【推荐1】Mr. Henry, a London taxi driver, has a new black taxi. He hurries through the busy_________every day.

One day when he was having a short rest, a young man jumped into his_________.

Mr. Henry did his best, but there was a lot of traffic. At every corner there was a_________light.

The young man said, "Hurry up, man! I don't want to miss my train."

"And I don't want to have an_________, " replied Mr. Henry quickly.

While he was waiting, Mr. Henry suddenly recognized the man's_________. He was a_________. The police were looking for him. His picture was in the_________.

Mr. Henry__________through the streets and drove through red lights. Soon there was a police car__________him. Mr. Henry raced on until he__________the station. He stopped in front of the station at two minutes to three, and the young man quickly jumped out of the taxi.

"__________!" cried Mr. Henry. At the moment the police car stopped, too. "Quick! He is the thief!" shouted Mr. Henry. Two policemen__________into the station. Three minutes later they returned with the young man.

"Well__________!" a policeman said to Mr. Henry as they were taking the thief to the police car.

【推荐2】It was four o'clock in the morning, when I received a phone call.

"This is the emergency room calling and your son was just ___in with severe burns on his face, neck and arms. We have called for a(n)___and are going to fly him to the burn unit in Seattle." Seattle was 350 miles from his college, so we knew immediately it was ___.

The doctor described the ___which caused the burns. Our son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers in the courtyard of their apartment. When they ___the charcoal (木炭), it burst into flames because they had sprayed too much gasoline. The flames ___my son’s shirt tail and shot from his waist to well over his head. __, one of the boys was quick-minded, grasped my son, and ___him on the grass. While the boy saved his life, it was not in ___to save him from severe burns and terrible scars (伤疤).

After he ____from the treatments, the doctors told him they would not do plastic surgery (整容手术) within six months ____it took that long for the skin to stop shrinking and wrinkling. So, he had to return to college with scars typical of severe burns.

When I was a child, my mother told my sister, who had a 10-inch, very ____scar on her arm, " Nancy, if you ignore the scar, other people will ignore it. It does not mean they will not ____it, but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn’t matter to you."

I ____this wisdom on to my son. He took my advice to ____and returned to school with his head held high — glad he was alive.

By the end of the six-month waiting period, he thought that the scars did not ____, so he made the ___to give up any plastic surgery.

We all have "scars" that we believe ____people to keep away from us. And we spend a lot of time thinking that if we look different, or dress differently, people will like us better.

But you see, people will only judge you by your looks, or your clothes, if you are judging yourself by these same ____standards. Put your imperfections out of your mind and concentrate on what you value ____yourself, and your beauty will shine through.

【推荐3】Hello, Mr. Wi-Fi. Life without you is next to impossible. We’re happy to sing your name from morning till evening, sometimes till dawn. ________ I know you help me, sometimes you are making me do things with ________ attention. Many times I promise myself that I’ll ________ my feelings towards you, but you’re ________ me closer and closer… You’ve entered both my home and my workplace. You’re just a window for our ________ and information. But we people aren’t ________ only with the window. So we open all our doors for you. Is this a(n) ________ or some kind of attachment? If this is an illness, is it curable? And if this is an attachment, will you ________ me the lifelong togetherness?

We want you all days. Can’t you take a few days off so that both you and I can ________ ? You’re a poison--not a slow one but a super-fast poison which holds our mind and makes us dance ________ your tune. Nowadays you’re so ________ that anyone can buy and make you become our companion, you’ll never be bothered about our health but we’ll ________ be concerned about your “health”. Because you accompany us everywhere and never let us alone.

If you were a ________ person made of flesh and blood, would we love you the same? You control us with your numerous talents and we even can’t get rid of you. We all are your ________ .

Sometimes I wonder how people in the previous generations ________ , but if they did, why can’t we?

【推荐1】A long time ago, there was a seed(种子). Because he was only a seed, ______ noticed him. So the seed thought he was not important in the world.

One day,a wind ______and threw him on an open field in the sun. Later, he was given rain. Years later, another day he saw a traveller ______ by his side.

“Thank you God for this, I can have a rest under the tree.”the traveller said.

“what are you talking about?”the seed ______ asked. He thought the man was ______ him. No one ever spoke to him like that.

“Who just spoke?" the shocked man asked.

“It’s me. A seed.”

The man looked at the________. “Are you joking? You’re not a seed. You are a big tree!”

“Really?"

“Yes! People often sit here. ______ do you think people come here for? To fee1 your shade (树荫)! Don't tell me you didn't know you had grown over time.”

The traveler's words brought him pride. The seed thought and ______ for the first time in his life. The years of tortune (折磨) ______ the sun and the rain finally helped him ______. “Oh! That means I’m not a little seed any more! I was actually born to make people feel comfortable. Wow! That’s great.”

【推荐2】We are warned by our teachers not to waste time because time _______ will never return. I think it quite _______. What does time look _______? Nobody knows, and we can’t see it or touch it and no _______ of money can buy it. Time is abstract, so we have to _______ about it.

Time passes very quickly. Some students say they don’t have _______ time to review their lessons. It is _______ they don’t know how to make use of their time. They waste it in going to theatres or playing, and _______ other useless things. Why do we study every day? Why do we work? Why do most people _______ take buses instead of walking? The answer is very ________. We wish to save time because time is ________.

Today we are living in the 21^st century. We ________ time as life. When a person dies, his life ends. Since life is short, we must ________ our time and energy to our study so that we ________ be able to work and live well in the future. Laziness is the ________ of time, for it not only bring us ________, but also does other ________ to us. If it is necessary for us to do our work today, ________ we do it today and not ________ it until tomorrow. Remember that time is much more ________.

【推荐1】When I was 12 years old, I went with my dad to his work --- a car showroom. I was wandering around and _______ a poor woman with a child in her arms standing _______ the showroom. I saw that she was _______ and went inside and told my father. My _______ went out and asked the woman to _______ into the showroom. He offered her some water and then _______ her what was wrong.

The woman said that her _______ had died some months ago and that she didn’t have anyone else in her family who could _______ her. She did some manual labor to _______ some money to take care of her daughter but her daughter was __________ for the last three days and she was __________   to go to work. Now she didn’t have a grain of food to eat. While she was relating (讲述) her story to my father, she was unable to __________ her emotions and started crying again. My father and I were     __________ moved by her story.

We got some __________ for her and her baby to eat. My father then took them to the nearest     __________ for her baby to be treated as the baby did not seem to be very well. On the way, we __________     her a 5kg bag of wheat from the market. My father gave her some money before we left her. The woman was so __________.

It is eight years later, but that event is still so __________ in my mind. My father’s __________ to this woman inspired me deeply and since then, I have decided to walk a similar path and __________ others.

【推荐3】I was doing some last-minute Christmas shopping in a toy store. A nicely dressed little girl was _________ the teddy bears beside her father _________ she saw a little boy walk in and stop in front of the Pokemon toys. His jacket was obviously too small. He had money in his hand. _________,it looked no more than five dollars at most. He was with his father as well, and _________ picking up the Pokemon video games. Each time he showed to his father, his father___________ his head, “No”.

Rather___________, the boy gave up the video games and chose a book of stickers _________. After they walked away, the little girl ran over to the Pokemon video games. She___________picked up one lying on top of the others, and raced down toward the checkout. I picked up my purchases and _________ the girl and her father.

Then, much to the little girl’s __________, the little boy and his father got in line____________ her and me. After the video game was paid for and bagged, the little girl____________ it back to the cashier（收银员）and __________ something to her. The cashier smiled and put the____________ under the counter（柜台）. I was putting things in my bag when the little boy came up to the cashier. The cashier said, “__________,you ‘re my hundredth customer today, and you win a prize!” and she handed the boy the Pokemon game. The boy could only ____________in disbelief. It was, he said, __________ what he had wanted！ The little girl and her father had been standing at the doorway, and I saw the biggest and____________ smile on that little girl I have ever seen in my life.

I suddenly understood that the world is not __________ into the strong who care and the __________ who are cared for. We each must in turn care and be cared.