【推荐2】You may always hear about people who knew exactly what they wanted to do with their life from the time they were in kindergarten. I hadn’t considered lots of career _________ when I graduated from high school. Like most students who earned good grades in math and science classes, I found people _________ me to be an engineer. But all of that changed when I went to my _________.

I will never forget the feeling of walking into my very first Biology _________. I nervously found a seat and waited for the type of professor you see in TV shows, old and strict. What I got was exactly _________. Dr. Espinoza was a caring and _________ teacher, and two terms of her classes made me fall in love with Biology. Her exciting classes made me _________ that I had other choices besides being a(n) _________. It meant I was headed for a career in biological research.

Due to Dr. Espinoza and many other professors like her, I found that scientists aren’t just what we _________ on the National Geographic Channel. They are real people who answer real questions and __________ real problems. This led me to seek out opportunities to do real science projects and see if I __________ it. While I was at university, I learned how to ask good questions, how to __________ experiments and collect data, and how to share what I learned with people. As it __________, I loved every minute of it.

Falling in love with science was a long process for me, but it led me to a job I love. Like the science itself, my journey toward being a scientist was __________, but helped along by many teachers and professors who showed me the way. Now, I try my best to learn new things and __________ new knowledge.

【推荐3】Have you ever paid attention to your school guards? Would you say “good morning” to the cleaners? For high school student Ding Jiacheng, it is a_________ that many students haven’t realized the importance of jobs done by this non-teaching staff. He wanted to solve it and make a_________.

The boy from Hangzhou Entel Foreign Language School, together with several other students, _________ a project called “The Invisible (隐形的) Are Important”. They hoped more students would respect the “invisible” staff in the school. The project won a prize at China Thinks Big, a competition held by Harvard and Tsinghua University to_________ teenagers to study social matters.

“My team members and I sent questionnaires to 158 students, said Ding.“In one question, 56% of students said they would greet those non-teaching workers, _________ only 17% strongly believe that every student should do so.”

The team also did research on the interaction (互动) between students and workers. “Most students follow the rules of their teachers. However, one-third of students go_________ the rules of the dormitory(宿舍) workers,” said Ding. “It shows that students treat non-teaching staff_________ from teaching staff.”

The main reason, according to Ding, is that students know_________ about the work done by non-teaching staff. They also have few chances to communicate with them. So Ding’s team made videos to show the staff working in the school. They also held a basketball match between students and non-teaching staff to increase_________ interaction.

“The activity helped me understand that we can all have a__________ influence through our creative ideas,” Ding said.

【推荐2】In August 2017,Southeast Texas was badly affected by Hurricane Harvey.About 30 miles west of Houston,the town of Katy,Texas,took a hard ______.Nearly 700 of its homes and 80 businesses were_________or destroyed.But the locals didn't wait for the rain to ________ before opening door ,refrigerators and _____________to first responders (急救员）,neighbors,strangers .

Beaver Aplin,owner of the popular Bucee's chain of convenience _______ was preparing for the grand opening of his newest location just outside Katy.When the _______ hit,Aplin opened the store _________without thinking twice.He put the word out to first responders,telling them to ________what they needed,free of charge.

Meanwhile,the locals ran,drove and paddled(划船）to _______ their neighbors.When the water was too deep,rescue came by _______.A nearby Bass Pro Shop donated all 80 boats it had-and then its head office ________dozens more."We never even got a(n)________"says city administrator Byron Hebert.

Other residents found ________ways to join in.Shakeib Mashhood used WhatsApp to gather more than 100 volunteers who gave out food and water and_________storm-damaged homes.

These are just a small part of the ________of heroism that came out of Katy.But Mashood,like many others of his fellow Texan heroes,________he didn't do anything special."We do what we need to do,"he told Reader's Digest.

Even first responders coming from outside Katy could instantly feel the town's _______spirit."We helped people in lots of other areas,too,but Katy was _______.Neighbors were going from house to house checking on people and _________everyone they could,"David Scherff told Katy Magazine."I was so_________that I even had thoughts of moving here.I have never seen anything like Katy."

【推荐3】No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own _______ .

I learned this lesson from a(n) _______ many years ago. I took the head _______ job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.

It was a tradition for the school’s old team to play against the _______ team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn’t even practice to _______ the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated. I couldn’t _______ I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to _______ that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were _______ me. I had to change my _______ about their ability and potential.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little __________ . Most importantly, I began to treat them like __________ . That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their __________ , we met every day and __________ passing and kicking the football.

Six months after suffering our __________ on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to __________ . Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a __________ for us even if we lost the game. But that wasn’t what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me one of the greatest __________ of my life!

From the experience I learned a lot about how the attitude of the leader can __________ the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and __________ them. I helped them to see themselves __________ , and they built themselves into winners.

Winners are made, but not born.

【推荐1】Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I _______ upon some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. These letters were all piled up in a basket, dirty and _______. Deciding to read and _______ them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They agreed.

As I opened each letter, all of them delicate with _______, I discovered a new page _______ unknown to me in this private _______ of my parents’ lives.

My father used to _______ in the army. So his letters were full of frontline _______ of the things about the war. Each of my mother’s letters was sealed with her 1944 magenta (紫红色的) lipstick kiss. I was _______ to these letters like a magnet (磁铁).

Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very ill and was hospitalized. This time, he was fighting a ________ kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the ________. He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had ________ to him when he had been so far from home.

It so happened that the next day would be February 14. I chose from the ________ letters the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father’s bedside.

At his bedside, I joked with him, saying ________, “Today is Valentine’s Day, and I know you have been a little busy lately, but I’ve got you ________.” He became more ________ when I handed him the old ________. He carefully opened the card, and when he recognized it, his eyes filled with tears.

My father, in a voice tight with ________, read the loving ________ he’d sent to my mother fifty-six years earlier. And this time, he could read it to her ________.

【推荐2】Six-year-old Ryan Coutinho wasn’t used to smiling. He felt _________ after losing almost all his teeth at the age of three.

Now he does. And he is always _________ to Amanda Mattos.

The boy lives in a _________ family. He had his teeth pulled out because of cavities(蛀牙). Only a few on his lower part remained. Ms Mattos, 25, met Ryan at the boy’s school for the first time two years ago, where Ryan’s teacher told Mattos he _________ smiled and communicated little. Ms Mattos would like to _________ the boy after contacting his mother, but his mother _________ the offer. “They couldn’t afford the _________,” the dentist said. “They were still shaken by the _________ that took his teeth out.”

Ryan’s story could have _________ here. But two years later, by accident, his mother got a job as a cleaner at the __________, which Ms Mattos owns. The boy had a pain in one of his remaining teeth. He went to the clinic for a(an) __________ and met Ms Mattos again. “I asked him what he wanted. He replied: ‘a smile like my friends’,” the dentist said.

Ms Mattos agreed to do it for free. The mother happily __________ the kindness.

Then, two days after Brazil’s Children’s Day, Ryan finally got a new denture(假牙).

“We all cried. It was very moving,” Ryan’s mother said.

“All this is __________,” Ms Mattos says. “Isn’t it pleasant if someone __________ smile because of your __________?”

【推荐3】It was sleeting (雨雪交加). My wife and I were going to dinner at a friend’s house. As we hurried toward the house, with its ________ light, I noticed a car pulling out from the curb. Just ahead, another car was waiting to ________ into the parking space. But before he could do so another car came up from behind, and sneaked into the ________.

“That’s a(n) ________ trick.” I thought. While my wife went ahead into our friend’s house, I stepped into the street to give the ________ driver a piece of my mind. A man in work clothes ________ the window.

“Hey,” I said, “this parking space belongs to that guy.” I ________ toward the man ahead, feeling pretty manly in my new coat.

“Must you get ________?” the driver yelled, “None of your business!”.

“No,” I said. “You don’t understand. That fellow was waiting for this space.” Things quickly became ________, until finally he leaped out of the car. The huge man ________ me and bent me back over the hood of his car. I was ________. I scrambled (跌跌撞撞) to my friend’s front door. Seeing that I was ________, my wife and friends asked me what had happened. All I could say was that I had had a(n) ________ about a parking space. They had the ________ to let it go at that.

Perhaps half an hour later, the doorbell rang. I was sure the guy had returned for me. My hostess got up to answer it, but I stopped her. I was morally ________ to answer it myself.

I walked down the halfway with ________. Yet I knew I had to face up to my fear. I opened the door. There he stood, ________. “I came back to apologize,” he said in a low voice. “The Brooklyn Navy Yard is closing. I’ve worked there for years. And today I got ________. I hope you’ll accept my apology.”

I often remember that big man. I think of the ________ and courage it took for him to come back. He was man at his ________.