【推荐1】Once a boy really had everything he wanted, so he was only interested in the rarest objects. One day he found a mysterious mirror and took it home. When he looked into the mirror, he found that his face looked very sad. He tried smiling , but it remained the same. Surprised, the boy went off to buy some sweets. He went home and looked into the mirror as happily as possible,but his image was still sad-looking. He bought all kinds of toys, but he looked forever_________in that mirror. So the boy put the mirror away in a_________."What a(n)_________mirror! I’ve never seen a mirror that didn’t_________properly!"

That same afternoon he went out to play, but on his_________to the park he saw a little girl crying loudly. So he went over to see what was happening. The little girl told him that she had_________her parents. Together, they_________in search of them. As the little girl continued crying, the boy_________his money in buying sweets to cheer her up._________, after walking for a long time, they found her parents, who looked very worried. The boy said goodbye, and walked off towards the park. But__________the time, he decided to turn around and head__________home, as he had no time to__________.

At home, he went to his room and noticed a shining__________in the corner that he had left the mirror in. Seeing this, he went over to the mirror and__________that the light was coming from his own body, because he was so happy at having helped that little girl. And so he understood the mystery of that mirror, the only mirror reflecting faithfully the__________joy of its owner.

【推荐2】Every two or three months, Thyago Ohana goes out on the busy streets of Vienna with a sign saying “Free Hugs.” The handsome 32-year-old Brazilian chooses a popular _______，like the historic shopping street, Kaerntner Strasse. There he opens his arms to _______ who wants a hearty embrace.

He does it because back in 2012, when he was feeling very stressed and _______ during a visit to Paris, a stranger gave him a free hug. He’s never forgotton how it _______ him with _______ calm and joy.

For those who take up his _______, the hug makes them laugh and smile. But sometimes it does more, as when an elderly woman in a tour group _______ and watched him. The group moved on, _______ she stayed where she was and asked, “Can I have a hug?”

“Of course you can!” said Thyago who _______ his arms round her.

When they broke their embrace, she kept ________ his shoulders and looked into his eyes. “Thank you,” she said. “I can ________ remember the last time I was hugged this way.”

It’s a ________ that still makes Thyago emotional. “It was a really powerful moment of human   ________. It’s why I keep doing it.”

Of our five senses, our sense of ________ is the one we most tend to take for granted and yet the one we can ________ do without.

“A child can be born blind or ________   and they will grow up just fine, with no cognitive(认知的) ________ ,” says US neuroscientist(神经系统科学家) David Linden, author of Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind. “Yet if a baby is ________ in loving social touch for the first two years of life, then all sorts of disasters unfold.”

“When we put our hands on each other,” wrote Linden in a recent issue of AARP The Magazine, “we’re ________ deep associations between touch and ________ that are developed at the dawn of life.”

15.

A．most

B．latest

C．last

D．least

【推荐3】Over the weekend, a ______damaged houses, roads, and bridges, leaving many people nowhere to go. The powerful flood damaged Hagan’s bridge, leaving him and his wife______from the community (社区). He turned to social media but never______he would receive a call from his grandson’s coach Ryan Jesop. “The Hagans have done so much for this area, so it was a/an______decision to help,” Jesop said.

The Switzerland County football coach drew up a plan telling his team to build a new bridge ______the old broken one. Hagan received a(n)______that a team would be at his house Monday at 9 a.m. to work. “People I’d never seen before were walking down my driveway to help us,” Hagan said. “It was______and brought tears to my eyes.”

______, the steel frame base structure (钢架基础结构) of the bridge wasn’t damaged by the flooding. Dozens of people went to the bridge and______the old one plank (木板) by plank. Then the team built it back up by______an assembly line (流水线). “The______of our team is to help them through teamwork,” student Linebacker Gabriel Rose said. The team______the project in only a few hours. “They were here at nine o’clock, and I looked at my______when it was done and it was 11:45,” Hagan said. The Hagans now reconnected with their______thanks to their grandson’s football team. As for Coach Jesop, he is chalking it up as the biggest______of the season.