【推荐1】Angela used to fly. Using her_________for wings, Angela would run faster than anyone. Now, she thought, “I am_________than everyone.” She was the last to get off the school bus, with the_________of walking sticks.

“You must be Angela!” A girl came to her. “I’m Laurie, your instructor. Are you ready to learn to ski?”

“No,” Angela answered, but still_________Laurie into the changing room. “I can understand how you feel.” Before Angela said anything, Laurie_________her trousers and showed her left_________leg. Angela’s mouth dropped open. “Three-track skiing (三板滑雪) was designed for people like us. If I can learn to ski, _________can you,” Laurie said. They put on the regular ski, and used outriggers (支架) to_________.

Laurie and Angela made their way to the_________track. Angela spent the morning climbing and falling, sliding and falling, and turning and__________. She felt disappointed and__________.

“OK, __________one try before lunch,” Laurie said after they climbed__________the hill once again. __________Angela managed to follow Laurie down the small hill without falling. When she stopped beside Laurie at the bottom, she punched her fist in the air and said, “Yes!”

After lunch, they moved to a__________place. Looking down from the top, Angela felt __________. “I can’t go down that!” she cried.

“Follow me!” Laurie__________. “You are doing great! Try to be Flying Angel again.” “That was before I lost my leg__________cancer,” Angela whispered. “Trust__________,” Laurie said.

Angela took a deep breath, then leaned forward, sped up, took turns and skied down the hill. Faster. Faster. It felt like__________.

【推荐3】It’s often said that you can judge a person by looking at what’s on their bookshelves. Well, when I asked myself this question a few years ago, I made a(n) ______ discovery. Pretty much all the books on my bookshelves were written by British authors, and there was ______ in translation from other languages. What a shame! So, I decided to launch my ______ reading project.

But how could I find books from much of the rest of the world? I had to ask for ______. So in February 2021, I posted a short ______ online. Within hours, people began to ______. At first, it was friends and colleagues. And soon, it was ______.

Four days later, I got a (n) ______ from a woman called Rafidah in Kuala Lumpur. She said she ______ my project and went to her local bookshop to ______ my Malaysian book. A few weeks later, a package which contained one book — Rafidah’s choice from Malaysia reached me. At the time, I was ______ that a stranger more than 6,000 miles away would help someone she would probably never ______.

Rafidah’s kindness ______ to be the pattern for that year. A writer from Spain ______ emailed me an unpublished translation of his novel to me. Thanks to the kind strangers, I could read books from over 70 ______.