【推荐2】It was a snowy morning on January 29th when Casey Ryan from Eugene, Oregon, and his friend decided to travel up into the mountains of Willamette National Forest for a bit of hiking. Ryan was _________ with many of the roads in the area resulting from the time spent _________ on a roadside litter cleanup crew. He also frequently went into the mountains for his favorite _________: photographing the wilderness with his camera and his drone (无人机).

Despite the icy conditions that day, Ryan _________ everything was okay after seeing cars driving in the opposite direction. However, his optimism was _________ as he encountered a Mercedes van stuck in the snow, and when he volunteered to assist in _________ the vehicle, his car ended up _________ into a deep pile of snow. With the late afternoon setting in and temperatures dropping rapidly, they found themselves _________ the cold.

After discussing about their next _________, they decided to use his drone to fly above the tree line, where the phone could grab a __________ and get an SOS text away. It seemed to be the best __________, even though the drone was not designed to bear the weight of a heavy phone.

When the drone __________ and they checked to see if their text to Ryan’s wife had been sent, they were left in __________ when they saw that it had worked.

After a night in their cars, Lane County Sheriff’s Office arrived in the late morning to rescue them, Ryan’s wife having __________ them the night before. “I’ve been doing search and rescue since 2007,” said Jason Bowman, a search-and-rescue coordinator, “And this was by far the most __________ way I’ve ever seen somebody call for help.”

【推荐3】“You are about to experience something very special,” the card on my bed reads.

I’m about to start one of the most _________ evenings of my life: a night spent in a transparent dome(透明的穹状建筑物)_________ a few feet away from Asian elephants in the bush(灌木丛)of Thailand’s Golden Triangle. Although I’m one of the first people to _________ it and I should be nervous, honestly, I could not be more _________!

It’s been my longtime _________ to visit the conservation area of the Golden Triangle to get closer to the elephants here. When I discovered the Jungle Bubbles, I _________ the chance to spend sundown to sunup with these great animals.

I’m as _________ as a kid opening presents as I take picture after picture of the elephants standing nearby. It’s very _________ here. The only thing I have to do is _________ elephants. No phone, no news. I watch as the three elephants that will be my __________ tonight play in a mud(泥)hole.

The elephants finally __________ the mud as it gets dark, blowing hard to clear the mud out of their noses.

The stars begin to look through the sky, and it’s very peaceful. The three elephants are __________ enough that I can hear them breathing and snorting(打响鼻).

I drink my coffee and __________ while they are munching(用力咀嚼)leaves. There can be no __________ way to ever spend a night. The Jungle Bubbles are truly a __________ into the great world of these fantastic animals.

【推荐1】Mariam Schreiber was born in a small village just outside Warsaw in 1932.Life was good. Then the war _________ in 1939,when she should have started first grade. Mariam's entire life was _________. She and her family spent the following months _________ from   Nazis. They ran from village to village and forest to forest in a continuous state of _________. It was horrible. It was chaos. Soon afterwards, the family was _________ to a slave labor camp in Siberia, where they spent six years living in_________ conditions-dirty and messy, barely living at all.

Mariam was not _________ until March 1946, nearly a year after the war came to the _________.She and her remaining family members went to a displaced persons(难民） camp in Germany. _________, she met her husband, also a displaced __________ at the camp. They got married and later had their children.

She __________ sending their two sons to school and gave them __________ whenever the kids needed. When the kids achieved their life goals, they __________ the success to their mother. “Without our mother, we couldn't have been what we are now.” said Bernie Schreiber, who was a teacher for 32 years. However, Mariam insisted it was the formal education that contributed to their __________. Deep down, she regarded it as a(n) __________ that she herself had never made it to school in her life and she had always been __________ for a high school diploma.

When Richard Nabel, the principal of the New England Jewish Academy, heard about Mariam two years ago, he was deeply __________ by her story and decided to do something for her. He invited Mariam to the 2020 high school graduation ceremony and __________ her with an honorary diploma. Wearing her cap and gown, Mariam couldn't __________ sobbing. The 89-year-old Holocaust(大屠杀） survivor __________ got what she had been dreaming of all her life.

【推荐2】We all strive to accomplish our goals before old age catches up with us—but for one San Diego woman, the loss of her ________ is far from a barrier.

Two days after Thanksgiving Laura Simon turns 106, and she’s still setting goals for herself. The secret to her longevity, she says, “is to live as ________ as you can and to work.”

Simon ________ one of her biggest goals when she turned 100: She ________ a book, titled I Am Still Here. Simon’s poor eyesight prevented her from ________ writing, so she dictated her book into a tape recorder over nine years. “I’m very ________ of this book,” Simon said.

The book’s 500 pages are ________ by dozens of black-and white photos. Her paintings are also throughout the book. It was only recently when it was ________ for her to continue that Simon stopped painting. “My paintings come from the very depth of my being,” Simon said. “It gives me life and ________.”

As for her recent ________? She said she wanted to be in the Library of Congress. And Simon did more than ________ it to the Library of Congress. Her publisher ________ her that she is one of the oldest ________ authors with a book in the nation’s library. “The rest of the authors are all gone, from the time of Washington. And my book is with all these great books,” Simon said, beaming. “...as my title says on the book, I am still here.”

Positive attitude about ________ has gotten Simon far. “Although I’m going to be 106 years old within the next week, I’m much ________ in spirit and more active in the depth of my thinking.” Simon said.

【推荐3】When I was five years, I was far away from my _______. I was just living with my aunt, uncle, grandma and my sister. Most of them said that I was _______.

When I was six years old, I started the grade school(小学). No matter what others _______ my ability(能力), I knew _______ I should do. With my hard work, I got the top 3 at the end of the school year. No one was _______ of it in my family. And still my parents were away. I _______ that they would be home soon to even just _______ my achievements. Though I had no _______ during these days, in the second grade I still _______ my grades. I decided to continue the things that made me ________. I was not that smart but I had ________ to do something great.

________ my high school days I was a bit naughty(淘气的). so I was thought to belong to lower section(部分) of ________ in our school. My teacher lost hope and so did my mom. But I ________ them that they were wrong. In the last year of high school, I made my name on the list of the Academic(学术的) ________. Our school has a lot of excellent students, ________ I studied hard and got the fourth.

I’m a college student now. There are still some problems around that give me ________. But as it has been in the past, I tell myself, “This is just a ________ OF LIFE. I have to get through this.” I have problems and weakness but it doesn’t mean I have no ________ to be better. Life is always a test on how ________ we are to live.