【推荐1】Let me tell you a secret. There are no wrong answers when you’re talking about art.

As an art historian, I am interested in_______my love of art to the public. Sometimes art can be difficult to understand. But there is no need to_______. At the heart of every engagement with an artwork is this: Do you like it or not?

_______a lot of art galleries are free, many people are hesitating (犹豫) to visit for_______that they won’t understand the art. There’s a(n)_______that other visitors may be more knowledgeable and that they understand what the artworks mean. But this_______isn’t true. Everyone is_______in front of an artwork and there are no wrong answers.

When talking about the challenges of understanding art, I’m often_______of the story “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. When the Emperor parades before his_______in his “new clothes”, everyone spoke well of the new clothes-no one dares to__________they can’t see anything. It takes a young child to tell the truth. “Listen to the voice of__________,” shout the Emperor’s people.

__________，in front of an artwork， you should try to look at it innocently (天真地). Contemporary art can be particularly difficult to understand and __________but enjoying an artwork is an instinct (直觉). Do you like it or not? Do you find it __________ or not? If you don’t like it, that’s OK! It doesn’t matter what other people say or think.

An art historian called Ernst Gombrich believes that a viewer “completed” the artwork, and that part of an artwork’s meaning came from the person__________it.

【推荐2】Ironing has been my love since my mother taught me how to use it. I was delighted at seeing the _________. Ironing was also a great thing to do while I was _________ my favorite TV programs. My mother had the ironing board _________ in our TV room. When I went to college, my mother ensured that I had an iron _________ for a college dormitory room. _________ I began to work, I could _________ spend time in ironing, for I was always busy. However, I found it relaxing, and still _________.

I’ve now retired and started to _________ other passions. My parents have passed away, and I’ve been _________ their home and things. Throughout the house, I’ve found closet after closet of __________ironed bed covers, table cloths, and clothes — all done by my mother.

After almost a lifetime of ironing, I now realize that my __________ is grounded in much more than delighting in neatness. Ironing was central to my mother’s __________: She was lovely, thoughtful, and careful. Her approach to caring for our family and home __________ those personalities. I even still __________ playing happily at my mother’s feet while she was doing the ironing. Until now I come to realize that my __________ in ironing was deeply __________ by my mother. For my mother, ironing was a good way to __________ her enormous gratitude for her life.

Recently, I have been ironing my mother’s __________ of old table cloths, clothes...

I think it is really a good way to show my __________ for her. It is also an important task to iron them. __________, it’s also become a good way for me to show my gratitude for life!

【推荐1】It’s 27 years since my last conversation with my mother, who didn’t finish school like many of her contemporary girls. She often told me, “I never got my ________ but one day you will.”

Pointing to a tree or cow, she asked me to ________ their English names after her. Feeling ________, I asked, “Mama, why do I have to learn these ________ phrases?” She held her pen right before my eyes. “Hold it firmly,” she ________ me, “for this pen and the new foreign language will be your compass to ________ around the world.” Sadly, my mother died of breast cancer when I was six.

Turning seven, I traveled 30 miles to live closer to my school. But “closer” is a ________ term in Uganda, which ________ I had to get up as the ________ sun rose and then ran 8. 8 miles barefoot to school. Also, I needed to carry a stick in ________ of snakes and dogs. During the ________ season, the path to school was ________ daily and I’d swim with one hand, using the other hand to ________ the book bag on my head.

Research shows 70 percent of poor children don’t ________ primary school in Uganda. Reasons for this ________ dropout rate includes the long ________ some children must ________ among many other reasons.

Fortunately, I’ve made it. Whenever I see the sun rise, I am ________ of the wisdom of my mother, who ________ me to dream big and to use the ________ of the pen to make my dream come true.

【推荐2】It was Mother’s Day and I was shopping at the local supermarket with my five-year old son, Tenyson. As we were _______, we realized that only minutes earlier an _______ woman had fallen over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground. _______ was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock. _________, a lot of people stopped to help out._______we were walking towards the scene (现场), Tenyson became very_______about what had happened to the old couple. He_______to me, “Mom，it’s not much fun falling over in front of _______.” Seeing that there was a flower stall(摊位) at the front of the supermarket, he added(补充说), “Why shouldn’t we _______the lady a flower？It will make her feel better.” I was ________ that he’d come up with this ________idea. So we went over and told the flower seller ________we wanted. “Just take it,” she replied, “I________ take your money for such a wonderful ________.”

By now medical staff had arrived, and were________the injured woman.We gave the flower to the woman’s husband and I told him it was__________my son. At that, the old man started crying and said, “Thank you very much.” He then turned to me，“You have a________son. Happy Mother’s Day to you.”

The man bent down and gave his wife the flower, telling her who it was from.________being badly hurt, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with ________in her eyes and gave him a little________.

【推荐3】When I was growing up, there was a pizza shop right down the street from me, The pizza shop was _________ by a Chinese woman who opened the place around 11:00 a. m. and closed it around midnight every day. The food was good, and its _________ were a right size. As far as I knew, the menu never _________. The woman would take a（n） _________ and then return to the kitchen and make it while the customer stood _________ at the counter.

One day the woman _________ the pizza shop to a man. The man _________ on running the pizza shop with his wife. I was around fifteen and one day I went inside the pizza shop and began talking with the new owners. Within minutes of my starting the _________ , the man and his wife offered me a(n) _________ They’d printed many paper menus and they wanted me to hang them on the doors in the area.

I enjoyed the work as it was fun. As I did this with them one Sunday afternoon, they told me about how __________ the Chinese woman had been. They told me she used too expensive cheese. They were planning to stop __________ chicken because chicken was expensive and pizza was really __________ to make. They were __________ the business was going to be a cash cow for them.

As I listened to all this, I decided these people must be very smart. __________ , within several months, they were out of __________ completely, and the pizza place sat there vacant for over a year __________ it was turned into flooring store. The new owners thought only about how the business could __________ them, and how they could reduce __________ to fatten their own wallets. This is why they ended up __________ . After all, everyone loves people and businesses that are more __________ with serving others than themselves.

【推荐1】Growing up in the USA, I always wanted to experience another culture. The _________ came when I was 15. After a few months of planning and _________ , I was ready to spend the second semester of my first high school year _________ an exchange student in Australia.

_________ in Perth was one of the most exciting moments of my life. I realized then that there was no turning back. The family I would live with was waiting for me, and it would only be five days _________ the new school year. The school I attended was _________ my school back in the States. I was quite _________ at first, especially never having been to a new school -- even in the US. Everything went without _________, though. The teachers were welcoming and the students were friendly.

The most _______ time was travelling with other exchange students around Australia during our semester break. The few weeks we ________ together were full of amazing activities.

At the end of our __________ in Australia, we had three weeks to share our stories and help each other deal with leaving. It was only __________ that our last day together was filled with tears. We packed our camp, __________ e-mail addresses and gathered together for a final good-bye.

Upon coming home, an open mind was again important. Resettling home took time and __________, but at last I made it. All the while, I was thoughtful to letting my family and friends know how happy I was to be home and ________ I had missed them -- though the experience is still unforgettable with me. So, if you have the opportunity to study abroad you most certainly should.

【推荐2】I am showing off the souvenir I   _________from the gift shop at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo — a cotton sweatshirt with pandas dancing on the   _________, in almost every photo from our 1986 family vacation to Washington, D.C.. I was nine years old, and pandas were cool. Not even   midsummer   heat   could     _________me   keeping   that   sweatshirt   on   throughout   the

Over   30 years   later   I   found myself among   a pool   of photojournalists   and video   crews_________into the panda enclosure (围场). A baby panda named Bei Bei was being   ________to the world, and I was covering it for National Geographic. I asked zoo administrators if I could _________periodically to document the first year of the panda’s life. They said yes.

Soon I was making   _________stops at the zoo to record the baby panda’s daily   _______. I watched Bei Bei grow from a baby to a   ________and energetic young adult. He played with the keepers, looking around the corner from one room to the next in his version of hide-and-seek. If I got too close, he’d lunge (猛冲) for my camera, reminding me that he was   ________a bear.

When Bei Bei was a few months old, the zoo held an official opening day for the   ________to come and see him. That morning I arrived early, making my way past the line that was   ________forming at the entrance to the enclosure. I   __________with a woman there who’d been making frequent trips to the zoo to see pandas since 1982, panda earrings swinging enthusiastically from her ears. “It’s great to watch the baby panda   __________.” she said, “I’ll pay a visit once a month.”

【推荐3】Earlier in the day, I had prepared for the unlikely event of a flood. It had been raining heavily that week, and authorities had issued a flood warning, though not for where I was. _________, I’d placed sandbags outside my garden door just in case.

As I was about to fall asleep in my basement bedroom, I suddenly heard the sound of rushing water. When I swung my legs off the bed, I was _________ by the sensation of cold water touching my knees and rising fast.

Shaking in the darkness, I grabbed my phone and turned on the _________. As I stepped out of my bedroom, water was shooting through the gaps of the garden door. The water must have gone over the sandbags. All around me, my things began to float (漂) and the water was now up to my waist. I began to _________ and started to walk to my only _________: the door that leads upstairs.

I struggled to the door and tried to pull it open, but the force of the _________ wouldn’t let me do so. I looked around and grabbed a broom (扫帚) floating behind me to open the door. I managed to make a gap of about a foot, just wide enough to _________ myself through.

Finally, I _________ outside. I came so close to death that day. But rather than trapped in that, I prefer to _________ what my mother told me afterward: “Don’t remember the day when you lost everything. Remember the day you __________.”