【推荐1】At around 10 p.m., Jane got off the train at Bell port, New York. She jumped into her Honda Odyssey and began the 20-minute _________ home. She was so familiar with the route that she almost drove _________ all the way. Jane had just crossed the railroad tracks when out of nowhere a truck hit her car, _________ her backward some 100 feet onto the tracks. She was _________ the car, injured but mostly shocked by the _________.

As it happened, Peter, a volunteer firefighter and retired teacher, was getting ready for _________. At the _________ noise of clanging metals and breaking glass coming from not far outside his bedroom window, he, still dressed in his pajamas (睡衣), ran out of the door.

He first came upon a(n) _________ truck lying 2,000 feet from his front yard. After _________ its driver was OK, Peter looked around and spotted Jane’s car lying __________ the tracks. And then he heard the bells __________ an oncoming train.

Peter rushed to Jane’s car and __________ the driver’s side window. Jane just looked up at him, her eyes __________. “I have no __________ of where I am,” she said.

“You are on the railroad tracks,” Peter yelled. “I have to get you off right now!” He __________ the handle, but the door was jammed. The train was __________. Without a moment of hesitation, Peter ran to the passenger side and __________ open the door. He __________ pulled her across the passenger seat and dragged her to safety behind a signal box a few feet away. Several seconds later, the train crashed into the __________.

Jane recalled the __________ moment. “I can never repay him for this,” she said, “last night the hero arrived in pajamas, not in a fire truck.”

【推荐3】It's once again been declared the world's most popular museum. ______ . it may not be a______ thing for the Louvre (卢浮宫) in Paris.

The museum broke its own______in 2018, welcoming 10.2 million_____and claiming the top spot in an index of the world's most-visited museums.

But the Louvre's uptick (小幅上升) in visitors is_____ too much for many of its workers, _____ by reception and security staff over the number of tourists______ through its doors have hit opening hours throughout the week.

"The Louvre is suffocating (令人窒的)," the workers union said in a statement. "The public has increased by more than 20% since 2009, but the palace has not grown,"it_____.

The museum was_ ___on Monday and opened later than advertised on Wednesday, due to a ____with the dissatisfied workers. visitors have ______outside the building throughout the week, and those without bookings have been________.

Although tensions with its workers_______ , the museum's bottom line is looking _______.The Louvre broke its 2012 _______record last year, marking a dramatic _______ from a sharp downturn in visits in 2017 that was due to a sudden decrease in_______in Paris.

The social media that are_______about Beyoncé and Jay Z's music_______filmed at the museum may have played into that increase.

But while visitor numbers rose at the Louvre, overall attendance was relatively_______among the top 20 museums in the world last year. Attendance grew among the top 20 by just 0.1% from 2017 to 2018.

【推荐1】“It’s no use, Mum,” said Johnny. “I’m just no good at dancing.”

“You’ve got to keep trying. Tonight will be _______, dear. Try a turn with that pretty Lisette.”

Johnny _______. Every Saturday night used to be the best of the week. He and his parents went to the _______ at the Club, where his hero, Alcide, played the accordion (手风琴) with the band. But lately everything had changed. Now that Johnny was older, he was _______ to dance with a girl!

_______ Johnny and his parents arrived at the Club, music had already started. Johnny got up his _______ to approach Lisette. “May I have this dance?” Johnny asked. “That’s all right,” said Lisette. Johnny struggled to keep up with Lisette’s _______ steps, but he was always one beat behind her. Then Johnny heard his friend Pierre say, “Look! Johnny has two left feet!” _______ burst from the crowd. Johnny _______ and ran outside, determined never to go to another dance.

The next Saturday, Alcide ________ to Johnny’s house for some potatoes. He happened to hear Johnny playing the accordion. Alcide’s eyes ________. “Bring that accordion and play some songs tonight,” Alcide said. Then he drove off, leaving Johnny staring open-mouthed ________ him.

At the Club, Johnny scanned the crowd for Lisette and ________ her. The band played for a long time before Alcide said, “Dear friends, I got a ________ for you tonight. Young Johnny is going to join us!” ________, Johnny stepped up on the platform, his eyes on the floor. He began to play, and the band ________ behind him. When the song ended, he heard cheers. Johnny kept playing until the dance was ________. “You did a fine job tonight. Play with us again next Saturday night,” Alcide said. “Yes, sir!” said Johnny. ________ he went outside, Johnny saw Lisette and her friends near the door. Lisette stepped ________, smiling. “You played really good tonight!” she said.

“Thank you,” Johnny blushed (脸红). As he walked on, Pierre ________ moved out of the way for him to pass.

Johnny patted his accordion. Come to think of it, in his whole life, he had never once seen Alcide out on the dance floor.

【推荐2】The world's largest painting has been sold in Dubai for almost $62 million. British artist Sacha Jafri created the painting and ________ a Guinness World Record.

During the spread of COVID-19 last year, Mr. Jafri was in Dubai. Rather than feeling ________because he was unable to go out, the painter ________ to take on a big project that could "make a really big ________" . He planned to create the world's largest painting. He ________ children around the world to ________ their own pictures showing how they were feeling during that ________ time. He got artwork from kids in 140 different countries.

Using the children's ________ as a starting point, Mr. Jafri began to paint in a ________ ballroom at a fancy hotel. He________ included the children's drawings in the artwork. He ________ long hours —— often up to 20 hours a day. He hurt his back by ________ so much while he painted. It took over 1,000 ________ and 1,664 gallons of paint to create the painting. When he ________ seven months later, the painting, called "The Journey of Humanity", was roughly the ________ of four basketball courts.

Jafri had aimed to ________ $30 million for children affected by the COVID-19 pandemic when it went ________. As a result, Andre Abdoune, the artwork's new owner, ________ more than double that after he knew that the ________ would go to charity (慈善). He said that the energy and love Jafri ________ into the painting was so amazing.

【推荐3】Afroz Shah, a lawyer in Mumbai, hasn’t had a weekend off in four years. But he hasn’t spent this time preparing for_____. His mission( 使命)? Saving the world’s oceans from____ pollution.

It’s a calling he found in 2015 after moving to a community in Mumbai called Versova Beach. He had played there   as a child and was _____to see how much it had ______. The sand was no     longer___ because it was covered by a layer of garbage — most of it is plastic waste.

“The whole beach was like a _____ of plastic,” he said, “It hurt me.” The ______ mess Shah had seen is part of a global environmental crisis. Tons of plastic ______in the world’s oceans each     year. “Plastic in the ocean is a____. And the sea-species have no choice at all,” Shah said, “We are __ their habitats.”

In 2015, Shah began picking up plastic waste from the _____every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and   a neighbor, and then he began   calling on others to join in. Word _____and with help from social media, more volunteers____.

For Shah, the work has always been a _____   journey, but it has earned global attention. After he   was _____as a Champion of the Earth in 2016, Shah now devotes his free time to this ______.   He’s   spent 209 weekends on this mission, ____   more than 200,000 volunteers to join him. By     October 2018, Versova   Beach was _____clean and Shah’s cleanups expanded to another beach.   “This world talks too much. I think we must talk _____   and do action more,” he said when     interviewed by CNN in October 2019. “I see___ with these youngsters rising up.”

【推荐1】It was 4 o’clock in the morning when I received the phone call.

“This is the emergency room calling and your son was just _______ in with serious burns on his face, neck and arms.” The doctor described the _______ , which caused the burns. At 6 a. m. , our son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers in the courtyard of their apartment. Unfortunately, the charcoal（木炭）burst into flames because they had sprayed too much petrol. The flames _______ my son’s shirt tail and shot from his waist to well over his head.

Fortunately, one of the boys was quick-minded, grasped my son, and _______ him on the grass. While it saved his life, there was not enough _______ to save him from fearful burns and the terrible scars（伤疤）.

After he recovered from the treatments, the doctors told him they would not do plastic surgery（整形手术）for 6 months _______ it took that long for the skin to stop shrinking and wrinkling. So he had to return to college with typical scars of burns.

When I was a child, my mother told my sister who had a very _______ 10-inch scar on her arm, “Nancy, if you ignore the scar, other people will ignore it. It does not mean they will not _______ it, but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn’t matter to you.”

I _______ this wisdom on to my son. He took my advice to ________ and returned to school with his head held high—glad he was alive. By the end of the six-month waiting period, he decided that the scars did not ________ , so he made the ________ to give up any plastic surgery.

We all have “scars” that we believe will ________ people to keep away from us. And we spend a lot of time thinking that if we looked differently, or dressed differently, people would like us better. But you see, people will only judge you by your looks, or your clothes, if you are judging yourself by these same ________ standards. Put your imperfections out of your mind and concentrate on what you value ________ yourself, and your beauty will shine through.

【推荐2】I still cannot forget the story—one story determining my life.

I was sure I was to be killed, even though I was wrongly put in prison. I became terribly ________. I searched my pockets to see if there were any cigarettes, which had ________ their search. ________, I found one but I had no matches.

I looked through the bars at my jailer (狱卒). He did not make ________ contact with me. I called out to him, “Have you got a light?” He came close and ________ the match, his eyes accidentally locked with mine. At that moment, I smiled. I don’t know why I did that.

In any case, I smiled, and my smile leaped through the bars and ________ a smile on his lips, too. He lit my cigarette but stayed near, looking at me directly in the eyes and continuing to smile. I kept smiling at him, now aware of him as a person and not just a(an) ________. And his looking at me seemed to have a new meaning, too.

“Do you have ________?” he asked.

“Yes, here, here.” I took out my wallet and nervously fumbled(胡乱摸找) for the pictures of my family. He, too, took out the pictures of his family and began to ________ his plans and hopes for them. My eyes filled with ________. I said I ________ that I’d never see my family again. Tears came to his eyes, too.

Suddenly, without another word, he ________ my cell (小牢房) and silently led me out.

Out of the jail, quietly and by back routes, out of the town. There, at the edge of town, he ________ me. And without another word, he walked toward the town.

My life was saved by a ________.

Yes, the smile is the unaffected, unplanned, natural connection between people. I really believe that if that part of you and that part of me could ________ each other, we wouldn’t be enemies. We couldn’t have hate or envy or fear.