【推荐1】For most, getting a car opens up a new world of freedom and allows you to go wherever you want. Getting a car did _______ these for me, and it also made my best friend and me _______. But then it tore us apart(分开).

My best friend lives three minutes’ drive from my _______. Since her _______ is in late summer, seven months behind mine, and she can't drive, I seemed to become her _______ when I turned 18 in December. And so I _______ her up for school and took her home. We made _______, shopping or watching the movies-all in my car. I would drive to her house just to sit on her bed, read magazines and have a good laugh. I went to her house so _______ that she gave me a key _______ her house.

A week after I began to drive, she was with me when I had my first accident. She was there and comforted me and we kept it a __________, since I didn't want people to __________.

High school is a time of change, but I couldn't understand for a long time __________ we became so distant. Finally, my friend got her dream car. With its __________, the passenger seat of my car became __________. Our car trips became less frequent __________ I didn't even drive down her street.

【推荐3】It’s “BABY DAY” at die Chartwell Riverpark seniors1 residence（住所）in Ottawa. Eulah Johnson, 90, never   _________ the twice-monthly event.

Today, Johnson sits on a sofa and smiles at a baby sitting on the seat of her walker. After a few moments, the girl _________ to play with the dozen or so other small children _________ together with 20 of Johnson’s fellow residents. As the _________ eat snacks and drink tea or coffee, their young guests crawl（爬行）around, draw in colouring books, bat balloons back and forth or sleep in the arms of _________ residents.

Babies Who Volunteer, bringing these _________ together, is the inspired idea of Jessica Turner. During a（n） _________ with her baby daughter Amelia to a friend’s mother, who was living in a long-term-care center, people gathered around Amelia, _________ to play with her. She was most _________ by the response of her friend’s mother: she hadn’t spoken in two years, but with Amelia in her lap, she __________ singing.

Turner went home and immediately put out a __________ on a moms’ Facebook group: would anyone be interested in__________seniors’ residences with their babies? One hundred women __________ said yes. A year later, there are now 1,500 volunteers.

Everyone benefits from inter-generational programmers. This playgroup is __________ for the mothers too. They’ re giving something to the community which provides a __________ of purpose and belonging. It can really __________ someone who is feeling alone.

Local __________ is growing: the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation, __________. has donated $25,000. With the help of charitable donations, Turner hopes to __________ programming from baby visits to having school kids communicating with __________ pen friends, and seniors teaching kids how to bake.

【推荐1】The train had been long delayed. Running out of _________, Andy put down his book and looked out. He found the _________ at once: it was raining hard.

He lay down and fell asleep but was soon woken up by a woman. She handed him his bag and _________ that it had slipped to the floor. He gratefully took it back and opened it, _________ to see his mother’s scarf and some sandwiches inside.

Andy’s thoughts drifted (飘) to when he was _________. His mother had insisted on putting her scarf in. “If it rains, it may get cold.” He remembered feeling _________ and had taken it out. But it was still here.

Suddenly Andy realized he was burning with _________. Feeling helpless, he called his mum. “Take a _________ I have put in medicine, just _________” she suggested. Touched by his mother’s __________ he took the medicine and soon fell deep asleep in the __________ of the scarf.

Andy woke up later feeling much better. Then he __________ the woman, who’d helped him earlier, __________ holding a baby in her arms, both shaking. Their clothes did little against the cold wind.

Without thinking twice, Andy wrapped his mother’s scarf around the baby. To his __________, the child soon fell asleep in the love of not one, but two __________.

【推荐2】Last year I went on holiday to Spain. But unfortunately, after two days in Madrid, I started to get severe _________ pain. I was in such suffering that I went to the local hospital for a(n) _________.

No sooner had I arrived than I was _________ to a small room, and I had not been waiting too long _________ a surgeon (外科医生) came to examine me. He didn’t speak English and I only spoke a few words of Spanish. He_________ that I had to remove my clothes and he gave me one of those funny hospital gowns (罩衣) which hardly_________ anything.

He then asked me in Spanish if I was embarrassed. “Si, unpoco (Yes, a little)”, I replied with my face turning red. You see, not only did I feel embarrassed at taking off my clothes in front of a stranger but also this _________ stranger was an extremely handsome man. He looked at me as though I was out of my _________ and then he quickly _________ down the passage.

I was beginning to __________ what had happened to him when he suddenly reappeared, this time with a group of __________ students, and again asked the same question in Spanish. Now I was feeling upset, and shouted in English, “Yes, I’m extremely embarrassed. I think you would mind too if you had to talk to a crowd of strangers with almost no clothes on.” Then a female doctor in the group held my arm gently and __________ in perfect English, “I think I see the problem. My colleague (同事) wants to take a photograph of your back — an X-ray — so he wants to know if you are __________ a baby. You see, embarazada means pregnant in Spanish.”

No sooner had she told me this than I realized the __________ of the misunderstanding. We all had a laugh. I must __________ that I felt rather stupid, though.