【推荐1】A club called We Dine Together was formed at Boca High School in Florida last autumn.During each lunch period, ___ make their way around the school courtyard looking for students who are eating ___ They then introduce themselves and get to know the students.

Denis Estimon, who came to the US from Haiti in the first grade, is one of four students who____ We Dine Together. In an interview with CBS Evening News, Estimon ____his reason for the club. He said having been the____ kid before, he knew how it felt to be____. And he didn't want any other kid to have ___ problems.

“When I first arrived at this school, I had a great feeling of loneliness, which is more____ during my lunch break," said Estimon.“If we don't try to make that____，who's going to do it?"

Allie Sealy, who also helped organize the club, got emotional while ____ what it was like to sit alone at lunch.

“I came from a school where I_ ___ had friends but upon coming to Boca High school, I ____ nobody. It's not a good felling---you're ____. And that's something I don't want anybody to ___,”said Allie.“Meeting someone who actually ____ and listens to what you have to say really make a difference. So we formed the club to ___students have some company at lunchtime."

Since the club was formed, dozens of____and friendships have already been formed between teens who may not have met ____. Denis and his friends are planning to____ the success.“We'll open clubs in schools across the country---SO no matter where anyone lives, they have the chance to make ___.”

【推荐2】When I moved to a new neighborhood in the fifth grade, it was a hard change for me. To make it ________ , my brother and I had to change our school halfway through the school year, which meant our classmates had already formed their ________ and groups. It was difficult to ________.

One day my brother and I were playing outside our house when a boy passed by on an orange________.He looked kind, and he ________ to us. We stepped out of his ________ but none of us spoke to each other. We didn’t think we would ________ him again but we met him at school the next day. We found he was one grade below me. It meant a lot that he stopped to say ________ to us—No one from our new school had really made a( n) ________ to make friends with us, and we were_________ and didn’ t know how to reach out.

Our new friend tried to ________ us, asking us to go on bike rides around the neighborhood. We_________ started meeting other kids and realized some would go to our school. When I went off to middle school the following year, I remembered how________ I felt not knowing anyone. I ________ to look for the quiet and shy kids in my classes. Our new friend had taught us how to show ________ to a new kid. Now my brother and I wanted to________ other people.

We were_________ with the boy on the orange bike for years, though he moved when I went to middle school. He taught me to believe in myself and my________ to make new friends. It was just a matter(事情)of ________ To this day, whenever I see a(n) ________ bike, I smile.

【推荐3】I attended my 35th high school reunion recently. It was held at the 4-H camp that I _______ next to as a child. When I got there the very first thing I _______ was the little Oak trees that I used to climb up as a boy now seemed as tall as Redwoods. _______ had that happened?

I had arrived early so I _______ to help get things set up. I _______ some chairs around the tables and then got drafted to blow up the party balloons. For some reason my aging _______ couldn’t seem to get my balloons quite as _______ as my friend’s, who was helping me out.

As I started to talk to my _______ high school friends I noticed something else too. We all looked a little _______. There was some with gray hair. And we all seemed to have a few extra ________ and a few extra wrinkles. Yet, the moment we started to talk and catch up the years melted away, our ________ souls shined through. On the outside we all seemed a little wiser and more mature, but on the ________ every single one of us was bright, beautiful, and energetic. 35 years may have ________ our bodies a bit, ________ it hadn’t had any effect whatever on our souls. Our souls are created in Love. And Love ________ ages. Love is both unfading and forever young.

【推荐1】I had a great dream when I was in my twenties. I wanted to travel around Africa with my _________. So I left my hometown with great confidence and _________ Cape Town, not really _________ what to do next. Luckily, before my trip actually started, I met a kind, old Nigerian man. He gave me the best travel _________ I had ever received. “Be like a(n) _________ on your way around the world.”

It sounded _________, but it really changed my idea about travelling. He helped me realize that travel is about learning and _________ local cultures. “It’s far too easy to go into a(n) _________ country and believe your ways are better. But if you study, ask questions and try to learn from the locals, you’ll have far richer _________ ,” he promised me.

On other vacations, when I was on my tour way to Cancun. I was just a __________. I only stayed there for a week to see the __________ and places of interest and then left. The culture didn’t __________ me. I left the cities and towns without really knowing anyone or anything that existed in those places to which I had paid a visit.

This time, I promised to myself that I would be a __________ traveler. After seven months of __________ backpacking in Africa from Cape Town to Cairo, I realized that having a student-like mindset (观念模式) helped extend my trip and helped me learn a lot, which __________ me more than any other trips ever did to me.

【推荐2】My first stop was Paris. I decided to _______it on foot in order to experience the romantic and artistic _______as much as possible. There were plenty of small shops of art works, chocolate and bars _______were well decorated(装饰)_______an artistic style.

After walking for an hour and a half, I finally reached the well-known Eiffel Tower._______, when I saw it in reality for the first time, it didn't look as breath-taking as I had _______. It looked more like an ugly thing _______of brown rusted irons. While I was sitting on a bench to rest, an old man's voice drew my_______,"Bonjour!"(‘Hi' in English) When I turned _______, I found the voice came from an elderly French man. I responded(回应), ________, "Bonjour!" and started to ________him up and down. He couldn't speak ________English, so we talked to each other, ________among English, French and body language. Travelling alone in a foreign country made me ________, so I tried to avoid giving ________any personal information when strangers ________me. Luckily, the elderly man turned out to be friendly. Afterwards, he ________some impressive places to me while we were walking along the River Seine. We said goodbye to each other when it became dark.

I was about to return to the hotel ________something shiny in the dark sky caught my eye. The ________rusty iron Eiffel Tower suddenly became a diamond in the dark night. At that moment, I finally understood why it was ________an extraordinary landmark of Paris.

【推荐3】My father was born in a small town in the US. He wasn't sure what he wanted from ______， but something told him to ______ and begin a new adventure.

He began that adventure traveling to cities in the US before going on to Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. He took my mother and us three daughters with him and went wherever the road ______ him.

It's easy to feel _____ when you're on the road. We made lots of new friends on our trip — most of them are mechanics, since we often ______ hours in repair shops. But that was a way much _____ than sitting by the roadside while waiting for the engine to ______ when it was 40 ℃ outside.

Getting along well sometimes seemed ______. There were always a lot of _____， especially among us back seat passengers about who had to ______ in the middle. But even if it was hard, we learned a lot about ______. When we were traveling in the Philippines, we drove to Quezon City one day. It should have been an hour's drive but was nearly three thanks to bad roads and ______ traffic. “Did you put our suitcases in the car?” my father asked my mother as we arrived there. From the back seat, we saw her ______ turn toward my father. “No, ” she said. “I thought you did.” That was how a seven hour car trip turned into a 16hour one, which was mostly spent in ______.

On occasions like that, we had to learn to let go of our anger because we were ______ in a rolling box with the same people for the rest of the ______. Even if I sometimes felt like opening the car door and ______ one of my sisters out, I kept my feelings to myself.

This is why road trips were like ______ universities to us. We ______ our PhDs (博士学位) in how to get along with other people just by traveling in our old car.

If we were ______ given a second chance at life, we would do it all over again. Only this time would I put the suitcases in the car myself.