【推荐2】During my first three years of college, I put on weight quickly. Between classwork and a part-time job, I had zero time for ______. Besides, I ate a lot of fast food. Not surprisingly, I _____ a fat stomach.

After leaving college, I ______ to take exercise. Invited by a friend, I ______ working out with exercise machines three times a week. I was the kind of person who did not try something ____. I ate the same food; I did the same thing. M friend, however, became ______. One day, he said, “We’re not getting enough exercise. We should play tennis instead.”

Me? Play tennis? No way. I was strongly against his ______. I was not good at sports and I was ______ the exercise machines. ______, weeks later, I found myself standing on a tennis court (球场). As I held my racket (球拍), I felt ______. I ran after every ball he served to me, completely ______ about 90% of them, hitting the rest into the other court.

The first few months were quite ______. But one day, as the ball came flying toward me, my racket and the ball finally met in the place where it is most effective to hit a ball. I watched ______ as my return landed where I had aimed (瞄准) it. I had finally ______ how to play tennis properly!

I learned a ______ during my journey toward learning to play tennis: I can do whatever I set my mind to.

【推荐1】In August 1999,Yuriko noticed that her daughter,Ayako,was looking thin and pale,_______ she insisted that the 22-year-old see a doctor.As they waited for the test results,the doctor________ gave Yuriko a note while her daughter wasn’t noticing.

In the restroom,Yuriko opened the note,“It is stomach cancer,“said the doctor.“Please________.There is no time.”

On September 21,Ayako had a(n)________.Three quarters of her stomach were removed.The doctor ________ the situation to Yuriko but the medical terms sounded like a foreign language.

Ayako was put on anti-cancer drugs,and over the next three months,she ________ from side effects,and lost seven kilograms.

Yuriko decided to do more to ________ her daughter.She read all kinds of books on cancer.As a single mother,she had no one to share her ________ with.

________ the difficulties,Yuriko was able to help her daughter.When Ayako started experiencing breathing difficulties,Yuriko ________ if it could be a side effect of the anti-cancer drug.She told Ayako’s doctor and he ________ to take her off the drug.

________,in November 2002,Ayako’s treatment came to an end.Although she felt her pain ________,Yuriko couldn’t forget how lost and ________ she felt during her daughter’s treatment.She wrote a letter to the local newspaper ________ the creation of a support group for cancer patients.

Phone calls and letters ________ her idea started pouring in.In December 2002,Yuriko formally ________ Ikkikai,roughly meaning “sharing the joy”,with the ________ of providing hope and information for people with cancer,and their families.

Ikkikai’s message has begun to ________.Yuriko says,“The simple act of talking to other people who understand your problems can make the greatest ________.I hope that more people would join in the group.”

【推荐2】Think of the ways you use your eyes every day. Imagine your life _______ sight. Cover your ears, and _______ being deaf and blind for the rest of your life. Think about the songs, the voices, the music you will never _______ again.

For the first 19 months of her life, Helen Keller was _______ to see and hear. But then a sickness struck her. She became _______ blind and deaf. For the rest of her life, she was never to see or hear. She didn’t have memories of sight or _______. And the sickness struck her when she was a baby _______ she learned to talk. But Helen Keller became a teacher and writer. She was in the hearts of millions of people.

_______did this miracle (奇迹) happen? For the first seven years of her life she was almost like a _______ animal. Her mother and father did not know how to __________ her. She screamed, kicked and cried. She wanted very much to have others understand her, but there was no way she could do. __________ her parents decided to send for a family __________ to treat her. Some teachers went away shortly after they spent a few days with her, until the __________ one — Annie Sullivan came, who seemed to be sent here by __________, for during the rest of Helen’s life, she stayed with Helen to overcome (克服) a lot of unthinkable __________.

Sullivan was a lovely young woman with great patience and imagination. She was a born teacher, __________ of turning a deaf-blind creature into a useful human being. It was this teacher that did not let Helen’s world be __________. Through the teacher’s hands and fingers, Helen heard the sounds __________ one can hear on a farm, the noises made by cows, horses, chickens and pigs.

__________ back on those years, Helen once said, she was greatly struck by her teacher’s wisdom and she was very grateful __________ her teacher.

【推荐3】Here's a remarkable story of a Nepalese family. About a century ago, a boy named Bishnu was not _________ to go to school, while decades later his son helped thousands of Nepalis learn to _________ .

When Bishnu was a child, he was forced to work on a farm. He was so _________ to get an education that he ran away to Kathmandu where the only one _________ was located, walking for three entire days. As his children grew up, with the _________ of being put in prison, Bishnu _________ brought a teacher to teach them. _________, education was finally allowed in 1951. Dinesh,   Bishnu's third son not only went to elementary school, but he _________ college. With a teaching job came the _________ to travel around Nepal.

Dinesh was soon aware of how few poor Nepalis knew how to read. This __________ inspired Dinesh to follow in his father's footsteps as a __________ of education. He and his wife, a lively young woman who was also __________ to helping the poor, __________ an organization called the Non — Formal Education Services Center to educate poor Nepalis.

When they __________ to teach reading and writing, they quickly realized that they needed to do something about the __________ they saw. After talking with the villagers, they made painstaking efforts to __________ the development of the agriculture and production to reduce the poverty. The villagers were required to __________ one quarter of the money they earned. With their savings and some other financial __________       , they sent their children to the schools.

Since then, the campaign has guaranteed 20,000 adults and 5 ,000 children __________ to education as well as helped to __________ them out of poverty. They have built 15 schools and 56 drinking water systems and planted thousands of trees.