【推荐1】One morning, the door to the classroom opened and a new teacher, Mrs Cosby, walked in. She looked too _________ to handle us. And we sure gave her a _________ time , but she never lost her temper. And then came the last day of the first month she had been our teacher. She took out some papers the moment she entered the classroom. We _________ the worst—a test. But oh no, it was something that totally _________ us.

Mrs Cosby asked us to come to the front of the class, and gave each of us a piece of paper, on which she had written what the student with _________ had been good at during the last month. You see, no one ever _________ us. No one ever liked us. We were constantly told what good-for-nothing we were. And here, suddenly, was someone who had been _________with us closely for a month. Mrs Cosby did this every _________ from then on. Each month we got a piece of paper that said our _________. She commented on my courage, and how well I did if I wanted to __________ arguments. Her attitude influenced our class. We did not want to __________ her feelings anymore. We actually started to __________.

And then came the day of our graduation. Mrs Cosby hugged us and told us with tears in her eyes how __________ she was of us. Then she handed each one of us a book. All the encouraging words through the years were there, in hard covers.

She said, “I want you each to keep this book and if ever during your life you feel unworthy,__________ this and read how good you are. You can be anything you want to be as long as you believe in yourself. __________ me you will remember that!”

【推荐2】The world is full of opportunities. Ignoring them or seizing one depends on one’s attitude. Mike seized the chance and did what he wanted to do.

Mike used to be a janitor (看门人) at an elementary school. He collected and cleared away the ________ for the school too. This school has a ________ place in Mike’s heart. He went to this school as a young boy and was a teacher there for 19 years. However, before his career in teaching, he ________ in the same school as a janitor. He has always been good at ________ with students.

Seeing this the teachers ________ him to pursue a teaching career. After years of hard work and fierce ________, Mike finished his degree in 2003 and ________ a teaching job at the elementary school. Since then he has become a constant ________ in the school.

Mike found teaching a very rewarding job. For him it was important that the students grow up not just remembering the ________ but also how a teacher made them feel. Mike was excited to teach the children at the school and was ________ to teach the fifth grade. He was shocked when the directors offered him the ________ of principal a week before the school year started.

“I am ________ grateful. I don’t do anything special. I just ________ and try my best.” said Mike. He was also very excited to take on the challenges of being the new ________ of the school, assume new responsibilities and help ________ the school.

In 2014, I had just _______ form a serious illness when I received an invitation to a writer's conference in Orlando, Florida. My family persuaded me that a(n) _______ might be just what the doctor ordered, so off I went.

Arriving in the Sunshine State was rather tiring, but I _______ to catch a taxi to my _______and settle in. Next morning, I took another_______ to the shopping center to buy a few souvenirs. _______ I went to a cafe to have lunch, but all the tables were _______. Then I heard a friendly voice saying, "You can _______ my table."

I _______sat down with the old lady and we had a happy lunch together. As the __________ came to an end she asked how long I would be in Orlando. I had already told her that I hadn't hired a car, and hadn't __________ how expensive taking taxis __________ be. After a while she said, "My dear, don't use any more taxis. I'm retired and__________would be my pleasure to __________you wherever you wish." I told her that I couldn't put her to that __________,but she brushed aside my protests (反对). She asked me where I was __________ and next morning she was waiting at my apartment at the appointed time to take me to Disney World. She spent some time with me before leaving me to __________alone. At the end of the day, she____________ to take me back to my accommodation. I __________ her money but she refused to take any.

I'll never forget that wonderful lady who, through her ____________, filled my brief holiday in Florida with wonderful memories.

【推荐1】When I was thirteen, my family moved from Boston to Tucson, Arizona. Before the move, my father _______ us in the living­room on a freezing January night. My sisters and I sat around the fire, not _______ that the universe would suddenly change its course. “In May, we’re moving to Arizona.” The words, so small, didn’t seem _______ enough to hold my new life. But the world changed and I awoke on a train moving across the country. I watched the _______ change from green trees to flat dusty plains to high mountains as I saw strange new plants that _______ mysteries yet to come. Finally, we arrived and settled into our new home._______ my older sisters were sad at the loss of friends, I eagerly explored our new surroundings.

One afternoon, I was out exploring _______ and saw a new kind of cactus (仙人掌). I crouched (蹲) down for a closer look. “You’d better not _______ that.” I turned around to see an old woman. “Are you new to this neighborhood?” I explained that I was, _______ , new to the entire state.

“My name is Ina Thorne. Have you got used to life in the ________? It must be quite a shock after living in Boston.” How could I explain how I ________ the desert? I couldn’t seem to find the right words.

“It’s vastness,” she offered. “That vastness ________ you stand on the mountains overlooking the desert — you can ________ how little you are in comparison with the world.________, you feel that the possibilities are limitless.” That was it. That was the feeling I’d had ever since I’d first seen the mountains of my new home. Again, my ________ would change with just a few simple words. “Would you like to come to my home tomorrow? Someone should teach you which plant you should and shouldn’t touch.”

【推荐3】Mrs. Doyle was a hero. She will be awarded the Legion of Honor, France’s highest decoration, in honor of her in ______ helping to liberate the country from the Nazis.

Mrs. Doyle was one of the female agents ______ for the Special Operations Executive (SOE). She engaged in gathering ______ ahead of the D-Day landings. “It wasn’t until after my first round of ______ that I was told to become a member of it,” she said in a rare interview.

“We ______ how to get in a high window, and how to climb over roofs without being ______,” she recalled.

After the training, she was ______ behind enemy lines under a code name, Paulette. ______ aged 23, she dressed up like a poor 14-year-old French girl to make the Germans less suspicious. She used bicycles to _______the area, passing information through coded messages.

The ______ would take half an hour to send and the Germans need an hour and a half to pick up the ______. She would have just enough time to send her message and move on before being ______.

She would sleep rough in forests and was ______ to hunt for food, or stay with our supporters. “One family I stayed with told me we were ______ a squirrel,” she told the Army News, “I found out later it was a rat. I was half ______ so I didn’t care.”

It wasn’t until the last 15 years or so that Mrs. Doyle made known her career as a ______ “My eldest son found out by ______ something on the Internet, and my children ______ I send off for my medals,” she said.

“I was asked if I wanted them to be ______ presented to me, and I said no, I didn’t, it was my family who wanted them.”

Laurent Contini, the French ambassador to New Zealand, said, “I have deep ______ for her bravery and it will be with great honor that I will present her with the award.”