【推荐1】I stopped speaking because I found myself arguing all the time. After witnessing an oil spill in San Francisco Bay, I ______ using vehicles and started walking everywhere as a statement about ______. I often kept getting into ______ about whether one could make a ______ and argued about how everyone should do what I was doing.

On my 27th birthday, I decided not to speak for one day, as a kind of ______ to my community. When I woke up the next day, I didn't see any ______ to speak, so I didn't.

A week later, people started getting ______. My girlfriend wanted me to stop. My parents even got angry with me. But I didn't change my idea.

On the 10th anniversary of not ______， I spoke for a day. I didn't want it to feel as if it wasn't a ______. I was in California and I ______ my parents. My mother picked up and thought it was my brother ______ around. I had to prove it was me by telling her something only we knew.

______ not speaking for 17 years, I felt I had something to say. People came to ______ me. My first words were, “Thank you for being here.” But I didn't recognize my ______.

Having listened to thousands of people, I realized we had a ______ view of the environment. People always think it's about planting more trees, but it's more than that; it's about how we treat each other, and that also ______ economic equality and civil rights.

Now I give talks around the world. I started using ______ again. I still practise being ______ every morning. It reminds me to listen ______； not to judge what I think I'm hearing, but to try to understand what people are really ______.

【推荐2】I developed a crush (热爱) on a cute girl I met in a pet store. She led a very___ lifestyle and we did not have much to talk about. But somehow none of this seemed to___ . I enjoyed being   with her and I felt a sparkle in her presence. And it seemed to me that she enjoyed my___ as well.

When I learned her birthday was coming up, I decided to ask her out. On the threshold (门槛) of calling her, I sat and looked at the phone for about half an hour. Then I dialed and hung up____   it rang. I felt like a high school boy, bouncing between___ anticipation and fear of rejection.

A voice from hell kept telling me that she would not like me and that I had a lot of___ asking her out. But I felt too enthusiastic about being with her to let the _______   stop me.__________   I got up the nerve to ask her. She thanked me for calling and told me she already had____.

I felt shot down. The___ voice that told me not to call advised me to give up before I was ____ embarrassed.______   there was more inside of me     that wanted to come to________   . I had     feeling for this woman, and I had to express them.

So I bought her a pretty birthday card on which I wrote a____ note. I walked around the     corner to her pet shop. As I approached the door, that same disturbing voice_____   me, "What if     she doesn't like you? What if she__________   you?" Feeling vulnerable, I stuffed the__________   under     my shirt. I decided that if she   showed   me_____ of affection, I would give it to her;   if she   was   cool to me, I would leave the card_____ . This     way I would not be _____   and would avoid     rejection or embarrassment.

【推荐3】It was August 2nd, 1927. The news had spread ______ .

A man named Craig Pierce was coming to the city of Bristol. He wanted to make recordings of local people singing and playing musical instruments. And he said he would ____ fifty dollars for each song recorded. That was a huge ____ in those days. Many people came to Bristol that day to ____ for Mr. Pierce. But one group seemed to have just the sound that he was ____.   They were a man named A.P. Carter，his wife Sara，and her cousin Maybelle. They ____ themselves the Carter Family.

Their first recordings were sent to _____ throughout the United States. Many listeners were ___ at what they heard. Instead of classical or jazz songs that radio stations usually played，a new ___ was born.   The Carter Family sounded ____ . They did not sound ____ they had taken music lessons. But it did not matter. The people in poor rural areas thought they sounded just like their ____ .

The Carters sang songs about living in the mountains of Virginia，Tennessee，and North Carolina. They sang about the _____ of a young man for a special girl. They sang about the beauty of nature. They sang about death and sadness. And they sang religious songs that told of the hope for a(an)   ____   life after death.

A.P. Carter sang in the group and also searched for ____ songs. He often traveled long ____ to small towns in the southeastern United States. He wanted to hear the songs that ____ people sang in their communities. He wrote down the words but kept the music in his ____. When he returned home, he helped Sara and Maybelle fit them to the Carter Family musical ____. The Carter Family soon became popular. Within three years, the Carter Family sold 300,000 recordings.

Life is like a stage, on which gold will _____.

【推荐1】“Hurry up, Chris,” my dad said in a low voice. “He’s going to get away. You need to _______him now.” I was pointing my _______ at a duck. It was a(n)_______ day for me. Shooting those ducks would make my father _______, but I just couldn’t. My father _______ fishing and hunting ducks. I thought fishing was boring, _______ Dad hardly ever asked me to go with him. I had gone hunting with Dad before but _______ brought a gun, because I didn’t own one, and his was too big for me. The gun was a present for my birthday. I’d been _______ almost every evening.

I _______ I could hit that duck, but I didn’t want to. I had never ________ killing things, and I hated people who killed animals for no reason at all. I liked ________. I didn’t want to hurt it.

I pointed the gun at the duck. He was trying hard to find food and had to keep a careful eye on his ________ at the same time, and now my dad asked me to kill him so we could have one nice ________. I hated myself for ________ pointing the gun at the duck, but I hated to ________ my father’s feelings too.

“I... I can’t tell which is the duck,” I explained.

“Just try, Chris. I know you can do it,” Dad ________ me.

“Thanks, Dad.” I ________ to myself. “Your words just make it harder for me.” My eyes filled with tears as my brain had made a(n)________— I wouldn’t shoot the duck.

“You really don’t want to shoot him, do you?” Dad quietly cut in on my ________. I was too choked(哽咽的) to say anything. ________, a nod was enough.

【推荐2】Born on the 24th of April 1958, in Wigan UK, Ian William Halliwell, popularly known as “The Social Golfer ,” started playing Golf in 1972, during his early_________years. With high enthusiasm, the Social Golfer has been a_________golf player throughout his life. Dreaming of getting in the Senior Tour, Ian wanted to give it a try when he retires._________, life has other plans.

In 1996, Ian was_________with a brain turnor(肿瘤)on his left side. The fatal disease caused_________on his balance nerve. The talented player had to put a hold on his passion for a while. However, he knew he would come out_________. In 1997, after going through two major surgeries, Ian_________from the deadly illness, getting another chance to continue with his_________.

After_________a life-threatening illness, Ian's life decided to take another turn that__________turned his life over. In 2006, he had a major stroke(中风). The stroke was so critical that it ended with him being seriously__________to the extent that the doctors told him that he might not walk ever again,__________playing Golf.

Upon__________that he had lost the chance of playing the Senior Tour, he was__________. However, the huge setback in Ian's life wasn't__________enough to demotivate(挫败) the high-spirited individual. He was advised to consider__________and tell his story to the world by Bernard Hunt MBE, a former European Ryder Cup Star.

With the optimistic thinking of “A__________is not an inability,” Ian became a part of the British Inclusive Golf. Basing on his own__________, Ian wrote “Living the Dream,” published in 2012.While describing his life as “still living the dream,” Ian is a man of__________. The way he has__________his life is not something many individuals can, which is helping him create a legacy(遗产) for which he will be forever remembered.

【推荐3】At around 10 pm, Jane got off the train at Bell port, New York. She jumped into her Honda Odyssey and began the 20-minute _________ home. She was so _________ with the route that she almost drove automatically all the way. Jane had just crossed the railroad tracks when out of nowhere a truck hit her car, _________ her backward some 100 feet onto the tracks. She was _________ the car, injured but mostly shocked by the _________.

As it happened, Peter, a volunteer firefighter and retired teacher, was getting ready for _________. At the _________ noise of clanging metals and breaking glass coming from not far outside his bedroom window, he, still dressed in his pajamas, ran out of the door.

He first came upon a(n)_________ truck lying 2,000 feet from his front yard. After _________ its driver was OK, Peter looked around and __________ Jane’s car lying across the tracks. And then he heard the bells __________ an oncoming train.

Peter rushed to Jane’s car and__________ the driver’s side window. Jane just looked up at him, here yes __________. “I have no __________ of where I am,” she said.

“You are on the railroad tracks,” Peter yelled. “I have to get you off right now!” He __________ the handle, but the door was jammed. The train was __________. Without a moment of hesitation, Peter ran to the passenger side and __________ open the door. He __________ pulled her across the passenger seat and dragged her to safety behind a signal box a few feet away. Several seconds later, the train crashed into the __________.

Jane recalled the__________ moment. “I can never repay him for this,” she said, “last night the hero arrived in pajamas, not in a fire truck.”