【推荐1】Footrace (竞走) is a popular activity in the US. It is not only a ______ sport, but also ______ as a way to exercise. Though ______ runners may spend months training to compete, other runners and walkers might not train at all. They might run in an effort to ______ their own time, or ______ to enjoy the fun and exercise. People of all ______, from those less than three years old to those in their 80s, ______ this sport. The races are held on city streets, on college campuses, ______ parks, and in suburban areas, and commonly 5 to 10 kilometers in ______.

The ______ footrace in the world is the 12-kilometer Bay to Breakers race held in San Francisco every spring. This race ______ on the east side of the city near San Francisco Bay and ends on the ______ side at the Pacific Ocean. Last year there were 80,000 people ______ in this race. In the ______ were the serious runners who compete to win, and who might finish in as little as 34 minutes. ______ them were the thousands who take several hours to finish. In the back of the race were those who wear various clothing just for ______. ______, there was a group of firefighters who were all ______ in a long line, carrying a fire-hose (消防水龙带). One year, there was a wedding ______, in which the bride dressed in a long white dress and the groom wore a tuxedo (晚礼服). They ______ flowers to by-standers, and were actually married at some point along the route.

【推荐2】A heavy snow hit my neighborhood the other day. I had recently agreed to be the house’s groundskeeper, which meant I was_______ with shoveling(铲)the inches of snow that covered the driveway.

I had to stay in the house during the _______,so I was actually pretty happy to head_______After shoveling for about an hour, muscles in my arms and legs which I _______ used due to my busy schedules started to burn. By the time I finished shoveling, I realized that I gained nearly the same amount of _______ that I can get from biking. Shoveling turned out to be pretty good exercise, so I actually felt _______ to finish shoveling.

A few days later, a few friends and I got into a casual _______ about how hard it is to spare time to exercise_______.There are lots of people who dislike gyms. Going to gyms   _______ them a lot. Less than 5%of adults are physically ________for half an hour a day, which is quite a big problem. Not exercising enough can ________diseases like heart disease, bone disease, and depression.

And yet, compared with going to gyms, shoveling snow was quite ________.Besides, it didn’t take too much willpower(意志力)and I just needed to ________ the driveway at my own pace. I can just do some daily tasks like shoveling for exercise in the neighborhood in my spare time   ________ driving to a gym.

People pay much money for gym memberships and classes to ________ extra energy . So why not ________paying the fitness industry to exercise and ________ physical fitness with such kind of daily chores? Surely, they’re better off ________ that money and putting the energy to practical use.

A neighborhood can have a Facebook group where people in need of help can ________ things on it. Then, people who want to exercise can help them out. It’s a win-win situation. In addition to helping people, this can also be shaped as a new________ to keep fit.

【推荐3】Being a parent is already a life-changing experience. However, this 40-year-old dad________a surprising transformation(转变)after a hike With his kids.

Before Jeremiah Peterson looked like a supermodel, he weighed 290 pounds. He was only______to lose weight after he went on a hike with his family and______how quickly he was tired out from the activity.

“Instead of remembering all the good______we had made on this trip, all I can______is this one thing that kept playing in my head: I found myself running out of breath and having to take______on the way before my kids, ” Peterson wrote online.

The dad then was______to get into shape.

He started by giving up drinking and______a ketogenic diet(生酮饮食). Moreover, he started______regularly. For five months, he hiked for two hours and spent an hour at the gym every single day.

After 150 days of a strict diet and lots of______, Peterson lost 92 pounds. Not only that, he can now run non-stop up the hiking trail that once made him______tired.

Peterson now uses his story and fitness expertise to coach and______almost 100 ,000 social media followers — but he says that his kids are the real______for his success.

“Find your reason that is______if you want to achieve success in life,” he wrote in a post.“If you don’t have a strong reason behind your______, you are less likely to get the results.”

【推荐1】I sat on our sofa playing with my ring. I remembered ______ to put it on after Georgia cleaned it one day. At work, I kept ______ it with my thumb. I felt ______ without it.

I looked at Georgia’s ______ on the TV stand. I was _______. Our children were in their rooms, grieving (哀伤) in their own way. Her ring ______ in my left palm. I had a ______ to make. “When do I take mine off?” I asked no one.

I was ______. If I took it off, would it mean the love we ______ was gone? The band of gold stayed on my finger. When my thumb ______ it, my thoughts drifted to the past times and not to the future and the life we______. Then I asked myself again “When do I ______ it off?” It was with me from the day we’d ______ more than nineteen years earlier. It’d been on my finger ______ I changed my children’s diapers(尿布).

I reached behind my ______ and undid the clasp(扣子) of the gold chain. She’d given it to me on our first Christmas together. I threaded (穿过) her ______ onto it and started to put it back ______ my neck. I paused and put it ______. The fingers of my right hand reached for my ring a final time. I twirled (旋转) it around like ______ times and then slipped it off.

My hand felt empty without its comforting weight, but the ______ ring hanging around my neck comforted me — a reminder of our years together.

【推荐3】It was a classic night. The noisy Mexico City________ calmed down. The main stadium of Olympic track and field competition was enveloped (笼罩) in the________．After he finished taking photos of the marathon winners________the victory, Greenspan, a world-famous news producer, found the stadium________. He was about to________ when he suddenly saw a man with his right leg spotted with the blood ran into the stadium. This man ran lamely(跛脚地)out of breath, but he didn’t stop. After he ran along the track for a________ and got to the finish line, he________ on the ground.

Greenspan guessed this was a marathon athlete. Out of ________, he went over and ask why the athlete managed to run to the finish line with such________.

The young man, called Kowari from Tanzania, replied in a________voice, “That my country sent me here from over 20,000 kilometers is not to let me get off the track in the competition, but to make me________the game. Though I’ve ________all other runners, I have a sacred(神圣的)goal like them. The audience won’t ________ me, but my motherland is watching me from behind....” Tears welled up in Greenspan’s eyes. Soon, he spread the most________scene in the history of the Olympic Games to every corner of the world. Life should have a dream of reaching the peak. It is not whether we can reach the top but whether we’ve made the greatest________that counts. To reach the goal in the mind is also a success.