【推荐1】Do you think you have what it takes to be a successful scientist? A successful scientist is generally a good observer. He makes full ___ of the facts he observes He doesn't accept ideas which are not ___ on obvious facts, and therefore ___ to accept authority as the only reason for truth. He always checks ideas ___ and makes experiments to prove them.

The rise of modern science may perhaps be considered to ___ as far back as the time of roger Bacon, the wonderful philosopher of Oxford, who lived in the 13th century. He was probably the first in the Middle Ages to ___ that we should learn science by observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself ___ many important truths.

Galileo(1564-1642), however, who lived more than 300 years later, was the greatest of several great men in Italy, France, Germany, and England, who began to show how many important ___ could be discovered by observation by degrees. Before Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fell more swiftly towards the earth than small ones, ___ Aristotle said so, Bi Galileo, going to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two ____ stones and proved Aristotle was wrong. It is Galileo's ____ of going direct to nature, and proving our opinions and theories by experiment, that has ____ all the discoveries of modern science.

What ____ those people good scientists？ From the example of Galileo, we know it ____ that successful scientists are those whose observations have ____ better results.

【推荐2】Some kids are too young. Maybe they will not remember this time of social distancing and ________during the global pandemic (流行病)．Other ________ teens will remember schools closing, playgrounds off-limits and no ________ to family or friends forever.

My father-in-law, Hub, bad a great memory, He often told of his special time. However, what ________ me most was the detail about his teddy bear.

He was 5 at the time. His oldest sister Alice got sick, and the doctor diagnosed it as scarlet fever (猩红热)．Outbreaks of scarlet fever in the early 1900s were often ________ or left children with lifelong disabilities. It was also highly contagious.(感染性的)

The doctor said Hub and his another older sister Mabel had to stay away ________ Alice got better.

Later in life, Hub put his memories to paper. He wrote, “There was no place to go except to Grandpa and Grandma's just down the road. We ________ and were sent off to their house. My teddy bear fell off the wagon, but ________ , a man found it on the road and gave it back. It was so important to me. It ________ me out of the days spent waiting out in the front yard, watching the men work on the highway and waiting for my sister Mabel to return from school.”

They stayed with their grandparents for three or four weeks. "It was a happy day. ________ Dad told us we could go home"

What will be our memories of this time in history?

I hope we remember family, friends and neighbors caring for one another. I hope we remember the ________ medical personnel sacrificing their own health, the truck drives, food service workers and all the cashiers who kept grocery stores ________. Besides, never forget the garbage collectors sand that the mail kept coming.

I hope we remember the plants ________face masks and ventilators (呼吸机), and the scientists racing to find a vaccine.

I hope we remember how fears ________ a long shadow and how we renew soul searching.

We are writing history. ________ we write it well.

【推荐1】I was in the back seat of a yellow taxi grabbing my mother’s hand like a 5-year-old. But in fact, I was 28 years old, still ________, and hoping my mom would make it all right.

We were coming home from the ________, and I was in a full-body brace, having survived spinal (脊柱的) surgery exactly a week earlier and headed to my tiny apartment in San Francisco. Each time the taxi ________ over the steep hills, I felt as if my bones were ________. I doubted that I would get hurt again during the journey.

I was about to open my mouth to shout at the driver or at least ________, when my mom leaned forward and said cheerfully, “Thank you!” The driver glanced at us ________ from his mirror. “You’re just the best driver I’ve ever seen,” my mom continued. “These hills must be so ________ to drive on. And I am so ________. My daughter had surgery on her back and is so ________. Because of you, she’s going to get home safe. Thank you. You’re wonderful.”

In the mirror, I could see the driver ________ proudly. I felt a flash of ________, but before I had a chance to ________ my mother’s words, a miracle happened. The driver slowed down. He stretched his neck left and right to ________ a smooth ride before making each turn. Indeed, he drove us home like the best driver I’d ever seen.

In that moment of ________, what my wise mom had instinctively done was only obvious to me: ________ is powerful.

【推荐2】Few 17-year-old girls know how to weld (焊接)two metal pipes together. I have learned this skill in the past five years as a(n) _____for my father’s personal plumbing (管道装置) business.This summer job often needs to deal with the mess that causes physical and mental ___     ,and, to some extent,   ___   a tough and elegant attitude. It is often difficult to cope with. But I ____

Every morning, I have to put on a pair of men's jeans Most of my peers are   ___ to wear it in public. I   ___ tied my hair when I rushed out of the house, and _____   into the front passenger seat of the plumber's construction vehicle.

When my peers were part-time babysitters or lifeguards, I was helping my father in the dirty bathroom or the _____ basement. Thick dust   ___my nose and mouth, and my hands became black. There is nothing beautiful and neat; every thing in front of you is __

Honestly speaking, I felt_______, discouraged and unable to think hard Pipe work is a tough job, and I sometimes hate it. I asked myself why I had to_____these dust and sweat. I can even find another job, a ______job more like my peers.

__,   just like I hate messy pipes, I also hate being affected by these little   ___ emotions After all, the world is built by people who are willing to get their hands ___. Life is a process of     ___ chaos and learning to clean up, and pipeline work is no ___.

My dad and I not only create chaos, we also create_____. When customers are ____   for our work, I understand that we have brought order to their lives in small places. The physical and mental discomfort of plumbing work is worth it.

【推荐3】After persuading most of his patients, his wife and son to go back to France following the lockdown of Wuhan, Philippe Klein, a French doctor, decided to stay in the epicenter during the COVID-19 outbreak.

“I am a doctor, so I have to do my job and do my_______,” said Klein.

Before authorities in Wuhan_______the city, suspending all outbound flights and trains in late January to_______the highly infectious disease, Klein had_______about 500 foreigners living in Wuhan, most of them French.

Following the outbreak, he closed his_______ at the hospital to reduce the chances of infection for his patients. Instead, he began to give_______and treatment at patients’ homes.

But while he continued to see his patients, Klein found some had a fever and he might be_______ with the virus, so he decided to send his wife and son back to France.

“When I came back home after seeing patients, I didn’t feel very comfortable. I really did not want to put my family _______, so I asked my wife to leave Wuhan,” he said. “My son was crying when we_______, but it was better for them to leave Wuhan and let me do my job. Also they were very proud because I was doing my duty here.”

In addition to his sense of duty as a doctor, he said he also chose to stay because of his deep________for the people and the city.

“People in Wuhan are very friendly to French, and here I feel like a star sometimes,” he said. ________ the lockdown of a vast city with 11 million people, which is rare in human history, has made a big________ on Klein. He said he was touched by the________Wuhan residents had made to contain the outbreak.

“The last month was the craziest month in my________ life,” he said. “And I would like to say to the people of Wuhan and to Chinese people that they are going to overcome this epidemic. And their sacrifice, their courage and their unity, will________. It will be an example to the world to make such a sacrifice to protect the rest of the world.”

【推荐1】My family moved into our home nine years ago. We live on a corner, and the entire side of the yard is enclosed (围住) by a _________ built rock wall. The front of the house,_________, is another story, because instead of a rock wall along the sidewalk, the rocks appear to be just randomly_________ up onto the dirt (泥土).

We did the best we could and called this area our “rock garden”. Whenever we had leftover flowers or plants, I would _________ them out front, just to bring some _________ to the area.

Last summer I reached the end of the rock garden and found a tiny little plant that I could not immediately _________ , we didn’t plant it. We decided to let it _________ growing until we could _________ what it was.

Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the _________ plant, it appeared to be a sunflower. It was skinny. I decided to __________ it along and weed (除草) around it. As I pulled rocks to get to the weeds, I noticed something __________ . The sunflower had not started where I saw it __________ . It actually had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to __________ the sun.

That’s when I realized that we should stand tall like the sunflower and the environment will begin to __________ us. We will find a way to go under or around our big __________ in order to reach our desires.

【推荐2】My name is Maggie and I am a big red maple tree in the center of Central Park in New York. Every part of me is _________ shaped. I love seeing all the people _________, stare at me, and say “That tree is beautiful!” Those _________ make me feel special.

One day, I see a big storm _________ my way. I can hear all the frightening sounds nearing, but the most frightening one is the sound of almost half of my bark being torn off. I feel _________. What will people think when they walk up to a worn-down tree in the middle of Central Park? Will they cut me down? This _________ makes my branches ache.

Hours later, when the storm _________, a nice opossum family comes to me and asks _________ they can spend the night in one of my holes. The baby opossum is so cute that I can’t _________. Soon, round two of the storm comes. It __________ another part of my bark, but it doesn’t __________ me as much because I have a distraction: the opossum family. Other animals see my __________ act and come to me, too. Even though I feel great for __________ all the animals, I still haven’t completely forgotten about what people might think about my __________. Beyond all expectations, people love me even more for protecting all those animals from the terrible storm. This serves as a __________ to me that “beautiful” doesn’t always refer to looks.