【推荐2】Three mornings a week, Iona walks six blocks from Eastern High School to Payne Elementary School. She ________ at the front desk just after 8: 30 a. m. and makes her way to a ________ , where she’ll be teaching second-and third-graders who are full of energy after the school day.

Iona, a senior at Eastern High, ________ this work back in the ninth grade. It’s run by Reach, a Washington D. C. nonprofit, which trains high school ________ like her to be reading tutors (教师) for elementary school students. It’s a tutoring program that works in two ________ . It’s serving a(n) ________ need in the city: Two-thirds of students in D. C. public schools can’t ________ and write at grade level when they start high school. Reach ________ these older students to become ________ readers by giving them the tools to teach younger kids.

Tutoring programs that ________ younger and older students are ________ . But most rely on ________ students. Reach turns the ________ on its head: Most of the teenage tutors start the ________ reading between the fourth-and sixth-grade level... The tutors ________ training in literacy (读写能力) instruction and they’re ________ as role models. With Reach, teens are given the ________ of helping a younger student. That’s a big ________ for them.

Iona says she ________ reading a lot more than she did when she started almost four years ago. She hasn’t decided on her future plans, but she does ________ one thing: She wants to work with kids.

【推荐1】Recently, an article written by China’s first ______ , Yang Liwei, describing his one day in space, aroused numerous discussions on social media platforms, with many marveling at the country’s ______ advancement in space technology.

Entitled “One Day in Space”, Yang’s article was recently included in the seventh-grade textbook in Chinese middle schools, and it was ______ on Sina Weibo on Saturday, drawing tens of thousands of views within the first few hours. Many Weibo users were astonished at Yang’s ______ . “As the first person to go into space and live through so many unknowns, he must have a great will,” said one netizen.

Yang was 38 when he became the first Chinese person to go into space on the Shenzhou V, on October 15, 2003, making China the third country—after the US and Russia—to ______ manned space capabilities.

In his article, Yang ______ several breathtaking moments when he thought he would not make it back alive. “ ______ the rocket lifted to a height about 30-40 kilometers above the ground, I felt it begin to vibrate violently, and it was extremely ______ ,” he said. Vibrations in the spacecraft below 10 Hz can damage the internal organs, and even threaten a person’s life, Yang explained.

The near-deadly moment lasted for 26 seconds. When it was finally over, Yang felt like he had been reborn. When ground control finally saw Yang blink his eyes through the surveillance camera, his colleagues ______ crying, “He’s blinking! Yang is alive!”

In the article, Yang also described “ ______ knocking sounds” from outside the craft. He still does not know where they came from. He also described what the Earth, his country, and his city looked like ______ space.” I flew over Beijing and saw the mountains in daytime and sparkling lights at night. And there live my comrades and my loved ones.”

Yang shared another interesting experience in the ______ . After several ______ from his cabin, he could not see the Great Wall, which many believed was the only man-made structure on the Earth that could be seen from space. “The Shenzhou VI and VII astronauts couldn’t see it either,” Yang wrote.

Eighteen years after his ______ trip to space, Yang said with a smile that he “envied” a lot that his fellow spacemen who now have such ______ space accommodations, which shows how China’s space programme has grown.

【推荐2】Space travel is nothing new. The first spacecraft with a _________ was sent up into space in 1961. Since then, people have not only travelled to space, _________ many of them have also lived there in space station for some time.

The Soviet Union sent the first space station, called Salyut I, into space in 1971. Salyut I was _________ as a place where people could live while they observed space and did experiments. The first group of _________ lived there for 23 days. Shortly, the United States _________ its own space station, called Skylab.

Astronauts _________ and often lived in these space stations for a short time. _________, in the late 1980s the Soviet Union sent the Mir space station, which made it _________ for people to live in space for a longer time.

Mir stayed in space _________ 2001, when it was decided that the space station was too old and no longer __________ to live in.

Living in space stations seems to be __________, but astronauts face many problems. One of them is __________. All the meals on space station are put together on Earth and sent there by space shuttle. Because the food has to last a long time (sometimes up to three months), a lot of it has to be __________ in cans. The space station has a cool room to keep fruit and vegetables __________. Astronauts also eat many other foods such as dried meat.

Without the help of __________, sitting down to eat can be tough. Astronauts sometimes have to fix themselves to the wall while eating. They also have to be very careful to that food does not float away.

【推荐3】The first astronauts

Since the earliest times, people have looked up at the stars, the moon and the planets. Today people use modern machines ________at the sky. This is very different from the situation________years ago when people could only use their eyes. Perhaps they dreamed of________the universe.

When did humans first go into space? The story began not so very long ago,________the first astronauts were not people﹣they were animals.

Scientists wanted to make travelling to space as ________ as possible for humans. So they decided to experiment with animals and test________ in spaceflights. Insects, mice, frogs, dogs and monkeys were some of the animals________first went into space. Many of them ________, but they helped to make space travel safer for humans. For their great service, we________forget these animals.

Albert Ⅱ was the first monkey to go into space in 1949. Sadly he died ________ his spaceship landed back on Earth.

________ the result was different for Ham the Monkey. His story ended happily when he return to earth________very good health.

Scientists wanted to know the answer to the important question: could ________ animal like Ham do the same things in space as he could do on Earth? The answer came when Ham________ into space in 1961. Yes, he did everything well and lived for ________ 16 years.

【推荐2】Zhang Yingying, director of Shenzhen Yuyan Caring and Career Development Center for the Disabled, was awarded the title of 8th National Moral Model. She is the sixth person from Shenzhen to receive the ________.

Although she is ________ handicapped and needs a wheelchair, Zhang is committed to ________ the disabled with employment and entrepreneurship by establishing four social organizations, two enterprises and providing ________ for over 2,700 disabled people for 10 years.

Zhang had polio in childhood, which ________ her leg muscles. However, she didn't give up her passion for ________.With her family’s care, she grew up into an outgoing, ________ and self-reliant woman with a generous and helpful ________. The well-educated and optimistic woman ________ Shenzhen, a city with vitality, inclusiveness and friendliness to start her career serving disabled people after graduating from university in 2011. “It is not easy for people with disabilities to find a job, but Shenzhen's warmth and inclusiveness had ________ my decision to stay,” she said.

“I wanted to ________ stereotypes about the disabled. Their career choices are not limited to factory workers or massage therapists,” Zhang said. In 2016, she ________ her job, and registered and established Yuyan center. The center has 90 percent of employees from disabled people's families. In 2018, Zhang set up an employment and entrepreneurship base for the disabled, called IC Aichuang Space. The IC Aichuang Space project trains the disabled people to ________ various businesses’ needs so that they would ________ for more diverse positions in the job market. As of now, the project has developed more than 10 kinds of jobs for the disabled. Some people with ________ disabilities can even work from home.

【推荐3】Recently, an article written by China’s first ______ , Yang Liwei, describing his one day in space, aroused numerous discussions on social media platforms, with many marveling at the country’s ______ advancement in space technology.

Entitled “One Day in Space”, Yang’s article was recently included in the seventh-grade textbook in Chinese middle schools, and it was ______ on Sina Weibo on Saturday, drawing tens of thousands of views within the first few hours. Many Weibo users were astonished at Yang’s ______ . “As the first person to go into space and live through so many unknowns, he must have a great will,” said one netizen.

Yang was 38 when he became the first Chinese person to go into space on the Shenzhou V, on October 15, 2003, making China the third country—after the US and Russia—to ______ manned space capabilities.

In his article, Yang ______ several breathtaking moments when he thought he would not make it back alive. “ ______ the rocket lifted to a height about 30-40 kilometers above the ground, I felt it begin to vibrate violently, and it was extremely ______ ,” he said. Vibrations in the spacecraft below 10 Hz can damage the internal organs, and even threaten a person’s life, Yang explained.

The near-deadly moment lasted for 26 seconds. When it was finally over, Yang felt like he had been reborn. When ground control finally saw Yang blink his eyes through the surveillance camera, his colleagues ______ crying, “He’s blinking! Yang is alive!”

In the article, Yang also described “ ______ knocking sounds” from outside the craft. He still does not know where they came from. He also described what the Earth, his country, and his city looked like ______ space.” I flew over Beijing and saw the mountains in daytime and sparkling lights at night. And there live my comrades and my loved ones.”

Yang shared another interesting experience in the ______ . After several ______ from his cabin, he could not see the Great Wall, which many believed was the only man-made structure on the Earth that could be seen from space. “The Shenzhou VI and VII astronauts couldn’t see it either,” Yang wrote.

Eighteen years after his ______ trip to space, Yang said with a smile that he “envied” a lot that his fellow spacemen who now have such ______ space accommodations, which shows how China’s space programme has grown.