【推荐1】My brother and I were driving home together. We _________ something interesting on the way. Because of the conversation, my brother took a wrong turn.

Unfortunately, the wrong turn took us towards a bridge and we had no way to _________. Unwillingly, my brother _________ the bridge toll (通行费) and drove on. He was clearly _________ by the mistake and the needless waste of $4.

We eventually reached an exit slip-way and, as we took it, my brother _________ a young guy pulled over to the side of the road. I was busy trying to _________ which way we went next when my brother pulled over and asked the guy if he needed any _________. And he did. He had a flat tire and needed a wrench (扳手) to get it off and then get the spare one on.

My brother _________ him a wrench, and then began to help him _________ the tire. The young man said that this had been a __________ week for him; earlier he had gotten into a minor car accident, and now this flat on his way home from work. But he called us “a breath of fresh air” and kept thanking us because he really would have been stuck __________ we hadn’t come along.

After we had __________ the job he thanked us again and pulled out $20 and tried to give it to us. “No,” my brother said, “we were __________ supposed to get on that bridge, yet we took a wrong turn. But now we know __________ we did. It was to help you. Thank you for turning our __________ into an opportunity to serve.”

【推荐1】Wayne Gretzky was about five when he first saw Gordie Howe, a Canadian professional ice hockey (曲棍球) player, on television. He immediately became a   ___ of the Detroit Red Wings star. “I was really ____.” he said. “Not everybody gets to meet his hero and ____ when you meet them it isn’t as good as you think it’s going to be. I got so lucky that the guy I ____ happened to be so special.”

Howe joined the Red Wings in 1946 and spent most of his long career in Detroit. He won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL’s top ____ on six occasions and also ____ the Hart Trophy as the most valuable player six times.

“He was a(n) ____ guy.” Gretzky said. “He never asked for anything from anybody, ____ he would do anything for anyone.” Gretzky added that it wouldn’t   ___ whether you were a server in a restaurant or the Prime Minister; Howe ____everyone the same. “He had a way to be able to ____ to anybody and put everybody at ease.” he said. “He was just a really ____ person.”

“When I was 10 he told me, ‘Make sure you ____ your backhand.’” Gretzky said. “So I always had a great ____ in and scored many goals with my backhand. A   ___ we had as players was that our backhand was ____ and solid (坚固的) and I think that’s the one thing I really ____ from him.”

“Howe said to me when I turned pro and signed with the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association at 17, ‘You worked hard to get to the professional ___, but nowadays you’ve got to work much harder. So many guys who have turned pro sort of ____ about that.’ That was the one thing he told me that ____ stuck in my brain.”

【推荐2】Everyone admires somebody, perhaps for something they do, say or believe. My ______ is a person I’ve followed almost my entire life. Troy Aikman is a legend in the National Football League, and a ______for me to learn from.

I became interested in Troy when I ______a football game between his team and another famous team. Although I was too young to understand what the ______were doing, I admired how Troy ______himself on and off the ______.When it came to his chances, his accurate passes were amazing, making others easy to catch, and when he took ______his helmet on the sidelines(旁观), he always seemed to be in a good mood. The more I learn about Troy, the more my ______in him grows.

To build a children’s ______in Irving, Texas, Troy ______much of his own money. It ______ children in poor families to get free health care. I was not ______of his charitable side until I went to look for more about him.

I ______Troy’s football career until 2000, when he had to quit football because of all the blows he had taken to the ______. I was disappointed, but ______he hadn’t suffered any more brain damage. Fox TV asked him to be a sports announcer, and Troy accepted as a way to ______part of the game. Troy has been asked to play again by many teams, but he always. ______and focuses on his hospital instead.

Heroes are everywhere, helping worthy causes and influencing kids ______. Not only was Troy an amazing football player, he’s also a ______，and happy gentleman off the field. All these ______my eye, and that’s why I’m proud Troy Aikman is my hero.

【推荐3】In 1991, Davenport played in her first professional tennis match when she was 15. She was ranked (排名) the Number 1 woman _________ player in the world eight different times.

I had the chance to _________ Davenport at the 2012 US Open. _________ that night, she answered some questions from our group and I asked her, “Ms Davenport, _________ can teach people a lot of lessons. What lessons did you _________ during your time as a professional tennis player that you didn’t learn as an amateur (业余运动员)?” To be honest, I had a personal _________ for asking this question. I played baseball in college, but not _________. So I wanted to know what I missed.

Davenport’s first _________ was to talk about how she had to grow up _________. She mentioned the power of the media and learning to live her life in front of a(n) __________. But then she changed the __________ and talked about improving her skill and the lessons of competition, hard work, and perseverance. Those things, she said, were learned long before she __________ a professional. In other words, to learn about what it’s like to __________ as a professional athlete, you need to be a professional athlete. But to learn the lessons of playing sports, you just need to __________ your sport.

Take note: you don’t need to be the best in order to be __________ or satisfied, but all that matters is that you play the game.