【推荐1】One day, Ruslan was fishing with his friends when they noticed something wrong. A mother bear was swimming confidently toward an island but her cubs (幼熊) were ________ in the lake. Ruslan and his friends could ________ believe what was happening.

As the mother bear ________ to head straight for the shore, leaving the cubs drowning in water, Ruslan felt he should do something to help. However, Ruslan’s boat did not turn for them, in ________ of the mother bear turning around and ________ them, until she was out of sight. When the fishermen were still wondering how to save the cubs, or if it was even safe to do so, the cubs made their first ________ and swam toward them.

When the cubs closed up aside the boat and tended to ________ in, they couldn’t get strong enough grasps so they kept slipping. ________, Rusland figured that he could use the fishing net, with the help of which the cubs were finally into the ________. The men were ________ that the cubs would attack them, but it was obvious that they were too ________ to do anything but lie down.

Though the mother never ________ to save the cubs, for their survival and the safety of the men, they ________ moved the cubs to the edge of the forest and then sailed away. Their heroic deed was later ________ spread. When asked why they took such a ________, Ruslan said, “It was dangerous, of course. But they are living creatures, just like us.”

【推荐2】I’m not the kind of mother who normally brushes and styles her daughter’s hair, and my daughter has ______ liked sitting ______ long enough for me to do ______.

But today, I’ve ______ a stool(凳子) outside and ______ my daughter Sally on it ______ I realize it’s the ______ time for a week of us to be together. I’m sending Sally away for a summer camp. Living on a farm without any ______, I’ve chosen a life ______ than a typical family’s but Sally has become increasingly depend on my ______.

I drive Sally to a nearby camp. Once there, we are introduced to Sally’s fellow campers. ______in her eyes, she tried to work up the courage to join them. “I need you for a few more     ______,” she tells me, holding my hand tightly.

I ______ and walk up to a camp worker. “Excuse me. This is my daughter Sally. Could you help her meet a few of these kids?” He comes ______ to talk to Sally, and I disappear ______   she realizes I’m gone.

On the way, I feel a piece of my soul has been taken away. The tears ______ down my face.

When I arrive home, I calm down and remind myself ______ I chose this path. I want Sally to have a chance to get out of my ______. If I don’t set her free, she’ll never form her real       ______.

After 12 years of ______ being together, I want to finally meet my daughter for the first time.

【推荐1】By day a cleaner, by night an artist. From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., 56-year-old Wang Liuyun _________ the floors, empties trash bins and cleans restrooms. After work, a 3-square-meter room where she lives and _________ her work equipment becomes her studio, in which her oil paintings _________ the outdoors. “Painting feeds my _________, while the _________ job helps make ends meet,” Wang says.

In 2016, she heard of a(n) _________ painting course in Shuangxi ancient town, Fujian province. Wang, the then farmer, knew that it was time to _________ her life. She left her home and started a week’s _________ at a charity program launched by artist Lin Zhenglu. “_________ paint, brushes and canvas for free, teachers told me to __________ whatever I wanted. On the fourth day, I finished my __________ picture, showing a springtime scene in the town,” Wang says. She completed another two paintings on the fifth and sixth day.

“Although Lin kept saying that I had a __________ for landscape painting, I didn’t __________ that,” she recalls, “My three paintings were sold, each for 150 yuan, which boosted my __________ and I began to take painting __________.”

She was once fascinated by Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, a famous landscape painting crealed by Huang Gongwang in the Yuan Dynasty. She even went to the Mountains in Zhejiang to appreciate the scenery, but found that the Mountains were not as __________ as that in the painting. “It was the moment that I realized what Huang painted was a scene in his __________,” Wang says.

It is also why she has been fascinated by painting, which she sees as a(n) __________ from reality and a tool to help people to __________. Wang says, “I __________ in the dirt, but I paint in the clouds.”

【推荐2】On the final day of my high school, I was hit in the face with a baseball bat. As my classmate _________ at the ball with all his strength, the bat slipped out of his hands and came flying toward me before _________ me directly between my eyes. I have no memory of the moment of _________.

When I opened my eyes, I saw people _________ at me and running over to help. Shocked and _________, I was unaware of how severely I had been injured.

Shortly after arriving at the local hospital, my body began _________. I struggled with basic _________ like swallowing and breathing. So the doctors decided the local hospital was _________ to handle the situation and _________ me a helicopter to fly me to a larger hospital.

The following months were hard. It felt like everything in my life was a __________. I had double vision for weeks and I __________ couldn’t see straight. But I was determined not to let my injury get me down. Although the path of recovery was not __________, I managed to get my life in order. With constant efforts, I even became a college athlete and played professionally to __________ my potential.

The experience taught me a __________ lesson: what doesn’t beat you makes you stronger. We all deal with __________ but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the attitude towards setbacks in life.

【推荐2】Rehan Staton was close to giving up on his dreams. His father, who was his family’s mere provider, struggled to make _________ meet. There were times when Rehan was_______ meals and went to school on an empty stomach, as his dad was always at work.

His education suffered because of all the _______ his family was going through. By the 7th grade, Rehan’s grades rapidly_________. Instead of bringing him down, this hardship_________ him to turn to sports. It was at this point that Rehan became _______ about athletics and boxing. At the time, his father met an engineer, who offered to _______ the boy for free. This chance seemed like the light at the end of the tunnel(隧道). Unfortunately, just when things were starting to ___________, Rehan’s dreams of becoming a boxer were _______by a severe injury.

The young boy was________ by every college he applied to. He was forced to get a ________to help his family keep the________over their heads. His job as a garbage collector at the trash company________to offer him more opportunities than he could ever imagine.

At the company, he finally found people that saw his great________. Most of his colleagues encouraged the bright boy to continue with his________. A higher-up from Rehan’s work heard about his story and helped him register at Bowie State University.________, he was admitted into Harvard Law School.

The 24-year-old’s success story now ________   many young people to never stop following their dreams. Rehan himself started ________ youngsters facing adversity(困境), in a________to help them use their full potential________the difficulties they’re going through.