【推荐3】Few 17-year-old girls know how to weld (焊接)two metal pipes together. I have learned this skill in the past five years as a(n) _____for my father’s personal plumbing (管道装置) business.This summer job often needs to deal with the mess that causes physical and mental ___     ,and, to some extent,   ___   a tough and elegant attitude. It is often difficult to cope with. But I ____

Every morning, I have to put on a pair of men's jeans Most of my peers are   ___ to wear it in public. I   ___ tied my hair when I rushed out of the house, and _____   into the front passenger seat of the plumber's construction vehicle.

When my peers were part-time babysitters or lifeguards, I was helping my father in the dirty bathroom or the _____ basement. Thick dust   ___my nose and mouth, and my hands became black. There is nothing beautiful and neat; every thing in front of you is __

Honestly speaking, I felt_______, discouraged and unable to think hard Pipe work is a tough job, and I sometimes hate it. I asked myself why I had to_____these dust and sweat. I can even find another job, a ______job more like my peers.

__,   just like I hate messy pipes, I also hate being affected by these little   ___ emotions After all, the world is built by people who are willing to get their hands ___. Life is a process of     ___ chaos and learning to clean up, and pipeline work is no ___.

My dad and I not only create chaos, we also create_____. When customers are ____   for our work, I understand that we have brought order to their lives in small places. The physical and mental discomfort of plumbing work is worth it.

【推荐1】Science isn’t only a way to learn about the world, but it can be a way to make the world a better place. The ________ to help others drove Kamisi to use science to promote the ________ of people in her communities.

Kamisi, aged 17, aimed to improve ________ for sickle cell disease (镰状细胞贫血病). This disease ________ red blood cells to sickle, which makes it hard for those cells to ________ oxygen throughout the body. Natural chemicals called flavonoids (类黄酮) were known to ________ this sickling. By changing the chemical structure of flavonoids ________ from fruits, she was able to boost their anti-sickling ________.

Her family is Nigerian and this disease mainly ________ people of Western African origin. One day she was on a walk with her mother, and they were talking about a friend who was ________ battling this disease. And her mother was telling her about the people who had it. She was ________ about them. When Kamisi had the opportunity to do ________ at school, the young girl immediately ________ that it was time for her to study this disease.

The ________ part was definitely the discouragement aspect of it, because she had no ________ experience with science projects like this. She had to ________ herself to know that she was sure to accomplish this project. She had the ________ to continue trying different things when they weren’t working. “I think the most important thing is to hold the ________ that I’m capable of doing many things. I had to believe that my work is worth something and ________.” Kamisi says.

Now, Kamisi is also trying changing flavonoids from vegetables. She hopes to ________ the powers of her chemicals over longer periods of time.

【推荐2】I don’t talk with passengers on airplanes. My flight time is _______ for turning the pages of a good book. That changed, _______, on a flight from Tampa to Newark when I sat next to her ---the lady in Seat 26B.

After _______ my seat, I opened my book.

Then she _______me. “And where are you traveling to? Home or on vacation?”

“Heading home,” I closed my book. “You?”

“Oh, home, too,” she began, “I come from a(n) _______ family. Nine kids! I’m the oldest _______ alive---eighty-nine!” And then she laughed, joyfully. I wouldn’t have _______ she was nearly ninety, though.

“Good book?” she asked, pointing to my paperback.

“Yes. Do you read?”

“Oh, I don’t have _______ to read,” she replied.

I’m sixty years younger than 26B, yet she’s the one who’s too busy to read? What on earth could she be doing with her _______?

“Well,” she began, “I work at Costco. There are ________ nice people. There are also the ________ ones, but I enjoy them, too!” She laughed again, and I ________ her ability to not let negative energies affect her ________. I wondered how I could ________ that, too.

“What’s your secret,” I asked, “to sounding so ________ and healthy?”

“My husband died ten years ago,” she said, ________. “I thought to myself, I’m not going to just ________! That’s when I got my Costco job. I believe in being active.”

“Life is so good,” she ________, “I’m just excited every day to live it!”

I wanted that plane ride to reroute to California so I would have more time to learn about her energy for life. I became more ________ with each mile we flew.

I told myself, if someone who is eighty-nine years old can choose to live her life with such ________ and passion, I can, too. If you have the drive!

【推荐3】When I look back at the first half of the year. I am amazed by how many challenges I have been through. The biggest one was definitely my high school graduation   _________.

When I first arrived in this Czech Republic four years ago，I was just a normal exchange _________who spoke only English，then at the end of the year-Long exchange program，I came up with the idea of _________my high school studies there.

At that time, I was only sixteen and delighted by my new future. What I underestimated was the _________of completing school in the Czech language, which is considered to be one of the most _________languages in the world. As I _________ knowledge of certain subjects I receive the worst marks and people around the world doubted whether I could graduate. However, I practiced all the time. Gradually, I could communicate with others fluently and my _________ grew.

The final exam day came. Thinking about everyone who had helped and supported me along my journey, I felt_________and confident.

In May,I received notice that I had _________the exam. At my graduation ceremony, my Czech teacher said very proudly in front of everyone, “One student, she is from China with merely three years of learning Czech, she __________. She deserves a golden folder for the certification. ”

My journey through high school was finally finished，though the journey of University is just about to begin，I think I am ready。

【推荐3】Super-dad Alan Lawrence, a photographer from Utah, has posted some amazing photos of his son flying in the air.

Lawrence says his two-year-old son Wil was born with a terrible disease—Down Syndrome, ____ Lawrence is determined that this won’t hold him ____ in life.

When Wil was little, he would lie on his stomach and ____ his arms and legs like he was flying. “It wasn’t something any of my other kids did. My family would always ____ that he was trying so hard that one day he would start ____,” Lawrence told USA TODAY Network.

He decided to make Wil’s flight a ____ by using Photoshop to create images of Wil hovering ____ places the family had visited.

The series of photos, called Wil Can Fly, is part of a 2016 calendar, with half the earnings from sales donated to two Down Syndrome funds. “The series ____ a reminder that people with Down Syndrome can do ____ they set their minds to,” Lawrence says.

Though appearing happy, Alan admitted that he and his wife didn’t always feel so ____. “After the doctor informed us that he had Down Syndrome, we had ____. We weren’t quite sure what the future held for our family; we were ____ and knew very little about what to expect.”

However, these fears soon disappeared once Wil was born. Alan explains: “In the short two years since he ____, he has helped our family grow in ways we didn’t realize. Our family with Wil is happy.”

And now they’re on their way to ____ this love and knowledge, saying: “We want to show the world that you can have a ____ life with a child with Down Syndrome.”