【推荐1】As I was leaving Best Buy one evening, I noticed a man going through the trash can (垃圾桶) outside of the store. He ________ in the can and pulled out some bays and inspected all that was in them.

He never ________ anyone or tried to beg for money as people entered and left the store. After he went through the ________ trash can, he cleaned up the area carefully and wrapped up the food he found. My heart ________ for him. I don’t guess I’ve ever seen someone ________ go through a trash can to find food to eat.

I knew I had to ________ him. I got out of my car and asked him if I could buy him something to eat. He told me he would ________ anything I could get him. He followed me into a fast food store nearby and I bought him the ________meal they had on the menu. The only request he gave me for his order was if I could get him a big glass of sweet tea to ________ his meal!

When I brought him his food, he was so thankful. He told me his name was Steve and he’d been ________ ever since his sister died last September. He was trying to get off the streets, but it was so ________.

I then drove to McDonald’s and bought him some ________ and gave him a gift card. He broke down in ________. He told me that he had prayed for me today! I wasn’t sure what he ________. He said, “I prayed that God would send someone to buy me a hot ________ today… and he sent you!”

【推荐3】China’s star swimmer Wang Shun is no stranger to newspaper or magazine covers. Wang, an Olympic champion, has already _______ three gold medals, a silver and a bronze in Hangzhou Asian Games. His story reveals how years of _______ and setbacks turned him into a world-beater.

_______ his childhood, Wang has fond memories of the moment that sparked his _______ curiosity about swimming. “The first time I got into the pool was with my father. I followed him and I didn’t know how to swim. I remember I swallowed a lot of water, and then I saw an adult _______ out of the water, so I just _______ his head and climbed onto his shoulder.”

As he began to train _______, though, Wang often struggled with the long hours in the pool, and would sometimes sit in the locker room to _______ training. Now, with Olympic gold in his trophy cabinet, he is _______ he didn’t give up.

“I’ve been through many ________ times in my career. In 2019, for instance, my performances were not ideal and I was really ________ at the time about this. I even thought about ________. But my coach stuck with me and kept helping me improve, mentally and physically,” Wang said. “Then in June I sprained my ankle, which ________ me to stop training for two weeks. The ________ process was pretty tough. I was just thinking these setbacks won’t stop me from trying to win Olympic gold.”

At 27, age is now a new challenge for Wang. However, with Team China increasingly ________ scientific methods of training and support, he is confident he can remain competitive into his thirties.

【推荐1】It was late September. I was driving through a heavy fog to a store to _______ a few things. When I got there, I _______ in the store looking for what I _______ . I chose a bag of food for my dogs, a pack of _______ for my son to play with his toy car and my favorite chocolate bars for _______ . As I turned the corner to _______ the checkout, though, I saw something that stopped me in my _______. A two-foot-tall skeleton (骨骼模型) _______   a tuxedo (无尾礼服) was staring across the room at a two-foot-tall Santa Claus. I _______ shook my head and walked on.

As I was ________ home, the fog lifted and the Autumn leaves started to ________ in the sunlight. There were reds, yellows, oranges and browns. It was so ________ . As I watched them, I found the   ________ why I had been so bothered by what I had seen in the__________. It wasn’t that Halloween was a month away and Christmas three months away. It wasn’t that the stores were doing all they could to________ money from our pockets and add__________ to our credit cards. It was the ________ fact that we possibly had ________ that every day is nice. Every day is ________, which we should treasure. We have created a world in which we regret the past and live for the ________. We spend all of our wealth trying and failing to buy a few moments of joy.

【推荐3】Ever since I was a child I have struggled with self-doubt. It's a feeling that you aren't good enough, that you can't _______anything. Yet try as I might to_______these thoughts, I could hardly escape them.

I was a dreamer. I would tell anyone my big hopes and dreams, only to be met with mockery and _______. People around me would bombard (抨击) me with phrases like “you need to be _________”, and “you aren't capable of achieving that”. _______, over time, these phrases _________my little sense of self-confidence. Whenever I tried to pursue a goal or a dream, I mentally _______myself before I ever even began. _______like: “you aren't meant to be successful” and “why do I even bother” raced to the forefront of my mind.

Until one day, I woke up and found I was so _______of talking down to myself. I decided I was going to ________with my self-esteem and I was going to win this war. I started by focusing on gaining little victories. I showed up on time to work every day and doubled my ________. I began to take pride in my possessions and in keeping things ________. Every day I would write down a list of positive qualities I had. I would also write down everything I had accomplished that day ________goals I had set. As time went on, I was getting in increasingly better shape through my ________to exercise. I was performing better at my job, and most importantly I felt more ________.

【推荐2】I’d like to say that my journey to a little free seed library began because of my awareness of food systems’ inefficiencies, food ________, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ability of folks to ________ resources.

I teach a university course on food systems and social justice. ________, I’ve always wished to have a little free library, a place for ________ to exchange books and ideas, to relax, and to build community. I’ve enjoyed and ________ from many little free libraries as a reader myself and as a mother ________ out books for my children, especially during the pandemic.

As my family and I ________ into our forever home in 2019, I was ________ at the opportunity to create a free library in this new place. I even imagined a rest area outside my home where people could sit and rest while ________.

A couple of weeks after we moved in, I found my neighbor ________ a little free library. As I smiled and congratulated her, my heart ________. It wouldn’t make sense to have two adjacent（相邻的） libraries; I knew that ________.

After the initial disappointment, I regained my ________. I wasn’t confident I could make it work. But now, as I ________ that I still needed my own style of sharing, the conditions were right for that old ________ to germinate（发芽）. It first sat on the back shelf of my mind and then slowly came to the front.