【推荐2】Smith brought his three-month-old son out for breakfast one day. He was playing with his son and tending to him while eating, and just doing his _________ thing.

But then he noticed a _________ staring at him. He was _________. “What is going on?” “They kept _________ at me,” he wrote in a post.

As it _________, the strangers were just happy to see a dad spending time with his son, and they felt inspired while watching the _________. Smith had no way of knowing that until he paid for his meal. He was given by the waiter a _________ from the couple, saying what a great father he was and that they would like to leave some _________ for his meal.

“Today your meal is on my wife and me,” it read. “_________ that baby as long as possible. The Masons.”

For Smith, it was a happy moment of reassurance (认可) and feeling __________. He was touched by the generosity and noted that he didn’t have a father figure growing up, so spending this time with his son is super __________ to him.

He wrote that he’ll share this __________ with his son when he’s older and that he wants to teach him kindness and about the __________ of giving back.

“I make sure I’m __________,” Smith wrapped. “I get blessed — I want to __________ someone else.”

【推荐1】Meta was born in Guam, a tiny island in Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean. Like others in his family, Meta himself is not tall.

Bigger kids bullied (欺凌) him when he was young. As he _________, he couldn’t join his favorite soccer team because they thought he was too _________.

But then, Elijah was born. Elijah is Meta’s nephew (侄子). He’s also quite short. Meta started to _________ for him. Would he face the same challenges and _________ that Meta faced?

“I didn’t want him to _________ himself... but how could I do that _________ I was doubting myself?” he said in a TED speech. And so, he started to _________ himself: In what ways am I strong?

He came to _________ that one’s strength doesn’t _________ one’s size only. It is one’s character and abilities that __________ one strong.

Meta once __________ himself as a tiny kid from a tiny __________. But actually, Meta said, he should see himself as “a young __________ from Micronesia, a place rich with culture and talent.”

“And I should have seen that right next to Guam is the Marianas Trench (马里亚纳海沟), the deepest __________ on Earth,” he said. “It is a __________ so wonderful, just like the depths of our character and our abilities.”

【推荐2】It was January, the first day of the year. I decided to get the bank work out of the _________. The bank clerk, an elderly gentleman, was _________ curt(简短而失礼的) to my polite “Happy New Year” _________. He nodded and I sat in front of him. Minutes passed and nothing happened. Then very _________ I put my form in front of him. He was busy _________ entries in his register. I sat there wondering why we had _________banking if we were still filling in registers. While waiting I showed all _________ of being impatient, I asked him _________ my work was done. The moment I uttered the words, he shouted, “Nothing is done, it will take time!”

Just then I saw his morning tea lying there, _________. It had turned almost cold. Suddenly I sensed how he feels when customers come who are __________ hurried to get their work done and __________ him for doing their work first. We don’t even feel the __________ to thank him. Then I told him, “Sir, please have your tea, I am not hurried.” This man suddenly __________ me and for the first time we had eye contact.

I realized he was also missing the __________ things in life just like a hot cup of tea. He gave me a rare smile and said, "It is an everyday __________ with me." His wise words really __________ me. I felt that we all had put shields (盾牌) on our __________, and that we were scared to show our hearts and __________ too much of ourselves. From then on, I __________ to be more friendly to others and be __________ that they are there for me.

【推荐1】Every day I get outside and take a walk near my house. A few weeks ago I happened to _________ a nickel (镍币) on the road. I stepped on the _________ and kept walking. After a while I started thinking of my daughter who always stopped to pick up loose change. If she saw the nickel, she wouldn’t _________ it. I wanted to go back for it, but I thought it would be _________ if someone saw me picking up a nickel.

Later that day I told my daughter about the _________. She didn’t say, “Don’t worry about it. It is only a nickel.” Instead she said, “I would have picked it up. When added up, they became something important.” She had forever taken advantage of _________ small opportunities.

Deep into the night, I was wondering that it didn’t take long for me to change my _________ from that nickel to those small opportunities that I had stepped on _______ passed by. How many opportunities had I lost _________ I thought they were not important?

The next morning I walked along the __________ road. I was determined to pick up that nickel if I saw it again. But it was ________. Someone else usually takes advantage of the opportunities that others __________ to pass by. When we decided to take advantage of them, the opportunities were no __________ there.

Since the day I walked past that nickel, I have paid much attention to small opportunities around me. I began to understand that a small opportunity can serve as the __________ of something bigger. What a great life ________! And it only cost me a nickel.

【推荐3】A green tool vest (背心) can often be seen in the wardrobe (衣橱) of Wu Yuren, a______professor of physics from Shanghai’s Tongji University. Its many patch pockets are like magic boxes from which Wu pulls small devices when ______lab experiments. At times, she almost resembles a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat.

A slim figure with silver locks and a lively ______, Wu likes to move around and use her hands when explaining the experiments she does in her videos. ______over 4 million followers on major short video platform Douyin, the 74-year-old has shared more than 400 such videos,______her the nickname “science grandma.” Most of these videos use simple and interesting experiments to illustrate (阐明)______ and difficult physics concepts.This is Wu’s new career path after having taught in a classroom for some 50 years.

In 2018, Wu set up a club together with some other retired physics professors and graduates holding a physics PhD, aiming to ______ the real interest of younger generations in a casual, enlightening (启发性的) and fun ______.

“The digital ______, a tendency that older adults are less adept (擅长) at using and hence less likely to use the Internet than younger people, doesn’t ______ these senior scholars at all,” one netizen ______. “They are more diligent in updating their videos than many of their younger peers. I believe it is their passion for ______ knowledge ______ has become their greatest ______.”

“Viewers of my class are of different ages and come from all over China. Also, they can have live audio chats with me, ask questions and have discussions______,” Wu said, adding “I am now in good physical shape and I will continue doing this until I am too old to do so ”

Learning never gets old.