【推荐1】Julia, a 27-year-old TikTok user from Chicago, has been making dresses that her grandmother designed at fashion school to share on the platform.

According to Julia, her grandma, Georgie, went to fashion school in the 1940s and dreamed of being a fashion designer, but _______ before completing her studies because she needed to _______ some sick family members.

One day in 2021, when Julia was visiting her grandma, _______ old sketches (草图) of dresses that Georgie had designed when she was a teenager, she thought they were _______.

“I knew my grandma was _______, but these are really much better than what I was _______ in my head. And she mentioned that when she died, she wanted them to get _______ at her funeral,” she said.

“But,” Julia added, “I just thought, why wait until she _______?”

Then Julia posted a video displaying some of her grandma’s _______ on TikTok, which became her first post on the platform to spread quickly and widely, receiving 2.7 million views and countless likes.

__________ mostly old pieces of material left over from her grandmother’s own collection of cloth, Julia has now made four designs, trying to stick to a __________ of under $300 per gown (长礼服).

It was beyond Julia’s wildest dream that viewers have been __________ by her story of intergenerational bonding.

“Lots of old people say they love seeing someone younger __________ something from their generation,” she said, adding, “And then younger people, who maybe don’t have the best __________ with their grandparents, or lost their grandparents, say seeing my videos __________ them of their grandparents.”

【推荐3】A gentle breeze blew through Jennifer’s hair. The golden red sun was______. She was on the beach, looking up at the fiery ball. She was ____ by its color, deep red in the middle, softly fading into yellow. She could hear nothing but the waves and the seagulls _____up above in the sky.

The atmosphere _____her. After all she had been through, this was what she needed." It's getting _____," she thought, "I must go home. My parents will be _____where I am." She wondered how her parents would______, when she got home after the three days she was______.She kept on walking,______herself to the bungalow where she spent every summer holiday. The road was deserted. She walked slowly and _____. Just in a few hundred meters she would be safe in her house.

It was really getting dark now. The sun had set a few minutes before and it was getting cold too. She wished she ______her favorite sweater on---it kept her really warm. She imagined having it______her. This thought disappeared when she finally saw her front door. It seemed ____. The outside garden seemed______. She was shocked: her father was usually so strict about keeping everything clean and tidy.

She entered the house. First, she went into the kitchen where she saw a _____written by her father. It said: "Ellen, there is some coffee ____ . I went looking." Ellen was her mother but－where was she? She entered her parent’s home. Then she saw her. Her mother, lying on the bed, _____.Jennifer would have wanted to wake her up but she looked too tired. So Jennifer just fell asleep beside her. When Jennifer______, something was different. She was in her cozy bed in her pajamas.

It felt so good being back home. _____she heard a voice, "Are you feeling better now? You know you got us very, very _____."

【推荐1】Fink had accidentally texted the wrong number and her messages were going to a man named Clayten, rather than her friend, Jakeman. “Hey! Brother, Jakeman. This is your sister Fink, we are ______you dinner tomorrow. What time would be a______time to bring it over?” the text read. Clayten______replied, “Ooh! What are you bringing me? I’m allergic to seafood.”

Fink then______to Clayten that the text was meant for Jakeman and his______, Sally, who have a four-year-old son, Noah, who was in the ICU. Clayten then responded to Fink, asking, “How can I ______?” Noah has Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Sally was______Noah, along with his four siblings (兄弟姐妹), to a doctor for a follow-up   ______regarding his broken ankle. It was caused by a fall when he______a seizure (突发疾病).

Clayten told Fink he is a single father. He thought helping a______in need would be a teachable moment for his______. And he added that it is just what people______. Clayten used Facebook on Sunday to______the exchange he had with Fink and encouraged his friends to help out the Jakeman’s family. He also______a fundraiser on Facebook and got in contact with Armer Foundation for Kids. The foundation can______assist the family.

“He doesn’t______us or Fink at all. The fact that he not only offered to help but actually backed that with______is amazing,” Jakeman said. “I don’t know if he______ in God or not, but I believe he was sent here to help this family. I______him he was an angel,” Fink said. Noah is doing better, but he has a long way to go to______. Noah’s mother said that she was making plans with Clayten so he could meet Noah.

【推荐3】Molly is an artist. She shares her talent with others, taking groups on field trips (实地考察) around various _________ in New York City, enjoying the company of a variety of people as she catches the _________ of the city.

When Molly returned home one night, she didn’t _________ that somewhere along the day’s painting journey, she had _________ her wedding ring.

Then, at 3:30 in the morning, she sat up in bed, panicked at the feel of her _________ left ring finger. She tried not to _________ her husband up but was caught heading out the door. When Molly admitted what had _________, her husband got out of bed, and both of them went out to _________ dustbins.

The last place she remembered the ring on her finger was in Batter Park, when she was washing up. All the garbage cans had already been emptied _________ they got there. Feeling __________, Molly had no choice but to write a note and put it on the windshield (挡风玻璃) of a nearby garbage truck, __________ that someone might provide __________. “Help,” the note read. “I believe my wedding ring might be in this truck.” That was all she could do.

An employee named Gary Gaddist __________ the note in the early morning. He gave Molly a call, and she explained the whole __________.

“I had to go to Randall’s Island where the garbage trucks gathered, and when I got there, I __________ the note to the guys,” Gary recalled. They __________ at him, “If you want to seek a needle (针) in a haystack (干草堆), go ahead. It’s just __________.”

At 8:00 that morning, Gary called Molly with the fantastic __________. She burst into tears and took a taxi to meet Gary. When asked why he would take the __________ time to help out a stranger, Gary __________ said, “I could tell she and her husband love each other. I’m glad I could help.”

【推荐1】Thanksgiving Day was near. The teacher gave her class a fun task - to draw a picture of something for which they were _______.

Most of the class came from poor families, _______ still many would celebrate the holiday with turkey and other traditional foods. These, the teacher _______, would be the subjects of most of her students’ _______ . And they were.

But Douglas made a _______ kind of picture. He drew a _______ nothing else. Douglas was the teacher’s true child of misery (不幸) . As other children _______ during the break, Douglas was likely to stand close by the teacher’s side. One could only guess at the _______ Douglas felt behind those sad eyes.

His classmates began to _______ whose hand it could be. One child guessed it was the hand of a ________because they raise turkeys. Another suggested a police officer, because they protect and ________people. Still others guessed it was the hand of a parent ________ they feed us.

The children had gone on with other tasks. The teacher came to Douglas’ desk, ________ down, and asked whose hand it was. It’s ________, Miss,” Douglas looked away and said ________ .

Suddenly she thought of the times ________ she had taken Douglas’ hand and walked with him here or there. How ________ had she said “Take my hand, Douglas, we’ll go outside” or “Let me show you how to ________ your pencil?” Douglas didn’t always say thanks, but he ________ the hand that had ever reached out.

With ________ eyes, she went on with her work.

【推荐2】A few years ago, I was leaving the dog kennel(养狗场) where I worked, only to find a baby goat at the end of the driveway. The kennel’s owners are animal rescuers, and I thought someone_________him over the fence. The kid was_________nervous but stood perfectly still as I got closer.

I’m an animal_________and I’ve brought home dogs, cats, horses, chickens, and fish, but never a goat. The tiny kid was too_________for me to leave it behind. I_________him Quincy and bottle- fed him in my bathroom.

Quincy proved to be quite_________. When he was about a week old, I tapped my fingers on the floor and said “_________” I was amazed when he dropped down. I was even more amazed when he did it three times_________. A quick study, Quincy learned to lie down, bow, and turn in a circle in no time. He knows the name of everything I feed him, and even joins us for_________to the dog park.

I often take my dogs to shows where they can perform their__________. Quincy did his first show at just six weeks old. He knew only a few tricks then, but he did them perfectly and never__________or got nervous in front of the crowd. Now he’ll shake hooves, come when called, walk on a leash, wave, smile for the__________( “Say cheese!” ), and more. Quincy and my dogs perform regularly at schools, nursing homes, and charity events. Quincy can even “read” his tricks off cue cards(提示卡), which always__________the most applause(掌声).

The goat kid nobody__________turned out to be one of the smartest animals I’ve had. He’s by far the sharpest of my bunch—just don’t tell the__________!

【推荐3】Cecilia Chiang died on Wednesday at her home in San Francisco. She was 100. Her San Francisco restaurant, the Mandarin, __________American diners in the 1960s to the richness and________of authentic Chinese cuisine(菜系).

Ms. Chiang was born in a__________family. When she was little, children were not allowed in the _________, but she paid close attention on trips to the __________ markets with her mother and listened carefully as__________ instructions were given to the cooks. After her parents died, she __________the family business in her teens.

After the Japanese occupied Beijing in 1939, she was__________to join relatives in Chongqing, where she married Chiang Liang, a professor.

Ms. Chiang sailed to San Francisco in 1960 to help her sister. There she met two women who wanted to__________ a restaurant that __________Chinese diets. Later, when the two women __________, Ms. Chiang decided to open a restaurant herself. The early days were __________ . But little by little, customers came__________for hot and sour soup and pan-fried potstickers. One evening, Herb Caen, the popular columnist(专栏作家)for The Chronicle, __________at the restaurant. In a __________column, Herb Caen__________it “a little hole-in-the wall” that was offering “some of the best Chinese food east of the Pacific.”

Overnight the __________filled. The Mandarin was on its way. In 1968, Ms. Chiang moved the restaurant to __________quarters, where she could__________300 diners. “I think I__________what average people know about Chinese food,” Ms. Chiang told The Chronicle in 2007, “They didn’t know China was such a big country.”