【推荐3】A few years ago, I spared a couple of hours from busy academic learning to work in a video store on a daily basis. An elderly woman walked into the store with a younger woman who I _________ was her daughter. The daughter was displaying a serious case of _________, checking her watch every few seconds. The older woman began to _________ the DVDs on the nearest shelf. After _________ hesitation, I walked over and asked if I could help. The woman smiled and showed me a title on a crumpled (皱巴巴的) piece of paper. Obviously a person looking for it knew a little about _________.

Rather than rushing off to _________ the DVD for the woman, I asked her to walk with me so I could show her where she could find it. Something about her deliberate movements _________ me of my own mother, who had passed away the previous Christmas. The woman seemed _________ for the unrushed company and casual conversation. We found the movie, and I _________ her to the queue at the cash register. When the older woman was paying in cash, I walked over to the younger, who was still tapping her foot at the front of the store.

“Is that your mom?” She rolled her eyes and said, “Yeah.” There was__________ in her reply, half sigh and half complaint. Still watching the mother, I said, “__________ some advice?” “Sure,” said the daughter. I smiled to show her I wasn’t __________. I answered her __________ expression by saying, “When she’s gone, it’s the little __________ that’ll come back to you. Moments like this. I know.” Silent for a moment, the daughter placed her arm with __________unaccustomed affection around her mother’s shoulders, gently guiding her out of the store.

【推荐2】Everyone goes through some form of change. Going through change can teach us about our_______. In order to move on in life we must_______change. We either accept it or_______it. I have chosen to take it on with a_______.

Before entering junior high school, I thought_______would be the same as things in my primary school. And then I began to realize it wasn’t_______—not only was there more work but there were_______friends. That also meant my old group of friends started to separate. As months went by, I realized I should_______the fact that we were all going through a big change and that it was okay to grow_______.

I have also learned we should never________ourselves for someone but rather for ourselves. It is important for me to be happy and I shouldn’t have to change myself only to________someone else. Recently, I have been able to realize that not everyone will________me or what I do or what I wear, and that’s okay.

I believe in the power of change but only if________from that person is put into it. If someone doesn’t try to change, then I think he won’t________his goal and that he could possibly________the person or thing he loves. I noticed this________a friend of mine. She________saying she was going to change, but she put no effort into it and because of this she lost many close friends.

As we get older, it becomes easier to try new things and meet new people. Our________no longer affect just ourselves but our family and friends as well. Life is based on making decisions, some of them________, and some of them bad. It’s these decisions that make us who we are. Most people are________of change, but I choose to accept it gladly.

【推荐3】Last month, I visited one of my old neighborhoods in New York. I had not been there for twenty years and as I walked along the street, my mind was __ by memories of the past. I saw the old __ building where I had lived and the playground where I had played. As I viewed these once __ surroundings, images of myself as a child there __. However, what I saw and what I remembered were not the same. I __ realized that the best memories were those kept __.

My old apartment building, as I remember, was bright and alive. It was more than just a place to live. It was a movie house, a space station, or whatever my young mind could __. I would steal away with my friends and play in the __. This was always exciting because it was so cool and dark, and there were so many things there to __ among. There was a small river in the back of the building, We would go there to lie in the shade of trees and enjoy ourselves.

However, what I saw was __ different. The apartment building was now in bad __. What was once more than a place to live in looked hardly worth __ in. The windows were all __. The once clean walls were covered with dirty __ . The river was hardly recognizable. The water was polluted and the trees and flowers were all __. The once sweet-smelling river now smelled __. It was really heartbreaking to ___all this.

I do not __ having seen my old neighborhood. However, I do not think my __ childhood memories can ever be the same. I suppose it is __ when they say, “You can never go home again.”

【推荐1】I never thought I’d be a “runner”. I was the girl who _______ slowest in the PE class. A few years ago, I was walking with a group of _______ in the Race for the Cure, a 5KM race designed to _______ money for the fight against breast cancer, _______ one lady caught my _______.

She was one of the weakest-looking women I’ve ever seen. She must have been close to seventy years old, _______ a T-shirt with the word “Survivor” . She was so small that it seemed as if she could even be _______ by a swift wind. But she was running. And she was _______ me my group of friends. She ran slowly, but _______—as if each step pushed her cancer further into her past. Right at that moment, I ________ that in the next Race for the Cure, I’d be running along with her.

A week later, I found myself in the ________, running on the treadmill (跑步机). Three minutes after I started, my face was bright red. I felt like my lungs were going to ________. I had to slow down to a walk. I thought of the ________ at the race. I kept it up. I was able to go a little ________ each time. Three and a half minutes. Four minutes. Five.

A year later, I was ________ at the Race for the Cure, but this time, I ________ with the runners. When the race started, the other runners passed me by. I ran forward. I wondered if I’d be ________ to do it. But then, I remembered the brave woman. I ran as fast as I could until I finally crossed that finish line. I had just ________ my first race! I looked down at my legs, ________. They had done something I’d never thought ________. I have never felt stronger than at that moment. And, I knew that I wanted to do it again.

【推荐3】The small town of Rjukan in Norway is situated between several mountains and does not get direct sunlight from late September to mid-March——nearly six months out of the year.

“Of course, we _________ it when the sun is shining,” says Karin Ro, who works for the town’s tourism office. “We see the sky is _________, but down in the valley it’s darker—it’s like on a cloudy day.”

But that _________ when a system of high-tech _________ was introduced to reflect sunlight from neighboring peaks (山峰) into the valley below. Wednesday, residents (居民) of Rjukan _________ their very first ray of winter sunshine: A row of reflective boards on a nearby mountainside were put to _________. The mirrors are controlled by a computer that _________ them to turn along with the sun throughout the day and to close during windy weather. They reflect a concentrated beam (束) of light onto the town’s central _________, creating an area of sunlight roughly 600 square meters. When the light _________, Rjukan residents gathered together.

“People have been __________ there and standing there and taking __________ of each other,” Ro says. “The town square was totally __________. I think almost all the people in the town were there.” The 3,500 residents cannot all __________ the sunshine at the same time. However, the new light feels like more than enough for the town’s __________ residents.

“It’s not very big,” she says, “but it is enough when we are __________.”