【推荐1】One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive. Suddenly I _______ that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing in my direction, _______ he knew me. The man had a newspaper _______ in front of him, which he was pretending to read, but I could _______ that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my food, the man was clearly puzzled by the _______ way in which the waiter and I _______ each other. He seemed even more puzzled as time went on and it became _______ that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the _______ . When he came out, he paid his bill and _______ without another glance in my direction.

I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had ________. “Well,” he said, “that man was a detective (侦探). He ________ you here because he thought you were the man he ________.” “What?” I said, showing my ________. The owner continued, “He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I ________ say he looked very much like you! Of course, since we know you, we told him that he had made a mistake.” “Well, it’s really ________ I came to a restaurant where I’m known,” I said. “Otherwise, I might have been in trouble.”

【推荐2】The disease had slowed me down. Then my granddaughter sent a cat to me. Honestly speaking, I fell in love with the cute little thing ________when I first saw her. “I’ll ________you Rainbow,” I said with a smile.

The next day I ________some cat food and two toy mice in a pet shop. Rainbow went crazy over those ________ : she got them stuck under the desk or the sofa. Then she wouldn’t stop meowing________ I got them back for her. She’d bring the mice to me and demand that I throw them for her over and over again--- she never felt ________ . She couldn’t feel the pain in my ________.

Rainbow always got into troubles. She kept knocking over my plants or   ________ my cups. I had to deal with the “________”. My back________with all the cups and downs of trying to keep up with Rainbow. But what was I supposed to do? I couldn’t bear the ________ of sending her away.

One day, I felt there was something________on my cheek. Rainbow, licking (舔) me, wanted breakfast. “OK, I get the________,” I said. I tried to lower my body to put her________on the floor,________pain to spread from my back through my body. But it didn’t. I felt ________ .

After she finished eating, I bent down and ________ her bowl without having to hold on to the desk. She looked up at me and meowed, as if to say, “See? I’m________what the doctor ordered!”

Three years later, Rainbow still kept me moving and I began to________her play. I didn’t want a cat, but someone knew I ________ one.

【推荐1】Designer Susan McLeary is taking the jewelry world by storm with her jewelry made from living plants. She uses real succulents（多肉植物）collected from her ____ to create wonderful headpiece, necklaces, rings bracelets, and other pieces of bio-jewelry that literally ____ on you.

Each piece from McLeary’s ____ can be worn for two to four weeks before the

plants begin to ____ in their metal base. When this happens, wearers can ____ remove the succulents from their metal base and re-pot them to keep in their homes. The jewelry bases can still be ____ as usual. If the pieces are worn for special ____ like weddings, the potted plants become all the more ____.

McLeary, who has worked with leading floral designers（花艺设计师）across the US, has spent years ____ her two loves — plants and jewelry — and ____ her own style. Before she was a florist, she made jewelry for friends. ____ one of her friend got married, she was asked to design some wedding flowers ____ some jewelry. As she had her friend’s flowers in her hands, she knew she had got her idea. She still loves ____ for weddings, but she has found that she enjoy creating floral wears and floral ____ even more.

She makes each piece by hand, and ____ she can pay careful attention to composition and color. Each jewelry piece is made with ____ sourced plants from a family owned greenhouse and jewelry bases ____ by other small businesses.

There is no doubt that the floral jewelry adds more fun and more ____ sights to there occasions. Of course, the wearers can also ____ their time by taking care of the plants on their metal base. McLeary’s beautiful designs are ____ on her Easy store, which ranges from $ 20 to $ 300.

【推荐2】The media has a great effect on us in our daily life. Believe it or not,I will tell you a true story of my own.

Last evening I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a prize for scientific_____; I forgot what it was. The announcer,whose name was Ralph Story, said something that caught my _____. “All great discoveries,”he said,"are made by people between the ages of twenty-five and thirty. ”_____a little over thirty myself, I wanted to disagree with him. _____ wants to think that he is past the age of making any discovery. The next day I happened to be in the public library and spent several hours looking up the____of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph was right.

First I looked at some of the_____discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries, the famous experiment that proved that bodies of different_____fall at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that____to a Nobel Prize when she was 28.

Einstein was 26 when he published his world-changing theory of relativity. Well,_____of that. Yet I____,if those “best years” were true in other___. How about the field of____? Surely it needed the wisdom of age to make a good leader. Perhaps it____,but look when these people____their career. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln____ the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age? Twenty-six.

But why don’t the ____ years come after thirty? After thirty, I _____,most people do not want to take risks or try____ways. Then I thought of people like Shakespeare and Picasso. The former was writing wonderful works at the ripe age of fifty. while the latter was____trying new ways of painting when he was ninety!

Perhaps there is still____for me.

【推荐3】At just 18 years old, Canberra student Lochie Ferrier has already conducted research in a frontier field —aerospace engineering. Aerospace engineering is the primary _____ of engineering concerned with the science and technology of aircraft and spacecraft.

In 2014, he was one of 80 high school students worldwide who _____ a six-week science and engineering program at MIT. During the program, he was _____ by the institute’s scientists, and developed a method to identify inactive satellites. This method, called OASIS, is designed _____ a way to help manage space debris （碎片）, which _____ operating satellites. “One solution to this problem is a _____ robot that can gather pieces of space debris and store them in orbit，” he says. “These pieces could be _____ to new satellites later thus _____ the costs and launch weights of new satellites.” However, _____ satellite identification technology would be needed for this solution, and that’s what Lochie is working on. “I hope this method would be put into practice in the near future, _____ in the next 10 years,” he says.

Lochie has made the _____ of the Young Innovators category of the Australian Innovation Challenge Awards with his OASIS. This category is open to students aged 21 years or _____ and carries a $ 5,000 prize. If he won, he would use the money to help fund _____ research into OASIS. “My plan for using the money would be to try to use materials which could stand up to the _____ environment of space,” he says.

He is also considering how to _____ manufacturers. the technology to organizations such as NASA and satellite

Lochie’s _____ in aerospace engineering was aroused by the big dish antenna（碟形天线）at NASA’s tracking station near Canberra，which he visited in his early teens. He said his software design and development teacher at Canberra Grammar School _____ him, too. “He taught me valuable project management and skills which I applied to OASIS.”

Lochie has been attending Canberra Grammar School and will soon _____ exams for admission to universities. He _____ his time between schoolwork, his personal _____ projects such as OASIS and the develop ment of apps, rock climbing, and playing classical violin. The teenager is well on his way to realizing his sky-high ambition.

【推荐2】Ever since I can remember, my mom has always been growing things or talking about growing things. ________, I don’t exactly share her green gardening skills. She tells me it’s because I don’t give the plants the love they ________. I won’t lie, but that ________ me a little bit.

After a few crazy years of working my way through college and then the COVID-19, I felt I had ________ with my mom and her gardening. As a kid, I spent much time with her in the garden. And those were some of the happiest moments of our lives. So for Mother’s Day this year, I decided to get back in the garden to spend some ________ time with her. ________ we weren’t able to plant everything due to the weather, we had a good time.

My mom always makes sure to fertilize (施肥) her garden with ________ fertilizers. She doesn’t like using chemicals. It’s not good for bees and butterflies. Each year she designs her garden ________ so that each section of the garden can have various vegetables and later on, nutrients are added to the soil. “Where did you learn all of this?” I asked her. Growing up I was always under the ________ that my mom just knew everything. It was not a wrong belief, but I was ________. “Wisconsin Public Radio!” she said. “Each Friday it has Garden Talk where Larry Meiller interviews gardening ________ about planting in Wisconsin.”

________ a garden, my mom also grew a prairie (牧场), filled with tons of native Wisconsin flowers. This year, she planted sunflowers, purple coneflowers, and many other flowers to help out the insects in the yard and give her garden the best ________ to thrive (繁荣).

After a day’s work, I was glad to have gotten my hands ________ with my mom. I learned a lot, and I felt that I had gotten ________ to her.

【推荐3】Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening. I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops. I ______ to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people, myself included, usually miss ______ like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.

My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon ______ a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.

I know the feeling. Last December I ______ my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a ______ rest-house with no electricity or hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The ______ grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light ______ in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the ______ places I had ever known. a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which ______ me deeply.

Today our lives are ______ with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cellphones, heaters, ovens, air-conditioners, cars and computers.

______ through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent in-doors, I thought: Before long, I would like to live in a small ______. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains. And ______ I’ll write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers ______ and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and ______ the moon.