My cousin Sam is a middle school student. He is twelve years old. He loves ______ a lot. Every morning, he runs around the playground for half one hour. Now he looks ______ and tall.

Sam likes reading. He also likes writing a lot. He wants to be a writer (作家). He often borrows books and reads in the school ______ . In his free time, he often ______ some stories for his school newspaper, School Times. Many students like reading this newspaper very much. They all think his stories are very ______. They want Sam to tell them more stories.

Sam doesn’t do well in ______. He thinks English is a little ______ and difficult, so he doesn’t like it. One day, he finds his sister sitting in the study after he comes back home from school. She is ______ the computer. She is watching a video (视频) ______. It’s about how to learn English well. He ______ it with his sister. He finds the teacher is cool in the video and that his classes are so interesting. Then he makes a decision (决定) to learn English well.

【推荐1】Adventurer-seeker Mary broke her ankle (脚踝) when she fell awkwardly while climbing a rock and spent a week in hospital waiting for an operation on her foot. When she was sent home to recover (康复) under strict _________ not to bear any weight, she became so _________ of crutches that she didn’t move for three weeks. She tried crutches but kept falling over and _________ herself. So she literally just stayed on the sofa all day. Once Mary _________ missing the Wolf Run—a quarterly event that she hasn’t missed since 2014, she was extremely sad. She was going to call off the event, but friends asked her to give it a(n) _________.

This year was going to be _________ fifth in a row and Mary was really upset that she _________ lose her position. So she was willing to try anything with her injured ankle.

Having something to aim for really kept her going. Mary completed the run wearing a man-made leg, allowing users to _________ freely. She decided to get one and it completely changed her recovery. She could move around the house and start getting out and about again. That had an influence on her.

On the day of the race, Mary was nervous but the sound of people _________. Mary made it over the finish line in just under six hours. “It was a(n) ________________ day! My determination to finish and the support that I received along the way kept me going, and made me happy in mind.” says Mary.

【推荐2】Life is full of love

Is there a thing full of love buried deeply in your heart? I want to share a thing with all of love and push __________.

One afternoon, I took a bus to go home. It was the rush hour and the bus was truly crowded. I was even __________ happy that I had a seat. Just at that moment, a woman got on the bus with a baby in her arms. She was standing right next to me. Just as I was considering whether to provide my seat for her, our eyes met. I had mixed __________ , embarrassed, worried, nervous... Before I could get up, she said to me in a warm voice “Boy, you __________ be very tired after the whole day’s study. But fighting for your dream is a happy thing. I will get off at the next stop. Sit here and have a good rest.”

How kind and __________ she was! What she said made me not only ashamed but moved. It was her love that is pushing me to be a better person.

When George was just a boy, he was very shy ______ his height. Some kids ______ at him, so he was always sad and said ______. And he ______ ever played with other children.

George was interested in playing ______. It seemed that he was happy only ______ he played baseball. One of George’s teachers noticed his ______. He began to work with the boy. Slowly, they began to talk ______ other things. They developed a good ______.

As George got older, he began to grow ______. Everyone ______ he would be a great baseball player.

______ George got his first job as a baseball player, he gave ______ of his wages (报酬) to the people in need. He hoped other children like ______ would also find a way to live a happy and ______ life.