【推荐1】Davina McNaney on Friday will begin a journey that will bring her home to Wayne County.A breast cancer ____，McNaney，42，will run 466 miles from Michigan to New York in the next few weeks in an ____ to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer research.

“I’m just a regular person.”she said.“I just want to do ____ to help others and set a strong ____ for my girls.”The mother ____ two and University of Rochester graduate chose to ____.her own personal ultra-marathon to show others how grateful she was to ____ her illness.

McNaney has ____ more than $10，000 for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation，nearly ____ her initial $5，000 goal.

During the first week，McNaney plans to run 36 miles each day.Two 13-mile days will follow so she ____ celebrate her eldest daughter’s eighth birthday and ____ her nephew’s high school graduation.

On July 3，the ____ day of her journey，McNaney will run 22 miles across Wayne County to Sodus Point，____ her daughters and more than a hundred friends will be   ___ .

Her husband Steve，35，will serve as her pit crew.It will be his ____ to keep McNaney fed，to track her weight and address any ____ problems that arise.

At times，McNaney said she will run with ____ —friends in Michigan，a cousin in Ohio and loads of friends and relatives in the final few miles in New York.

Company will be nice，she said，noting that she’s also looking forward to ____ time when she can relax，run and“just let my ____ wander.”

“I hope I can encourage people to challenge themselves，to know that they can overcome in the face of trouble，”McNaney said.“I'm stepping out of my comfort _____and putting myself out there to reach my goal.”

【推荐3】Eleven years ago, it seemed as if the world came to an end. My husband of 19 years, the father of my two sons, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Over the_______of seven months, Bill went from_______easily at tennis to needing my help to go to the bathroom.

It was the best seven months of my life. Maybe I don't actually_______ that. But it was certainly the time when I felt most_______. During those seven months, I came to_______that whatever else I did in my life, nothing would_______ more than taking care of my husband. I discovered that the minor complaint of an annoying coworker, or a flat tire pales in _______with the beauty of sincere laughter, the_______of a bakery. There were moments of _______ laughter, and tenderness in every day. I found I could train myself to see beauty____________bother.

In the days after Bill's diagnosis and brain surgery, being his caregiver also meant being fully____________ as much as possible. During his last weekend, when we had dinner together a relative visited. I ____________that she'd changed her appearance, and not in a good way. It was the kind of____________ I'd usually keep to ____________. Just then, Bill voiced ____________ what I’d been thinking, in that truthful way he had, and I found myself ____________out loud. I thought I could       live with this man forever, but he____________   in four days.

Eleven years later, I haven't made much achievements. ____________every day, I try to be the person I became during those seven months. I try to be a little less judgmental, a little more generous, a little more ____________ for the small moments in life.

I am a better person for having been Bill's caregiver. It was his last, best ____________ to me.

【推荐1】A couple of months ago, I was texting a friend in Australia during their widespread bushfires, begging her to come back to New York. “It’s just not _________” I said. “You can’t even breathe!”

She simply replied, “No. I need to bear witness (见证),” _________ the way her government poorly handled the problem, ignoring scientists’ _________ about global warming. Her need to “see” was _________ in her deep love for her people and country.

Now here I am, _________ my own city on “fire”. A fire that should have taken no one by surprise. This isn’t just about Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd or any black citizen. This is about a _________ that exists within this country that makes our lives seemingly less valuable to the people in power who _________ most times, to be white.

In all this good trouble, we can’t keep looking away. We can’t keep _________. If we don’t bear witness to these moments of unfairness, they have the chance to _________ themselves.

If we’re afraid and confused, that’s __________, because we are only human. But on the other side of fear is __________. On the other side of __________ is knowledge and power. Maybe we are unsure what to do or really what we can do in this moment __________ there are so many confusing suggestions. But the only thing we __________ have to do is keep being our unique selves.

I’m Black. My father, mother, brother, and everyone in between are Black. I __________ being Black. Friends and family from all over have asked me to leave. And I say no.

I, too, need to bear witness.

【推荐2】As a senior, my future is constantly on my mind. Because of this, words of ______ are a source of encouragement. Steve Jobs addressed Stanford University's graduating class in 2005 and his words reverberate (回响）whenever I think about my _______. His touching stories and humorous comments have made a collection of words that anyone could proudly live by.

_______of the future have kept me spending countless sleepless nights and made me worried enough to do poorly in more than one test. It wasn’t always like that,_______. It started when I became a junior and college came into_______. When Jobs discussed his life as a student, some fears were eased. He, _______, felt the need to attend college to make something of himself. He _______ what many are particularly afraid of: uncertainty. His lack of understanding caused him to stop attending college and focus on what he felt was_______. His story had a _______ending since eventually things turned out all right.

This doesn’t mean that students shouldn’t attend college but that they shouldn't________so much. You’ll get where you need to go even if your path is a bit more________than you’d like.

One particular part of his speech________with me. Jobs quoted (饮用）the saying “Stay hungry, stay foolish” and it’s become my________. Staying foolish is realizing that you’re still a fool however much you’ve learned or experienced. There’s always more to ________. Staying hungry is wanting to find those things about which you’re still ignorant.

That’s what ________ is. A person has his work, family and hobbies, if every day starts to seem the same, ________that’s not a life. It’s about going out into the world and ________everything you can. Live as Plough you’re a(n)________child, with everything to learn and   nothing to lose.

【推荐2】I’ve been obsessed (困扰) with languages for as long as I can remember. My dad could talk to everyone with ease, confidently ____between languages. His abilities made a big impression on me, but he didn’t ______ me to follow his lead.

I wasn’t a(n)______ language learner. I made slow progress with French at school and almost gave it up. But things felt different when I ______ German at university — loving many German writers in translation, I wanted to read them in their _____ tongue, and that’s been my main ______ for learning new ones since. Once I got German, I was ______; French, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit quickly followed. The idea of having a ______ overview of the world has always fascinated me, and ______ languages seemed a good way of achieving that. By my 20s, I’d set my heart on _____ the rest of my life to learning as many as I could.

I’m often asked what the ______ is, and whether some people have a gift for absorbing words and phrases. The truth is that it’s down to endless hours of ______ — reading, studying and practicing grammar.______, all these wonderful languages start to swim into focus, and increasing numbers of great works become _____.

It’s hard, but the _____ can be thrilling. When I started studying Spanish, there was a moment when the living language suddenly ______ itself to me. Something _____ happened when I heard Swedish spoken around me. It seemed to _____ elements of languages I was familiar with. The more of them I know, the more I see how inter-related they are. All it took was three weeks and I was able to _____ effectively in complex conversations.

Now, I can read about three dozen languages and speak most of them fluently. I think I’m much richer for that — it makes me more _____.

【推荐3】Two heroic teenage lifesavers were praised after rescuing a drowning man from Lake Mulwala.

Grace Creenaune, 17 and Erica Montgomery, 18 were on duty _________ as lifeguards at the local water park on Tuesday, when two men bought tickets to go into the park.

Staff _________ the men had been drinking and they were _________ to leave. After getting their money back, the men left quietly crossing the road to Lake Mulwala where they _________ into the water. They were swimming out of sight of the staff when one of them got into _________. So his partner ran for _________, straight back to the park where they had been asked to leave.

Grace said that was when their training _________. “He was probably about 20 metres out, and when we got to him, he was completely underwater and we _________ to pulled him back onto shore,” Grace said.

The pair had _________ been lifeguards for a short period of time. Erica said it was quite a（n）__________. “Looking back on it now it’s a lot more __________ than it was at the time.”

The girls’ boss said she was extremely __________ of them, saying they had put themselves in danger. “There is no __________ that if they had no training or quick response, the man would not have __________, she said. “I really appreciate their courage to take the __________.”