【推荐1】My family and I love going to the beach. We go to the beach every weekend. I love to swim and hang out.

_______ something really terrible happened last August. It started out as a warm, sunny day. We were at the _______ with friends. Late that afternoon, my friend, her six-year-old cousin, and I were _______ in shallow(浅的) water, talking about school starting. Then I felt something on my right leg. I _______ a crab(螃蟹) bit(咬) me. But then I saw a _______ swimming near me.

I was _______. I thought, “This can’t be happening.” I _______ to my friend, “Get out of the water! It’s a shark!” She ran onto the beach toward our parents. I _______ running, too. But then I looked over my shoulder and _______ my friend’s little cousin was still in the water. I ________ and caught her hand. I knew it was ________, but I also thought I probably wouldn’t get bitten ________. When she saw my leg, she ________. I was super terrfied. I felt great ________. We ran and finally got to the beach.

On the way to the hospital, it started raining. The whole________ was like my most frightening dream. At the hospital, the doctors thought the shark might have bitten me twice ________ there was a smaller bite inside the big bite.

________ I only had to miss the first three days of school. When I got there, all the girls ________ to push me in my wheelchair(轮椅).

Now that I’m recovered(恢复), my family and I are back to swimming in the ocean. Getting bitten by a shark hasn’t ________ how much I love going to the beach. Somehow, this experience made me ________ it more. I say, “Back off, sharks!”

【推荐2】It was just about this time last year that my wife announced that she was no longer going to cut our lawn (草坪); instead, she wanted to let it go wild.

In fact, I did not accept her announcement. First, I could cut the lawn myself, something I hadn’t done for years and was unwilling to do. Second, I could try to hire a ____to do it but the teenagers here didn’t seem exactly the type of people to be interested in_____lawns. Third, I could acquiesce(勉强同意) to her suggestion.

Putting aside my pride and kissing goodbye to any hope of winning the first place in the shortest cut lawn competition, I drained (抽干) the oil in our lawn mower, pushed it into a corner and_______it with a plastic cloth. I hope that once the lawn began to look too high, my wife would_______her decision.

By the end of the third week of her “not work”, things were not working out as planned. The grass of the lawn was almost a foot in______, and the neighbors were beginning to________. “ Hey Mike, what’s the matter? Is your lawn mower on strike?” one______ joked. I replied, “No, the lawn mower isn’t. My wife is stopping working.” After six weeks, the lawn had begun to _______ a wild look, the sort of look that an old house has. But like a_________haircut that turns out to be great once it grows, by the end of spring our lawn was beginning to show signs of real promise.

When in summer, people were stopping to look at the “jungle”. They stopped to admire the island of green. The once lifeless yard was filled with birds hunting for the bugs that now crawled on the moist ground. The_________ of the birds filled the air from dawn to dusk. Many a night we lay in bed listening with pleasure to the birds chattering about their day’s events.

【推荐3】Did you ever have one of those dreams that seemed to go on forever? I had one like that last night. I was ______ down an old, side road that I used to walk along as a teenager. I wasn’t quite ______ where 1 was headed, but I felt very determined to get there. Like in many ______, time seemed fluid and people seemed ageless. As I walked along I kept meeting people from both my ______ and my present. I saw both my Mom and my Grandma who have passed away and 1 was able to ______ them both one more hug. I ______ many childhood friends and we talked, joked, and laughed just like we were ______ again.

Still, I kept walking, hoping to reach ______ I was headed. Around every turning, though, there was ______ new. I saw strangers ______ and stopped to help them. I met a smiling, old man who ______ shared his life’s wisdom with me and then I ______ passed it on to young children further down the road. With every few steps it seemed there was a ______ adventure in learning and love. I never got to where 1 was going and ______ feeling like I had lived a lifetime in a single ______. It ______ me a bit that I never ______ where I was headed,______ then I realized that this dream was a lot like our life. It is the walk that ______. You will meet a lot of wonderful people and ______ a lot of interesting experiences.

【推荐1】It was two days before we would leave our house. I thought back to the old days in the house. However, we were saying ______ .

My husband said some things like the rocking chair and the kitchen table wouldn't ______ in the truck. I said, "But we have to ______ them!"

"But there is not enough room," he said.

We lived on the east side of Mississippi and our parents were in the west, so we always ______ to move out there to be with the people we missed. When a ______ came for my husband to work in the west, we decided to______.

"Could we get a bigger truck?" I asked, ______ trying to bring everything along with us.

“Amy, this is the biggest truck," my husband said. I stood in the garage. ______ that we had to leave behind some furniture, I felt ______ . So I called my mom.

"Hi, honey. How's the ______ going?" my mom asked.

"Some furniture is not gong to fit," I said, trying to keep my voice ______ and not to burst into tears. "It's ______to leave them behind. I sat in that rocking chair and read stories to Azure. I sat at that kitchen table with my ______.”

"Honey, these things are not the _______. You don't need the rocking chair to remember______to Azure. You don't need your kitchen table to remember family dinners. You'll always ______ those memories whether the things come with you to your new ______ or not. And you don't have to ______ about losing the memories." my mom said.

My mom was ______ . We've been very happy in our new home. Though we have half as many things we did before, we have not ______ the memories of our old home.

【推荐2】My mom is an awesome human being just like all other moms. She knowingly and unknowingly __   me   a   whole   lot of things about the world. The __ which I'm going to share today determined the way I __ everybody.

I was four years old. One fine afternoon , my mom and I were __ outdoors, she reading and I watching a line of   __ . I was never a naughty kid: __ I was known for keeping quiet even when things were not going my way. So I don't remember why I did this but I broke off the lines of ants and I liked it when they looked so ___ .I even went ahead and stepped on a couple of them! My mom saw this and she wasn't __ with me but she said something I still __ today. She said, "Ybu should never be __ to anybody however little they are. Everybody is different and we shouldn't treat them ___

I got upset when I heard this because I thought I had __ my mom. __ my little heart started thinking about the family of ants I had killed. It has been more than 25 years now and I've __ so many things that have happened in my life:___, I still do my best to be kind to everybody.

We should teach our young kids never to be mean to anybody. It makes a     _____when people praise other people for their efforts __ being envious, we're proud of people achieving their goals however __ they may be. When you're kind to other people, it's a __ that goes on.     It's the kind of chain reaction that uplifts the whole world— one heart at a time. I believe in the magic of.____ !

【推荐3】On Nov. 29, 2011, my little sister Lily was born. The whole family welcomed her arrival with open arms. We were excited to have a new _________ to our family.

As she grew, her _________ became obvious. We _________ she would seem to be distant at times and was unable to _________ with others. The smallest things would keep her entertained for long periods, and she would _________ the same routine happily throughout the day. At the age of three, Lily was taken to the hospital by my parents. We were told that she was a child with autism(自闭症), and she would have _________ in communicating and forming relationships with others.

My family were heartbroken to learn that our loved one would probably be unable to live a _________ life. Unaware(无意识的) of what exactly this would bring, we made a decision to consider autism a _________. The diagnosis(诊断) brought our family closer, and we realized a deeper _________ for one another.

Raising a child with a developmental disability is a(n) __________ experience. Lessons are always drawn from mistakes, which always happens in daily life. However, through it all, our family is always there watching over her, __________ a comfortable and safe environment for her at all times. And Lily knows that she has a loving and supportive family who can be __________ and her biggest cheerleaders when __________ is achieved.

For those normal people, my story might make you more __________ what is really important in life. As for me, autism has actually been a combination of strength, courage and hope. It should not be viewed as a burden, but rather as a present to the families fortunate enough to __________ a different lifestyle.

【推荐2】There are things which I am thinking about, son: I had been hard on you. I called out _______ when you threw your things on the floor. At breakfast, I found fault, too. You _________ things. You put your elbows on the table. You _________ butter too thick on your bread.

Do you remember that evening when I was _________ in my bedroom, how you came in timidly (羞怯地) with a sort of _________ look in your eyes? When I _________ up over my paper, impatient at the _________, you hesitated at the door. “What is it you want?” I asked. You said nothing, but _________ and threw your arms around my neck and kissed me, and your small arms _________ with an affection. And then you went back to your __________.

Well, son, it was shortly afterwards that my __________ slipped from my hands and a terrible fear came over me. What has habit been doing to me? The habit of finding   ________. It was not that I did not love you; it was that I __________ too much from you. I have come to your bedside in the darkness, __________.

Tomorrow I will be a __________ daddy! I will suffer when you suffer and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when __________ words come. I have always been looking at you as a man. __________ as I see you now, son, lying asleep on your bed, one little __________ under your cheek, you are still a __________. Yesterday you were in your mother’s arms, your head on her shoulder. I have __________ too much, too much.

【推荐3】I run a hotel in London. My knowledge on volcano is from my son’s science textbook, which says “volcanic ash is formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when dissolved gases escape __ into the atmosphere”. During the days with the terrible ash cloud which spread Europe from Iceland in May, 2010, I was   __   to a London radio station called LBC. People called in ___ their stories of trouble. Some had missed   __   for holidays, and some couldn’t get home following the volcanic eruption.

The story that most   __   me was a call from Peter, who had just gotten __ the previous weekend to Maz. They had planned to   __   their honeymoon to the Dominican Republic but could not   __   the ash cloud. When James O’Brien, the radio presenter, asked if he was unhappy, Peter said: “Not at all. I’ve married the   __   girl in the world whom I love, so…no… I’m not __ at all.” Both the presenter and I were so impressed by the beautiful __ .

A little later, after receiving many cancellations(取消预订), an idea __ to me and I called LBC. I spoke to the producer of the show and asked if she could keep __ with Peter to offer him and his wife a room for the weekend at my hotel __ . She later __ to say Peter and Maz were delighted and would love to take up the __ . The producer asked if I would like to __ offer it to them on the radio show, but I said no as I didn’t want it __ to the public.

So, two days later, Peter and Maz arrived at the hotel and   __ . I was so pleased to have made a bad situation better for a young couple. Nobody could ever imagine how   __ I was of myself.