【推荐1】It was my first day of high school, and I was late.My next class, German, scared me.I just could not speak that ___.As the bell rang, I ran to the classroom.

At the door, a hand reached out and   __ mine firmly.I looked up.A man with large glasses smiled.He ___himself as Tony, which means teacher in German.__, his warm smile and ___ words eased my fears.That year, I ___ his classes a great deal because I learned ____just German.

I admit I only speak a little German.___ I try to live out the life lessons I learned from Tony.

Every day Tony stood   __ his classroom before and after class to give his “hand hug”.After school his room was always filled with students and he would __ to and chat with them—__   those not in his class.He taught me that every person is __ your time.

One time, I was rejected by my friends.Tony told me, “Linda, life gives you __.But learning its lessons will turn those ashes to jewels.” Therefore, I learned to look at my troubles     __   and not to fear any difficulty.

In my senior year, I __ president of one of the school’s clubs, so I was very__.Many times I didn’t even have time to buy lunch.He served me by giving me his food as well as advice.He ____ out what he taught us to do: ___ others.

The author William Arthur Ward __: “The mediocre（平庸的） teacher tells.The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates.The great teacher __.” Thank you Tony, for inspiring me.

【推荐2】A few years ago, I was leaving where I worked only to find a baby goat (山羊) at the end of the driveway. I _________ someone dumped (遗弃) him over the fence. The _________ was visibly nervous but stood perfectly still as I approached.

I’m an animal _________ and I’ve brought home dogs, cats, horses, chickens, and fish, but never a goat. The tiny kid was too adorable to _________. I named him Quincy, and bottle-fed him in my bathroom.

Quincy proved to be quite intelligent. When he was about a week old, I _________ my fingers on the bathroom floor and said “Lie down.” I was amazed when he _________.

A _________ study—Quincy learned to lie down, bow, and turn in a circle in no time. He knows the name of everything I feed him, and even joins us for trips to the dog park.

I love to train animals and often take my dogs to shows where they can perform their tricks. Quincy did his first _________ when he was just six weeks old. He knew only a few _________ then, but he did them perfectly and __________ misbehaved or got nervous in front of the crowd.

Now he has a whole performing list: He’ll shake hooves (蹄子), come when __________, wave, smile for the camera (“Say cheese!”), and more. Quincy and my dogs __________ regularly at schools, nursing homes, and charity events. Quincy can even “read” his tricks off cue cards, which always earns the most __________.

It’s hard to believe that the goat kid __________ wanted turned out to be one of the smartest and most good-natured animals I’ve ever had. He’s by far the __________ of my bunch—just don’t tell the dogs!

【推荐3】For many young Canadians, planting trees is more than just a job. It's a way of _________— and it could be catching on, thanks to a popular _________ by Leslie. While working for a logging company, the 29-year-old filmed herself using the _________ method that allowed her to plant 4,545 trees in a single day. She said that the work is truly _________.

Planting trees is not easy work, according to Leslie. Not only is it _________ tiring, but it also exposes laborers to the bad weather. "It could start the day off _________ and then minutes later, it will just be raining or snowing. You never know what to _________," she described. "There were some days that we were planting through a heat _________, so we had like 37-to-40-degree weather for several days straight and that was really _________."

So far, Leslie has planted a total of 372,290 trees in the past few years.__________, she's still nowhere near beating the Guinness World record. That honor __________ Kenny Chaplin, who once planted 15,170 trees in 19 hours. After 35 years on the job, he says he'd __________ it to anyone.

"I think every parent in Canada should __________ their kid out tree planting because it will turn them into a worker," he __________. "They'll learn how to work, they'll have __________ and they'll have money in their pockets."

【推荐1】Two big characters stand firmly on the cover of the book Xiangxin, with a phrase—”Even in failure, never ______“. That is how Cai Lei, former vice-president of a business giant, faces ALS,a terminal illness. The book tells vividly the story of his unique _______ with it.

In 2019, the muscle on his left arm had been in pain and he visited Fan Dongsheng, a leading ALS expert. The doctor______his two hands about 20 centimeters from each other,saying,”This was your______life expectancy.“Then his left hand quickly moved to wardsthe right one, almost______it, and he added,”Now this is how long it will be.“The world suddenly turned _______for Cai.

Cai decided to take matters into his own______. In 2019, he started his own medical technology company, and built his own research team. A(n) ______of his team is removing the data______between hospitals, which made it difficult for experts to efficiently monitor and ______patients’ situations. His team also built a big data platform that could collect the_______ of such patients and process it for research purposes. ______ by his example, nearly

”I won’t give up. I don’t consider work from the angle of difficulties or possibilities. I just ______whether it’s worth doing,“he says.”Now I have completely accepted death without any ______because I have tried my best.“

【推荐2】I was young and determined to take an adventurous trip. But ______ nearly 800 meters out of a cable car(缆车), with a safety rope attached to my ankles, was not part of my plan. It’s ______ how intentions can change.

Staring over the ______ of the cable car, my heart was in my throat. I ______ heard the others behind me counting down. How could I have let myself be ______ into this? It was crazy!

My palms(手掌)were ______ and my heart was beating.

“Five.” They started the ______ for the second time, ignoring my useless protests.

“Four.”

“Three.”

“Two.” In that moment I ______ my mind a million times and came to the final ______ that there was no way I could allow myself to jump out of the cable car, suspended(悬空)so high off the ground.

______ my ankles please!

Then...

“One.”

I let go and jumped out as far as I could. If there had been time to ______ it for another second, I would have stopped myself. But instead, I leaped.

It felt as if all my fears, insecurity, and doubts were being let go. An enormous sense of ______ rose up in me. As I fell toward the earth ______ first, I saw my new friends waiting for me on the ground and could hear them ______ my victory over fear.

Jumping out of the cable car put me on ______ of the world, and that’s where I am determined to remain for the rest of my life.