【推荐1】Amy Taylor had weathered some tough years. Her husband suffered a lot from kidney failure and in 2020, the poor mother ________ her job in the economic depression.

During the spring break, her 14-year old daughter, Emily Moore, took a part-time job, and ________ minimum wage. But before she could spend the money, Emily had an idea. The news in Kansas City that week had been filled with stories about a police officer, Jimmy Moss, who was badly hurt in a car accident in the line of duly He was in ________ condition. Emily and her unemployed mother had never forgotten how ________ the police had been when Taylor was robbed in the street one day. Emily decided to ________ the money to Officer Moss’s family. Her mom ________ agreed.

Taylor called the police and made an anonymous (匿名的) donation. Moved by her ________ expression of thanks, the officers did what they do best— they ________ Taylor. When she explained the family’s ________, the officers could hardly believe it. “With her current financial ________, we encouraged her to keep the money,” the department later explained. “She ________, saying the officer’s family needed it and the police needed to know they were ________.”

By then, that feeling of support was mutual. The police set up a GoFundMe page for Taylor, whom they named “The Woman with the Heart of Gold.” As of January 11, 2023, they had ________ $165,405. Even better: Officer Moss, who had a 1 percent chance of ________, is out of the hospital and ________.

【推荐2】Michel is a young girl who works for the police ____ a handwriting expert (专家). She has helped ____ many criminals (罪犯) by using her special talents (天才).

When she was fourteen, Michel was already ____ interested in the differences in her friends' ____ that she would spend hours ____ them. After ____ college she went to France for a ____ two-year class in handwriting at the School of Police Science.

Michel says that it is ____ for people to hide their handwriting. She can discover ____ of what she needs to know simply ____ looking at the writing with her own eyes, ____ she also has machines ____ help her make ____ different kinds of paper and ink. This knowledge is often ____ great help to the police.

Michel believes that handwriting is a good ____ of what kind of person the ____ is. "I wouldn't go out with a fellow ____ I didn't like his handwriting. " She says. But she ____she fell in love with her future husband, a young policeman ____ she studied his handwriting. It is later proved to be ____ , however.

【推荐2】I will never forget the two impressive things that happened last winter. One of my classmates and I were _______ our project work late one night on my university’s campus far from home. Since there was _______ in the forecast, I had worn a winter _______ to school that day with a raincoat in my bag.

Throughout our work on the project, I could _______ that my friend was tired from a very long day working. As we stepped outside to begin the _______ walk home hand in hand, I _______ she was trembling(颤抖).The temperature（温度） had dropped to the low thirties(Fahrenheit华氏温度的)and she _______ had a sweater on.I _______ offered her my warm jacket.She accepted it and asked what I _______ wear then.I told her I had another one and pretended that my ________ was a jacket.She said later that she ________ the next morning and the first thing on her mind was feeling moved about my ________ of the jacket.

Coincidentally (碰巧),the next day I went to an open-air play and I was cold ________ I didn’t expect it to be so ________.A person who I hardly ________ insisted that I wear his jacket. I was ________ touched by this warm gesture. He was so matter-of-fact(不带感情的)about me ________ his coat, too. He simply took it off and handed it to me saying that I should ________ it. I used to think that this vast universe was a cold ________.It turns out that even when the temperature drops low, the people never ________ to warm each other’s hearts.

【推荐3】Expect the unexpected

“Nothing is ever easy!” A couple of days ago, my grandfather was explaining his favorite expression. The following day, as I completed my work, I ______ a bee on the skylight. Though the skylight was particularly high, I thought ______ the bee would take only five minutes. An hour later, the bee still remained. What had changed was that the room was messy and that I was ______ from looking up into the sunlight. I didn’t expect to waste an hour on such a tiny insect, but by doing so, I understood what my grandfather meant.

It is not only time we tend to underestimate-we don’t account for unexpected costs. We often imagine what work in our ______, but seldom consider negative things that could ______ us. However, it is important to remember that things might not go as ______, which is normal. It is ______ acceptable to feel challenged—even a simple task, because that is part of life.

If you accept that, life might seem more ______. In middle school, I thought high school might be easier because I could choose the ______ I wanted to take. In high school, I thought college might be easier because I would have a ______ suited for myself. Yet each time, I was wrong and ______. After accepting school wouldn’t be easy, I found myself with a more ______ attitude.

Certainly, there should be preparations to take costs and time into consideration. It can help you ______ your goals in a better way. However there is no ______ to blame ourselves when something stands in our path. Maybe we cannot see a bee coming our way, but we can give ourselves the ______ time to catch it.

【推荐1】“Dad，look！” I yelled，pointing to the middle of the crossroads. There，with_______running just inches away，sat the summer’s 13th box turtle.

My dad，a biologist，quickly _______ our truck on the side of the road and got out. He held out his hands to _______ traffic. Then he walked into the street and _______ the turtle.

“Another turtle safe and sound. ”I sighed with_______.

I grew up in a section of Florida where tearing－down houses and shopping malls drove thousands of reptiles out of their_______. Many of them_______on the grass and busy highways. People would want to_______them，but not knowing where else to go，they would_______them to my dad. So far that summer，people had brought us 12 box turtles. We called them “BT’s.”

Among all the BT’s，I thought BT 13 was the________one.

“It’s a miracle (奇迹) that it didn’t get run over，” said my dad.

When we got home，I carried Number 13 to a chicken－wire pen(围栏) in the backyard where we________kept animals we found. Box turtles eat almost________，and we fed Number 13 cooked hamburger, vegetables, and even earthworms.

We didn’t want to keep Number 13 as a________. Like all the animals people________to us，Number 13 belonged in the________. When my dad thought the turtle was________，we took it to a place close to where we’d found it—one that was safe from________.

After a________look at the beautiful creature in my hands，I set it down. “________，Number 13，” I said.

The turtle stared at me for a while. Then it walked straight into the forest. I was sorry to see it ________. But I felt sure that Number 13’s luck would last.

【推荐2】For many young Canadians, planting trees is more than just a job. It's a way of _________— and it could be catching on, thanks to a popular _________ by Leslie. While working for a logging company, the 29-year-old filmed herself using the _________ method that allowed her to plant 4,545 trees in a single day. She said that the work is truly _________.

Planting trees is not easy work, according to Leslie. Not only is it _________ tiring, but it also exposes laborers to the bad weather. "It could start the day off _________ and then minutes later, it will just be raining or snowing. You never know what to _________," she described. "There were some days that we were planting through a heat _________, so we had like 37-to-40-degree weather for several days straight and that was really _________."

So far, Leslie has planted a total of 372,290 trees in the past few years.__________, she's still nowhere near beating the Guinness World record. That honor __________ Kenny Chaplin, who once planted 15,170 trees in 19 hours. After 35 years on the job, he says he'd __________ it to anyone.

"I think every parent in Canada should __________ their kid out tree planting because it will turn them into a worker," he __________. "They'll learn how to work, they'll have __________ and they'll have money in their pockets."