【推荐1】In a national spelling contest in America, an 11–year–old girl was asked to spell a certain word. But with her ________ voice the judges were not sure if she spelled the word with the letter A or E. They talked it over and finally decided to simply ask her what she had said. By now, the girl knew she had ________ the word. But instead of lying, she told the truth that she had said the ________ letter — so she lost the contest.

As the girl walked off the ________, the entire audience stood to their feet clapping to applaud her _______ Later, dozens of newspaper reporters wrote about this 11– year–old girl’s honesty, even when it _______ her the contest. But the fact is that she won the biggest contest that day: the contest of her _______

Probably the biggest test of our character and honesty is what we would do if we knew we would never get _______. This young girl could easily have ______ and nobody would have known it but herself. But that’s just it: She would know she did wrong. It’s been said, “If you ______, you make yourself cheap.” This young girl was strong and smart enough to prize her own conscience and character more than the prize from a spelling _______

. Her respect for herself was more important than any ________ others might give her for winning a contest. She knew she would have to live with herself and the ________ she made in that moment will have long–lasting influence.

It’s so true that the choices you make today________ what you are tomorrow. Our children will follow our behavior much more than our advice. So if we want them to ________ to be honest, we must show them the way by being honest ourselves.

As a youngster on a farm, I used to dream of what seemed impossible.

Few farmers' daughters continued their____after junior middle school at that time. My dear mother insisted I should； my father______agreed. We lived twelve miles from the nearest high school. There was no bus   ______. I had to stay with a family in that village during the first two years, helping with ______ after school. Transport was______ in the last two years but there was a two - mile _____ each way to the bus stop. Cold weather ______ this walk so I had to stay with a family near the bus stop. I tried _________to be and do the best I could. I ranked well above_______ grades, receiving one of the seven medals for _____ at graduation.

There was no _______ help available to attend college. So I decided to____employment as a typist. I typed and____more than sixty letters with my resume to business places in Buffalo, NY. Only one_____ was favorable. Following an interview, I was ___________ . Six months later, I was again successful in obtaining office employment in Washington, D. C. While _______ there, I took an evening course at a university. One year later I became the first woman weather observer in New York. I then______ my evening studies, receiving master's degrees. My next   _______was to become a CPA （注册会计师）.

I believe that dreams can come true._________ did! Of course, there were many difficulties along the way, but hard work and determination   _________.

【推荐2】When I was in second grade, my single greatest fantasy was to fly like a bird. As I grew older, I_______flying off as part of my childhood imagination, being _______ beyond possibility. But two days after my eighteenth birthday, my childhood fantasy should become a_______.

Once the engines came to _______, I knew there was no escape. In 20 minutes I would be _______ out of this airplane. As I looked out of the window, I could see my brothers videotaping the plane as it _______, and now they were only _______ figures standing next to the runway. Looking across at my jump mate,   _______ he had successfully completed over 2, 400 jumps, I could see from the look in his eyes that he was still _______. I realized that I was too.

As the door opened, the wind screamed past my ears. Generally, I do not ________ out loud when I am frightened, but as my feet fell from the plane, my mind was experiencing 1, 000 ________ per second. After a few seconds, I found myself asking, “Why did I do this?” The only   responses that came to my mind were more questions — Did I jump because of the endless lure of the sky? Was it to test my ________? Was it to seek a new adventure? ________ through the sky at 165 miles per hour, I did not find my answer.

Finally, I ________ with a thump (砰然声) as my family ran to greet me. As I ________ the field and drew in my first breath, I knew that having my feet on the ground again would take on a new meaning.

【推荐3】Cecilia Chiang died on Wednesday at her home in San Francisco. She was 100. Her San Francisco restaurant, the Mandarin, __________American diners in the 1960s to the richness and________of authentic Chinese cuisine(菜系).

Ms. Chiang was born in a__________family. When she was little, children were not allowed in the _________, but she paid close attention on trips to the __________ markets with her mother and listened carefully as__________ instructions were given to the cooks. After her parents died, she __________the family business in her teens.

After the Japanese occupied Beijing in 1939, she was__________to join relatives in Chongqing, where she married Chiang Liang, a professor.

Ms. Chiang sailed to San Francisco in 1960 to help her sister. There she met two women who wanted to__________ a restaurant that __________Chinese diets. Later, when the two women __________, Ms. Chiang decided to open a restaurant herself. The early days were __________ . But little by little, customers came__________for hot and sour soup and pan-fried potstickers. One evening, Herb Caen, the popular columnist(专栏作家)for The Chronicle, __________at the restaurant. In a __________column, Herb Caen__________it “a little hole-in-the wall” that was offering “some of the best Chinese food east of the Pacific.”

Overnight the __________filled. The Mandarin was on its way. In 1968, Ms. Chiang moved the restaurant to __________quarters, where she could__________300 diners. “I think I__________what average people know about Chinese food,” Ms. Chiang told The Chronicle in 2007, “They didn’t know China was such a big country.”