【推荐1】Alice is a student who came to my class last year. Though she has already turned 60, Alice looks so fit and______with a bright smile and an enthusiastic attitude. I am Alice’s teacher in class, but I feel she is my teacher in life.

For my 2-hour class every Saturday morning, Alice has to take a 3-hour round-trip on the road. But she is never ______for class. Alice is very passionate about learning English. She often says, “Don’t ______ me as a 60-year-old. I am just a new beginner who wants to learn anything ______ . You know, I am very excited to come to the class!” So I feel a strong sense of______ to make sure what I teach makes sense to her.

Alice came to me with very______ English skills, but she turns out to be a very fast learner because she always puts English______ on a daily basis. I______ her homework before every class. Her homework is usually not what I ______ for the class, rather it is something that she______ to put together. She makes various sentences using the important words and phrases she learned from our______ class. I am always______ by the quality of her work.

I feel fortunate to have a student like Alice. She has______ me so much. Our______ is a great learning experience for both of us. Though I have no idea why she learns English, I hope I can help her ______ her dream, whatever it is.

【推荐2】A man was employed to paint a boat. He brought paint and brushes and began to paint the boat as the owner wanted. While painting, he ________ there was a hole in the body of the boat and decided to________it. When he finished painting, he received his ________and left.

The next day, the owner of the boat visited the painter and ________him with a cheque（支票）, much higher than what he was paid for the painting work. The painter was ________ .

"You've already paid me for painting the boat, sir!" he said.

"This is not for the paint job. It's for repairing the________ in the boat."

"Ah! But it was such a small service." The man said, "Certainly it's not worth paying me such a high amount for something so ________ !"

"My dear friend, "the owner said, "You don't understand. Let me tell you________happened. When I asked you to paint the boat, I forgot to mention the hole. When the boat dried, my kids took it and________a fishing trip. They did not know that there was a hole there.

“I was not at home at the time. So when I ________and noticed they had taken the boat, I was________. Imagine my________ and joy when I saw them returning safely from fishing.

Then, I examined the boat and found that you had repaired the hole! You now see what you did? You ________the life of my children!"

Each of us has a moral duty to offer help, wipe tears, listen carefully and repair all the "holes" we ________ in our life journey, because a small act will make a big ________in the future.

【推荐3】We were five minutes into the worst disorder. That was the worst experience — approaching Boston Airport in a severe winter _______. I turned to the woman next to me and said, ''Hey, would you mind _______ with me for a few minutes? I'm really nervous."

''Sure. My name is Sue；the woman replied, _______ warmly. ''What brings you to Boston? '' I started to explain that I was on a business trip. Then the plane shook violently, and _______ slipped of my tongue. ''I might need to hold your hand too.'' Sue took my hand in both of hers, _______ it, and held tight. When Sue took my hand on that scary flight to Boston, I almost wept with relief. She was so calm, effective, and _______ —''Yep, this is a little bumpy(颠簸的), but we'll be on the ground safely soon,'' she told me — that I asked her what she did for a living. ''I'm a retired physical education teacher, and I _______   women's volleyball, '' she said. _______, I could see what an awesome coach she must have been.

Sue and I talked about our families, our vacations, our love of the ocean until the plane finally _______. Then the businessman sitting on the other side of her, who'd been silent the entire ________, remarked that he'd ________ our conversation. ''It ________ me and I was not scared any more.'' he said.

When we said goodbye, I gave Sue a big ________ and my card. A few days later, I received a/an ________with the subject line "Broken Hand on Jet Blue."

''I have to admit that I was just as ________ as you were but did not say it,'' Sue wrote. ''I just ________ your hand as hard as I could. Thank you for helping me through this very scary ________'' She added that when she'd told her friends about our conversation, they ________ her because they knew she loved to talk.

I told my friends about Sue too. I explained how kind she was to me, and what I learned: It's OK to ask for help from a________ if you need it. Now if I mention to my friends that I am ________ or worried, they respond, ''Just think of Sue''

【推荐2】My father always told me: “All work is noble.” He wasn’t _______, but he earned a reasonable living. Thanks to his effort, I was able to go to an art college. I, however, wanted to do something _______, something more interesting. I was special!

After graduation, I moved to New York in search of a graphic designer job. It was winter and, ever the optimist, I only brought enough money to _______ myself for about a month. I wasn’t _______ -I was sure I’d find a fantastic job immediately.

Within a few weeks, though, I found myself wandering around the streets having been _______ by every design office in town. My hotel _______ was almost gone and I hadn’t eaten in days. “How had I reached this point?” I wondered as I trembled in my thin jacket.

I was just about to _______ when my dad called. He suggested that I get a job in a restaurant until something else came along. At first, pride made me _______. But I was cold, hungry, and unwilling to go home feeling _______ and defeated.

I entered an expensive-looking cafe near one of the design offices that had turned me away and asked the manager if they were __________. She said they were shorthanded, and offered me a job right away.

__________, I found that I really enjoyed serving people. I started making big __________ right away. Later, the manager learned that I had a design __________ and asked me to design the cafe menus. That led to a part-time job at an advertising company.

Previously, I had never considered being a __________but there I was. I eventually got my dream design job, but that winter I learned not to make __________ about work.

【推荐3】In the early spring of 1974, the now world-famous photographer Stephen Wilkes was a 16- year-old reporter and cameraman for his high school’s television station. His best friend was also a reporter for the _______, and together they came up with the wild idea of_______some of the great news broadcasters and journalists of the age. So they wrote personalized, hand-written letters to dozens of them.

Nobody _______but perhaps the greatest news broadcaster and journalist of them all: Walter Cronkite, who generously offered to spend a full _______ with the boys. Stephen and his friend understood that this would be the most _______reporting event of their lives, so they prepared_______for it.

They_______dozens of thoughtfully well-prepared questions and practiced the questions over and over again. When the day of the interview _______, they were ready. They sat with Mr. Cronkite and asked him one question after another, carefully_______each question on their notepad. And Mr. Cronkite was unbelievably__________ with his answers for the entire hour.

Then, as they were__________ things up, he said, “Boy, I’d like to ask you both an important question; Do you know what makes a __________interview?”

Stephen and his friend were caught off-guard, so they quickly began searching __________their notepad, which didn’t provide an obvious __________. Mr. Cronkite smiled and quickly rescued them, __________. “Being a good listener, boys. That’s what truly makes a great interview. Being a good __________will always lead you to the next best question.”

The boys looked up at the legendary broadcaster and suddenly __________ they had spent their whole hour robotically __________one scripted(照本宣科的) question after another meaninglessly, but not truly listening or __________to a single answer. And if they had listened, they could have allowed Mr. Cronkite’s answers to guide their question, and guide them to a far more __________ hour together.

【推荐2】It was a summer evening almost 50 years ago. I was rocking my baby boy in my arms and when he fell asleep I put him_______down into his crib for the night. My wife,_______from a long day of work, was half napping and half watching TV in the living room. Not caring for the_______, I poured myself a glass of iced tea in the kitchen, took a lawn_______off our porch(门廊) and walked into the front yard to_______the stars.

As soon as I stepped onto the_______, I heard the sweet sound of_______floated through the air. On the hill next to our house, the neighbor’s children were_______fireflies(萤火虫), hoping to catch one in a jar. I sat down in my chair and_______them for a while. They ran very fast,________, they couldn’t seem to catch the slow moving lighting bugs.________, exhausted they both sat down in the grass and________watched the little guys flying through the air, blinking their lights on and off. I________my tea and joined them in their________. It felt so good getting to see one of many miracles lighting up my front yard on a________night. It made me feel a part of something far greater than myself.

Over the years since then, I have appreciated and________all of the glorious light in this world. I have taken it into my heart and welcomed it into my soul. I have found it in nature, books, music, animals, prayer, and most of all in the lives of those around me. I have never tried to catch this________, however. I have learned that true light and true love must come from________. It must flow freely between us and can’t be________in a jar. The next time you see some fireflies then, take a seat and enjoy their light. Let them remind you to shine your own light as well. Let them remind you that you, too, are one of________in this world.

【推荐3】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 ______ .