【推荐2】It was a dream born in fire.

“Throw the _________ down!” said one of the firemen below. Andrea Peterson was 5 when she and her mother were _________ in a burning building, and little Andrea jumped into lifesaving arms and a lifelong _________: She wanted to fight fires like her _________ did. She told that to the men who had saved her, and they _________ good-naturedly the way grown-ups do when a kid says they want to be an astronaut _________ this was back in a time when little girls weren’t even allowed to dream about such grand goals. “You’ll be a good mom,” the firemen told her. “You’ll be a good teacher, or a nurse, _________ you can never be a fireman.”

And then, as it _________ to do, life sidelined her dreams. Nothing good comes easy. She went to college and studied for a _________ in aviation (航空) technology — the only female in her class. Soon after her marriage, ____________ , her husband, Dennis, was diagnosed with cancer. Peterson spent 31 years ____________ the man she loved, and, in 2007, when Dennis lost his fight against the disease, he was ____________ for himself but worried for her. “I’ll be fine,” she told him.

At 61, during an ambulance ride-along as a community volunteer, Peterson felt that long-ago ____________ of childhood. She earned her emergency medical technician license and responded to fire calls with the ambulance. She found that her years of tending to Dennis had ____________ her for dealing with the variety of hurts and ills. After a year, she told her boss she wanted to be a firefighter. The fact that everyone else in her training unit was between 18 and 21 didn’t ____________ her. She passed the written test, she cleared the physical examination and, finally, that little girl’s dream became a reality.

【推荐3】"I'm going to______today!" says my little brother, Trevor, bouncing (跳起来) to the breakfast table. He's already wearing his backpack.

Mom looks at me. "Isn't it great, Annie? You'll both be at the same school."

Actually, it's not great at all. School used to feel like my thing. Now Trevor is going to be in my______classroom. At least the second grade is in a different part of the building.

"Can I play with you?" he asks as Mom drops us______."

I shake my head. "School______, remember? You have to play in the kindergarten area. I stay on the big playground."

I______him to his classroom.

"Hi, Mrs. Morena," I say as I tug (用力拖) my brother forward. "This is Trevor."

"Hello, Trevor!" Mrs. Morena______, so they're the same height. "Want to come meet the other kids?"

Trevor nods and______my hand. I'm out the door in a flash.

After a break, I've forgotten all about Trevor. It's great to be back at school! I'm running to the slide when a loud cry rings out across the playground. It sounds______.

I look to the kindergarten area. There's Trevor sitting in the sandbox,______on his face.

"I want to go home!" he howls. Mrs Morena is______him, but he's still crying.

I take another step toward the slide. Then Trevor cries again. My feet turn, and I’m running toward him. But there's a fence between the kindergarten area and the big playground. I can't go to where he is.

I do the next best thing I can______. I stand on the very edge of my playground and call, "Trevor!"

He looks up and runs to the fence. I blow him a kiss. He stops crying. I blow______one, and he begins to smile.

Soon the bell rings. Mrs Morena comes to get him, and his face scrunches up (揉成一团) again.

"I have an idea. Trevor! I'll be in that window over there," I point. "I'll blow kisses______your window, OK?"

As Mrs. Morena leads him inside, he tugs her down to whisper in her ear. I run to my classroom and look out to see her______the kindergarten window.

I blow a kiss. Trevor is inside his classroom. He blows a kiss______and smiles.

【推荐1】Joel Boyers and his wife, Melody Among were heading home in their helicopter when he received a call for help from a stranger.The caller’s _________ and daughter were trapped on their roof in Waverly because of the rising floodwater.

The caller _________Joel Boyers to come to their help. Boyers looked west towards Waverly at the storm clouds. Though aware of the threat of _________in such bad weather, he_________put the brother’s address into his_________. Soon, he and Among were in the air, _________for what they were about to see in Waverly.

Upon arriving, he found the water below was_________. People were holding on to anything that didn’t move-roofs, trees. The flooding also_________cell phone service, meaning Boyers couldn’t use his phone to locate the_________he was looking for. He kept flying anyway.

As Boyers drove the helicopter, Among began__________people on roofs and bridges anywhere Boyers could__________and get them on board. A rescued man pointed to a teenager. The teenager held onto a branch with one hand and the other held a dog she’d saved earlier while both were __________in the current(水流). With no place for Boyers to land, he__________the helicopter until it hovered(盘旋)just above the water. The rescued man jumped out and swam to the tree, where he helped the teen and the dog to the__________

Though the experience was__________, Boyers admitted it was fun.

【推荐2】For most people, having things stolen feels like an offence. Robbie Pruitt admitted that he got_________ when he discovered the theft of his mountain bike last September. But soon enough, his_________ took a turn. After letting go of his anger and frustration, he found himself on a road to sympathy_________.

For Pruitt, a keen bicyclist, the first thing to do was_________ his   stolen bike. But   when he went bike shopping, he found few available, which got him thinking: What if the_________ of bikes was Covid- 19 related, and what if the person who’d taken his bike really needed_________ to get to work?

With that thought in mind, Pruitt_________ a plan and posted it on the community website. He _________ to fix bikes free of charge for anyone who needed it. He also asked for unwanted bikes, which he would repair again _________. And then he would donate them to folks who could truly use them but didn’t have the __________ to buy one.

The day the post went live, Pruitt received thirty __________ bicycles. Then came more than 500__________ for detailed information. By the end of 2020, Pruitt had repaired more than 131 for donation or to be __________ to their owners.

Pruitt tries to give his donations to families that are __________ struggling. __________ simply satisfying a material need, he has provided an opportunity for kids in his neighborhood to learn how to fix their own bikes.

In addition to __________ skills, Pruitt’s lessons teach teamwork, encourage self-worth, and promote feelings of community. __________, the kids have gained a sense of accomplishment.

“It’s a really great __________ for kids,” said a neighbor in an interview with the local newspaper. “Pruitt is certainly providing a __________, but it’s not just the bikes. It’s the relationships in the community. It’s the __________ that he can make on people.”

【推荐3】Benjamin Kuo enjoys looking at photos. He especially enjoys _______ precisely where they’ve been _______. He happily admits that being a satellite mapping _______ is a “very weird hobby”. But recently, his strange _______ may just have saved a Californian man’s life.

Rene Compean was hiking _______ in Angeles National Forest when he realized he no longer _______ where he was. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the 45-year-old texted a _______ of his legs hanging over the edge of a canyon to a friend. In the _______, he said he was lost and his phone battery was _______.

The police department released the ________ to the public, hoping someone might recognize the scenery and know where Compean was. Luckily, Kuo saw the report. And he had a hunch-informing the ________ about what he thought were the correct GPS coordinates (坐标) for Rene Compean’s location.

A rescue helicopter was sent out to the canyon, and Compean was ________ on a ridge less than a mile away from the coordinates Kuo had ________. Compean was found safe and in no need of medical care. And he couldn’t have been more ________ for Kuo’s unique hobby, saying to him, “I really appreciate what you did... I really don’t know if I could ________ it there another day. It was just so cold.”

【推荐1】Today I am working with Sim on for starting a mobile repairing shop. His ________ made me think of the day he joined us as a participant under Naya Savera, a skill-building program for different backgrounds.

My memory stretches back very ________. When I first looked at him during selection interview we ________ for taking on the participants, I wondered how I was going to help this person who could not even ________.

Simon has a ________ problem in both his legs. And to reach from one place to another he has to ________ a wheelchair. I didn’t take him seriously at first, but something changed when we ________ talking with him.

He made us ________ with all his funny stories. And made us cry by sharing his ________ to live normally. It is a pity that people underestimate him and look down on his ________ to become a successful person. By the time interview was over, we were all looking at him with awe and wondered who ________ whom, as most of the time he was the one posing questions.

Needless to say, he was selected for the training program and also ________ the program with ease. He was one of the ________ who never missed even a single day of training. He was one of the highest scorers in exams ________ on the last day of the training program. He touched everyone with his positivity and ________.

【推荐2】The Pygmalion effect (皮格马利翁效应) means that positive expectations lead to better performance while negative expectations lead to worse performance.

I used to teach maths at a summer school. There I had a student who taught me a lot more than what I could ________ have taught him. Let’s call him Joey.

Though he ________ with maths at first, his eagerness and ________ never changed. I quickly ________ him as a star pupil. Joey shared with me one day that his mother passed away when he was young. Neither of his parents finished high school, so his mother’s ________ was just to see him graduate. His dad was a cleaner who worked long hours for low pay. Joey said he wanted to get his diploma ( 文 凭 ) so that he could get a better job because he ________ to see his dad happy.

From that day forward, I promised him to ensure he would pass. I taught him how to understand some of the ________ topics in maths. On the last day of the class, Joey ________ the final test. After all the students left, I ________ to help clean up. The head teacher told me that he was amazed at Joey’s ________ in the test, for he did a really good job _________his disabilities (缺陷).

The teacher went on to explain that Joey had learning disabilities and that some experts said he would never be able to do maths. I was ________ to hear this because I had never found it when I worked with him!

If he had learning disabilities, then how was he able to solve the problems related to difficult maths concepts ________ after some lessons? This question has ________ me for some time. After spending ________ hours searching, I have found the best explanation is the concept of the Pygmalion effect.

Bill, my friend, had wild hair and wore a T-shirt with holes in it, blue jeans and no shoes. I____1____once saw Bill wear a pair of shoes.He became a Christian while attending college. Across the street from the campus was a ____2____full of well-dressed, middle-class people.One day, Bill decided to worship there. He walked into the church, with his wild hair, T-shirt, blue jeans and ____3____feet. The church was completely ____4____, and the____5____ had already begun. Bill started down the aisle (走廊) to find a place to sit. By now the people were looking a bit ___6_____, but no one said anything.As Bill ____7____ closer and closer to the pulpit (圣坛), he realized there were no ____8____ seats. So he sat down on the carpet right up ___9___ By now, the tension in the air was ____10____.Right about the time Bill took his “seat”, an elderly man began slowly making his way ___11_____the aisle. He was in his eighties with silver gray hair. He was a godly man—elegant and dignified. He walked with a stick and, as he neared the boy, church members thought, “How can you expect a man of his age and background to ___12_____ some college kid on the floor?’’It took a ___13_____ time for the man to reach the boy. The church was ___14_____except for the clicking of his ___15_____. All eyes were on the ____16____. ____17____then they saw the elderly man ___18_____ his stick on the floor. With great difficulty, he sat down on the floor next to Bill and worshipped with him. Everyone in the church ____19____ up with emotion. When the minister gained control, he told the people, “What I am about to preach(讲道),you will never remember. What you’ve just seen, you will never ___20_____”.