【推荐1】On March 14, 2018, Stephen Hawking, the world-famous British scientist, died at 76 in Cambridge, UK.

Hawking was born in _______ on January 8th, 1942. He was interested in science when he was very young. In 1959, he entered Oxford University to study natural science. _______ he was badly sick in 1963. He couldn’t move or speak _______ the help of a machine. He had to sit in a wheelchair and could _______ communicate with others by computer.

In the face of these difficulties, Hawking didn’t _______. He continued to study at Cambridge University and worked on space and time. He wrote many great _______. The most famous one is A Brief history Of Time (《时间简史》) . We can borrow it from lots of libraries.

At the same time, the illness didn’t stop him from living a _______ life. He traveled around the world for _______ meetings. In 1985, he took a trip to China.

Hawking’s story _______ many people. No matter how hard life is, _______ should lose hope. As he once said, “Life is not fair, you just have to do the best you can in your situation.”

【推荐3】Wang Xuan was one of the most famous computer scientists. He ________ the technology for printing Chinese characters and is known as “The Father of the Chinese Language Laser Typesetting(激光排版)”.

Since there is a big difference between Chinese and English writing systems, laser typesetting for the Chinese language was a(n) ________ for scientists all over the world. For this reason, Wang Xuan began his research in 1975. He was not afraid to try new technology and he never gave up ________ he didn’t have success all the time. Now, his amazing invention is used all over the world and it has been ________ to the Chinese newspaper publishing industry.

Wang Xuan is believed to be the second most important developer in printing Chinese after Bi Sheng. His life story teaches us that a person should ________ his own dream and try his best to make it come true.

Sitting in the classroom, I felt nervous. Our teacher pointed at the blackboard and gave us instructions. Looking around, I watched as my classmates lowered their heads and started writing. I felt _______ —I couldn’t read the board, for I couldn’t see clearly. It didn’t _______ at primary school because my teachers always read aloud what they were writing. But now, I was expected to read by myself.

Mum took me to a(n) _______. He told me that I had a terrible eyesight problem. I was _______ blind. However, though there were a lot of difficulties, I _________ to reach the age of 13! As a kid living on a farm, I was always _________ objects. I could only see the shapes of things and differences between different shades. I was given reading glasses but they didn’t help much.

I was not _________ to let my poor eyesight stop me moving forward, I continued doing everything I loved, including milking the cows. Over the years, I’ve _________ lovely family holidays, but sometimes felt my families _________ me too much. I would feel a little uneasy. __________ I was excited when I heard about a travel company that takes those who are blind or have poor eyesight on adventures by themselves. Uncertain, I booked myself onto a trip to the __________. It was amazing to enjoy places, such as the beach and seaside theme parks, with __________ just like me. And the guides were good at __________ us through all the way while making sure we had a fun and __________ time. Since then, I’ve travelled with them a lot. While we can’t see the views like others, our __________ takes us to amazing places. I don’t want people to feel sorry for me. I’m so lucky to have a wonderful family and lots of adventures.

Life is of great value—you don’t need sight to “see” that.

【推荐3】I had a quick thirty-minute stop in Detroit before heading home to Toronto. After ________ up the passage (走廊), I realized that my gate was on the opposite end of the airport. Luckily, I got there with five minutes to spare and stood waiting to be called.

I was tired and had an emergency ________ scheduled (安排) after I was home. But then came the ________, “It seems we have overbooked (超额预定) the flight. Would anyone volunteer to stay for the ________ flight?” There were 100-plus people and not a ________ person replied.

The next flight was in four hours. I ________ and saw businessmen needing to get home for work, moms to see their kids, kids to see their friends, and more importantly, I saw people that needed to be helped. Even though I ________ to be home just as much as anyone else, something inside me said that I should volunteer and offer some kindness to this group of strangers. The gate attendant (登机口检票员) had said that the flight couldn’t board ________ someone volunteered.

I picked up my bag, ________ the desk and said to the gate attendant, “I volunteer!” A happy smile spread over her face. As she was dealing with my ticket, I got my meeting rescheduled. All the passengers boarding their flight, I was happy that I had been able to help.

When boarding the plane, I was surprised to discover that I was arranged to be seated in first class. I gave with the purpose to serve others, with no thought of reward, and that kindness was ________ to me with an upgrade to first class!