【推荐1】Do you remember what you had for breakfast last year on this day? Can you recall the names of all your classmates in the kindergarten (幼儿园)? If     1    , why did you forget these things?

First of all, the biggest     2     is that, during our daily lives, we focus on understanding the world, not remembering it. For example, we watch a baseball game not to remember it, but to     3     it. We do remember some details of the game,     4     they are only a byproduct(副产品) of this experience.

Second,     5     helps us to get through hard times. After something sad has happened in our lives, most of us find time helps to ease(减轻) the pain. The bad memories will slowly fade(消退) away. Forgetting saves us     6     the dark times of our past.

Third, forgetting is good for memory. You wouldn’t like to fill your memory with     7     things, such as an old password(密码) you no longer use. People forget unimportant information so that     8     can remember important details better.

Don’t be sad if you forget a lot. Forgetting is just part of having a healthy memory. It can help you to experience the world more fully!

You said you need my help. But I want to tell you t    1     you should depend on yourself. “Depend on yourself” is what nature says to e    2    , including you. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. Others can still help you. However, all these people’s help is one thing, and depending on yourself is a    3    .

There have been many great men in history so far. Many of them were very p    4     in their childhood. They had no money and they had to do lots of hard work     5     (fill) their stomachs. Most of them only had a few     6     (chance) to get education. They couldn’t live     7     (comfortable). But they worked their own way till they became famous.

Some people don’t try their best to make themselves more     8     (value). Nobody can succeed unless they learn h    9     to depend on themselves. They can be successful finally with their own efforts. So, my dear, depend on yourself this time and you     10     (be) an independent girl in the future.

From mom

One day, a lovely girl found two weak birds while she was walking in the woods. She took them home and p    1     them in a small cage (鸟笼). She fed them with love and the birds grew strong. Every morning they greeted her with a beautiful song. The girl loved them very much and wanted their singing to l    2     forever (永远).

One day, the girl left the cage’s door o    3    . The larger and stronger one of the two birds flew out of the cage. The girl watched worriedly as it circled high a    4     her. She was afraid that it would fly away and she would never see it a    5    . So when it flew close, she grasped(抓住) at it wildly. She was so h    6     that she held it tightly (紧紧地) in her hand! Suddenly, she felt that something happened to the bird. She was surprised to find the bird was d    7    . She was very sad.

She noticed the other bird jumping up and down in the cage. She could feel that it wanted to be free. It hoped to fly in the clear, blue s    8    . She lifted it from the cage and flew it into the air.

W    9     the bird was flying happily in the sky, she was so glad. She watched the bird circling once, twice, three times.

To her surprise, the bird flew back closer and sat softly on her s    10    . It sang the sweetest song she had ever heard.

The fastest way to lose love is to hold it tight. The best way to keep love is to let it fly.

Have you heard of Jiang Mengnan? On March 3rd, 2022, she got the     1     (奖) of Person Touching China for 2021.

Jiang was born in a family in Hunan in 1992. When she was six months old, she lost her hearing and her world     2     (开始变得) quiet from then on. She hardly played with other friends. It made her parents     3     (难过的) and they planned to teach her to read people’s lips(唇) and speak.

When Jiang was old     4     (足够地), she went to a normal primary school. She said it was difficult at the beginning.     5     (在……期间) lessons, teachers would often write on the blackboard with their backs to the students, so Jiang wasn’t     6     (能够) to get much of the content(内容). She had to copy down everything and study alone after class to catch up with her classmates.     7     (尽管) it was a really hard time, her hard work     8     (最后) made her a top student. In 2011, she got good     9     (成绩) in the gaokao and went to Jilin University. Now she is studying at Tsinghua University.

“I’m always thankful to my parents, teachers and friends, ” she said. “They     10     (相信) me and never give me special attention for my imperfection (缺陷), and I’ve never seen myself as a different person.”

When you find that almost everything goes wrong and there is nothing you can say or do, what will you do     1     (make) it right? You might make excuses (借口) like a thing you wanted to do but you didn’t or a job that you didn’t finish.

However, excuses can’t make any     2     (different). Let me tell you a short story. I think it will show you the power of not making excuses and trying     3     (you) best.

Before     4     (read) the story, I saw a picture. In it, a man is wearing different socks and shoes. It isn’t a fashion (时尚) show. It is the 1912 Olympic Games, and the man is Jim Thorpe. On the morning of his     5     (match), his shoes were lost.     6    (luck), he found two shoes in a dustbin (垃圾桶). However, one of the shoes was much     7     (big) than the other, so he had to wear one more sock. Wearing these shoes, Jim     8     (win) gold medals that day.

So what are you going to do when you meet problems? No matter what     9     (happen) to you, don’t let it stop you from     10     (run) your race. You can experience more in your life if you don’t make excuses and try your best.

Different from most kids, ten-year-old Khuyen spends his days working in the fields in a faraway village in Vietnam (越南). He plants vegetables and searching for things     1     fill his stomach. He has lived a hard life since his parents died. Because no one takes care of him, he has to do everything himself.

Khuyen now depends on his neighbors     2     provide him with foods like rice, but he also plants vegetables himself. He says he is able to live     3     himself and refuses to be adopted (收养).

After Khuyen’s teacher shared his story online, some people offered to adopt him     4     others wanted to donate things, but it’s unclear how much help the boy can accept.

To everyone’s joy, he     5     never missed a day of school. Every morning, he gets on his bicycle, attends classes and then returns home to do his daily housework.