【推荐1】When I am reading a newspaper at home, my friends call me. “Will you _________here and give us some help?” I throw the _________ away and run to them.

My friends are playing a _________ game. And the ball goes right into Mrs. White’s   _________ . They know I live next to her,   _________   they want me to get the ball for them. I am afraid (害怕) of my neighbor, Mrs. White. She looks unfriendly. Everyone says that she doesn’t like the children. And   _________   knows Mrs. White well, because she _________ comes out of her house or speaks. I walk   _________ her garden slowly. I am nervous (紧张的). Suddenly I see a tall   _________ walking to me. It is Mrs. White. I feel worried when I see   _________ . “Is this your basketball?” she asks. I say, “Yes, and we’ll never do it again.” To my   _________   , Mrs. White says, “Why don’t you kids   _________   here? This hoop (球架) here is better than        _________ .” Wow! We are so glad to hear that! Mrs. White is   _________ us to play in her garden! We all learn an important lesson: what many people _________ isn’t always true.

【推荐1】Friends make it easier for us to go through difficulties and struggles in life. They ______ a shoulder for us to cry on. It is easy to meet people, but it is ______ to make good friends.

My best friend was Asha. She was good at English and always ______ me with it. Because of her, I made great progress. We ______ most of our time playing together. Then her parents decided to ______ in the United States. After she went away to the United States, I began to feel very ______. I remember how much I ______ when I went to see her off at the airport.

It was for a long time that I could not find any friend I could feel very ______ with. Most of my friends were boring. I began writing to Asha ______. We exchanged letters every week and sometimes even ______each other over the telephone. ______, I still had a feeling of loss after she went away.

I wanted to meet her again. So I asked my parents to ______ a trip for me to go to the US. They found the ______ ridiculous (荒谬的) as they felt that it was too expensive to go abroad. I felt ______ because my parents turned down my wish to go and visit my friend.

After a few days, I got a call ______ Asha to say that her parents had decided to visit India to meet her grandparents and other ______. Hearing the news, I jumped up with ______. I eagerly (急切地) waited for the day of her ______.

I went to meet her at the airport. We hugged each other and had so much to ______. We talked the whole night.______ we hadn’t seen for a long time, we felt that we had never been separated from each other.

【推荐3】I was having breakfast at home, checking out social media on my phone. Suddenly, a picture ________ my eye. It was a 9-year-old dog, Charlie, who was regarded as the loneliest one in Britain. He had been in a rescue center for more than 500 days.

I ________ on the link of this story, and straight away, I saw Charlie’s cute but sad eyes looking at me. I was ________ and my husband Sam felt exactly the same way. The idea of taking him home appeared in our minds. It took us some time to ________ it. A few days later, we ________ an email asking us to ________ him.

On our way to the center, we had no idea of what was going to happen. We hadn’t got much information about Charlie’s ________. Since he hadn’t got along with a new ________ for a long time, we thought there might be some ________. We had been told Charlie was ________ of humans, but when he saw us, he was full of joy, wagging (摇) his tail happily and coming straight over to us. He even jumped on Sam’s lap as if they’d been best friends for many years. Later, being told that we could take him home, we were so ________.

As soon as he got to our house, he soon made himself at home. He sniffed (嗅) around and then ________ onto a chair. Charlie knows exactly what he wants, which is to be with us all the time. He’s so warm-hearted and has none of the ________ you might think of after spending a long time in a rescue center.

We get out every day on walks and we’re much closer now. He’s always so happy to see us when my husband and I come through the door. If you give dogs ________, they’ll give you a number of wonderful things in return.

【推荐2】The moment I boarded the plane to China will probably haunt (萦绕心头) me for the rest of my life. I was leaving my best _________ in Germany. A feeling of anxiety rushed through me. They tried to make me _________ that we would meet again. But the truth is that I was leaving and they were staying, _________ I was missing them forever.

When I set _________ in my new class on a cold winter morning, I didn’t feel excited. Staring at me were 40 pairs of curious eyes. My face turned red at once. A lot of people talked to me on my first day, but I was _________ to look at them in the eye, I felt that _________ I made new friends I would be betraying(背叛) my old friends in a way.

Things _________ on a sunny afternoon. I was busy with my Chinese homework and had no _________ but to ask my classmates for help. I thought they wouldn’t be nice to me as I had kept my distance _________ them before. To my surprise, however, they were quite friendly. __________, I started to make friends with them, and we’ve had countless great memories since then.

I still __________ my old friends dearly, but I don’t feel that I’ve abandoned (抛弃) them. I know they’d feel happy for me. True friends are never __________, maybe in distance but not in heart.

So don’t be afraid of losing __________. Just let it go. During the process, you’ll discover that you __________ really say goodbye to it. __________, it becomes a part of you, helping and guiding you in life. Trees lose their leaves, but those leaves fall to the ground and help the trees grow. Let our lives grow as trees do.

【推荐3】I was sixty-eight years old and retired when our church joined a prison service group. We went on a tour of the women prison. The metal doors gave me a sense of _________. I knew I couldn’t stand being locked behind those doors, _________ as a volunteer who knew she was getting out.

Then Margo, a young but experienced volunteer in the prison, _________ me to be her partner. She felt she could _________ the women by speaking to their needs. Her positive attitude gradually built my _________, and I accepted her invitation.

Later, Margo and I scheduled our first visit. _________, when we arrived at the prison, the women _________ to come out as they were watching TV. And when I arrived the next week for the second visit, I was told Margo couldn’t _________! How was I supposed to deal with them when she was absent? Waiting alone _________, I almost jumped at the sound of the door unlocking. One by one, the women in orange entered the room. I saw daughters, mothers, and grandmothers. They had all once made bad decisions but they wanted to __________. Suddenly, I felt no fear and couldn’t wait to share __________ words with these women. Before I knew it, our meeting had ended and the women were __________ me.

Fifteen years have passed now and I __________ to go weekly to the prison. The greatest __________ is to hear them say “thanks, Granny Bev,” as they follow the guard back to their rooms, and I go through the __________ doors that once brought me fear.