【推荐1】Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. Turning our weaknesses into strengths makes us ________ . A 12-year-old boy, Kim overcame his weakness by unknowingly making it his______ .

Poor Kim _____ his left arm in a terrible accident and was _____. To cheer him up, his father made him join a Judo（柔道）club. As the boy always wanted to learn Judo, his father thought this would make him _____ .

Everyone wondered how a single-armed boy could learn Judo._____ , the master happily accepted him. Kim practiced nothing but a single stroke（击）.He trained for all 8 months in mastering a single stroke. The boy was ____ and sometimes annoyed as his master taught him only one stroke.

Yet, he said nothing. The boy mastered the stroke and grew in confidence as ____ could do that particular stroke better. The boy was _____ by the master to compete in a Judo championship tournament

Everyone _____ Kim and his master. Even the boy was not sure about why his master had chosen him.

To everyone's surprise, Kim easily ____ six competitors with his single stroke. He struggled a bit in the semi-finals but managed to win the match. Then the final match began. The opponent（对手）was very strong and the referee（裁判） ____ with Kim's master about stopping the match as he feared the opponent could ____ Kim. However, his master __ and told Kim to continue the match. With a huge effort, Kim ____ the match.

Kim thought it was __ and asked his master how he had become champion. His master told him “My dear boy, you learned the most ____ stroke in Judo that very few can master to perfection. If your opponent wants to beat you and ____ you from using the stroke, they should hold your left arm. This was the_____ behind your victory!'*

If the boy turned his weakness, the loss of his left arm, into such a great _____ . why can't we?

【推荐3】The LEGO story started in a Danish woodworking shop. At the time, Ole Kirk Christiansen was just a(n)_________carpenter in the village Billund but with ambition. As a young man, Christiansen turned his love of playing with wood into_________ and, in 1916, he opened his own shop.

At first, his shop produced furniture like ladders, stools and ironing boards. But in 1924, just as he was looking to expand his business, his sons_________set a pile of wood chips in the shop on fire,_________the entire building and the family’s home.

Despite a total_________, Christiansen saw the fire as an excuse to simply_________a larger workshop. _________, tragedy continued to strike. In 1929, the great Depression hit the world, and his wife died in 1932. Affected by financial and_________ disaster, Christiansen laid off many of his workers and _________ to make ends meet. Little did he know that those tragedies would be of importance to his business to__________.

Since times were so hard, Christiansen made the difficult decision to use his wood to create__________ goods that might actually sell. The decision didn’t__________ at first. But his love of toys pushed the company ahead, even when it was__________ the toughest times.

It __________he was a brilliant toymaker. Soon, his wonderful models of cars and animals and his adorable pull toys gained national popularity. His bestseller, a wooden duck whose mouth opens and closes when pulled, is now still a hot__________. In 1949, his company created its plastic bricks called the Automatic Binding Bricks. And the toy became more and more popular as the years passed.

【推荐1】Saul and Keon have never felt bored with a day of work picking up trash in Miami Beach. They were especially ______ when they were covering their route this week as a beautiful ______ awaited them. When their   huge truck rolled down the street into the North Bay Road community, they found most residents (居民) lining the street with signs and balloons, all to ______ say “we love you”.

Jennifer Elegant wanted to show her family’s appreciation ______ she organized the socially-distancing surprise “thank you” ______ to honor the workers. Even the Miami Beach mayor, Dan Gelber showed up to ______ the two heroes-because Saul Scruggs and Keon Richardson do so much more than ______ trash. “They bring incredible energy to the ______ neighborhood,” Jennifer said. “In a word, they spread ______.”

What is ______ about the two men is the positive energy that they bring with them. They always have ______ on their faces and never ______ a chance to say hello and ______ someone’s day. They also go out of their way to help others and ______ nothing in return. One day, Saul spent 45 minutes helping a neighbor dig through her trash to ______ her lost wedding ring. He also waited for over an hour with another ______ who was having heart problems and needed a(n)______.

Jennifer has had “meaningful discussions” with the amazing workers about their inspiring levels of happiness and often shares their ______ with her students. “Every day we are ______ by heroes who bring us inspiration but too often we are unable to ______ these great people. I want Saul and Keon to know that we are thankful.”

【推荐3】We first met Tom and Gee in the early days of our marriage. Someone had been returning our garbage cans to the _______ each garbage day, and Jim and I had wondered who. Then one day we _______ him: an elderly man who lived across the street. I baked cookies and _______ them outside the garage with a thank-you note. Later that night, a typed letter had _______ the gift. The letter was from Tom and explained how he had _______ to walk the neighborhood, returning cans for people he _______ knew. Back when he’d been fighting a war, his wife, Gee, had found herself living _______ . Neighbors had taken the time to _______ her garbage cans, so she didn’t have to and he never _______ . Now he paid it forward by doing the same for all of us.

Years later, Tom died. We photocopied that letter and ________ it to one of our own for, Gee. We told her how ________ we were to have known Tom. She wrote back and invited us over to ________ Christmas ornaments(装饰品). My kids sat in Gee’s living room and ________ lifted antique ornaments out of a well-kept box. Gee quietly explained each ________ . She told me that she and Tom had built their ________ piece by piece during each year’s after-Christmas sale. I realized how ________ it must be to part with that box. Yet she smiled ________ we left with it and found it a new home.

Passed from one home to the next, the box of ornaments ________ our family of the bonds around us. This Christmas, we’ll ________ our tree with Gee’s ornaments. Maybe I’ll talk to him just as Gee till does. Thank you, I’ll say, for teaching us what it ________ to be a neighbor.