【推荐1】Rene Compean was no stranger to Angeles National Forest. But after challenging a(n)_________ path last April, the 45- year- old mechanic was lost.

As the day faded into dusk, his concern turned to _________. Compean climbed to a spot with one bar of _________. “I’m lost. SOS. My phone is going to _________.” He texted the police, attaching a photo showing where he was. The _________ showed his legs surrounded by an endless landscape of rocks and plants.

All Compean could do then was wait and _________. The temperature was dropping fast. After _________ two mountain lions and a bear, he kept a big stick and some _________ rocks beside him in case an animal came close.

Kuo, then 47, works in the tech industry, and always loves _________ where photos are taken. When he saw the __________ of Compean’s legs released on the Twitter, he pulled up a satellite map. He __________ his search to the surrounding area after knowing Compean’s car was parked near Buckhorn Campground. After comparing it to the satellite map, Kuo __________ something: “He’s got to be on the south side because there’s not really any __________ valleys on the north side.” That finding tightened his search, and finally the __________ matched! Soon, Compean was saved.

Compean’s story probably would have ended very differently, if a __________ with strong satellite skills and a sharp eye for detail had not taken action.

One day, I was walking with my daughter, and we saw a man picking bottles out of garbage cans(垃圾箱). He did not ask us for spare _______, like others had before him. My 10-year-old daughter asked _______ he was doing that, as he appeared to be unclean and possibly _______. I told her he had his dignity(尊严), and was doing what he could to help _______ . My daughter had a 2-dollar _______ I had given her, and she told me she _______to give her money to this man_______ she thought he needed it more than she _______. I agreed. We are on welfare(福利救济), _______we have a place to live, and food to eat. So we followed the man ________ the local store, where he sold his bottles and cans. My daughter walked up to him and gave him the coin. He ________ us loudly as we left the store, and asked God to bless us.

The kindness was repaid to my daughter. When she got to the ________ a couple of months later, she realized she had left her ________ at home and it happened that I had not taken my purse along, either. Then a lady noticed us and saw how ________ my daughter was. The lady gave her the money to go swimming. Surprisingly, it was two dollars, which was the ________ amount as that she had given to the man on the street.

【推荐3】The most important lesson I learned in high school came at graduation several minutes_________I left school.

I was rather shy back then, content to hang around with my few friends and to concentrate on my _________. I was doing so well that by the end of the senior year I had perfect_________and enough credits to go to college.

But my good record soon became a fear to my well-being. The headmaster asked me to give a leave-taking speech at graduation. I looked at him, my heart_________fast. This was the reward for my hard work?

I was_________about the decision, though finally agreeing to take up the task. I would _________ the honor with five other students. Still, I was uncertain whether the task was beyond me.

Graduation day soon arrived and, as_________, I was nervous. I'd been practicing my speech for days, and I had it_________in my mind clearly. But I had_________been so frightened in my life. The first half hour of the __________finally passed, and then my__________ came. My name was announced. I__________to reach the stage without falling down. But within minutes, I finished my speech, __________back to my seat.

Now I still have the__________of that speech. My voice trembled（颤抖）a little, but__________it was clear and strong. I'm proud of that tape. I achieved__________I'd never dreamed—I spoke in front of hundreds of people. The successful completion of that speech gave me the __________ to participate in class at college, to give oral reports, and to eventually break free from my__________.

I never would have chosen to give a speech at graduation. But I'm__________I did. I know it may well__________to be one of my shining moments.

【推荐1】Robin was 12 years old when his mother sent him to me for his first piano lesson. I preferred that students begin at an earlier _____. I explained to Robin that he was too old, but he said it had always been his mother’s _____ to hear him play the piano, so I took him as a student.

_____ Robin tried very hard, he didn’t seem to have the basic sense of music. However, he _____ and at the end of each lesson he never forgot to say, “My mom’s going to hear me play someday.” But it seemed impossible, and I was _____ by his slow progress. One day, he _____ me that his mother was very sick and that he couldn’t come to my class any longer.

Several months later when I was preparing my students for a music show, Robin came to my home and said he had to _____ the show. I didn’t know what led me to _____ him to do that. Maybe it was the _____ in his eyes or maybe it was something inside of me saying that it would be all right. I was even more ______ when Robin announced that he had chosen one of the most difficult pieces of Mozart. I was not prepared for what would happen next.

However, on the show his fingers danced ______ on the keys. He played so well that everyone ______ excitedly when he was leaving the stage. In my excitement, I ______ up to the stage to congratulate him.

“How could you do it?” I could not help asking him. “Well, I kept practicing at home. My mom just passed away the day I went to your ______ to ask for your permission to take part in the show. It was the first time that she had heard me play on stage. I wanted to make it ______.”

【推荐3】Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer since the age of three. That ambition ______ ended one night in 2010. Hill, then a 17-year-old high school student, was in a car accident, which left her paralyzed(瘫痪)from the waist down. For most people, that would have ______ any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, her wheelchair ______ her and she wanted to prove that she was still ______ .

Hill did it in her wheelchair right with her non-disabled high school dance team. After graduation, Hill wanted to expand her dance network to ______ women like her. She met people online who had suffered various ______ but shared their determination, and she invited them to dance with her.

Hoping to ______ more people in a larger city, Hill moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and built a team of dancers with ______ , which she called the Rollettes. In disabled dance competitions around the country, the six-member team, they not only ______ themselves, but also brought great fun to the audience and won lots of prizes.

Hill has ______ what many of us never will: her childhood dream. She’s a(n) ______ . But the Rollettes have helped her find something else just as ______ . Every year she holds a dance camp for wheelchair users of all ages and abilities with the purpose of helping them ______ their inner dreams in their life. In 2019, 173 participants from ten countries attended.

Edna Serrano says that being part of the Rollettes team has given her the ______ to live on. “I didn’t know I could do so many things that these girls have taught me,” she says. It’s so ______ to have my teammates in my life, because they’re my teachers. I have more confidence.”