【推荐1】Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. “The only thing that I love is dance,” she told CBS News. That ambition nearly _______ one night in 2010.

Hill, then a 17-year-old high school senior, was in a car accident that put her in the hospital for 51 days and that _______ her paralyzed from the waist down. For most people, that would have _______ any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the _______ . Far from being a（n） _______ , her wheelchair encouraged her. “I wanted to _______ to my community and to myself that I was still ‘normal’.” Whatever normal meant, normal for her meant _______ . so Hill did it in her wheelchair right alongside her _______ high school dance team. “Half of my body was _______ from me, and I have to move it with my hands,” “It ________ took a lot of learning and patience.”

After graduation, Hill wanted to ________ her dance network to include women like her. She met people online who had suffered various spinal cord injuries and shared her ________ , and she invited them to dance with her. “It was such a（n） ________ experience.” Hoping to ________ more people in a larger city, Hill moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she calls the Rollettes, a ________ to the Rockettes, a famous dancing team. “I want to ________ the prejudice of wheelchair users and show that dance is dance, whether you’re walking or you’re ________ ,” she said to CBS News. Hill has attained what many of us never will: her childhood dream. She’s a dancer. But the Rollettes have helped her find something ________ . She calls it the Rollettes Experience, and in 2019, 173 participants from ten countries attended it. For many, it was the first time they’d felt they ________ . “It was the most unimaginable thing when I rolled into a room and everyone was at ________ level.” Hill told CBS News.

【推荐2】I believe different people have experienced different adolescence. I must admit I was still an angry __ in my first year of college. My ______ was that my parents didn't please me at all.

Our finances were ______, so I chose to go to a (n)     _______ college and take a bus to classes every day. One day I had a (n)     _______ fight with my father. We both exploded into shouts. I __ out of the house and missed my bus to school.

I rushed all the way to school. As I ______ across the campus toward my class, I suddenly realized I didn't have the ______ that was due: a thought card.   My professor asked us to ______ an index card with our names and the dates every Tuesday. ________what was on the rest of the card, we could write a thought, a question or something else.

Now, outside the door, ten minutes later, I took an index card. Desperate to write something __ it, I could only think about the ______ I'd just had with my dad. I wrote "I am the son of an idiot!” , then _______ into the room, and handed it to our professor.

Next day, our professor ______ the thought cards and I ______ he wrote, "What does the 'son of an idiot' do with the rest of his life?"   The professor's innocent-seeming question ______ me to the issue: whose problem is it? _______ , my thinking began to shift. I realized that I had created a life ______ I was not a central figure!

The ______ of growth wasn't easy or fast. _______ later, from a struggling student, I became a successful student and then a successful teacher.

【推荐1】My 20-year-old daughter, Allison, living in Philadelphia, sent me a text the other day："I need socks and shampoo.”She was actually asking me to______those items for her, but I ______she was playing a cell phone game. I decide not to be a helicopter(直升机)______,because experience as a mother and professor has taught me how______that can result.

__, I prefer a more hands-off approach. From the time Allison turned 18, I no longer had any____ to know her work and life schedule.

But that's not what I ___ at Drexel University where I teach. Most of my students talk to their __ three times a day or more. One student's mother called because she didn't ____ from him for a few days. He was in the library so he______"hello". She doubted that he was drinking, and insisted on asking him to______a picture of himself. Holding a newspaper with that day's ____，he took a picture and sent it to his mother in order to ___ that he wasn't telling a lie.

I've always treated my students as independent beings. I tell them on the first day that I will not follow up with them on missing____or assignments. I am getting them to become independent thinkers, and take responsibility for their ____.

But their parents don't______them like me. I know a mother. She supervises(监督)her son too much. She hopes he will walk by the______，so that she can know what he is doing. Another mother checks her son's credit card daily. However, I never do that. My daughters only come to me with____things that need my decision, and I think that's because I give them space.

Many parents try to find if their kids are______from them. But we have to learn to respect boundaries(界限)，even when technology is so ____. So I am going to do my best not to be a helicopter parent.

【推荐2】A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into _______ about stress in work and life.

Before offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of _______ --- porcelain (陶瓷), plastic, glass, crystal (水晶), some plain looking and _______, some delicate (精致的) and expensive---telling them to _______ themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in _______, the professor said: “If you _______, all the nice looking expensive cups were _______, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is _______ for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the _______ of your problems and stress．It is ________ that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee．In most cases it is just more ________ and in some cases even ________ what we drink. ________ all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you all went for the ________ cups. And then you began ________ each other’s cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and ________ in society are the cups．They are just tools to hold and ________ life, and the type of cup we have does not change the ________ of life we live．Sometimes, by ________ only on the cup, we fail to ________ the coffee. ”

【推荐3】When we seem to have finally obtained things we’ve worked hard for, most of us tend to think that we can relax and enjoy life._______, life has some rude awakenings for us.

This was the_______for Stevie. He worked hard and years later, he was able to buy a really nice home on a cliff_______ the ocean. It seemed that all his work_______and that he had finally realized his dream.

Well, as life would have it, along came the events over which he had no_______. Above all, the cliff started to erode (风化)badly from the_______winds and rains over the years. What was once a one-hundred-foot backyard was rapidly _______week by week, and to make matters even_______, he became badly ill to the point_______he had to take lots of time off from work.

Then, the most tragic things happened. The backyard totally disappeared and what was________was the back of the house sitting dangerously on the edge of the cliff. What was even more destructive was that he had no house insurance________the family could not get any from insurance companies who knew of the________. No insurance, and so sick that he couldn’t work—now what? A person who thought he had finally reached the________and now only to find almost everything had disappeared through no________of his own.

The good news was that he wasn’t done—friends, neighbors and even those who didn’t know him________responded to fund-raisers to help them start over.

Life has a way of________and kicking us from behind and even kicking again when we are really down. But life also gives us a way________if we don’t give up. There is kindness and comfort________-an opportunity to start again if we have a ________to move forward. Keep focused on new life and move beyond all those things that may________us to the present.

【推荐2】Diego is in front of a group of people. He’s blindfolded, but he can still show these people something_______, which he calls “the art of_______”. First, the audience randomly_______ sixty     numbers. After that, a helper reads the_______ to Diego. Then, after hearing them just a single time, Diego_______ the numbers in the correct order from memory.   He does this first in the order he hears them, then again — backwards! The audience then cheer in disbelief.

Diego has a very special kind of memory. He ___________, “It’s a kind of memory that is _________ to what I experience. It means that every idea I learn, everything I read, becomes a part of me. Normally, a person who doesn’t have this special ability and hasn’t trained their memory _________ to just forget things. Not me.” Diego says that with his special_______, he can remember every ________ of every day of his life since he was less than one year old!

If there is a memory gene (基因) Diego probably has it, but his genes are only part of the________. Since the age of 11, he’s been training his brain to remember more and more. He practices __________, thinking about memory and working on it all the time. He has even ________ a whole series of 250 historical books! Diego’s practice and________ work shows that a great memory can be made, and not just________!

【推荐3】Two weeks of volunteer work lay ahead and my mood _________ . I realized that good _________ and a trip to Spain would not be enough to make the _________ that I had hoped for. My volunteer service was in a shelter in Peru. I was where I wanted to be, but, without the communication _________ I needed.

One morning the founder of the shelter, Miguel Rodriguez, _________ the story of how, after the death of his baby, he started feeding and taking in _________ children. He eventually _________ his family, wealth, and life to setting up what is now a shelter for over 1,300 children. As he finished, I asked: “I can _________ how the walls, the food, and the facility (设施) came to be, but, how did you _________ the atmosphere of love, respect, and care among these children?”

His response was simple: “Use the language of love.” He ____________, “The language of love is done with your eyes, your hands, and your smile.” “____________ are not only for work. They are for hugging, holding, and ____________.Do this, and they may well ____________ the example.”

This simple statement carried ____________. These children had communicated love, respect, and ____________ to me and each other without a word being ____________.These emotions, so ____________ to convey, did not need translation at all.

For the remainder of my service, I was determined to worry less about my ____________ of Spanish, and instead, focus on using the language of love. When I returned home, I ____________myself to use it more in my everyday life and to be mindful that being a(n) ____________ is sometimes all the power that is needed.