【推荐3】In 1988, Tracy Chapman fascinated(迷住)a crowd of 60, 000 with her performance of Fast Car at Wembley Stadium in London. It wasn’t until this performance that the ________became a huge hit. Here’s the amazing story behind this moment.

Stevie Wonder ________ England on the Saturday morning of the concert and went straight to Wembley Stadium, where a room was ________ for him and his team to ________ before the performance. He was organized to perform in the evening after UB40. But his ________ had not been announced.

UB40 were finishing their set on the main stage. Wonder’s equipment was set up, plugged in (插入)and________to be rolled on after a 10-minute act on a side stage. He was about to walk up the steps to the stage when it was________that his hard disk(硬盘), carrying all 25 minutes of synthesized(合成的)music for his act, was________. He said he could not play without it, turned round, walked down the steps ________, with his band and other ________ following him, and went out of the stadium.

The concert organizer was restless and ________. There was a great need to fill the ________ Stevie Wonder had left and at that moment, Tracy Chapman, who had already performed her act, ________ to appear again. Because the audience didn’t know Stevie Wonder would appear, the organizer ________. Tracy Chapman decided to play two new songs, Fast Car and Talkin. Before the concert, she had sold about 250, 000 albums. In the following weeks, she sold two million more.

Sometimes. an inadvertent(不经意的)action can lead to ________ results, and opportunities are always given to those who are prepared.

【推荐1】In the small town of Miami in the central US state of Oklahoma, people do not have as much money as they used to. Many ______ jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some are even homeless. At two restaurants — Zack’s Cafe and The Dawg House – customers are now doing their part to ______ others. When they are ready to pay for their meals, they can ______ another food item. On the walls in each restaurant are receipts for the ______ meals. A receipt is a paper showing what has been ______ . Someone who is hungry can come in, choose a receipt, sit down and have something to eat ______ .

Jennifer White ______ The Dawg House, which opened last September. She sells hot dogs with extra items like meat, cheese, and bacon. She started the ______ of the giving wall during the pandemic. Within eight hours, she said she had a wall filled with ______ . The Dawg House only has eight tables, so not too many ______ can visit at one time. But in six months, customers have purchased 600 extra meals. Some who had no money at the time took down the receipts to eat and then returned to ______ more meals so someone else could eat. Others would buy their own meal and then pay for another 10 or 50. “That says a lot about how ______ our community is,” White said.

Lasay Castellano, a ______ recently left Zack’s Cafe to return to school. She said the restaurant serves about 600 people a day. And she has been ______ the receipts for two months. “We have a lot of homeless people here,” she said. “We’re having a(n)   ______ time keeping the receipts on the wall.”

【推荐2】I was driving my daughter to the airport to travel abroad. It was a 3-hour roundtrip so after _________ her off at the airport, my sons and I stopped at a McDonald’s to have lunch.

Most of the _________ there were teenagers just going through the motions of the _________ making the food like an assembly line. Working at the cash register, however, was an older lady, who was at least 70. Each person that came up to give their _________ was given a huge smile of hers in return with a few kind words thrown in. It warmed my heart to see how she _________ the whole restaurant with her good _________.

When it was my turn to order I smiled back and told her that she had the _________ smile I’d ever seen. She laughed and said, “No extra _________, Sweetie!”

I could _________ feel her loving-kindness in my heart when I was __________ home that afternoon and see her smile in my mind. And I could feel my own face __________ too. When we drove back to __________ my daughter a few days later, we stopped at the __________ again.

I looked for the lady with the sweet smile but she was nowhere to be seen. Maybe she wasn’t working that day or maybe she had moved on to __________ others with her smile somewhere else. Either way I wished her well. __________ our brief encounter always brings a smile back to my face.

【推荐3】I’ve always wanted to attend a music festival. But as a person with autism (自闭症), the _________ of being forced into a loud group of thousands of people has always _________ me. For years I avoided them. _________, after gradually developing an attitude of trying new things, I decided to go to this year’s Reading Festival with my _________.

We arrived at the festival last Thursday afternoon only to be faced with a(n) _________ check-in line. Thankfully, we could skip it and enter at a welcome _________ for disabled guests. Soon a warm-hearted volunteer _________ us to a camping area for the disabled. Noticing me struggling with my _________, he kindly offered to carry them. He even offered to help me put up my tent. I _________ with a grateful smile, saying my friend was __________ to offer much needed help.

The next afternoon, volunteers guided us to a disabled viewing stand. It was a(n) __________ atmosphere with a sea of people from around the world dancing and singing along to their favorite __________, who all gave excellent performances.

I was surprised to see how the power of music could __________ people from different ages, backgrounds, and cultures. __________ soon became friends because we all had a shared language — music.

All in all, I __________my first music festival, which opened my eyes to a whole new world. I greatly respect the volunteers who gave up their time to help disabled people.

【推荐1】Everyone is hiding something — but unhiding that secret part can ________ everything. My birth was a little ________. At birth, I was carried into another room and doctors gave my parents the ________ news: I was born missing my left hand, which might have been a(n) ________. However, a nurse took me back into the room, placed me in my mother’s arms and ________, “You should take her home. You should love her. You should ________ her. You should treat her as normal.”

Luckily, my parents took her words ________, and for the most part, it was great. I played sports, did well in school, and even joined student union. ________, the fact that I was different ________ me hard on my first day of high school. I remembered being laughed at about my left arm when getting on the school bus, and I felt a moment of ________, so I quickly put it into my pocket. I then told myself that I’d just hide it only one day. But one day of hiding turned into a week, and then a month, which became years — 25 years exactly.

________ this special experience, I gradually learned to accept myself. When looking around and noticing other people with arm differences, I started to be not so ________ on hiding myself. And then, I discovered the Lucky Fin Project, an organization to help people with all types of “________”.

Years after I joined the organization to make people ________ of helping the disabled, I figured out that unhiding is the key to connection. When we do this, we create a beautiful and ________ space where everyone can find a sense of belonging and feel loved for who they are. Hiding holds all of us back — unhiding sets all of us free.

【推荐2】I lost all my hair at age two due to alopecia (脱发症). I wore a wig (假发) and was _________ for it. Children at my age would call me “bald” or say, “Lindsay has no hair.” They were right. I felt like I _________ it, as if losing my hair due to the disease were my _________.

Fortunately, sports became my _________, and I was grateful to have natural _________ ability. I’d race home every day and shoot baskets for hours. I started to gain _________ from others. I became known as a girl who was good at basketball. In high school I broke countless school records and received a scholarship to play in college. However, I still rarely _________ my alopecia.

Afterwards I wanted to run the marathon in my town. I barely trained and thought it was just running. It turned out that I was _________. I wasn’t _________ at the time that this 26.2-mile run would __________ my life and attitude in more ways than I could have imagined. I’ll never forget the feeling of crossing the finish line and the way everyone __________ with me. I fell in love with the __________

The more I ran, the more __________ I felt. Then one day, during a training run, I took off my __________ hair halfway. I couldn’t believe my __________. But, for the first time, I felt strong, beautiful, and brave, and I knew that I didn’t __________ it. Two weeks later, I ran my first marathon bald and set a personal record. Tears welled up in my eyes. I was __________ Lindsay.

Alopecia has been the __________ gift I never knew I needed. I know now I’m beautiful and truly __________ it. It’s not what I look like that makes me beautiful, but being a good person, being kind, and always __________ a smile and a helping hand to someone in need.