【推荐1】When people come together, it's a beautiful thing. When someone tries to do something he can't do with everyone else's ________, that is a great moment.

One beautiful afternoon, I had an important baseball game, which I was really ________to win. As the game progressed the ________got close. The two teams drew8 -8 at the end of the last inning (局), and it was my turn to bat. I looked over at my ________, who was talking to my dad about something. As I was about to ________ the batter's box, my coach stopped me and asked me one ________ question. He asked if it would be all right if my brother ________ for me.

I was very ________ because my brother wasn't on the team. He had never even played baseball due to his ________. He couldn't stand, let alone hit. But I responded very   ________ for a kid my age.“Of course he can," I said. I was still puzzled as to how he would do it, though.

As my dad ________ him to the plate, I realized that without his ________ he would have to be held up. The joy on his face couldn't be ________ for anything in the world. The crowd burst into wild ________ after realizing what was happening. That afternoon in the batter's box, my brother had all the ________ he needed.

【推荐3】I had always loved music and dreamed of being a musician, travelling to different countries, meeting lots of people and doing something I loved to earn my money. _______, my parents had a farm and I didn’t want to do that — I wanted to do something _______. However, I had always been shy and too nervous to try playing _______in public.

I had been playing the _______ since I was ten years old, but the idea of playing in front of other people was very _______.

I started one day, _______ a local youth club advertised a talent show — anybody who could play an instrument or sing could put his name down to be in concert. I _______ myself up.

When the day of the show came, I was so _______ that I couldn’t eat. _______ was the first time I had played in front of other people and I felt ________ unsure of myself. I had no idea whether I was ________ good and was worried that no one would like me.

When my turn came, I played my favorite tune and I even started to ________! I could not hear what I sounded like, but to my surprise, I eventually forgot about all the people in the audience and started to enjoy myself. When the song ended, everyone clapped and some people________!

After the show a man ________ up to me to say how much he enjoyed my ________. He said that he had a rock band, and they needed to ________ a guitar player. He asked me to come along the next day to have a try. This successful trial turned my dream into ________. In the following days, we ________ around a lot, playing in concerts in lots of places around the world. Sometimes we would enter competitions and once we went on TV.

We really enjoyed ourselves and life was like a big long holiday. As we became more successful, we had to work harder and practice more and eventually I became ________ of travelling so much. But now, nearly fifty years later, I look back on those carefree days of my ________ as among the best moments of my life.

【推荐1】An 89-year-old man from the American state of Rhode Island has reached a ________ he spent 20 years working toward and nearly a lifetime thinking about. He earned his doctorate, or Ph.D., and became a physicist.

Manfred Steiner ________ finished his dissertation recently at Brown University in Providence. The old man ________ this degree because it is what he always wanted-and because he ________ health problems that were caused by his age and could have had an influence on his studies.

As a young person in Vienna, Austria, Steiner wanted to become a physicist after reading about Albert Einstein. ________ after World WarⅡ, his mother and uncle advised him that studying medicine would be a ________ choice. He earned his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1955 and moved to the United States soon after.

In the United States, he had a successful ________ studying hematology. He became a full professor and ________ the hematology department at Brown's medical school from 1985 to 1994. Steiner helped establish a research program in hematology at the University of North Carolina and directed that program ________ he retired from medicine in 2000 and returned to Rhode Island.

Steiner found ________ research pleasing, but it was not quite the same as his ________ in physics. “I really don't want to spend my life just sitting around and maybe doing a little golfing or doing something like that. I want to keep ________ .” Steiner said.

At age 70, he started ________ undergraduate classes at Brown. And by 2007, he had earned enough credits to join the doctoral program. After the university ________ a story about Steiner on its website, people across the US contacted him to ask for advice on how to ________ their dreams later in life. He said his advice is: Do what you love to do.

【推荐2】He Cuiying lives on a mountain peak in Yunnan province, at an altitude of 3,000 meters. Every morning, the 91-year-old woman is _______ by floating fog, which creates a fairy-tale landscape.

Four years ago, He Cuiying opened a homestay (民宿) in her yard with the help of her granddaughter, He Qingmei. Ever since, she has _______ her stories, the beautiful scenery and the _______ culture of her village with visitors from across China and other parts of the world.

He Cuiying is a member of the Naxi ethnic group, while her husband is from the Tibetan ethnic group and he is a _______ in Tibetan Buddhism. In Qibie village, He Cuiying’s home, eight ethnic minorities live _______ in the same village, where local people _______ 102 homestays.

The villagers say they have turned “houses into homestays and people into _______”. They speak the Naxi language, _______ Tibetan customs and warmly welcome tourists from all over the world. In just eight years, they have developed a _______ multiethnic (多民族的) homestay village, becoming a key demonstration project for cultural ________ in Yunnan.

He Cuiying loves ________. Whenever guests visit her home, she sings songs and offers blessings continuously. Her favorite song is Chairman Mao Is Like the Sun. She remembers how the remote village was liberated and ________ poverty under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, so she has a sincere ________ for Beijing as the capital city.

Now, as He Cuiying gets older, He Qingmei and her cousins are gradually ________ the homestay. They hope to share the beautiful scenery and stories of Grandma’s home with more people through the ________ of guests from all over the world.

【推荐3】Avett Ray is a little boy with a disability. It may seem ______ for other kids. However, that’s not the case for Avett Ray. Actually , this six-year-old boy shows that he has a ______ far beyond kids of his age.

The young piano genius (天才) was born ______ . But he hasn’t been held back by the difficulty. Though he can’t see, he taught himself to play the piano by ear. He ______ this when he was less than two years old, which shocked his parents. Now he has a piano teacher to help him improve his ______ . His excellent performance _______people, so they invited him to perform. He _______. After all, he wants to influence others using his example , so he welcomes every _______.

Avett Ray is very ______ about spreading his music. In fact, he asked his mom to send his videos to Adele, a ______, so that he could ask her for some advice. It is her songs that ______ him, making him decide to do something good. He hopes to use his gift to make others accept and ______ people like him. Avett Ray’s mom even ______ a book called Cotton Candy Clouds to teach people how to show support for them. “Avett Ray is a character in the book, although he appears in a small part of the book,” his mom said. “ ______ , he couldn’t see clouds, so I wrote this book to let him see them. The book says everybody is made ______ and that we’re all born with our own gifts and can do something.”