【推荐3】When I was a child, I was always climbing up the conker tree in our back garden or tackling oaks (橡树) in Epping Forest. And I’ve never lost the ________.

Writing the Wolf Brother books about stone age hunter-gatherers kept it ________. On a research trip to Bialowieza Forest in Poland, I climbed a lime tree that had survived a lightning ________ a few years before. The tree was growing well, the rope-like scar down its ________ making it temptingly climbable; I put it in one of my ________. And in the Taygetos mountains in Greece I shinned up a tree rather ________ to avoid a wild boar (野猪) with piglets.

I didn’t ________ to climb more trees during lockdown; it just happened. I live on Wimbledon Common, and over the summer I was in the ________ by dawn most days. Climbing the odd tree has been a(n) ________ from worrying about my 89-year-old mother. I’ve never been so ________ to live near woods, or so conscious that many people don’t.

My favourite trees for climbing are some secluded (僻静的) oaks with low branches for that tricky first hoist (拉高), as well as one ________ enormous beech (山毛榉树) that is difficult, but worth it. Wild creatures don’t expect people to climb trees, and they often don’t ________ I’m there. I’ve had close ________ with bats, crows, ________ little goldcrests, squirrels and, of course, the trees themselves: lichen-crusted branches, faces in the bark.

When I’m feeling ________ or low, being up a tree gives me perspective: it has lived ________ than me and seen it all. Tree climbing is also brilliant for solving writing problems. It doesn’t give me the answer ________ it helps me see the question I should be asking. I’m very keen ________ owls, and during the summer, two tawny owlets practised flying from a pair of lime trees close to my house. If that’s ________ next year, I’d love to be up a nearby tree when they do it. An owl’s-eye view of the woods at dusk— that would be ________.

【推荐1】Caring 17-year-old, Lauren Schroeder, was inspired to help bring healthy food to needy families in her community. When she was just 14, she volunteered at a local _________ to help fill boxes for people in need with canned and packaged food. She felt something was missing: fresh vegetables. “I thought it would be great to _________ that,” Lauren told the Washington Post about her motivation to grow and _________ homegrown produce.

This _________ teen then told her parents of her desire to start a garden on their family farm. Initially, while proud of her daughter’s _________, Lauren’s mother, Katie, admitted to some _________, wondering how much work this would mean.

Coming from a farming family, Lauren had some _________ with agriculture, but she had never tried growing _________ at scale (规模). She _________ plants online, checking the instructions on how to take care of each crop. She then secured a __________ from the National FFA Organization, which supports __________ education, to cover seeds (种子) and gardening supplies.

And importantly, Lauren didn’t __________ from hard work. During Iowa’s hot and dry summers, she had to __________ her crops for around three hour daily. She also __________ cheeked for harmful insects, and bent down to pick her green bean crop, the most challenging vegetable to harvest in her opinion.

With assistance from her family, Lauren has donated more than 7,000 pounds of homegrown produce in the past two years. She has also won the __________ of her community.

【推荐3】During his fifth year in the Army, Jared Bullock lost his right arm and leg. As soon as his recovery _______, he was back in the gym. Just 10 months later, Bullock ran a 12-mile race. Since then, he has competed on the bodybuilding stage and completed a dozen more _______ courses and mud runs. What could make a man this _______? His story will inspire anyone who feels limited in pursuit of their dreams.

Bullock himself _______ his toughness back to his boyhood days on his grandfather’s farm. “I grew up doing a lot of labor work,” he _______. “If you wanted to eat, you had to work. That _______ started there and just kind of grew within me until I joined the Army in 2003.”

After the accident, Bullock _______ a year of rehab (康复训练). After that he _______ to himself that he would run an obstacle course within the next year. Remarkably, 10 months later, he did it. After the _______, he began to focus on building his ________. His trainers kept telling him to build up his strong side and not worry so much about his injured side, but he didn’t ________.

“I was doing my own research on how to ________ without all of your limbs,” he says. “I spent a lot of time in my gym working my whole body.” Despite the bodybuilding winner and all the amazing workouts he posts on Instagram, Bullock ________ that he’s only human. “When I’m ________ at the end of the day, I’ll sit down and rest in a wheelchair,” he says.

“I want to serve the community. And I want to succeed so I can ________ those who have helped me.”

【推荐1】COVID-19 entered my life in the form of an e-mail. My friends and I were in a small café as I read that our university had been ______ down for the following week.

It was three days later when the ______ hit. I watched my friend throw all her ______ into a suitcase and take the next flight out of the country. Her ______ words: ‘‘better locked out of Venice than locked in’’ caused fear and ______ inside me. I wondered: ‘‘Will I be able to graduate from school?” and “What if everyone leaves and I am alone and ______ in Venice?’’

I turned to my roommate and the ______ and rational (理性的) voices of my parents. I decided to ______. We all thought it would be two weeks, maybe three and then life would return to ______ and our semester (学期) would go on as planned.

Things changed so fast, I felt like a ______ out of water, turning between thoughts and ideas every time I read another news ______. Every day my phone ______ new information that made me uneasy. Life was ______, but life was continuing.

Then Italy went into a full lockdown and I was restricted to Venice. Two days later, I joined the few ______ exchange students for pizza but we were told we must only ______ two at a time and stand a metre away from each other.

I am taking ______ of this time to do yoga on the roof, take Italian lessons on YouTube with my roommate, cook on our hotplate and ______ afternoons studying and writing on my balcony.

I have learned things that I could have ______ learned in a lecture hall. I have learned how to step back and let go of ______ my semester abroad could have been and instead ______ the small things that fill me with happiness.

【推荐2】I hadn't flown very much in my first two flying lessons. The first few are really just. ______of a plane and controls, a run-through of the basics. My ______ was sitting next to me, carefully watching my every move. Suddenly, I noticed he was ______ out the window into the sky. Then he started to shake. At that moment, ______. I was in control of the aircraft. If I hadn't been,   we may have started falling. Instead, I kept us ______and then went into ______ mode: we needed to make it, ______ alive.

I ______ air traffic control. The man on duty encouraged me and said that I should _______the airport urgently. He calmly talked me through every _______ as I began to fly us back.

I was talked through a few _______ landings. I'd fly us down towards the runway to get used to the experience, before ascending into the air once again.

Only 40 minutes after my first contact with the control room, the voice in my ears ______ if I thought I was ready to land. Focus, I told myself. Then I heard the ______ hit the ground.

Words can't describe how it felt to hug my wife and children. My instructor was taken to ______; it turned out be had a brain tumour(肿瘤). ______, I'd managed to save both our lives.