【推荐1】My father, a laborer, didn't let me attend school initially. I was always_________of my younger brother when he set off to school each day. One day I followed him and_________under the teacher's desk. She noticed me, called my father and told him that he should put me in school. To my great _________, my father said yes.

I had a passion for learning. I quickly _________ to the top of my class. But I was treated _________ by classmates who saw me as a child of the slums（贫民窟）.I also suffered from _________ during biology labs because I was very_________due to malnutrition （营养不良）,and had to stand on a chair to see into the microscope.

When I graduated from high school, I wanted to become an engineer, but my father said I should study food science instead. I registered for a food science program _________ . However, I quickly discovered that food science wasn't so _________ after all. It was a real science. Soon enough, I showed great __________ .

In the years that followed, I received a Ph. D. in food engineering and was __________ to a position in a university. I worked with a company that wanted to __________ malnutrition in India's slums. I grew up in the slums, so I made efforts to__________more nutrition into the diet of the poor people. I __________ with locally grown grains and achieved great success. My work has won numerous international __________, and companies and government agencies have all __________ my expertise.

In my life, I've faced hunger and __________ . But I didn't let them hold me back. I__________the barriers and learned lessons from them that helped drive me forward. I hope others can take __________from my story and realize that-despite the __________ they may meet with-they, too, can persevere.

【推荐2】Many people like to ask me how my lovely dog helped me travel around Europe. I always gladly show them.

Walking my dog in the neighborhood ________ I usually do, I smiled as I passed my________. The neighborhood is a special place where people do ________to have a brief chat. You pass the ________people often so those brief chats________ add up to learning more about each other.

My neighbor and I started to ask each other about our________. I shared what I did with her. It happened she had a friend who was________ a copywriter. She made the ________ immediately, and soon her friend________me.

During the course of the work, I got to know man online and one conversation________us to a discussion on Italy. This ________ me because I had been planning a trip to Italy sometime during the year. That new friend told me about his________ memory of his trip to Italy. A few days later, I booked my trip and was ________ to travel to Europe. He also kindly connected me to his aunt who________ in Italy. Not only did she help me plan transportation, but she also invited me to ________ with her family members in her comfortable beach house, which ________ me a lot on hotel expense.

And that is the whole story. Let me________ some tips. First, you never know how ________ the people you meet will be to you. Second, connect with people you meet often. It for just today. Third, may not lead anywhere today; ________ relationships aren't meant to know them and help always be ________. People remember you when you take time to get them.

【推荐3】Clark lost nearly all possessions to the Tubbs Fire. The seventh-grader remembers Oct. 9 _________: He woke up to a scene in chaos around 1:30 a.m. Seizing some of his things, he and his family _________ onto the crowded roads, full of other people _________ home. “There were just cars everywhere, people driving on the wrong side of the road, _________ starting on lawns (草坪).” Clark says, “We were all just really _________for what could happen.” _________, his family made it to safety, but their home was completely destroyed.

Considering the trauma (创伤) their students had just_________, teachers in Northwest Prep knew they couldn’t ask the students to _________back to study directly and they wanted to do something to help. Alyssa, Clark’s math teacher, had the _________of an oral history project when she took her kids to a museum, looking at a(n) __________about earthquakes that__________California in 1906 and 1989. Inspired by that way of recording history, Alyssa arranged for her students to use their smart phones to__________stories from the fire and its__________on the people in the community. Then on the first day back, all 75 students gathered and__________about the fire’s powerful effect on their lives. Alyssa hopes it will go__________storytelling and provide a “sense of__________” to both the students and their__________.

As Clark returned, he sometimes found it hard to talk about the fire, but it’s also been really__________to do so. Earlier this month, Clark’s family and neighbors returned to their old__________to put Christmas decorations on one of the few trees left standing after the fire. “We’re not__________very much anymore. We’re looking for some good holidays,” he says.

【推荐1】As a new teacher at Doull Elementary School in Denver, Kyle Schwartz created a simple way to get to know her third graders. Many of them came from_______homes. She asked them to _______the sentence, “I wish my teacher _______”.

The honest_______told the teacher about her students’ _______. “I wish my teacher knew sometimes my reading log(记录) is not signed _______ my mom is not around a lot,” wrote one student. “I wish my teacher knew how much I _______ my dad. He was sent back to Mexico when I was three years old,” wrote_______.

One note that _______stuck with Kyle was, “I wish my teacher knew I don’t have pencils at home to do my   __________.”

That’s the one she__________ to Twitter in March with the caption(标题) “Reality check” and the hashtag(标签) “I wish My Teacher Knew”. Over the next few months, tweets(推信)from eager teachers__________.

Other professionals__________. A US Coast Guard boss____________his staff to write “I wish my boss knew” notes. A man helping children who are having a bad time at home asked students to write down their__________. Without this, they may not have been__________enough to say those things out loud.

“The results have been __________,”says Kyle of the huge response(响应)to her __________. “It speaks to the importance of giving other people a __________and really listening to them.”

【推荐2】Paul and I were on our school basketball team, The Lions. We loved basketball and were both huge fans of the NBA. Paul's favourite ______ was Tyrone Bogues, a guy who played for the Charlotte Hornets.

Bogues was only 1.6 metres tall, which made him the ______ player ever in the NBA. Guess what? Paul was only 1.6 metres tall, too! Paul knew that being shorter than other players meant that he had to ______ more. During all those hours of doing jump shots on his own, he used Bogues as his ______. Paul once said, “If Bogues could make it, why not me?”

Our coach was not so ______. Paul had to try out many times just for making the ______ . He was still ______ on the bench, being just someone taking the place, and just an under dog. Everyone knew Paul had real ______, and was someone who worked really hard and had a strong desire to play for the team. However, Paul didn't get a chance.

This week, The Lions were playing our main competitors, The Bears, a team whose ______ this season had been ______ . They hadn't lost a single game. Paul didn't know he'd soon get the chance that he'd been waiting for.

Suddenly, a player and I crashed (碰撞) into each other. My knee hurt badly. The team gathered around, looking worried. The last ______ was about to begin, and my team was ______ by 10 points. I asked the coach to let Paul play.

The coach finally agreed. Paul ______ the chance and rushed onto the court. And ______, all the extra hours that he'd spent practising alone ______. The other team just couldn't keep up with his energy and speed. He made shot after shot, and the crowd couldn't stop clapping and cheering. When the game ended, our team had won by two points.

【推荐3】One morning, the door to the classroom opened and a new teacher, Mrs Cosby, walked in. She looked too _________ to handle us. And we sure gave her a _________ time , but she never lost her temper. And then came the last day of the first month she had been our teacher. She took out some papers the moment she entered the classroom. We _________ the worst—a test. But oh no, it was something that totally _________ us.

Mrs Cosby asked us to come to the front of the class, and gave each of us a piece of paper, on which she had written what the student with _________ had been good at during the last month. You see, no one ever _________ us. No one ever liked us. We were constantly told what good-for-nothing we were. And here, suddenly, was someone who had been _________with us closely for a month. Mrs Cosby did this every _________ from then on. Each month we got a piece of paper that said our _________. She commented on my courage, and how well I did if I wanted to __________ arguments. Her attitude influenced our class. We did not want to __________ her feelings anymore. We actually started to __________.

And then came the day of our graduation. Mrs Cosby hugged us and told us with tears in her eyes how __________ she was of us. Then she handed each one of us a book. All the encouraging words through the years were there, in hard covers.

She said, “I want you each to keep this book and if ever during your life you feel unworthy,__________ this and read how good you are. You can be anything you want to be as long as you believe in yourself. __________ me you will remember that!”

【推荐1】Ouyang Zhuo,a hearing-impaired(听力受损的)student from Wuhan,who scored 680 out of 750 points in this year’s national college entrance exam, or gaokao, has made it to Peking University. What’s ______ is that he got full marks in the English listening test.

Ouyang was diagnosed with neurological hearing ______ in both ears when he was 3 years old and he had to use a hearing aid in his daily life. Despite ______ difficulties learning because of his hearing problem, he never______ his dream of going to college. His grandmother helped him ______ an interest in mathematics from a very young age.

At first, Ouyang kept a low profile, ______ communicating with his classmates as he could not hear what they were ______. Gradually, however, he looked at it as a ______ life had thrown at him and he was ______ to take it up.

Existing ______ exempt(免除) students who are hearing-impaired from the English listening test, giving them50 percent of the total score. But Ouyang ______ taking the listening test in the hope of getting a higher ______.He not only got high marks in English, he got full marks in the listening test.

One of the reasons for his success is that he never saw himself as “______”. “Wearing a hearing aid is like wearing glasses,” he said. “It’s no different.” “I just want to follow my heart, ______ my dream bravely, and enjoy the joy of my efforts. The ______ thing for me was learning to solve problems by myself,” Ouyang said.

【推荐2】It had been a tiring journey. I _________ the hotel at about ten o'clock that night. There were many other tourists waiting to _______ in. I approached the reception desk and_________ my room number and the _______ to it. To my disappointment, I found that there had been a _________ in communication and my reservation(预定) for a room had not been _______. The receptionist(接待员) was very polite and helpful. She told me that the hotel was fully _________ for the night and suggested that I live in another hotel which is further down the hill. Faced with hardly any choice, I _______ her suggestion.

The hotel was rather strange and warm. The owner was Percy Williams who doubled up_________ a receptionist and a waiter. He greeted me ____________ and showed me my room. By then I was so tired that I jumped into bed and __________ a deep sleep.

The next morning, I woke up feeling very much __________. I realized that I was __________ with a blanket and my clothes were __________ put in the closet. “Mr. Williams is indeed a nice man,” I thought to myself. I decided that I would __________ on in this hotel for the rest of my holidays.

I met Mr. Williams on my way out and thanked him for his __________. Mr. Williams was surprised. “I didn’t do anything __________ show you to your room last night, Miss. __________ must be my wife who did that.”

“Please give my thanks to your wife then,” I said as I moved to leave. Mr. Williams’ next few words made me __________.

“I’m afraid I can’t, Miss. You see, my wife has been dead for __________.”

【推荐3】There was a wise man Sviatozar. One day his nephew came to visit him. The young man was sad and ____ with something. He said that he suffered a serious setback which made him lose ____.

The nephew asked Sviatozar to give him some ____, but Sviatozar just led him to the hills. This road was ____ and long. When they reached the hills, Sviatozar said that he wanted to go to the ____ of the highest hill. The young man was ____, but agreed.

With great ____ the nephew helped his uncle climb to the hill, sometimes even ____ the old man on his back. On the top of the hill, sweating, he put his uncle on the ground and laughed ____. “Do you remember the hill?” Sviatozar asked him. “Exactly!” The young man ____. “As a child I often played there with other boys and called this hill an Everest (珠穆朗玛峰).” He ____.“At that time I was unable to get there. This hill seemed a(n) ____ rock to me.” “But today you not only climbed there, but dragged me up, too.” The old man ____ at his nephew. “How could you do this?” “Perhaps I just become ____.” The young man replied. “And the terrible Everest suddenly ____ a mound.” said Sviatozar. “You got my advice.”