoes, whatever we had,” Boykin said.

【推荐1】Actor Anthony Anderson has realized a dream 30 years in the making. The 51-year-old ________ a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Howard University last week. “It was all a dream! Words fail to ________ the feeling I’m having right now,” Anderson wrote on a social media platform. “My proudest moment is a sense of ________-finishing what I started many years ago.”

Anderson finished his junior year at Howard 30 years ago. ________ some financial difficulties, he had to ask for a ________ from school. He worked hard to make a ________. Later he started a family and his career ________. He played the starring roles in many films and became a ________.The following years he was occupied in his work and didn’t return to school. It was something he always felt ________ about-until his son, Nathan, gained ________ to Howard four years ago. That inspired his longing for university study, so he was ________ to go back and finish his degree.

“This spring I was ________ able to finish the work to graduate from Howard University,” Anderson said. He marked it as a ________ by calling it “a full-circle moment” and ________ his fans, “It’s never too late. Things happen when they’re supposed to happen!” Anderson, now a father of two, plans to ________ his education and go to graduate school for a master’s degree.

I believe in my mother. My belief began when I was just a kid. I _______becoming a doctor.

My mother was a _______. Through her work, she observed that_______ people spent a lot more time _______ than they did watching television. She announced that my brother and I could only watch two to three _______TV programmes during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each week from the Detroit Public Library and _______written book reports to her. She would mark them up with check markers and underline the _______parts. Years later we realised her marks were a _______. My mother was illiterate (文盲). Although we had no money, _______the covers of those books, I could go anywhere, do anything and be anybody.

When I entered high school, I was an A-student, but not for ________. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang about with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student and to a C-student, but I didn’t ________ . I was cool.

One night my mother came home after her several jobs and I ________about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, “Okay, I’ll give you the money I ________ this week by rubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With ________left over, you can have all that you want.” I was very________with that arrangement. But once I got through ________money, there was nothing left. I realised my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep a(n)________over our heads and any kind of food on the table. I was also ________that immediate satisfaction wasn’t going to get me anywhere. Success ________intellectual (知识上的) preparation. I went back to my studies and became an A-student again, and ________I realised my dream and I became a doctor.