【推荐3】Right after lunch, Mother found she had got a cold. She did need a rest in bed. But first she had a few things to do. Prepare the meat for ______. Leave a note for the cleaners…

At last, she fell into bed, soon asleep…

Then the door banged(砰地一声) open as the ______ came home from school. “Mom! Mom! Where are you?” “Didn’t you even get up yet?” “What about dinner?”

“I’m sick. And I can’t do anything. I’ll have to leave all to ______ . Cook the potatoes. Take care of the baby. Put plates, spoons and forks on the table.”

“Wonderful!” “No problem!” The children ran off ______. Mother was left in her quiet room. She felt terrible! But everyone else seemed great. In fact, there seemed to be a party going on with loud laughs ______ the children.

There was a sudden crash (破碎声). Then a voice shouted, “Get the baby out of the way —______ he cuts himself. Don’t break Mom’s rest!”

Another crash came! The younger girl rushed in with news. “They ______ your plate and the dog ate all your dinner.”

The girl ran off. There was more noise until, finally, the children appear, ______. They were proud of what they brought. There is a glass of water, three beans, a cold boiled potato and a small piece of burned meat.

Suddenly, Mother felt ______ . As the children watched carefully, she ate her cold dinner. “Everything _______so good,” Mom smiled. “Thank you, my kids. I feel better now.”

【推荐1】Mike a mountain climber was famous for his attempts to climb the big snowy mountain. He had tried it at least thirty times, but had always failed halfway.

For the sake of ________ Mike to try again, Jack, the town optician, who witnessed his ________, presented him with a pair of ________ sunglasses. "If it starts clouding over or if your feet start hurting, put on these glasses. They’ll help you.” Mike accepted the ________ without giving it much mind, but when his feet started ________ again he remembered his words and put on the glasses. Then ________ came as usual in the form of cloud cover, but seemingly not so thick this time. So Mike ________climbing, leaving the clouds behind, forgetting his ________, and finally arriving at the summit. It was ________ worth it. His feeling of triumph was ________, almost as magnificent as that wonderful ________. Splendid in its silence, the mountain below was surrounded by a dense sea of clouds. Mike didn’t remember the clouds being as _______ as that, so he looked more closely at the sunglasses, and _______ everything.

Jack had carved a light ________ on the lenses (镜片), in the form of the snow-covered summit. It was made in such a way that you could only ________ it if you looked upwards. Jack had understood that whenever Mike lost sight of his ________, he would similarly lose sight of his dream, and his ________ to continue would weaken.

Mike realised that the only obstacle to reaching the summit had been his own ________. When he could no longer see the top of the mountain, the problems _______. He thanked Jack for using that little ________ to help him see that his aims were not impossible, and that they were still there, where they had always been.

【推荐2】Rehan was an American boy, who had a tough childhood. When he was 8, his mother_____ his father. After his mother left, the family faced _____difficulties because Rehan’s father tried to raise two sons all by himself.

By the 7th grade, Rehan’s home life had suffered greatly under the pressure.“There was no breakfast every day,”he said.“Sometimes there was no electricity at _____.”Despite his hard home life,Rehan_____ boxing for comfort.

Rehan continued to improve academically while training to be a professional boxer. However, his _____ was broken when he suffered a shoulder injury in the 12th grade. His hope of being a professional _____ was gone. He hurriedly applied to a number of colleges but was_____.At last, he had to work as a cleaner.

His colleagues wanted to _____ why he was there and would suggest he go to school. They eventually spoke to Bates, the _____ of the company, about the smart young man. Bates soon took Rehan under his wing and brought him to Bowie State University to meet a professor. This professor was so _____ by the conversation with Rehan that he agreed to admit Rehan.

“I studied so hard .I was winning so many honors—it was_____”Rehan said. By the end of his second year, Rehan made a _____ to go to law school. Then Rehan transferred to University of Maryland, where he became a _____ in 2018.

Over the course of the_____year, Rehan worked in downtown DC, while still _____ .He was accepted to law schools at Harvard, this spring.

【推荐2】When Matthew Shifrin turned 13, he got a life-changing birthday present from his friend, Lilya Finkel.

It was an 843-piece Middle Eastern _________ palace. And with it were instructions that Finkel made_________ for it. Finkel invented a unique name for every piece in the palace set. Then she spent countless hours typing building_________ in Braille (盲文) that spelled out how to_________ them all together.

His mind was_________.As a blind person, he had never before been able to complete a Lego set on his own. Shifrin knew immediately that he had to help other blind children find the same_________.

Shifrin says, “For blind people, Lego sets act as small 3D_________ for real-life buildings instead of two-dimensional photographs. Lego bricks allow me to see things that are_________ to explore by touch.”

For years after that incredible Lego experience, he created similar instructions for about 45 other Lego sets, together with Finkel, all published on a website they created, “Lego for the_________.”

Shifrin began____________ to Lego several years ago to discuss his work, ____________ it was in 2017, when Finkel died of cancer, that he finally connected with the right person.

His years-long devotion____________ when the Lego company released its first audio and Braille building instructions. The project is a high-tech version of what Shifrin and Finkel did for their____________.

It couldn’t have been completed without Shifrin’s____________—or without his determination.

He just wished Finkel had been here to see it. “I think she’d be very glad that we came this____________.” Shifrin said.

【推荐3】I used to be an introverted (内向的) kid who would just get away from others for a whole day. For me, my books were my _________ world. Even during breaks, I used to just sit in a corner of the playground and see others play games. It was not as if I wasn’t interested in _________ others or making new friends, but I always felt lacking in energy when compared with my peers. I always had an opinion that my advances towards new _________ would be limited. And I just didn’t want to _________ a rejection(拒绝).

Once during my English class, my teacher shared a(n) _________ with us. It was about King Bruce and a spider(蜘蛛). It talked about a lost battle and how King Bruce, despite losing the battle, _________ in the end. He was _________ by a little spider. The little movements of the spider and the way it was taking rejections impressed me a lot. I was so surprised that I myself started _________ the movements of spiders at home. Once, a spider took around an hour to reach the top of a wall and I _________ knocked it down. To my __________, within seconds it started making its __________ up again.

For me, this incident was a game changer. I __________ that rejections are never a failure. The world may mistreat me, __________ I can stand up and start working again. There would be time when people would like and appreciate me. At present, I __________ communicating with people, learning new things and making new friends. I think,there are just no such things as rejections or __________ as everything can change at any moment.