【推荐2】Leigha Bishop is always finding new ways to encourage her students. Recently, she noticed one of her students _________a strange hairstyle-a braided topknot （头饰）. She _______ her at once. But the student thought she was_______ .“She didn’t believe me, so she responded nothing, as she _________away.” Leigha told reporters.

To the student's _______ ,Leigha   came to school the very next day with the _________ same hairstyle. “I went home and got to work on my hair! With my student's hair being_______ to mine, I thought the better way to stow her how_______ she could make me feel was with the same braided topknot. ”

Leigha _______the chance of creating a hairstyle to encourage her students. “When students are________for who they are as an individual beyond grades on a report card, they will want to go to school and want to________in life.” she explained. “This small action of copying a hairstyle also shows that students have the________to inspire teachers.”

Leigha__________a photo posing with her students and their________on Twitter(推特）.“When your student is just so cute,you have to copy her,” she wrote. Another Twitter user, decided to repost the picture in other words, “This teacher, Ms. Bishop praised one of her students' hair, saying she loved it, but the little girl didn't________her. The next day, the teacher came to school with her hair done the same as her student. So cute!” The post spread ________and many people ________their thoughts. One said, “We need more of this. It builds__________(which makes them believing in themselves more).”

As a teacher, Leigha saw how__________ it was to show her students the importance of showing themselves and wanted to make the__________ of all colors better and better.

【推荐1】On Easter Day 1722, some European explorers found a lonely island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They _______ it Easter Island. The explorers found that the island had good soil _________ the 200 natives living there survived with little food. Even more _________, these people also lived among the ruins of what might have been a once great civilization. All that is left of it are around 800 giant stone statues _________ human heads. They _________ up to 270 tons and the tallest measures over 11 metres. The stone men face_________ rather than out to sea, and their eyes are focused upon the sky. They are all carved from _________ volcanic rock(火山岩) and some have hats on their heads and eyes made from white coral. Since their _________ these huge stone men _________ one of the greatest mysteries of all time. Who built them? Why did they do it? Some experts believe the stone men are __________ to Inca stonework, and suggest the figures were created by people of Peruvian descent(血统). __________ have even gone so far as to say that they came from outer space. The latest suggestion __________ the idea that Easter Island represents one of the worst cases of resource abuse in human history. It is said that a small group of Asians settled on Easter Island __________ between 400 and 700 AD. They developed a great civilization with huge forests and __________ food. At the peak, of their civilization, the people began to build the giant __________ men. Why they did this is still __________ but it is possible the figures represent the settlers’ gods or ancestors. __________ the statues grew larger, the people’s lifestyles became more and more wasteful. The forest began to disappear, which __________ all the animals dying out. __________ couldn’t get food and were forced to eat other humans. Society began to __________ and the islanders themselves finally destroyed the stone men.

【推荐2】The most important lesson I learned in high school had nothing to do with maths or American history. It came at graduation, several minutes before I left Miramonte High School.

I was rather shy back then, content to_______around and with my few friends and to concentrate on my subjects. I was doing so well that by the end of senior year I had perfect scores and enough_______to go to college.

But my good record soon became a fear to my well-being. In early June of senior year, the headmaster called me into his office. He asked me to give a leave-taking speech at graduation. I looked at him, my heart_______fast. This was the reward for my hard work? I said something, but not very clearly, and hurried away from the office.

I was_______about the decision, finally agreeing to compromise (妥协). I wasn’t the only speaker ——I would _______the honor with five other students. Still, it was doubtful whether the task was_______me. How in the world would I give a speech to hundreds of people?

Graduation day soon arrived and, as_______, I was nervous. I’d been practicing my speech for days, and I had it memorized. But I had never been so_______in my life. The first half hour of the ceremony passed, and then my_______came. My name was announced. I managed to reach the platform without falling down. But within minutes, I finished my speech,________back to my seat and feeling unsatisfied with my performance.

Now I still have the tape of that speech. My voice trembled a little, but________it was clear and strong. I’m proud of that tape. I achieved something I’d never________— I spoke in front of hundreds of people. ________I didn’t realize it at the time, the successful completion of that speech gave me the ________to participate in class at college, to give oral reports, and to eventually break free of my________.

I never would have chosen to give a speech at graduation. But I am glad I did. I know it may well turn out to be one of my shining moments.

【推荐3】I was a city girl who knew nothing about gardening. Then, in 2003, I ________ gardening with 10 neighborhood children.

At the time, I had a dress shop on the footpath between the church and their ________, and the children would ________ for a drink of water. Sometimes, they were in the back of my ________ doing homework. One day I gave them some fresh peas. I ________ peas didn’t come from the grocery store basement, but some of the children did not. I just wanted to show them where ________ came from.

Our ________ was considered a food desert: local people were ________ to buy healthy food within walking distance, and ________ people had cars. You could buy all the junk food you wanted, ________ you couldn’t buy foods like an apple, orange or banana. So I started thinking, “This would be a lot ________ if people could grow their own food.”

Soon we started gardening with one bed, growing tomatoes and potatoes. The kids were so ________. It was like magic for them. And it was magic for me, ________.

Now we have 65 beds. When people come to church for food ________ their eyes light up at the sight of fresh tomatoes, beans and potatoes. I ________ them to become gardeners and offer them a bed of their own to ________.

Now we have families growing their own vegetables, and community members ________ affordable food at our market. More than 1,800 people received fresh produce, and we ________ over 4,000 pounds of surplus (剩余的) prepared foods. The ________ of people coming to church for food assistance in the summer growing season has fallen.

But the garden is about more than just food. Our community members ________ in age from 3 to 93, and speak many different languages. We have a lot of divisions in our community but in the garden everyone is the same.

【推荐1】Kelli Tanghe makes the ‘homeless community in Los Angeles’ skid row (贫民区) neighborhood feel belonged. She is the _______of Beauty 2 The Streetz, a nonprofit organization that provides free food, clothing, hair and make-up services for the homeless. And now, Kelli is the CNN Hero of the Year. Who is she and what_______her to take on this mission?

In 1990, Tanghe’s 2-year-old son passed away. This event created a lot of _______ for Kelli Tanghe. The pain lasted for many years. And she didn’t know what to do about it. She struggled to understand what her _______ was in life until one day. . .

Roughly six years ago, Keli visited the skid row with a friend who asked her to _______. She met a lot of homeless people and _______ how much help they needed not just in finding a home, but in finding themselves and their own _______and beauty. Kelli started to volunteer each Saturday. As she _______ got to know the homeless, they often   _______ her on her make-up, hair and style. She started to offer to “make up” the homeless. They loved it, she loved it, they loved her and she loved them. Kelli found purpose. ________ she started an outdoor beauty salon to ________   the homeless.

With the aim of letting more people be ________ with the situation of the homeless, Tanghe started sharing her ________on Instagram with photos and even live-streaming some of her events. Things ________. She formed her nonprofit, Beauty 2 The Streetz, and her followers quickly began donating to ________Kelli’s impact. Her Instagram following grew, now over 200, 000 people, including many beauty professionals such as ________ hairstylists, barbers, make-up artists. Many of them ________ donate money to keep the services rolling. Others ________ their time and effort to helping Kelli serve the homeless.

Kelli’s ________, caring, consistency and desire to take action have made a real influence on people’s lives. And she served as a ________ and inspiration to others.

【推荐3】An elderly woman is crediting her neighbor’s 4­-year­-old dog with saving her life during last week’s dangerously cold temperatures.

Tim Curfman was _______ his garbage with his dog Midnight when he felt its _______ was unusual. It had its ears held up looking at him. It didn’t _______ do that. Curfman got the feeling that something was _______. So he observed how his dog was acting and _______ it to a spot on the other side of his house. There, he saw his 87­-year­old neighbor, Noreen, _______ in the snow. She was trying to fill her bird feeder when she fell.

Curfman _______ she was out there at least half an hour. She could not get up because she didn’t have enough _______ to push herself up, and there was nothing around the corner to get a _______ of, either. The temperature was one degree below zero, but Curfman and Midnight were able to ________ her quickly.

Noreen, who didn’t have serious injuries, was lucky to ________ frostbite (冻伤) even though her clothes were wet. Curfman called his wife and they together helped his neighbor up from the snow and into her ________, where his wife helped the elderly woman get into ________ clothes.

Noreen was ________ to Midnight for saving her life. “I am________of my dog,” Curfman said in an interview.