Life would be rather boring if we didn’t have dreams. One of my dad’s biggest ________ is to sail around the world on a sailing (航行) ship. He and his best friend always talk about it.

So this summer, they ________ to rent (租赁) a small boat and take us all for a one week vacation. That way, they could test out their skills. We rented a nice houseboat and began ________ trip on a nice sunny day. Everything went well the first day. There was no wind and everyone was ________. It felt like their dream was coming true.

But the next day, ________ we sailed to the river that connected to the lake, a strong wind came up. It made the waves(海浪) ________ big. The boat started to bounce (颠簸) around. ________ was laughing or even talking.

The river got wider and wider. The waves were even stronger. The wind was blowing our boat far ________ land. My dad had trouble controlling the boat. He decided that we should ________. We made it safe back to a place.

Dad said, “It is good to have dreams. ________ it is really good to test them out before you act on them.”

【推荐2】Dong Yuhui was a teacher at New Oriental, an English-language training organization. On June 9, he became a big hit online by selling agricultural products ________ live streaming (直播 ). Agricultural products, like ________ and vegetables, are from plants or animals.

Unlike other live streamers, Dong talked about what he would usually talk about in a classroom, both in Chinese as well as in English, before coming to the point. But his viewers just ________ it.

“It’s very good,” someone says. “I feel like being in a ________.” That very evening, sales from his live streaming reached 15 million yuan ($2.23 million), ________ his video was put on the daily hot list on popular short-video platform Douyin.

New Oriental is finally seeing hope after a year of struggle. It faced its biggest ________ after the Ministry of Education (教育部) introduced a national policy banning (禁止) after-school training last July.

New Oriental finally found a ________ to overcome its difficulty: Selling agricultural products through live streaming.

Its struggle should serve as an inspiration for other organizations that have been badly ________ because of the new policy. In fact, several video-sharing apps are already planning to attract live streamers for agricultural sales. By October 2021, at least one app had got 126,000 “new farmers” born after 1995, who could ________ tell their viewers how they were growing fruits and vegetables and attracting more people to buy their products.

There are yoga (瑜伽) and boxing (拳击) teachers, as ________ as carpenters (木匠), who share their knowledge or skills online and make money. It’s a new way to express themselves better and get a new lease of life.

It was a sunny summer afternoon. Sam was going home from school. He walked along the road with a book in his hand. Just then, he saw a blind (盲的) man. The poor man held out his hat and said, “I am so ________. Could you please give me some money to buy some bread?” But Sam had ________ to give. He just stood there.

Soon after, Harry and his mother came up in a fine car. The blind man still stood there and held out his hat. “Let us ________ the poor man something,” said Harry. His mother gave some money to him. ________ Harry didn’t put it into the man’s hat. He threw (扔) it on the ground near the poor man.

Sam ________ helped find the money. The blind man became happy with money. At that time, Sam knew that true love was ________ just giving money. It comes from the heart and the real help. And it’s about how much you ________ others.

From the story, we learned that kindness was the small ________ of giving a helping hand sometimes. It is the sunshine of our life.