【推荐1】When amputee (被截肢者) runner Jacky Hunt-Broersma says her motto is, “I can do hard things,” she is not joking. She has completed 104 marathons in 104 days,________ a prosthetic (假体的) leg.

Hunt-Broersma, 46, ________ her 104th marathon on April 30, near her home in Phoenix, Arizona, breaking an unofficial world record along the way. Brick Runners, an organization that supports ________ who raise money for ________, even designed one of her favorite T-shirts, which reads, “Strong Has Many Forms.”

Hunt-Broersma, who is from South Africa, lost her leg ________ the knee to cancer when she was 26 years old.

She ran the first of her 104 marathons on January 17, 2022. ________, 100 in as many days, to________ non-disabled runner Alysa Amos Clark’s 2020 record of 95. But in March, ________ non-disabled British runner Kate Jayden unofficially broke Clark’s record with 101 marathons in 101 days, Hunt-Broersma knew she’d ________ to run at least 101.

As she did her_________ 42.2-kilometer runs, Hunt-Brocrsma’s social media_________ grew, and she raised over US $67,000 to help other amputee runners________ the prosthetic arms and legs they need. These can cost over US $10,000, and_________ insurance companies don’t usually_________ them.

Hunt-Broersma said she hoped to________ people everywhere to push themselves to do________ things even if they have ________.

Guinness World Records said it_________ Hunt-Broersma’s 104 marathons, and that it would take 12 to 15 weeks to look at the_________ before the record can be_________ by it.

【推荐2】Our girls had performed well all day at the Bradford North Lawrence Cheer-leading Clinic, and Abby and I were happy. As cheer coaches of the Shawswick Elementary 2018-2019 Cheerleaders, my daughter and I couldn't ________ for the day of the award ceremony（颁奖典礼） to begin.

Three of our seven cheerleaders won individual awards—Kennedy won a best jumper award; Ally won a spirit ribbon; and Chelsea earned a best gymnast medal. As we took________ of our girls with their group and individual awards, I________one of our 4^th graders, Trista, wasn't as "spirited" as usual. In fact, she seemed quite________.

I was just about to ask her about it________Chelsea, one of our individual award winners and a 5th grade squad（小队）member,________her arm around Trista's shoulder and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I just wish I could have won an award," Trista said, with big________in her eyes.

Without missing a beat, Chelsea________Trista the "Best Gymnast" award and said, "You can________this one. I have others at home because I________with an All Star squad.”

Trista________Chelsea and then happily ran away to________her mom the award, and I stood there in amazement at the________act I'd just seen. At that moment, I________I had had an extra-special award to give Chelsea for her kind heart.

I'm not sure if anyone else saw what Chelsea did that afternoon, but I saw and it________me. Later, I told Chelsea how________I was of her, and she smiled and sort of brushed it off, not wanting me to make a big________of it.

How long has it been since you've done something, selfless, without wanting any________, just to bless another person? Like Chelsea, you may think it's a small gesture of________, but it might make a big difference.

So, go ahead. Make someone's________today.

【推荐3】The young seal couldn’t have been more than two days old, and yet he was all alone. Sometimes he would swim ______, but he always came back. At first we thought it was ______ that he kept swimming back to us, until we noticed that he obviously had been ______, and had nowhere else to go. We call him “Curious George”.

Without his mother’s milk, George appeared very ______ with his eyes closed. I jumped into the water and swam up to him,______ we were less than two feet away. My heart went out to George and I just hope that he had the ______ to interact with me. Suddenly, he ______ his eyes and immediately he jumped up between my arms, putting his head against my chest. It was a(n)______ moment. But I knew that George wouldn’t ______ without some help.

We ______ the local conservation volunteers. They were ______ that in the absence of his mother, he had developed a ______ relationship with us. They promised they would bring him to an area with ______ people living there and keep an eye on him. Even though it hurt to see him ______, we knew that he was in better hands.

The next day we ______ the conservation volunteers and asked how George was doing.______ the volunteers informed us that he was too close to humans, we realized that was probably our ______! They decided to bring him to a small island wildlife preserve with a lot of seals in the area, where they could better ______ him.

A week later, we called again, and were informed that George was ______ in the water swimming with other seals. George was ______. And he will always swim in my heart.

【推荐2】I can still remember the afternoon when we climbed the mountain as if it were yesterday. It was a sunny day. ______ to spend some time outdoors, I went up the mountain with Uncle Jimmy. The mountain was not ______ to climb for the huge rocks and streams on it. In the end, ______ and hot, I couldn't go any further. ______ , we went back down the mountain in the end. On the way back down, Uncle Jimmy asked me a question, which ______ me speechless for a second: "What's your dream, young lady?" “I have no idea," I answered after thinking for a while. Then he smiled and told me about his ______ . He didn't ______ well at school when he was a student. Although ______ thought he could succeed, he knew ______ what his dream was—to be a ______ . "I knew I wasn't ______ when it came to studying, so I tried to buy snacks from a nearby market and sell them after class," he told me. After he left school, he started selling different things to find out which one was most ______ to customers（顾客）. Of course, he often had no money in his pocket, but however difficult life was, he never gave up

"There is no doubt that when you put in a great deal of ______ to reach your goal, you will have good luck at some point. The meaning of life is to chase your dream," he said ______ .

That night I could hardly fall ______ . With my eyes wide open, I lay in bed tossing and turning. I wanted to be a top student, but it meant putting everything into following my ______ . If I find myself ______ willpower, what should I do? Leaving home early the next morning, I climbed the mountain again all by myself. It made me think: If we don't ______ the climb, how can we get to enjoy the view on the top of the mountain? At last, I reached the top and was ______ by the warm breeze and sunshine. Nothing could be more ______ than that.

【推荐3】A month ago, I broke a nail (指甲). My other nails looked amazing, but now one was a mess. Clearly, there was no point in keeping the others, so I _______ to cut them all off.

“What are you doing, Mom?” my daughter _______. “ Your nails look great! Don't cut them !”

“But they're _______, ” I said, waving the broken one in her face.

“They're not ruined,” she said. “You _______ have nine nails left!”

I hesitated. My nails certainly weren't perfect anymore, and the _______ of “perfect” is “disaster”, right? I mean, this is how I think about most things: it's all or nothing. I seem to go from “good” to “complete disaster” in a matter of moments. I've been _______ why I act this way, but I don't know what causes this behavior. My brain only _______ “ perfect” or “disaster”.

However, we humans are never just good or bad - we are far more _______ .We have wins and we have losses and, occasionally, they are hard to _______ . Some people understand this by nature, while others don't. For most of us, learning not to do the thing we're used to requires effort and might cause discomfort. However, we should ________ ourselves that we sometimes make mistakes, and that this doesn't mean we are ________. We need to accept that things will sometimes go wrong.

Somehow, failure is part of life. We all fall ________ and we normally get straight back up. And so, with my daughter's words ________ in my ears, I decided to keep my nine nice nails. I feel ________ every time I look at my hands, but I'm determined to live with my choice. It's a perfect exercise in ________.