【推荐1】Volunteers in New York call on people to donate their used iPads to help poor patients keep in touch with their families online.

Some people with COVID-19 died alone in the_______physically separated from their friends and family, which is a_______situation. This cruel reality saddens a group of volunteers, so they decide to help_______patients with family members online, who are unable to be present due to hospital_______on visitors. They intend to_______used iPads from across the country and donate them to hospitals in communities where the need is_______urgent. Nicolas Heller, a 31-year-old volunteer, said thousands of people had died from the_______in isolation(隔离)without the comforting words or touch from a_______one. Heller is collecting used iPads for patients who do not_______smart phones capable of video chatting.

________Friday morning, the volunteer group had________375 used iPads from donors(捐赠者)nationwide. So far, 300 of the iPads have been smoothly________to Brooklyn's University Hospital of Brooklyn. The volunteers were ________by the donors' generosity. What the volunteers are doing is________people’s iPads that are not used anymore to help those patients in hospitals.________, the group explained to the public how the donated iPads could also benefit hospital staff with________personal protective equipment, such as masks and________. These iPads can________medical staff to communicate with patients from outside of the room, ________their risk of being exposed to the virus.

No one is an island. United, we can make a(n) ________to the world.

【推荐2】Even as, teacher, my mother didn't understand "learning disabilities". The________was almost unknown when I was a child. She was________I was bright and was working hard at school. She wondered why my achievement was so________.

Everyone said I was lazy, stupid or both. Then I began to________them. Sometimes I just________. I couldn't write, read or answer questions quickly. Anyway, I graduated. Although I was the________in my class. I wanted to go to law school against the best________of my school consultants. _____,Brooklyn Law School took a chance on me. I________with my best academic performance and I graduated better this time in the middle of my class. By law school I had begun to________how to make up for my problems. I had the________to meet Steve Lusthaus, a(n) _____, who spent hour________legal concepts with me. Law school was________because there was more stress on concepts and less on rote(死记硬背)learning, my greatest________.

Steve and I still joke about when he________me before an exam where I scored an "A" and he only a "B". I also remember the night I decided to drop out because of the endless________and Steve argued with me,________to let me sleep until I agreed to stay.

Luckily, by the time I was diagnosed(诊断) as learning disabled at the age of thirty-five, I had learned to________my problems. By the age of thirty-seven, I was a________.