【推荐3】I had been swimming competitively for about five years and was ready to quit because I felt I was horrible at it. I kept ________“Honorable Mentions”(安慰奖). Any ________ knows that you don’t want to have a bookshelf full of “Honorable Mentions”, which you get just because you________.

One summer day, the day________ a big swim meet, I decided to tell my grandma that I was quitting the swim team, but she said, “ Baby, ________ these words: ‘A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.’ You go to that swim meet tomorrow.”

The next day we arrived at the swim meet late, ________ my group of swimmers in the 15/16 age group. My ________ insisted that I be allowed to swim with the________ group. I knew that she was ________ me in the race so that our long drive would not be ________.   As I got on the board, I quickly noticed that these girls were here to do one thing — to ________ me! All of a sudden my grandma’s words________ in my head, “Quitters never win and winners never quit; quitters never win and winners never quit.”

SPLASH!

I was swimming ________ than I’d swum before. As I drew my right arm back, I noticed I was tied with one person. I assumed we were battling for the eighth place and I refused to finish dead last, so I added more kick on the________ 200 yards. I hit the wall and ________ to the left and to the right for the swimmers who had beaten me, but no one was there. They must have gotten out of the ________ already. I raised my head to see my coach ________ hysterically(歇斯底里). My eyes ________ her pointing finger and I couldn’t believe what I saw. The other swimmers had just reached the half point of the ________!   That day, at age 15, I broke the national 17/18-year-old 400-freestyle record. I had hung up my honorable mentions. That day, I ________ them with a huge gold medal.

【推荐1】When struggling single mom Shetara Sims won $100 on the lottery, she decided to donate it all to the family of a police officer who had been shot in the line of duty.

Sims did so despite her own financial________. Like many Americans facing unemployment, she had recently lost her________. The Kansas City resident said she had only $7 left when she found a dollar bill in a parking lot. She used it to buy a lottery ticket,________$100. Sims’s 12-year-old daughter, however,________they donate it to the family of the wounded police officer rather than________the money.

The officer’s difficult situation was a________of their own tragic experience. Sims’s eldest daughter was killed in 2012. “The police were really there for us________anyone I can imagine,” Sims said. “They came to see my kids. They did a lot. They were fathers, therapists. They were everything.”

To________some of the hope these officers gave to her family, Sims called the police department to make her_______. She decided to donate the money without leaving her name or number.

News of the generous donation soon spread________the community. Officers spent days________her down, hoping to find her. “It’s really________to us,” said Sgt. Jake Becchina, a spokesman for the Kansas City Police Department.

Once they learned her________, officers started a campaign for Sims. Hundreds of people had________, wanting to help. By Wednesday, it had raised more than $59, 000. Becchina said it’s kindness from people like Sims that motivates________including him to keep serving.

On Friday, New Year’s Day, Wang Renqiu, a 33-year-old man from Hunan Province, _______ a 2021 New Year’s greeting video on TikTok（抖音）.

While Wang looks _______ in the video, standing in front of his recreational vehicle in a heavy snow in Cuneo, Italy, it was _______ never part of his plan to be there during the New Year holiday. “I never _______ that a sudden severe pandemic（疫情）would disturb my travel plans and trap me and my friends in Europe.” said Wang.

On October 22, 2019, Wang and some friends _______ from Changsha, planning to spend nearly five _______ driving across Eurasia. They spent half a month _______ Pakistan, entering Iran, Turkey, and other European countries _______ finally reaching Iceland in January.

_______ most of his friends who flew back home due to the pandemic locally, Wang and his friend Ye Zi chose to continue their ________ by driving the RV. Wang said most people on the trip he met were very nice and ________. Nino, a French man, for example, who learned about their ________ from a local newspaper, sought them out and invited them to his house.

“After experiencing so much over the year, what I want to share the most is that we humans need more sincere ________, mutual trust and friendship.”

________, Wang and Ye Zi are staying at Cuneo. They plan to return home by following their original ________ and have more interactions with people from different countries.