【推荐2】Like most people, I have to work for a living. We have a bank loan, and other_________we have to pay. But I certainly don’t have a 9-5_________. I decided long ago that I could not_________fixed working hours for a big company and I certainly wasn’t suitable to_________in an office day in and day out. I work_________as a writer, garden designer, and sustainability consultant. Many days, I work long hours, but I have a lot of_________and control over everything. I have found my_________— what I really want to do.

But I fully appreciate that most people are not in such a _________position and some of them have no choice but to_________ the work they do not like. Therefore, many people feel__________in their jobs even when they are not really stuck at all. Finding sustainable solutions and a better quality of life means__________long and hard about what you really want to do, and how you can__________that goal.

Working for yourself is beneficial on__________levels: you save time, you save money, and you can potentially__________your carbon footprint. Consider this: Management consultancy firm WSP found working from__________can help reduce your carbon footprint in the summer months.

【推荐2】My five-year-old son was amazed by the beauty of the dancers _________ the classic story, presented by a ballet company. Afterwards, he expressed an interest in learning to _________, the classmate who lived next door laughed. “Don’t be _________, there are no boys in my dance classes.”

One afternoon when my son waved from the front window to this classmate as she left for dance class, his eyes _________ with tears. “Mom, boys dance too.”

My son _________ to pursue dance, but I held the same view as my peers, I discouraged him of his dreams. Dance lessons were put _________. Instead, I admitted him in many other classes. However, he never lost interest in learning to dance.

Finally, he got to have his dance and voice _________ during his fresh year of high school even though he was also busy with those classes. His goal was to try out for the school’s madrigal choral troupe, a group that performed at various_________. The competition was fierce, and the _________ was made and posted finally. He managed to practise at a dance academy that welcomed male dancers. The hard work __________ — he made the cut. He developed as a member of the madrigal troupe, and it paved the way to his dance __________.

During his first year of college, he was __________ a role in a national touring company. Several years later, he moved to New York City and was offered a chance to __________ his idol, Bob Fosse. Over the years, my son has danced in dinner theatre, summer stock, television and various musicals. Indeed, boys dance, too.

When I wrote the article about diversity twenty years ago, I still felt the sense of __________. My message holds true today: “It’s okay to be __________. Go for it!”

【推荐3】For 13-year-old Reagan Bischoff, the simple tasks that other people complete with ease were often the hardest for her. Since early childhood, she’s _______ brain injury and partial paralysis (瘫痪) on the left side of her body. But her determination and _______ to learn and teach other kids how to_______those challenges recently won her an award from Brain Injury Services.

Sarah Pickford from Brain Injury Services _______her for putting so “much energy and attention into living a full life” while also _______herself to helping other people. “That’s _______ for someone who’s only a young teenager. Her reaching out to others is a wonderful _______ ,” Pickford said.

Over the years, Reagan pushed herself to _______ in swimming and horseback riding. She also plays the trumpet (小号), using a special _______ to play with one hand. She came up with the idea to use a smaller keyboard so she could type with one hand to finish her online ________during COVID-19. Reagan also found a tool to ________her with buttoning jeans.

As she ________ skills and confidence to deal with her disability, Reagan also ________ a YouTube channel to “help kids who have disabilities like me, so they can ________ things I wasn’t able to do.”

As for the award, Reagan said she was ________ and happy “that people recognized me for my work.”

【推荐1】Talented people who want to create things often see their creativity fall into the “valley of death”. Why is that? Because only_______is often not enough.

Take the_________of Dr. Katalin Kariko, who is the inventor of a special mRNA which is now_________all over the world to vaccinate (给……疫 苗 接 种) people_________the COVID-19. Forty years ago, Kariko, a hard-working and brilliant PhD student in Hungary, tried to_________mRNA for antiviral therapy (抗病毒治疗). But the lab she was working at in Hungary_________money. She had to stop her research work. Later she finally_________it thanks to the following two encounters.

The first_________encounter happened in 1998 at the University of Pennsylvania. There, Kariko_________Dr. Drew Weissman, MD, a famous doctor. At that time, Weissman’s______________ was to develop a preventive HIV vaccine. As the result of this encounter, Weissman and Kariko started to____________with each other. Kariko finally invented the mRNA, whose shortcomings were overcome____________by their combined effort.

The second encounter was with Dr. Ugur Sahin, CEO of BioNTech. Kariko was invited by BioNTech to____________a lecture in Mainz, Germany. Sahin was very impressed by her technique and her mRNA,______________her to be a vice president in his company, and offered her a large research____________. We might not have today’s mRNA vaccines that have been so____________ in slowing down the COVID-19 pandemic without those two______________.

So____________you want to create a successful invention like Dr. Kariko,______________ you need not only talent and effort, but also good relationships with others, which are____________on trust and respect and very important to you.

【推荐3】Francis Kéré is the first African to win the Pritzker Prize, known as the Nobel Prize of architecture. However, his journey to the peak of his field was far from _______. Growing up in a village where there was no kindergarten, he was _______ into an extremely hot classroom with over 100 students until seven years old. This experience of poor building facilities was his earliest _______ to improve the educational lives of local children, using architecture.

His early reputation came in helping _______ a school in his village after graduating from college. He _______ the whole village to provide ideas and drew the _______ on sand for all to see. _______, he involved them in constructing the school, using local wood and local clay (黏土).

The result of their hard work was a welcoming structure with a “floating” roof that _______ ventilation (通风) in a hot climate and wall openings that bring _______ for students to learn even without electricity. He showed the villagers that ideas to __________ climate or other challenges are always at hand.

In this process, local people learned __________ skills that they could later use to find work. By cooperating with them, Kéré __________ the idea that climate solutions started with big institutions. He __________ that everyone could contribute to addressing the major issues related to education and climate and __________ a global impact by acting locally.

Adopted by architects in dozens of countries, his __________ is rooted in the “unique” aspects of each community now.