【推荐1】I decided to become a comet searcher on a bright clear morning 50 years ago in Montreal. It was a bit of an impromptu (即兴的) ___. I had a French test __ and knew that the examiner, Mr. Hutchison, would ask me about my career plans. I had to come up with something that was both credible and easily __ into French.

About six years earlier I truly had become __ about the night sky, but to stand up and say, “Astronomie!” was not enough. Mr. Hutchison would want __ . I recalled—a comet that had recently been discovered from Japan-one that __ became the brightest of the 20th century. Without a further thought, I decided that I was going to be a __ for comets. Not coincidentally, the English and French words for a comet (unecomte) sound very __, so my new occupation was __ to talk about in French.

And __ to the answer I gave Mr. Hutchison, I began searching for comets after graduation. Fortunately, working as a science journalist and giving lectures about the night sky have allowed me to __ my cosmic passion and still pay the bills.

Discovering my first cornet __ almost 19 years. On that particular night, November 13, 1984. As I __ the telescope again and again, I slowly __ that a fuzzy (模糊的）object was not staying in the same place but was creeping northward, as only a comet __.

I telephoned an astronomer at Lowell Observatory Ariz., who __ my find. I felt as though I could __ right up to the sky I loved so much. Michael Rudenko discovered the comet the next evening, and __ the new object became known as Cornel Levy-Rudenko.

In the following 50 years, I discovered 22 other new cornels. It is the joy of the search, ___the discoveries, that ___me going.

【推荐2】“Don’t worry. Those are just age spots(老年斑),” the doctor said. “Are you _________ that these are age spots?” I questioned, pointing to the dark spots on my hands. Angie, the doctor, smiled warmly and _________, “I’m 100% sure.”

I let out a scream of _________. “You’ve no idea how long I’ve waited for these to _________,” I said. Angie looked slightly _________, and I realized there was no possible way I could explain my excitement. What Angie didn’t know was that I shouldn’t have _________ to see age spots! At age forty, there was not much hope that I would live long enough to see any signs of _________. I was in the battle of my life — fighting lung cancer.

After the five-year mark of being cancer free, I started to have hope. When I got my first white hair, I quickly pointed to my husband, “look, honey, a white hair.”

_________ I was taking a trip down the memory path, Angie _________ my thoughts. “Here’s the fade cream(增白霜) that you can __________ your hands twice a week before going to bed,” she reminded. And then she mentioned another __________, “of course, you can always have the spots removed with lasers(激光).”

“Remove them?” I questioned. “__________ would anyone want to do that?” Angie stared at me, not understanding the meaning of those words, while I explained, “I’d like to __________ them.” As I walked out of the hospital, I was __________ that I had such wonderful age spots!

Later that year, I celebrated two milestones(里程碑)— my sixtieth birthday and twenty years of being __________ from cancer. I’m excited to be growing older with white hairs, wrinkles(皱纹) and now age spots. And I can see the beauty in all of them!

【推荐3】I was working on a novel based on the lives of chimpanzees(黑猩猩). To _______ them, I read every book written by Dr. Jane Goodall. One day, while visiting the website about chimpanzees, I _______ the chance to complete a six month internship(实习) with the Jane Goodall Institute(JGI) in Tanzania. _______ having a full time job, I knew I had to go. I was offered an unpaid internship after _______.

But then my logical mind jumped in, “You can't_______. What are you going to do with your house and your life?” The_______ were continuous, so I hesitated. I wanted answers to my questions about why this trip _______ so much to me, why I had so much _______ and what would happen if I let go of my _______ version of life.

I did have answers in my heart that helped me walk through my fear and take on a new________. So after several weeks' struggle, I ________ made my decision. I drove to my company headquarters and ________ .Soon I boarded a plane to Tanzania. On the trip, my heart pounded with ________ — unsure of what I'd find at my ________.

During my six-month internship, I slowly ________ my soul. I met wonderful friends and completed several community projects for JGI. I also visited Gombe which is home to chimpanzees and the________ staff there who offered to take us for chimpanzee tracking.

So much happened during my stay and all of it ________ the most wonderful unfolding of life lessons. I'll always carry the lessons and the light of those ________ in my heart. I experienced immeasurable ________ in learning how to listen to the desires of my soul and how to defeat fear, and being ________ to something new.

【推荐3】The day started off just as any other summer morning. My father and sister enjoyed hamburger at the Macdonald’s. I _______ eating much food, because I wanted to be healthy for the Avoyelles Basketball League game later that day. However, my family demanded I _______. Finally, I ate it and headed to the gym.

While at the _______ sitting with my friends, I began to think back on my past and missed my _______. I remembered how every morning I caught the _______ at her house, ready for each day’s journey. I remembered how we waited for the bus, laughing at Kenneth running late every morning while we _______ ourselves to a Snikers candy bar.

Wherever she went, I was there. The best part of year was when those pecans (山核桃) _______ from the pecan tree behind her house. My entire family would set aside a day to pick each pecan for her to _______ her outstanding pecan candy.

Anyone who knew her never keep her _______ in the kitchen. She would be busy behind the stove, or whatever you gave her to ____________ with. She would make something happen. She would make food that made any ____________ day pure excitement. Her food tasted so good that you couldn’t stop to take a ____________.

One day while I was ____________ for my Avoyelles Basketball League game, my sister Shane caught my ____________. With a sorrowful look in her face, she ____________ said, “she was gone.”

The words repeated in my mind for what seemed like hours. Several of my friends ____________ and questioned “what’s up with you?” Immediately the tears welled in my eyes.

Thus I began to realize the ____________ . Nevermore will I enjoy a Snikers candy bar each morning while ____________ Kenneth. Nevermore will I enjoy picking pecans as a(n) ____________   .Nevermore will I enjoy delicious pecan candy. Nevermore will I enjoy my blessing in the form of an angel. ____________ forever my grandmother was gone.

【推荐1】Confucius was born on September 28, 551 BC in the Kingdom of Lu, in today’s Shandong Province. Chinese people regard Confucius as the greatest thinker and also the greatest _______ who had about 3,000 students.

Confucius himself was a(n) _______ learner who always reflected (反思) on his own _______. One day his student was cooking porridge for the teacher when something _______ dropped into the pot. He _______ got it out with the spoon and wanted to _______ the porridge away. But it occurred to him that it’s not _______ to gain the food, so he ate it. Just then, Confucius happened to come into the _______. He thought his student was _______ food to eat. So Confucius was ________ and decided to punish his student. But when the student ________ what had happened before, Confucius came to know that seeing is not believing.

For more than 2,000 years, Confucius’ ________ have been around in people’s everyday lives. But some people are concerned that young Chinese today are ________ their own history and culture. As a matter of fact, Confucius’ ideas are still ________ today’s Chinese youth. As a teacher, he said that all should go to school if they could and wanted to ________. His most important ideas are ________ and good manners. He had many ________ quotes, such as: young people should take care of the ________; people should think more of others instead of ________.

Nowadays, more than 100 Internet ________ are teaching people about Confucius and his ideas.

He was known everywhere as a great artist. People _______from miles around to admire his beautiful_______. His name was Pygmalion, and he lived long, long_______ in Athens, Greece.

Pygmalion_______ his art for many years. His desire _______excellence made him spend months_______ a single work of art. He would not stop_______ he felt it was perfect._______ the years passed, his work became_______. Pygmalion painted flowers which looked ____________natural that people tried to____________them. He painted fruits which looked so____________that people wanted to eat them. Everyone____________ looked at the pictures he had painted was____________by their beauty.

As the years passed it____________only his pictures that made him famous, Pygmalion____________ made perfect pieces of sculpture. He could take a plain piece of wood____________stone and make it beautiful. He could make a rough stone as____________as glass. He worked long and hard to make his statues as real as possible. Often visitors who came to see his work began talking to someone. They were surprised when that person didn't____________. They were even more surprised____________they realized they were talking to a statue. It always gave Pygmalion pleasure when people were surprised this way.