【推荐1】My former teacher, Katelyn Varga, was an amazing teacher. The first day I had her social studies class, I knew we would have a great _______. Her style of teaching was so _______ that almost every student of hers loved studying social studies.

My favorite _______ was from our class about the American Civil War. Each student _______ a person from the American Civil War to _______ and then explained his or her findings in class. I chose Abraham Lincoln while other classmates chose other _______ people of the time like Jefferson Davis. The students would walk around _______ about the other students’ characters and their _______ in the tragic time period. Mrs. Varga could always find useful ways to make her students well _______ while they have __________ at the same time. Besides, she always __________ us to explore new things.

To be honest, Mrs. Varga has a great __________ on me. I remember I __________ badly before. __________, I met Mrs. Varga and she made me become the best student that I could be. I really appreciate her coming to our school. During my eighth­grade year when I was __________ where to go to high school, she was one of the biggest reasons I continued to __________ Conrad Schools of Science. The last day of school was a(n) __________ one for us, because she would no longer teach me. __________ our graduation ceremony was over, I went to her room to say my final goodbyes. Mrs. Varga gave me a big hug. __________ of us stood there crying in each other’s arms.

Mrs. Varga is one of the best teachers that I have ever had. She pours everything she has into her __________. Thanks to Mrs. Varga, I had a great time at Conrad Schools of Science.

【推荐2】As a teenager in the 1990s, Melissa Blake was interested in fashion. Unluckily, fashion wasn’t much interested in her. Blake, who has a genetic bone and muscle _________ and stands a little under four feet tall, couldn’t find jeans or dresses in her size. _________ through fashion magazines, she didn’t see a single person who looked like her, and it really _________ . “That would have been a game changer for me,” says Blake, who had 26 surgeries before age 17. “When you’re a teenager—disabled or not—you deal with issues of _________”

Blake, now 39, has spent her adult life trying to _________ for that. She is a disability-rights _________ as well as a little-known freelance (自由职业) writer, but she gained a national following in 2019 after _________ at those who made ugly comments about her online. She tweeted, “people said that I should be stopped from _________ photos of myself because I’m too _________.” Blake posted a new selfie every day to share something about her life as a disabled woman, which__________ her determination to fight that.

Her fans went wild, calling Blake a goddess and a powerful woman. Among her __________ is Mindy Scheier, the founder of Runway of Dreams, which displays fashion for people with __________. Last fall, Scheier asked Blake to be one of the event’s 24 models.

“Getting Melissa in this year’s biggest fashion event just makes people understand how important it is to __________ the consumers in the fashion industry, or what we __________ represent in the word ‘model’.” says Scheier.

“It was a little __________,” Blake says of modeling. But she’s glad she took the challenge.

“Fashion isn’t going to solve all the world’s problems,” says Blake. “When disabled people are included, it sends a message that we deserve a seat at the table in all aspects of life.”

【推荐2】I never forget the single act of kindness that changed my life over 25 years ago. During a vacation trip, I needed to find my _______ to the Greyhound bus station, some 30 miles away. Being a _______student, I had little money to get there.

I _______to call various taxis and shuttle (往返汽车) services but they were all to_________or too far away to pick me up. Then, I got one person on the _______who managed to make out that I needed a ride to the Greyhound station but only had limited financial _______ and he agreed to transport me! He came to pick me up about 45 minutes _______. The driver was older and I remember_______why the shuttle didn’t have a meter (计时器) but his ID was there and I could see this was his _______. The driver was so kind. He knew I was________so he distracted me with stories and good________. He said I looked like his granddaughter.

At one point, I asked him why he ________so little to the others. Then, he patiently explained that he was________retired and hadn’t removed his number from the phone book but when I called, clearly upset, he felt ________to help. This man drove an hour out of his way to help a person he didn’t know for a fee that only________his gas, if that! Because of his ________, I knew things were going to be okay. This man’s kindness warms my heart every time I think of him.   ________ , I didn’t get his name and his face has ________gradually from my memory but he is on my mind often and I wish I could thank him________. “Thank you Mr. Angel Shuttle-Man! I hope your granddaughter knows what a(n)________grandfather she has!”

【推荐3】You never really know how you’ll react to an emergency situation until it happens to you. Many people _________ when things go wrong, but others instinctively know how to take charge. Thankfully for a group of students in Topsham, Maine, brothers Connor and Seamus fell into the _________ category. Connor and Seamus were riding the bus to school one morning when Connor saw the _________ Arthur suffer a medical emergency and fall onto the floor heavily. The bus went _________, heading to the ditch(渠) on the right. Connor who learnt how to drive knew _________ what he had to do.

“I rose and pressed on the brake and told my younger brother to call 911,” he said, recalling his thoughts in the moment. “I need to _________ this bus before it goes into the ditch.”

The teenager held the _________ while jamming his foot onto the brake. Meanwhile, Seamus dialed 911 immediately and then began to direct the other _________ to get off the bus quickly. All the while, he kept _________ and even paused to give a crying student a(n) __________.

While Seamus handled the other kids, Connor and another student had just started giving Arthur CPR when the police arrived on the scene. Using a defibrillator(除颤器), they __________ to get the victim’s heart beating again.

The brothers are being __________ for their action. The police say they kept the situation under control and prevented anyone else getting __________. “But for them, maybe we would have __________ the best chance,” said Gomez, a policeman. “Thank them for __________ and being heroes.”

【推荐1】Whenever we hear about the homeless, most of us think of the developing countries. But the ______ is that homelessness is everywhere. For example, how many of us would expect to see people living on the streets of a ______ country like Germany?

Kurt Muller and his wife Rita have spent eleven years making ______ for the homeless of Berlin, Germany’s capital. They first ______ in one long hot summer when most Germans were ______ on holiday.

The Mullers soon realized that food and clothing weren’t ______. “What these people also need is warmth and caring,” says Rita. The Mullers didn’t ______ to give their phone number to the street people and told them to phone anytime. Rita ______ there was somebody at home to answer the phone and their home was always open to anyone who couldn’t face another night on the street.

The couple were soon ______ all their money, so Kurt visited food and clothing companies to carry out donations. Today, over thirty companies ______ donate food and other goods to the cause and volunteers help to ______ them to the homeless. The public also give clothes and money and a shoe producer ______ new shoes.

Kurt and Rita receive no ______ for their hard work. Though Rita admits she often gets ______, she says she will continue with her work because she likes the feeling of having made a ______ in the world.