【推荐1】When I asked my mom for piano lessons in 2010, we were in the fallout of the recession (经济衰退). She said a polite “No”．

That did’t stop me. I searched the ________ on the Internet for a keyboard, drew the keys on a piece of paper and ________ it on my desk. I would click notes on an online ________ and “play” them back on my paper one — keeping the ________ they made on the computer in my head. Once my mom saw that I was ________, she borrowed money and bought me 10 lessons.

I still remember the first one. I was ________ by how real the sound of the piano was. I ________ my grade one test after eight lessons. But when I started secondary school, we couldn’t ________ lessons again. I passed grade five, practicing only on my piece of paper.

When I was about 13, my mom said she had a ________ for me; it was an electronic keyboard, bought with more borrowed money. It was the first time I’d played for her.

Later I found The Purcell School for young musicians. The tryouts were ________. Some of the questions ________ an assessment of the composer or when the music was written. I felt stressed out. To my amazement I was offered a ________. At Purcell, I saved enough money to buy my first piano.

When I left Purcell, I was awarded the senior academic music prize. I am now at the Guildhall School of Drama & Music in London, one of the world’s leading music schools. I feel proud: it's been more than 10 years ________ I drew my paper keyboard. I continue to do a lot of my practice away from the piano, which we call ________ practice. The paper keyboard helped solve my ________ about how music works and what forms the masterpieces.

【推荐3】An 11-year old boy from Nigeria impressed the world with an online video of his ballet(芭蕾) dancing in the rain. Then something ________ followed.

Madu is one of 12 students of a dance school. Daniel, the school founder, is teaching children for free and hopes to “change some commonly held ________ about ballet.”

Gracefully spinning(旋转) among a group of girl dancers, Madu ________.While his mom wanted him to become a priest (牧师), the boy pushes himself hard to be what he ________ to be.

“I love dancing and it gives me a great feeling. People think ballet is only for girls, but I want people to ________ that a boy could do the same,” Madu said.

The video of Madu ________ his ballet skills in the downpour got ________ from millions, including Mrs. Harvey, director from a top US dance school, who decided to ________.

She ________ Madu with a full scholarship to her school and offered Daniel an online course for free to ________ his teaching.

Both Madu and his teacher went ________ at the surprise! “Sorry for disappointing mom. I love the ________ but not the prayer and I’ll never give it up,” the boy ________.

________, when you nourish(滋养) your dream with love and ________, opportunities will find their own way .

【推荐3】The last complete ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed (倒塌). The Milne Ice Shelf is _______ Ellesmere Island, Canada. The shelf lost _______ 40 percent of its area in just two days at the end of July, 2020. 

Above normal air temperatures, offshore winds and open water in front of the shelf are all parts of the _______ for its break-up.The shelf area shrank (缩小) by about 80 square kilometers. By comparison, the island of Manhattan in New York _______ about 60 square kilometers.Temperatures in the polar area have been _______ intense (强烈的). Summer in the Canadian Arctic in 2020 has been 5 degrees Celsius _______ the 30-year average. That has _______ smaller ice caps, _______ can melt quickly. As a glacier disappears, more bedrock is left _______. This then speeds up the melting ________. A research camp, including instruments for measuring water flow through the ice shelf, was lost when the shelf at Ellesmere Island collapsed. 

“It was only a ________ of time,” said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. His study showed the ice caps were ________ to disappear within five years. Their disappearance was ________ last year, when NASA satellite images of the area showed a complete lack of snow and ice. Serreze’s ________ trip to the Arctic was many years ago. “When I was there in the 1980s, I knew every square inch of those ice caps,” Serreze said. “You have the good ________. It’s like your first girlfriend. I want her back.”

【推荐1】I grew up as the “baby” of my family. I was the youngest of the three sons. My brothers were five and seven years _________ than me and dealt with most of the small routine tasks that my mum and dad needed to do around the house. I _________ most of my time riding my bike, playing basketball, walking in the woods, or reading books by the stove(火炉) in the cold winter. I spent my _________ with all the fun and none of the _________ .

By the time I entered my early teens, _________ , both of my brothers had moved out of our home. My dad _________ his back seriously and become _________. Later, we moved to a mountain top house _________ by a stove. I soon found that I did more work _________ I had ever done before. I __________ the weeds(杂草) in our garden in the spring and summer. In the fall, I cut and __________ wood up to keep us __________ in the winter. All year around I __________ heavy five-gallon containers of water from a mountain spring back to our __________ so that we could have water to drink and cook with.

At first, I __________ and wasn’t satisfied. After a while, I began to find __________ in helping my parents. I sang to myself while I piled wood up and smiled while I carried water. I__________ found myself helping my mum with dinner dishes and cleaning. I started to __________ something that I would carry with me the rest of my __________ too: when your work is done in love, it isn’t just __________ .

【推荐3】Weeks ago, I was traveling by train. After several stations, the delivery man from the cafeteria came along to_______ the pre-booked hot meals and drinks. Just behind him rushed in a 9-year-old girl, who put out her hand, _______some food. The food supplier was_______and pushed her out of the coach（旅客车厢）. Something in me made me_______. I stepped outside and saw the child still standing there and crying. I asked her if she was hungry and she_______. So I grabbed her hand and said I’d buy her food.

When I took her to the coach with the cafeteria, the people standing there had a(an)_______expression on their face, seeing the little girl with me. _______their reaction, I asked her to_______whatever she wanted. As I pointed to each item, she_______nodding.

________, we collected so much food. When I turned to the cashier to pay the bill, the little girl________hurrying down the train. The cashier shook his head in disbelief and said the girl must be laughing for having fooled me into________her unhappiness.

As I returned to my coach, the cashier’s________made me doubt whether she’d really fooled me. So I__________and went down the train, following the ________the little girl had taken. After several coaches, I walked to a relatively-deserted coach. Here I saw a________which left me surprised. This little girl was sitting in a ________with two other miserable-looking young boys. She had put all the food in the center and was________ putting food into the hand of a young blind boy. Seeing all this, I couldn’t help________. The little girl taught us that one can be________even when poor.