【推荐3】I never see myself as a miracle. I was just an_________person with realistic goals and big dreams. I was a 19-year-old student at the university of Texas and well on my way to fulfilling my big dream of becoming an surgeon.

On February 17, 1981, a_________car accident happened to me and after the four hours of operation, I_________. I still could not talk, my entire right side was paralyzed but_________I was stable. After two weeks I improved enough to be_________to a rehabilitation(康复) hospital.

It took me a lot of hard work but I_________returned to the university of Texas in 1983—a year and a half after almost_________. The next few years were very_________for me, but I truly believe that in order to see_________in life you have to experience something bad. Maybe I have experienced too much, but I believe in living each day to the fullest, and doing the very__________I can. And each new day was__________and very full, for__________attending classes at the university I__________ therapy(理疗) three to five days each week at Brackenridge hospital.

Early, during my therapy, my father__________repeating to me one of his favorite sayings. I have repeated it almost everyday after being hurt: “Mile by mile it’s a（n）__________; yard by yard it’s hard; but inch by inch it’s a cinch(容易的事).

I thought of those__________, and I thought of my family who__________believed in me as I climbed the steps to receive my__________from the dean of Liberal Arts at the university of Texas on the graduation ceremony in June of 1986. Excitement and__________filled my heart as I heard the dear announce that I graduated with “highest honors”, and was chosen as one of the most outstanding__________ in the college of Liberal Arts.

【推荐1】When 48-year-old Lamont Thomas became an empty-nester (空巢者), it was the end of a parenting legend temporarily. Back in 2001, this divorced dad of two _______a foster (代养的) kid named Michael Perez.

“He was a good young man and I just hated to see him in the welfare system,” Lamont said. He_______adopted Michael, who now works as a doctor.

“I don’t believe that I would be the person that I am today without the _______that he instilled (灌输) in me,” Michael said.

It turned out that Michael was just the beginning. Over the next 15 years, Lamont fostered more than 30 kids in Buffalo, New York, and adopted five of them. He did this all on his own and with all of his_______.

“Every child I have had, it was my _______to make a difference in their lives,” said Lamont.

At one time he retired from raising children to spend time fishing and travelling, but that didn’t last for long.

“It really was a shock. I didn’t _______him to restart and to do it all over again. It’s just _______,” Michael said.

Today, Lamont is back in the game (行当), in a big way. Not long ago, he promised to be _______five siblings (兄弟姐妹), all under the age of six. Lamont, who works as a truck driver, said he did have other_______for these years. But those plans have now been ________.

Lamont decided to foster all five—Zendaya, Jamel, Nakia, Major and Macaela—after he found that they were going to be split up. To guarantee they would stay as a ________last month he adopted them.

“I had to help them. They deserved to be ________together,” Lamont said.

________, he has a great support system with churches and friends. He is not opposed to ________a wife to the mix if he is able to find such a good woman. But if not, he is also fine to be ________for as long as it takes to make a difference.

【推荐3】Gu Fangzhou was known as “the father of sugar pills” for an oral polio vaccine (骨髓灰质炎疫苗) he developed which _________ reduced the disease incidence rate.

Born in 1926, he faced a _________ time with his father’s death. In school, he was teased for his poverty-stricken status. _________ unfavorable conditions, he _________ admission at Beijing University. He _________ his early success to his mother’s _________. Motivated by medical experts, Gu was determined to turn around the public health sector for the better.

In 1955, a disastrous _________ of polio infected 1,680 people, which resulted in 466 deaths. The government _________ Gu to lead polio research. He made up his mind to invent a(n) _________ vaccine for the poor patients and to __________ polio.

To eradicate (彻底消灭) polio, it’s essential to ensure a cold chain for the vaccines. However, it was __________ to provide freezers in rural areas. The __________ was achieved when Gu succeeded in developing sugar-coated pills. To test the __________, he took the pills himself and started the human __________. He even gave the pills to his son and __________ his colleagues to do the same. “If I don’t believe in what my team produce, how can others?” said Gu when he __________ this trial.

After extensive testing, the pills were made available. The sweet taste made it easy to give the pills to kids and the pills were easy to __________ for rural communities without freezers. In 2000, Gu __________ China’s confirmation report on polio eradication as a representative with WTO. “We feel __________ that kids will no longer get polio,” said Gu. “That’s what we __________.”

【推荐1】The first astronauts

Since the earliest times, people have looked up at the stars, the moon and the planets. Today people use modern machines ________at the sky. This is very different from the situation________years ago when people could only use their eyes. Perhaps they dreamed of________the universe.

When did humans first go into space? The story began not so very long ago,________the first astronauts were not people﹣they were animals.

Scientists wanted to make travelling to space as ________ as possible for humans. So they decided to experiment with animals and test________ in spaceflights. Insects, mice, frogs, dogs and monkeys were some of the animals________first went into space. Many of them ________, but they helped to make space travel safer for humans. For their great service, we________forget these animals.

Albert Ⅱ was the first monkey to go into space in 1949. Sadly he died ________ his spaceship landed back on Earth.

________ the result was different for Ham the Monkey. His story ended happily when he return to earth________very good health.

Scientists wanted to know the answer to the important question: could ________ animal like Ham do the same things in space as he could do on Earth? The answer came when Ham________ into space in 1961. Yes, he did everything well and lived for ________ 16 years.

【推荐3】In 1961, President John F. Kennedy Jr. set a goal: he wanted to land a man on the moon to show America’s_________ in the Space Race.

_________ a decade later, Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon on Sunday, July 20, 1969. Aldrin later joined him on the moon’s surface and they_________a US flag, took photographs, and_________ the first samples from our satellite.

The Apollo crew of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins travelled 240,000 miles in 76 hours to reach the moon. During the mission, the food items the astronauts ate on the surface of the moon in the lunar module_________ the following: beef stew, bacon squares, date fruit cake, and grape punch.

Over 400,000 people supported the_________, including people from the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Armstrong’s famous first words “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”_________ on television channels and through newspapers around the world.

After World War Ⅱ_________ on September 2, 1945, a new conflict began between the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States and the Soviet Union had_________ ideologies(意识形态): the United States was capitalist,__________ the Soviet Union was socialist.

The Space Race started when a Soviet missile launched Sputnik(Russian for “traveller”), the world’s first artificial satellite on October 4, 1957. Sputnik became the first man-made__________ to orbit Earth. The US decided to act quickly in order to prove __________. From 1961 to 1964, NASA’s budget __________ by 500 percent. When Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, America was declared the__________ of the Space Race. The US had spent about $25 billion on the program, over $100 billion in today’s dollars.

More than 50 years after Apollo, NASA vows to land the first woman on the moon with the Artemis program and with the help of an increase in NASA’s budget by $1.6 billion by former President Trump. The new mission,__________ the twin sister of Apollo and Greek Goddess of the moon, will be headed to the moon’s south pole where the craters(火山口)hold large deposits of water ice.