【推荐1】I am a girl, but I was born to be a rebel (叛逆者). I like games that can be _______. Some of the sports I like, even boys won’t play!

Wrestling (摔跤) is _______ seen as a sport for men, but I decided to see if I could do it.

Every Saturday morning, I got out of bed early to go and watch my brother _______. From morning to night, I would sit watching the _______ have all the fun. Since then, wrestling has been part of my _______.

For three years, I _______ all the boys and became the best player in the team. My best memory of wrestling is when a boy walked off _______ because he’d lost to a girl.

My last _______ was at this year’s Girls’ State Wrestling Championships.

I was so _______. I was sure I would win. My heart was beating hard when the match started. I could see nothing but my competitor. When the final whistle blew, I had __________ by four points. The cameras and __________ all turned to me: I was the new wrestling champion. I felt so happy. But after a few minutes of enjoying being a champion, __________ began to run through my knee.

Because I hurt my knee, my __________ of being a national champion ended. Even so, I still want to wrestle next year when I go to college. I have __________ that you can do anything you want if you put your __________ into it.

【推荐2】Last Thursday, Michael and Linda were distributing (分发) meals to 4,000 homeless people for their wedding reception (婚宴) in the border town of Kills. The _________ had decided that instead of playing host to their friends and family with a traditional feast reception, they _________ to feed the homeless people from an earthquake-stricken area.

The idea came from Michael’s father, Ted, who _________ for a Turkish relief organization. For the past few years, the organization has handed out _________ meals to thousands of people who’ve suffered from natural disasters. He called Adam, who was _________ the organization, and suggested that the family cover part of the cost of feeding them for the day.

Then he told his son, who was surprised by the _________, but soon agreed. When he told that to Linda, she was really shocked but finally _________ because in southeastern Turkey there is a real culture of sharing with people _________. They love to share their _________, their table and everything they have. And afterwards she was quite __________ in it. So, they arrived at the __________ on Thursday to spend the day serving food and taking photographs with their grateful recipients (接受者).

On Tuesday evening, the __________ married couple were still pleased with their decision to __________ a personal celebration for one with greater good. Michael said, “A small act of __________ could make a big difference. __________, this will give the start for other wedding dinners to be held here with our brothers and sisters in need.”

【推荐3】It was Mother’s Day and I was shopping at the local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were ____, we realized that only minutes earlier an ____ woman had fallen over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground. ____ was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock. ____ a lot of people stopped to help out.

____ we were walking towards the scene, Tenyson became very ____ about what had happened to the elderly couple. He ____ to me, “Mom, it’s not much fun falling over in front of ____.” Seeing that there was a flower store at the front of the supermarket, he added, “Why shouldn’t we ____ the lady a flower? It will make her fell better.” I was ____ that he’d come up with this ____ idea. So we went over and told the flower seller ____ we wanted. “Just take it,” she replied. “I____ take your money for such a wonderful ____.”

By now medical staff had arrived, and were ____ the injured woman. We gave the flower to the woman’s husband and I told him it was ____ my son. At that, the old man started crying and said, “Thank you very much.” He then turned to me, “You have a ____ son. Happy Mother’s Day to you.”

The man bent down and gave his wife the flower, telling her who it was from. ____ being badly hurt, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with ____ in her eyes and gave him a little ____.

【推荐1】Having made several very important medical breakthroughs (突破), I was once asked why I was able to be so much more ________ than the average person. What ________ me so far apart from others?

Well, that all came from a(n) ________ with my mother when I was two. I had been trying to ________ a bottle of milk from the fridge when I lost my ________ on the slippery bottle and it ________, spilling (洒) all over the kitchen floor. When my mother came in, ________ shouting at me, giving me a lecture, or ________ me, she said, “Robert, what a great and ________ mess you have made! Well, the ________ has already been done. Would you like to play in the milk before we ________ it up?” I did.

Several minutes later, she said, “You know, Robert, whenever you make a ________ like this, in the end you have to clean it up and ________ everything to its proper order. How would you like to do that? A towel or a mop?”

After the cleaning up, she added, “What we have here is a(n) ________ experiment in how to ________ carry a big milk bottle. Let’s try again and see if you can ________ a way to carry it without ________ it.” Then I learned that if I grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, I could ________ it.

It was at that moment that I knew I didn’t need to be afraid to make ________. Even if the experiment “doesn’t work,” we usually learn something ________ from it.

【推荐2】Koch began her second year as a first grade teacher in a virtual（网络虚拟的）classroom at an elementary school in Michigan in 2020. One September afternoon a few weeks into the school year, she received a ________ from Susan, who was having technical difficulties with her granddaughter’s tools for ________ learning.

Koch immediately knew ________ was wrong with Susan. The two women had spoken many times before, but Koch had never ________ the grandmother sound quite like this. Her words were so jumbled（混乱的）that Koch could ________ understand her, though she was able to ________ that Susan had fallen four times that day. Koch ________ her principal, John, who assured her that he would call and check on Susan himself.

Just like Koch, John could barely understand Susan. He ________ she might be having a stroke（中风）—he recognized the ________ from when his own father had suffered one. John was able to distinguish the word kids and ________ became concerned that Susan’s two ________, ages six and eight, were probably home alone with her. John asked his office manager to send a(n) ________ to the grandmother’s home. Then John called two deans in the school district to tell them what was going on. Both of them ________ everything and drove to the family’s ho me.

When they ________ less than ten minutes later, the EMTs were treating Susan while the two girls, looking ________ shaken, were outside with a neighbour. The quick response from Koch and John ________ Susan’s life. She arrived at the hospital in time to get ________.

“If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be here,” said Susan from her hospital bed about a month ________ her stroke. “I’m proud of the people I work with, that they responded so quickly and that it did ________ for Susan,” says Koch. “I am so pleased to be part of such a ________ community.”

【推荐3】We moved there on my third birthday. My first _________ is bur neighbor Arlene handing me strawberries from her garden through a hole in the chain-link fence. She and her husband, Bill, lived next door.

One day, my parents asked Bill and Arlene whether they’d _________ me while they were out on a date. This _________ well for everyone, so it became a somewhat monthly occurrence. Arlene and Bill didn’t have kids. They had a _________ room in their house, which became ”my“ room. I had a cabinet and boxes of toys and books in that room. Arlene and I would do crafts together. Bill taught me how to drive the lawn tractor and eventually a car.

When I was about five, I had an idea. My parents were watching TV _________ I spit it out, “What if I _________ Bill and Arlene as my grandparents?” My parents said I could go over and ask them. I knocked on Bill and Arlene’s door, sat down in their living room, and said, “Will you guys be my grandparents?” They stared crying and _________ accepted. Soon after, they printed out an adoption _________ and it hung on their living room wall from then on.

I remember being surprised that they took my _________ so seriously — not because I wasn’t serious but because I was just a kid. They could have __________ it off. Thinking of that moment still brings tears to my eyes. There is something truly magnificent about a child offering her love and __________ being so excited to accept it. Every child in this world __________ enthusiastically responded love.

Arlene __________ in 2013 two days before our adoption anniversary. Bill gave her eulogy (悼词). At the end, he said, “Arlene, __________ her husband, Bill, and the greatest of her life, her granddaughter, Katie.”

After the funeral (葬礼), Bill gave me the ring he’d gifted to Arlene on their 25^th wedding anniversary. It’s a simple gold band that I wear on my ring finger as a __________ of the kind of loge I wish to put into this world.