【推荐1】There are many things parents can do to help children with autism (自闭症) overcome their challenges. Learning all you can about autism and getting _________ in treatment will go a long way toward helping your child.

Stay consistent (一致的). Children with autism have a hard time _________ what they have learned if there is a change of setting. For example, your child may use sign language at school to communicate, but never think to do so at home. Creating _________ in your child’s enviropment is the best way to promote learning. Find out what your child’s therapists are doing and continue their techniques at home. Explore the _________ of having treatment take place in more than one place in order to encourage your child to _________ what he or she has learned from one environment to another. It’s also important to be consistent in the way you _________ with your child and deal with challenging behaviors.

_________ a schedule. Children with autism tend to do best when they have a highly-organized schedule. Again, this goes back to the consistency they both need and desire. Set up a schedule for your child, with _________ times for meals, therapy, school and bedtime. Try to keep interruption to this routine to a(n) _________. If there is an unavoidable schedule change, prepare your child for it __________.

__________ good behavior. Positive encouragement can go a long way, so make an effort to “catch them doing something good.” Praise them when they act sensibly or learn a new skill, being very __________ about what behavior they are being praised for.

Pay attention to your child’s sensitivities. Many children with autism are “hypersensitive” to light, sound, touch and smell. Other children with autism are “under-sensitive” to sensory stimuli. __________ what sights, sounds, smell and movements cause your kid’s troublesome behavior and what brings about a(n) __________ response. If you understand what affects your child, you’ll be better at solving problems, preventing situations that cause difficulties, and creating __________ experiences.

【推荐1】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 an assistant 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 had 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 climbed into the front passenger seat of the plumber’s construction ________ .

When my peers were part-time babysitters or lifeguards, I was ________ my father in the dirty bathroom or the wet basement. Thick dust covered my nose and mouth, and my hands became black. There is nothing beautiful and neat; everything in front of you is ________.

Honestly speaking, I felt powerless, discouraged and unable to think hard. Pipe work is a tough job, and I sometimes hate it. I asked myself why I had to tolerate these dust and sweat. I can even find another job, a ________ job more like my peers. ________, just as 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 dirty. Life is a process of ________ chaos (混乱) 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2】To Huang Qin, a caregiver for the elderly, having a mastery of skills is not enough to become a good caregiver—one also needs to have a passion for the job and the ability to _________.

Huang started her_________as a caregiver at the No. 2 Shanghai Social Welfare House in 1992. She _________her second day at work: a resident _________ seizures (癫痫) and hit his head against the corner of a table. “I was so _________that I just froze,” she says. “Our team leader later told me about some of the early warning_________ that led to the occurrence of the seizure. At that moment I understood being a caregiver is also about having _________ skills.”

Her _________ soon led her to invent care­giving _________ that have made the lives of the elderly in her care better. One of the first people she__________was an 89-­year-­old resident. Because of a stroke, she was never able to __________her fingers by herself and therefore, was __________ getting skin infections on her hand whenever the weather was wet.

Inspired by a claw­like weapon she__________ while watching a film, Huang used elastic (有弹性的) cotton cloth to __________a tool, allowing the patient to keep her hands unclenched (松开). These innovations greatly improve the __________ of life for the seniors.

【推荐1】China Post issued (发行) a set of special zodiac (生肖) stamps in honor of 2019 Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Year of the Pig. Famous Chinese _________ Han Meilin designed (设计) the set of stamps _________ is most known for his Fuwa dolls made for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

If you, like me, were born in the Year of the Pig then you are _________, thoughtful and loyal (忠诚的). The Year of the Pig is filled with good wealth.

Now, let’s _________ a closer look at this interesting animal. Pigs were first kept by man about 9, 000 years ago, and are still a very common _________ animal in many parts of the world. We don’t just use pigs for their meat--- almost every part of the animal is used. The hair is used for artists’ brushes. The fat is used _________ floor wax (蜡), rubber (橡胶) and plastics.

Pigs have also been important in the world of entertainment. In 25 the film Babe starred (使主演) a loveable talking pig as its main character. The film _________ an Oscar Award. In England you can even go to watch pig racing. A farmer, Rob Shepherd, has been raising money _________ charity by holding pig races an his farm. _________ seems that people don’t just want to eat pigs!

Pigs also play an important role in the English language. For example, if someone say that he __________ to the sun one day, you can says “Pigs might fly!” to him. Hungry? Well then, you can say “pig out” and eat lots of food.

【推荐3】Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man _________ it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided _________. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary _________. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock , the _________ produces it at once, and the business of trying it on follows at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with _________ any chat and to everyone’s satisfaction.

For a man, small problems may begin _________ the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to _________ the customer something else, he offers the nearest he can to the article he wants. No good salesman brings out such a substitute _________ ; he does so with skill: “I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It _________ to be the color you mentioned.” Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: “This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be __________ my time and yours by trying it on.”

Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every way she does so in the __________ way. Her shopping is not often __________ need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only “having a look round”. She is always __________ to persuasion ; indeed she sets great score by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. She only wants to find something that __________ thinks fits her. Most dress shops provide chairs for the __________ husbands.