【推荐1】Most young people would like to work in the big cities after graduating from the college. But Jin Ruirui, a 23-year-old girl, ______ to come back to her hometown. She is an inheritor (传承人) of Yi embroidery (彝绣). Her mom taught her embroidery. Three years later, she ______ her own Yi embroidery company. Although she has met many difficulties, she never gave up. “My mother ______ me with the money she made as an embroiderer (刺绣工). I want to carry her skills and help more embroiderers. They might not get much ______ , but they know well about our local culture,” said Jin.

There were only three embroiderers at the beginning. With the ______ from the local government and their hard work, Yi embroidery has become a growing industry. The designers help to make the embroidery pieces more ______. They hold fashion shows to introduce Yi embroidered clothes in Beijing and Shanghai. People like the clothes very much. They also do business with other ______. Jin just got an order of 6,500 Yi embroidered clothes to the UK last month.

During the past 10 years, Yi embroidery industry has developed ______. More than 60,000 Yi women have taken part in it. They can earn around 4,000 yuan or more. Their life is greatly ______. “We have made better lives with our traditional skills,” Jin said. All her parents and friends are ______ what she did. She believes Yi embroidery will be known by more people in China and around the world.

Kuang Heng is in a poor(穷) family. He likes reading books very much. He needs to work at daytime, so he has to read books at night. But he is too poor and can’t _____ candles (蜡烛). One day, he finds his neighbour(邻居) has candles. So he makes a small hole(洞) on the _____. Then he can use the light(光) to read books. From that day, he reads books every _____.        

After he reads all _____ books, there are no books for him to read. Then he goes to a _____ man’s home and works for him with no money.

The rich man _____ “Why don’t you want the money?” Kuang Heng says, “I only(仅) want to read your books.” The rich man agrees(同意). Kuang Heng reads the books one by one.

At last, _____ becomes a great scholar(学者). This is a story _____ Kuang Heng. Do you like him?

【推荐3】Brenda was a girl with one big dream. She wanted to play the ________ in a band (乐队). But one big problem was in her way. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to ________ a lot. But she lived next to a lot of old people. Many of them liked living in a quiet place. The sound of beating drums would make them feel ________.

Brenda was a very kind girl. She tried to find a way to practice her drums ________ bothering (干扰) other people. ________ she tried playing in the kitchen, and even in the bathroom. But there was always ________ who could hear the noise. So she felt sorry and spent most of her time playing on books and boxes.

One day, while watching a ________ program on TV, she heard that sound cannot travel in space because there’s no ________. At that moment, Brenda decided to become a musical astronaut.

After a lot of hard work, Brenda built a space bubble. It was a big glass ball ________ to a machine. The machine could draw out (抽出) all the air inside. All that would be ________ inside were drums and a chair.   Brenda put on the space suit she had made, entered the bubble, turned on the machine, then she played the drum ________.

Soon, Brenda became ________. So many people came to see her play in her space bubble. Shortly after, she started to give concerts. Finally, Brenda was a real musical astronaut, and went far ________ her first dream of playing the drum in a band.

Years later, when people asked her ________ she could achieve all this, she thought for a moment and said, “These people next door are old and I need to ________ about their feelings. If not, I wouldn’t go such a long way to find a solution, and none of this would have ever happened.”

【推荐1】Some students often have trouble learning English. They say the _______ takes up too much of their time. They have to read many passages, _______ new words in the dictionary and do lots of exercises. Even though they work hard, they still cannot get good grades on tests. Why? The story of Chinese astronaut Deng Qingming might help to _______ their questions.

Deng was _______ as an astronaut trainee (实习生) in 1998. Since that day, he had spent almost all of his time training hard to become a (n) _______. Over the years, Deng has seen his fellow trainees go into space one after another. He, however, was always a backup (后备人员). He often felt _______. Sometimes, he even cried.

Deng still tries his best for the dream. Although he is now in his fifties, he _______ training hard. Finally, on the night of November 29, 2022, he and two other astronauts boarded the Shenzhou 15 aircraft and flew into _______.

So, if you want to give up learning English (or something else), think about Deng’s story. Your efforts might not succeed at once. But be _______ , try to improve your methods and keep going. You ________ won’t have to wait many years for that moment like Deng. One day, success will knock at your door.