【推荐3】The Grass Cutting Days

Every time we headed out to cut grass，Dad was there to watch. I used to_______why he came with us. He stood watching us in the sticky Florida heat when he could have been inside_______with air conditioning and an icy drink.

One day we were cutting our next-door neighbor's yard. She always waited until the grass was knee-high to call us over. To make matters worse，we had an old lawn mower that kept breaking down as we tried to cut through her backyard jungle. This particular afternoon，I was finishing up and was_______and sweaty. I_______the tall glass of cold juice I would drink in a minute to cool down.

I was just about to turn off the lawn mower_______I saw Dad pointing to one single blade of grass（一片草）. I thought about the small amount of money I was getting_______for cutting grass so high that it almost broke the mower. I ignored him and kept walking. Dad called me out and yelled，“You missed a blade.” I frowned（皱眉），hoping he would let me go home. He kept pointing. Though tired and_______，I still went back to cut that blade of grass. I thought to myself，“That one blade isn't_______anyone. Why won't he just let it go？”

But when I reached adulthood，I understood his_______：When you're running a business，the work you do says a great deal about you. If you want to be seen as an honest businessman，you must deliver a quality product. That single blade of grass________the job was not done.

Other neighbors took________of the good work we did and we soon gained more________.

The lesson my dad taught me stayed with me：Be________. If you say you are going to perform a job at a certain time，________your word. Give your customers the kind of________you would like to receive. It shows how sincere you are and how much pride you take in your work.

【推荐1】In 2017, I was diagnosed(诊断)with Type 1 diabetes(糖尿病). And then I was told that I couldn't________for a few weeks until my blood sugar levels had________.

Driving was a________very soon after diagnosis for me. I needed to get to the chemist's shop for my diabetes________and to hospital appointments, but at first couldn't-having been told not to drive. I didn't want to be a________having to ask for lifts all the time.

I found it really________to be unable to drive, but things settled down after that and seemed to be________-for a while.________, to my surprise, I had a severe hypoglycemia(低血糖)last year and wasn't able to________it myself. I called an ambulance and was taken to________, where I saw doctors and nurses I didn't________as none of them were connected to the diabetes team who usually cared for me. That's where my________began-they advised me not to drive on the basis of this________.They told me to call the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency( DVLA)and______what they'd told me to them. This________my licence being canceled.

I couldn't________all that had happened-it seemed________.I needed answers and________, so I phoned the Diabetes UK Helpline number I got from their website. They________I was right in thinking that the DVLA shouldn't have________my licence based on this hypoglycemia, according to the law. With their help, the DVLA sent me a letter admitting making a mistake. I got it back in six weeks.

【推荐2】When our restaurant business failed, we headed north in a camping truck to Texas, hoping to have a “fresh start”. At the entrance of Palo Canyon State Park, I _______ a job advertisement hiring park hosts. The position offered a _______ permanent campsite in the park, and in return, the hosts served as a link between the park’s guests and the rangers (护林人). It was the perfect _______ for the hopeless me: a rent-free place to _______ our lives.

The park was crowded, so it took us some time to find a (n) _______ site. That evening, my wife saw two skunks (臭鼬) walking toward our table. We immediately climbed onto the table and, for the next four hours, waited for them to _______ our camp.

Having _______ that night, we were confident that everything else would be _______. The next day we met with the people who ran the park. They explained our _______ and gave us a beautiful campsite. ________, that evening, we learned about the canyon ________. They were strong and cold, rocking our little camping truck ________ and we lay shaking in the dark until the winds ________ away.

During the weeks that followed, we learned to survive in our truck. There we sat closer together reading and talking. For a time after our business ________ I thought I might lose my family as well. Now I found myself thankful for all the ________.We had walked the trails and climbed the canyon walls. And we had become a family!

【推荐3】Rehan was born in Bowie, Maryland. When he was 8, his mother ______ his father. After the divorce, the family faced ______ difficulties as Rehan's father tried to raise two sons himself.

By the 7th grade, Rehan's academics (学业) had suffered ______ under the pressure. “I wasn't eating meals every day,” he said. “Sometimes there was no electricity at ______.” Despite his struggled home life, Rehan ______ boxing for comfort.

Rehan decided to ______ academically while training to be a professional boxer. However, his ______ was ruined when he suffered a shoulder injury in the 12th grade. His hope of being a professional ______ was finished. He hurriedly applied to a number of colleges but was _____. At last, he had to work as a garbage man (清洁工).

His co-workers were trying to ______ why he was there and would suggest he go to school. They eventually spoke to Bates, the ______ of the company, about the ______ young man. Bates soon took Rehan under his ______ and brought him to Bowie State University to meet a professor. This professor was so _____ by his conversation with Rehan that he agreed to admit Rehan.

“I studied so ______. I was winning so many honors — it was ______,"Rehan said. By the end of his second year, Rehan made a ______ to go to law school. Then Rehan transferred to University of Maryland, where he became a(n) _____ in 2018.

Over the course of the _____ year, Rehan worked in downtown DC, while still ______. He was accepted to law schools this Spring, 2020 at Harvard, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, and Pepperdine.