【推荐3】When your parents have to leave you alone at home, what will you do to be safe? Of course, your parents are always ________ you lots of things to stay away from danger. Don’t be bored, just listen to them. If you follow ________ advice, you can stay away from danger. OK. Let’s ________ what advice your parents used to give you.

Lock the door. ________ you forget to lock the door after you get home, it must ( 肯定 ) be dangerous. If a stranger comes to your house, it’s best ________ away from him or her.

Don’t invite a person that you don’t know ________ to your house. If you do that, you ________ in danger. What’s more, be careful about ________new phone calls. If the number is new to you, don’t pick it up.

Make sure you ________ use household applications (家用电器). If you can’t use them in the right way, don’t use them.

Never tell anyone that your parents are not at home. If you need ________ help, call 110 or your parents right away.

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When I started playing soccer, I just fell in love with it. As many ________ do, I wanted to be a soccer player when I grew up. But when I was nine, I started losing my eyesight, and it got increasingly difficult to play.

At first, I tried to just work harder. But everything was becoming more ________. At some point, if you don’t have eyesight, and you are trying to play a sport that you have to see the ball, it doesn’t matter how hard you work or how much you train. It becomes impossible for me to keep playing against people with ________ eyesight.

My elder brother is the one who got me started on the right way after I ________ rock bottom. He had swum for a couple of years and ________ me to try it. That brought me back to a better place mentally（精神上）, and I was able to change from playing soccer to sports that I ________ do, like swimming, cycling, and running, and that is called triathlon（铁人三项）.

I was lucky that my parents could ________ me. They worried about my safety, but never stopped me. In my senior year, I signed up for my first triathlon and I had never done anything like it before.

I loved it. That first race was excellent. ________, that race was a turning point. It opened a new door in sport and in life for me. When I went to Michigan for college, I started the triathlon team there.

Perseverance（坚持）is a learned skill, and it ________ from facing difficulty and challenges. Sometimes you have to change the path you thought you’d be on, but you can still keep moving on that ________ road. That’s the most important life lesson I have learned.

On a trip to an island of Canada, my husband asked our taxi driver what made him most proud to be from there. “Our sense of being ________!” He replied with a strong accent. “If your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, someone will stop to ________.” His words ________ in my mind. Little did I know we were about to ________ that kindness soon.

As we walked and ________ the beautiful sights, two women with sunglasses stopped. They’d heard us discussing different routes (路线) and asked if we’d like ________. They seemed to be in their 40s, and both wanted to share their ________ information. We listened and took notes in mind ________ one of the women asked, “You have a car, right?”

I explained that there were no cars available, so we had to ________ taxis.

“Oh, no!” she said, “You need a car.” And then, she said, “Take mine!” My husband and I stared at each other in ________.

“Why not?” She ________. “You need a car to get to know all these places.”

“But you don’t even know us,” I said.

“That doesn’t matter,” she laughed.

Finally, we ________ into her car. And then we spent the rest of our ________ discovering different areas of this beautiful island. But it wasn’t the groups of whales we saw that made this place so ________, but the kindness from a ________ that made us realize how different this place really was. Next year there’s no doubt where we’ll be taking our summer vacation.