【推荐1】Every year about 40,000 people attempt to climb Kilimanjaro(乞力马扎罗山), the highest mountain in Africa. They _________with them lots of waste. The __________ might damage the beauty of the place. The glaciers (冰川) are disappearing, changing the face of Kilimanjaro.

Hearing these stories, I'm _________ about the place — other destinations are described as "purer" natural experiences.

However, I soon __________ that much has changed since the days of disturbing reports of __________ among tons of rubbish. I find a __________ mountain, with toilets at camps and along the paths. The environmental challenges are __________ but the efforts made by the Tanzania National Park Authority seem to be __________.

The best of a Kilimanjaro __________, in my opinion, isn’t reaching the top. Mountains are _______ as spiritual places by many cultures. This view is especially evident on Kilimanjaro as _________ go through five ecosystems (生态系统) within a few kilometers. At the base is a rainforest. It ends suddenly at 3, 000 meters, _________ lands of low growing plants. Further up, the weather __________ — low clouds envelope the mountainsides, which are covered with thick grass. I counted   twelve shades of green from where I stand. Above 4, 000 meters is the highland desert : gravel (砾石), stones and rocks.   _________ you climb into an arctic-like zone with permanent(永久的) snow and the glaciers that may soon disappear.

Does Kilimanjaro deserve(值得) its reputation as a crowded mountain with lines of tourists _______ the atmosphere of peace? I found the opposite to be true.

【推荐3】Although Grace, a little girl, felt happy and loved, there was something disappointing her. Everyone seemed to know exactly what they _______ to be. They heard from adults about many different _______. but Grace had no inspiration whatsoever.

One evening Grace seemed _______. Her Mom was worried and asked why. Grace began to cry as she poured her heart out to her mother about her _______ and career. Grace has always dreamed of becoming a _______, helping others and being a hero to families in situations of despair. Grace’s Mom smiled, _______ her, and ran a quick search. As Grace looked up with tears _______ her face, she saw the screen. There was a beautiful, smiling female firefighter _______ a medal from the Mayor for her bravery during a terrible _______ accident last year. In the photo she is ________ one of the little girls freed from the school bus, Grace couldn’t believe it.

Then Grace’s mother ________ the firefighter on LinkedIn. Grace sat and waited ________ for a reply! They couldn’t contain their excitement when a reply flashed up a few ________ later. Constance Baker, the firefighter, became her ________.

That Summer Grace celebrated her birthday with all her friends. When it was time to ________ the cake, Grace was told to close her eyes.________ they heard loud sirens（汽笛） coming closer and louder. When she opened her eyes, Constance in her full ________ and helmet（头盔） was holding her cake and the rest of the crew were ________ around the fire truck. Wearing the helmets. Grace’s friends and family were lining up to ride in the fire truck and take ________. This was the best birthday Grace could ever have.

From then on. Grace was so ________ of her future dreams and truly believed anything is possible.

【推荐1】With his leg lame and his teeth uneven, the boy thought of himself as the most unfortunate child in the world. He ______ played with his classmates, and when he was asked to answer questions, he always ______his head without a word.

One spring, his father brought home some saplings (树苗). ______of his children would plant a sapling and he promised, “Whoever ______his sapling best shall get a gift.” The boy certainly wanted to get the gift. ______seeing his brothers and sisters watering the trees, he ______an idea: he hoped the tree he planted would die soon. So watering it once or twice, he never______it.

Several days later, he was ______ to find it not only didn’t die, but also grew so many fresh ______. Compared with those of his brothers and sisters,his appeared greener. His father kept his______, bought the boy a gift and said he would become an outstanding______after growing up.

From then on, the boy slowly became ______and confident. One evening, he suddenly ______his biology teacher once said that plants ______grow at night. Why not go to see the tree?

When he came to the courtyard,he found his father working near the tree! Immediately he ______: Father had been secretly ______his tree! He returned to his room, tears in his eyes.

Decades passed. The boy didn’t become a botanist. ______, he became the U. S. ______. His name was Franklin Roosevelt.

______is the best nourishment(滋养品)of life. ______it is just a bucket of water, it can make the tree of life grow well!

【推荐2】Boyan Slat is 26. If you saw him walking down the street, you might think he was just a student at a local technical university. And so he was, seven years ago, right before he _________ out of college.

Slat’s life began to _________ after a holiday trip to Greece with his family when he was 16. Before taking a diving course, he had _________ to see beautiful sea animals. However, what he _________ saw in the ocean was an awful lot of _________ waste. From that moment on, Slat dived into a _________ to find a solution to this alarming problem. _________ by the idea for a floating barrier that could collect plastic in the oceans, he _________ his company at the age of 18. Although the idea was named one of the best _________ of 2015 by TIME magazine, he received __________ feedback from the specialists in __________ issues.

Slat was not __________ and continued with his mission. After five and a half years’ hard work, he launched the world’s __________ ocean plastic cleanup system: System 001. The U-shaped pipe, about 609 meters in __________, snakes its way out under the Golden Gate Bridge into the Pacific. These floating barriers will capture (捕获) plastic as the ocean water flow past. Ships will collect the waste and bring it to land for __________ every few months. According to Slat, if all goes to plan, only 60 systems could __________ the amount of plastic there by as much as 50 percent by 2025.

__________, there remains a problem: what will happen to the plastic brought back to shore from Slats systems? It’s likely that lots of the waste will __________ be recycled into more single-use plastics that end up back in the __________. That doesn’t mean Slat will __________. “Big problems require big solutions,” he says. “If anyone has any better ideas, I’d love to know.”

【推荐3】Everybody has heard of Jimmy Carter. As president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, he oversaw a particularly _________ time in American history. Americans taken hostage in the Middle East, major gasoline shortages around the _______, and a poor relationship with a potential enemy – the Soviet Union – are hardly the stuff of pleasant memories.

Yet even though Carter held America’s most powerful office, he will probably be _______ more for the work he has done since he left the White House. His _______ on humanitarian issues around the world sets him apart as a caring, dedicated person who wants to see those of low economic or social status _______ from the great wealth, power, and generosity of this country.

One of the major _______ Carter has focused on throughout his career is peace in the Middle East. He _______ a national energy policy designed to reduce American dependence on foreign oil long before it was popular to do so and negotiated peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. _________, he was among the first to insist publicly on basic human rights for everyone around the world, and he founded a non-profit organization, The Carter Center, to work towards that end. In his opinion, this includes _______ modern health care to developing nations in order to contain disease and improve quality of life around the world.

However, Carter does not focus all his efforts abroad. He works actively to improve the standard of living __________ as well. He and his wife Roslyn are enthusiastic supporters of Habitat for Humanity. This volunteer-based organization devotes itself to building affordable but quality housing for those who ________ might not be able to buy a home. Voluntary workers come together in their own free time to construct, paint, and landscape simple homes, working side-by-side with the families that will ________ the residences. Habitat does more than build houses; it builds ________.

For all these reasons, Carter deserves respect for dedicating his career to public ________. Everyone can agree with his impressive charity and acknowledge his obvious __________ to all of humanity.

【推荐1】For a little girl growing up in Colombia, a science career with NASA may seem impossible. Trujillo, however, is an aerospace _________ who leads a team at the NASA laboratory _________ for the robotic arm of the latest Mars rover (火星探测器).

How did Trujillo go from simply dreaming about the universe to _________ exploring it? That's a tale of _________ written in the stars.

Born in 1983, even as a young girl Trujillo was _________ of her passion for science. But she doubted how far she'd be able to _________ in a male-dominated field. Then her dad offered to send her to Miami. Only 17 at the time, she _________ the offer.

Trujillo took a series of housekeeping _________ to put herself through Miami Dade College. Sometimes she was cleaning bathrooms to help pay her way through her _________. But she didn't ____________ "I saw everything coming my way as an opportunity."

Then came another life-changing moment. She became the first Hispanic (西班牙语国家的) woman to be ____________ to the NASA Academy. Later, she became an engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

This February, when the Perseverance rover ____________ on the surface of Mars, it was ____________ by commentary (解说) from Trujillo in NASA's first-ever Spanish-language ____________ .

Trujillo's own story is ____________ that just beyond the barrier lies an entire universe of opportunities waiting for anyone willing to work hard enough to reach for the stars.

【推荐2】As a teenager in the 1990s, Melissa Blake was interested in fashion. Unluckily, fashion wasn’t much interested in her. Blake, who has a genetic bone and muscle _________ and stands a little under four feet tall, couldn’t find jeans or dresses in her size. _________ through fashion magazines, she didn’t see a single person who looked like her, and it really _________ . “That would have been a game changer for me,” says Blake, who had 26 surgeries before age 17. “When you’re a teenager—disabled or not—you deal with issues of _________”

Blake, now 39, has spent her adult life trying to _________ for that. She is a disability-rights _________ as well as a little-known freelance (自由职业) writer, but she gained a national following in 2019 after _________ at those who made ugly comments about her online. She tweeted, “people said that I should be stopped from _________ photos of myself because I’m too _________.” Blake posted a new selfie every day to share something about her life as a disabled woman, which__________ her determination to fight that.

Her fans went wild, calling Blake a goddess and a powerful woman. Among her __________ is Mindy Scheier, the founder of Runway of Dreams, which displays fashion for people with __________. Last fall, Scheier asked Blake to be one of the event’s 24 models.

“Getting Melissa in this year’s biggest fashion event just makes people understand how important it is to __________ the consumers in the fashion industry, or what we __________ represent in the word ‘model’.” says Scheier.

“It was a little __________,” Blake says of modeling. But she’s glad she took the challenge.

“Fashion isn’t going to solve all the world’s problems,” says Blake. “When disabled people are included, it sends a message that we deserve a seat at the table in all aspects of life.”

【推荐3】In spite of not claiming to be “a fan of contests”, Chen Geng, the champion of the Chinese Classical Poetry Quiz Show, impressed the audience. She has participated in all four seasons ____the first TV show began in 2016. “When I stood on stage, I was very_____, feeling like every cell in my body was boiling, because I was talking about what I cared much about,”she says.

Chen ___ poetry just a few years before when she was a 21-year-old postgraduate. She could remember the day when she_____ picked up a book about the Tang Dynasty poems written by Jiang Xun. She was attracted by the book immediately.

Most of her free time was_____reading and reciting ancient Chinese poems-before breakfast, on the underground, and during summer and winter holidays. A couple of years later, she applied to_____the poetry quiz show to test her capabilities.

She is the only one of the_____ who has been____ every season since 2016. She says she did worry if the audience would get _____her face. “The audience______have thought: ‘It's her again.’ But I decided to come, because I believe the time I can be fully devoted to poetry is______. I may not have so much time doing this after I become a busy wife and mother”.

The poetry world seem far away from Chen’s academic(学术的) study.Her research ____ is to develop wearable smart devices for rehabilitation(复原) purposes. Yet,Chen says her poetry-reading and her major did not ____each other. “Sometimes I would feel _____when facing difficulties in scientific research. Poems gave me _____,”she says.

Peking University offers an open environment for students to develop their various hobbies,according to Chen. There are poetry clubs, debating and public speaking clubs and other culture-related societies____groups for students to choose from. “I really ____the academic atmosphere in the university, which enables us to do what we like freely, with an open and inclusive(兼收并蓄的) attitude,” Chen says.

She became a celebrity____the poetry show. She hopes she can influence more people,especially encouraging teenagers to foster a keen interest in poems. Chen ____ her first book about her thoughts and understanding about poetry in 2017. She also writes articles for Beijing Evening News and discusses Chinese poems on Tik Tok, a platform for sharing videos, on which she has over130,000______.

“Reading poems opens a door to the new world without boundaries, ”Chen says.

【推荐2】Tan Yuanyuan, San Francisco Ballet’s first Chinese leading dancer, _________ the audience with her performance at the CCTV Spring Festival gala _________ the Year of the Ox. Her passion, joy and spring in her dance steps have _________ countless viewers.

Tan’s relationship with ballet began at the age of 5 when she was _________ in the striking beauty of a performance named Swan Lake on TV.

Her _________ to enter a dance school was strongly supported by her mother, who also had a great affection for ballet. She began to train _________ at Shanghai Dance School and graduated four years later. Her great efforts _________ paid off. She won many scholarships and awards at home and abroad. In 1995, Tan was admitted as a dancer by the company of San Francisco Ballet, soon after which she was _________ to be its leading dancer.

Looking back, she is _________ that her Chinese parenting has a great influence on the way she ____________ dance, and she is proud of it. “My parents often say, ‘The best is that what you do today is better than yesterday’,” she recalls. “I know there is no perfection in the world, yet that’s how I keep getting closer to being ____________ every day. The stage is always full of magic and potential. We need to remember to leave our comfort zones and stay ____________. I want to challenge my past, ____________ my presence and try more things in the future,” she says in an interview.

When asked about her secret to career longevity, she says, “Put all the efforts into your career. Do things with ____________ love and passion. Do not add age to your life but ____________ to your age.