【推荐1】During my childhood, my father’s favorite sayings was “Try it!” I couldn’t say I didn’t like _______, whatever it might be, _______ I tried it. Over the years I’ve come to realize how much of my success I _______ to my acceptance of those words as one of my _______. My first job was just one I decided to try for a couple of years until I _______ what I want to do as a career. _______ I believed I would work for a few years, get married, stay home and _______ a family, so I didn’t think the job I took _______ that much. I couldn’t have been more _______. I mastered the skills of that beginning level position and I was given the opportunity to ________ through the company into different ________. I accepted each new opportunity with the ________, “Well, I’ll try it; if I don’t like it I can always go back to my ________ position.” But I was with the same company for the past 28 years, and I’ve ________ every career change I’ve made. I’ve discovered I ________ a large number of different talents and skills that I never would have thought were within me had it not been for my being ________ trying new opportunities. I’ve also discovered that if I ________ what I’m doing and work hard at achieving my ________, I will succeed. That’s why I’m so ________ to be a part of CareerFables.com. I think ________ has come and I am determined to make it a success.

【推荐2】Last week I met a homeless man over the phone when I was calling Father Benno’s, a soup kitchen（贫民救济处）. I invited him to have lunch with me at the Soup Plantation   _______ he could eat as much as he wanted to fill his stomach, I felt ________ inside made me invite him to lunch. Since he did not have a ________, I offered to pick him up.

We had a ________ four-hour lunch. I learned a lot about his ________ but more importantly, I left lunch feeling ________ for a roof over my head, warm shower, comfortable bed, and food on the table-all of which we may not ________ twice about. He, too, ________ the connection, his lunch, and a rest from spending his afternoon on the streets.

I learned long ago that one person alone cannot ________ the homeless epidemic（泛滥）in California or the U.S. ________, each person can make an effort to ________ the homeless in their own way. Did you know that 40% of the U.S. population get salary that barely cover the ________ living expenses. Should a ________ emergency or burden occur, any one of those 40% can end up ________ on the streets.

For this holiday season, perhaps you may want to ________ something new to help the homeless. Buy a meal for the person asking for money instead of giving him spare ________. If you can make the time and find courage, invite them to ________ a meal with you. Jesse Jackson once said, “Never look down ________ anybody unless you are helping them up,” and Rumi ________ us, “When we practice loving ________ and sympathy, we are the first one to profit.”

【推荐2】I knew I shouldn’t be drawing in maths class, but just couldn’t ________. Mr. Galvin had such a funny look as he looked over his glasses at Jamie’s unsuccessful ________ to solve the problem on the board. Maybe I ________ call this splendid work of art “Galvin-eyes” or something ________ disrespectful.

I suddenly realized Mr. Galvin was calling my name, “Peter, what is your—________ this problem? “Oh no, Mr. Galvin was ________ in my direction! In desperation, I tried to ________ my book to cover the drawing, but it was too late. “Peter, have you completed problem number seven?”

Even though I hadn’t even started the problem, I replied in my most ________ tone, “Not quite, sir.” When he stopped at the front of the row, it boosted my ________. “I’ll have it done in just a couple of minutes.” Why did I always have to open my big mouth, ________ leaving well-enough alone? Now he was coming directly toward my desk.

Mr. Galvin, in a tone of ________, suggested, “Why don’t you come to the board and show us how ________ you’ve gotten, and perhaps your classmates can ________ you complete the problem?”

As I searched for an answer, Mr. Galvin reached my desk. He lifted my book with the ________ of finding a partially solved maths problem. Instead, he found a ________ of himself, glasses and all, looking at Jamie with a questioning look on his face. At least I hadn’t had ________ to write “Galvin-eyes” or something else underneath it!

“Peter,” asked Mr, Galvin, “just what do you expect to ________ of yourself with this kind of behaviour?” Without thinking how it might be ________, I replied, “A cartoonist.”

Wrong answer! The class gave a(n) ________ round of applause. But, actually, I hadn’t meant to weaken his authority with the class.

I had plenty of opportunity to think of other ________ while waiting in Mr. Galvin’s office after school. But to my surprise, he said softly to me, “To be a cartoonist is cool. But that doesn’t mean you have to give up on maths, right?” “With a smile, he continued, “Well I had to admit this comic image of me is kind of cute, funny though. Keep trying, boy. And who says you can’t be the next Stan Lee?”

【推荐1】Terje Isungset is a Norwegian composer and performer. Recently he has become a _______ in the world of music. While most musicians seek to _______ a cold reception at concerts, Terje Isungset is not _______ about a chilly feeling. He performs with instruments he makes himself out of _______.

A recent performance at London’s Royal Festival Hall _______ a set including ice horns, ice drums and ice chimes, _______ singer Maria Skranes.

He _______ his work as being about more than making music, since he also _______ to display the characteristic of being beautiful and fragile. “I consider it a part of _______ bigger. It’s not me and my project and my self-esteem—it’s the extreme weather, ” he says.

The Norwegian is ________ a background in traditional Scandinavian music and jazz. He’s the ________ of Ice Music Festival in Norway—so people have a chance to enjoy ice music—and plays at about 50 festivals and concerts a year, many in the ________ conditions of Norway, Canada or Russia. ________, at concerts in warmer climates, higher temperatures can ________ difficulties, as spending any more than 50 minutes at room ________ could damage the instruments.

All of the instruments for the London show were made in Norway and shipped over in special ________, highlighting the fact that, when it comes to ________ ice instruments, not any water will do. “If ice is from polluted water, it doesn’t ________ that good. If it’s from tap water it doesn’t work because there are some ________ in it,” he says. “The best ice is from the north of Sweden. I’m really ________ to that ice.”

6.

A．accompanying

B．performing

C．appreciating

D．introducing

【推荐3】Laughter is so familiar to every one of us. There is an English saying that _________, “He who laughs last laughs the hardest.” High School Musical star Zac Efron is laughing a lot these days.

_________ a young boy, Efron was picked on in school because he was always the smallest in his class and _________ because he had a big space between his teeth. In sixth grade, Efron’s basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime(两个加时赛), with three seconds left, he rebounded the ball and passed it-- to the _________ team! They scored and his team lost the game.

But history, as they say, is a thing of the _________. Now at 21, Efron is one of People Magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People, graces the cover of Entertainment Weekly, Hollywood’s most _________ magazine, and is traveling the world _________ the third High School Musical film. Director Adam Shankman _________ Efron as “ the biggest teen star in America right now.” Simply google “Zac Efron” and you get more than 14 million_________. Yes, it seems Efron has a lot to smile about these days.

Efron was born and __________ in California. He took school __________. According to Efron, “I would get crazy if I got a B and not an A in school.” It was his father who encouraged him to act. He took part in school __________ and acted in a local theater group. He also__________ singing lessons. He graduated from high school in 2006 and was __________ to the University of Southern California to study film. But he put it off--why study movies __________ you can star in them?

Now Efron is also earning more than $3 million for his __________ in High School Musical 3. Not bad for a 21-year-old. But Efron __________ remembers those bullies(欺人者). “You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they __________.” Efron said. “Also, when you get made fun of, when people point you’re your __________, it’s an opportunity for you to rise above.”

Efron has risen all the way to the top of the movie business. And he can now __________ all the way to the bank.