【推荐2】Zhi Yueying is a village teacher who has been working for almost four decades. When Zhi Yueying, then 19, went to the _______ Niyang village in Yichun city, Jiangxi province, to work as a village teacher in 1980, villagers _______ if she was going to stay long. After all, a number of voluntary _______ had arrived before, but all had _______ soon after. Zhi, though, was there for more than thirty years, before going to a more remote village school in the mountains.

Over the past four decades, Zhi has devoted herself to rural_______ . She is a recipient of China Central Television’s Touching China awards that recognize the most _______ role models in 2016. She was also _______ as a model poverty fighter by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council earlier this year.

Born in Nanchang city, Jiangxi, in 1961, Zhi wanted to become a teacher since childhood. She _______ to work as a teacher at the primary school in Niyang village after graduation, despite her mother's strong_______Located amid the mountains, the village was very poor and far from any town. Villagers had to ________ in the mountains since there was no road. Moreover, local people needed to go downhill to ________ daily necessities. “I had never walked on a mountain road before, so in the beginning, I walked much more ________ than others, sometimes I was left behind too much and was scared to tears, ” says Zhi.

But she gradually ________ to her life there. She has a profound understanding of the importance of education in the mountains. Over the years, Zhi taught the students and ________ them, since many of them were “left-behind” children whose ________ migrated to other places to work. More than 1, 000 students of hers have left the mountain area, and created a better life for themselves.

【推荐2】The best feeling in life is that you look at the plane landing and say to yourself: “I’m in another country!”

I worked as a volunteer for a month at the Cape Town Children’s Hospital. The hospital ______ child treatment. I had ______ for the daily work as well as breaks, which were the same for children to eat or to do school lessons. We wore colourful aprons (围裙) to get ______ and we went from hallway to hallway asking who wanted to play. It was amazing to see a child ______ me to play.

Most of the children did not speak English, only African dialects, which at first made it difficult to ______ but everything went smoothly—dances and even basketball—although we didn’t know each other’s ______. It was very interesting to teach English to these children and many of them ______ learning. Slowly, I ______ families who often came from far away to try medical care and ended up joking and talking to us.

I’ve also benefited greatly from this ______ . I heard a lot of stories. And I also made many friends. Most were ______ like me, and lived in the same house. Cape Town is a ______ blend (融合) of mountains, beaches and city and I visited many places with them. It was amazing to have ______ there!

Before I went to Africa, many people said, “Choose another ______ . There are a lot of diseases there.”   ______ I followed my heart and decided to ______ children there. I think it was the best ______ of my life! Of course I was afraid! It was my first international trip and my first day at the hospital was ______ I never imagined working in such a distant and ______ place. But it’s always been my dream to stop seeing ______ children in a bed and start seeing them live a(n) ______ life!

【推荐3】The ninth-graders including Jeff May in Missy Dodd’s seventh-period study hall were restless that Monday afternoon, March 21, 2005. It was the last _________ of the day. All eyes were on the big clock on the front wall of the classroom—just minutes until the final bell.

Jeff May sat alone at a table _________ algebra(代数) problems. Suddenly there was frantic beating on the door. Neva Rogers, one of the _________, rushed into the classroom, _________. “Somebody’s shooting out there!” Rogers said. Then she told her students, “_________!”

An instant later a strong figure climbed _________ the two-foot-wide open window. May _________ Jeff Weise. They both lived on the reservation, _________ they had never spoken.

Weise _________ his gun and opened a fire. Boom. May watched his best friend Dewayne slump（突然倒下）. Boom. Alicia White, and then a few lay ______________ wounded.

Jeff May thought, somebody’s got to ______________ this guy. He thought, if I can slow him down, maybe I can save some lives. ______________ he might buy a little time until police arrived.

May tried to wrestle him to the ground, but Weise stubbornly held his own. Then he ______________ to raise his pistol and fire right at May’s ______________. May collapsed hard on the floor. The ______________ had entered his right cheek, fractured(使破裂) his jaw and lodged in his neck.

The two had grappled(抓斗) for just ______________ time to spare the lives of the remaining dozen people in the classroom. In total, Weise spent less than ten ______________ at the high school.

Four Red Lake police officers arrived. The ______________ boy fatally shot himself in the head. Still, lying in his hospital bed two months after the shooting, May said ______________ he had to relive that day, he would once again try to stop the shooter. Why? “To ______________ so many people don’t die,” he said.