【推荐2】Jenny Ferguson, a young mother, walked around a grocery in California, looking for diapers(尿布) for her four-month-old daughter Anne. She was _________ because of the unreasonably high prices. _________, a set of three diaper packets which was on sale caught her attention. She _________ her coins and discovered she could pay for them. She quickly _________ to the cashier with the packets, hiding her _________. The cashier looked at her from head to toe, giving her a dirty look. “That’s $ 30.”

“$ 30?!” cried Jenny. “But there’s a discount! They should be a lot _________.”

“I’m sorry, lady. The deal has been invalid(无效的)!” the cashier _________.

“Oh, no,” she whispered, teary-eyed. “I can’t _________ it. Can you please give me a _________?” The cashier laughed, “Nice try, woman. But tears won’t work here.”

Jenny couldn’t control her __________ at this point. She whispered to Anne and burst out tears. She had been     ________ to Anne when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She __________ and saw a woman, somewhat in her late 80s, standing behind her.

“Oh, don’t cry,” she __________ Jenny. “I will pay for you.”

She took Jenny’s hand in hers, __________ some baby food, fruits, and bread, and told the cashier to __________. “We’ll take everything, including the diapers. The bill is on me.”

Jenny’s tears were not __________ again and she thanked the older woman for her __________. “I appreciate that so much, ma’am. But do __________ me for I didn’t even ask you your name.”

“Oh, lady,” shrugged the woman. “There’s no __________ to worry. I should leave now…” She rushed out of the store without even __________ her name.

【推荐3】Mary’s 3-month-old baby was already very weak. His stomach became larger and larger in each hour that ______. Three days ago, she brought him for ______ to the hospital where she worked due to projectile vomiting (喷射状呕吐) for several times. She knew the ______ of dehydration (脱水) very well. There were already ______ patients of this case that she and her colleagues had received.

But it was not a simple dehydration as she ______. It held a bigger unknown threat that needed immediate ______. But before the doctor could ______ what would be the best approach since X-rays failed to reveal the problem, he ordered a CT check. They said the ______ was scheduled at one of the most ______ hospital of the city since their own hospital did not have it yet.

“Ma’am, we are so blessed. His schedule is moved to 3 pm, so it would be now less than an hour to ______.” She was relieved but another ______ problem arose. She did not have the money needed. She did not have the cost of the taxi and hospital ______. She only had a few minutes left then. She asked for an empty room, and there she lay down and cried. As soon as she got up, her cell phone ______ rang. “Ms Lucero, I will ______ you the money that you need. Not only for the CT scan but for your ______ needs during your whole hospital stay!”

【推荐1】There have been countless brave women throughout history, but Deborah Sampson is especially famous. During the time when women were not ________ to serve in the army, Deborah was ________ to serve her country. During the American Revolutionary War she dressed as a man and ________ the Continental Army under the name of Robert Shirtliff.

Deborah was born on December 17,1760. ________ joining the army, she was a servant. To make her dream ________ , Deborah made a man’s suit for herself, and ________ her youthful looks and a lack of beards, no one in the army ________ her, because Deborah was taller than the average woman or man of her day.

Deborah’s service in the war was impressive. According to a report, “Robert Shirtliff’s was always ________ as one of the toughest and strongest soldiers in the army. Shirtliff’s physical endurance was legendary.” During ________ she was hurt a couple of times but ________ to keep her gender unknown to others for a while. The first time she was hurt, she received a (n) ________ across her head, which didn’t require medical attention. The second time she had her leg hurt and she ________ the wound herself.

However, after Deborah was struck by a fever and was very close to death, she was taken to the hospital. The doctor who treated her realized that she was ________ to be a man and told the ________ to Deborah’s officers, who decided to ________ discharge (使……退役) the young woman due to her heroic service.

【推荐1】With ADD (注意缺陷障碍), I could look straight into your eyes and not hear a word you’re saying. I could _________ to be listening to you but my mind was somewhere miles away.

In middle school, I took Language Arts with Mrs. Smith. That first day, she told us her rules. Then I knew I had better “_________” myself. So I told her I might need to take home some reading assignments because my _________ is better in a quiet setting and asked her if I could use my word processor at home to do written assignments because my “fine motor skill (精细动作技能)” problems made my _________ look messy. However, she refused, saying it was _________ for my classmates. The result was that each paper came back with Mrs. Smith’s flaming red X’s.

One day, again I asked her for _________ to complete the written assignment at home. But she still refused my _________. Therefore, to prove to her, or rather to myself, that I could do the work under the right conditions, I took the assignment home __________

That night, the story, which had seemed so _________ in class, became quite clear to me in the __________ of my room. It was about Louis Braille, a __________ boy. During his time, society prevented the blind having much of an education, but Louis Braille “defended” himself. He developed a reading system of raised dots for the blind, __________ him to read like his peers.   I was like Louis in my class. I was made to learn like the other students.

I used my word processor to set down my thoughts and explain myself __________Louis and many other famous people different in their learning styles and abilities, hoping Mrs. Smith would finally understand me.

As Mrs. Smith handed my paper back, I found an A instead of her usual X. Below were her __________ red penned words, “See what you can do when you __________ yourself?”

【推荐3】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.