【推荐1】On January 15, 2016. I awoke at 2:30 am because I needed water. After drinking some. I was walking back upstairs from the kitchen when I _______ the bulldog (牛头犬), Rock. When I made it to the bottom of the stairs, he was running up. But he had never _______to the stairs before. Now I know that was his way of informing me of the _______.

When I turned around, I saw some light, but I remembered I hadn’t _______ a light on. Walking _______ to it, I found it was fire. It became a big fire soon. _______ shouting to my wife to wake up and get our three kids, I cut out the plastic that covered the window to the_______. Then I hurriedly got everybody out on the roof. We _______ for help, but help never came.

The fire became very fierce(凶猛的). Even worse, I was scared of heights and had physical _______-my rheumatoid arthritis (类风湿性关节炎), but I couldn’t mind. I just jumped and got injured when I ________ , but I didn’t care about it.

I found our ________, placed it against the house, and climbed back up to the roof to save others. When I tried to save Rock, he just ________ in the black smoke. I never saw him ________again.

I’m not a hero, but Rock is, I’m just a(n) ________ person helping my wife and children while he lived to ________ us.

【推荐3】Once there were three travelers checking in a hotel. When they went out in the morning, one traveler brought an umbrella and another one took a crutch (拐杖) _________ the third one left with _________ whatsoever.

When they were back in the evening, the man who brought an umbrella got his clothes _________ in rain; the one taking a crutch fell, all covered with mud; but the man empty-handed kept his clothes dry, _________ any mud on it. The former two guys felt it was _________, so they asked the third man why.

The third guy didn’t reply, but _________ asked the man with an umbrella, “Then why were you caught in the rain _________ without falling?”

“When it was raining, I felt so _________ for my prediction that I opened the umbrella and walked in the rain _________. I didn’t think I would be caught in the rain, but __________ my clothes got so showered. Going to the places which were too muddy to cross, __________ that I didn’t have a crutch for fear of falling, I walked very carefully. It __________ that I walked all the way back __________ and sound. ”

After hearing __________ the first man said, the third man then asked the man with a crutch why he became muddied all over himself instead of getting showered.

He answered like this, “When it was raining, I had no umbrella, so I __________ chose those places I could __________ from the rain to walk through. In the muddy places, I went on with my crutch, but I hadn’t thought I fell. ”

The empty-handed traveler __________, “When it was raining, I chose the places protecting myself from the rain and in the muddy places I kept particularly __________, so I was neither drenched nor fell. ”

The advantages are __________. Only if we create advantages by virtue of the objective environment can we __________ a success.

【推荐2】Who says only adults can influence the world? Teenagers can too. A good _________ is Canadian singer and songwriter Shawn Mendes.

Medes was once on Time magazine’s list of the most influential teens of the year. He is _________ as a role model who always shares _________ ideas on social media.

Indeed, unlike others, Mendes _________ social media in a good way. In 2012, he was still a high school student. One day, he put a clip (片段) of _________ singing Justin Bieber’s song As Long As You Love Me on Vine, a video-sharing app. In only six seconds, he _________ to show his sweet voice and cute smile. By the next morning, he had 10,000 likes.

From there, he became a _________. His first album (唱片集) Handwritten topped the Billboard 200 chart in 2015. He’s been the youngest artist to do so _________ Bieber who topped the chart in 2010.

Mendes _________ tries to be himself. “There are lots of people __________ say ‘act this way’ and ‘talk this way’ on social media (媒体), but what __________ for me was just being myself,” he told Seventeen, a US magazine for teens.

He does so in life as well. During his first __________ in Toronto, he asked for the house lights to be __________ and he sang without a microphone. “So I can see their faces, and see there are real people, that it’s not just a __________, ” he told The Telegraph.

“I’m not the __________ singer in the world. I’m just good at picking up what I want to sound like,” he added.

【推荐3】The notion that mothers can simultaneously nurture their children and their careers is often seen as a modern phenomenon. ________ history is full of mothers who reached beyond the house — courageous women who overcame societal barriers and changed the world for people ________ their own children.

The ________ for Mother’s Day, Ann Jarvis, was a social activist and pioneer in the public-health movement in the U.S. As a mother Jarvis suffered the loss of eight children. Determined to combat infant ________ in the area, Jarvis began to organize Mother’s Day work clubs to provide education, medicine and supplies. After the Civil War began, Jarvis strived for soldiers’ well-being. Jarvis’ impact was so powerful that she inspired her daughter to ________ for a national holiday honoring mothers, formalized in 1914.

In the early 1900s, Lillian Gilbreth also raised her children alone after her husband’s death. Gilbreth was a woman of ________: first woman to receive the Hoover Medal for significant public service by an engineer, first female member of the Society of Industrial Engineers, and first female psychologist on a U.S. stamp. Her accomplishments in psychology, ________ and organizational management were so vast she is considered one of the founders of industrial engineering. She not only advised six successive U.S. presidents, but also improved surgical operating procedures and invented many ________ appliances, from refrigerator door shelves to the pedal-operated trash can.

________ masses of historic milestones, these resilient mothers and so many more like them, are not exactly household names. The obstacles that keep many women from ________ a happy balance between work and motherhood are real. But lack of awareness of the women who overcame such obstacles, and broke away from the roles society ________ on women, is, paradoxically, an obstacle too.

________ out impressed bias is one of the most challenging aspects of gender equality efforts. We can pass laws and demand reform, but changing mindsets is more subtle. Mothers are uniquely devoted to ________ that change.

On this Mother’s Day then, in addition to honoring the women who have had an impact on our lives ________, let’s take a moment to recognize the ________ mothers of history — the women whose names we may not recognize, but whose impact we feel even today.