【推荐1】Lynn crumpled(揉皱) another picture. He had been trying to draw Uncle Ken's car, but nothing he drew _________right.

“What's wrong, Lynn?” his teacher, Mrs. Lee asked, looking _________ his shoulder. “I want to draw Uncle Ken's car,” Lynn said. “But I can never make it look good. Is there a _________ to being an artist?”

Mrs. Lee was _________ for a moment, and then said, “Yes, there is one. I'll tell you, but first you must do _________ for me.” “Do what?” Lynn asked. “Draw that car again. But this time, don't crumple it. Give it to me _________ you're done. Then do a _________ every day for four weeks, and _________ it in to me each day.”

Every day Lynn drew one. It still didn't look _________. He gave it to Mrs. Lee,__________ bad it was.

Two weeks later, Lynn started to feel like drawing __________.“Is it OK to draw more than one picture a day?” he asked. “As many as you like,” said Mrs. Lee. Then Lynn drew the car __________.

__________, four weeks passed. “Today is the day!” Lynn told Mrs. Lee . “Yes,” she said. “But first I want you to do one more drawing.”

Lynn took out his crayons and paper. He __________ Uncle Ken's car. Then he drew it. “What do you think of it?” Mrs. Lee asked when he finished. “It's OK,” he said. “But it __________ be better.” “Maybe, but __________ it with this one.” She showed him the drawing he had done the __________ day.

Lynn looked at his old drawing, then at the one he just __________.What a __________! The new drawing wasn't perfect, but it looked a lot more like Uncle Ken's car. “But what's the secret?” “It's practice. If your work __________ that much in four weeks, just think what will happen in three months or a year.” said Mrs. Lee.

【推荐2】On our way home from school my kid and I shared each other our high and low part of the day. My 12-year-old, Karington, told me her support for a classmate with special need. This _________ action brought my tears flowing.

Her story started with, “Mommy, I made a teacher _________ today.” I didn’t know why my first thought was a _________ one. I definitely shouldn’t have _________ her. The rest of her story went like this....

“There’s a boy in my class with hyperactivity (多动症). Everyone _________ him because he does strange things. Today he fell to the _________. I looked around and all these kids were laughing, so I walked up to him and _________ with him. The class stopped laughing. A teacher was walking by the open door and saw my _________. She walked into the room towards me, bursting into _________. She held me up and gave me the tightest __________ ever and kept saying what a __________ girl I was.”

My voice was __________ by a lump (梗) in my throat. Tears flooded my eyes; I __________ them so I could see the road. I couldn’t __________. How could I find the right words to __________ just how proud I was? She looked at me, saw the tears flowing and knew. I dicing need words.

【推荐1】When I first started college, people in my dorm “warned” me about a curious character that would randomly appear around campus. She would wear a teddy bear costume and hug _________. No one had any clue as to her _________ or why she was doing it.

One late night when I was heading home, and right behind a building, a teddy bear head popped out! Astonished, I _________ , and she started to jump into the air and _________ at me! Then she stretched her arms out for a hug. Not quite knowing how to _________ , I reached my arms out, and she _________ me like we were best friends! She then waved goodbye and skipped away into the night.

Then, one night, I was out and _________ a figure running across a parking lot. Moments later, I heard a sickening crying; clearly, someone was _________. I made my way over to find the girl lying on the ground, _________ injuring herself. I helped her up and phoned for an ambulance and as we waited, I eventually __________ her to take off the costume. She looked like any __________ girl in her late teens to early twenties.

When I called the police a few days later to make sure that she was okay, I was told that she was actually __________ throughout the local police department. As it turned out, she suffered from a mental illness, and to __________ some of her pressure, she gave people hugs and it made her calmer. She chose to dress up in a teddy bear suit to make herself look less __________ to other people. No one saw her again after that. I chose to keep that encounter and her identity as a(n) __________ to protect her.

【推荐2】33-year-old Lai Chi-wai is a four- time winner of the Asian Rock Climbing Championships. But five years ago, his promising athletic career seemed to be________，following a terrible motorcycle accident that ________ him paralyzed(瘫痪) from the waist down.

For his family and friends, that________ he could no longer do the one thing that________ gave him a feeling of achievement—climbing heights. ________ he lost the use of his legs, Chi-wai wasn’t ready to give up on his passion. After recovery, he________ wheelchair boxing, but he also continued to________ with his old mountain climber friends.

His son’s birth________ Chi-wai to follow his passion even more. In 2014, he said he was to climb Lion Rock once again, this time in a wheelchair. The announcement caused________ among his friends, ________ something like that had never been done before. But they all________ that if someone could climb to the top of the 495-meter-high mountain in wheelchair, it would________ be him.

On December 9th, 2016, Lai Chi-wai performed his word, becoming the first paraplegic to climb all the way the top of Lion Rock.

People ________ their admiration for Chi-wai’s achievement, many saying that he symbolized Hong Kong’s can-do________ in the face of setbacks. He also earned the________ of rock climbing experts, one of whom told Sky Post he never imagined someone in a wheelchair could ever make it to the top of Lion Rock, ________ its high degree of difficulty.

His primary teacher once said: “My________ of Chi-wai is that he has firm determination. Once he’s set a goal, nothing can stop him keeping trying________ he succeeds. However________ the challenge is, he doesn’t give up.”How________ the teacher was!

【推荐3】I successfully persuaded my friend Liz to watch whales, though he is scared of them.

We _________ on the water at about 8:30 the next morning. After a moment, I _________ two pairs of whales swimming toward us. We were watching with respect: it’s an amazing _________ to be so close to such a(n) _________creature.

Soon, they left. We _________ them at a distance. Suddenly, a tightly packed school of fish started _________ out of the water into our kayak(皮划艇). Their _________ sounded like crackling glass around us. At that moment, I knew we were too close. I was _________. Then I felt the kayak _________ out of the water——about two metres. I figured the whale was going to __________ us down somehow, and I had no idea how __________ we’d be pulled underwater.

What I didn’t realize at the time was that Liz and I were in the whale’s __________. It had swallowed(吞没) my __________ body except for my right arm and paddle. Liz, __________, was looking up directly into the whale’s jaw——it was like a big white wall. I was still worried about being sucked down, so I just kept __________.

Whales have enormous mouths but __________ throats. Anything they can’t swallow, they spit out. __________, we were wearing life jackets, and soon we both popped up out of the water about a metre apart. The entire __________ lasted only ten seconds, but to me it felt like a century.

After that I became more appreciative of __________. There’s no way I’m getting that close to whales again. I want to respect their space. I’m now very aware of the __________ of nature and the ocean.

【推荐2】“Keep staring! I might do a _______!” That’s the message on a T shirt of mine.

People stare at me all the time so I thought this shirt would be funny. See, I’m a dwarf(侏儒). Most of the time people aren’t trying to be _______ they just haven’t seen many dwarfs like me before. I can_______ that,but I also want to let them know that I see them staring.   

I was born with achondroplasia(软骨发育不全症), the most _______form of dwarfism. Right now, I am almost four feet tall and that’s _______ as tall as I’m going to get.

I’m not going to pretend my height isn’t a _______. It is light switches and _______ are usually too high for me. It takes me almost three steps to _______ one step of an average size adult and my mom has to shorten almost all of my _______ .

But everyone faces challenges. You have to face them with a good attitude. So, I have a long barbecue fork to ________ things from shelves and drive a car with the help of pedal ________. If all else fails, I ask for things. The way I see it, I can do just about ________that an average size person can do. I’ll never play professional sports, but I have no problem ________ my limits. It may take me longer and it may be harder, but I can still do it.

My shirt shows people the ________ me a kid with a sense of humor. And maybe that’s the trick showing others that I’m just like them. I’m just shorter, but I’m ________ of who I am.

【推荐3】I was in my early twenties. I had _______ from college with a degree in Education but still couldn’t find a full-time teaching job. _______ I worked as a substitute (代课) teacher. I was determined not to just slide by. I was responsible for my students and stayed positive. I congratulated the kids when they achieved something, and _______ them if they didn’t.

One day just as the students were leaving, a girl handed me a folded _______. It was a lovely drawing full of childlike wonder and read: “You are the best teacher I have ever had!” My mouth fell open in shock. It really _______ me that one of my kind comments had touched that girl’s heart so deeply. Anytime I was feeling down or _______ I would look at it and it always made me relieved. _______, I lost the note when I moved house, but it still _______ in my mind and heart.

That experience showed me the _______ of single kind words. I never did see that girl again, but I pray that her life has been full of kind words and loving people. And I continue to try my best each day to let the love and __________ live through my life. May you do the same. You will create so much joy and your life will never be the same.