【推荐1】“It’s nice having a friend,” said Mole (鼹鼠) to Rabbit as they sat talking in the sun one day.

“Oh, it is!” said Rabbit. “Very useful, too, ________ if you need help. ________, I think I’d like Bull (公牛) to be my friend.”

“But I’m your friend!” said Mole, feeling ________

“Oh, yes,” said Rabbit. “You are good for talking to and laughing with, ________ you are too small. When I need help, I ________ someone big and strong like Bull. He would be a very good friend to have. It would be ________ shouting for him when I need help.”

Mole went off in anger.

“Oh, well, I need to ________ something,” Rabbit thought.

He moved along ________ he found a tiny garden. He had just started on his first leaf when there was a big noise. People were shouting and dogs were barking (吠叫). Rabbit was so afraid and in such a ________ to get away that he ran into the wrong hole. The hole was too small and Rabbit got stuck. He could not ________ at all.

“Help!” cried Rabbit.

Mole ________ him. He ran up to see what was the matter.

“Help!” cried Rabbit. “I’m stuck in this hole.”

“If you want help,” said Mole, “I’d better ________ Bull.”

“No!” cried Rabbit. “He’s no good! He’s too big to get into this hole. You’re just the right ________! Please help me, Mole!”

So Mole began digging around Rabbit. He worked so fast that Rabbit was ________ in no time.

“I’m sorry, Mole. I was wrong, ” Rabbit said. “I’m ________ I have you as a friend.”

And the two good friends set off for home together.

【推荐2】A nine-year-old kid is sitting at his desk. Suddenly, there is a puddle (小水洼)between his feet and the front of his pants are _________.

He thinks his heart is going to _________ because he cannot possibly_________ how this has happened. It's never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out, he will never hear the _________ of it.

When the girls_________ it, they'll never speak to him again as long as he lives. The boy puts his head down and _________, “Dear God, this is a(n) _________! I need help now! Five minutes from now, I'm dead meat."

_________, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish _________ that is filled with water. She trips (绊倒)in front of the desk and unexplainably pours the water on the boy's __________. The boy pretends to be __________, but all the while is saying to himself, "Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!”

Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of __________.All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. It's __________. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred to someone else --Susie. She tries to __________ but they tell her to get out. “You've done enough, you klutz (笨手笨脚的人)!”

Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, "You did that __________ didn't you?”

Susie whispers back, “I wet my pants once too.”

【推荐3】Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact ______ she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished _____ driving offence(犯规，犯法).

Then one day she nearly ______ her record. A police car ______ her, and the policemen in it saw her ______ a red light without stopping. Of course, at last she was stopped by the police. It seemed ______ that she would be punished.

______ Mrs. Jones came up to the judge(法官), he looked at her seriously and said that she was ______ old to drive a car, and that the ______ why she had not stopped at the red ______ was most probably that her eyes had become weak ______ old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished what he was ______ , Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag that she was ______ and then took out her sewing(针线活). Without saving a word, she ______ out a needle(针) with very small eve, and threaded(穿线) it at her first attempt.

When she had ______ done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed ______ the needle and the thread to the judge, saying. “Now it is your ______. I suppose you drive car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight."

The judge took the ______ and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case(案例) against Mrs. Jones was not ______, and her record _______unbroken.

【推荐2】A friend of mine was sitting in the living room one day when his cat dragged in a little “gift” in its mouth — a dead animal of some sort. Taking a closer look, he was surprised to _______ it as the bunny that _______ Mary, the young daughter of the family next door. My friend felt _______, believing his cat had killed Mary’s bunny.

My quick-thinking friend came up with a plan. _______   from the cat’s mouth the dead animal, which by now was a _______   mess, he put it in the kitchen sink. With a little warm water and some shampoo, he tried to _______ the dead bunny as best he could. Then he took a hair dryer and blow-dried the bunny _______ it looked pretty good.

Finally, under the cover of darkness, he crept into the next-door garden and placed it _______   in the cage. He managed to make the bunny look very _______   there in his little box.

The next morning, my friend looked out of the window and noticed a crowd of people ________ around the rabbit hutch. Everyone seemed to be talking and pointing. My friend ________ to go over and act like any normal ________ neighbor and find out what was going on.

When he got there, Mary’s mother said to my friend, “You won’t believe this! It’s a(n) ________ thing! Mary’s bunny ________   a few days ago, and we buried that little bunny right over there...”

Have you ever tried to cover up one wrongdoing with another? Covering up only makes matters ________ .

When we get caught doing something ________ , for example, we may ________ to cover it up with a lie. But just like Mary’s bunny, the result is ________ what we expected. We ________ looking foolish. We would have been better off admitting we were wrong and accepting the ________ . What do you think of it?