【推荐1】A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did know she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was_______of fighting and struggling. It_________that as one problem was solved a new one arose.

Her father, a_______ , took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high_______. Soon the pots came to a(n)_______ In one he placed carrots, in the second he placed eggs, and in the last he placed ground coffee beans. He let them sit and boil,_______saying a word.

The daughter sucked her teeth and_________waited, wondering what he was doing. In about twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He _______the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in another bowl. Then he ladled(舀) the coffee out and placed it in a mug. _________ to her, he asked," Darling, what do you see?"

"Carrots, eggs, and coffee." she replied.

He brought her closer and asked her to ________ the carrots, she did and noted that they were __________. He then asked her to take an egg and ________it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip(啜饮) the coffee. She ________，as she tasted its rich aroma(香味).

"What does it mean, Father?" she __________ asked.

He explained that each of them had faced the same adversity(逆境)，boiling water, but each reacted __________The carrot went in, ________and hard. But after being subjected to (服从于) the boiling water, it softened and weak. The egg had been fragile( 易碎的). Its thin outer shell had ________its liquid interior(内部), but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were__________，however. After they were in the boiling water, they had ________the water.

“ ________ are you?” he asked his daughter.

When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot an egg or a coffee bean?

【推荐2】Jim and his sister May walked in the street, and then they noticed a pet store. It was a very small pet store that didn’t have many ________. The owner of the shop, Mr. Smith, greeted Jim and May when they ________. May said, "We would like to buy a dog." "Ah, well, our shop is not very ________," Mr. Smith told her. "So we only have two dogs to choose ________."

They asked Mr. Smith to ________ them the dogs. Mr. Smith took them to see the two dogs. One was a big Bulldog named Buster. The other was a tiny Chihuahua named Teacup. May wanted Teacup, ________ Jim wanted Buster. They walked outside to ________. They couldn’t agree on a dog. May ________ they race home for it. The one who ________ the race could choose the dog.

Jim agreed, and then told May her shoelace（鞋带） was loose. When May __________, he ran off to get a head start. Jim ran as __________ as he could because he really wanted that Bulldog. When he looked back, he found May was so __________ behind that he couldn’t even see her. Jim finally got home. He was _______ but happy. He knew he was the __________. May arrived a few minutes later. She congratulated him and they __________ the pet store together. However, when they arrived they _____ saw Teacup. They asked Mr. Smith where Buster was.

Mr. Smith gave them a(n) __________ that a few minutes after May and Jim left, two boys walked in and bought Buster.

Jim looked at May, and she couldn’t help ________. Jim __________ and turned back to Mr. Smith. "Sometimes you win the __________, but not the prize!" Jim smiled sadly. "We'll take the Chihuahua, please."

【推荐3】It’s fortunate for children to have siblings(兄弟姐妹) accompanying them. And the kids would be luckier to have a brother as___________as Christian Hamerter. The 1l-year-old boy, attended a father-daughter dance with his 7-year-old sister Skylar after finding Skylar was___________by their dad.

In the days leading up to the___________in March, it was all Skylar was___________for, talking about it all day. On the other hand, her mom Trelysia felt more and more___________. At this time of year, their father is always fully___________in official duties. He didn’t attend last year’s dance due to a conference, ___________having made a promise. Then, she was right to be worried. On the big day, ___________, his father was sent abroad on business. “It was___________that he failed to go there for a second year. Skylar____________because she had her heart set on going.” Trelysia wrote in a____________. “I felt so bad and also cried uncontrollably.”

That’s when Christian____________! The big brother wanted his sister to feel loved and special. And he picked out a suit and gold tie, a perfect____________for Skylar’s gold dress. “The action filled me with____________,” the mother wrote, “for 1 just know that I’m____________a kind man──and an amazing father one day. He has____________that he can be.” Skylar had a great time with Christian there without her dad’s____________. Even better, now she knows her brother would always come to her____________.

The post warmed hearts of the people it ____________and picked up more than 110,000 reactions____________the sweet gesture.

【推荐3】As the drumbeat changed, the dress fluttered in tune with the girl’s changing steps. Finally, she _______ the performance in a neat pose on stage before the audience.

The girl _______ is actually me. I’ve learned Latin dance since childhood. However, when I became a young girl, conflicts brought by Latin dance made me _______. The fair skin and slim bodies of mainstream beauty stand in contrast to what Latin dance pursues: power and wildness. As a young girl, I am _______ for beauty. But a girl like me with strong muscles stands out in a crowd. In addition, _______ feelings caused by unkind judgment piled up in my heart. It was so much that I compromised between power and _______.

Luckily, in Vienna, the match for the Chinese youth team _______ my attention, dragging me out of _______. Players from different countries gathered to _______ the honors. Though I had made my efforts, I was ________ to find that I didn’t get the score I expected. The reason, obviously, lay in my ________. With my reduced intake of protein and carbohydrates, I ________ lost a lot of weight, but at the cost of a sense of power and speed in dance.

In between games, I saw a little girl from Europe take firm and powerful steps in the ________. Her beauty came from her full muscles. The confidence in her eyes was unstoppable. Definitely, she won the top prize. ________ her so much, I made her acquaintance and shared my difficult situation. Till now I do remember the confidence that ________ me and some of her words: “Just be yourself.”

Looking back, I’m still the dancing girl but my heart has grown lighter. Something within me is dancing.

【推荐1】As the saying goes, “A hero is known in the time of misfortune”. Zhong Nanshan is _________ hero like this. He is a doctor in Guangdong, who _________ many people’s lives in 2003.

In 2003, SARS _________ in Guangdong. Later, it spread across China and other parts of the world. Patients coughed a lot and got fevers. Hundreds of _________ even died from the disease. Even many doctors and nurses got SARS when they treated patients. So everyone was afraid _________ it. But Zhong was _________ enough to fight the disease. Zhong spent days and nights to find the cause of the disease. And with his way of treating, many patients began to get _________ Zhong finally won _________ trust.

In early 2020, a disease _________ Novel corona virus pneumonia hit Wuhan. It spread quickly around and tens of thousands of Chinese people were infected. Zhong, 84, led __________ team to Wuhan to fight the illness. Zhong’s team took __________ measures to cure the patients with Novel corona virus pneumonia. He advised people to wear masks, __________ hands frequently (频繁地), stay at home and not to go to crowed places.

Zhong likes sports very much. __________ he was 67, he could still play basketball. Now at the age of 85, Zhong still treats patients in the hospital and __________ young doctors. “I am just a doctor.” Zhong says. But we think he is a hero __________ a fighter.

【推荐2】A school bus driver returned to college to become a high school history teacher, thanks to some _________ students.

Clayton Ward is a history lover, and as such,_________the time he’d spend chatting with students about their history classes as he _________ them to and from school.

“After several of these discussions, some of the students would tell me they wanted me to be their _________.” he said. “That small mention from those kids… it _________ me and gave me the motivation to complete a goal I had started years ago.”

_________, Ward went to college after his highschool graduation; but after a year, he had to leave and soon started driving buses. But he still valued _________, and talking with the students on the bus route renewed his sense of passion for expanding and teaching young minds.

Ward enrolled (注册) at a community college in May 2019, and _________ to take his classes full time while also still driving his bus.

“It wasn’t always _________. I would drive my route in the morning and afternoon, take classes in between shifts and take night classes,” he said. “I would think of those students and all the years I wanted to make this happen, and it helped me focus my energy.”

“You wouldn’t think that kids can do something like that, to give me the __________ and ambition to go back to school,” Ward said. “It’s kind of crazy that such a small thing can make such an impact on your life.”

【推荐3】My father and I have always had a difficult relationship. He thought I wasn’t what a good daughter should be. Whatever I did was never good enough in his eyes. So when I tried to look for approval, I was________ disappointed.

My mother was gentler and when my father would ________ me, she’d have my back. Five years ago, she died from a disease and, ________ her there, my relationship with my father became ________. I felt like he was trying to control me and this caused ________ and panic in me. I realized that I couldn’t continue the________ with him, so I left home eventually and________ contact with him.

About a year later, I was out campaigning and I saw him alone. I ________ him and asked how he was. He was hesitant, but I could see in his eyes that he was ________ I’d come over. He said he was proud that he had a daughter who went to the House of Lords to talk about women’s rights. I realized that, having decided I didn’t need his ________, I finally had it.

Our relationship isn’t ________ now, but we see each other every few months and I value the time we have together. Last year, on his birthday, I sent him a card and he________ phoned me to say thank you. I’ve realized that if you want to have somebody in your life, you have to________ them as who they are. And I’m proud of myself. I don’t need anybody else to give me that sense of________. And because of that, our relationship is no longer a________.