【推荐2】I, 16, was diagnosed with autism(自闭症 ) as a baby. Then, my father quit his job and _________ his full attention to autism. In 2012, he learned that swimming could help autistic people_________ their physical fitness and growth. So he spent months learning how to swim by watching videos and reading books. He spent several months teaching me and discovered that I had _________ developed the ability to control my breath under water, which greatly increased his_________.

My father laid the groundwork for my_________ lessons. Two hand rings and a swing are fixed from the ceiling to help me _________ my muscles and learn swimming movements. On one wall of our home _________ a table for my routine_________. My father said to a reporter, “I_________ to plan all his exercises for him, but now it is all up to him. He decides how many exercises he wants to do, and it’s a process of__________   .”

In spite of all the hardships, I have learned to__________ challenges. I managed to become a(n)__________ swimmer. In 2021, I won five __________ at two international games, including a gold.

__________ swimming, learning basic life skills is also an important part of life for me. Thanks to my father’s __________, I have learned to buy food and held voluntary jobs at supermarkets and fast-food restaurants.

【推荐3】Don’t Take the Fun Out of Youth Sports

When I joined a private football league a few years ago, the sport meant everything to me.

My coach said that I had lots of potential, and I became captain of my _________. That was before all the fun was taken out of _________. At first, everyone on the team got _________ playing time. Then the team moved up to the top division after winning all its games, and the _________ started. Some parents, who had paid the coach extra so their daughters could have _________ one-on-one training, got angry when she didn’t give them more playing time in our _________. The coach was _________ . The new coach, however, took all the fun out of the game: all we did during practice was _________. I always wished to God that it would rain so we would not have the _________. Of course, all teams run drills(操练); they are __________. But we ran so much that, afterwards, we had trouble __________. Younger people shouldn’t be doing exercises __________ for 18-year-olds. I was very thin __________ I started football, but as a member of this team I wouldn’t eat much, because I was afraid of being too __________ to run. I feared making mistakes, and the added pressure caused me to make more than my usual __________. Is all this pressure necessary?

I __________ up leaving the football team. Four other girls did the same, and two of them stopped playing football completely. That’s __________, because they had so much potential. They were just burned-out with all the pressure they felt from the coach or their parents. I continued playing football at school and __________ my love for it. I joined a private team coached by my school coach. When I started playing for him, he told me I needed to __________ because I looked nervous. After I __________ down, I played better. When you enjoy something, it’s a lot easier to do it well.

【推荐1】Mr. Brown, the wife of a famous doctor, was good at cooking. Once the Browns invited some of their friends to lunch. Mrs. Brown thought it was a good chance for her to ________ how wonderfully she could cook, so she ________ a new way of cooking a fish dish. She was quite pleased with herself when the dish was ________. “I have never cooked such _______ dish before!” she thought.

As the dish was very ________ she put it near the open window to cool for a few minutes. But, several minutes ________, when she came back ________it, she was shocked(震惊) to find the neighbor’s cat, Chester, at the dish. She was in time to stop the cat ________ it was too late.

When all the guests sat, the dinner began. The fish dish __________ really wonderful and everyone _______ it very much. They talked and laughed _______ four o'clock.

At the end of the afternoon, when she was alone again, Mrs. Brown felt ________but also happy. She sat in a chair near a window to have a _______. She happened to look down ________ the window, and saw something ________ a little animal in the garden.

“Oh, it is Chester. Dear, she is dead! Why? The fish dish must be bad! What will ________ to my friends?” she was frightened.

Immediately she telephoned her husband for ________. The doctor told her to telephone ____ of the guests to meet him at the hospital as soon as they could.

Finally the danger was _______. Once again, Mrs. Brown was alone in her chair in the sitting room, still tired but no longer happy. Just then the telephone rang. It was her _______ who cried, “Oh, Mrs. Brown, Chester is dead. She was killed by a car and someone put it in your garden.”

【推荐2】When one door closes for Li Mei, another one opens.

Born with serious _________, Li has found a way to communicate with the world through painting. “Paint brushes can help me create a colorful world, showing my thoughts on paper instead of through my _________,” Li writes.

Before learning to paint in primary school, Li always felt _________ in a silent world. She knew she was _________ because she could not hear. _________, a painting class finally opened a door for creativity and expression for her.

Painting not only helped Li _________ her unhappy childhood, but has also become her career (事业). Moreover, it led Li to eventually meet her husband Hu Shiqun. Having also lost his hearing when he was one year old, Hu is also a(n) _________ lover.

In 2016, Li _________ her husband’s company, which specializes in (专攻) 3D wall and ground paintings. All the five _________ there are hearing-disabled. “I know how __________ it is for hearing-disabled people to find a job. So I want to help those who are interested in painting to __________ their dreams,” Hu says.

In many parks and tourist attractions in Hunan province, the couple have created lots of murals (壁画) and pavement paintings. For Li, their creations can make art more accessible (可到达的，可接近的) to __________ and, behind each design, there is someone, who is hungry to __________ the world.

“My husband and I want to introduce painting to more people like us and help them find their own way to __________”, Li writes, “I hope that more hearing-impaired people can be __________ by our story.”

【推荐3】The greatest saleswoman in the world today doesn’t mind if you call her a girl. That’s because Markita Andrews has ______ more than $80,000 by selling cookies   since she was seven years old. Going door to door after school, the painfully shy Markita___ herself into a cookie-selling expert.

It___ with desire. Burning, white-hot desire.

Markita and her widowed mother___ a dream of traveling the globe. Once, Markita read a magazine article, saying that the child who sold the most cookies would win an all-expenses-paid trip for two around the world. She decided to have a ______ at it.

To realize her dream, Markita went door to door every day after school, and repeated, “Hi, I have a dream. I’m ________   a trip around the world for my mom and   me by selling cookies.” Then she asked, “Would you like to___ in my dream by buying some cookies?” Whether they bought or not, she always___ a smile.

Her hard work   finally_________. She sold 42,000 boxes of cookies   that year and she won her trip around the world.

Markita is   not   __________     than   thousands of other people. The key to her   _______ is that she has found the secret of selling: Ask, Ask, Ask! Many people fail   _______ they even begin because of their fear of____.

It takes courage to ask for what you   want. Courage is not the ________   of fear.     It’s doing what it takes despite one’s fear. And, as Markita has discovered, the more you ask, the   _____   it gets.

【推荐1】From childhood. Moira loved to write, Throughout school she _____writing, but pursuing(追求）it   ____was never a possibility. Her father was a doctor, her mother a nurse "Medicine was a fairly ____option," Moira says. "And writing was a career where it wasn't a ____that you'd have high income."

She became a doctor but still wanted to do some writing. However, being a doctor was so ____that she didn't take up writing until her thirties. She ____ a novel --- a fictionalized version of her travels in China after university. She got excellent _____ . Moira sent it off to as many agents as she could find and found one who wanted to _____her. Suddenly it seemed she was on her ____as an author.

"I had one lengthy phone call with the agent where we ____ all possible areas she thought needed _____I worked on those and sent it back to her but didn't hear anything, lt was not long _____Moira found another agent who was _____ if she was willing to rewrite" it from the first. person to the third person. She did the hard work and sent it off again. "1 got back a really brief   letter. 'Thank you. I'm no longer interested, It was really _______

A decade went by, and Moira found herself itching to write again, this time .____for her own enjoyment She______herself the challenge of creating a thriller and chose Western Australia as her setting.

As she was writing just for herself, something surprising began to happen. "The characters ____ a life of their own; they started doing things I hadn't thought about. It just _____out." One day. an agent called from Australia. Three weeks later, Moira had a publication deal. Her novel. Cicada. was published in March.

“ _____ it hadn’t been published I still gained so much from the _____ ，” says Moira.

【推荐2】Charlie Villanueva, once an NBA player, is known for his ability to shoot hoops(篮筐). He says his success is largely due to what he has _________ since childhood.

Today Villanueva’s career may look successful, but life wasn’t always _________for him. At 10, Villanueva got a skin disease alopecia. It caused his _________loss, which was not life threatening but difficult for a kid to go through. Other kids called him hurtful names. In middle school, he was suspended (停学)for _________ a no-hats rule. _________ a note from his doctor allowed him to wear hats, they only _________ more unfriendly attention.

Through it all, Villanueva’s mother was there for him in good times and bad times. With his mother’s help and _________, Villanueva turned his frustration (挫败)into _________ to play basketball well on the court. As he improved as an athlete; basketball helped him deal with his alopecia.

In fact, over six million Americans have alopecia like Villanueva. They have gifts, abilities and a need to feel _________, Villanueva established the Charlie Villanueva Foundation to help families of kids with alopecia. Villanueva __________kids to feel good about who they are, work hard toward their goals and __________to others. Here’s his __________for them.

“We’re all __________in our own different ways. Embrace it and enjoy life __________. Many didn’t think I’d make it. Thankfully they were __________ about me. Believe in yourself, and all dreams arc possible.”