【推荐1】I shared one of the lifeboats with the chief engineer, Tom Fenton. I don't _______ the exact circumstances, but the storm continued into the second night. In some _______, we were able to avoid being _______ into the sea. Then as quickly as it had come, the _______ passed. The wind died down and the stormy sea became _______, the clouds drifted away, and the _______ came out in the clear sky above. We didn't know where we were or what would happen to us but it was a marvelous(令人惊异的) feeling, just being _______. At night the little boat _______ in the open sea while Tom and I _______ soundly. We were both exhausted. The next morning, I was ________ by brilliant sunshine. At first the bright sun made it impossible to see, but as my ________ became used to the light, I was able to look around. There was nothing but the deep blue ________ of the Pacific in all directions. The other lifeboats were gone.

________ the danger of the storm was over, I began to ________ our other problems. All our supplies were ________. We had no food, no fresh water, and we were somewhere in the South Pacific, ________ hundreds of miles from land. Perhaps we would drift here in the quiet ________ for weeks. It was a frightening thought. My ________ was still sleeping. I was about to ________ him up when I saw something in the distance. ________ away from the sun towards the west, I thought I saw the blue shape of land in the distance.

【推荐2】15 years spent in the field of education has provided me with treasured moments. One of the most priceless happened when I was teaching second grade, 10 years ago.

In May of the fourth quarter, I decided to _______ something special for the children: A Mother’s Day tea. We put our _______ together to come up with ideas of how to _______ our mothers. We decided to hold our tea the Friday before Mother’s Day. Each child took home an invitation and I was _______ to see that every mother was planning to attend. I even invited my own mother.

Finally the _______ day arrived. At 1:45 that afternoon, each child lined up at our classroom waiting for the _______ of his or her mom. As it got closer to starting time, I looked around and my eyes quickly found Jimmy. His mother hadn’t _______ and he was looking anxious.

I took my _______ by the hand and walked over to Jimmy. “Jimmy,” I said. “I have a bit of problem here and I was wondering if you could _______. I’m going to be really busy. I was wondering if you could keep my mother company while I’m busy.”

My mom and Jimmy sat at a table with two other mother-and-child ________. Jimmy served my mom her treats, presented her with the gifts I had made, and pulled out and pushed in her chair, just as we had practised the day before. ________ I looked over, my mom and Jimmy were in ________ conversation.

Now, 10 years later, I work with students of all ages, educating them about the environment. Last year, I was at a high school to ________ a senior class on a field trip, and there was Jimmy. When Jimmy made sure we were the last two, he said, “Remember our Mother’s Day ________ we had in second grade? Thanks for all you did for me, and thank your mother, too. No one knew my mom didn’t make it!” I ________ my work with a hug from a teenage boy who had probably stopped hugging teachers years ago.

【推荐3】For most people, having things stolen feels like an offence. Robbie Pruitt admitted that he got________when he discovered the theft of his mountain bike last September. But soon enough, his________took a turn. After letting go of his anger and frustration, he found himself on a road to sympathy________.

For Pruitt, a keen bicyclist, the first thing to do was________his stolen bike. But when he went bike shopping, he found few available, which got him thinking: What if the________of bikes was Covid-19 related, and what if the person who'd taken his bike really needed________to get to work?

With that thought in mind, Pruitt came up with a plan and posted it on the community website. He________ to fix bikes free of charge for anyone who needed it. He also asked for unwanted bikes, which he would repair—again for free. And then he would donate them to folks who could truly use them but didn't have the________to buy one.

The day the post went live, Pruitt received thirty________bicycles. Then came more than 500________for detailed information. By the end of 2020, Pruitt had repaired more than 140 for donation or to be returned to their owners.

Pruitt tries to give his donations to families that are truly struggling.________simply satisfying a material need, he has provided an opportunity for kids in his neighborhood to learn how to fix their own bikes.

In addition to________skills, Pruitt's lessons teach teamwork, encourage self-worth, and promote feelings of community. Meanwhile, the kids have gained a sense of accomplishment.

"It's a really great________for kids," said a neighbor in an interview with the local newspaper. "Pruitt is certainly providing a________, but it's not just the bikes. It's the relationships in the community. It's the________he can make on people."

【推荐1】On a day of downpour, an old, wet dog walked to my house. The leather collar around his neck was _________ and faded. I could see the ribs (肋骨) sticking out of his sides and knew he hadn’t had a(n) _________ meal in many days. My heart _________! I ran into my kitchen, _________ an old bowl, filled it with some food and went outside.

The old dog _________ me with alarm. I could see he didn’t completely trust strangers. I called him _________, put the bowl down and _________ a few steps back. I knelt down in the wet grass and _________. Finally, the old boy smelt food and moved slowly forward. His own smell came before him. He hadn’t had a _________ in a long time either. I wondered if he was __________ or just lost. He bent down his head and rapidly ate the contents of the bowl __________. Then for just a moment he gave me a(n) __________ little smile. I hurried inside, refilled the bowl, and went back but he was already gone. I had wanted to __________ him and give him a home. Instead we just shared a meal and a moment of love. I sent up a little __________ that his future would be better.

Every moment of love you create is a __________. But caring doesn’t necessarily go the way we want it to.

【推荐2】Last night my husband and I were walking when we saw a man bent over on the ground, crushing (碾碎) something with a rock. He was so focused on his _________ that he didn’t look up at anyone passing by. We kept noticing him and _________ what he could be doing. I thought he was crushing stones to make sand, but why would he do that?

_________, we decided to go up and ask him. He was crushing pieces of left-over bread that he had _________ to prepare food for the birds that come there early morning. The large pieces of bread would be _________ for the birds to eat so he crushed them into powder. Every _________, after coming home from his job as a tailor, he goes around the villa (乡间别墅), collecting left-over bread from all his housemates. He then eats a quick meal and comes here, and spends the next 1 — 2 hours _________ crushing each piece and makes a neat pile for the birds. He has been doing this for the last 3 — 4 years. What _________ us more was that he was _________ that we were even taking an interest in this, since for him it wasn’t a big __________.

【推荐3】I enjoy feeding birds in my garden. About three years ago, a baby chipmunk (花栗鼠) named Chip came to this festive display. Over that summer, I watched it _________. The next summer, the chipmunk was back, and I wondered whether it would _________ me to feed it by hand or let me pet it. Before Chip would approach, I’d _________ its favourite food, bend down and keep very _________. I’d leave my open hands _________, unmoving, so it would know I wouldn’t _________ it. I continued doing this for a few weeks.

_________, late in that second summer, Chip did show more trust. One day as I _________ a seed with my fingertips, it approached and _________ took the seed into its mouth. It never bit my fingers — Chip and I had made a(n)__________ of trust.

After about two months of this __________, I went further. With my index finger, I __________ its back once gently. I’m not even sure Chip felt it, but it didn’t __________. I then moved my two fingers slowly and gently over it. __________, Chip stayed calm, eating seeds, before running quickly back into the bush.

Today, the chipmunk comes out of hiding when I call its name, and lets me __________ its soft, silky body.

【推荐1】In almost every photo from our 1986 family vacation to Washington D.C.,I am showing off the souvenir I _________ from the gift shop at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo- a cotton sweatshirt with pandas dancing on the _________. I was nine years old, and pandas were cool. Not even midsummer heat could _________me keeping that sweatshirt on throughout the _________ .

Over 30 years later I found myself among a pool of photojournalists and video crews _________ into the panda enclosure(围场). A baby panda named Bei Bei was being _________ to the world, and I was covering it for National Geographic. I asked zoo administrators if I could _________ periodically to document the first year of the panda’s life. They said yes.

Soon I was making _________ stops at the zoo to record the baby’s daily _________. I watched Bei Bei grow from a baby to a __________,energetic youth. He played with the keepers, looking around the corner from one room to the next in his version of hide-and- seek, he’d lunge(猛冲) for my camera, reminding me that he was __________ a bear.

When Bei Bei was a few months old, the zoo held an official opening day for__________ to come and see him.That morning I arrived early, making my way past the line that was __________ forming at the entrance to the enclosure. I __________ with a woman there who’d been making frequent trips to the zoo to see pandas since 1982, panda earring enthusiastically from her ears.“I’ll come every month,”she said, “It’s great to watch the baby panda __________.”

【推荐2】When I first entered university, my aunt, who is an English professor, gave me a new English dictionary and advised me to use it. I was _______ to see that it was an English-English dictionary, also known as a monolingual (单语的) dictionary. Although it was a dictionary intended for non-native learners, none of my classmates had one and, to be honest, I found it extremely _______ to use at first. I would _______ words in the dictionary but still could not fully understand the meanings. I was used to the _______ English-Chinese dictionaries, in which the words are _______ both in English and Chinese. I really wondered why my aunt gave me such _______ to make things so difficult for me. Now, I understand that monolingual dictionaries are_______ in learning a foreign language.

As I _______, there is, in fact, often no perfect equivalent (对应物) between two _______ in two languages. My aunt even ________ that even a Chinese “equivalent” can never give you the ________ meaning of the word in English! Therefore, she insisted that I read the definition of a word in a monolingual dictionary when I wanted to get a better ________ of its meaning. Gradually, I have come to see what she ________.

Using a monolingual dictionary has helped me in another important way. This dictionary uses a(n) ________ number of words, around 2, 000, in its definitions. When I read these definitions, I am ________exposed to the basic words and learn how they are used to explain objects and ideas. Because of this, I can express myself more easily in English.

【推荐3】I have had a laptop computer “disused” at home for a long time. Sometimes I would ________ it stored in a closet, gathering ________.

Recently, I learned that a local nonprofit organization that works in Uganda ________ old computers and gives them new life as learning tools for the ________ of some orphanages （孤儿院） .

I would like to donate my laptop, so I took it to a computer store. It was a young man who ________ me. I asked him to ________ all my personal data, and he told me that it would cost me about ＄24－＄36 and I would have to ________ it and pick it up another day. I thought about it and ________ decided to spend the money.

As we talked, he wondered what I did with this computer because it was so ________. I explained to him my ________ of giving it to a nonprofit organization.

I went back after two days and asked if the job had been ________. The young man prepared the laptop for me, and gave me the ________ bill. I unfolded it and saw that the ________ shown was ＄0.

Since my ________ isn’t great, I asked him if I had already paid for it the first day, but he ________ his head: “No.” I realized that he didn’t intend to ________ me because the computer was for the ________ organization.

I felt _________ by this “little” great act of kindness. I _________ him and noticed that he didn’t want to draw my attention, but he was happy to have ________ a project that will help those children in Uganda.