【推荐2】A few years ago, I was leaving where I worked only to find a baby goat (山羊) at the end of the driveway. I _________ someone dumped (遗弃) him over the fence. The _________ was visibly nervous but stood perfectly still as I approached.

I’m an animal _________ and I’ve brought home dogs, cats, horses, chickens, and fish, but never a goat. The tiny kid was too adorable to _________. I named him Quincy, and bottle-fed him in my bathroom.

Quincy proved to be quite intelligent. When he was about a week old, I _________ my fingers on the bathroom floor and said “Lie down.” I was amazed when he _________.

A _________ study—Quincy learned to lie down, bow, and turn in a circle in no time. He knows the name of everything I feed him, and even joins us for trips to the dog park.

I love to train animals and often take my dogs to shows where they can perform their tricks. Quincy did his first _________ when he was just six weeks old. He knew only a few _________ then, but he did them perfectly and __________ misbehaved or got nervous in front of the crowd.

Now he has a whole performing list: He’ll shake hooves (蹄子), come when __________, wave, smile for the camera (“Say cheese!”), and more. Quincy and my dogs __________ regularly at schools, nursing homes, and charity events. Quincy can even “read” his tricks off cue cards, which always earns the most __________.

It’s hard to believe that the goat kid __________ wanted turned out to be one of the smartest and most good-natured animals I’ve ever had. He’s by far the __________ of my bunch—just don’t tell the dogs!

【推荐1】It was a sunny day. I had gone up and down the tower when, outside the door at the foot, a blind man came toward me. In a moment, he disappeared up the stairs. I looked at the sign that said “To the Tower”, and decided to _______ him.

I caught up with him in the ticket office. There I was _______ to see the attendant(工作人员) selling him a ticket as if he were any other visitor. Then, with the ticket in one hand and _______ the wall with the fingers of the other, the blind man reached the stairs _______ the hallway.

“That man is blind. What would a blind man climb up the tower for?” I said to the attendant, expecting him to show some _______, but he didn’t answer.

“Not the _______ certainly,” I said. “Perhaps he wants to_______.”

I bought a ticket and _______ up the stairs. The man hadn’t gone as far as I _______. A third of the way up the tower, I heard his ________. I slowed down and followed him at a little ________. He stopped from time to time. When he got to the balcony, I was a dozen steps ________. As I reached it, I saw him at the corner of the tower.

At last, after ten minutes, I ________ him. “Excuse me,” I said as politely as I could, “but I am curious to know ________ you came up.”

He smiled. “Coming up the stairs, you will notice how not just light but sun ________ into the tower through the narrow windows here and there, so that you can feel the ________ —the cool stairs suddenly become quite warm—and how up here behind the wall there is ________, but as soon as going opposite a window you can find the sun. There is no ________ so good as this for feeling the difference between light and shade. It is not the first time I’ve come up.”

The blind man seemed quite ________ just like a child who was enjoying his favorite games. He told me the truth that blind men can also find the beauty in life although they cannot enjoy the ________ of the world.

【推荐2】Our lives changed tracks the day our daughter was born. My wife and I felt _________ in the UK—we’d even bought a house 6 months earlier—but the _________ of our daughter forced a moment of _________. We wondered whether we should _________ to our native Brazil. In our native country, we’d be closer to our family and _________. But in the UK, I had the funding and lab resources I needed for my costly and highly specialized research program. Would such a move _________ my career?

Then, a few weeks later, I received a call from my brother, who told me that our father had passed away. The great _________ I had about my daughter’s birth suddenly gave way to a deep sadness. I felt that I was _________ precious time with my loved ones. After that, we had no _________ that it was the right time to move back to Brazil. We applied for the professorships in our hometown and both received offers.

It wasn’t __________ to start my research in Brazil, however. I didn’t receive any start-up funding for my lab. I was able to perform a few experiments myself __________ the expensive reagents (试剂) I had brought with me from my lab in the UK, as well as equipment I __________ with other Brazil professors. Eventually, I __________ Brazilian funding, which allowed me to __________ a team of bright undergraduate and graduate students and buy reagents and lab equipment on my own.

Looking back, I’m content that my wife and I made the __________ to move back to our home country. I was able to take up Brazilian jujitsu (柔术) training, which hadn’t been able to do during my years abroad.

【推荐1】A thief dropped a winning lottery ticket（彩票）at the scene of his crime has been given a lesson in _______. The man whom he robbed _______the ticket and won the ￡25,000 prize, but he managed to find the thief,and handed over _______.

The robbery happened when Professor Sabbatuccci was changing a tyre on a highway.Another motorist， who stopped‘to_______', stole a suitcase from his car and drove off.The professor found the_______ticket and brought it home.

Next day， the professor saw the lottery_______on TV and realized it was a winner.He_______the ￡25,000 prize， but he decided not to keep the money.He made an announcement on the radio，_______:‘I'm trying to find the man who robbed me.I have ￡25，000 for him-a lottery_______.Please meet me.'

The professor received hundreds of________from people who were hoping to________him into handing them the money.But there was one voice he________-and he arranged to meet the man in a park.

The robber gave back the________and burst into tears.He could not ________what was happening.‘Why didn't you keep the money?'he asked.The professor replied：‘Because it's not mine.'Then he walked off， turning down the thief's________to share the prize.

【推荐3】Many language learners think their pronunciation is good enough because their teacher doesn’t correct them too often or because other students can ____ them.  

Pronunciation is the area which is ____ the least attention to in language learning. Working on each student’s pronunciation in class is just ____. Also the students who are ____ at pronunciation may be afraid that it will embarrass their classmates if they help ____ their mistakes.  

If you believe your pronunciation is good enough to ____ because it is good enough for your teacher and other students. You may be ____ when you actually go to a foreign country. One of my friends was the best student in his ____ class in Poland. When he went to America he found Americans didn’t understand what he said.  

Your pronunciation may still be quite different from that of a native speaker. If this is the ____, other people will find it ____ to understand what you’re saying and will not be comfortable with you. ____, don’t think you can communicate in a foreign language until you’ve tested your skills on real native speakers. ____ for native or near native pronunciation so that people you talk to can communicate with you ____. In order to achieve this goal there’s ____ that you will need to start thinking about pronunciation and ____ time on it.