【推荐1】I was told there is a country where the local custom is that if you go to a house and praise some small possession, the owners will feel obliged to offer it to you as a gift. The only other place I ______ of with such a ______ is my mother’s apartment. Knowing Mama, I have always been careful with my ______. If she catches me staring at anything ______ enough to put in my handbag, she ______ it to me as I leave.

Being with Mama is like watching a/an ______ movie. I never know what’s going to happen next. Being with Mama, there is no problem that will not be a little bit ______ by the coming of spring.

At one time or another, Mama had several dozen people in the neighborhood waiting for spring to relieve them of ______. She was hugging George Washington who ______ the game, saying “When spring comes, maybe you’ll win the ______.” She was looking over Thomas’s shoulder, ______ him in his early failures and saying “Don’t worry! Maybe in the spring you’ll try something new ______.”

I have been ______ what to give my mother for Mother’s Day for weeks. Mother’s Day represents an annual ______ to do the impossible. It is difficult to ______ a gift that will make neither Mama nor me feel terrible. ______ gifts which Mama defines as costing over $1.98 are out, because they make Mama feel ______. Cheap presents under $1.98 can ______Mama, but they make me feel terrible. This year, finally, I think I have found a/an ______ gift for Mama. I am going to publish a magazine article in which I wish her “Happy Mother’s Day” and tell her there’s nothing I could ever buy and find to express my deeply ______ to her.

【推荐3】The sweetest memory of my childhood is about a round table. When I was still little, my _______ family would get together on different traditional festivals to _______ dinner. We kids would be sitting around or playing hide-and-seek under the table _______ the grown-ups were having a chat.

When I got a bit _______ , my aunt brought back her boyfriend and my grandma cheerfully _______ another seat to the round table. It seemed a little more _______ , but we all felt much closer to each other. When I was twelve, my grandpa _______ . That made us feel _______ . However, when the whole family got together once again, we totally _______ that his chair, his bowl and his chopsticks should __________ the same. Even though his seat was __________ , we felt like that he had never left us.

We all have a table like this in our __________ . It is a sign of reunion of our family __________ our feelings. Although the __________ why we come together may be different, the feelings behind it are the __________ . Usually different cultures are __________ by us around the table. What’s more, we __________ the love not only for our family, but also for a company, our __________ and even the whole world.

The history of our nation has been the stories of looking for or running to the round table which we belong to. The round table has been a __________ of the Chinese feelings. It was, it is and will __________ be.

【推荐1】I never see myself as a miracle. I was just an_________person with realistic goals and big dreams. I was a 19-year-old student at the university of Texas and well on my way to fulfilling my big dream of becoming an surgeon.

On February 17, 1981, a_________car accident happened to me and after the four hours of operation, I_________. I still could not talk, my entire right side was paralyzed but_________I was stable. After two weeks I improved enough to be_________to a rehabilitation(康复) hospital.

It took me a lot of hard work but I_________returned to the university of Texas in 1983—a year and a half after almost_________. The next few years were very_________for me, but I truly believe that in order to see_________in life you have to experience something bad. Maybe I have experienced too much, but I believe in living each day to the fullest, and doing the very__________I can. And each new day was__________and very full, for__________attending classes at the university I__________ therapy(理疗) three to five days each week at Brackenridge hospital.

Early, during my therapy, my father__________repeating to me one of his favorite sayings. I have repeated it almost everyday after being hurt: “Mile by mile it’s a（n）__________; yard by yard it’s hard; but inch by inch it’s a cinch(容易的事).

I thought of those__________, and I thought of my family who__________believed in me as I climbed the steps to receive my__________from the dean of Liberal Arts at the university of Texas on the graduation ceremony in June of 1986. Excitement and__________filled my heart as I heard the dear announce that I graduated with “highest honors”, and was chosen as one of the most outstanding__________ in the college of Liberal Arts.

【推荐3】First the sky darkened. Then came the ______—for three straight days.

Inside her ______in Zhengzhou, the capital city of central Henan province. Wang Ana ______the doors with sand bags in an effort to stop water from sweeping in. When it didn’t work, she shouldered her son and ______made it home through the chest-deep floodwater.

But those ______inside the mile- long Jingguang traffic tunnel（隧道）, which was just a few hundred feet north of Wang’s restaurant, were less ______. Nearly 200 cars inside became stuck in several feet of water. At least two passengers never made it out.

“I felt incredibly ______, ” Wu Qiang. a driver who was briefly stuck in the tunnel, told Chinese media later. He and two other passengers ______by climbing through their vehicles’ roofs and ______the pipes fixed to the ceiling of the tunnel.

Thirteen people were also killed in a rain-filled subway line. Some passengers ______desperate goodbye videos for their loved ones while they stood in chest-high water inside the subway cars waiting for rescuers.

Rescuers, near and far, were rushing to help even when the storm was still pounding the city. ______the news on TV from his home in Xi’an, a city about 300 miles away, Wu Chao ______loaded his car with rescue equipment. By the next morning, he joined the massive rescue operation led by both the military as well as volunteers to bring the people to temporary rescue centers and send much-needed food and water to the ______communities.

“The water was so deep in some places that it was impossible for machinery to ______them, so some of us jumped into the flood without a second ______, ” he said.