【推荐1】I love traveling and when I am tired with work, I will choose to travel to make myself relaxed. Three years ago, I was rather busy with my business and under a lot of ____ , so I went to Atlanta for a holiday. I just wanted to get away and _____ for a while.

One morning when I was walking around in Atlanta, a(n) _____ suddenly came to me. “Why don't I go to the Greek island of Santorini which I have long wished to pay a visit to?” Therefore, the idea of a two-week European ______ alone was born.

I was confident that I was brave enough to have driven _____ across the US before, but traveling to other _____ whose languages aren't the same as mine ____ me. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to ____ with people there.

But I soon _____ that if 1 wanted to follow my dreams, I had to _____ out of my comfort area. If I let _____ take control of me, I'd get nowhere.

Immediately, I began making plans for my vacation. As 1 ______ for more places to visit on my trip, I found Mykonos, another island in Greece, which I _____ just as much as I liked Santorini. When I arrived in _____ two days later, it was like I was in a dream. What I appreciated best was the bus ride to Venice. As I rode the bus and enjoyed every new thing I saw, I was completely _____ from the pressure of my work. How _____ it was to see people riding their bikes to the _____ they would like to go to!

It's such a wonderful experience that 1 won't forget it forever. Some people might say, "It's not a big _____ : it's just Venice. Thousands of people go there every day,“ But it was more than that to me. It was about having a _____ and when it was time for it to come true, don't be afraid to let it ______ .

【推荐2】Dad loves fishing very much. Fishing is as much a part of Dad’s life as ______. Going fishing with him is a very ______ thing for me and my twin brother. Jumping into a ______ stream on a hot day, sleeping under the bright ______ , fishing with Dad and eating freshly caught fish that has been fried over a ______ seems like the heaven to a couple of 10-year-old boys.

One day, Dad drove us to Cottonwood Stream. An hour after we got there, he ______ some fish. He suggested that we take them back to our camp, ______ we stayed to watch Dad skillfully cast his ______ another time. We sat quietly until Dad’s fishing pole ______ and he began winding the line on. Knowing this could be a very ______ fish, we jumped up and down and ______ for Dad to catch that fish. When he did, Dad’s wide smile lit up his face like the sun. He ______ the hook, but an unexpected thing happened. The huge fish slipped out of Dad’s hands and jumped back into the stream!

We thought Dad would ______ , but he didn’t. Although the sun was dropping ______ the mountains, my father sat down again and waited ______ . At last, the big fish took the bait once more. However, it slipped back into the ______ again as Dad tried to remove the hook. This time, Dad jumped into the stream, ______ for that fish again and again and   ______ caught it, wrapping it in his shirt and walking back to the ______ . Both my brother and I shouted wildly, cheering for his success.

What Dad did that day taught me a good lesson. I learn that we should never give up if we want to ______ something.

【推荐2】Sea turtles are considered a national treasure in Sri Lanka. However, in recent years, the sea turtles have faced great _________.

Growing up on the beach, Chamara Indika, 35, was _________ about it. In the beginning, he _________himself to the protection of sea turtles as a volunteer. He gave his spare time to raise _________ of caring for sea turtles and caried out sea turtle protection and rescue missions.

Later, he decided that this was not a long-term _________ . “One person’s abilities are very _________ and I wanted to make real changes,” said Indika._________, Jack Xiao, the founder of Chinese YIK International Volunteers (YIKIV), reached out to Indika and offered his help to protect sea turtles. With his assistance, Indika set up the Nil Manel Foundation in Sri Lanka.

The organization _________ professional training and guidance for the volunteers, spreads knowledge of turtle and carries out conservation activities. Volunteers can then work to spread their new knowledge to more people.

At first, the volunteers’ main job was to rescue and care for _________ turtles locally. Then they found people and animals eat turtle eggs on the beach. So volunteers started __________ eggs to a protection center with artificial cultivation. It __________ higher survival rates.

Thanks to their efforts, the survival rate of newborn turtles has reached new highs, and conservation awareness has also increased. Many volunteers now __________ to use straws and plastic bags which cause many turtles to die accidentally.

“It made me feel that all my work had __________. But it was not enough to rely on myself and the current volunteers. It would be important to __________ this knowledge down to future generations,” said Indika. With persistence and hard work, Indika firmly believes they will make a(n)__________ to the sea turtles.