【推荐1】Raynor Winn and her husband Moth became homeless due to their wrong investment. Their savings had been _______ to pay lawyers’ fees. To make matters worse, Moth was diagnosed ( 诊 断 ) with a _______ disease. There was no _______, only pain relief.

Failing to find any other way out, they decided to make a _______ journey, as they   caught sight of an old hikers’(徒步旅行者) guide.

This was   a long journey of   unaccustomed   hardship and _______ recovery.   When   leaving home, Raynor and Moth   had just   ￡ 320 in the bank. They planned to keep            the _______ low by living on boiled noodles, with the _______ hamburger shop treat.

Wild camping is _______ in England. To avoid being caught, the Winns had to get       their tent up _______ and packed it away early in the morning. The Winns soon discovered   that   daily   hiking   in   their   50s is a   lot _______ than   they remember   it   was   in   their   20s.

Raynor _______ all over and desired a bath. Moth, meanwhile, after     an initial _______, found his symptoms were strangely _______ by their daily tiring journey.

_______, the couple found that their bodies turned for the better, with re-found strong muscles that they thought had _______ forever, "Our hair was fried and falling out, nails   broken, clothes _______ to a thread, but we were alive."

During   the     journey,   Raynor   began   a   career   as   a   nature   writer.     She   writes, “_______ had taken every material thing from me and left me torn bare, an empty page at   the end of a (n) _______ written book. It had also given me a _______, either to leave that     page _______ or to keep writing the story with hope. I chose hope.”

【推荐3】Casey and John, a young couple, had been driving from Maryland to North Carolina when their 36-hour nightmare began. They expected the road trip to ________ five hours, but a massive snowstorm led to ice-related ________, and the state closed a 50-mile stretch of the ________ for safety reasons.

With traffic stopped and no clear information on when the highway would ________, some drivers abandoned their cars and set out on foot. Others, like Casey and Joe, turned off the ________ to save gas and seated themselves in their vehicles. They tried their best to stay warm.

A cold night in hunger and little sleep left them feeling ________. After 21 hours of suffering, Casey ________ a bread delivery truck among the waiting vehicles. On a sudden inspiration, she called Schmidt Baking Company, the owner of the truck She left a ________ on the company’ s customer service line, asking if the truck driver could ________ the baked goods with troubled drivers. She didn’t know if they would take her request ________, but she wanted to try.

Her idea worked.   Incredibly, Schmidt CEO Chuck personally returned Casey’ s call within 20 minutes. He asked her to hand her ________ to the company truck driver, Ron, and then directed Ron to ________ the bread to the people on the highway.

Casey, John and Ron were excited to pass out the bread along the ________ highway to as many people as possible. Among those to ________ the food were elderly passengers and families with children. They all felt incredibly thankful for the offering of food and some ________ after so many hours waiting in the cold.

【推荐1】Making a family

For years, Dad had avoided getting a dog. Whenever the _______ came up, Dad complained: “Dogs are a pain. I don’t want to be _______” Despite his strong opposition, Mom brought home a puppy named Chip, a cute ball that _______ us all.

For me, at age thirteen, Chip brought out my _______ side. I fed, brushed and walked him every day. I also learned that when we _______ what is important to us, we harvest the benefits. For me, this meant a loyal (忠诚的) companion, someone to _______ me at the door when I returned, and someone to kiss my face when I was sad. And this _______ stayed with me as I grew.

Chip even _______ Dad. It was nearly a month before Chip’s _______ personality won him over. Dad was the first to ________ him to sit on the sofa. He even made chew toys for Chip to play with.

Most importantly, Chip brought us together as a ________ . After dinner, instead of escaping to our bedrooms as before, we’d review ________ tricks or teach him new ones in the family room. We’d ________ funny stories of the cute things he’d done that day. The important thing is that we’d do this together.

People who are not dog lovers sometimes complain about those who treat their pets too much like ________ . What they don’t understand is that it is the pets that stimulate the ________ of their humanity.

【推荐2】A boy walked into a candy store with his father and since he was just 6 years old, he was surprised by so many candies on offer. “It’s amazing. What should I _________?” he asked himself. “Come on, son, we don’t have much _________. I have to attend an important meeting,” his dad said.

“These are all my _________ and I don’t know what to choose.” He picked up some bags and then put them _________. He couldn’t make up his mind. “_________, son, we have no time. I’m very _________,” his dad said. So the boy ran around the store _________ again. His eyes moved from one bag to another, _________ all of the sweets looked so good and he couldn’t make up his mind. _________, the dad had enough. He caught his son by the hand and they __________ the store empty-handed. The boy __________. He wanted them all, but ended up with __________ because he couldn’t choose just one.

Some of us are that boy. The __________ is that candy store. We have a great number of choices available (可得到的) to us, but if we don’t make a(n) __________ about our jobs, education, relationships, marriage or other __________ things, we will end up empty-handed. Sometimes we worry about making the __________ choice. What if we __________ the direction that we take and it’s too late to go back? We don’t have to __________ this. How do we __________ whether it is good or not if we don’t make a choice? The bigger __________ is that we make no decision at all and end up going nowhere and doing nothing.

【推荐3】One summer evening as I was cooking dinner, there was a knock at the door. I ______ it and saw an old and strange-looking man. But his voice was ______ as he said, “Good evening. I come to see if you have a ______ for just one night. I came for a(n) ______ this morning from the eastern shore. I live far away from here, ______ there's no bus till next morning. ” He told me he had been ______ for a room but with no ______. “I guess it’s my face… I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments I will _______ from it.” He said.

I told him we would ______ him a bed, but it was not comfortable. I went inside and prepared dinner. When we were ______, I asked him if he would like to ______ us. “No, thank you. I’ve had plenty.” When I finished the dinner, I went out to talk with ______ . It didn’t ______ a long time to see that this old man had oversized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to ______ his daughter, her five children, and her husband, who was ______ disabled from a back injury and too weak to do anything. At bedtime, we ______ a bed in the children's room for him.

On his next trip, ______ a gift, he brought us a big fish , some fresh oysters (牡蛎) and some fresh vegetables. In the years he came to stay overnight with us, and there was ______ a time he did not bring us some fish or vegetables from his garden.

I know our family will always be ______ to have known him, from whom we learned what was to accept the ______ without a complaint (抱怨) and the good with thanks.