【推荐1】Think of the ways you use your eyes every day. Imagine your life ________ sight. Cover your ears, and imagine being deaf and blind for the rest of your life. Think about the songs, the voices and the music you will never ________ again.

For the first 19 months of her life, Helen Keller was ________ to see and hear. But then a sickness struck her. She became ________ blind and deaf. For the rest of her life, she was never to see or hear. She didn’t have memories of sight or ________. And the sickness struck her when she was a baby ________ she learnt to talk. But Helen Keller became a teacher and writer. She was in the hearts of millions of people.

How did this miracle (奇迹) happen? For the first seven years of her life she was almost like a ________ animal. Her mother and father did not know how to ________ her. She screamed, kicked and cried. She wanted very much to have others understand her, but there was no way she could do. ________ her parents decided to send for a family ________ to treat her. Some went away shortly after they spent a few days with her, until the ________ one—Annie Sullivan came, who seemed to be sent here by God, for during the rest of Helen’s life, she stayed with Helen to overcome a lot of unthinkable ________.

Sullivan was a lovely young woman with great patience and imagination. She was a born teacher, ________ of turning a deaf-blind creature into a useful human being. It was this teacher that did not let Helen’s world be ________. Through the teacher’s hands and fingers, Helen heard the sounds that one can hear on a farm, the noises made by cows, horses, chickens and pigs.

________ back on those years, Helen once said, she was greatly struck by her teacher’s wisdom and she was very grateful to her teacher.

【推荐2】With a determined(坚定的) look on his face, Chicago’s Michael McCarthy held on to the banister(扶手) and climbed to the top of the Willis Tower not long ago. The Tower stands 1,451 feet (442 meters) tall, the _______ building in the US.

As he got to the last step, McCarthy _______ fell down, but that didn’t stop him. The 14-year-old boy finally finished climbing the 2,109 steps and arrived at the top, where he ____ cheers from many people.

“I just want to show people that _______ a kid with no legs can do it, anyone can do it,” McCarthy said.

McCarthy, who was born without legs, has to wear prosthetic legs(假肢) and use a stick to walk. But McCarthy has a strong _______. He believes having a disability(残疾) shouldn’t stop anyone _______ achieving his or her success.

He has been in a special school _______ he was four. When he decided to climb the Willis Tower, his teacher, Jeff Kohn, was _______ by his determination(决心) and offered to help train him. They _______ more than ten hours practicing climbing stairs and keeping balance with the prosthetics and sticks on the steps every day. “_______ seems that he never knows how difficult it is. ________ I was so tired that I asked him to rest for a day,” said Kohn. “But he said he was still full of energy and wanted more ________.”

Kohn always walked with McCarthy for the climb. “I ________ the last 10 floors, he went faster,” said Kohn. “He’s the most craven sportsman I’ve ever trained.”

McCarthy said he was ________ of himself and that the tower now holds special meaning. “When I’m older, I’ll ________ to the building and say ‘Look at this building I climbed’,” he said.