【推荐1】Vytialingam was shopping when the sound of blaring horns (刺耳的喇叭) caught his attention. He turned and spotted a small dog _________ in and out of traffic. Filled with fear, he hurried out and drove his car _________ the dog down the street.

Vehicles were going along the street and the dog was walking right into them. Vytialingam held his _________ each time the dog turned into oncoming traffic until he _________ got close enough to stop his car. The dog noticed Vytialingam's _________ arms and slowly walked out of the middle of the _________   .

As the dog _________ Vytialingam noticed a _________ tied around her neck. He hoped it would be _________ information to get the little dog back to her owner that was looking __________ for her. When he opened it, his heart __________ . The note, written in the dog's __________ , said her name Was Siggy and that her owner __________ her because of loss of raising ability.

Vytialingam took Siggy home. It took her a few hours to __________ do to Vytialingam. She began inching closer to him, keeping strong eye contact and allowing him to hold her close. Siggy shows Vytialingam every day just how __________ she is to be in a home. She is __________ with him.

However, Siggy and his rescue dog, Sammo, haven't gotten along: Luckily, Vytialingam's brother has decided to __________ her in once the COVID — 19 Movement Control Order in Malaysia __________ .

Vytialingam hopes Siggy's rescue story will be a __________ that abandoning pets should never be a(n) __________ with so many animal shelters ready to find them a home.

【推荐2】I hated travelling by plane. _________ I was on board, I could see the other passengers fear: “Don’t let that fat guy sit next to me!” After I _________ squeezed (挤) into my seat, the seat belt wasn’t _________ enough to fit around my _________. I once wished my life would just end.

I knew I needed to _________. A doctor recommended I adopt a dog to _________ for exercise. So there he was: a black-and-white dog with a big round body. He looked up at me and then dropped his head with a clear look of _________, as if saying “Really? This loser?” I looked at him, _________ him in silence. He was a poor thing just like me. I named him Peety.

We walked together every day and it _________. I could roll out of bed __________. He appeared thinner too. Then he looked up at me and smiled.

I started taking Peety to different parks. He kept choking (使呛住，窒息) himself at the end of the __________, trying to run ahead. Maybe it was time to let him experience what __________ really felt like. I removed his rope. Peety took off like a __________ at the Olympics, beaming (笑容满面) with __________ and excitement.

At that moment, I realized I loved him. He looked up at me like I was the greatest guy in the world. He’d come into my life, and he __________ me.

“Want to keep walking?” I asked him.

【推荐3】Last May I bought some sweet potatoes for food. Several days later, a tuber (块茎) left in the kitchen was sprouting (发芽). I _________ the tuber into a pot hoping that it might take root and produce something that could be put on the dinner table.

_________ , the tuber did take root and began to grow. In the following months I _________   it when necessary and it grew very well. One day. I decided to harvest. I pulled out the plant, which took some _________ and began to dig with my fingers to see if there was any tuber in the pot.

When my fingers could almost touch the _________ of the pot, I took the root and pulled it carefully, for the potato could break easily. As almost no earth was left, I tried to pull but I failed to lift it up. In _________ . I pushed the pot over and found the root was outside the pot! It had grown through one of the holes in the bottom of the pot.

Then and there I changed my opinion of this plant, for the seemingly weak plant gained the _________ of me.

Very carefully I emptied all the soil out of the pot, _________ the root might be harmed or broken. Holding the root. I was deep in thought. The root outside the pot looked like a _________ and strong finger of an old farmer who had fought his way to make a living. The end of the root was dark gray and __________ . Obviously, the peel must have been removed during its struggle with the __________ of the heavy pot. It struck me that the tuber, though seriously __________ , had struggled hard and it seemed that it had never __________ . Such is a sweet potato, an ordinary-looking plant with __________ characteristics. It managed to grow where I thought it was almost impossible to __________ .

【推荐2】Mitsuhiro Iwamoto has been blind since he was 16. He wanted to _______ that his blindness didn’t limit what he could do.

Sailing a boat is much more _______ than simply steering(掌舵). But Mr Iwamoto can _______ it. He can feel the waves and sense the speed and angle of the winds to _______ the sails properly. In 2013, he tried to sail the Pacific with a navigator(领航员). However, after only five days at sea, their boat sank, and the two spent 11 hours floating in the sea before they were _______.

Doug Smith, who hadn’t sailed much before, but liked the _______ of sailing across the Pacific, learned the story of Mr Iwamoto’s defeat during his first sail. He got in touch with Mr Iwamoto._______ they teamed up. Mr Smith would go along as the boat’s navigator—to use his _______ to decide on the boat’s path. It took much courage to make a second attempt, but Mr Iwamoto was _______. He said that “Failure becomes ________ failure if you stop trying.”

They prepared for the ________ trip together. Mr Smith bought a 40-foot sailboat that he named Dream Weaver. Mr Iwamoto ________ actively and hard. On February 24, he and Mr Smith, who he calls his “Seeing Eye Doug”, set out from San Diego, California on their 14,000-kilometre trip.________, after sailing for 55 days, the two arrived in Iwaki, Japan.

“I didn’t ________ and I made it,” Mr Iwamoto ________ himself on this achievement. He became the first blind person to sail non-stop across the Pacific Ocean in the world.

【推荐3】Nisha Blackwell was putting herself through nursing school when she was laid off for the third time. To make matters worse, she couldn’t ________ a gift after being invited to attend the birthday party of a close friend’s daughter just a few days later. “That’s ________ I looked around and I said, ‘What do I have?’ I had a sewing machine still in a box,” she says. “And I had this bag of cloth.”

But she didn’t ________ know how to sew. So she turned to YouTube and taught herself, “I was typing into YouTube: How to ________ a sewing machine...” she remembers. I probably didn’t make the machine work ________midnight and this was in the hot summer when my house didn’t have air conditioning. I remember sitting there, just sweating to death, but so ________ to make this thing for this party!”

She ________ making a box of hair bows (蝴蝶结发饰). She went to the party, restless, ________ how people would react when knew that the hair bows were handmade. “I was so ________ because I kept imagining that these hair bows would just be like pieces of cloth, and I felt like I must have done something wrong. But something ________ happened. My friend ________ the box out onto a high chair and I remember all of the parents coming up to me saying, so ________ ! “Where did you get them? How did you do that? Can you make me some?”

Nisha left the party with six customers and started getting ________ soon. She began training other women from her ________ to produce the product.

“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. I make sure that I’m not just doing something that is only ________ me.” Nisha says.