【推荐2】My two sons are all grown up now. They are 32 and 27 years old this year. Yet they both still have the minds of______. Autism(自闭症)has limited their______growth and they still need to be looked after all the time. When I was a boy, the term used for people like my sons was Mentally Retarded. By the time I was an adult the term had______to Mentally Handicapped. ______, this was switched again to Mentally Challenged.______of these terms truly defined(定义)them, however.

These days the______term is people with Special Needs. I like this one better than the older ones, because it is more______. My sons do have Special Needs______they also have Special Gifts. My oldest boy may only be able to______certain things. But when he______people by name, there is a catching happiness in his mood and manner. He always______love and hugs far more freely than I do. My youngest boy is______in his own world most of the time. But he also has an______to laugh and enjoy life. Often after he finishes crying his happiness will immediately______. My two Special Needs sons have______me more about how to live and and how to love than I could have ever learned______.

The fact is that all of us in this life have Special Needs. All of us also have Special Gifts. It is up to us to______our gifts. It is up to us to______the needs of each other. And it is up to us to______each other with kindness and love. Remember, we are all one______here. We are all Children of the same God.

【推荐3】Science isn’t only a way to learn about the world, but it can be a way to make the world a better place. The ________ to help others drove Kamisi to use science to promote the ________ of people in her communities.

Kamisi, aged 17, aimed to improve ________ for sickle cell disease (镰状细胞贫血病). This disease ________ red blood cells to sickle, which makes it hard for those cells to ________ oxygen throughout the body. Natural chemicals called flavonoids (类黄酮) were known to ________ this sickling. By changing the chemical structure of flavonoids ________ from fruits, she was able to boost their anti-sickling ________.

Her family is Nigerian and this disease mainly ________ people of Western African origin. One day she was on a walk with her mother, and they were talking about a friend who was ________ battling this disease. And her mother was telling her about the people who had it. She was ________ about them. When Kamisi had the opportunity to do ________ at school, the young girl immediately ________ that it was time for her to study this disease.

The ________ part was definitely the discouragement aspect of it, because she had no ________ experience with science projects like this. She had to ________ herself to know that she was sure to accomplish this project. She had the ________ to continue trying different things when they weren’t working. “I think the most important thing is to hold the ________ that I’m capable of doing many things. I had to believe that my work is worth something and ________.” Kamisi says.

Now, Kamisi is also trying changing flavonoids from vegetables. She hopes to ________ the powers of her chemicals over longer periods of time.

【推荐1】Space exploration has always been the province of __________: The human imagination readily soars where human ingenuity (创造力) struggles to follow. A Voyage to the Moon, often cited as the first science fiction story, was written by Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649. Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries __________the first manned rockets started to fly.

In 1961, when President Kennedy declared that America would send a man to the moon by the decade’s end, those words, too, had a __________ quality. They resonated (共鸣) with optimism and __________ in much the same way as the most famous __________ speech of all, delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. two years later. By the end of the decade, both visions had yielded concrete results and __________ American society. __________, in many ways the two dreams ended up __________ each other. The fight for racial and economic equality is intensely pragmatic (讲求实用的) and immediate in its impact. The urge to explore space is just the opposite. It is figuratively and literally otherworldly in its __________.

When the dust settled, the space dreamers lost out. There was no grand __________ to the Apollo missions. The technologically compromised space shuttle program has just come to an end, with no __________. The continuous argument is that __________ are tight, that we have more pressing problems here on Earth. Amid the current concerns about the federal deficit (赤字), reaching toward the stars seems an unnecessary luxury—_________ saving one-thousandth of a single year’s budget would solve our problems.

But human ingenuity struggles on. NASA is developing a series of robotic probes that will get the most value for the money spent. They will serve as modern Magellans, __________ out the solar system for whatever explorers follow, whether man or machine. On the flip side, companies like Virgin Galactic are plotting a bottom-up assault on the space dream by making it a reality to the public. Private spaceflight could lie within __________ of rich civilians in a few years. Another decade or two and it could __________.

The space dreamers end up benefiting all of us — not just because of the way they expand human knowledge, or because of the ________ they produce, but because the two types of dreams support each other. Both Martin Luther King and John Kennedy appealed to the idea that humans can __________ what were once considered great limitations. Today we face seeming challenges in energy, the environment, health care. Tomorrow we will overcome these as well, and the dreamers will deserve a lot of the __________. The more evidence we collect that our species is __________ greatness, the more we will actually achieve it.

【推荐2】Eating less may bring longer life? A study by the National Institutes of Health _______ that reducing calories by 30 percent _______ to help to slow the rate of aging in monkeys, which provides _______ evidence that humans might live longer by eating less.

The study has shown that a _______ diet that includes a sharp reduction in calories caused the animals to _______   a lower body temperature, a slower metabolism(新陈代谢)and _______ changes in the biochemical markers for aging.

Dr.George Roth, a _______   at the research center of the National Institute on Aging said, “This shows that what has been proved in mice _______ can apply in monkeys.”

“We have _______ for 70 years that ________ you feed laboratory mice less food, they age slower, they ________ longer and they get diseases less ________,”he said.“We find that monkeys respond (做出反应) in the same ________ and that the same biological changes may ________ here.”

Dr.Roth said ________ biochemical measurements also showed that eating less was ________ for the monkeys.

The study is still ________ and involves 200 monkeys this time.Dr.Roth said that the diets of the monkeys included all of the ________ vitamins and other nutriments ________ that half of the monkeys received about 30 percent fewer calories than a ________ group.

【推荐3】Mobile phones are everywhere in big cities. It seems that _______can live without one. Mobile phones are a great _______to stay connected with friends and family. _______, it is important to remember that there are certain times _______you should not be using your phone, especially as a student, during school.

________you are in class, you should not be sending your friends text messages _______taking phone calls. Your classmates and teacher should not have to deal with this rude _______ . Aren’t you at school to learn?

In the United States, students would never be allowed to _______ their mobile phones during class. If you were to send or _______ a text message you would probably be kicked ________class. It is very disturbing to hear a lot of tones and ringing during ________ There are many more rules for mobile phone use in America and it is to ________respect for those around you.

As a teacher in China, I have to ________students using mobile phones every day. I have told my class to________their phones, but many students do not listen. The ________to be connected all the time seems to be more ________than the desire to learn.

It’s easy to understand________ it is so tempting(诱惑人的) to have your phone on during class. It seems so easy just to send a short text message; it’s not hurting anyone, is it? But you may actually be hurting ________when you do this. Your teacher knows when you use your phone and may give you a ________grade. Sending a text message also takes your attention away from what’s going on in class, you may________something important.

【推荐1】My first job was at a local restaurant, where I worked for seven years and learned so many lessons, especially from a fellow_______.

Helen was in her 30s and had extraordinary self-confidence, something I was really _______. I looked up to Helen _______ she was doing what she loved— _______people better. She always made everyone, customers and co-workers, _______and feel good.

Being a waitress changed my life. One of my_________customers was Fred Hasbrook. He always ate an omelet（炒蛋）, and when I saw him_______, I tried to have it on his table as soon as he sat down.

Thanks to the newfound confidence I _______from Helen, I dreamed of having my own_______. But when I called my parents to ask for a loan（贷款）, they said, “We just don’t have the money.”

The next day, Fred saw me and asked, “What’s ________? You’re not smiling today.” I ________my dream with him and said, “Fred, I know I can do more if somebody__________just have faith in me.”

Before long he handed me checks ________$50,000—along with a note that I have to this day. It reads, “The only collateral（抵押品）on this loan is my trust in your________as a person. Good people with a dream should have ________to make that dream come true.”

I took the checks to Merrill Lynch, where the money was provided for me. I________working at the restaurant, making________ for the restaurant I would open. My plans soured, though, and I lost the ________.

Later I decided to apply for a job at Merill Lynch. Even though I had no experience, I was ________and ended up becoming a pretty good agent. ________, I paid back Fred the $50,000, plus 14-percent annual interest. Five years later, I was able to open my own firm.

【推荐2】One day, Jim played basketball in the living room after school. When he was playing in high spirits, his basketball _______ a vase off the shelf by accident and the mouth of it knocked off a large piece. What made him more _______ was that the vase was rare and valuable. To cover the great _______ he caused, he glued the pieces together and put the vase back to its place.

While cleaning the vase after work, his mother _______ the change on it. At dinnertime, she asked Jim if he _______ the vase. Being afraid of punishment, Jim said a wild cat jumped in from the window and knocked the vase off the shelf. His mother was quite clear that he was _______, for all the windows were closed before she went to work. However, his mother just remained _______ and said it was her carelessness not to have the window closed.

Before going to bed, Jim’s mother asked him to go to the study. He felt he couldn’t _4_______ the punishment.

When he entered the study in fear, his mother’s face appeared no sense of _______. Instead, she took a chocolate box out of the drawer and ________ one piece to him. “Jim, this chocolate is a reward for you, for you ________ a cat that could open the window, with your imagination.” Then, she put another chocolate in his hand. “This chocolate is a reward for your topping________ to restore (修复). You restored with glue, the cracks were filled almost perfectly. ________ remember, to restore a vase needs more powerful glue and higher ________ skill. Tomorrow, let’s bring the vase to the ________ to see how they’ll make it as it was.” With that, his mother took the third chocolate, “The ________ chocolate stands for my deep apology (歉意) to you. As your mother, I shouldn’t have put a vase in a place where it could so ________ fall down, especially when there is a boy fond of sports.”

“But, Mum, I ...” His mother ________ him and said. “My chocolate box has been ________, so our talk is over, too. Now, go to bed!” Then she left for her own bedroom. The following days were the same as before. The only ________ was that Jim never told a lie since then.