【推荐1】I worked on boats for twenty five years.Now I am a docking pilot (码头领航员). My job is to ______in the large luxury liners (邮轮) and stay with them until they are______ stopped in the harbour. Sometimes this requires two tugs (拖船),sometimes many more,______the tide and the weather.

I felt very______ after I had docked several of the large liners. I realized I was in______ of a great ship worth millions of dollars and the______ were depending on me to bring her safely to the port. These tugs,whether one or ten, ______about in accord with whistle signals I ______them from the bridge of the big liner. These signals make up a language that is just as______ as the spoken word,or even more so, ______our docking signals are hardly misunderstood.The captain of each tug does his work according to the signals he______.He never asks questions. He takes everything faithfully,and it always works out.

Working around tugboats,where so much depends on______,has had its effect on what I believe.I believe that if I am to attain a(an)______ place in the world I must have the help of my fellow men just as the great transatlantic liners depend on the______ of the little tugs to bring them safely to the______.

【推荐2】Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact ______ she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished _____ driving offence(犯规，犯法).

Then one day she nearly ______ her record. A police car ______ her, and the policemen in it saw her ______ a red light without stopping. Of course, at last she was stopped by the police. It seemed ______ that she would be punished.

______ Mrs. Jones came up to the judge(法官), he looked at her seriously and said that she was ______ old to drive a car, and that the ______ why she had not stopped at the red ______ was most probably that her eyes had become weak ______ old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished what he was ______ , Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag that she was ______ and then took out her sewing(针线活). Without saving a word, she ______ out a needle(针) with very small eve, and threaded(穿线) it at her first attempt.

When she had ______ done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed ______ the needle and the thread to the judge, saying. “Now it is your ______. I suppose you drive car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight."

The judge took the ______ and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case(案例) against Mrs. Jones was not ______, and her record _______unbroken.

【推荐1】Why would someone climb straight up a steep rock face without a rope or safety equipment? According to Alex Honnold, who is known internationally for free soloing, it’s no big deal. But many people in the climbing group disagree. In fact, free soloing is so   ______ that less than one percent of climbers ever ______ it.

Honnold grew up in California around a climbing culture and started climbing at 10. He ______ going to a climbing gym six days a week for three hours a day. Honnold was a straight-A student in school. But climbing was his main ______, and free soloing quickly became his favorite style. ______ he began climbing, he has made over a thousand climbs. He is ______ by many to be the best climber in the world. Experienced climber John Long says over half of the famous free solo climbers are dead. According to him, Honnold's greatest achievement is that he's still ______.

Honnold climbs by fitting his fingers into the cracks of the rock face. With most of his ______ supported by his fingers alone, he pulls himself up. What's more, his ability to stay focused is as ______ as his strength.

Other climbers agree that the fear of climbing without a(n) ______ is a huge challenge to overcome. Everyone knows that a single ______ would probably be a deadly one.

One of his greatest achievements ______ in California’s Yosemite National Park. He became the first free solo climber to ______ the 2, 000-foot northwest face of Half Dome. This and other climbs have made him famous, but along with ______ comes lots of criticism. Many blame him for taking too many risks. Honnold responds by saying, "I don’t think I'll do this forever. But I don’t think I'll stop ______ the risk. I'll stop because I lose the love for it. For now, he’s continuing to follow his passion and climbing to new heights.

【推荐2】After moving into my mother's home to look after her following an illness, I found myself thinking about my own________. It was clear that I ________to find something that would help me________the house more often.

I found my________ while standing in line at the store checkout one sunny spring day. Red words on the cover of a magazine caught my ________" Walk Off Weight!"

After ________the advantages of walking. I knew I had found the perfect________that would not only make me spend more time outdoors. but would also help me keep ________.

I didn't start walking four miles right away; I began________. After a few weeks. I ________ from walking two miles every day to between four and six miles every day. My ________ increased from about three miles per hour to over four.

It wasn't long before I began to notice the many________in both my physical and emotional(情绪的) health.

I lost ________. The extra (额外的) fat I’d been carrying around my stomach disappeared. My body was ________and became more shapely. Even my back pain had________!

The advantages to my emotional health were also great. My spirits lifted with each passing day. I could hardly________to get up each morning. With more self-confidence. I also found myself to be more sociable and that l began to________meeting new people.

________my mother became less of a tiring task. Feeling ________, I was able to look after her with great enthusiasm(热情). I________her to try to become as healthy and as happy as I felt.

【推荐1】Taking a vacation maybe the last thing on the mind of a cancer patient._________can be expensive, time-consuming and sometimes hard work. While people facing illness may be_________of resources for vacation, they are _________a stress-free time away. I’m one such patient.

I’m suffering from lung cancer. Diagnosed in March 2017, I was_________beyond belief. Due to my medications’ side effects, I lost my career and what I thought made me who I was, though I now discover that_________is what matters.

Through the Internet, I___________Little Pink Houses of Hope, a nonprofit that provided a free week-long___________to cancer patients and their families. After applying and being___________, we drove from Houston all the way to Hatteras Island in North Carolina. I trained most of the time. I had no idea what to expect and was ___________.

Looking back, I am so glad I went. I hadn’t felt such____________love and such a sense of family. We went to the beach, had wonderful meals and went surfing which I had never thought I would get the chance to do. We____________in a way that I thought was impossible, not only with the other____________but also with the volunteers. It was nice to see my husband get along with the other husbands. Being a(n)____________and the breadwinner, he had a lot on his plate.

I’ve suffered from the cancer for many years. I want people to know that though I am living with a serious disease, I am still living____________.So don’t feel sorry for me, but make the____________of life with me.

【推荐3】About five years ago my family moved to Iowa and I started going to a new school. I was a little _______, but I worried I would never be _______ than the other eleventh graders. Lucy, a girl in my class was not_______for the change. I thought she didn’t_______me from the start. In fact, I was sure that she hated me. When I asked her a _______, she answered me impatiently as if I was a total fool. My teacher made us_______next to each other in the last semester. Lucy didn’t like that _______. I didn’t wear make-up (化妆), and I didn’t wear those awesome (可怕的) jeans everyone else was wearing. I didn’t exactly_______ the coolest girl. However, I kept smiling at her, _______ she rolled her eyes at me (翻白眼). I kept telling her she looked ________, even if she was angry. ________, Lucy let me talk to her, even in front of her "cool" friends. She started ________ me how beautiful I looked. I still remember the first time when she________ at me saying that, and I smiled right back, telling her a joke. Lucy ________ me to her house for parties, and talked to me all the time. Lucy, the girl who had ________ me, called me her best friend. I will never forget a sentence written by Abraham Lincoln: "Am I not destroying (消灭) my enemies when I make friends of them?"