【推荐3】As I opened my eyes, a jet flew above me at high speeds. I watched my parents and my sisters talking and laughing at the front of the ________. Many boats, ________ with families and friends, were on the lake. Another jet flew past. I thought about how much the world has ________ and how little people ________ the one thing time cannot change: relationships.

Pilots in their jets flew by at high speeds. At that moment, our life seemed comparatively ________. We casually listened to each other ________ the pilots performed above. How ________ these times seemed ________ the trials and skills required of the men high above travelling at record-breaking speeds.

Just as the jets ________, so does our daily life. Lifestyles change with time, but time will never change people’ s ________. Parents love their children the same as they did thousands of years ago. ________, children now and the children of the past love their parents ________. Friends and family have played important roles in our lives for centuries; ________, we don’t appreciate them enough when we are together. Why not ________ the one thing time has not changed?

Two jets passed overhead. I sat up and ________ my back against a lifeline(救生索) on the side of the boat. I felt ________ as the air show approached its end, yet renewed by my ________ at-titude to the world. I stood up to ________ my sisters at the front of the boat and sat beside them.

They turned, their eyes met mine and I smiled. ________ not to be excluded(排除在外) a moment from my family, I added a comment and contributed to the ________ filling the front of the boat.

【推荐2】When you find something you love to do, you should do something about it, as one man has proved by turning his hobby into a dream _________.

Former waiter, Bartek, who lives in London, started cooking as a way to _________ the time during lockdown but the hobby has ended up _________ changing his life. The 25-year-old shared videos of his food on TikTok under the username @ letscook and went viral, _________ 580,000 followers. His videos have proved so popular that he has _________ to quit his job to start cooking full-time.

It all _________ in April 2020, when Bartek made a cheesecake at home during lockdown. His younger sister Tosia, 16, thought the sweet treat looked so impressive that he should _________ it on TikTok. Although he was _________ in cooking his own simple food, and had previously worked as a _________ at Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Bartek had no experience with __________ cooking meals in front of a camera.

The TikTok star, who is originally from Poland, __________ to give the video-sharing app a __________ and his second post-creamy garlic chicken-went viral, reaching 500,000 people overnight. Finding it fun to experiment and bring forth new ideas for classic dishes, he __________ posting videos, filming the process on his phone and __________ the videos himself.

His audience has continued to grow ever since and he __________ his success to his mum, Mariola, who would __________ traditional Polish recipes for his family.

The new cook has become so __________ that he was able to quit his former job in August 2021 and has now __________ his own recipe book called Let’s Cook. He said: “I’ve always been in the __________ with my mum so she taught me a lot, but I only __________ got into cooking because of lockdown. And now I am doing my dream job.”

【推荐3】When I was 14 I knew one thing, I didn’t want to be like my sister. She was a journalist in high school and it’s all she talked about. It made being a journalist the _______ thing I wanted to do. No matter how many times I said it, though, I _______ found myself in “Intro to Journalism” freshman year, mostly because my mom _______ me to be.

I pretended I hated it, but over time I began _______ the “whole point” of what we were learning. I wasn’t writing a report for my teacher. I was writing for people. I was becoming a storyteller.

Just after that one short semester（学期） I began to see things _______ --- I saw things as stories. I wanted to _______ the stories I saw with anyone who _______ listen.

Before I knew it I was swallowing my _______ and signing up to join newspaper staff. I experienced nearly every _______ on staff during the first year. I designed. I took photos. I wrote for every __________ ---big stories, small stories, opinions, everything.

I loved everything, but I found my __________ in visual journalism. I had an eye for design and I was __________ to put in the work. With each story I was involved in, I made sure that story was told in its entirety. There are some __________ of a story that just cannot be told in paragraph form, and that’s where I came in. I worked to __________ our magazine’s design every day, but I also worked to __________ the web and multimedia to the publication.

I loved generating（产生） content for the paper, but as I __________ through my junior year I found myself __________ creating things less and less. __________ taking the ideas and making them happen, I was __________ ideas and helping my staff do the best they possibly could to make their work happen. And now I have learnt what it __________ to be a good storyteller.

【推荐1】My biggest challenge in the past year, when I moved into an apartment near Basel, Switzerland, took the form of a massive Bernese Mountain Dog. He ______ an elderly woman on her daily walk behind my home. Since I enjoy the same ______ almost every day, our encounters were ______. The dog walked closely by his partner like a ______.

I’d admired the beautiful Bernese ______. My policy is not to touch anyone’s dog without asking ______ or sensing a clear invitation to do so. This fellow’s owner would always ______ me a pleasant word or two in the local Swiss dialect, little of which I understood ______ at first. So we’d just smile and pass as the dog eyed me with ______, usually with a sharp warning bark.

As this ______ on week after week, I came at least to know their names: Etti and Rocky, ______ with a deeply rolled “R” and long “O”. You can’t force love. Sure enough, over time the sharp bark turned into an almost ______ woof (狗叫声), and the conversations with Etti ______ several sentences, mutually understood despite my ______ accent.

Finally, one day, Rocky presented his massive ______ below my hand, as if allowing me to bestow (授予) on him his entitled knighthood.

【推荐3】I couldn’t believe it when Ron said, “Honey, I bought us two camels!” I’d always been an animal _________. But beautiful was not a word I would have ever used to _________ a camel.

They were babies when bought and I _________ them Nadia and Sybil. I remember Nadia once _________ a male calf that lived for only a short time. It broke my heart to hear her throaty bellows (嘶哑地吼叫) as she mourned (哀悼) the _________. After a week, Nadia went back to eating and roaming (漫步), _________. I can’t know her inner feeling, but the _________ she showed left a deep impression on me.

Last fall, Sybil was believed to be in a deadly _________. I could see the suffering in her eyes, but she _________ through the pain during the trip to A&M, where we knew she’d have the best chance of __________. Her strong will __________ me and even the hospital team.

In 2016, Ron was diagnosed with cancer. We were both __________ upset. For six months, he underwent intensive radiation treatments that left him quite __________. I took sole responsibility for caring for the animals, keeping our household __________ and lifting Ron’s spirits. I was __________ mentally and physically. But Nadia and Sybil __________ me that there’s power within us that carries us through even the toughest times.

Yet it wasn’t until I watched Nadia and Sybil live through __________ that I realized that even during those __________ years, there had been hope for me. Now, between animal feeding and other farm chores, I sit __________ in our cottage, more at peace than I’ve ever been. I thank Ron for bringing me these camels. They’re truly a __________ for me.