【推荐1】Tim, my seven-year-old son, is learning to play the drums. It is an___ that has always caught his attentipn ___he hears them played. Before I____his first lessons, drums were all he wanted. At the age of 3 he___ his mini drum set during a show. Using that same drum set he perfected the timing and rhythm of a popular church song____ enough for his mom to sing along to. My son had found his passion at a young age and had a natural____to catch on quickly.

Wanting to act quickly to __ his talent, I immediately signed him up for drum lessons. No sooner had my first payment cleared than his passion __. He did not want to take instructions. He wanted to play the drums_______,       To       him the drums were a way of ___. Ian wanted to “play the beat of his own drum.”

The challenge was that music has more than one __ Rock doesn’t sound like smooth jazz and smooth jazz doesn’t sound like___ You can’t play every __ that exists to the same beat. If ___were a series of songs, the melodies __ could be calming and peacefiil, or violent and chaotic. Each event we face has its____own sound, so we have to learn __ to play the tune of the moment. You should understand that even with all the natural talent in the world there is always___ for improvement.

You can't do it all without ___.

You won’t know how to play every beat life throws at you without practice.

You can’t____talent forever.

【推荐2】My daughter was only one year old in 2009—tiny and______, the master of a few basic words, but still mostly the baby we'd welcomed into the world,______all her first times.

Now my honey has grown into a（n）______—tall, strong, slim, and smart, a（n）______of science fiction films.

A______from now, in 2031, she will be an adult. I expect the next 10 years to fly by, and be filled with______. As 2021 begins, I am thinking about the kind of world my daughter will______and experience. I______for her, and for all the young people of her age. So I have several______for the world my daughter and her generation will live in:

I hope we finally get______about climate change. Polar ice is melting. The oceans are______. The question is______whether we can stop climate change, but whether we're willing and able to do anything we can to______it.

I'm not sure what a warming planet will mean for my daughter's life. I______it means she will live in a world where nations and groups______limited resources like clean water and food, which means that the danger of climate change won't come just from warmer climate, but from other humans competing for control over what's______.

The world is always going to be full of______about how to solve the challenges we face. I hope, too, that my daughter's generation learns to______justice—but to do so with big heart and humility, recognizing our common humanity（人性）even with people who______us.

The world of 2031 won't build itself. We are______it now, so my final wish is that we build the kind of world we actually want our children to live in.

【推荐3】I used to believe in the American Dream, which meant a job, a mortgage (按揭), credit cards, success. I wanted it and worked toward it like everyone else, all of us _________ chasing the same thing.

One year, through a series of unhappy events, it all fell _________ I found myself homeless and alone. I only had my truck and $56. I _________ the countryside for some place I could rent for the _________ possible amount. I came upon a shabby house four miles up a winding mountain road _________ the Potomac River in West Virginia. It was _________, full of broken glass and rubbish. I found the owner, rented it, and _________ a corner to camp in.

The locals knew nothing about me, _________ slowly, they started teaching me the _________ of being a neighbor. They dropped off blankets, candles, and tools, and began ____________ around to chat. They started to teach me a belief in a ____________ American Dream-not the one of individual achievement but of ____________.

What I have believed in, all those things I thought were ____________ for a civilized life, were nonexistent in this place. ____________ on the mountain, my most valuable possessions were my ____________ with my neighbors.

Four years later, I moved back into ____________ I saw many people were having a really hard time, ____________ their jobs and homes. I managed to rent a big enough house to ____________ a handful of people. There are four of us now in the house, but over time I’ve had nine people come in and move on to other places. We’d all be in ____________ if we hadn’t banded together.

The American Dream I believe in now is a ____________ one. It’s not so much about what I can get for myself; it’s about what we can all get by together.

【推荐2】One day I saw an open shoe store. I walked in. As I stood talking to the saleswoman, the front door opened and a young man about twenty came into the store in a _______．“I need a new pair of shoes,” said the _______. As he turned the corner, I was _______ to see that he had no legs.

Seeing us _______, the young man said, “When I was a _______, my parents used to buy me a new pair of shoes every year. That was such a wonderful feeling — _______ I have never forgotten.”

Soon the saleswoman came with a large box. She put it down on the floor, took out a boot and _______ it to him. Placing the boot _______ his nose, he closed both eyes, and took a deep _______. I did not know what to say as tears began to roll down his ________.

Suddenly we heard the saleswoman shouting to an old man________who looked in the window. The young man looked at the old man and signalled him to enter. “What size of shoes do you wear?” the young man asked the old man. “Nine and a half.” he replied, ________ his old tennis shoes. “What’s your ________ hiking boot that old man wears?” the young man asked. Within a minute, the saleswoman returned with a pair of hiking boots. He ________ out, took the boot, placed it to his nose and took a deep breath. ________, tears came to his eyes. “Sir, would you mind trying on these boots?” the young man asked the old poor man.

【推荐3】Many of us adults have gone through many stages in our lives. Some of them _________ us in time, and others that we fail to _________ have become a normal part of our daily lives. For far too many of us, we are always _________ the next stimulation that can help us out of our normal lives, or _________ allow us to have a few moments when we can dream of a very different life.

A friend of mine was always very _________, but he managed to devote some of his _________ to a community group. They had many _________ in mind and a major one was raising money to help build a hospital for _________ cancer patients.

With the help of a lot of local businesses and fund-raising events, this project was finally _________. The building and the services it __________ to those people were wonderful. Volunteers were __________ to help in any way they could.

No one had any idea that this service would ever be __________ by any of his family. Several years after the hospital was open, his __________ suffered from cancer. And, __________ her condition worsened over the next several years to the point where she couldn’t he cared for any longer at __________. She was __________ to a hospital for continued care and it was the very hospital for which my friend worked so hard to make sure its services were __________ to those who needed it.

We never __________ what we do can benefit others. __________ can happen to any of us, and we never know when our own good deeds come back in the most __________ ways.

【推荐1】A student who was preparing to graduate from school sent out invitations to her family in the hope they would be able to attend on the day.

It wasn’t________a card dropped back in reply that she realized she had sent one to the ________address and the message inside is restoring people’s________in humanity.

The card politely informed her that her________no longer lived at the address, and the new owner took the time to________the student on her achievements—even enclosing $20 inside as a________ .

The stranger’s heart-warming act was________on Facebook, where the receiver said, “I accidentally sent a graduation invitation to my extended family’s old address. I received this touching card and $20________ !” It reads, “________ I must inform you that your relatives are not located at this address. I bought this house in September and am not________ with former owners. I unknowingly opened the envelope________ to them by mistake and am returning the invitation to you. That being said, I offer my congratulations!________ I don’t know you, I am proud of you for pursuing a career in a STEM field. US women have a lot of work to do to take our place in science.”

The image of the card has gained hundreds of________as people were left surprised by the heart-warming act. One said happily, “It brought a________to my face. What a wonderful and kind gesture from a(n)________” A second said, “Some humans are absolutely wonderful.”

【推荐3】Miss Baugh was the kind of teacher that everyone had at least once：scary. She tolerated no nonsense. She drilled us and grilled us and taught us to take ______ seriously.

But I had my own life outside of school and had just discovered a prop(道具)for ______：an ink bottle painted to look as though it had overturned.

Of all the people I could have tricked，______ I chose Miss Baugh. Before class，I opened her book and placed the bottle on one of the pages，proudly noting that it truly did look like spilled ink! Then I waited for the fun. I wasn’t ______. When Miss Baugh saw the overturned bottle. she let out a little ______.

But immediately Miss Baugh discovered the ______ . She picked up the bottle and examined it. She looked up. Her eyes______ the classroom with a deadly look. Some of my classmates carefully ______ looking at me，so as not to give me away.

“Who did this?”asked she.

I quietly ______ my hand. All of my life I've been educated to be honest. I couldn’t help ______ . Besides，I wanted my bottle back.

Miss Baugh fixed me with a stare that struck ______ in my heart. And then，most ______，she laughed.

“Well，it certainly ______ me!”she said，and returned the bottle to me.

But something had changed—for me，anyway. I came to understand that，if even the ______of Miss Baugh had a warm human being beneath that strict look，then other strict people probably do，too. And I've happily proved that ______ many times in my life.