【推荐1】When I was asked to think about someone who changed our life by my teacher, I thought of my friend Anna immediately.

Anna was a top student when she was at school. She was ______, so she often told me, “Study hard, and your efforts will finally ______. In the future, you will have a good job and certainly be ______ in life.” After her graduation, she was admitted to a university. ______, she left there after studying for appropriately a year, because she didn’t have enough ______ for the next year. But a year later，she ______. This time she was not only a college student, but also a(n) ______. She had to work in her ______ time and do homework during school hours. It must have been the most difficult period of time in her life, but she didn’t ______ at all. Instead, she told me how to become ______ and responsible.

I ______ her and often tell myself that I should work hard to ______ it once I set my mind to something like Anna. Her ways are changing my ways. Now I don’t do the things I ______ to do. Ever since I started high school, I have been more ______. I am not lazy any more. Instead, I try to come to school every day. I have ______ everything aside and just have been focused on school. I am really ______ that she has changed me a lot.

As our teacher was ______, already had something to write, because I ______ thought of my friend. I am actually proud to say that she is my ______, because I wouldn’t be here at this point of time without her help. I firmly believe that I will be someone who ______ someone else one day.

【推荐2】There are many kinds of friends. Some are always _________ you, but don’t understand you. Some say only a few words to you, but understand you. Many people will step in your life, but only _________ friends leave footprints.

I shall always recall (回想) the autumn and the girl with the _________.   She will always bring back the friendship between us. I know she will always be my best friend.

It was the golden season. I could see the _________ leaves floating with the cool wind. In such a season, I liked walking alone in the leaves, _________ to the sound of them.

Autumn is a harvest season and life is uninteresting. The boring days always get me _________. But one day, the sound of a violin flowed into my ears like a stream (小溪) flowing in the mountains. I was so surprised that I jumped to see what it was. A young girl, standing in the wind, was _________ in playing her violin.

I had _________ seen her before. The music was so nice that I listened quietly. Lost in the music, I didn’t know that I had been _________ there for so long but my existence (存在) did not seem to disturb her.

Leaves were still falling. Every day __________ she played the violin in the corner of the building I went downstairs to watch her performance. I was the only listener. The autumn seemed no longer lonely and life became __________. Though we didn’t know each other, I thought we were already good friends. I believe she also loved me.

Autumn was nearly over. One day, when I was listening carefully, the sound suddenly __________. To my surprise, the girl came over to me.

“You must like violin.” she said.

“Yes. And you play very well. Why did you stop?” I asked.

Suddenly, a __________ expression appeared on her face and I could feel something unusual. “I came here to see my grandmother, but now I must leave. I once played very badly. It was your listening every day that encouraged me.” she said.

“________ it was your playing that gave me a meaningful autumn,” I answered, “Let’s be friends.” The girl smiled, and so did I.

I never heard her play again in my life. I no longer went downstairs to listen like before. Only Thick leaves were left behind. But I will always remember the fine __________ of the girl. She is like a dream-so short, so bright, like a shooting star giving off so much light that it makes the autumn beautiful.

【推荐3】When I was little, my family used to move frequently. Before I could even get _______ with my schoolmates, my family was on the move again. I became very _______ because of this.

But a girl with dark skin and long shiny hair _______ me. Her best characteristics are her openness and _______. She is always smiling, like a beautiful sunflower following the sun. Without _______ I enjoyed being with her and soon we became good friends. As time went by, I gradually became a _______ girl. But this joyful period didn’t last long. We were admitted to different colleges. I felt like I had gone _______ to my always-on-the-move childhood. I felt _________ and helpless and I was afraid that I would _______ her as my best friend. She stayed calm and said to me: “Rain, you can achieve more than I do, so __________ to your dreams and make a big effort! Real friendship doesn’t fade and we will be best friends forever.” Maybe she didn’t realize what a great ________ she was to me at that time.

However, it turned out that my ________ were well-founded. I felt that the ________ between us was getting bigger and bigger. One day, she sent me a text message happily telling me that she had fallen in love with a handsome boy in her class.

I felt happy for her, but at the same time I was secretly worried about our friendship. I __________ her several times intending to tell her to think carefully about her ________ with the boy, but I got no more messages from her. I felt sad that perhaps our friendship would not __________. I had almost given up hope ________ she visited me at my campus a week later. She looked __________ but was wearing the most beautiful smile. She gave me a big hug and said: “I’m sorry. I want to be myself and your friend forever!” We cried together, ________ the people walking past. She told me her sad story, and we knew we had gone back to how it was before.

Now I firmly believe that distance and time can’t ________ you from a friend. If you care enough about each other, friendship never fades.

【推荐1】While washing dishes, I sometimes look into the kitchen window of our neighbor’s house. Our kitchen is always _______ but our neighbors, two young men whom I only know in passing, never seem to turn on their light. Once as I was washing apples, my eyes _______. Shadow gave way to shape. Then I _______ them—head bent, pouring the pickle (腌菜) juice from an empty jar.

On the first Saturday of the COVID-19 lockdown, I wanted to be a good _______ to them. The pandemic seemed to be getting worse. I _______ what the weeks and months ahead might look like. Our family have been trying to take the idea of “love the neighbour” _______, and sometimes that does literally mean the person living next door, _______ you’ve only met them from the kitchen window.

So I made a sign reading “Have a nice day!” and stuck it on my kitchen window. A while later, a sign appeared on their window with a _______ for us. “Thank you. You too!”

We went on like this for a few days and I thought of how this would be a nice story for us all: _______ by signs and moving from strangers to good friends. ________ around Day 5, I posted a line of a Mary Oliver poem, and that was the ________ of that. Maybe I was showing off, so I stopped. However, a week later, when I went out to quiet our yelling dog, I saw one of the guys. “Sorry, we didn’t find a ________,” he said. “We meant to,” he added. “And then we never ________.”“That’s okay,” I replied. And we both went back inside.

It is so ________ to be a good neighbour now. We can’t ________ and knock on a door, or even lend things. After this is all over, I have decided I will invite all our neighbors over for dinner. I can’t be a neighbour now, but I can be a neighbour then. The pandemic will have knitted us together like an old worn sock and we’ll stay that way.

【推荐2】During a recent holiday I visited Dusseldorf a city in the west of Germany. The nine-day trip left a deep impression _________ me. I arrived at Dusseldorf airport at 7 pm. It was already _________ outside. The first thing I needed to do was to find a place to _________. I decided to telephone the Youth Hotel. But to use the phone I needed some _________; I asked a lady for help. To my _________ she gave me three coins to use. But all the phones in the _________ needed phone cards. And phone cards could only be bought at post offices during the _________. I was _________ I would not be able to call the hotel. When I was about to give up, an old gentleman came to me. He couldn’t speak English _________ understand that I needed to __________ a phone call. He showed me where the phone was and inserted __________ phone card. I called the Youth Hotel and found a place to stay that night.

The __________ of the German people made me feel that I was not __________ my hometown. My first day in Germany wasn’t as __________ as I expected. When I got lost in the city, I asked people for __________. It surprised me that __________ every young German could speak English fluent. Older Germans couldn’t __________ English very well, but they would try to help me whenever they could. One middle-aged man I asked for directions even __________ me to the place I was looking for.

My __________ in Germany totally changed my impression of Germans. Now I think the people couldn’t be more __________.

【推荐3】Surviving Mount Rainier

Bad luck and poor timing left Krasnitskiy and three climbers stuck on Mount Rainier for several long days. They faced mountain climbing’s _________ tests. One man suffered _________ sickness; ice and rockfall _________ down at night; cold nights in a _________ that got torn left them hypothermic (体温过低的). Calm, confidence, skill and the courage to continue up the _________ route, despite illness and injury, likely saved their lives.

The climbers _________ on a Friday, camping low on the route the first night because they were _________ about rockfall after a climber had recently died in an accident at the route’s typical _________ camp.

On Saturday, at about 10,500 feet, one of the climbers became sick from the altitude, which began to slow them down.

By Sunday evening, the ill climber was _________, and they had to make an unplanned camp on steep snow. A __________ wind, unexpected and strong, began to break their tent. It was a cold night.

On Monday, they called 911. For several __________, they watched as high winds __________ rangers’ (护林员) attempts at a helicopter rescue. Their food was __________ and they shared a single bottle of snowmelt (融雪水) each day.

Then the icefall __________ their tent platform and squeezed them together. It was impossible to climb down. On Wednesday, they decided to __________ their climb — __________, carefully, resting when they were weak.

Krasnitskiy thought of all the people who loved him, and it really __________ him that they must be worried. As he climbed, he just kept yelling out to his __________, “We have to get there.”

However, on Thursday morning, their spirits began to __________. They started to __________ whether they could continue. But then the helicopter arrived. They were rescued.

【推荐1】One summer evening as I was cooking dinner, there was a knock at the door. I _________ it to see a truly bad-looking man. But his voice was _________ as he said, “Good evening. I’ve come to see if you’ve a _________ for just one night. I came for a(n) _________ this morning from the eastern shore. And there’s no bus next morning.”

He told me he’d been _________ for a room but with no success. “I guess it’s my face … I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments…” he said. I told him we would _________ him a bed, but to rest on the porch (门廊). I went inside and prepared supper. When we were _________, I asked him if he would _________ us. “No, thank you. I have plenty.” When I had _________ the dinner, I went out to talk with __________. It didn’t take a long time to see __________   this old man had an oversized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to __________ his daughter, her five children, and her husband, who was __________ disabled from a back injury.

At bedtime, we __________ a bed in the children’s room for him. On his next trip, __________ a gift, he brought a big fish and a quart of the largest oysters (牡蛎) I had never seen. In the years he came to __________ overnight with us, there was __________ a time that he did not __________ us some fish or others from his garden.

I know our family will always be __________ to have known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the __________ without complaint and the good with thanks.

【推荐2】Krystal was ten when her parents divorced (离婚). By the time she was 12, her mother ________ and they lived in Cloverport, Kentucky. Danny, her new stepfather (继父), drove a truck. When he was home, he tried ________ to be friends. But teenage Krystal was like ice. “The divorce really made me________. I was heartbroken.

In the summer of 1984, Danny stopped at a Texas rest stop around midnight when he ________ a purple tour bus. The printed name “Prince” caught his eye. He’d heard of this Prince and knew Krystal and her friends ________ his songs. He knocked on the bus door. Prince himself stepped down the stairs. “My stepdaughter likes your ________. Can I ask you for your autograph?”

With no ________ on hand, Prince reached for the purple bandanna (头巾) on his head and ________ it. Danny called Krystal’s mom ________. “Krystal likes Prince, right?” “Of course, Danny. She’ll love it.” Mom hung up the phone and ________ Krystal. Then Krystal told all 13 people in her class _______. By the time Danny pulled up to the house a few days later, the entire population of Cloverport ________ the purple bandanna that was making its way to Krystal.

But no one knew what had ________ after Danny hung up the phone. After ________ Prince, he’d been walking back to his truck when another trucker ________ him. “Hey, man, my son is a huge fan. Are you willing to make a ________?”

Arriving home in Cloverport that summer day, his hands behind his back, Danny stepped out of his truck. “I hope I made the ________ decision.” Danny said. “I know you like Prince, ________ I thought you’d like a Walkman (随身听) more.” When her stepfather presented his offer of ________, Krystal was moved to tears.

“From then on, I grew to love him not only as a father but as a friend. All he ever wanted was to make me ________,” said Krystal.

【推荐3】“Today I will give you a special test,” said the English teacher with a smile on his face.

All the students set up straight and waited for the test to begin. The teacher ______ to give the test papers to all the students. After he finished ______ the test papers, he asked them to begin.

The students were very ______ to see that there was not a question but a black dot (圆点) in the centre of the paper. The teacher ______ the students’ surprise and said, “I want you to write about what you see there.”

At the end of the class, the teacher took all the students’ answer sheets (答题纸) and read the answers. ______ described the black dot. ______ reading all the answers, the teacher said, “Here all of you only paid attention to the black dot, ______ no one wrote about the ______ paper.” The whole ______ listened silently, because they were afraid to ______ in the exam.

Then the teacher said, “Don’t worry about your grades for this test. I just want you to think about our ______. The white paper is like our whole life and the black dot in the centre of the paper represents ______ in our daily life.”

Our life is a ______ given to us by God, with love and care. Still, we just pay attention to the problems like illness and ______, and never see that these problems are very ______ compared to everything else we have in our life.

So we should try to take our eye off our problems and enjoy each moment life gives us.