【推荐1】A Person Who Has Influenced My Life

There is always a time in one’s life when a hero comes along. Someone who has inspired you can really help you learn what life is about.

I remember it as if it was yesterday. I was fifteen years old that year. It was around eight o'clock one evening when my mother ________ a phone call from her brother-in-law, who told us my aunt was in hospital and that the doctor ________ them she would need an operation immediately. My family became very worried about my aunt’s situation.

While my aunt was in the hospital with special care, my cousin Mark, who is mentally disabled, spent time with my family. Mark was seventeen at the time, and had been born with severe mental disorders, which created a wide range of social and physical problems for him throughout everyday life. He never had any true friend________ no one could relate to him. I must admit that at the beginning I was filled with uncertainty as to how much of a________ my cousin would bring on my family. Now looking back it saddens me to see the ________ I once showed.

Over the two weeks when Mark lived with my family, I probably understood more about life and its meanings. Mark was seventeen, but learned on a nine-year-old level. Although his learning ability was slower than most, he could still learn. He explored ________ to do most of the things everyone else did. ________ he did pretty well and succeeded at almost everything he tried to do. He ________ his illness and showed an ambition to love life. To him, having a successful life means achieving goals on his own terms and at his own ________.

Mark is my hero, for his disability has forever changed my viewpoint on life. It seems like a well-deserved life when you’re fifteen, and it is amazing how in a period of time your point of view can change so ________.

【推荐2】“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction （摩擦）.” The words by Eva Burrows show the importance of ________ in my life. During my childhood many people came and went, but my grandfather ________ my life in several ways. He was loving and _________, following his dreams whatever difficulties he faced. The lessons I learned from his ________ have helped me battle through many struggles in my life.

Baseball has always been one of my favorite, ________, during my junior year of high school, I received very little playing time ________ I began to think about quitting baseball. Just then my grandfather’s ________ said in my head, “You can’t give up now, it has just begun.” I remembered his ________. He was tenacious（顽强的）in the restaurant business where many people ________ year after year. Although his business failed once, he never ________ but continued to follow his dreams of being a successful entrepreneur（企业家）.Keeping my grandfather’s successful story in mind ________ my confidence, which gave me the ability to prove myself a ________ on the playing field.

Off the baseball field, my grandfather taught me many ________ about the importance of family ________. Everyday he’d call simply to say “hi, ________ the value of keeping in touch with the family. Like my Grandpa, I try to keep the family ________ by organizing family dinners. As my sisters and brothers now live at various places around the country, I try to hold my grandfather’s family values of love and communication by calling them several times a week. By ________ his traditions, I feel I am bringing everyone together emotionally as well as physically.

My sense of responsibility and adjustment are characters my grandfather has ________ to me. ________, on October 1st 2008 the great man I speak of passed away. He passed away but his ________ exists in me forever.

【推荐3】When I was young, my understanding of life was simple. This made it _______ for me to deal with the world around me. As I grew up, things seemed more _______, which made life more challenging. Now, middle-aged, I find my _______ of the world is returning to the simple.

When I try to teach my daughter important _______ about life, I will break complicated things down into small pieces. One of those basics is _______ for yourself, and for others. I teach my daughter to _______ this. To fail feels bad, _______, but not to have tried it feels worse, because you can’t respect yourself for it. And as the saying _______, if you don’t respect yourself, no one else will.

When I was seven or eight, I played at my cousin’s house with his toys. There was one in particular that I’d always wanted, and I _______ it into my pocket. But a moment later, I ________, even at that age, that I would never enjoy playing with the toy. I would always know I had ________ that toy, and my opinion of myself would be ________. When his mother dropped me off later that day, I shamefacedly ________ the toy and gave it back. She knew, I’m sure, what had happened, but she thanked me and never spoke of it again.

I hope to help my daughter avoid similar ________. She first has to gain self-respect before she can start respecting others. I’m not ________ in this regard. But I try my best, and I respect others for trying their best in this changing world.

【推荐3】Kids who live a happy childhood dream about what they will be when they grow up. But less____kids, who live in poverty, sometimes wonder why they were born in the first place.

Children like these ____ Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's new film Capernau(《何以为家》),which arrived in Chinese mainland____ on April 29 , 2019.

In the slums (贫民窟)of Beirut, Lebanon's capital, Labaki saw kids selling gum or flowers or ____carrying heavy gas tanks. Some of them were alone on the street , unfed and __

One of these kids told her, "I don't know ____I was born if no one is going to love me, if no one is going to ____ me before I go to sleep, or if Fm going to be beaten up every day. ”

This is how Capernaum begins: A 12-year-old boy named Zain9 who lives in one of Beirut's slums, charges his parents for giving ____ to him, even though, he says, they knew they couldn't ____ him.

Capernaum is fictional but ifs as ____ as it gets. There are no ____actors in this film. Zain, for example, is __ by a boy with the same name, a Syrian refugee (难民)called Zain Al Rafeea. He had never slept in a ____ before the film, or gone to schooL He didn't even have papers to ____ he was a human being --just like his character in the film.

By making the film, Labaki wanted to "become the voice of these kids",, according to The Guardian. The voice is being heard. It ran first at Cannes Film Festival in May, 2018, and ___ the Jury Prize. Soon after the festival, under the ___of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Zain and his family got the chance to resettle in Norway. They now live in a house by the sea, and Zain is going to schooL

When Labaki told The New York Times that she wanted the film "to go beyond the borders of just being a film” and be "a ____ for help" , she wasn't ____ how big an impact it would have. “I might never get anywhere, but ____ I want to try," she said.

But she has certainly gone somewhere indeed 一 to say the least, the real-life Zain isnow able to ____ his future.

【推荐1】The Maranhão region of northern Brazil is my ancestral home. For centuries, we have ________ our natural world there, looking after the Amazon rainforest. Our ________ help us sustain the environment, and in return nature ________ us: trees give us food and medicine.

But today, our environment is being destroyed for capitalist (资本家的) ________ and gain. Around us is illegal ________ and mining. In 2012, we found 72 illegal entry points in our territory which needed ________ . We founded the Guardians of the Forest. We local people took matters into our own hands to ________ our land. For me, there was no question I would be part of this ________ .

When we see an illegal camp or ________ a new incursion (入侵), we Guardians have a(n) ________ in dealing with them. Our knowledge of the forest runs far deeper than theirs. Our networks coordinate, study the area, and prepare to ________ . We agree on tactics (战术), then ________ the camps, and destroy their huts and equipment. We take their trucks apart, and burn their tractors. They are left with no choice but to go ________ .

Our resistance is ________ . Today there are only five illegal entry points into our land. This ________ extends beyond our territory’s borders — it’s about our grandchildren having a chance at a future.

【推荐3】When I came to my new school three years ago, I was surprised at how lonely I felt.

Then one of my classmates invited me to her house for a dinner_________I was a little anxious, but finally I gladly _________ .

Not really knowing how_________ the bus ride should be, I _________ when I saw the landmarks (路标)_________on my classmate’s hand-drawn map. But when I got close enough to the _________ , I found none of the streets were shown on the map. I was_________ on a busy road with cars driving past without a person in sight. I had no _________ when the next bus would come,_________when a bus did come, I __________got on. I told the bus driver where I wanted to go and he said that I had caught the __________ bus, but he let me stay on. After he had finished his scheduled bus route, he __________to help me out. I gratefully showed him my little hand-drawn map but__________ did not help much.

He finally __________ me off at a main road to catch a different bus and was __________ that he could not help me more. After I walked for a few minutes, a bus stopped beside me. It was the __________ bus driver. He explained that he didn’t want to leave me there __________ He sent out a call and someone radioed back, saying that the bus I needed to catch was about ten minutes away. At last I made it to the dinner party __________ I was over an hour late.

I am forever thankful for the __________that this bus driver had for me. His act of kindness left a __________on my heart.