【推荐1】It is getting hot. It’s time to put on ________ clothes and open up the windows.

Yesterday brought a(n) ________ visit to the kitchen during the brief time we were out. Two daring sparrows had ________ into a dangerous territory—our kitchen.

When you come across such sudden callers, you are ________ to sense it as an action of intruding (入侵) into your comfort zone, or you might ________ it as a lovely shining moment of life. We ________—the second option, with no hesitation. After all, we’ve never stopped feeling urgent to strengthen the relationship with our sparrows more and more each day.

We can’t stop ________ and celebrating their dance from our window. We fed them with the ________ on our tablecloth after every meal. And we have ________ them with every kind of bases and stands on our terrace (露台).

________, they feel at ease in our backyard. And that has led them to ________ courage to slip into our house. Perhaps because they have the feeling that we don’t consider them ________, but friendly neighbors, who only leave some wastes from time to time.

The presence of our dear sparrow holds magical consistency with real life. And we’ve been having lovely sparrows coming over lately, whose presence ________ us out of our dull daily routines and shows us the hidden beauty and charm.

Like different human beings, these sparrows often take different forms. We’ve met sparrows like those, of all shapes and colors. And they’re everywhere. Perhaps all of them are willing to call our ________ making us know they are there. They only ask from us not to be afraid of them or feel uneasy to their ________.

【推荐2】I was a restaurant manager and I was usually very_________. But tonight I had a rare and early evening off. Just as I was_________the restaurant, I heard my assistant call out, "Phone for you, Cecile."

At first, I attempted to_________I had gone out, but he saw me. So I had to answer it. "Hello. Cecile speaking," I said, forcing_________into my voice. The vóice on the other end of the line was familiar but filled with a kind of _________, "Hello, Cecile. Papa here." Suddenly, my throat tightened; something was_________. Usually it was my mom that made the_________. My father would often come on the phone after Mom and I chatted.

Then he said, "It's your mother. She had a(n)_________. And until now she hasn't_________…” I felt my head was__________. My mind was struggling to piece it together.

My mom got brain injury and was temporarily unconscious because of a driver's carelessness. It__________our family in ways I had never imagined. Getting her out of the hospital was__________the beginning. Her recovery included speech recovery and dozens of tests.

My mom used to__________to teach disadvantaged children in her life. She insisted on the__________, though without being paid. Even on those days when her mind was clouded with pain and confusion,__________was there. I knew she wanted to return to the campus.

For the first two years, I pored over the latest research on brain injury but it was like a foreign language. Gradually, I began to not only__________the information, but also became__________by this amazing organ, the brain. Then I wanted to devote my life to the research.

Suddenly, college made a lot of__________for my research. I applied to a university and I'm now in my third year with good__________. I even have got scholarships. I continue to manage mom's ongoing care, and rarely does a day go by that she doesn't exercise her brain to help her recovery.__________, my mom is getting better with my great care.

【推荐1】Actor Anthony Anderson has realized a dream 30 years in the making. The 51-year-old ________ a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Howard University last week. “It was all a dream! Words fail to ________ the feeling I’m having right now,” Anderson wrote on a social media platform. “My proudest moment is a sense of ________-finishing what I started many years ago.”

Anderson finished his junior year at Howard 30 years ago. ________ some financial difficulties, he had to ask for a ________ from school. He worked hard to make a ________. Later he started a family and his career ________. He played the starring roles in many films and became a ________.The following years he was occupied in his work and didn’t return to school. It was something he always felt ________ about-until his son, Nathan, gained ________ to Howard four years ago. That inspired his longing for university study, so he was ________ to go back and finish his degree.

“This spring I was ________ able to finish the work to graduate from Howard University,” Anderson said. He marked it as a ________ by calling it “a full-circle moment” and ________ his fans, “It’s never too late. Things happen when they’re supposed to happen!” Anderson, now a father of two, plans to ________ his education and go to graduate school for a master’s degree.

【推荐2】A disabled teen is to walk the runway at New York Fashion Week. When New York Fashion Week______, a 15-year-old from Bel Air, Maryland will be one of the models, who has cerebral palsy.

Faith Guilbault is set to______Kohl's latest adaptive clothing,______designed for people with disabilities.

The teen isn't new to the runway. When Faith was just 12, she walked in Tommy Hilfiger's show, ______the brand's adaptive fashion line. The line was created to help the one in five Americans living with a disability have more______lives.

"Adaptive clothing has special snaps,"Faith said, " There' re things to help your pants on and off."

For teens like Faith, adaptive clothing doesn't just______more independence, it also builds up______. With a growing number of popular______designing adaptive clothing, people living with disabilities are now able to dress just like their peers.

They have such a hard time with the______they have to overcome daily; they shouldn't have to struggle with their own independence with getting______Karen, Faith's mother, said.

When Karen learned that Runway of Dreams, an______that works with the fashion industry to make clothing for the   ____, was looking for models, she sent in Faith's photo. Through the organization, Faith was______to represent Kohl's adaptive clothing line at New York Fashion Week.

Faith knows the opportunity is unbelievable. She also realizes that her presence on the runway______goes beyond her own potential modeling career. "I think it will make a considerable______for people out here in the world," Faith said.