【推荐1】As I head down the narrow hallway of my high school, my ears are filled with the sounds of complaints. The _________ around me are constantly complaining about school. These complaints fill the _________ and make it hard to breathe. I try to mention the _________ side of our current situation in high school but meet with criticism. The feeling of _________ school has become widespread among students worldwide. This can create a _________ educational environment. In my opinion, school is and should be fun.

I don’t want to enter such a negative environment. We should enjoy school! As students, we are so _________ to have the opportunity to attend school while millions of children around the world still do not have that opportunity. We should feel grateful that we are given the _________ to learn. School allows us to _________ some of the most interesting topics from science to foreign languages. High school allows students to find their whether they are physics or European history. _______, school has allowed me to find my love for debate, history, English and computers. High school has shaped me into a person of __________ interests and ambitions, even though I must __________ at 6 o’ clock in the morning.

As students, we should __________ all the wonderful opportunities we are given in school social events, meeting new friends, and learning. I have met so many __________ people in school. There is so much to be __________ in school.

Lighten up and find the positive aspects of school. __________ school and everything it has offered.

【推荐3】The first day at school has left a deep ________ on me. I'll never forget it.

As soon as I rushed into the classroom, the bell rang. A young beautiful woman came in, but she was________, no smile on her face. "You are not permitted to________ me in the course of class unless..., "She was speaking when I heard a ________ "Lily, Lily" from outside the door. My grandmother was standing there with a pair of socks in her hand. I didn't realize I was bare feet ________ then. I wanted to ________ them, but I dared not do that. I shook my hand, ________ "Don't wait here any longer. Leave quickly.” As I did so, I still ________ my eyes on my teacher. I really didn't want her to take ________ of me, but she did. She went out to get the socks. When she gave them to me, she looked at me for a while. My face suddenly turned________ and my heart ________ faster. I began to put the socks on. Unfortunately I was so nervous that my________ hands couldn't get them onto my feet easily. Just then I heard my name called. I ________ from my seat quickly. "Can you________ the numbers from one to one hundred ?" the teacher asked. I nodded. ________ her surprise, I did very well. Finally she said, "Be________, please. Study hard." I looked ________ her to find a smile on her face. I felt ________ at last.

The first day at school has stayed in my________ as something embarrassing but ________.

【推荐1】Despite an age gap of 80 years, a 13-year-old girl and a care home resident in Luton have become firm friends after becoming penpals during lockdown. It _______ a lot to 93-year-old Madge, who now lives at a care home, _______ by the charity Friends of the Elderly.

Madge is _______ of children as she comes from a big family. But it’s been _______ for her to see relatives recently for the pandemic. So when the opportunity _______ to become penpals with a 13-year-old girl, she was only too _______ to take part.

Her penpal is Ella, whose family are in Luton. Before Covid-19, Ella would always be involved in the voluntary activities at the care home. _______, Covid-19 made it impossible for her to do that as usual. _______ about the people there, she felt an urge to do something. One day, it _______ Ella that she could write to the care home resident. That’s how they became penpals.

Madge said, “I’ve got all her ________ here. I think that’s so nice for her to bother to write to me who is so ________ now.” It’s helped Madge feel ________ with the outside world. And Ella also has got a lot from the experience. ________, when it’s safe, these two will meet in person.

Age is just a ________ between friends. In spite of the great difference in age, the letters ________ the gap between them.

【推荐2】As online schooling took effect in the US, parents noted many children lacked learning space at home. So, they got _______. They built, collected, and donated desks, _______ remote learning for kids in need.

In Mitch Couch’s home in California, his daughter and son kept _______ the kitchen table for remote lessons or being bothered. This gave him an _______ —he would make them their own desks. The desks were kid-size, simple and _______, made of wood. But they _______. Then he thought: Why not provide other children with individual learning areas to _______ their supplies?

“I spent only $20—significantly less than what stores charge for desks that are suddenly in _______, ” Couch said. “I decided to show others how to build desks. So I made a video about desk-making to _______ fellow parents.”

A grocery store saw Couch’s ________ online, offering to fund materials if he would build more. They also ________ local school officials to help identify those in need. At first, there was an order for 20 desks, but it quickly ________ by at least 50. By now Couch is so ________ —he can knock one out in about 15 minutes.

Couch says the messages of ________ from parents and students kept him going, sharing thank-you cards from parents saying their kids were ‘‘doing better and ________ more because they have their own space”.

【推荐3】Washington is home to lots of trees, fireplaces and wood-burning stoves. But what if you couldn’t chop _______ or couldn’t afford to pay someone to do it? _______, Shane McDaniel and his twin sons are happy to chop truckloads of wood—then donate it to those in need.

The _______ started as a father-son bonding project. “I had to cut wood with my dad. He just _______ doing it,” says Shane. He wanted to _______ that feeling, so he and the twins spent the summer of 2018 chopping wood. The _______ was a great wall of wood piled up.

It was too _______ for the McDaniels to use themselves, and when the weather turned cold that November, Shane started thinking of others. He _______ a photo of them and “Please help us help someone who ARE IN NEED OF FIREWOOD AND CANNOT AFFORD IT.” on Facebook. The _______ was immediate. One man ____________ to donate a wood-burning stove. One woman, noticing the photo of the McDaniel men in the Facebook post, felt ____________: “Please post more pictures. I don’t need the wood. ____________ truly I appreciate the eye candy!”

Single mom Katelyn Ticer and her four-year-old daughter ____________ a wood-burning stove as their sole source of heat, so it was a ____________ to receive a truckload of firewood from the McDaniels. She told msn.com, “So much stress and anxiety is ____________ my shoulders. I couldn’t be more thankful.”

Not every receiver is as ____________. “Some aren’t even friendly. It’s just not in them,” Shane says. “They are angry with the world and ____________ that they had to ask for help. They just have no other option than ____________.” But Shane is OK with that. “Giving is the ____________,” he says. “It has nothing to do with how well it’s received; it’s about how much it’s ________________

【推荐2】Last year I decided to do some volunteer work. I began to_________on the Internet and discovered Volunteer USA. Three months later I found myself on a plane to Phoenix, Arizona. I was_________at the thought of living with loads of new people for three months. However, within fifteen minutes after_________, my worries had gone. Everyone was so friendly and like-minded that it was very_________to feel at home. 

I was sent to the Coronado National Forest for my first 8-day_________. We had to_________everything we needed and walk three miles to where we worked. It may not seem like a_________way but in 35℃ heat and with a heavy pack, my legs were on fire. 

My job was to build a stairway out of rock. This_________climbing up and down the side of a mountain inhabited(栖息于) by mountain lions, although I should say they were only heard, never_________.

Three days later, a beautiful stairway came into being. The satisfaction of knowing that my__________would be on that mountainside for years to come was massive. 

But on the last night we were__________in a thunderstorm. I woke up at midnight to find a swimming pool in my tent. The temperature was close to__________. I had to spend the rest of the night trembling in the only__________part of my tent. 

__________, I suffered a lot. But I know whatever I have to face in my life I was there and I survived. I think I am much__________for having taken part in the project.