【推荐1】Last summer, my parents sold our minivan and bought a Dodge Dart. They thought it was “necessary” to ________ a smaller vehicle.

This decision affected me greatly because the new car had a manual transmission（手动变速）________ I only knew ho to drive automatic.

But this summer was supposed to be ________, seeing as it was my first summer with my G2 driver’s ________. In Ontario, having a G2 means you are able to drive without the supervision（监督）of a 9an) ________.

After the long hours I’d spent learning to drive the car, it felt even ________ to drive it around on my own. I felt a new-found sense of maturity and ________ that I really enjoyed. I would drive everywhere, ________ when I probably didn’t need to.

So, ________, when my mom asked me to ________ some groceries from the local store I decided to ________ instead of walk. While turning into the open spot in the store’s parking lot, I somehow scratched the car beside me. When I got out to ________ the damage, a bystander ran up warning me to contact the owner of the car I had scratched, or she would tell her husband, who was “a cop”.

Shocked and at a loss for words, I managed to find a piece of paper to write my ________ number on and put it on   the ________ car’s window.

I was really ________when I got home, because not only had I managed to ________ our own new car, I’d also damaged another person’s car.

When the owner called me, she was very aggressive and ________. Though I hadn’t hit her car on purpose, I finally said it would probably be better if she ________ back and talked to my parents. When it was all settled, the total ________ were around $2,000.

From this matter, I learned that as I got older I would get many new ________, but they will also come with more responsibility.

【推荐2】Last fall I hung outside my window a bird feeder (喂鸟的食槽). Knowing _________about wild birds I assumed that_________I hung this bird feeder outside, numbers of beautiful birds would be swooping (飞扑) to my new addition. However, days, weeks, and months_________, NO BIRDS.

I asked so many people, “What to do?_________was I doing wrong?” “Nothing,” most of them replied, “just_________!” So I waited and waited and waited, trying everything possible to attract these birds. I cleaned off the deck (平台), _________the feed, and washed the feeder. I_________made the cat go out the other door! But nothing seemed to work.So I waited with patience and_________.

Two months later, on a Saturday afternoon, I _________! What came to my eyes was the most beautiful bird I have ever seen in my life! All of a__________, hundreds of birds were gathering from everywhere!

What a beautiful__________I learned from this little creature! Patience and hope will__________the beautiful things in life. Yet I had never realized how much patience I really do have and how much I do rely on hope to __________the questions in my heart.

So I __________hoping and waiting, waiting and hoping. I will try to use this “little lesson” with so many other things in my life.I guess patience is a __________after all.

【推荐1】Do you think you have what it takes to be a successful scientist? A successful scientist is generally a good observer. He makes full use of the facts he observes. He doesn’t accept ideas which are not ______ on obvious facts, and therefore ______ to accept authority as the only reason for truth. He always checks ideas ______ and makes experiments to prove them.

The rise of modern science may perhaps be considered to ______ as far back as the time of Roger Bacon, the wonderful philosopher of Oxford. He was probably the first person in the Middle Ages to ______ that we should learn science by observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself ______ many important truths.

However, Galileo, who lived more than 300 years later, was the greatest of several great men in Italy, France, Germany, and England, who began to show how many important ______ could be discovered by observation. Before Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fell more ______ towards the earth than small ones, because Aristotle said so. But Galileo went to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two ______ stones, proving Aristotle was wrong. It is Galileo’s ______ of going directly to nature, and proving our ______ and theories by experiment, that has ______ all the discoveries of modern science.

What ______ those people good scientists? From the example of Galileo, we can see ______ that successful scientists are those whose observations have ______ better results.

【推荐2】A man who lived a long time ago believed that he could read the future in the stars. He spent his time at night looking at the sky. He was always busy worrying about _______ and villagers often came to him, _______ to know what their future holds.

One evening he was _______ along the open road outside the village. His _______ were fixed on the stars. He _______ in his thoughts about the future. As he was looking at the stars, he kept walking _______ looking down. Suddenly, he fell into a ditch(沟) full of mud and water.

He was _______ in the muddy water, and _______ trying to claw at the slippery sides of the hole in his _______ to climb out. He was unable to crawl out and fearing for his life, he started crying for ________. His cries for help soon brought the ________ running.

As they pulled him out of the ________, one of them said, “You pretend to read the future in the stars, and yet you ________ to see what is at your feet! This may teach you to pay more attention to what is ________ in front of you, and let the future take care of ________.”

“What use is it,” said another, “to read the stars, when you can’t ________ what’s right here on the earth?”

We all want our future to be ________ and happy, but the time doesn’t stop for anyone. Each tomorrow ________ today. There is always a tomorrow to look forward to and improve, ________ you can’t go back to yesterday. So, maintain the balance of your ________ life while you work for a better tomorrow.

【推荐3】For the past ten years, my dad and I have attended the same school--- he as an administrator and I as a student. Our relationship, in and out of school, has been totally unpredictable.

When I was younger, all that my dad said was doctrine （信条）and anything did I, _________, copied. We played games together, and stayed up late reading bedtime stories. I could__________ my dad taking me to school, running into him ________ during the day and riding home with him every afternoon.

As I grew older, we were not as _________as we used to be. He wasn't cool any more .He wore his socks too high, listened to _________ country music and laughed too loudly in front of my friends. He became a total embarrassment.

However, the _________ that occurred in school were even worse. The worst one happened in seventh grade. My dad came to our New Year party, __________as Donald Duck, guitar in hand, singing silly songs. Just kill me！ I wanted to run away.

This _________ continued into high school, but we somehow began to find a balance .Things started to ______around the time of my 10th-grade physics project. The ________was to build a wood bridge with the best strength-to-weight ratio（比率）. All the students and physics teachers __________ . So did my dad, the only administrator！ Embarrassed, as usual, I _________ the   scene._____________, later when I learned from my friends that my dad       _____ all competitors and won everyone's admiration, I found that mixed in with my__________was a touch of pride.

I had needed someone else to show me what I ________ in my dad. It wasn't the fact that he'd won； it was more than that. I began to_________ that we have many of the same values and sometimes the same opinions. No matter how much I had tried to________ him, he still influenced me.

I feel_________ to have such an unusual father. The ________ I have developed with my dad over the years has enabled me to look back and see how I’ve grown.

【推荐2】For a long time, a boy wondered why his deskmate was always the first in the class, whereas he could only rank 21st. He asked his mom, “Am I more stupid than others? How come I always ___?” Mom was aware that her son’s self-respect had been damaged by the ___ system.  

She had intended to say that intelligence ___ and that her son’s friend was really smarter. But finally she ___ the intention to say it.  

After entering high school, her son tried as hard as he could, but her son’s friend was still ___ to him. But she was ___ of her boy for his hard work. She decided to take him on a trip to the ___. On the trip, she at last ___ an answer for him.  

Today her son no longer ___ rankings. He is now a top student in the top university he ____. Invited to speak at his old high school, he mentioned the valuable childhood ____: Once, on a trip to the sea, my mom said to me, “Do you see the seabirds ____ food out there? When a wave comes near, the little birds rise quickly. The ‘clumsy’ seagulls (海鸥) are far less ____ and have to struggle to get away from the____. But these ‘clumsy’ birds prove to have the biggest, strongest wings, which allow them to travel the ____ and leave the little birds behind. Son, I feel you are one of these seagulls.”