【推荐2】Growing up on a farm, Tori James spent much of her early years outdoors, building shelters and playing in muddy streams. She _________ herself as an ambitious and adventurous child and owes the Duke of Edinburgh Award to her love for _________. James says she could never have _________ that one day she might be the youngest British woman to _________ the peak of Mount Everest.

Today, James is a(n) _________ adventurer. Alongside her successful climb of the world’s _________ peak in 2007, she was a member of the first all-female team to _________ a tiring 650-kilometre ski race to the Magnetic North Pole in 2005, and in 2014 she set the _________ for the longest non-stop open-sea kayak crossing in UK waters.

Yet ahead of her first exploration at the age of 18, James had _________ her ability to last a month out in the cold without the comfort of a hot bath. “It’s only by ____________ our comfort zone that we understand our true potential,” she explains, “That’s when the ____________ happens.”

James encourages would-be adventurers not to be ____________ by the conventional image of the rugged (粗犷的), hardy explorer. “I am such a believer that, with the right support and skills, everyone can bring ____________ to an exploration,” she adds, “Sometimes, it’s only out in the field that someone’s ____________ talents emerge, ____________ in the process of exploration.”

【推荐3】On Oct. 11, hundreds of runners competed in a cross-country race in Minnesota. Melanie Bailey should have _________ the course earlier than she did. Her _________ came because she was carrying a _________ across the finish line.

As reported by a local newspaper, Bailey was more than two-thirds of the way through her _________ when a runner in front of her began crying in pain. She _________ to help her fellow runner, Danielle Lenoue. Bailey took her arm to see if she could walk forward with _________. She couldn’t. Bailey then _________ to let Lenoue climb onto her back and carried her all the way to the finish line, then another 300 feet to where Lenoue could get _________ attention.

Once there, Lenoue was _________ and later taken to a hospital, where she learned that she had serious injuries in one of her knees. She would have struggled with extreme __________ to make it to that aid checkpoint without Bailey’s help.

As for Bailey, she is more __________ about why her act is considered a big __________. “She was just crying. I couldn’t __________ her,” Bailey told the reporter. “I feel like I was just doing the right thing.”

Although the two young women were strangers before the __________, they’ve since become friends. Neither won the race, but the __________ of human kindness won the day.

【推荐2】One Saturday morning my brother and I went to play tennis near a school building. Actually, we played very well and we were ______ the ball higher and faster each time.

Suddenly, something ______ happened — the ball got out of ______ and went crashing through one of the upstairs windows. We looked around and no one was in ______.

I asked my brother ______, “ Now what should we do?” “ Well,” my brother ______, “no one will know whose ball it is and no one saw us. Let’s go home.” I ______ after a brief hesitation.

As soon as we arrived home, we told our father what had happened. We thought we were lucky and wise. However, his response was ______ to our expectation. “ Well, I will go to the school janitor (门卫) and see what we need to do.” And then he left immediately.

We were waiting at home, ______ and uneasy. About an hour later, our father ______. “ Well, I talked to the school janitor and he was ______ when I told him what had happened. He said many windows had been broken, but we were the first ones to ______ that we were responsible. He said the school budget ______ window repair, so we will not have to pay for the window.”

He could see our relief as he continued, “ I am proud of your kids for having the ______ to tell me what happened.”

From this incident, we discovered that admitting our mistakes and taking the ______ is always the right choice.

【推荐3】Silence is important for learning. I got it from my fourteen-month-old daughter Arielle.

One day, she sat on the floor with an old baby doll. Without buttons, it could neither _________ nor play music. The whole room was silent. Then Arielle began to explore the baby doll. When her hand touched a tiny _________, she used one finger to trace (勾画) its shape. Then she _________ one of her own ears and then both ears. She kept tracing the doll’s ear and her own a few more times until, _________, she turned her attention elsewhere.

At that moment I discovered how human _________ took place. Something stimulated (刺激) Arielle’s _________: Is her body like her doll’s? With no outside stimulation, she satisfied her curiosity by comparing the doll’s body and herself. _________, for many kids, experiences like Arielle’s are less and less frequent _________ children are surrounded by those so-called _________ toys which can talk and move at the push of a button. This __________ them to push buttons repeatedly without thinking and may rob (剥夺) children of opportunities to problem-solve.

Like adults, children need times that are __________ to experience the difference between just reacting to outside stimulation and __________ their own ideas by exploring the world.

Indeed, the toys most likely to encourage creative play are not those that make __________ or have lots of unnecessary’ functions. __________, they are simple, quiet and can be used in lots of different ways. So next time, when __________ what to buy your child, make a wise choice.