【推荐1】What could driving a nice car and pointing a camera at the Milky Way have in common? More than you might imagine. Race car driver Bubba Wallace and photographer Batak Tefreshi journeyed together to remote Gooseberry Mesa for a(n) _________ aimed at capturing the night sky.

Gooseberry Mesa, far from population centers, is _________ from the nighttime light pollution making it perfect for star photographers. Nature night environments such as this are _________.

Camping, hiking, and shooting stars in mountainous Mesa highlight the _________ between photography and racing. Bubba _________, “Once you fire up the _________ there’s no turning back — I know I’ll be in that seal for more than three hours.” Batak agrees, “I have the same feeling as soon as I touch the wheel of my camera — I’m ready to continue through the entire night.” For Bubba, developing _________ allowed him to mature as a driver and is equally essential to his photography.

Seizing the moment is crucial loo. “Every minute things are _________ — the Earth’s shadow, the moonlight, the rise of stars.” Batak explains. “If you lose the moment, it’s gone forever.” Bubba finds the physical and _________ demands of racing as crucial when travelling in Utah’s __________ landscapes under freezing temperatures.

Think incoming clouds, wind, or mist will __________ your chance at a perfect shot? According to Batak. “With wide-angle nightscapes every __________ weather condition can be an opportunity. Our photos show oranges and blues around the moon you wouldn’t see under a clear sky.”

The team discovered shared __________ that go beyond photography. “We’ve both passionate about bringing cultures together and using our work to __________ boundaries,” says Batak. “The night sky has a __________ power. The sky connects the whole world under one umbrella.”

【推荐2】I can still remember the afternoon when we climbed the mountain as if it were yesterday. It was a sunny day. _________ to spend some time outdoors, I went up the mountain with Uncle Jimmy. The mountain was not easy to climb and had tough rocks and streams on it. In the end, _________ and hot, I couldn’t go any further. Consequently, we went back down the mountain in the end. On the way back down, Uncle Jimmy asked me a question, which _________ me speechless for a second: “What’s your dream, young lady?” “I have no idea,” I answered after thinking for a while. Then he smiled and told me about his story. He didn’t _________ well at school when he was a student. Although _________ thought he could succeed, he knew clearly what his dream was — to be a _________. “I knew I wasn’t _________ when it came to studying, so I tried to buy snacks from a nearby market and sell them after class,” he told me. After he left school, he started selling different items to _________ which one was most attractive to customers. Of course, he often had no money in his pocket, but however difficult life was, he never gave up.

“There is no doubt that a person who puts in a great deal of _________ to reach his or her goal will have good luck at some point. The meaning of life is to chase your dream,” he said gently.

That night I could not fall asleep. With my eyes wide open, I lay in bed tossing and turning, asking myself, “What’s my motivation?” I wanted to be a top student, but the hard work __________ meant putting everything into following my __________. If I find myself __________ willpower, what should I do? Leaving home early the next morning, I climbed the mountain again all by myself. It made me think: If we don’t __________ the climb, how can we get to enjoy the scenery on the top of the mountain? At last, I reached the top and was __________ by the warm breeze and sunshine. Nothing could be more __________ than that.

【推荐2】Johnny, a lizard (蜥蜴), lived between some rocks in the country, where he liked sunbathing every morning. One day, he felt so __________ that he didn’t notice some boys coming up behind him. The boys __________ Johnny, and he could only escape from their hands by losing his tail and running to __________.

The children watched his tail moving about, but they soon felt __________ and left. Johnny came out to look for his tail, but could find no __________ of it. Feeling so sad, he decided to __________ doing everything else in his life and spending all his time __________ his tail. Days and months passed, and Johnny kept looking, asking everyone __________ they had seen his tail. However, there was still no news about it.

One day, he asked a boy and the boy __________ replied, “Why do you need two tails?” After hearing this, Johnny __________ and saw that he had grown a new, stronger tail. He suddenly realized how __________ of him to waste so much time on a problem like it. Johnny headed for home happily.

On the way home he suddenly found his __________ tail on the roadside. Although it looked terrible, Johnny was still __________ to have it back. He picked it up and was about to __________ his journey. Just at that moment, an idea __________ him that he shouldn’t look at the past and worry about it since it was not __________ for him.

He then decided to __________ his old tail there, leaving with it all his past worries. As he moved on, all he took with him were thoughts of the __________ and the dreams of the future.

As we know, it’s not good to look at the past, __________ it helps in the future. Let the past _________ with the wind.

【推荐3】Born in the United States, I, with black hair and yellow skin, am an American. Yes, I am a US citizen. Yet I ____early in my childhood that I was very different.

It wasn’t until ___ in the early years of primary school that I noticed this difference. Some kids in my class asked me ___ I could speak Chinese. It seemed strange to me that they would be interested in this part of my____ I answered “yes” and expected them to say nothing else about it.

To my surprise, they were ___ to hear me say something in Chinese. When I did so, they said, “Wow, that’s cool!” I had always thought of it as just a strange __ that came from China.

I __ what had happened that day when I got home. I went into the bathroom to wash my hands as I usually did. I looked at myself in the mirror-the same face was ___ from that morning, but it didn’t ___ the same to me. For the first time, I felt different from the others in my _____.

That day I discovered a part of my life that was ____-in culture and tradition- from the one I was _____.

Now I know that we must all remember our ____, but we must also continue to explore, realizing that ___ is different, with our own beliefs, opinions, traditions and lifestyles. Recognizing these differences should ____ respect for one another.

【推荐1】I am a girl, but I was born to be a rebel (叛逆者). I like games that can be _________. Some of the sports I like, even boys won’t play!

Wrestling (摔跤)is _________ seen as a sport for men, but I _________ to see if I could do it. Every Saturday morning, I got out of bed early to go and watch my brother_________. From morning to night, I would sit watching the boys have all the fun. Since then, wrestling has been part of my _________.

For three years, I beat all the boys and became the best player in the team. My _________ memory of wrestling is when a boy walked off _________ because he’d lost to a girl. My last match was at this year’s Girls’ State Wrestling Championships. I was so _________. I was sure I would win. My heart was beating hard when the match started. I could see _________ but my competitor. When the final whistle(口哨) blew, I had ____________ by four points. The cameras and ____________ all turned to me: I was the new wrestling champion. I felt so happy. But after a few minutes of enjoying being a champion, ____________ began to run through my knee. Because I hurt my knee, my ____________ of being a national champion ended. Even so, I won’t lose heart and still want to wrestle next year when I go to college. I have ____________ that you can do anything you want if you stay positive and put your ____________ into it.