【推荐1】My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summers we would go sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at   _______. As for me, I _______ both before twelve because of living close to Lake Ontario.

The last time Dad and I set sail together is really   _______. It was a perfect weekend after I graduated from university. I came home and _______ Dad to go sailing. Out we set soon on the _______ lake. Dad hadn’t sailed for years, but everything _______ well with the tiller (舵柄) in his hands.

When we were in the middle of the lake, a _______ wind came all of a sudden. The boat was hit _______ . Dad was always at his best in any _______ , but at this moment he ________ . “John!   ________ !” he shouted in a trembling voice, with the tiller still in his hands.

In my memory he could fix any ________ . He was the one I always ________ for strength and security. ________ I could respond, a wave of water got into the boat. I ________ to the tiller but it was too late. Another huge wall of water ________ the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was struggling aimlessly. At that moment, I felt fiercely ________ of him.

I swam to Dad ________ and assisted him in climbing onto the hull (船壳) of the boat. Upon sitting on the hull, Dad was a little awkward about his flash (瞬间) of ________ . “It’s all right, Dad. We are safe now,” I comforted him.

That was the first time Dad had relied on me in a moment of emergency. More importantly, I found it was my turn to start ________for my father.

【推荐3】When studying at the University of Pittsburgh, I went home to Virginia to see my family one weekend. “Look, I got a best sportsman’s jacket!” I said. Dad ____took his eyes off the TV. I had wanted Dad to ____me all my life, but nothing ever seemed ____enough. I shook off my ____ and went back to Pitt. A month later, Mom called and said that Dad’s diabetes (糖尿病) had gotten worse. “I’m coming homo,” I said. “You’re going to need help.” I ____ a college near home. Every Sunday, I went home and helped Dad. To my sadness, he ____everything I did. “It’s not you,” Mom explained to me. “What ____him makes him feel bad about himself. His anger was ____his frustration(挫败).” I was so surprised to hear that. Now I saw his pain went beyond the ____ pain, and that made me try harder to ____him.

One day we were watching a football game. “I’ll bet you $2 million that Dallas wins,” I said. Dad looked at me. “You don’t have $2 million,” he ____. After that, every time we watched the game, we made ____bets. Dad laughed more easily and he was more willing to accept my help. Our relationship was ____That spring, a week before the National Football League draft (选拔), we had a party at our house. After everyone had gone, Dad and I were sitting in the living room. He caught my eye. “It doesn’t ____if you make it or not,” he said. “I’m proud of you.” Maybe our relationship would never be perfect, but I would never ____that he wanted the best for me.

【推荐1】After a late night at a car race, Carole and Verne King returned to their dog-friendly hotel in Kalispell, but their dog named Katie ______. At the front desk, an attendant(服务员) said she had seen an anxious dog rush out the door hours before.

The Kings were shocked at the news and decided to set out to find it immediately. “Every night going to bed after an exhausting day, we were extremely ______,” said Mr. King. “Is she warm? Did she get to eat today?”

Several days later, the Kings spent the night searching nearby neighborhoods, but there was no ______ of the dog. The front-desk attendant asked them to send some photos, and together they ______ making and distributing fliers(传单) around the area.

Hundreds of them were posted on light poles and mailboxes, and handed out by the couple and even strangers ______ them in walking the neighborhoods ______ Katie.

Once, while they were talking to a landowner at a farm, a woman came up to them and said she had seen their dog cross the road and ______ a corn field. The Kings started running, calling for Katie.

It turned out to be a ______ dog.

Missing their house and other animals, the disappointed couple was planning to return home, ______ some of their new friends in Kalispell ______ them to hang on. More than a dozen others spent hours in ______ them to search.

The couple said that they couldn’t ______ almost all village was up there and that they received much ______ from people－from a stranger to a stranger.

On the morning of September 15, the couple were walking through that corn field with many villagers joining them. ______ a woman pointed to a dog under a nearby tree. It was her! They all began calling Katie’s name, but the dog was cautious. Therefore, others in the group went silent as Mrs. King called out to the dog. Katie was so ______ that she came running and jumped into Mrs. King’s arms immediately.

【推荐2】Ruby was out late that night. She waited patiently in a dark alley and listened for signs of life.

But all she _________ was the traffic on London’s streets.

Yawning languidly, she turned to look _________ at the house across the street. The orange glow (光) in the window upstairs told her that something _________. As she started to run back down the alley, one window _________ and with a sudden “whoosh!”, flames _________ into the night sky.

“My _________!” Ruby screamed silently. She _________ into the house through an open window. Smoke had started to fill the room, and _________ it became virtually impossible to see. However, the sound of her babies’ cries _________ her.

As gently as possible, Ruby __________ the first baby, dashed outside and laid it on the __________. She came back for her second child __________. Now the flames were already dancing down the stairs. She __________ feel her hot breath on her back as she escaped through the window with her second baby.

She returned __________ more times for the others. The blazing fire was all around her now,__________ at her like a fierce beast. It burned her ears and her eyelids and the skin on her legs. She could hardly see.__________, she was able to carry her last child out before the roof and walls collapsed. Ruby’s home didn’t exist anymore.

When the fire was out, a fire fighter walked over to the seven cats on the pavement across the street—the mother and her six babies. The mother was __________ burned. He was quite clear ______________the story went—she had gone into the burning house over and over again and returned with a baby __________ each time. “Now,” he thought, “it’s my __________ to rescue her.”

【推荐3】WHAT are good friends? This is not a (an) _______question. But Mark and Jarryd Haines,

___________, have always been good friends. The two boys from Sydney have known each other for most of their lives. Both of them_______playing Australian football.

A few years ago, when Mark was nine, he developed brain cancer. The _______robbed the boy of his _______, part of his hearing and his ability to play his favorite sport._______, throughout the years, Jarryd_______his closest friend. They still share their love of Australian football. And they still like talking about the Sydney Swans, their favorite team.

Two weeks ago, I took my___________at Sydney Cricket Ground to watch the Swans. The old stadium_______fans. Shortly into the second quarter, I heard some great commentary (现场解说) from a boy. Play by play, Jarryd was bringing the game to ________. I turned and saw him. Mark was sitting next to him.

__________he cannot see anymore, Mark still loves the Swans very much. Usually, he goes to the stadium and listens to the commentary on the radio. But in the second quarter of that match, the radio system ________. That was when his friend Jarryd stepped in.

I ________looked at the Swans and Buddy, the team's star player. ________that, I was focusing on Jarryd and Mark. ''What's happening now, mate?'' Mark asked. ''Don't worry, Mark,'' Jarryd replied. ''Okay. Buddy's got it. Will he go for it? He's going for it! It's his tenth goal! Buddy is________!''Mark listened carefully. He was lost in the________of Australian football brought to life by his friend.

Sports can be ________. Yet, they can also allow us to share wonderful________with others,____________they be close friends or perfect strangers. Here, Jarryd and Mark have moved me, and perhaps some other spectators (观众), with their precious________.

【推荐2】Many years ago, I bought a house in the Garfagnana, where we still go every summer. The first time we _______ there, we heard the chug-chug-chug of a motorbike _______ its way down the hill toward us. It was neighbor called Mario, coming to _______ us a box containing some tomatoes and a bottle of wine. It was a very nice _______ for him to make. But when we looked at the tomatoes, we were worried because they were so misshapen: not at all like the nice, round, _______ things you get in a supermarket. And the wine was cloudy, in a funny old bottle with no label on it. These can’t be any _______, we thought. But we were thankful for his kindness, so we _______ them.

What we discovered is that it’s _______ to judge what you cat only by its appearance. Those tomatoes had _______ that reminded me of the ones my uncle used to grow when I was a child. Nowadays supermarket tomatoes ________ perfect but taste of water. Nobody’s going to have a ________ memory of those. It’s a surprise they haven’t managed to grow square ones so that they can ________ them easily. Mario’s wine may have been cloudy and come out of an old bottle, but it was ________.

It’s good to eat things at the correct time, when they’re ________, and as close as possible to where they were grown. What Mario had ________ us was the taste of the Garfagnana.

【推荐3】As a librarian, Jennifer William’s mother used to read to her children every day. Therefore, it was her mother who got her ________ to books. “Not until we went to kindergarten,” Williams told vadogwood.com, a local news site. “Until we went to college.”

When Williams, now 54, became a school teacher in Danville, Virginia, she wanted her students to fall in love with ________ just as she had. But early on, she realized that some kids had ________ access to books.

“It’s very ________ to teachers which kids are read to versus (相对于) kids who are not”, she said. “It’s obvious at the end of the first day of school.” To Williams, the solution was simple: Give kids books. In 2017, as part of an event called Engage Danville, she ________ 900 used children’s books over three days. Most people would be satisfied with that. Most.

“I was like, ‘________ could do that;’” she said. “I wanted to do something that’s going to ________ my faith, my dream, my everything.”So she set a new ________ for herself: Give away one million books. It sounds like an ________ number, but as Williams ________ on Facebook: “Don’t ________ in the bleachers (露天看台) if you aren’t willing to work hard out on the field!”

So she got to work, first by persuading (说服) friends to ________ books or money to buy books. Before long, as news of Williams’ project ________, strangers started leaving bundles of books on her front door.

In the four years she’s been doing all this, the Book Lady, as Williams has come to be known, has given away more than 78,000 books—only 922,000 more to reach her goal! And she’s not slowing down. It’s too important for kids with few ________.

“Reading can take you anywhere,” she told CNN. “You can feel ________ in time and space. If you can read, you can learn almost anything.”