【推荐1】My cousin Andrew is crazy about DIY.

He loves to repair things and decorate his house.But when he finishes，the house always looks _______！

He once tried to put in a brighter light in his bedroom，but he made a mistake.Then his whole house had a power _______．Another time，he wanted to _______ a picture on his bedroom wall，but he hit a pipe and filled the room with water.

Last month，he thought the living room in his house was boring，so he painted it blue.His mum said，“Stop it.”But he kept on painting.Now the living room has _______ blue walls but also a blue ceiling and floor.Even his cat is blue now!

When I wanted a shelf above my bed，he said，“_______！”He then spent five hours making the shelf on the wall.Then I put my books on the shelf.Whoops! They couldn’t stay there because one end of the shelf was much higher than _______！

I _______ some books about DIY for him and I also advised him to take a _______ in DIY.But this just made him angry—he says he already knows _______ about it.So，I am reading all the books myself and   ________ lessons every Saturday.Now I know much more about DIY than my cousin!

【推荐2】In China, square dancing is an exercise routine performed to music in squares or parks. Recent years have _________ the growing popularity of square dancing among elderly people in China, _________ it provides them with a good platform to _________ and make new friends in their ordinary lives. Although the practice has roots in both ancient and modern Chinese history, today the Chinese hold _________ views towards it. Some people, the young in particular, argue that it has disturbed their peaceful lives.

As for _________ citizens, square dancing is relatively easy to learn compared to traditional _________ and thus win their _________. Moreover, practicing square dancing doesn’t need special equipment. All it needs are open ground and loudspeakers. _________, it can be found across the country.

_________, many young people have showed their dissatisfaction. They think that square dancing __________ too much space in their neighborhood and disturbs their life. In fact, it is the noise __________ square dancing that young people __________ most.

Therefore, concessions (让步) should be made by both __________ so that they can live in __________ with each other.

People taking part in square dancing are expected to dance in areas far away from residential communities (居民区), while the young are called on to show more __________ of square dancing.

They will also become old and one day may be one of the dancers they dislike now.

In addition, the government should spare more suitable areas where the elderly can do their favorite activities.

【推荐3】We tend to think that the happiest people are the ones who have all the good things — money, looks, health, love, friends, success, shiny cars, big beautiful houses, but is that really true? I have ___ so many ＂poor＂ and ＂rich＂ people while traveling around the world. I can tell you that often the people who had ___ seemed much ___ than the people who had more.

About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate student in college, I was ___ as an intern(实习生) in the ______ of my University’s Museum of Natural History. One day, while operating the cash register, an elderly couple ______ with a little girl in a ___. As I took a closer look at this girl, I ___ she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and torso(躯干). She was ___ a little white dress with red dots.

As the couple wheeled her up to the ____, I was looking down at the register. I ____ my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼). As I ____ the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the largest ____ I had ever seen. All of a sudden, her disability was ____ and all I saw was a beautiful little girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a ____ new sense of what ______ was all about.

At that time, I was a poor and unhappy college student. The little girl ____ me into her world, a world of smiles, love and warmth. Now I’m a successful business person. Whenever I start to feel ____ and think about the troubles of the world, I ____ that little girl and the remarkable ____ about life that she taught me.

【推荐1】Where do you go when you want to learn something? A friend? A tutor? These are all __________ places of learning. But it may well be that the learning you really want __________ somewhere else instead. I had the chance of seeing this first hand on a __________.

My daughter plays on a recreational (娱乐的，业余的) soccer team. They did very well this season and so __________ a tournament (锦标赛), which normally was only for more skilled club teams. This led to some __________ experiences on Saturday as they played against teams __________ trained. Through the first two games, her __________ did not get on serious shot on goal. As a parent, I __________ seeing my daughter playing her best, but still defeated.

It seemed that something clicked with the __________ between Saturday and Sunday. When they __________ for their Sunday game, they were completely different. They had begun integrate (融合) the kinds of play and teamwork they had __________ the day before into their __________. They played aggressively and even scored a goal.

It __________ me that playing against the other team was a great __________ moment for all the girls on the team. I think it is a general principle. __________ is the best teacher. The lessons they may not be different from what they would have gotten in school. But are certainly more personal and meaningful, because they had to work them out on their own.

【推荐2】My son Joey was born with disability. The doctors _________ us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally—but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were spent in _________ with the help of casts (石膏) and braces (支架). By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had a problem when you saw him walk.

The children in our _________ ran around as most children do during game play, and Joey would _________ and run and play, too. We never told him the _________ that he probably wouldn’t be able to run as well as other children.

In seventh grade he _________ his mind to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team. He made great efforts and ran more than any of the others—perhaps he _________ that the abilities that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come naturally to him. The entire team ran. _________, only the top seven runners had the chance to score points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make it.

He _________ running four to five miles every day—even the day he had a high fever. After school, I found him __________ by himself. I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. The sweat __________ down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he couldn’t run four miles with a high fever, either.

Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were __________. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had __________. He was in seventh grade—the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he shouldn’t __________ to make it. We never told him he couldn’t do it.

With the strong __________, you can achieve your dream.

【推荐1】It happened when our grandchild, Anne, was three years old., My husband, Paul, asked her if there was anything she wanted to plant in our garden. She had an answer———Fritos (曲炸玉米饼).

"Anne, Fritos might not______in this soil,"he said. But Anne looked at her grandfather and said that if the other vegetables could grow, so would Fritos.   Paul   __this in the simplest way possible. He sent Anne running to the house for Fritos.

That evening, I asked Paul, "Are you______?”

"She will forget it"he______. The next day, Anne asked again. To gain time, Paul said It would _______two weeks for Fritos to come out. That should be plenty of time for her to forget, he thought.

For the next two weeks, she arrived every evening to check her "Fritos land". Anne grew more______. But with each passing day, Paul became more and more______. By the 13th day, he had_______a plan, and the next morning we began to work.

We planted two plants where the Fritos were______. Then we began the difficult task of tying Fritos around the leaves of the plants. At last, that was quite a______off our mind.

Anne ran straight to the garden as usual. We were shocked when she shouted, “Grandpa! They’re up! The Fritos came up!”

The story was repeated several times. When Anne was in second grade, it was finally forgotten until the day her teacher talked about the topic of______. As part of the lesson, the teacher asked each child to______ something that grows in a garden. You can______what Anne said!

Anne’s parents_______it was time to tell the truth. Their daughter sat very still while they talked, and when they finished, she remained_______ . Suddenly, Anne burst out laughing and said, “That's the best joke Grandpa ever played on me.”

【推荐2】A well-dressed man entered a famous jewelry shop. He explained he ________ to buy a pearl for his ________ birthday and the ________ didn’t matter since business had been very good for him that year.

After examining a number of beautiful and expensive pearls, he chose a(an) ________ black one that ________ $5000. He paid for it in cash, shook hands with the jeweler, and left.

A few days later the man ________ and said that his wife liked the pearl so much that she spent a ________ day with the gift. She wanted another one just like it _________she wanted a pair of earrings made. It had to be exactly the same size and _________ “Can you give me any advice on how to get such a pearl ?” said the man. The jeweler ________ replied, “I would say it’s exactly impossible to find one exactly like that pearl.”

The rich man insisted that the jeweler advertise in the newspapers,________ $ 25,000 for the matching pearl. Many people ________ the advertisement but nobody ________ a pearl that was just right.

Just when the jeweler had given up hope, a little old lady came into his________. To his great ________, she pulled the perfect pearl from her purse. “I don’t like to part with it,” she said ________, “It was given to me by my mother, who had ________ it from her mother. But I really need the ________.”

The jeweler quickly paid her before she changed her mind. Then he called the ________ hotel to tell him the good news. The man, however, was nowhere to be ________. Clever readers, do you know why?