To some young people, cosplaying（角色扮演）is a hobby. To others, it is a lifestyle. Since cosplay is popular nowadays, a lot of time    1    （spend）in making costumes（服装）for people to join in    2    （activity）. These allow cosplayers    3    （become）their favorite characters. For those    4    often practice the art, cosplay is more than just dressing up- it is about acting as a character and    5    （perform）in front of hundreds of fans.

Young people love the art of cosplay for many reasons. It's fun to dress up as    6    different person and cosplayers enjoy changing    7    （they）into a character of a story. Being someone else helps build their    8    （confident）. Since cosplay focuses    9    the similarity to the character, much attention is paid to high quality costumes and role playing. In a sense, cosplaying is    10    （exact）like acting, for cosplayers must get into characters and behave like them.

【推荐2】The “selfie” is used to describe the self-taken photo,often from a smartphone. Someone takes about 10 selfies each time he does, and he only ends up     1     (post) one or two of those. He picks the one that he feels make him look the     2     (good). In that picture,he gains confidence. For that moment, everything bad or terrible that has happened to him     3     (remove), because that smile is what gives him the     4       (determine) to love himself.

I read     5     poem recently and the young man said，“If I ask you     6     you love, the answers will most likely roll your tongue. You love to read. You love to write. You love your mom, you daughter,or your best friend. How long do you think you can go on and on before you say ‘I love     7    (I)’?”

That statement hit me like a ton of bricks. I've struggled with confidence all my life. I still do. And in     8     way am I saying that taking a selfie is a gateway     9     confidence.     10    , the selfie does deserve some credit for allowing individuals to express themselves.

I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I hardly saw my father before I was eight. For this    1     other reasons I was somewhat lonely. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and     2    （hold）conversations with imaginary persons, and I think     3     the very start my literary ambitions     4    (mix) up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a     5    (nature) ability with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this    6     (create)a sort of private world     7     I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

However,     8     quantity of serious writing which I produced all through my childhood would not add up to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about     9     except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had “chair-like teeth”--- a good enough     10    (express).

【推荐1】I was raised in New York City where it’s very cold every winter. In the sixth grade, a teacher offered     1    (bring) some students to a homeless shelter after school. I went with my friends and the teacher for several weeks.    2    , I continued to volunteer to help when they stopped going together. Because I was good     3    sewing, I was told to help out with the sewing kit when any guests needed some repairs. Throughout high school I continued to come each week after school, setting up my sewing kit which    4    (grow) larger and larger. I got to know the guests who came     5    (regular).

Later on, I started     6    sewing club with my friend and we taught     7    (we) fellow students how to sew. We made heart-shaped pillows for sick     8    (child) and the elderly. Every time it rained I would think about the umbrellas     9    (design) before. In the future I hope to continue helping others as much as I can. It is the most important thing I    10    (do) ever since.