【推荐1】As a child, I lived on a college campus with my parents. Their students often visited and did jigsaw puzzles (拼图) with me, for which I quickly discovered my_______.I would sit alone for hours_________building a puzzle. My college “friends” would be_________next time they came.

Soon I_______ up from 500-piece puzzles to my highest _______:a 3,000-piece one. I was so_______at the thought of tearing it apart that I moved the finished puzzle_______ onto a large board and kept it as it was until we moved away and I _______ playing with puzzles.

Recently I can't help but_______my old days, when I could spend hours looking at small, oddly shaped cardboard pieces and ________them into appropriately spaced positions, enjoying myself.

I now live in a world of divided________, constantly jumping from one form of entertainment to another.________，I dislike it when I open my phone to send a quick text, but only to find myself, an hour later, clicking on countless YouTube videos that leave no impression on me. I miss being someone who didn't________ to be bombed with so many flashy external stimuli to be ________ .

I think a puzzle or two would force me to be another version of myself, a less impatient one. When I get home this summer, I'll________ the box of old toys somewhere in our basement. Maybe I'll find what I'm looking for.

【推荐2】What kind of person gets a tattoo (纹身)? Sailors, bikers, criminals? Well, not anymore! Check out this _______ from a recent survey: the number of Americans aged eighteen to twenty-five with tattoos has _______ to thirty-six percent over the last few years. And tattoos seem to be catching on in South America. Europe and Japan, too, a trend possibly _______ by the number of famous people proudly showing off their tattoos. People are getting tattoos to ______ the birth of a child or to show the world a symbol or a phrase with some personal meaning.

But how many of those following this latest fashion will end up ______ it? Julie, now 25, is having her tattoo got rid of by laser surgery. “My mates egged me on to do it while I was on holiday a few years ago,” she says, “and now I feel that I've _______ it.” Laser surgery isn't a cheap or easy option, however. Julie ______ paid £100 for her tattoo but is now having to cough up over £1000 to ______ it and the process will take about six months.

Stacey, 22, is finding that she is getting passed over for _______ at work and wonders if this is anything to do with her twelve tattoos. “They've told me to wear long sleeves (袖子) whatever the weather!” she says. “It's _______ but they won't back down, so I've had to give in.”

And a recent survey showed that less than thirty percent of employers in the retail, hospitality, office or beauty sectors would ________ someone with a visible tattoo.

And then you need to bear in mind how the tattoo might look when you're getting on a bit. What looked cool on you at 18, might look _______ at 50. Your tattoo can also fade and, if you put on weight, _______. Or you might just go off it.

If all this doesn't put you off and you can gather the courage (because it ______), make sure you shop around for a well-known tattooist. Ask to see portfolio of their work and certificates of training and hygiene. Where possible, get a personal _______ from someone you trust. And think it over first. Hard.

【推荐3】My son Leon's passion for surfing began at the age of 13, and he would go out to surf each day. One afternoon, the lifeguard called and said Leon's eye was badly_______by his board.

He _______ 26 stitches (缝针) from the corner of his eye to the bridge of his nose. I_______.telling him how _______I felt about not being there when he was hurt.

“It's okay. Mom," be_______ me. “ You don’t know how to surf anyway.”

“What?” I asked. _______by his logic.

"I'll be fine. The doctor says I can surf again in eight days."

I wanted to tell him he wasn't _______       to surf again until he was 20, but instead I_______my tongue and hoped he would _______ about surfing.

However, for the next seven days he kept ________ me to let him surf again. One day after I had________“No" to him for the 100th time, he ________me at my own game.

"Mom,you taught us never to________ what we love." I gave in.

Back then Leon was just a boy with a ________ of surfing. Now he's a man ________the top 25 professional surfers in the world.

【推荐1】I shall never forget the day when the earthquake took place. The time was 5:15 in the afternoon and I was driving along the road to _________my daughter from school to swim. I had finished work at about 4 o’clock and then stopped off at a shop to get some _________ to eat after our swim.

I was driving along a high road on my way to the school. Over my road was another road for cars coming to the other way. I was _________so I put the bag of apples on the seat beside me and started to eat one.

Suddenly I saw the cars in front of me start to move from side to side. Then my car started to _________!I didn’t know what was happening.

Perhaps _________ had gone wrong with my car. I drove even slower. Then the road above started to fall down. I _________the car and at the same moment the road fell onto the cars in front of me.

I found myself in the _________. I could see nothing. The bottom parts of both my legs and my feet were _________badly and I couldn’t move them. Below me I could hear _________and a lot of noise. Then I remembered what had happened. I had been in a(n) __________.

For about two hours nobody came. __________ I could reach the bag of apples, so at least I had plenty to eat. Then I __________someone climbing towards me. I __________“I’m here!” “How are you doing?” he asked. “Not too bad,” I said, “but my feet and legs feel __________they’re broken.”

“We’ll have you out of there just as soon as we can,” he said.

They didn’t get me out __________ the next morning. I had been in my car for fourteen hours.

【推荐2】When I was a kid, if someone told me that I would grow up to become a________author and founder of a youth ________foundation, I would have laughed and kept walking. ________now when I see the title of my latest picture book, My Very Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World, I shake my head, not quite believing that book has my name on it. But the truth is, this story comes from my own personal experience.

It took me a very long time to find my personal reading voice. In Valdosta, Ga., where I grew up, my community ________two pathways to a better life for little boys like me: being an athlete and being an entertainer. I was no different than the other kids, so I did what felt ________: Play football and overlook school. School presented challenges every day and so did football practice, but overcoming ________adversity(逆境) was ________my neighborhood’s culture. Reading books not so much.

Fortunately, I went to college. That’s where my reading difficulties really________. Trips to the grocery store were stressful because there was so much reading ________in the simple act of buying food. I would misread labels and grab the wrong________. Once, I________apple sauce thinking it was apple slices. I didn’t notice my mistake until I got home and realized that it was my________to understand the differences in the wording on the labels that caused the mistake. I realized that I needed to make an important________. If I wanted to be a better version of me, I had to become a stronger reader.

I joined a book club and read every free moment I had. My journey with reading also created a desire in me to inspire others who_________reading. So I started a nonprofit, Share the Magic Foundation, trying to ________the lives of children living in under served communities through literacy.