【推荐1】Suffering the bone-weakening disease, Gary Rosheisen was a wheelchair-bound man living alone.His house felt_________and he brought home Tommy, an orange cat that soon became his best_________.

Because of his significant___________problem including seizures（疾病的突然发作）, Gary always kept the___________in the living room on the floor, and it had a speed-dial button_________to call 911. Gary trained Tommy in how to_________that button whenever he felt better___________there were any emergencies.

Then one day, while in his bedroom, Gary had a seizure which_________him to fall out of his wheelchair and onto the floor. Once the seizure_________, Gary soon realized he was unable to       _____. What made him feel terrible was that he__________to put his cell phone on the bed. So he lay there,__________and desperate.

Meanwhile, the police received a call from Gary's     _______. No one said anything. The line was__________，and then disconnected. And the dispatcher（ 调度员）__________, hoping to get an answer. When the phone just rang and rang, police were sent to______________.

Officer Patrick Daugherty entered the home and found Gary and his__________cat, Tommy. Tommy was lying next to the phone, while Gary was_________on the floor in his bedroom， And so, the only_________was that Tommy's training had been far more_________than Gary thought.

Thanks to the call made to the police! Both he and the police considered Tommy a hero.

【推荐2】One sunny afternoon as I sat on my back porch, I noticed my loyal golden retriever (寻回犬) Louie playing in the yard._________, he charged at the chicken cage, barking nervously.

_________, I walked over to see what was going on. As I _________ the cage I saw a small snake slithering (爬行) along the ground. Louie was barking and _________ the snake around the cage, determined to protect his feathered friends. I watched in amazement as Louie zigzagged (之字形前移) around the yard, knocking over flowerpots in his _________. The snake, frightened by Louie’s sudden _________ slithered away as fast as it could. But Louie wasn’t about to let it get away. He continued his chase, determined to _________ the snake out of the yard.

The chase went on for what felt like ages, with Louie and the snake moving quickly around the yard. Finally, Louie managed to _________ the snake near the garden shed. With a _________ bark, he threw himself at the snake to grab it in his jaws — but __________ and ended up falling into a pile of leaves. The snake, sensing its __________ , slipped away into the underbrush. Louie emerged from the __________, looking a bit dizzy but still determined to protect the chickens. He __________ next to the cage, keeping a watchful eye on the area __________ the snake came back. The chickens seemed to sense Louie’s bravery, and they peered out at him, clucking (咯咯叫) their __________.

And that’s how Louie became a hero in our yard.

【推荐3】We have all heard of giant pandas, and know that they are endangered. When one bears babies, it makes national ________ news, and the pictures of the panda babies are ________ circulated. But it now seems that the giant panda is not________ of itself.

The lovely animals have ________ a classic test of self-awareness. They cannot ________ themselves in the mirror. Researchers use the mirror recognition test to ________ whether children or animals have a ________ of self-awareness.

In the test, an animal is presented ________ a mirror. Researchers then watch to see ________ it notices a mark on its face,which is only ________ in the mirror. If the animal notices the mark, it often ________ it. Human children often pass the test when they are only two years old.

Many other animals have passed the mirror test, including monkeys, Asian elephants and even pigeons. But when researchers tested pandas, ________ of them did the same thing as those animals did. ________, each panda behaved as if its ________ in the mirror were another panda altogether. They acted as if they were ________ by what they saw in the mirror, scratching their feet and walking _________

The ________ of this research will help design better areas for animals in captivity(圈养) . For example, one-directional glass sometimes used in the areas may ________ pandas to feel stressed when they see their own images in the ________. That’s because they might believe it to be another panda, ________ themselves.

【推荐1】Once upon a time，there was a very big fish named Bob. Bob was already the ______ fish in the pond，but he wanted to be the biggest fish in the world.

One day，he was out catching ______ for dinner. He ______ to catch a very big fly. Before he could swallow it through，the big fly ______ for his life. The fly promised Bob a magic wish if he would ______ his life.

At first，Bob was very ______ about giving up the largest fly he had seen. He was hungry.______ more than anything else on this planet，he wanted to be huge.

______ he decided to take the magic wish. The fly looked at him and said，“______ your wish，fish！”

“I want to be huge，really，really huge. I want to be bigger than any ______ that ever lived，” Bob said to the fly.

“That’s really ______，” the fly said to him.

Bob looked at the fly and said，“No，I’m smart！Aren’t you going to give me the ______？”

“I will keep my promise，”the fly said，and with that Bob started to ______. He grew and grew until he was so large that he ______ live in the pond any more. Bob ______ for water，but he was beached，and after a while he died.

The people fishing in their ______，the people standing on the banks of the ______，and the people who had stopped their cars on the highway，all ______ in surprise at this big stupid fish that was ______ on the side of the pond.

Everybody had a wonderful time ______ Bob，who was of course eaten.

【推荐3】"Deep reading"—as opposed to the often superficial reading we do on the Web—is an endangered practice, one we ought to take steps to preserve as we would a historic building or a significant work of art. Its________would jeopardize（危及）the intellectual and emotional development of generations growing up online, as well as the perpetuation of a critical part of our________: the novels, poems and other kinds of literature that can be________only by readers whose brains, quite literally, have been trained to apprehend them.

Recent research in cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience has demonstrated that deep reading—slow, immersive, rich in sensory detail and emotional and moral complexity—is a distinctive experience, different in kind from the mere decoding of words. Although deep reading does not, strictly speaking,________a conventional book, the built-in limits of the printed page are uniquely conducive to the deep reading experience. A book's lack of hyperlinks, for example,________the reader from making decisions—Should I click on this link or not?—allowing her to remain fully immersed（使沉浸于）in the narrative.

That immersion is supported by the way the brain handles language rich in detail, allusion and metaphor: by creating a mental representation that draws on the same brain regions that would be________if the scene were unfolding in real life. The emotional situations and moral dilemmas that are the stuff of literature are also________exercise for the brain, propelling us inside the heads of________characters and even, studies suggest, increasing our real-life capacity for empathy（认同）.

None of this is likely to happen when we're________through website. Although we call the activity by the same name, the deep reading of books and the________-driven reading we do on the Web are very different, both in the ________they produce and in the capacities they develop. A growing body of evidence suggests that online reading may be less________and less satisfying, even for the "digital________" for whom it is so familiar. Last month, for example, Britain's National Literacy Trust________the results of a study of 34,910 young people aged 8 to 16. Researchers reported that 39% of children and teens read daily using electronic devices, but only 28% read________materials every day. Those who read only on screen were three times less likely to say they enjoy reading very much and a third less likely to have a favorite book. The study also found that young people who read daily only on screen were nearly two times less likely to be above-average readers than those who read daily in print or both in print and on screen.

【推荐2】Around the world more and more people are _________ dangerous sports and activities. Of course there have always been people who have _________ adventures—those who have climbed the highest mountains, explored unknown parts of the world or _________ in small boats across the greatest oceans. Now, however, there are people who look for an immediate pleasure from a (n) _________ activity which may only last a few minutes or even seconds.

I would consider bungee jumping (蹦极) to be a good example of such an activity. You _________ from a high place about 200 meters above the ground with an elastic (有弹力的) rope _________ to your ankles. You fall at up to 150 kilometers an hour until the rope stops you from _________ the ground. It is said that 2 million people around the world have now tried bungee jumping. Other activities, _________ most people would say are as dangerous as bungee jumping, include jumping from tall buildings and _________ into the sea from the top of high rocks.

Why do people take part in such activities as these? Some psychologists (心理学家) suggest that it is because life in __________ societies has become safe and boring. Not very long ago, people's lives were constantly under __________ . They had to go out and hunt for __________ , and life was a continuous battle for survival.

Nowadays, according to many people, life offers __________ excitement. They live and work in relatively safe condition; they buy food in shops; and there are doctors and hospitals to __________ them if they become ill. The answer for some of these people is to __________ danger in activities such as bungee jumping.

【推荐3】Anger may feel uncomfortable, but it’s also normal and healthy. “A lot of people think they have to _______ their anger,” says Patrick Keelan, a registered psychologist in Calgary, Canada. “But anger is an emotion built into us to signal that _______ needs to be addressed.” When we take notice of that signal and actually correct the problem _______ ignoring it, we’re usually much _______ for it.

Unfortunately, many of us have been conditioned to keep our emotions _______. Increasingly, research is suggesting that this can have long-term _______ on our health. Investigators noticed that people who prevent their emotions tend to have _______ life spans. They’re more likely to die earlier from cancer, _______.

Is it better, then, to scream and yell _______ something makes you very angry? That’s the reason behind the “rage rooms” that have ________ in many cities, where folks are invited to express their ________ by violently smashing stuff in a “safe” environment.

“The theory is that you get the anger out of your system ________ aggressive actions, and it’s cathartic(宣泄情绪的),” says Keelan.

“But the research indicates that when we display our anger aggressively, it can ________ increase the intensity of the anger—________ increase the probability of aggressive actions in the fixture.’’ It doesn’t take much imagination to predict how a furious rampage(暴怒) can affect your ________ with your spouse, your kids or your co-workers.