【推荐1】My mother only had one eye, for which I never wished her to show up in my school, being afraid that my classmates would________I had an ugly mother.

One day during primary school, I was terribly ill. My mother came. “Your mom only has one eye?!” asked some of my classmates. I was so________. I wished my mother would just________from this world. “If you make me be laughed at, why don’t you just die?” I shouted at her, taking no notice of the sad look on her face. My mother just handed me some________and left without saying anything. At that time, I felt good to say what I always wanted to say, and I didn’t think I had hurt her________very much. That night I saw my mom________in her room, so quietly, as if she was afraid that she might________me. Even so, I hated her tears from one eye. I made a________: I must study hard and leave my mother.

Years later my ________came true. I was quite successful and lived happily. I never________going back to see my “ugly” mother until one day I got a letter, which said, “My son...I’m sorry I only have one eye. When you were little, you got into an accident and________your eye. As a mom, I couldn’t________watching you live with only one eye. So I gave you mine. I was never________with you and I never regretted (后悔) what I did because I________you..”

I cried out aloud. Only then did I________how beautiful my mother was!

【推荐2】Martin Folsom was well-known in his school this summer. However, he had a __ start in life. Living on and off the streets for much of his youth, Martin experienced years of ___. Yet, he didn’t stop his footsteps. This summer, Martin___ high school in Florida with a high score, which made him __ stand out of his class and enabled him to make a(n) __ at the graduation ceremony.

Martin and his mother had nowhere to live after his father deserted them. As a result, they had to __ a lot. More than two years, they lived in a number of __ across five different states. But throughout these ___years, Martin remained determined and never __ his goals. He never missed school and was the highest-ranking student in 2020.

Martin also experienced life in and out of the classroom. He was the president of several programs and __ the class monitor in the last four years. “He’s such a special guy and __ leader,” Principal Cathy Bares told the reporter. “He has a big heart for his classmates,___ them that they’re a promising generation.”__ Martin’s efforts and excellence, he has been admitted to Valdosta State University in Georgia with a full scholarship.

Martin’s___ to students is to make goals early and work hard towards them. He said, “You never know whether you’ll make it, or what you can end up achieving. But you need to ___big. And once you succeed, you will feel really fantastic.”

【推荐3】A couple in Ohio accidentally dropped off a bag containing almost $ 100,000 at an Ohio charity shop. Thanks to _______ employees, they got the money back.

The employees were going through _______ last week when they came across a _______. Inside was $ 97,004. “It was so much cash,” employee Kelsey Croy said. “I looked in the bag and we _______ it right there on the desk. And it was $ 97,004.” Thankfully, the owners _______ a receipt for tax purposes when they dropped off _______ that morning. The employees _______ called the couple but there was no _______.

Not wanting to _______ that amount of cash in the store, they called the Zanesville Police Department. ________ repeated calls, officers finally got a hold of the couple. The couple hadn’t realized the money was ________. They told the police they withdrew all their money to deposit it in another bank. On the way, they ________at the charity shop to donate a bag of clothes. That’s ________ the money ended up there. “When we finally ________ them, they just asked if they could get it back tomorrow,” the officer said.

The couple has made contact with the original ________ who found the money to thank them. “I’m just glad that I meet with a bunch of honest and loyal people,” Croy said.

【推荐1】Mattew Shifrin has been building with Legos (乐高积木) since he was 5 with the help of his friends. When he turned 13, he got a _______ birthday present from his friend, Lilya Finkel. It was an 843-piece Middle Eastern Lego palace. And with it were_______that Finkel made specially for it. Finkel_______a unique name for every one of the more than 800 pieces in the   palace set. Then she spent countless hours_______ building instructions in Braille (盲文) that spelled out how to_______ them all together.

His mind was blown. As a_______person, Shifrin had never before been able to complete a Lego set_______. Shifrin knew immediately that he had to help other blind children find the same_______ . Shifrin says, ''For blind people, Lego sets act as small 3D_______for real-life buildings instead of two-dimensional photographs. Lego bricks ________ me to see things that are ________ to explore by touch.'' For years after that incredible Lego________ , he together with Finkel created similar instructions for about 45 other Lego sets, all ________ on a website they created, ''Lego for the Blind.''

Shifrin began________the Lego company several years ago to discuss his work, but it was in 2017, when Finkel died of cancer, that he finally connected with the________person. His years-long efforts________ when the Lego company released its first audio and Braille building instructions. The project is a high-tech version of what Shifrin and Finkel did for their________. It couldn’t have been completed without Shifrin's________ – or without his determination.

He just ________ Finkel had been here to see it. ''I think she'd be very glad that we came this ________,'' Shifrin said.

【推荐3】When I was 19, I was in a really bad car accident. I woke up with a severe _________ injury and I learned that my IQ had dropped. Worse still, I had to _________ from college, and people said to me, “You’re not going to finish college. There are other things for you to do, but that’s not going to work out for you.” I had identified with being smart, and had been called _________ as a child. Having my _________ taken from me, I felt entirely _________.

I worked and worked, and _________ graduated from college, which took me four years longer than others. After that, I applied to a graduate program and _________ someone, my advisor Susan to take me on, and so I _________ at Princeton. I still felt I was not supposed to be there. The night before my first-year _________ I was so afraid that I called her and said, “I’m __________.” She said, “You’re going to stay, and this is what you’re going to do. You are going to __________ it and do every lecture that you ever get asked to do, even if you’re __________ until you have this moment where you say, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m doing it. I have become this.’”

So that’s what I did. I spent five years in graduate school and got my __________. Now I am a public speaker. I realized that I had not just faked it till I made it, I had faked it till I became it. Our __________ can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our __________.