【推荐1】Being blind is tough under any circumstances. But things were even _____ for Srikanth Bolla who was born in a small village near Hyderbad, India, where the common belief was that kids with disabilities were “useless”. Fortunately, Srikanth’s parents loved their son and refused to _____ social pressure. _____, they encouraged the blind boy to dream big. Srikanth was not _____. He is the founder and CEO of a successful company now.

Of course, getting here was not easy. As a young boy, Srikanth was enrolled in a _____ school. Unfortunately, the students and teachers didn’t approve of his disability. So his family decided to send him to a special school for the disabled in Hyderabad and he became the top of his class. But Srikanth was refused to study _____ . Srikanth took his plea (诉求) to the court and became the first blind student in the country to be allowed to study science.

But despite his good _____ in the national board exams, Srikanth was not allowed to take the entrance exams. So he decided to _____ for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and succeeded.

After graduating from MIT, Srikanth returned to India and devoted his life to helping the country’s _____ community. In 2012, he established Bollant Industries. Not surprisingly, most of the company’s employees are physically challenged.

Srikanth owes his success to his parents. Despite being poor and uneducated, they encouraged Srikanth to ______ his dreams and taught him that true happiness comes from being compassionate towards others and giving them the opportunity to excel (胜过平时).

【推荐2】On sunny and warm days, I love to wander through high mountains. I also love it when fog goes down and _______ me in a state of quietness.

One day while I was visiting a mountaintop, the fog blew in. I was _______ because I’d gone there to take some photos and needed a clear shot of the mountains in the _______. Instead I was _______ the middle of a gray cloud. I carried my camera and made my _______ back to the car to wait, hoping the fog would _______.

As I sat there, I began to see things that I’d never _______ before. I spied an old tree with rough branches of interesting _______. I observed the cliffs behind me. All this new­to­me scenery _______ me back out of the car, and soon I was happily ________ a part of this landscape I’d never seen before.

As I ________ home, with a camera full of images and a heart full of ________ for the nature, I thought about what had happened.

The nature has used those times when everything around me seemed like ________ to show me things I wouldn’t have seen ________. I experienced that especially when my son was in the military. Often the weight of what he was facing covered me with ________. It was in those times that nature revealed itself most warmly.

【推荐1】“Is there a doctor aboard?”

No physician wants to hear these words while flying. We were over the North Atlantic, and my husband and I were on our way home from a European holiday. The cabin (座舱) was darkened for the inflight _______ when “Wake up! Oh, help!” _______.

I was out of my seat, fast. The flight attendant and I arrived together to see a _______ elderly woman holding the hand of her husband, who wasn’t _______ to her. His head was back, his mouth open.

I did a quick _______: irregular but steady _______, colour good, no evident pain, breathing regularly without _______. I sat on the arm of the seat, still _______ his pulse, and asked the woman about her husband. At 90 years old, he had a clean _______ history. The couple had travelled to Scotland to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary, and they were on their way home. It had been a good holiday, but ________.

Soon after, I reported it to the ________.

“We can put the plane down ________ 20 minutes in Gander,” he told me, “or ________ for two hours and ________ in Toronto. What do you want me to do, doctor?”

“Put it down.” I said. It wasn’t worth taking any chances, and the safest thing was to get him hospital care quickly.

Three weeks later, I received a lovely thank you note from this man, who will ________ remain in good health for years to come.

【推荐2】Adam Klenovich, 17, a student from Beaver Area High School, talks more like an experienced CEO than a(n) ______ teen.

He has big plans to build a fashion label(潮牌) as a ______ to promote other creatives. He also ______ holding events that are part concert, part fashion showcase. But he doesn’t just talk. He tries to make his dream ______. He’s showcasing and selling pieces from his fashion line IMPERFECT in Gallery 4413.

On display and for sale in the ______ are lots of colorful pieces. IMPERFECT’s ______ for now is on shorts and T-shirts. Eleven percent of the money from sale will be ______ to charity. “This is how we help people,” said Klenovich, who ______ IMPERFECT nearly a year ago.

Klenovich wanted to use his time being ______ at home because of COVID-19 to put his mind to something that would ______ help himself and others, too. As a creative, Klenovich gets ______ wherever he goes, so the clothing he designs is pretty ______. One thing all clothing has in common is that ______ two pieces are exactly the same.

Klenovich wears something IMPERFECT wherever he goes. “It ______ a conversation,” he said. “people may ask, ‘Where did you get that?’ ” It is also sold on a website and ______ can purchase to support.

“I want to help people,” Klenovich said. “That’s the biggest thing for me.”

【推荐1】In February 2010, Roger Lynn’s wife Veronica was diagnosed with lung cancer. Soon, she was ________ to hospital. The diagnosis was depressing and the ________ in the hospital only made things more difficult.

“Her room was at the far end of the floor, and felt like a dark and ________ corner,” Lynn remembered.

One day, as Lynn was sitting with his wife, a nurse named Jennifer came in and ________ some good news: A room with a window had been ________ and she wanted Lynn’s wife to have it.

“She led me into the room, which was filled with ________, and through the window there was a/an________ of the Olympic Mountains serving as backdrop for the whole scene,” Lynn said.

The new room ________ the feelings of their previously bad experience of being in the hospital day after day. But a week later, Veronica took a turn for the ________. She developed a blood clot (血栓), and then ________. The next day, Lynn took flowers to the nurses’ station as an expression of ________ for their support over the past two weeks. When he arrived, Jennifer________ Lynn and took him by the hand.

“She told me what a(n)________ it had been to care for Veronica and her family. She had been touched by the experience and was ________ saddened by her death,” Lynn said. “Jennifer didn’t have to find me that day when the room became ________. But she did, and her kindness was light in a dark and painful time.”

【推荐2】While visiting Bukhara in 2007, I met a local young lady who seemed amazed to see me there alone taking pictures. We exchanged smiles and after some ________, she eventually said the magic words: “Do you speak English?” Her name was Maty. She was learning English because she ________ to travel to Europe for her studies someday.

Back then tourists were still a ________ sight in Bukhara. Therefore, she had no ________ to practice her spoken English. After some small talk, she ________ to show me around so that she could practice her English. We spent a couple of hours wandering around the Old Town and visiting some places of interest. And I became ________ with many things about the city. At that time, most of the information boards were in Tajik and Russian, so I would have ________ many interesting things without the help of Maty.

Then Maty ________ me to go to her home for dinner with her family. My ________ in the neighborhood was like a show. By then everybody was ________ that a foreigner from Europe was coming to Maty’s house. And all her neighbors were standing on the balcony ________ me. After the ________, I learned that Maty’s parents had a small restaurant and her mother had even ________ some special things for me. The meal was really rich and delicious. What a(n) ________!

The kindness of Maty and her family was ________ the most unforgettable part of my Uzbekistan trip! And we still keep in touch by email!

【推荐3】When Sergio Peralta,15, started the year as a new student at Hendersonville High School, he tried to keep it a (an) _________ that he was born with a right hand that didn’t fully form. “In the first days of school, I honestly felt like hiding my hand,” Peralta said. “Like nobody would ever _________.”

Eventually, a teacher in the engineering program, Jeff Wilkins, _________ Peralta’s hand, and suggested that his engineering students might be able to _________. “They ended up offering me, like, ‘We could build you a robotic hand’and I never _________ it,” said Peralta.

Though the teens were unsure if the _________ would work, they didn’t let uncertainty stop them from _________.They spent four weeks designing, sizing, and creating a robotic hand with online models and a 3-D printer, _________ discovering first-hand how engineering can be used to make a(an) _________ difference.

Peralta had become__________ at using his left hand to write and do nearly everything else. But there were certain things that weren’t __________, like catching a baseball with his right hand.

So after about a month of building the robotic hand and developing a __________ with Peralta along the way, the students tested the robotic hand with a __________ of catch. For the first time, Peralta was able to play catch with both hands.

“Living without a hand for 15 years, I want to say they actually offered me two. This is actually pretty __________ . No one has ever offered me this stuff,” he said. “They __________ my life.”