【推荐2】Every year, the Touching China Award recognizes people who have made significant contributions (贡献) to society through their work and actions. This year, a group of retired (退休的) professionals in China won the award for their ________ in sharing knowledge through short videos.

There are former teachers, scientists and engineers in the group. They ________ videos on a range of topics, such as literature and science.

Wu Yuren, for example, is a retired physics teacher. She became known ________ “Grandma Wu” on social media for her ________ and easy-to-understand physics experiments. “I made these videos to arouse (引发) young people’s curiosity about daily life and use everyday tools to ________ the wonder of science, ” Wu told People’s Daily. Wu is in her 70s but ________ writes her scripts (脚本) and looks for help from other teachers.

________ award winner is Wang Pinxian. He is an 87-year-old marine geologist (海洋地质学家) and teacher at Tongji University’s School of Ocean and Earth Science. Over the past two years, Wang has used his videos to share his ________ of the ocean with viewers. He looks at things like the ________ of the Bermuda Triangle (百慕大三角) and ________ sea monsters really exist.

The ________ of these videos has been well-tested. Thousands of viewers have watched and ________ the group’s content. Many followers ________ their thanks for the opportunity to learn new things and stay in ________ with the world around them.

According to CCTV, their videos are like “classrooms without walls and universities without barriers (障碍)”. In the words of the Touching China Award jury, “The popularity created by gray-haired people has created real ________.”

At the end of my first year of high school, I realized I needed to find a summer job. I was tired of having to ask my parents for _______. I wanted to go to the shopping center or movies with friends without having to ask for $20 from my parents. I imagined having a job at a store or at a summer camp where I could play games with children. But what actually happened was _______. The only job I managed to find was cleaning up tables at a local restaurant.

At first, the idea of clearing tables upset me. The thought of getting up at dawn(黎明) to go clean up after people made me _______ ever asking for a job. The first day was terribly busy. I was running around, racing to get a table ready for the waiting customers. I’ll never forget how _______ I felt that day, but I’ll also never forget sitting down for lunch with my co-workers for the first time. People my age or ten years older all sat together and talked about their days. All of a sudden I was a part of that, and it felt good to be so _______.

I’ve now worked at the restaurant for almost one year. I’ve learned to be happy about getting up so early, because I know there’re going to be a few good _______ every day there.

From starting there as a shy student, I’ve been able to grow into a person that can go up and _______ anyone, at work or anywhere else. I’m also not as sensitive(敏感的) as I used to be-getting an impolite customer might make me feel bad, but very soon I can laugh it off with my co-workers. The little job has given me so much, and I can’t wait to go back and continue to _______ from my experience.

【推荐3】The last football season was long over. Our team had done _______ but I wanted us to do even better the next year. But how? Then a(n) _______ hit me. I ordered cards with simple words —“BOONVILLE PIRATES —1974 STATE CHAMPIONS!”

When the cards were _______, we gave them out all over the town. Pretty soon those cards were _______. That was what we wanted. We wanted our goal to be right _______ us, and for all to see.

_______ someone doubted our words, it just encouraged us to make our dream come true. Our school had _______ won a state champion in any sport -- we decided to change that _______.

With our _______ in our minds, we practised hard and stepped into the final.

Then it started to snow and our coach received a call the night before the game. He told us that state officers were thinking of ________ the game and announcing that both teams were champions because of the bad weather. We were asked if we would accept that. “________” was our answer.

The day came. Both teams didn’t score in the first half. We became ________ because time was running out on our team. During the break, Coach Reagan reminded us of ________ we had been through to get to this moment. Then he pulled out the ________, saying, “Do you want this? ”

Playing conditions were still difficult, but our determination (决心) didn’t disappear. ________, we scored 34 points in the second half. Our year-long dream came true — 1974 STATE CHAMPIONS.