【推荐1】Josette Duran was surprised when her son Dylan, 14, asked her to pack him a(n) ________ snack in his school lunch. When she asked him why, his reply was truly touching.

“I asked, ‘Why? Are you not getting full? What's going on?’ And he said, ‘No, I want to take one for my friend,’” Duran remembered.

It turned out that Dylan had a classmate whose family_________ needed help. The boy’s single mother had recently lost her job and could no longer afford her son's lunches. After learning this, Duran was even willing to reach out to them.

“I was homeless years ago. I know how__________ it is to ask for help. You get sad and feel embarrassed(尴尬的),” said Duran.

When the young boy's mother learned of Duran's warm heart, she called her up and_________ to pay her back for everything, but Duran couldn’t accept it. “I don't think I did anything_________ ,” Duran said, “I just think I did what a human being is _________to do.”

The _________doesn’t stop there. Duran is the coach of the girls’ volleyball team of the local school. Her team raised $400 to cover the cost of all the extra lunches Duran had made out of her own pocket. Duran refused to keep the money, and__________, donated it to the snack bar at her son's school. “Now everyone can eat,” Duran said, “What makes me especially _________is that it all started with my son. Being kind doesn’t have to come in the form of money; just know that if you're having a good day__________ someone else is having a bad day, you should remember that.”

【推荐2】My grandfather came to visit us from Japan. He was only ________ with us for one month. So I planned many things to ________ him around. Where did I start? The Museum of Nature! Why? It’s right in our neighbourhood. It’s very ________ for us to get there at any time.

On the first Saturday morning after his arrival, we went to the museum. It’s ________ admission (入场) on weekends. Many families with young kids were there visiting.

Right after we entered the building, a giant life-sized dinosaur model came into ________ sight. We went ________ to the dinosaur gallery.

A fossil (化石) ________ attracted many visitors.

A scientist was talking to kids, holding a big piece of fossil in her ________. In front of her, there were many fossils displayed on the desk. The scientist was asking the young kids ________ as they looked curiously at the fossils.

“Can you guess ________ this fossil is?” she asked.

“That’s a dinosaur tooth, ” answered one kid confidently ________ he saw some teeth in the stone.

The scientist ________, “That’s right.” She grabbed another pebble-sized fossil from a small box in which there were many small, round, stone-like fossils.

“Can you tell me which part of the dinosaur this is ________?” she asked another kid.

The kids looked and looked, but they had no ________ what it could be.

“A finger?”

“No.” “Toes?” “No.”

“A tail?” “No, no!”

Finally the children begged, “Could you please tell us what it is?” The scientist smiled. “It’s dino dung (动物的粪便)—a fossilized dinosaur dropping.”

At first the kids were ________. Then, they all laughed.

I was crazy about baseball. My baseball glove was always close by: either under my desk or my chair at school. My biggest dream was to play big-league baseball like my favorite star, Billy Hawkins.

My favorite ________ of the school day was the time when I could take out my glove and play catch. My teacher, Ms. Welles, told me to leave my glove at home, but I was lost without my glove. During break, I stood around with sad eyes and drooping shoulders, and in class I was always quiet. She also told me that I could do better in my studies if I concentrated on(集中精力于……) them. It was true.

One day, Ms. Welles introduced a special guest to the class—Billy Hawkins! I was ________! Billy said, “If you want to be a ball player, it’s important to study bard in school.”

“What does school have to do with baseball?” I asked.

“I’ll show you by giving you a baseball ________.” said Billy. “Here’re three questions. Each student who answers all the three questions correctly will win two tickets to a Leopards game!”

I was sure I could answer the questions. The first question was, “How do you ________ a player’s batting average (击球率)?” I wasn’t sure how to do the math on it. For the second question, Billy handed out an article about baseball. It ________ several words I didn’t understand. The third question was which team had won the World Champion when George Bush became President. ________ I knew about the World Champion winners, I didn’t know much about Presidents.

Nobody got all the three answers right. Luckily, we would have another chance the following week.

That week, we all helped each other. The students who were good with numbers taught the others how to work out the averages. The ________ readers helped with the difficult words, and the best history students helped with important dates and names. When we took the second baseball test, we answered all the questions correctly, and the whole class won the tickets!

That afternoon at the stadium, I asked my hero to ________ on my souvenir (纪念品) baseball. It read, “Keep working hard in school. See you in the big leagues! Billy Hawkins.”

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Yuan Xin gave a talk on the National Disabled Day in 2023. From his example we know we all could ________ difficulties through hard work.

Yuan Xin had an accident at the age of three. He was walking behind his mother, when a car ________ came around the street and hit him. He lost his right arm because of the ________. However, he kept working very hard and he was always the top student in his class in primary, middle and high schools. His classmates and teachers were ________ and they always took care of him. He usually says, “I am slow, so I understand the ________ for me to work harder and take any chance(机会) to win.”

Now Yuan is studying computer science at Wuhan University of Science and Technology. He got over 70 ________ all these years in the university. For him, winning the second prize in a science competition in 2019 is the most ________ experience. In the competition, he developed a water cannon(水炮) to help water police a lot. To develop the machine, he worked hard with his team and ________ much information. He was so glad to be able to ________ a difference to the country.

Yuan’s teacher Xu says, “He is always the first to ________ and the last to leave in class.” Yuan believes although there might be many difficulties, he will make progress(进步) as long as he never gives up.

【推荐2】Lillian Hanson, a college student, will graduate(毕业) in about two years. Mrs. Hanson is ______ her classmates because of her age. She is 73 years old!

After graduating from high school, Mrs. Hanson went to a ______ to borrow some money for further education. Unluckily, the banker didn’t agree. He didn’t think that a country girl like her should go to college. He thought she should be at home doing ______ or should work on the farm. Lillian could do nothing but go home and later ______ a family of nine children, one after another, for many years.

______, Mrs. Hanson didn’t forget the dream of getting higher education. When all of her children ______, she tried again and succeeded. On her first day in class, when Mrs. Hanson ______ herself and told her classmates about her dream, all the other students stood up and gave a warm _______ to her.

Mrs. Hanson found that it was ______ to sit in class for a long time at her age. But she said “I will keep trying and ______ give up.”

Mrs. Hanson set a good example of “never too old to learn” to us.

【推荐3】Levi Anderson comes from Australia. ________ he is only 11, he has a special ability that brought him into the business world. The boy with dyslexia (阅读障碍) has ________ his own business country already.

Reading is not a (n) ________ task for Anderson because his brain has trouble dealing with letters. And bullies (霸凌者) used to make his life at school even ________.

But now, Anderson is the boss of his own business. He sells “reading rulers” in his online shop. The reading ruler is a useful reading ________. The coloured rulers can make letters stand out clearly. “In this way, people with dyslexia can pay more attention to and ________ the sentences better,” he told Kids News. “I wanted to produce and ________ them because I wanted to help other kids who are just like me.”

Anderson chose to sell his rulers in bags. One bag has eight rulers of different colours, so kids with dyslexia can try and find a proper ________ for themselves. Up to now, his shop has made about 7,500 Australian dollars (about 35,800 yuan).

His success in ________ caught the attention of the financial expert (金融专家) Scott Pape. He picked out Anderson’s story in his new book. “I am just ________ by Anderson and what he’s been able to do,” Pape said, “I want kids to read his story and say ‘That could be me. I could do that’.”