【推荐1】Sitting in my favorite restaurant one day I noticed a man come in. He looked ________ and mad with the world, a look I had _______ many times before. I gave him my happy “good morning”_______ but his response was still less than ________. He looked at me, sat down and ________ his head in the menu.

I was not ________ by his response but I wondered if he would ________ and give just a small hello or smile. Over an hour passed and every time he looked my way, he looked meaner (低劣) and meaner. Finally he called the ________ over to ________ his bill. I turned my head away for just a ________ and he was gone quickly.

I looked down at his _______ and there was a beautiful rolled up $ 100 bill on it. I was in shock. I ________ got up to get the cash. In my head Right and Wrong were fighting it out. Before I knew it, I was ________ behind the man to offer this ________ back to him. Out of breath, I said9 “Sir, did you ________ this?” He looked shocked. His face turned ________ and a big lump (块) that could ________ an elephant came in his throat. He looked at the ground and finally said “yes”, and then he slowly said “thank you”.

Without ________ looking at me, he turned around, got in his car and ________ away. I said “thank you” to God for letting me change one person’s ________ towards friendly strangers.

【推荐2】My 11-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, does not like swim meets. She gets horribly   ______ because she is afraid that she will let everyone down. She started to talk about ______ swimming, which broke my heart because she loves swimming.                                

Recently, Elizabeth’s team ______ a T-shirt relay, which works like this: one person puts on a T-shirt and a pair of ______ and swims 50 meters. The person takes off the clothes and the other members, ______ put them on and swim another 50 meters until everyone on the team has completed a lap.

I told Elizabeth I really wanted her to go. She ______ back angrily but finally agreed.                                             

When the day arrived, Elizabeth was ______ to swim the anchor leg (最后一棒). By the last leg, Elizabeth’s team had built up a ______ lead. Then it was Elizabeth’s turn.

______ the halfway mark, she was still in the lead. Then somebody noticed that one of Elizabeth’s socks had ______ and was floating in the pool. “She has to get that sock on before the end of the race,” a swimming ______ told Elizabeth’s team, “or you will be ______.”

Everybody on her team started shouting, but she couldn’t hear them. ______, a girl in Lane Two was ______ on Elizabeth. Just then, a girl on my daughter’s team jumped in the pool, ______ the sock, swam after Elizabeth and put the sock on Elizabeth.

The sock finally on, Elizabeth swam with all her ______ for the last 15 meters and won! There followed much ______. And, for a few minutes, Elizabeth was the heroine.

On the ride home, she relieved her moment of glory ______. She told me that if the T-shirt relay were an Olympic event, her team would win the gold medal. I told her that in my ______ opinion, she was ______ right.

【推荐3】One Minute Means a Lot in One’s Life

During his college years, Rogers spent a summer in an Idaho logging camp (伐木场). When the boss had to leave for a few days, he put Rogers_________.

“ _______if the men refuse to follow my orders?” Rogers asked. He thought of Tony, an immigrant worker who complained all day, giving the other men a _______time.

“ Fire them,” the boss said. Then, as if  _______Rogers' mind, he added, “ I suppose you think you are going to fire Tony if you ______the chance. I'd feel ______about that. I have been logging for 40 years. Tony is the most________worker I've ever had. I know he is a troublemaker and that he_______everybody and everything. But he comes first and leaves last. There has not been an _______for eight years on the hill where he works.”

Rogers______the logging camp the next day. He went to Tony and spoke to him. “Tony, do you know I'm in charge here today？” Tony grunted(嘟囔) yes. “ I was going to sack you the first time we tangled(纠缠), ________I want you to know I'm not,” he told Tony, _______what the boss had said.

When Rogers finished, Tony_______the spadeful(铲子) of sand he had held and tears_________down his face.

That day Tony worked harder than ever before.

Twelve years later Rogers met Tony again who was now the _______of one of the largest logging companies in the West. Rogers asked him how he came to California and happened to have_______such great success.

Tony replied, “ Had it not been for the one________you talked to me back in Idaho，I would have killed somebody one day. One minute________my whole life.”

Effective managers know the _______of taking a moment to point out what a worker is doing well. But what a ________a minute of yes can make in any relationship!

【推荐2】“What's all this tree-planting for? " I was asked when I began writing about restoring(修复) a piece of land I had _________ in Somerset. The truth is, I just love trees. And I am not _________ “As I get older, all I really _________ is to plant trees ,” Prince Charles says in a BBC programme in which he is _________ in the wood he planted on the day Prince George was born.

We have inherited _________ and wonderful trees in our cities and villages. They were planted, or self-sown, years, even centuries ago. We take them for granted, _________ the creatures living among them, remain in ignorance of the _________ trees are doing us (cleaning the air, for example) and cut them down for _________. Yet we keep a feeling of _________ for them. This may account for the __________ the government faced in 2010 when it sought to sell off publicly owned woods, and for the wide support the Woodland Trust (a tree-protecting charity) __________.

Trees need __________, which is why I, a city-resident, bought my Somerset woodland in 1999. At that time, climate change was already well proved, __________ my hopes of planting long-lived oaks and pines gradually ________ anxiety about their chances. Tree diseases new to the UK, wind, drought and flood were all putting them at __________.

But I did not __________ things to move so fast. The woodland is good, and the new trees are growing like mad, but the creatures are __________. The rabbits have disappeared(due to some disease, perhaps?) and the owl has moved. The bees and butterflies are still there but in smaller ________. If this can happen in my wood that is __________ pesticides (杀虫剂)and herbicides (除草剂) , it surely indicates we need to give nature the chance to restore its own ________. Meanwhile, I love my wood, and tree-planting has also done wonders for restoring my balance between town and country.

【推荐3】Many animals move from one place to another at certain times of the year. This _________ movement is called migration. They migrate to find food, _________ , or in search of warmer weather. One of the most _________ migrations in nature is that of the North American monarch butterfly.

Every autumn, millions of these beautiful insects with fine black and orange wings _________ a long and difficult journey. Somehow they manage to travel around 4,000 kilometres south and find their way to California or Mexico. However, until recently no one _________ how they did this.

A team of scientists led by Professor Eli Shlizerman at the University of Washington has now found the answer. They have found out that the monarch is able to _________ the time of day. It uses its eyes to measure the _________ of the sun. These two pieces of _________ — the time of day and the point where the sun is in the sky — allow the butterfly to _________ the way to go. ____________ , it manages to reach the places where it will spend the winter.

The ____________ to the mystery of the monarch’s amazing ability comes at a time when it is in serious trouble. Its population has ____________ by as much as 90 per cent in the last few years. Sadly, human ____________ is the main reason why the number of monarch butterflies is falling. In many of the places where the butterfly can be found, people are ____________ the natural environment. They ____________ trees and use chemicals that kill the plants that monarch caterpillars eat.

The ____________ on the monarch’s behaviour has however led to a greater awareness of this ____________ . People have been working together to ____________ its migration and make sure that there are enough plants for it to ____________ . If this works, there may come a time when the number of monarch butterflies increases once again, The more we know about this lovely creature, the greater the chance it will ____________ and keep its place in the natural world for a long time to come.

【推荐3】In 2014, AnnaRose graduated from high school with the same goal like many other students: to get her bachelor’s degree. While her journey has been _______ because she has Down Syndrome, she was _______ to pursue her dream!

First, she _______ her associate’s degree from Rowan College in 2017. Then she transferred to Rowan University’s main _______, where she just became the first student with Downs to graduate from the school!

“She thinks _______ and does her own thing.” her mom Lin said. “When she decides to do something, she goes _______”.

AnnaRose studied radio, television, and film and worked _______ to maintain her great grades. “During the school term, there isn’t plenty of time for _______ activity,” Lin said. “She is sitting at the kitchen table, working devotedly. Because what _______ you or me 20 minutes to read could mean several hours for AnnaRose __________ on the context and the vocabulary.” On some days, she felt so __________ that her mom reminded her it was OK to change her __________, but AnnaRose refused to __________! Not only that, but she also got __________ advocacy programs to fight for herself and other people with disabilities. She has __________ a United Nations panel (专家小组), and even requested for disability __________ to lawmakers in Washington, D.C.

This is only the beginning for this __________ woman because she has a new dream now! She wants to continue __________ for communities with disabilities by creating podcasts (播/博客), documentaries, and more. She’s already __________ she can do anything she sets her mind to, and we’re __________ there’s no stopping her! We’re so proud of you, AnnaRose!