【推荐1】I was 16 years old and paid a month-long visit to a college in Iowa and were warned not to go out of the campus. It wasn’t long, _______ , before I was feeling fed up and decided to slip out for _______ . On my way to the main street, I saw some people _______ someone sitting on the sidewalk. His clothes were _______ and threadbare. His skin was dirty and I could _______ him from several feet away. My _______ flashed back and I realized I had seen a _______   person once before: Me.

It was a summer night in my 11th year when a _______ broke out at midnight. I can still remember all of us standing outside, _______ my house bum down. My brothers and I were standing in shocked, scared ________ . My mom was crying and dad was cursing（咒骂）. ________ , our small town community brought us food and clothes, and helped us rent a ________ house within a few days. Several months later, a local fund helped us to ________ a new home. I could remember feeling ________ even after losing so much. The wanderer sitting in front of me, however, had ________ to love and help him. 1 could see ________ in his eyes. I just offered him my few dollars and left.

I have often ________ what happened to him over the years. Did he ________ the streets? Did he die there? I don’t know. 1 do know that I was no better than he was, only more ________ . We should make it clear that we are all born ________ and we need to live as one family.

【推荐2】I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. ________ , he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was weak and ill.

My father was ________ a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness took all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is difficult. One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started talking about life, and I told them about one of my ________. I said that we must very often give things up as we grow — our youth, our beauty, our friends — but it always________ that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father ________ up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up ________! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I couldn’t think of anything to say. Surprisingly, he answered his own question: “I ________ the love of my family,” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.

I was also touched by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated (愤怒的) at someone, I would remember his words and become ________. If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be able to give up my small irritations. In this way, I learned the power of acceptance from my father.

Sometimes I ________ what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful for this one ________.

【推荐1】When you are storm chasing, most mornings start off in a cheap hotel trying to remember where you ended up the night before. This morning, we were in Wichita, Kansas, midway through a project to_________the dramatic and destructive weather that travels across the middle of the United States every spring.

We loaded the car with our_________, and off we went, driving under cloudless blue skies for hundreds of miles. Then we reached the border of our targeted storm and entered a dark scene of clouds and occasional rain. As we_________the heart of the storm, we found ourselves_________with high winds, violent rain, and severe hail (冰雹). Photographer Krystle, at the wheel, _________to get in front of the storm, but it was moving too fast. We could_________keep pace with it.

Then we caught sight of something_________, created by the storm: a rain-wrapped tornado half a mile to our right. The chaotic conditions made it_________for us to keep it in sight. We lost our cellphone signals and all the data we were desperately_________for communication. We couldn’t see beyond 20 feet. That was when Nick, our expedition (探险) leader and weather expert, called, “We have to flee.” Krystle__________changed direction, driving the car north onto a country road, __________the madness of that dangerous chase.

We weren’t done. After a stretch of clear skies, we found another__________waiting for us. This time, we__________to get in front of it, stopping to photograph it and racing back to the car to__________its extreme anger.

A little past midnight, we let the storm go. We watched as the lightning-filled cloud rolled away, displaying the night sky — a beautiful__________for those reckless (不顾危险的) enough to seek it.

【推荐2】The season was changing and deep winter was creeping in. The weather was very cold. Outside, a heavy snow was ____ continuously, like an old woman plucking her geese _____, and the snow must have been nearly fifteen centimeters _____. It had been falling _____ we got up in the morning. The snowy fields, which some people ______as a dumb, lifeless aspect, assumed a _____, pleasing sight in the view of the children. They couldn’t help ____go out and play with many other kids of their age in spite of the _______ that they might feel stiff and catch a chill(感冒). And it really _____the joy of all of us bigger children, who were taking every ______to play and enjoy ourselves ____the full playing with snow or making snowmen, or _____rolling and running on the snow-covered ground.

_______ the house, a fire was burning, making it a pleasant and comfortable place for _____ who wanted to stay in. In the _____ of my mum was my one-year-old brother, who was _____a traditionally made Chinese cotton cap . The colorfully embroidered cap, which had a tiny bell on each side, could produce silvery pleasant   _____when shaken. The boy was laughing joyfully while he was ____ his head again and again, making repeated silvery sounds. It was the custom for a small child to wear such a cap, with the parents’ hope of the child’s growing to be   _____ and strong. It was from my little brother’s smiling face that I have now ______to know that ignorance is bliss(幸福). And such innocence(天真) could only occur in a small child!

【推荐1】During my second year at the city college，I was told that the education department was offering a "free"course, called Thinking Chess, for three credits. I _________the idea of taking the class because, after all, who doesn't want to _________ a few dollars? More than that, I'd always wanted to learn chess. And, even if I weren’t _________enough about free credits, news about our _________was appealing enough to me. He was an international grandmaster, which _________ I would be learning from one of the game's _________. I could hardly wait to _________him.

Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this _________was no game for him: he meant business. In his introduction, he made it _________that our credits would be hard-earned. In order to __________the class, among other criteria, we had to write a paper on how we plan to __________what we would learn in class to our future professions and, __________, to our lives. I managed to get an A in that __________and learned life lessons that have served me well beyond the __________.

Ten years after my chess class with Ashley, I'm still putting to use what he __________me: “The absolute most important __________that you learn when you play chess is how to make good __________. On every single move you have to __________a situation, process what your opponent(对手）is doing and __________the best move from among all your options.”These words still ring true today in my __________as a journalist.

【推荐2】As a businesswoman, I care deeply about my customers. But like anyone for whom you feel affection, _______ can also drive you mad. They’ll come rushing in, _______their handbag’s been stolen. They’ll _______ that they left it in the changing room, create havoe (混乱) and then _______ it had been in their car all the time. They’ll have out half the _______ in the shop, and want the only style you don’t have left in a _______ colour. I do know how upset the shop staff can get, but I try to persuade them to keep _______.

I remember the first really _______ customer we had at Covent Garden. She was _______ absolutely everything, nothing was right and I was rather ________ that she became a “regular”. After a while, she ________ for the way she behaved at the beginning. She had split up with her husband the week before, was living in a flat ________, and since she’d found it too much to cope with (应对), she’d taken it out on ________ people.

That taught me a valuable ________ and I pass it on to the people who ________ in the market. Don’t take it ________. If a customer is rude or difficult, just think “Maybe she’s had a row with her husband. Maybe her child’s not ________.” Always water it down and don’t let your ego (自我) get ________. If you do, you won’t be able to ________ it and the whole thing develops into an unpleasant scene and that ________ everyone’s day.

【推荐3】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.