【推荐1】My father often works very hard. And he has_________to see a film. Here I’ll tell you_________about him.

One afternoon, when he finished his work and_________ go home, he found a film ticket under the_________on his desk. He thought he_________to have not much work to do that day and_________ was quite wonderful to pass the_________at the cinema. So he came back home and_________finished his supper. Then he said_________ to us and left.

But to our__________ , he came back about half an hour later, I__________ him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about__________funny thing that had happened at the cinema.

When my father was sitting in his seat, a__________came to my father’s and said that the seat was__________ . My father was surprised. He took out the ticket__________ looked at it carefully. It was Row17, __________ . And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked her__________ her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3.   __________ ? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering suddenly the woman said, “The__________of the tickets are different.” So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh, __________ , I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left the cinema.

【推荐2】Sometimes your biggest weakness can become your biggest strength.

Take, for example, the ________ of one 10-year-old boy who decided to study judo (柔道), although he had lost his left ________ in a car accident.

The boy began ________ with an old judo teacher. The boy was doing well, but he couldn’t understand why, after three ________, the teacher had taught him only one move.

“Teacher,” the boy ________ said, “Shouldn’t I be learning more moves?” “This is the only move you’ll ever ________ to know,” the teacher replied.

The boy didn’t quite ________, but he believed in his teacher and kept ________.

Several more months later, the teacher took the boy to his first tournament. The boy easily ________ his first two matches. The third match was a little ________, but after some time he used his one move to win the match.

Still ________ by his success, the boy was now in the finals.

This time, his opponent was bigger, ________, and more experienced. For a while, the boy appeared to be ________. The referee (裁判) was worried that the boy might get ________. He was about to stop the match when the boy’s teacher said, “No, let him ________.”

Soon after the match started again, his opponent made a big ________: He dropped his guard. The boy quickly used his move to pin (压住) him. The boy had won the match and the tournament. He was the ________.

On the way home, the boy asked his teacher: “Teacher, how could I win the tournament ________ only one move?”

“You won for two ________,” the teacher answered. “First, you’ve ________ one of the most difficult throws in all of judo. And second, the only defense for that move is for your opponent to grab your left arm.”

【推荐3】A little girl created the perfect Mother’s Day gift. It was a drawing of a _______ on white paper with the words "For mom: love, love, love" decorated in hearts. She folded(折叠) her letter,_______then she lost it.

For most people, that would be the_______of this story, but this story has a different result: James Carrell _______the letter. He had just _______his mother, wishing her a happy Mother’s   Day. After he got off the phone, Carrell saw the _______ on the ground outside of a hardware(五金器具) store in Manvel in Texas, United States."I _______ it was a note" said Carrell. "I _______ it and saw the flower and hearts. It _______ moved me." Carrell thought the letter would ________someone’s day and maybe he could find the________, so he posted it in the Talk of Alvin Facebook group. The message ________a lot of people, especially one man.

"I was sitting at my friend’s house and saw a man ________, " said Carrell.

His Facebook comments(评论) included a message from Roberto Alvarado. He wrote, "I can’t ________ you found my baby’s letter. "Carrell reached out to Alvarado to ________the letter. It took a few days, but the men finally ________ on Thursday night, one day after Alvarado’s   daughter Natalie celebrated her seventh birthday.

"________ the letter made it home," said Alvarado. " We are ________ for what James Carrell did.”

We often forget the power of ________ things, but for this family from Alvin, Carrell’s small act left a(n) ________impression(影响).

【推荐1】There once was an ordinary street in the suburbs where no one cared much for their gardens. The lawns were overgrown, the weeds were taking over and the hedges(树篱)_________ needed to be cut back. It looked very terrible. _________ when the neighbors saw their gardens, they just looked at each other and laughed.

It seemed too hard to clear all the gardens and no one could be _________ to make them better because everyone’s garden was equally _________. No one felt it was urgent to change anything. Then a gardener named Bill _________ in the small town. Bill was a _________, hard-working and patient man who started working in the garden as soon as he moved in the street. He took his lawn mower(割草机) out to cut back the grass and pulled out all of the _________. Finally, he took up his gardening and started _________ his hedges, making them look like flowers, plants, stones, balls, etc. It was a huge project but his hard work _________ and his garden looked inviting.

__________ by the beautiful scenery, the neighbors walked by and admired the __________ manicured(修整的) garden. Before long, something __________ happened. One by one, the neighbors started to put in more effort in their own gardens and the sounds of lawn mowers could be heard again. After a few months, the street was transformed from a dirty, __________ collection of houses to a beautiful street that wouldn’t be out of place in a stylish magazine.

One person’s action showed everyone what could be achieved with a little hard work. It’s easy for us to __________ the environment around us because no one else cares about it. Remember what you positively do not only benefits yourself, but also __________ a change to the whole world.

【推荐2】A back injury drove Briton Rose Oliver to tai chi, which led her to her husband and then took both of them to China. Twenty years ago, Oliver’s back injury _________ her childhood dream of becoming a ballet dancer. But the injury did _________ her to tai chi, a martial art typically practiced in slow motion. Her initial hope was to improve her _________; however, it turned out to bring her more. She later married her _________, Rey Nelson, who taught her how to play tai chi, and founded a school with him, teaching the martial art to more than 10,000 students over eight years.

In 2000, the couple moved to Shanghai. They taught _________ in universities and happily learnt tai chi under various masters to enhance their skills in playing. After years of practice, Oliver found her occasional _________ had disappeared amazingly. But her greatest pain _________ when her husband died in 2003, leaving her alone to follow their _________ passion for tai chi. She thought of _________. But she finally determined to carry on to honor her husband.

With the __________ of her tai chi “family” — the masters and students, Oliver spent her time outside tai chi teaching English as she did before and __________ cultural-exchange events. She founded the Double Dragon Alliance, which enables kung fu masters to teach martial arts to westerners and organizes seminars and events for them to __________ Chinese massage, acupuncture, traditional medicine, and calligraphy.

Because of her __________ to cultural exchange, Oliver was given the Shanghai Magnolia Award, an award given to foreigners who have made __________ contributions to the city. And she has been officially __________ as a member of the Order of the British Empire by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ—one of the highest honors to a citizen.