【推荐1】Studying abroad is complicated. Apart from academic _______ that needed to be dealt with, you also need to _______ a great many personal relationships. Therefore, we have to _______ ourselves to mature quickly. In my case, apart from my _______, I spent most of the three and a half years in Canada with my host family.

Their house is not far from my school-about 10 minutes’ drive. They are a _______family of five: the parents, two sons at the age of eight or nine, and the grandmother. _______ time, we became part of each other’s lives. What impressed me most was that Canadians _______ great attention to holiday rituals. In my host family, on Mother’s Day, for example, the father and his two sons would prepare _______ and gifts for the mothers. On Father’s Day, the mother would do the same for the father. At festival, whether big or _______ they would write and send each other postcards, which always brought each other nice surprises ________. Every day after work, the father would kiss the mother as soon as he walked in the door, even in the ________ of their kids. They would never run away from ________ their feelings.

All those life details, in my opinion, are ________ with love. Only with ________ and carefulness can our eyes see the true joy in life. In this manner, the parents of my host family tell each other and their children: As a number in our family, we ________ each other from the bottom of our hearts.

【推荐2】Jason Arday’s school teachers were clear with him as he grew up. Life was going to be______ for him.

Arday’s autism (孤独症) and a condition called global development delay were ______ at the age of just three. It ______ that he was unable to speak until he was 11, and he couldn’t read or ______ until he was 18.

Not many teachers at school had any ________in him. Educational psychologists and behavioral experts were very ______ in their assessment that he would definitely ______ in later life and he would need assisted living.

However, at 37, Arday was ______ as the University of Cambridge’s youngest ever black professor.

Arday, who will start his ______ as a professor of sociology of education at the world-renowned university Monday, said the ______ to his extraordinary rise was perspective.

“I never ______ any of it as a deficit (缺陷), mainly because my mother never spoke to me of my being disadvantaged in any way,” he said.

“Even my speechlessness before 11 years old was a(n) ______. It allowed me to better______ human interaction,” he said. “Those observations came to ______ as I learned to read and write as a young man.”

Arday’s mother helped him engage with the world in different ways, through music, particularly song lyrics and the use of sound to ______ things. Modern Celtic musician Enya was his childhood ______ .

Arday said, “My ______ had always told me that I was blessed, I was very fortunate and I would go on and do great things. Now, I don’t think any of us could have ______ I might get to this point. But if I ______ to achieve anything in my life, it was surely because of the______ people I had around me.”

【推荐3】Recently, as I neared the top of a difficult 35 foot climb at the local climbing gym, I made a dynamic move to reach the last hold. My right hand ________ the small, awkwardly placed hold, but I couldn’t ________, and my body fell away from the wall. Falls like this happen all the time. The rope catches you, and you rest in the air ________ getting back to try the move again.

This time, ________, something went terribly wrong. I glanced down as I fell from the hold, and watched in _________ as the rope raced through the harness (保护带) and disappeared from view.

When I hit the ground, a ________ impact rushed through my body. ________, I landed on my right side. Had I been upright, or in just about any other _________, I would probably have broken my legs, and possibly my back. Still, I broke my right ________, but the emergency medical technicians told me with _________ that I wasn’t paralyzed (瘫痪的) . That was my biggest fear and I realized I’d ________ the fall.

Somehow, I’d tied a bad knot when I ________ the rope to my harness. I had surgery on my ankle, and I’m in a wheelchair for a couple months, but I’m just a ________ to the world of disability. Now I can feel the ankle getting ________ by the day. For all of that, I am deeply ________.