【推荐1】Growing up as a kid in the UK, I was fascinated by insects. Wanting to protect them, I started _________ little houses for ants, using little pieces of wood and leaves. My mother, always _________ me, said that the _________ I made things, the bigger my name would become when seeing my work.

As the years went by, my designs became more _________. And I used many different _________, such as diamond fragments, eyelashes and even spider web threads.

My sculptures have taken me to incredible places. In 2012, I met the queen, _________ her with a tiny crown on the head of a pin. In 2013, beyond my _________, I received my first Guinness World Record for creating the smallest sculpture made by hand which was a 24-carat gold motorbike. In 2017, I broke my _________ with a sculpture of a human fetus (胎儿) that measured _________ 0.078 mm by 0.053 mm.

As a child, I was __________ with autism (自闭症). In school, my teachers had defined me not __________ for learning; but now, I see my autism as a(n) __________. It’s pushed me to be the best I can be. I hold workshops in schools for neurodiverse children, sharing with them my life and work and helping them create their own miniature __________ out of Blu-Tack (蓝丁胶).

The microscopic world has always been my __________ place. I’ve tried to make bigger sculptures, but small is the best for me. We need to __________ the little things in life. Small things can also be mighty, too.

【推荐3】I was busy and often dealt with customer emails at lunch. Even fifteen minutes in the employee lunchroom seemed a _________. My company, like many companies, cut costs by not _________ people as they left. The survivors had to take up more _________.

For me, this _________ no lunch hour, plus taking work home. I wanted to _________, but I couldn’t until I had another job in hand. _________ in theory, but given how annoyed the extra hours made me feel, it was difficult to convince _________ employers to hire me. I felt trapped. Then a chance _________ with a little girl changed my perspective. The girl was _________ happy, standing in line with her mom at the grocery.

“Good day at school?” I asked.

A nod.

“What’s your favorite subject?”

I smiled at the answer. I __________ when that had been my answer. At that time, no teachers told you what to do at lunch. We just played happily.

That brief __________ left me wondering: What had happened to lunch?

I knew that by law I was __________ to a lunch break. So I decided to start __________ it. I began to had a walk during the lunch break, which made me refreshed.

Now I’m still __________ a new position but with less stressed-out urgency than before. You can’t always change your __________, but you can always change your perspective.

【推荐2】While shopping one day, Janie Deegan spotted something she knew she needed—an electric hand mixer. Though the price was out of her small budget (预算), she ________ one, thinking it was such an act of ________.

Deegan first started using alcohol (酒) and drugs in her teens to ________ her anxiety. In her twenties, because of her ________, she couldn’t support herself and eventually she became ________, living in shelters. She tried to get and stay sober (清醒的), but it never ________. At last, she had no choice but to ________ one of her only friends about what she had been going through. “It felt so ________ to tell the truth and not be pushed away.” she said.

Now her new hand mixer gave her something to ________: baking. “My life was in a mess,” she said. “________, baking is such a controlled science. You need to ________ the rules before you can break them. And you end up with beautiful results.”

Deegan started by ________ brownies and cupcakes for friends’ birthday celebrations. Through their ________ and word of mouth, Deegan’s baking became increasingly popular. Eventually, she was doing well enough to take a ________ and open a bakery (面包房). In 2015, in Manhattan, she ________ Janie’s Life-Changing Baked Goods.

Now Deegan is helping other women who need a second ________. She has a job ________ rule at the bakery. Team members don’t need any ________ in baking. Just enthusiasm and a willingness to work. “It has worked out ________ in so many ways,” Deegan said. “For so many people they don’t have that moment of grace… I succeeded because people ________ me, so I want to do that for others. Believe in them.”

【推荐3】One day, Rosie, 15, who has profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) found her current toy broken. It had _______ her since her second birthday. After all the attempts to fix it _______, her sister, Josie Wheel, decided to give social media a _______.

She posted a message on Twitter asking for help to find a _______ model of the toy. “The toy had stopped being _______by the company nearly a decade ago and we’re _______the ones that work. We never expected the _______ to be so huge on the Internet,” said the 18-year-oldfrom Coventry.

She said many warm-hearted people were so _______ to help just out of the goodness of their heart _______ they knew nothing about Rosie. About 15 substitutes had so far been________, but people were still coming forward. It would ________ be closer to 30 which was amazing. People had also ________ to fix the broken toys after they began to break due to so much ________.

“Rosie doesn’t ________ understand everything that’s going on, because of her ________, but when she receives all of them next month and can physically see them I can imagine her________,” Lorraine Wheel, the girls’ mother, ________: “Josie and her sister have the strongest________ and Josie has done many things to ________ that Rosie is the happiest girl ever. I couldn’t be more ________ of her.”

【推荐2】After my mother suffered from Alzheimer’s disease(阿尔茨海默病), the plants in our house began to die. In years past, I remember the deep, earthy smell that would ________ in our house after my mother had made her weekly watering rounds. Back then, I never connected it with the care that was at the ________ of everything she did.

But now, leaves were ________ , some dry and edged with brown, and many of the stems(茎) bare. It was a mark of how my mother can no longer attend to all the things that she lovingly cared for. I was so focused on the increasing ________ of her own care that her beloved plants had escaped my ________ .

I began her old rounds, pouring water into the thirsty soil, and soon the plants ________ . That’s the thing about houseplants: They demand nothing. They wait quietly, no matter how ________ they are. But even after my best ________, some of the plants couldn’t survive. My mother’s kind caregivers have since brought new ones to add to her ________ , and my father buys fresh flowers every week.

Though Alzheimer’s disease ________ so much of her memory, her desire to care is still there. I would guide her down the steps to water the plants herself. I watched as her shaking hands picked the brown leaves. Each time, she smiled up at me with ________ satisfaction because being able to ________ something is still, what brings her the greatest joy.

I look at plants ________ these days. I see them as my mother does:________ reminders of the need for kindness toward all living things. It is clear to me that the things we spend a lifetime ________ are never truly lost and the love she has planted in me still blooms(开花).