【推荐1】Our town is in the eastern part of our country. Once a year, we elect a girl to show how beautiful and great our _________ is. All the girls are _________ to get this position in an effort to become popular.

It was not a(n) _________ choice this year, since there were eight girls to _________. The elder judge finally _________ that either Sara or May would get the position. Both girls were beautiful with extraordinary appearance. _________, they had a good education and _________ how pollution had a bad effect on the earth. Most _________, both girls got up early to eat eggs at their breakfast. Eggs were important to people of the town because our economy depended _________ on the production of eggs.

The __________ round was held at the east edge of our town. Sara lived nearby so she did not __________ to get up early to arrive. However, she was the first person there. “You know __________ they say about the __________ bird,” she said with a smile.

However, May arrived fifteen minutes late to the __________. “It’s the taxi driver’s __________,” she said. “I told him to head east, but he was in one ear and thought I said Bread Cheese, our __________ town.”

I thought May would certainly __________ because she was late, but to my __________, she turned out to be this year’s winner. The __________ liked her answer to their last question, “If you could have anything in the world, what would it be?” Sara had replied, “World peace.” May, on the other hand, said, “Better market to have our __________ sell well.”

【推荐2】I was wandering around the Albuquerque airport. My flight had been _______ , and I heard a(n) _______ : “If anyone near Gate A-4 _______ Arabic? please come to the gate immediately. ” Gate A-4 was my own gate. I went there.

An older woman was _______ , sitting on the floor. In her _______ Arabic dress, she reminded me of my grandmother.

“ _______ to her,” the flight agent urged. “We told her the flight was going to be late, and she did this.”

I spoke to the woman _______ in Arabic while putting my arm around her. She _______ crying. It turned out that she thought the _______ had been canceled. She planned to be in New York for some medical treatment the next day. I comforted her and suggested __________ her family.

We telephoned her son. In English, I told him that I would __________ with his mother until we got on the plane. Then his son was __________ Next we called my dad. They spoke for a while in Arabic and __________ that they had ten shared friends. After that, I called some Arabic friends I __________ and let them talk to her.

She was in a __________ mood by then and took some homemade __________ — little cakes stuffed with nuts and topped with sugar—from her bag and __________ them to the people near the gate. To my amazement, no one __________ It was like a party. The traveler from Argentina, the mom from California, the lovely woman from Laredo — we were all smiling, enjoying the same __________

I looked around and thought, this is the world I want to live in. One with no __________ Everyone can be happy anywhere.

【推荐3】Itzhak Perlman, the world famous violinist, got polio (小儿麻痹症) as a child. _______, you know that getting on stage is not easy for him.

On November 18, 1995, he came on stage to give a _______ at Lincoln Centre in New York City. That night Perlman walked _______ to his chair. Then he sat down and began to play. But suddenly, one of the strings on his violin broke. You could hear it break with a loud _______.

People thought to themselves, “He would have to get up to either _______ another violin or another string for this one. But he didn’t. _______ he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again. The orchestra (管弦乐队) began, and he played from where he had _______. He such passion and such power. Of course, everyone knew that it was _______ to play a symphonic work with just three strings. But that night Itzhak Perlman _______ to know that. You could see him changing and recomposing the piece in his head.

When he finished, there was a ________ in the room. Then people rose and cheered. We were ________, doing everything we could to show how much we ________ what he had done. He smiled and then he said in a quiet tone, “You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to ________ how much music you can make with what you have left.”

His words have ________ in my mind ever since I heard them. That is also the way of life. Perhaps our ________ in this quickly changing world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.

【推荐2】Lisa Meeks was in medical school at Harvard. However, she _______ a rare muscle disease and the _______ thing she expected was to be stopped from her goal. Unfortunately, then came the sad news that her _______ in the field was zero and she had no right to go into medicine. Lisa _______ from medical school but didn't end up becoming a practicing doctor. This was before the Disabilities Act passed in 1990, so she just didn't have the _______ to do so.

Doctors are often _______ as super humans who can create miracles of all kinds.

They're seen as fearless _______, not the ones who are also in need of care. However, an online campaign is now starting to _______ that view. “We believe it is _______ to respect medical professionals with disabilities and protect their right", says Lisa Meeks, the ________ of this project. “The ________ has successfully helped many doctors stand up____________,” she says.

Meeks had this thought earlier this year: “ If doctors with disabilities saw more people like themselves, would they be more confident and talk more____________ about their challenges?"   ______________, she decided to start an online movement called Docs With Disabilities. The goal was to find 20 disabled doctors who were ____________ to share their stories. Her mailbox was soon____________with personal stories from doctors with disabilities. And now another campaign, Nurses With Disabilities, has ______________, too.

“ I felt this was a really ____________ opportunity to introduce doctors with disabilities to the ____________，” she says. “To let more people know that there is not only one or two doctors with disabilities, but that there are a number of them and they never____________in their career.”

【推荐3】A few years ago, Adina Lichtman was handing out sandwiches on the streets of New York City to help people experiencing homelessness. One man, _______ for the sandwich, approached her and _________ some surprising insight（见识）.

“It's great that you're _________ sandwiches,” he said, “but one thing we really _______ is socks, especially as winter approaches.”

“Here I was, sandwiches in _________, assuming I knew the best way to help people, when in reality, helping is about _________, and hearing the needs of different communities,” Lichtman said. “It was a powerful _________, and I wanted to put it into _________.”

She began that night, with a _________ step: going door-to-door on the floor of her __________ at New York University, asking ________ classmates if they could each just donate just one pair of their own socks to someone ________ home.

She got 40 pairs of socks in a single __________, from a single floor. The next morning she opened her door to find a huge __________ of socks that other people had donated.

“College students love to do __________, but sometimes they need a literal（实实在在的）knock on their __________ to do so. And almost everyone has a(n) __________ pair of socks they can donate,” Lichtman said.

That morning Lichtman ________ kicked off Knock Knock, Give a Sock, a new nonprofit organization that has now __________ over 350,000 pairs of socks for the homeless in cities and states across America. It is also now Lichtman's full-time job.

When it gets cold out, __________ about what you use to bundle up—scarves, hats, gloves—that includes socks and shoes, too.