【推荐3】In a Delhi slum(贫民窟),Khushi, 14, rises in complete darkness. _______ , she gathers clothes, trying not to wake her family. She _______ out of the curtained doorway to join other fellow My Angels Academy players. There, Ahmed, 21, _______ the children to the only available open space for _______ before dawn. The children rarely   _______ or make noise. Ahmed keeps alert(警觉的)-the neighborhood is not _______ .

The children reach the pitch(球场)before their 4:30 a. m. start time. Training must _______ by daybreak；otherwise they may be driven away by _______ residents who claimed that the pitch was their private property.

Peter arrives just as they are seated. Peter founded My Angels, a football academy that supports poor children and teaches them sport _______ .“Football reforms slum children's ________ , “said Peter.” In football, it doesn't   ________ whether you are rich or poor. You line up on the same starting line.”

On the pitch, Khushi is one of the best players. “As a ________ street beggar, I had no self-belief and I was   ________   ,” said Khushi.” Peter told me to get my ________ back with football. With a football, I am happy now. Peter teaches,' Shoot for the ________ !' I want to play for the India national team one day. That is my aim.”

【推荐2】From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏会). A recital _________I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I would ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year he’d shake his head, saying something about building self-confidence and working toward a(n)_________So it was with really great_________that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and watching my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt before_________to play the piano in his very first recital

My father has had a(n)_________to play music since childhood, but his family was poor and couldn’t afford lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, as too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn’t _________there. When he retired three years ago, he_________his church music director to take him as a student.

For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he simply stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the_________? I worried, remembering those split seconds _________ago when my mind   would go blank (空白的) and my fingers would__________ .But then came the beautiful melody(旋律), from the__________fingers that once baited(装饵于)my fishing lines. And I__________ he had been doing what music teachers always stress:__________the music and pretend the others aren’t there.

“I’m__________of him for starting something new at his age,” I said to my son Jeff. “Yeah, and doing it so __________,” Jeff added.

With his first recital, my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.

【推荐3】It’s time to register for tenth grade, but my parents could not pay the tuition. ________I was the top student in my class, I was sent home. This was ________ experience, as I loved being in school and ________ wanted to continue my education. I went home and helped my father at his tire -repair shop.

However, things took an unexpected turn three days later. One of my classmates ________ to tell me to go back to school because my tuition was fully paid. I returned to my classroom, but I kept ________who had done this for me. I ________ the registrar to tell me the donator’s name , only to be told that the donator wanted to keep it a ________ . Upon my insistence and on condition that I didn’t go and thank the person, she ________ me that it was my English teacher, Olivia Balian. When Ms. Balian learned the reason for my absence from school, she paid my tuition with her salary. The whole year I sat in Ms. Balian’s class, thinking about her ________ donation but unable to express my ________.

________, I received two master’s degrees. Almost 40 years later, I visited Ms. Balian. She had________ from teaching long ago. She was as excited to see me as I was to see her. I was finally able to thank her. I offered to assist her in any way possible, but she ________ all offers.

While this story is about Ms. Olivia Balian, it is also a story that one person can make a great ________to the lives of others. ________ her timely assistance, I probably would have spent the rest of my life repairing tires.

【推荐2】Jenifer Mauer has needed more willpower than the typical college student to pursue her goal of earning a nursing degree. That willpower _______ fruit when Jennifer graduated from University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and became the _______ in her large family to earn a bachelor’s degree.

Mauer grew up on a farm in a family of 10 children. Her dad worked at a job away from the farm, and her mother _______ the farm with the kids. After high school, Jennifer _______ a local technical college, working to pay her _______, because there was no extra money _______ for a college education. After graduation, she worked to help her sisters and brothers _______ their schooling.

Jennifer now is married and has three children of her own. She decided to go back to _______ to advance her career and to be able to _______ support her family while doing something she loves: ________. She chose the UW-Eau Claire program at Ministry Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield ________ she was able to pursue her four-year degree ________ to home. She could drive to class and be home in the evening to help with her kids. Jenifer received great ________ from her family as she worked to earn her degree: Her husband worked two jobs to ________ the bills, and her 68-year-old mother helped take care of the children at times.

Through it all, she remained in good ________ standing and graduated with honors. Jennifer sacrificed to achieve her goal，giving up many nights with her kids and ________ important events to study. “Some nights my heart was breaking to have to pick between my ________ and studying for exams or papers,” she says. ________, her children have learned an important lesson ________ their mother earn her degree. Jennifer is a first-generation graduate and a (n) ________ to her family—and that’s pretty powerful.

【推荐3】Our graduation is coming and of course we’ll have photos taken. The girls start to have a _______ about what they’ll wear and where to take the photos, while the boys by comparison seldom talk about it. As for me, I _______ for my photos to be taken by the sea.

When I arrived there, I met my photographer, Anna. She asked me to make some poses and I followed her advice. After that, I asked if she could make me look _______ by taking photos in a different way, _______ I’m less than 1. 6 metres tall. To my amazement, she responded, “I will make no _______ to make you look like someone you’re not. You look good in your own way.” She _______ that she wouldn’t try to edit the photos either.

I was shocked by what she said. Girls always desire to look perfect by using _______ visual angles(视角). When you go to a photo studio, photographers always try to hide your _______ by telling you to stand in a certain way. And picture _______ can easily change your look by making you appear any you want to. However, that’s not the case here. Seeing I was ________, Anna explained: “Everyone has his ________. You need to appreciate your own beauty. You cannot live in a world full of artificial photos.”

It was the first time that I had met a photographer who doesn’t ________ photos at all. After the shoot, I saw the photos-they are ________ special and natural. But Anna’s ________ are even more special, which ________ and will always stay in my heart.