【推荐1】Some teachers seem to be bad teachers, but they are not. Take my football coach for example. One day, we were doing some ______ practicing catching the football. He threw me a pass and I dropped it. He started ______ me. I went back in line, ______. My friend was up next. He dropped it, too. But the coach said nothing. Annoyed, I whispered, “Why ______ against me?”

After practice he came ______ to me and told me the reason he shouted at me ______ the other guy was that he expected more out of me. If he ______ my mistakes, it meant he had quit on me.

Another teacher ______ my memory was my PhD supervisor, Ken Crowe. He had   a(n) ______ for making grown men cry when they disappointed him, but I was ______ by the topic he was working on.

He gave me a(n) ______: to figure out what caused muons (介子) to get depolarized (去极 化 ) in liquids. After a week I came to Ken’s office to tell him about it. He listened for a few minutes and then ______   “You have no idea what you’re talking about! Get out and don’t come back until you do!” Now I was starting to get ______, complaining about him as cold- hearted.

Determined to change his attitude and ______ more relevant knowledge, I really got into it. ______, I understood it so well that to this day it is my most proud ______. Then I went back to tell Ken what I had figured out. Again he interrupted me a few minutes into my ______, but I carried on. When I finished, he praised me for doing some very original research. From that day forward, he supported and promoted me ______ we became great friends and respected colleagues.

So don’t ever complain about your “______” teachers. They may ______ you to make greater achievement you will be proud of decades later.

【推荐2】Inspiration

“Mama, when I grow up, I’m going to be one of those!” I said this after seeing the Capital Dancing Company perform when I was three. It was the first time that my ________ took on a lifelike form and acted as something important to start my training. As I grew older and________ more, my interests in the world of dance ________changed but that little girl’s dream of someday becoming a ________ in the company never left me. In the summer of 2005 when I was 18, I received the phone call which made that dream a ________; I became a member of the company________back to 1925.

As I look back on that day now, it is surely ________of any sense of reality. I believe I stayed in a state of pleasant disbelief ________I was halfway through rehearsals(排练) on my first day. I never actually________ to get the job. After being offered the position, I was completely________. I remember shaking with excitement.

Though I was excited with the change, it did not come without its fair share of________. Through the strict rehearsal period of dancing six days a week, I found it vital to ________up the material fast with every last bit of concentration. It is that extreme   ________ to detail and stress on practice that set us ________. To then follow those high-energy rehearsals with a ________show plan of up to five performances a day, I discovered a new ________ of the words “hard work.” What I thought were my physical ________ were pushed much further than I thought ________. I learned to make each performance better than the last.

Today, when I look at the unbelievable company that I have the great ________ of being a part of, not only as a member, but as a dance captain, I see a ________ that has inspired not only generations of little girls but a wonderful company that continues to develop and grow — and inspires people every day to follow their dreams.

【推荐3】When I was driving on the highway, a big storm came. The rain began to beat ________ against my car windows. I had to stop and ________ my car along the roadside. Sitting in the car with boxes of clothes in the back seat, I was ________ of Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina hit Houston when I was fourteen years old. I was ________ that it would destroy my neighbourhood. ________ it missed ours, while leaving many parts of the city in ruins. From the TV, I saw a reporter ________ the homeless people inside the Houston Astrodome. Many of them were in dirty and ________ clothes, and some had no shoes on their feet. I noticed a little boy behind the reporter hugging an old teddy bear. Suddenly, I knew I had to do ________.

The next day, my friends ________ me at our volunteer club and we came up with a plan to ________ some used toys and give them to the kids at the Astrodome. I hoped they would bring some ________ to those homeless kids. We spread the word to our schools and other organizations. Three days later, our club was flooded with new toys! When we ________ the Astrodome with our gifts, children ________ towards us from all directions.

Bzzzz... My cellphone brought me back to the present. To my joy, the storm had ________. “Hector, we have had more victims because of the tornado.” “Well, I’ve brought a lot of clothes for them. The storm kept me late, but I’ll be there soon!” I turned my car into the suddenly heavy traffic. I knew that any small act of kindness would make a big ________.

【推荐3】Ebron James isn’t the first high school basketball player to go straight into the NBA, but he is probably the best. He has the body, skills and the basketball brain of an All-Star(全明星球员).

This_______was on_______as he scored 41 points to take Cleveland Cavaliers(克里夫兰骑士队) to a 107—104 win over the New Jersey Nets(新泽西网队)on March 28. Aged of 19 years and 87 days, James became the_______ player to score 40 or more in the NBA.

“It was by far James’ best_______,” said Cleveland coach Paul Silas.

Known to his friends_______“the king”, this was the day James earned his crown(王冠). But he was_______ from being a king during a childhood spent in the back streets of Akron, Ohio. _______many other African-American basketball players, James’ early years were a_______. His mother Gloria was just 16 when she gave birth to him; he knows nothing about his father. Mother and son battled for everything from food to a place to live in._______the help from his grandmother and neighbours, James would________have died when he was young.

This spirit of survival has served him well on court, forcing him to take any________he finds. “ I ________losing, I don’t like losing,” said James of his 41-point display. “I________the opportunity for us to win and I was________to capture(俘获，夺得)it, “ At 2.03 metres, he is not taller than Yao Ming, but this didn’t________him being the first choice in 2003 NBA Draft. This was thanks to his strength and skill, much of________he learned from high school American football.

Although he has a________brain, James has never had to concentrate on________. Some people think this is a mistake and say he should have gone to college to________his mind. But James is one of the lucky few who have found fame and fortune________a diploma(文凭). On the court, he is the king.

【推荐1】When struggling to reach a goal, don’t let limitations define you. Use them as _________ to push beyond your comfort zone. That way you’ll find creative _________ and better understand your inner strengths. And it’s inner strengths that define how you’ll deal with _________ in life.

At the age of 20, Bryan joined the army. One day, he was behind the wheel when a roadside bomb _________. As result, Bryan lost his left hand and both legs. Several days later, Bryan _________ up at a medical center with his mother by his side. It was in that _________ that his mother said the words that defined the _________ for the rest of his life. She said, “You know you have _________ two choices here, right?” He _________, “Move on, or roll over and die.” She said, “And you’re going to...” To which he replied, “Move on.”

Bryan noticed that the patients who were making __________ were the ones who accepted their __________ and worked hard to move forward. From the start, Bryan __________ himself. He refused to let his injury __________ him from living his life. The process of learning to use his prostheses (假肢) was a __________ and difficult journey, but his mother and friends were there to __________ him.

Today, Bryan lives a __________ life and is a motivational speaker. In his free time, he loves to snowboard, skateboard and enjoy time on his motorcycle. Bryan’s story is powerful __________ that we too can overcome our limitations. We mustn’t let them stop us from moving forward but push ourselves to rise above and __________ varieties of possibilities. We all have our __________, but if you believe you can __________ them, you will.

【推荐2】As a teenager in the 1990s, Melissa Blake was interested in fashion. Unluckily, fashion wasn’t much interested in her. Blake, who has a genetic bone and muscle ________ and stands a little under four feet tall, couldn’t find jeans or dresses in her size. ________ through fashion magazines, she didn’t see a single person who looked like her, and it really ________ . “That would have been a game changer for me,” says Blake, who had 26 surgeries before age 17. “When you’re a teenager—disabled or not—you deal with issues of ________”

Blake, now 39, has spent her adult life trying to ________ for that. She is a disability-rights ________ as well as a little-known freelance (自由职业) writer, but she gained a national following in 2019 after ________ at those who made ugly comments about her online. She tweeted, “people said that I should be stopped from ________ photos of myself because I’m too ________.” Blake posted a new selfie every day to share something about her life as a disabled woman, which________ her determination to fight that.

Her fans went wild, calling Blake a goddess and a powerful woman. Among her ________ is Mindy Scheier, the founder of Runway of Dreams, which displays fashion for people with ________. Last fall, Scheier asked Blake to be one of the event’s 24 models.

“Getting Melissa in this year’s biggest fashion event just makes people understand how important it is to ________ the consumers in the fashion industry, or what we ________ represent in the word ‘model’.” says Scheier.

“It was a little ________,” Blake says of modeling. But she’s glad she took the ________. Often, when we think of ________ for people with disabilities, we think of buildings and employment. But it’s also ________ to have access to what’s fun and enjoyable.

“Fashion isn’t going to solve all the world’s ________,” says Blake. “When disabled people are included, it sends a message that we ________ a seat at the table in all aspects of life.”

Don’t let Aurora’s small stature (身高) fool you—her spirit is strong. She is one of 140 chickens _______ from a farm. When we saved her, she was tiny and sick and it seemed _______ that she would survive. Having never got the right _______, many of the chickens were sick and some _______ died.

At a young age, Aurora and her sisters and brothers were _______ by their mom. Luckily, another mother _______ their care. Aurora seemed the last to _______ food and attention. She grew at a much slower _______ than her brothers and sisters. Everything seemed _______ her.

At the young age of seven months, Aurora had lost two moms and was ________ to find a place with the other chickens.

Aurora ________ found comfort from an old chicken named Margaret, staying under her wings during the cold nights, ________ Margaret was so old that a few months later she died. Aurora, in her own way, thinks of Margaret. Every evening, you will find her in the ________ spot where she kept Margaret company. ________ when the other chickens try to ________ her away, Aurora comes back.

As Aurora grew, we became ________ at her love to simply live. Nothing ________ her.

So remember, when life seems so ________ that you can’t take it, think of Aurora. She has lost two moms, watched her sisters and brothers die, and ________ from serious illnesses. Yet she enjoys the small, sweet ________ life has offered—safety, food, warmth and good friendships.