【推荐1】Last summer, I began the biggest adventure of my life. I moved from a tiny city in England to one of the ______ cities in the world.

As the plane ______ in Beijing, one of the first things I did was to ______ one of the city’s hutong. Walking around the ______ street, the warm air was filled with the ______ of delicious food as people played mahjong and ______ their old - fashioned bikes. This was the first moment I ______, “Wow, I’m in China.”

Beijing couldn’t be more ______ to my home city, Preston, which ______ a population of just 114,000. It has one ______ street that’s around 500 meters from one end to the ______ on Sunday, all the shops ______ at 4:00 pm. There isn’t a great deal of ______ when it comes to restaurants, either, and as a ______ of food, I couldn’t wait to see what Beijing has to ______. I still don’t have a favorite dish here yet – I’m still happily working my way through the city’s countless ______ to try to figure that out.

I’m slowly getting used ______ the fast - paced lifestyle and different ______ of life. In the future, I hope to buy a motorbike and ______ from one end to the other of this beautiful city, taking photos and ______ new people along the way.

【推荐2】One day when I was about nine years old, I ran into my mother’s bedroom and opened the dresser（化妆台）. Then in the top drawer was a small________jewelry box. I was fascinated by its treasures. Then I saw there was something________under a piece of cloth.________the cloth, I found a little white chip of china(瓷器). Why did my mother keep such a________thing? Shining slightly in the light, it________no answers.

Some months later, I was setting the dinner table when my neighbor Marge knocked at the door. Coming in and________the table, Marge said, “Oh, you are expecting company. I'll________another time."

“No, come on in,” Mum replied. “We are not________anyone."

“But isn’t that your good china?” Marge asked. “I’d________trust kids to handle my good dishes!”

Mum laughed. “Tonight’s my family’s favorite meal. If you set your best table for a(n)________meal with guests, why not for your own________? A few broken plates are a small________to pay for the joy we get. ” Then she added, “________，every chip and crack has a story to tell.”

Mum went to the cupboard and took down a plate. She said, “Seeing this________on the edge(边缘) here? It happened when I was 17.”

Her voice________. “One day my brother invited a young man to dinner and sat him next to me. I was so________that when I took the plate, it________and knocked against the fork. As the young man was leaving, he________a piece of broken china in my hand without saying a word.”

I couldn’t forget about that plate with the________chip. I went up to take out the little wooden jewelry box again. I examined the chip________. The chip which my mother had saved with care belonged to the plate she broke on the day she met my father.

【推荐3】Our family moved to Colorado on my third birthday._______my dad, a truck driver, was always delivering goods outside, mom was almost like a single mother and most of the time I was _______.

My first memory of the new life was our _______. Arlene, handing me strawberries from her garden. Then one day, mom asked Arlene to watch me while she was out. This _______well for everyone, so it became a _______occurrence. Every morning I would _______to chat with her, and even my dog would _______out of our yard to visit her.

What _______me to Arlene is that she never got tired of me. I think Arlene saw a lot of herself in me-we were both lonely, desperate for _______. It was a wonderful __________.

When I was five, an idea suddenly __________ me: “What if I __________Arlene as my grandma?” Almost immediately I went to ask Arlene, “Will you be my grandma?” Surprisingly, she started crying and enthusiastically accepted. Soon she printed out an adoption certificate, which __________on her living room’s wall afterwards.

I remember being surprised that she took my offer so __________. Recalling that moment still brings tears to my eyes. There is something truly magnificent about a child offering love and an adult accepting it. Everyone in this world __________ enthusiastic love.

【推荐2】When my wife, Jane, and I were 16, we were in the same class. About a week before Thanksgiving Day, we found out that our teacher Edward was having some__________challenges. We wanted to do something to help, so as a class we__________to gather food, clothing and gifts to__________his family had a good Thanksgiving Day.

When Jane told her family about our plan, her mother was__________. Together they searched their house for things they could__________. Her mother went to the kitchen,__________a big turkey and saying, “Thanksgiving Day won’t be__________without a turkey dinner.” To this day, Jane remembers how moved she was by her mother's__________.

Before making our__________, we said a prayer of appreciation for the wonderful__________to help others. I will never forget the surprised__________of our teacher and his wife when they__________the door; their four children gathered around them as we handed out the gifts. It was a cold night; we all felt warm inside,__________.

Last month while I was in a meeting, my secretary informed me, “Your high school teacher Mr. Edward is wondering if you could__________him a few minutes. He’s sitting in your office right now!”

I left my meeting and went to my office__________. My teacher and I hugged and began to_________ the last years. He told me he__________remembered that cold winter night when we brought the__________of Thanksgiving Day to his family. The food and gifts were certainly____________, but what warmed his heart that night was to see a group of teenagers who understood the__________of Thanksgiving Day.

【推荐3】“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. “If you don’t ________, something good will happen some day.”

Mother was ________, as I discovered after graduating from college, I had ________ myself to be a sports announcer(播音员). So I went to Chicago to knock on the door of every station and was ________ every time. In one station, a ________ lady told me that large stations wouldn’t employ（雇佣） a person without ______ since I just graduated. “Go out of the town and find a small station that might give you ______,” she said.

I returned to Dixon, where I had finished my high school education and had ______ high school football. My father said that our town had built a store and wanted a man to ______ its sports department. The job sounded just ______ for me but I wasn’t hired.

My disappointment had ______ as if by design. “Everything happens for the best,” Mom ______ me. Dad lent me his car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio Davenport. The program director told me they had already ______ an announcer. After I left his office, I asked aloud “______ can a fellow get to be a sports ______ if he can’t get a job in a radio station?” ______, I heard the director calling. “Do you know anything about ______?” Then he asked me to ______ an imaginary game. It was easy, and I did it without difficulty. The director was ______ and told me I would be broadcasting a game on the ______ Saturday.