【推荐1】Obocho Peters may only be 11 years old, but he’s already a role model to his community.

The boy _________ giving low-income families a better life, especially when it comes to _________. And he’s making it happen through a _________ he started two years ago.

The wheels began turning in Obocho’s head after he saw “Avengers: Infinity War” in 2018. He enjoyed the movie and asked his mom Sasha to buy him toys of the _________, but as a single parent she couldn’t _________ them. So Obocho decided to _________ his old clothes so he could buy the toys himself.

He also began wondering how he could make a difference in his community.

“When my mom _________ her hardship with me, I realized that other families must face the _________ problems when taking care of their _________,” Obocho wrote. “That idea turned into the __________ I have today—to help the community grow.”

He set up Obocho’s Closet, a shop that sells donated pieces of clothing for $10 and under. His main __________ is to provide families with affordable choices so they can __________ money for college funds, but he also uses some money he has earned to __________ local financial literacy classes (金融知识课) where parents can __________ enough financial knowledge.

In June 2019, Obocho was presented with a “Heroes of the Month” award for his great __________ to his community. What a smart caring kid! He’s already made his mark on the world.

1.

A．dreams of

B．hears about

C．learns from

D．lives on

2.

A．health

B．family

C．career

D．education

3.

A．program

B．business

C．lesson

D．game

4.

A．players

B．partners

C．characters

D．members

5.

A．afford

B．make

C．serve

D．find

6.

A．keep

B．reuse

C．dry

D．sell

7.

A．shared

B．left

C．compared

D．connected

8.

A．new

B．only

C．next

D．same

9.

A．relatives

B．classmates

C．children

D．friends

10.

A．job

B．question

C．strength

D．feeling

11.

A．concern

B．goal

C．request

D．chance

12.

A．earn

B．borrow

C．accept

D．save

13.

A．support

B．attend

C．teach

D．choose

14.

A．apply

B．show

C．get

D．spread

15.

A．suggestions

B．contributions

C．collections

D．changes

【推荐3】I arrived at my mother’s home for our Monday family dinner. Mother was pulling out quilt after quilt (被子) from the boxes, _________ showing me their beauties. She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to _________ and put them back into the boxes, I noticed something at the _________ of one box.

“What is this?” I asked.

“Oh?” Mom said, “That’s Mama’s quilt.”

I _________ the quilt. It looked as if a group of school children had pieced it together, irregular designs, childish pictures, a winding line on the right.

“Grandmother made this?” I said, _________. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This _________ didn’t look like any of the quilts she had made.

“Yes, right before she died. I _________ it home with me last year and made some changes,” she said. “I’m still working on it. See, this is what I’ve done so far.”

I looked at it more _________. At the center of the quilt, she had sewn a piece of _________ with these words: “My mother made many quilts. She didn’t get all lines __________. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it __________. Her last quilt.”

“Oh, this is so nice, Mom,” I said. It __________ to me that by completing my grandmother’s quilt, my mother was honoring her own __________. I realized, too, that I held in my hands a family.

__________. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and __________ with the loving hands of another.

1.

A．originally

B．proudly

C．politely

D．generously

2.

A．push

B．judge

C．fold

D．cover

3.

A．bottom

B．top

C．back

D．front

4.

A．pressed

B．spread

C．packed

D．reflected

5.

A．excited

B．discouraged

C．surprised

D．delighted

6.

A．almost

B．certainly

C．partly

D．probably

7.

A．removed

B．bought

C．brought

D．dropped

8.

A．disappointingly

B．closely

C．nervously

D．gratefully

9.

A．paper

B．bread

C．wood

D．cloth

10.

A．strong

B．hidden

C．bent

D．straight

11.

A．finished

B．removed

C．produced

D．prepared

12.

A．happened

B．appeared

C．struck

D．occurred

13.

A．skill

B．show

C．mother

D．quilt

14.

A．shame

B．responsibility

C．desire

D．treasure

15.

A．stopped

B．continued

C．increased

D．disappeared

【推荐1】This is a part from US President Barack Obama’s speech on May 14 at Bamard College in New York.
… My last piece of advice – this is simple, but perhaps most important:____ Nothing worthwhile is easy. No one of achievement has avoided failure – sometimes catastrophic failures. But they keep at it. They learn from mistakes. They don’t ____
When I first arrived on this ____, I was with little money, fewer options. But it was here that I tried to find my place in this world. I knew I wanted to make a difference, but it was ____ how in fact I’d go about it. But I wanted to do my part to ____ a better world.
So even as I worked after graduation in a few ____ jobs here in New York, even as I went from motley (鱼龙混杂的)apartment to motley apartment, I ____
… And I wish I could say that this perseverance came from some innate (天生的)toughness in me. But the truth is, it was ____ I got it from ____ the people who raised me. I grew up as the son of a single mom who struggled to put herself through ____ and make ends meet. She had a marriage that fell apart; ____ went on food stamps at one point to help us ____ But she didn’t quit. And she earned her degree, and made sure that ____ scholarships and hard work, my sister and I earned ____
And ____, I met a woman who was assigned to advise me on my first summer job at a law firm. And she gave me such good advice that I married her. And Michelle and I gave everything we had to balance our careers and a ____ family. We made that marriage work.
… So ____ it’s starting a business, or running for office, or ____ an amazing family, remember that making your____ on the world is hard. It takes patience. It takes commitment. It comes with plenty of ____ and it comes with plenty of failures.1.

A．compete

B．persevere

C．struggle

D．preservation

2.

A．rest

B．decline

C．quit

D．regret

3.

A．campus

B．downtown

C．farm

D．country

4.

A．confident

B．uncertain

C．ambitious

D．proud

5.

A．shape

B．instruct

C．organize

D．lead

6.

A．amazing

B．disturbing

C．meaningful

D．unsatisfactory

7.

A．reached out

B．put out

C．gave out

D．made out

8.

A．presented

B．structured

C．learned

D．created

9.

A．copying

B．detecting

C．persuading

D．watching

10.

A．life

B．work

C．school

D．business

11.

A．yet

B．even

C．still

D．also

12.

A．get by

B．come by

C．get along

D．come along

13.

A．during

B．through

C．across

D．over

14.

A．mine

B．us

C．ours

D．hers

15.

A．for the time being

B．long before

C．up to now

D．later on

16.

A．young

B．poor

C．weak

D．strong

17.

A．as if

B．if

C．whether

D．unless

18.

A．rising

B．raising

C．arousing

D．arising

19.

A．view

B．stay

C．remark

D．mark

20.

A．goals

B．advantages

C．shortcomings

D．setbacks

【推荐2】When one of my best friends started making some bad choices, I knew I had to talk to her. Bekah was a_______in some of our school clubs. So when she went out_______ uncontrollably and partying throughout the night on New Year's Eve, I felt, as a friend, that I needed to say something.

When she _______ my house to return the sweater she'd borrowed, I thought_______and spoke up. "I don't want you to think I'm _______ you,“ I said. “But we promised each other if we ever started doing things like this we'd_______ each other of it. ” “You're right,“ Bekah said. "I had a lot of fun that night, and I got too crazy to_______ myself. But even though I knew it was _______, it was also what I wanted to do. " I went on to tell her this was about _______ just her. It was about her duties as a leader. And it was about my________ for a good friend. Bekah said she was thankful to my care,________she had decided this was how she wanted to live her life for now. It was one of the________conversations I’ve ever had, but I knew I was right to talk to her.________I don't think confrontation (对抗)is a good way, sometimes it's just the________ thing to do — that's why I confronted Bekah.

But why did it trouble me? A few ________ : First, Bekah's bad choices shook the belief she had expressed publicly, and she ________ she was wrong. Second, because Bekah was a leader, she had a(n)________to be an example to other students. Third, I knew her very well. In any case, a close ________ is important for any confrontation. Bekah________that I argued with her because I loved her. Love should ________ be the main motivation(动机)for our caring for or helping others.

1.

A．guest

B．head

C．supporter

D．partner

2.

A．drinking

B．devoting

C．begging

D．destroying

3.

A．looked around

B．found out

C．dropped into

D．went through

4.

A．slowly

B．easily

C．suddenly

D．deeply

5.

A．judging

B．requesting

C．rewarding

D．praising

6.

A．rid

B．cheat

C．warn

D．inform

7.

A．injure

B．control

C．forget

D．rescue

8.

A．different

B．common

C．acceptable

D．wrong

9.

A．more than

B．sooner than

C．less than

D．other than

10.

A．memory

B．invitation

C．thanks

D．concern

11.

A．but

B．for

C．or

D．so

12.

A．simplest

B．hardest

C．shortest

D．easiest

13.

A．Unless

B．Because

C．Though

D．When

14.

A．strange

B．main

C．extra

D．right

15.

A．results

B．choices

C．reasons

D．plans

16.

A．imagined

B．knew

C．refused

D．feared

17.

A．duty

B．excuse

C．method

D．chance

18.

A．communication

B．congratulation

C．friendship

D．agreement

19.

A．hoped

B．noted

C．decided

D．understood

20.

A．always

B．never

C．seldom

D．sometimes

【推荐3】I decided at age 10 that I was going to be a teacher because I ___________ superpowers. When I was in primary school, I could clearly see that some of my teachers had superpowers because I was always the quietly observant one, ___________ things.

Our English teacher could magically transport us to different worlds every day, simply by reading stories to us from books we would otherwise never ___________ . This was our secret because fifth graders were considered too old to have stories read out to them. Then our headmaster, a teacher as well, ___________ everything about every child. You couldn’t ___________ his laser-like (激光般的) eyes that could see right into you — through flesh, bones and all. And our geography teacher could _________ the invisible (隐形的). I remained rather quiet and unnoticeable. _____________ , she would spot me. The unspoken _______________ in her superpowered eyes told me: “I see you, I know you, I understand you.”

As I learned from them, the _____________ of a primary school educator is to teach children, not subjects. What seems ________________ to me is that all those teachers calmly create ______________ in their ordinary classrooms. No one ever noticed that they were so creative in shaping young human beings.

Teaching is not just a job — it is a science and an art and it demands emotional labour and input. When I ________________ after teaching for three decades, what gives me ________________ is remembering the children who felt happier in school because I was their teacher. When I meet others who ________________ to gain superpowers, like the brand-new teacher struggling to perfect her skills, or the one in a rural school traveling seventy kilometers each day just for the pupils, I feel ________________ to belong to the same group.

1.

A．lacked

B．had

C．wanted

D．developed

2.

A．damaging

B．noticing

C．sharing

D．recalling

3.

A．take back

B．go over

C．put down

D．pick up

4.

A．doubted

B．respected

C．knew

D．monitored

5.

A．cover

B．escape

C．meet

D．shut

6.

A．feel

B．hear

C．touch

D．see

7.

A．However

B．Instead

C．Besides

D．Therefore

8.

A．opinion

B．attitude

C．message

D．agreement

9.

A．role

B．dream

C．choice

D．decision

10.

A．horrible

B．normal

C．amazing

D．simple

11.

A．magic

B．dilemma

C．stress

D．atmosphere

12.

A．give up

B．calm down

C．look back

D．stand out

13.

A．luck

B．joy

C．worry

D．pain

14.

A．desire

B．manage

C．happen

D．regret

15.

A．energetic

B．scared

C．disappointed

D．proud