【推荐3】I never planned to be a teacher in my school life. I studied law at college. I thought I would teach a couple of years and then get a(n) _______ job. I would leave when I didn’t _______ my job any more. Thirty years later, that day has _______ come.

So, why do I stay? I stay because I laugh and _______ every day. The children are funny, insightful, and honest. If my shoes don’t match my clothes, they _______ me. If my argument doesn’t _______, they inform me. They have also taught me many different things.

I stay because every single day is _______. Some days, my lessons are great, and I have students who are _______ in their work. Some days, my _______ aren’t satisfying, and I need to start over again. Each year also offers a new beginning. If my approach last year didn’t work so well, I’d urge myself to take the ________ to rework it the next year.

I stay because I love to see my children have ________ something. I stay because I love to see my children write ________; I love the feeling of reading a well-argued essay.

In the last 30 years, I’ve learned that all students want to succeed and that no student doesn’t care about ________ an exam. We genuinely want to ________ the kids to grow into the best students and the great people that they can be.

I stay because what I’ve learned in 30 years is that I do have a “real” job. It’s the one that leads to other jobs. My job is one of the ones that ________ most.

【推荐1】At one weekend, I went to the local library to borrow books as usual. On my way there I would pass by a nursing home. This time as I walked toward the library, I saw an old woman _______ there all by herself. Today I decided to go to talk to her instead of just walking past.

The old woman was very _______ to share her life with me. She told me about her father who was a(n) _______ working at a famous hospital. She told me about the wonderful _______ she had taken when she was exploring in Africa and the _______ moments she had with her friends. She smiled while _______ her best times. We sat there for about an hour.

She told me she was _______ and that it was nice to talk to someone after such a long time. The last person she had had a(n) _______ with was a nurse but she had found another _______ and left.

It makes me feel ________ that some old people are easily affected by the social ________. And sometimes this can have a serious effect on their ________. We should try our best to spare some time to ________ the elderly, whether they are our grandparents, our neighbors or ________ a random elderly person. The elderly woman is highly ________ and I learned so much from her in less than an hour.

【推荐2】I was about 5 when I first heard the word “Greenland”. And my interest ____ from there. I can’t say exactly why, but it was undoubtedly a ____ of many images that the word conjured up: remoteness, ice, polar bears, and Vikings. ____, after decades, I decided to go.

From the plane I could see the east coast of Greenland was nothing but an expanse of ice and snow, with no ____ of human habitation. But when the plane ____ toward the southern part, everything changed. Much of the ice disappeared, ____ by broad fields of green.

One of my ____ in going to Greenland was to make contact with some native Greenlanders. I didn’t know how I would achieve this, but success came in a(an) ____ way.

I headed for a hostel, where I had ____ a bed. A young couple was out front, enjoying the sun and unusual warmth. This was my first native ____. Their eyes widened when I ____ myself. Another hiker had arrived earlier and, ____ him for me, they had given him my bed. There was no more space in the hostel. “But don’t worry,” the young woman said, clearly concerned for my ____. Afterwards, she ____ herself into cleaning a tiny house the family owned. “This is for you,” she said. And ____ that weren’t enough, she invited me to eat supper with her family. We talked happily. The themes ____ from the unusual weather in Greenland, to the concern they felt for the changes as the massive ice sheet ____ and outside interests ____ envious eyes upon the newly revealed mineral wealth.

In Greenland I found myself all but ____ by the emptiness, the vastness, and the silence before I was taken into this Greenlandic home. I can now say that even a cold, empty, and silent landscape ____ a visit, so long as one has a warm and welcoming place to go.

【推荐3】On an ordinary day, Debbie’s doorbell rang suddenly. Sixteen-year-old-Amy from next door was there—“help, my brother Dylan is bleeding,” she _________.

Debbie and her sister Ellen _________ to their house to find eight-year-old-Dylan bleeding _________ from a huge cut in his arm. Debbie had recently taken a first aid _________ and knew what to do. “I knew I needed to _________ pressure to stop the bleeding. I _________ a towel from the bathroom and used it to press on the _________.” she said.

Dylan was crying and _________ so Debbie told him not to panic while pressing on the towel to stop the blood _________. She told Ellen to call for an ambulance since she knew the cut would need medical treatment. Just as the ambulance __________, Dylan’s mum came home. She was deeply shocked but __________ held his arm, then the two of them travelled to the hospital together in the ambulance without __________.

A few weeks later the cut __________ and Dylan went back home. “His mother thanked Debbie and Ellen the day after the __________. I’m so happy that I learned first aid,” Debbie said. “I __________ thought I’d need to use my first aid skills so soon, but I’m very glad I knew what to do.”

【推荐3】For a little girl growing up in Colombia, a science career with NASA may seem impossible. Trujillo, however, is an aerospace ________ who leads a team at the NASA laboratory ________ for the robotic arm of the latest Mars rover (火星探测器).

How did Trujillo go from simply dreaming about the universe to ________ exploring it? That’s a tale of ________ written in the stars.

Born in 1983, even as a young girl Trujillo was ________ of her passion for science. But she doubted how far she’d be able to ________ in a male-dominated field. Then her dad offered to send her to Miami. Only 17 at the time, she ________ the offer.

Trujillo took a series of housekeeping ________ to put herself through Miami Dade College. Sometimes she was cleaning bathrooms to help pay her way through her ________ . But she didn’t ________ “I saw everything coming my way as an opportunity.”

Then came another life-changing moment. She became the first Hispanic (西班牙语国家的) woman to be ________ to the NASA Academy. Later, she became an engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

This February, when the Perseverance rover ________ on the surface of Mars, it was ________ by commentary (解说) from Trujillo in NASA’s first-ever Spanish-language ________ .

Trujillo’s own story is ________ that just beyond the barrier (阻碍) lies an entire universe of opportunities waiting for anyone willing to work hard enough to reach for the stars.