【推荐1】The stage lights dimmed(变昏暗), and I took a quick look from behind the heavy black curtains into the audience. Blinded by the lights, I quickly _______.It seems that a great number of eyes were looking at me. I took a deep _______ as the music of my dance began to play. I entered the stage and began my _______, the graduation test of the classical Indian dance.

After a decade of learning,I was finally ready to take on the most difficult act.The test is the most important _______in a dancer's life as it pays respect to all the factors in one's life that _______the dance form:one's culture and family.

The performance is undertaken only by the most_______and determined students.It is a difficult process that requires much _______For more than six months,I spent two to three hours every day _______ these dances.Many times,1_______myself to my physical and mental breaking point,but still I would not stop.I could not give up.There was always so much more to do and so much more to________.

I discovered a lot about myself in those tiring hours,and I forced myself to meet my ________.Even when I was at the end of my limit,there was always something ________ me on,forcing me not to give up.

Fortunately,I made it.What I had done ________ the success.It was in those hours that I learned what a dancer ________ is.Those time was evidence that I could achieve something I________out to do.

【推荐2】Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new __________ in high school.

_____, high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts for cheerleaders. She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be _________ for her to be selected. Two hours later, the _________ read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart ________ as the list ended without her name. Feeling ________, she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.

Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was ______. She moved on to English and history, and was ______ to find that she didn't have any trouble with those __________. Feeling better, she decided not to________math for the time being.

The next day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school ________. Mrs. Biden wasn't as enthusiastic as Jenna. “I'm sorry, but we have enough________ for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we'll talk then." Jenna smiled _________ and left. "Why is high school so different?” she ________.

Later in _________class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much ________. By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she'd continue to try to _________ at her new school. She wasn't sure if she'd succeed, but she knew she had to ________. High school was just as her mom had said, "You will feel like a small fish in a big pond ________ a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the ________ fish you can be."

【推荐2】When I was a teenager I volunteered to pass out water at a local race. I was so excited to ____ all the different runners who passed by and quickly took a cup of water. Some walked past, some jogged past and a few ____ past.

Watching so many ____ of people doing it, I thought maybe I could do it too! The next year I decided to _____the race. With ____ running practice, I just wanted to finish.

On the day of the race. it was terribly hot. Only after 2 miles, I felt sweat ____ off me and my legs swelling. I began to ____ ,"Why am I doing this? What was I thinking? I must be ____ ." For the following miles, I jogged. I walked, I jogged and walked. At times, I wonder if I could ____ .

___ the end, a 70-year-old man rushed past me, very ____ , and I felt a little ____ that I was more than 50 years younger than him and I couldn't ______ keep up with him. But then I realized something: he was running his race and I was running mine. How often in life do we _____ ourselves to others and feel disappointed in ourselves when we really ____ ?

We are all unique human beings with unique ____ . It's really no good focusing on others' race. I decided that I would not ____ running. and that one day I would be one of those ____ people who were still running races.

As I crossed the finishing line, I was proud of myself. I didn't regret having such an experience. If you don't ___ others but get the lesson and grow, you are truly a ____ .

【推荐1】I believe I have a personal duty to make a positive impact on society. I’ve tried to _________ this goal by choosing a career in public service. As a physician _________ the challenge of infectious diseases, I consider my job a gift, which allows me to help ease the suffering of humankind. I have three principles to _________ my life, which I always think about.

Firstly, I have a strong thirst for _________. I think I will never know as much as I _________. This is what keeps the _________ of knowledge hot. And it is why I would do my job every day even if I cannot get high income.

Secondly, I believe in fighting for _________. I sweat over all the stuff, without feeling _________ for it. One of the byproducts of being a perfectionist is anxiety. But this anxiety creates a _________ tension that drives me to fulfill my limited potential.

Thirdly, I believe that my goal to be a physician is to __________ humankind. I have spent my __________ on public service. Most of it involved research, the care of __________ and the public health policy on AIDS.

I think, to control this terrible disease __________, I must be guided by these principles: continually thirsting for knowledge, accepting nothing __________ of excellence and knowing that the __________ of society is more important than my gains.

【推荐2】Star Athlete

My name is Edward, and at one time I was the star athlete at my school for four consecutive (连续的) years. Soccer was my life for as _______as I could remember. For at   _______six times a week, you could find me at the fields training. Within those past four years, I had________sixty goals for my team. I even starred in our local newspaper.

Most athletes asked me how I did it. How I _______to go out once or twice a day to train. Most athletes would be_______out, but not me. I asked them how they just naturally breathed. Football had been my life ever since I was five years old. Having two parents that played the game_______me to become the best athlete I could ever be. My whole family played, not ______was like not eating at my grandma's house, not acceptable. When I was three, my parents taught me how to kick the ball, and that was when I_______fell in love with the game.

But that was past.When I was working up to the state championship,I got injured and the trainer told me I could never play again. I cried and my _______was torn into pieces. Later, I________myself back up and went to Vanderbilt University on an academic scholarship.I might not be a super star, but I________to let my life slip out of my hands. Now, I'm on my way to becoming a doctor to help________like me. Sometimes I wonder who I would be without my injury, but then I realize I would not have had this opportunity. Things change________,and you have to learn to ________it. Stop living in the past and live in the future. Everyone has a story, but you have to make your own ending. It's up to you to persevere and fight for yourself. Be your own________.

【推荐3】I was lucky enough to test into the best high school in the city. But then came my ______: Am I good enough? It was a question that ______ me through my first month, even as I began to ______, even as I got used to the early morning wake-ups and moving between ______ for class.

I knew I had to work to ground myself. My earliest ______ involved keeping quiet and trying to observe my new classmates. Who were these kids anyway? How did they learn in school? All I knew was that they were the ______ kids in the city, obviously. But wasn’t I as well? Hadn’t I ______ here because I was smart like them? The truth is that I didn’t know. This ______ was like a deadly cell that threatened to divide and divide again, ______ I could find some way to stop it. Fortunately, my first ______ of grades turned out to be excellent, and so did my second. Over the course of my first two years, I began to build the same kind of ______ I’d had at my previous school. With each little achievement, my doubt ______ took leave.

I loved any subject that ______ writing and labored through math. I had classmates who were always a step or two ahead of me, whose achievements seemed effortless, but I tried not to let that get to me. I was beginning to understand that if I put in extra hours of studying, I could often ______ the gap. I wasn’t a straight-A student, but I was always ______ and I made progress.