【推荐1】David is _________ 11-year-old boy and he is crazy about space. He always wonders how space station works. For him, a space camp is_________ than any other camp in the world.

At the age of six, David had_________ first astronaut training experience. He and his parents_________ to a family space camp. They had a taste of what it was like to travel_________ space. Everything was magical. _________ excited David was!

David has been to many space camps over the last five years. Last month, he went to a new space camp. It had a lot of fun training programs_________ he enjoyed all of them there.

There he was often asked_________ he likes space camps so much. “I feel like a real astronaut in the space camp, and I don’t even need_________ the earth.” he said.

These experiences have influenced his life. Now David has made his decision__________ space science in college. He wants to be a space engineer in the future.

【推荐3】The 1,642-foot Squaw Peak of western Massachusetts is famous for its inviting views. However, it is also these views that has _______ visitors to get too close to the steep (陡峭的), slippery cliffs (悬崖), resulting in countless injuries and even _______.

Henry Grant, a student at Ithaca College, was on the _______ for sightseeing. _______, he heard a loud noise. Grant wheeled around and _______ a woman had fallen off the side of the mountain. Several _______ immediately started looking for her, but their view was _______ by trees. When Grant saw hikers _______, he decided to lend a hand, hoping he wasn’t too _______.

After 15 minutes of climbing over large rocks, __________ past prickly (多刺的) brush, and slipping down loose dirt, Grant __________ a figure about 25 feet above him. The woman had fallen about 75 feet. Incredibly, she was __________. Grant called 911 to __________ her location and crawled (爬) on all fours up a tight, __________ path, gaining support by digging into the dirt with his fingers and feet until he reached Paula. She was almost senseless. Securing himself against a tree, Grant __________ put her hand in his and tried to keep her mind off the __________ by asking her questions: “Where are you from? Do you have kids?” Soon, they were joined by other responders. Eventually, Paula was flown by helicopter to a __________.

Paula, who has fully __________, stated in a letter to the Boston Globe that Henry was her new __________.

“At 18,” she wrote, “Grant has already __________ building the rest of my life.”

【推荐1】My mother looks just like many grandmothers — short and white-haired. She comes from an old, traditional family in Canada, where she now still lives. She was a civil servant. In short, she didn’t do _______ things.

That all changed a few years ago. She began to _______ me with what she described as “independence”. At that time, I didn’t fully understand what she was doing.

In early 2015, the year she turned 75, she informed me she’d _______ a seven-night trip to Turkey, and that she was going alone. There was no way I could _______ that. A little old lady not speaking a word of Turkish, with no _______ of the laws and customs of the land — it was impossible!

My mother paid no attention to me. Off she went. When she returned, she told us it had been a wonderful success. As it _______, she had barely spent any time alone, after _______ a taxi driver to show her around. He introduced her to a rug vendor (地毯商) — Mustafa, “a lovely fellow”, and she bought some rugs. The vendor had taken her address details and promised to _______ them to Canada.

I couldn’t believe her naivety (幼稚) and explained that she had been _______. The vendor had her money. She neither had nor would be receiving any rugs.

Well, I was __________.

To my great shock, her rugs did arrive some weeks later, along with a lovely note from Mustafa. To my even greater surprise, the following year Mustafa himself arrived in Canada.

“I invited him for a cup of tea and he came,” my mother told me. I was __________ because she hardly knew this man! But again, she paid little attention to me, telling me to stop being silly.

I wondered: “Is she not thinking straight?” __________ I worried about her, Mum was thinking straighter than most of us.

Her __________ seemed to be based on a realization that life needs to be lived, when there’s relatively little of it left. It __________ me of the line “Get busy living or get busy dying.”

I don’t think Mum knows what her next big “thing” is going to be. But I am sure, she is open to any __________, which is something we all probably need right now. Live life to the fullest.

【推荐2】One evening, a man was injured in an accident and rushed to a hospital. Already in shock, he was found with multiple injuries, _________ a critical head injury. Immediate _________ was needed to stop the life-threatening situation.

At 9:00 pm, the operation started and was supposed to be _________ in about two hours. When the doctors were about to sew up the patient’s head at about 10:30 pm, a (n) _________ thing happened.

The nurse watching the monitor sensed the _________ first and called out, “An earthquake.” Yet, the doctors were too _________ to notice the situation. After the nurse _________, the doctors finally lifted their heads and noticed the danger.

Everything in the operation room was _________. Yet, if the operation was stopped and the patient’s head was left _________ , his life would be endangered.

“Calm down! Calm down!” the medical staff __________ each other. At the same time, after__________ all related equipment, they decided to continue. However, it was getting worse as the operation proceeded, and the nurses had to hold the operation table tightly to __________ it. By virtue of the team’s __________ and excellent professional skills, they completed the high-risk operation __________ before a worse condition may happen. The patient recovered well later.

Many people are __________ by the great love and selflessness of the angels in white and show thumbs-up for them.

【推荐3】I was far away when I got a call that my mother was dying in rural Kentucky. I was desperately_______while the emergency funds were not enough to _______ a rental car.

Then, I was_______ at 10:30 pm in the middle of nowhere and didn’t know how I was going to get to the hospital. That was when a gentleman came up to me and said, “_______you trust me, I can give you a(n) _______ .”

I still do not know what pushed me to_______it, but I did. When he came to a(n)_______to get some gas, he bought me a soda. I didn’t think that I had _______ met such a warm-hearted stranger in my life. He took me to the hospital and_______me when I went to check on my mom. Then he brought me to my hotel, waited while I dropped off my backpack, and took me back to the hospital again.

When we got back, I __________to give him some gas money, which was the least that I could do. However, he __________. This gentleman had brought me to my mother’s side, bought me something to drink, and made sure I got to the__________without asking for anything__________. He did these out of the kindness of his heart. I don’t remember his name, but I __________think about him and hope that he is doing well. It just goes to prove that there are still warm and __________people left in the world.