【推荐1】Last year, a storm hit a village in the New Territories and many people were injured. Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. _________ man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon. His bed was next to the room’s only _________. The other man had to spend all his time_________ on his back.

They talked for hours on end. Every afternoon when the man by the window could sit up, he _________ pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The other man felt his world would be _________ and brightened up by all the wonderful world outside.

The window overlooked a _________ with a lovely lake. Ducks played on the water while children _________ their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm in flowers. A fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the _________.

As the man by the window described all this in delicate _________, the other man would close his eyes and __________ the picturesque scene. One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing __________. Although the other man couldn’t hear the __________, he could see it in his mind’s eye as the gentleman by the window pictured it with __________ words.

Days and weeks passed. One morning, the nurse arrived, __________ to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was sad and had the body taken away.

The other man asked to be __________ next to the window. Painfully, he sat up to take his first look at the world outside. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it for himself.

He slowly turned to look out of the window. Surprisingly, it __________ a blank wall.

The man asked the nurse what could have __________ his roommate to describe such wonderful things outside. The nurse __________ that the man was blind. “Perhaps he just wanted to __________ you.”

Shared grief is half the sorrow, __________ happiness when shared, is doubled.

【推荐3】It took about three weeks for me to become mute. In 2007. I visited a client as a financial adviser and _____ a virus. I had a sore throat. My doctor ________ me it would soon return to normal.

________, it got worse. I could no longer make phone calls and started carrying a little whiteboard to write everything down. I tried to work with people I already knew, who were likely to be more________with me, but explaining financial details to ________ investors with a marker pen was a big challenge. At home my wife and teenage sons ________ the best they could. Soon I was using a computer that read out phrases typed into it.

My situation ________ when I was offered a tuition-assisted place at Iowa State University. I ________myself by accepting a job in the Student Services office. Forced to________ with people face to face, I started to have fun with computer voices.

In 2010, I read a news story about a waitress who’d had her voice ________ with the help of a doctor in Cleveland. It had to be worth a ________. Dr. Milstein ________ me to do some vocal exercises to stretch the muscles in my neck and to my astonishment I started to make ________. It was the first time I’d heard my voice in three and a half years.

Then I did more exercises, my voice becoming more_________ Milstein asked me to go over to the window and   ________ the friends across the street. I was________ at first that I would damage my voice, but he kept ________ me. Friends at university heard my voice for the first time and even when I was alone, I talked to myself.

I don’t regret those years of________. I spent more time with my boys and had time to________where I’d gone wrong as a husband and parent. That time ________ my rough edges. I prefer who I am now.

【推荐2】Now he is 22 years old and has become an example of young people because of his story of ________.

Michael was born in a very ________ family. His parents worked in Vietnam before they ________ to Britain in 1980. They couldn’t find jobs in Britain because they ________ little English.

The whole family had to live on ________ and they lived in a small house in Hackney, a poor area in East London. Growing up is not easy for Michael, but he never ________.

At the age of ten, he made up his mind to go to Cambridge University. It was not easy, ________. Michael studied at a school, which used to be ________ “the worst school in Britain”.   However, young Michael made up his mind to try his best, no matter what kind of school he was studying at. The smart boy studied very hard and did ______ in every subject at school. Once he made a bet (打赌) with his friend to learn further ________. As a result, after just spending four months ________ himself from a textbook, he got an A in further maths.

Now Michael is the ________ medical student in St John’s College, Cambridge and has just won a(n) ________ for his excellent grades. He ________ he will be an example for other ________ people from poor families.

【推荐3】When I became a junior, I decided to take Latin at school. I was so _______about taking that class, and I was fully expecting to be able to understand every word I’d ever come across once I learned Latin.

However, Latin classes were so _______. Each day, the teacher Mr Keady would ask us to open our books and recite aloud the various Latin words. This became the daily _______. That went on until I _______my hand one afternoon when we were asked yet again to open our books.

When Mr Keady asked what was wrong, I _______why I thought that his class was dull, how I had expected more, and that his method of teaching was _______. When I finished speaking, I _______Mr Keady to angrily send me to the head teacher’s office. Instead, he sat at his desk quietly, looking defeated and tired. After several moments of _______, Mr Keady spoke. He quietly and firmly said that he would think carefully about what I’d said. And that was it.

In the following weeks, Latin classes didn’t become the exciting learning environment I hoped they would, but Mr Keady did try harder. He brought in some new worksheets and _______to involve us students more in his classes.

Maybe some people would ________me for what I did, but even so many years later, I feel bad about it.

If I saw him now, I’d tell him how I ________what I’d done that day in class, and that I was disrespectful. At the same time, I’d also tell him that he taught me a wonderful ________that day. Following my unkind words, he showed me that being ________doesn’t mean you have to give up your dignity.

Indeed, Mr Keady’s ________proved that no matter how hurt you feel, no one can ________your dignity.

【推荐1】One weekend, 11-year-old Abbie had an accident. She knew_________for several days. On June 5, Abbie was finally awake and aware enough to be told her leg was_________. And according to Metge, her daughter had a wonderful_________from the beginning.

“She had an amazing view,” Metge said. “After a hard, frightening first night, Abbie got up, her usual huge smile_________, and said ‘I only have to find one _________ from the basket now!’” Over the past months, Abbie’s been_________with an artificial leg and learned how to get _________ to her new life. “Mostly, she’s done well,” Metge said. When she’s up and busy, nothing can_________ her. But evening is hard because it’s when all emotions and suffering _________over her and she’s very tired. But __________, morning always comes and she wakes up__________.

Abbie said, her optimism came from all the __________she has received. “So many people help and inspire me,” Abbie said. “I can’t even imagine __________ something this hard without them.” A big part is from Abbie’s cheer squad (啦啦队) teammates who hold her up. Abbie dreams of being a one-legged flyer. “I’m much __________ without the weight of one entire leg, even more suitable for the role. I really expect the experience of__________ .”

【推荐3】Have you seen the incredible guitar playing of man born with no arms? The musician who was born without arms is being _______ for his greatest guitar-playing skills in a short documentary (纪实的) video which shows him playing the instrument with his _______.

Mark Goffeney, 46 of San Diego, who is _______ as “Big Toe” because of the way he plays the guitar, shows how he became a talented performer despite his _______ in the inspiring video. “I first _______ the instrument when I was nine, after my father brought home a beat-up _______ with only four strings. My first guitar came from some place like a landfill (垃圾场),” says Mark, who adds that he became “_______” about becoming a musician at age 12.

Mark devoted every waking hour to searching his town and trying to join a _______, but ran into _______ because of his disability. Therefore, he started his own rock band, called Wicked Misfit, and began booking gigs (特约演奏) in California.

Things were ________ professionally for Mark because of his disability. But everything ________ when he started playing music from the heart. “When I ________ pursuing this fantasy dream of being a rock star and just started playing music to make whatever milk money I could to support my family, everything started feeling good and ________ out for me,” he shares.

Today, Mark ________ with his band, Big Toe, and also becomes a street-performer in California, where he makes quite good money ________ by passers-by.