【推荐3】A woman called Courtney has recently captured the attention of the Internet. She shared the ________ of how she became homeless. Courtney ________ how disaster struck when she lost her ________ in the exact same week that her husband did too. The couple ________ moved in Courtney’s sister’s but, unfortunately, the living ________ didn’t work out.

The pair ________ living on the streets. They slept in parks while completing the ________ intake process for shelter accommodation. After finally getting ________, the couple faced further challenges. It was difficult to find work that ________ the shelter’s requirements.

Since her first video, Courtney has gathered a following of almost 70,000 people on the Internet where she highlights the ________ of being a homeless person. Her videos were recently spotted by Chelsey, a ________ woman who has given a lovely gift.

Chelsey ________ she could be of more assistance. Chelsey said, “I started ________ her story and thought it necessary to help. I knew people tend to send money or ________, but I wanted to send her an opportunity. Cash is ________, but I knew if I sent her a ________, she could find virtual job opportunities on the Internet while searching for a full-time job.”

Just a few weeks after sending Courtney the laptop, Chelsey realized she was in need of some assistance with her project. She ________ to pay Courtney to work for her. Courtney is now helping Chelsey write blog ________ about the stories about her project.

Chelsey continued, “We should be ________ in an unkind world, and give people opportunities, just because that you’re homeless doesn’t ________ you’re not human.”

【推荐1】In 1995, two years before Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash in Paris, she said in a TV interview that she’d like to be a queen. She wanted to be a queen in people’s hearts.

In the 24 years since her _________ on August 31, 1997, it’s become _________ how well she fulfilled that hope. Every August, tributes (颂词) _________ to celebrate her life and legacy. She used her celebrity to raise awareness for a number of _________, from leprosy (麻风病) to mental health.

She made _________ in 1987 when she _________ shook hands with an AIDS _________, challenging the previously _________ idea that HIV/AIDS could be spread through _________. At the time, Princess Dianna was opening the UK’s first unit that __________ cared for HIV/AIDS patients at London Middlesex Hospital. She was famously the first member of the __________ family to shake hands with someone with AIDS.

She was, in the words of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, “the people’s __________”. When Blair used that phrase in a speech following Dianna’s death, he was __________ words to help a nation feel sorry for and sad about a shockingly sudden __________. “People felt so emotional about Dianna because she had a(n) __________ connection with everybody,” says Anji Hunter, Blair’s former adviser. “People felt so close to her. It was like your own beloved friend, mother and sister had died.”

The following was Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ’s __________:

Ahead of Dianna’s funeral, Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ gave a speech, __________ Dianna as an “exceptional and __________ human being”. And at the funeral, the Queen took an additional __________ to pay tribute.

“The Queen bows to nobody—ever,” says historian Jane Ridley in the CNN series. And yet, as the funeral procession (队列) __________ past Buckingham Palace, the Queen was seen making a bow to her daughter-in-law.

【推荐3】The notion that mothers can simultaneously nurture their children and their careers is often seen as a modern phenomenon. ________ history is full of mothers who reached beyond the house — courageous women who overcame societal barriers and changed the world for people ________ their own children.

The ________ for Mother’s Day, Ann Jarvis, was a social activist and pioneer in the public-health movement in the U.S. As a mother Jarvis suffered the loss of eight children. Determined to combat infant ________ in the area, Jarvis began to organize Mother’s Day work clubs to provide education, medicine and supplies. After the Civil War began, Jarvis strived for soldiers’ well-being. Jarvis’ impact was so powerful that she inspired her daughter to ________ for a national holiday honoring mothers, formalized in 1914.

In the early 1900s, Lillian Gilbreth also raised her children alone after her husband’s death. Gilbreth was a woman of ________: first woman to receive the Hoover Medal for significant public service by an engineer, first female member of the Society of Industrial Engineers, and first female psychologist on a U.S. stamp. Her accomplishments in psychology, ________ and organizational management were so vast she is considered one of the founders of industrial engineering. She not only advised six successive U.S. presidents, but also improved surgical operating procedures and invented many ________ appliances, from refrigerator door shelves to the pedal-operated trash can.

________ masses of historic milestones, these resilient mothers and so many more like them, are not exactly household names. The obstacles that keep many women from ________ a happy balance between work and motherhood are real. But lack of awareness of the women who overcame such obstacles, and broke away from the roles society ________ on women, is, paradoxically, an obstacle too.

________ out impressed bias is one of the most challenging aspects of gender equality efforts. We can pass laws and demand reform, but changing mindsets is more subtle. Mothers are uniquely devoted to ________ that change.

On this Mother’s Day then, in addition to honoring the women who have had an impact on our lives ________, let’s take a moment to recognize the ________ mothers of history — the women whose names we may not recognize, but whose impact we feel even today.