【推荐1】8-year-old Jiang Tianjian was eating his regular breakfast of rice noodles with his mother on a Sunday. There’s nothing unusual about that ________ the way the boy was holding his chopsticks－in between his ________.

Jiang was born in 2009 without any arms. When his mother, Li Hongmei, was pregnant (怀孕), all of the five prenatal ultrasounds (超声检查) she had ________ that nothing was wrong. Soon after Jiang was born, ________, a nurse came into the room with a ________ look on her face, informing Li that her son didn’t have any arms. Despite the fact that some of her family suggested it be best to ________ the boy, Li determined that she would ________ herself to helping her son. From the time he was 18 months old, Jiang has been ________ how to do everything with his feet and now he has the ________ to write Chinese characters, solve math problems, draw pictures, play games on his cell phone and ________ do jigsaw puzzles using just his feet.

According to the class monitor, Jiang was sometimes laughed at because of his ________, but she said the majority of the classmates had ________ on him, playing with him and helping him go to the toilet. Chen Xiuhua, Jiang’s head teacher, said he ________ on top. The 52-year-old said she had never seen ________ severely disabled student and ________ that she was worried when she learned that Jiang would be joining her class. But the boy __________ himself from the moment the two met, bowing and greeting Chen with a confident “hello, teacher”. He was excellent ________, scoring full marks in Chinese and math in the midterm exams－the ________ student in his class to do so.

Unavoidably, life throws a lemon to us which makes us sour and heartbroken. Don’t let it ________ you down. All the hard work will ________, and Li hopes he will continue to develop his talent in other aspects.

【推荐2】Lisa winked(眨眼) as she placed a warm blanket in my arms. It was a particularly_______evening in this small Italian mountain village.

Her _______ was the first knock on the door of my temporary(临时的) home in Campania, from my closest _______, a housedress-wearing woman in her 80s with a lovable smile. But there was one _______: Lisa spoke little English and my Italian was very limited(有限的).

I tried very hard to _______ my Italian, but my long hours of studying _______ produced less than 60 seconds of results in the living room. In _______ sentences we talked about the weather and how I liked the village. She also _______ me photos of her family. But she spoke too _______ for me to follow. Although Lisa and I spoke ________ languages, we found ways to ________. One afternoon when she saw me ________ laundry, she shook her finger at me and pointed at the sun. I was ________ until the sun went down and I got wet clothes back into the house. After that, every time we hung laundry, one finger shake and I never again got wet clothes at the end of the day. When it was time to ________, I woke early to take the train. The village was ________. But Lisa broke the silence, calling out from her balcony. I couldn’t understand every word, but I got the main idea: Italiano, Italiano!

【推荐1】With the rise of social media in recent years, young people around the globe have easy access to shocking ______ about how we’re currently ______ to look after the Earth. Websites provide accessible information about ______ matters that quickly have millions of views, and links to new scientific information are easily ______. But, it’s not just online research that uncovers the     ____, and it’s not a ______ threat either. Climate change is happening around us; our oceans are 30 percent more acidic(酸性的) and one and a half acres of forest are cut down every second.

Of course, just because ______ people are now readily armed with such information doesn’t mean all ______ will eagerly listen to them. Many ______ young activists simply due to their age, and others still aren’t willing to see the environmental ______ we face, but that doesn’t mean a ______ can’t be made.

In fact, there are some ______ to being a young environmentalist. A study on participants aged 16-24 in the UN climate negotiations showed that adults thought of younger activists as being ______ due to the lack of financial problems. Young activists not only aren’t ______ by busy schedules being forced on them, but they also have a simple-hearted view of what’s going on and , being ______ from politics, they often say what adults aren’t willing to.

【推荐2】There are lots of ways to raise awareness for a cause. Usually, the stranger the idea is, the more it gets noticed. And that’s precisely why one________Frenchman has caught our attention.

Baptiste Dubanchet is biking across Europe, surviving________on discarded (丢弃) food. The three-month, 1,900-mile journey from Paris to Warsaw is Dubanchet’s way of raising awareness of food waste in Europe and throughout the world.

As you can________, the trip is no piece of cake. While restaurants________tons of food each year, much of it remains inaccessible because of________garbage containers, health regulations, or business policies. Only about one in ten places________him food that would otherwise be discarded. For legal reasons, most restaurants have a policy against________food waste. “Some people have even________their jobs by giving me food,” Dubanchet said.

What’s________ interesting is the attitude various cities have toward Dubanchet’s cause. Berlin has been the________while the most difficult was the Czech town of Pilsen. There, he had to ask at some 50 different stores or restaurants before finding food. The________is all the more serious when you consider the________exercise required to bike from France to Poland.

“I have to get food fast because after all the biking I am tired and I need the________,” Dubanchet explained. “Is my________full or empty? That is the most important thing, not what I am eating.”

He aims to________his journey by mid-July. With any luck, he’ll turn a few more heads in the process.

【推荐2】I was walking down the path after visiting the Vashistha Cave. Then I realised that a big monkey ________ itself ahead, blocking my path.I________,fearing that any movement might annoy him. It was a ________ situation. I had to ________ but running wasn't an option. Worse, any movement on my part produced a________   response from the monkey.

Moments later, I took two tentative steps, only to see the monkey match my ________. My mind was racing with several thoughts. I called my driver and started ________ towards the main road, he alongside, a bit ________ as this was not his regular beat. Suddenly, my car ________.I quietly went ahead, opened the back door, and ________ him to join me in the car, just for fun. I almost burst into ________ as he did the same. I jumped into the car before he could ________ me. The driver ________ immediately.

Later, having picked up some bananas down the road, we ________ to the spot where we had left him. Placing the bananas near the road, I waved my arm, ________ him to get them. With eyes locked on mine, he didn't ________. As we drove away, I turned around to see the monkey approach the ________.Perhaps he now realised that I wasn't a(n) ________ at all.

I came away thinking that our own insecurities ________ us from understanding others, whether humans or other creatures. We might be able to understand other people better if we attempt to understand ________ first.

【推荐3】In 2006, Jackie Briggs was working 60 hours a week at a high-pressure IT job. One Saturday afternoon, she made a _________ to take some time for herself and went to a women’s health meeting. As she was walking around in the meeting room, someone came near to her.

“This lovely dark-haired woman _________ to me and she said, ‘Excuse me, I can’t help _________ your arm mark,’” Briggs remembers. That day, Briggs wore a sleeveless(无袖的)dress, _________ a rose-shaped birthmark(胎记)on her arm exposed.

The woman asked Briggs if she had seen a _________ about the birthmark, and when Briggs said that she had, the _________ continued to ask her when. “When? I had to stop to _________. I counted back and it had been over three years,” Briggs remembers. When the woman _________ how long it had been, she suggested Briggs see a doctor as _________ as possible. After explaining that she was a nurse, she gently reached out and touched Briggs’ __________. “Really, don’t wait,” she said.

When Briggs saw a doctor, she learned that the woman had saved her __________. It turned out that the birthmark was __________ a melanoma(黑色素瘤)-one of the fastest-moving and __________ types of skin cancers. Briggs had an __________ and had the melanoma removed. She’s now happily retired and just finished writing her first novel. She is __________ that the stranger saved her life.