【推荐1】“Daily Star, sir,” called Jason, carrying some news-papers under his arm. The little boy had been running up and down the street, but there were still twenty ____ left. His voice was almost gone and his heart was ____. The shops would soon close, and all the people would go home. He would have to go home too, carrying the papers ____ money. He had hoped to sell more papers tonight to make more money to buy a ____ for his mother and some seeds for his bird. That was why he had bought the papers with all his money. He ____ as he thought of his failure to sell all his papers.

“You don’t know the ____ of selling papers. You must shout, ‘Hot news! Bomb bursting!’” another newsboy Chad told Jason. “____ it’s not in the paper at all,” replied Jason. “Just run away quickly ____ they have time to see, and you’ll ____ out and get your money,” Chad said.

It was a new ____ to Jason. He thought of his bird with no ____ and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was ____ that he would not tell a lie. Though he was ____ a poor newsboy, he had been ____ some good things.

The next afternoon Jason went to the office for his papers ____. Several boys were crowding around Chad, who declared with a ____ smile that he sold six dozen the day before. He added that Jason ____ money because he would not tell a lie. The boys ____ at Jason. “You wouldn’t tell a lie yesterday, my boy?” A gentleman at the office came up and patted Jason’s shoulder ____, “You’re just the boy I am looking for.” A week later Jason started his new ____. He lost the sale of twenty papers because he would not tell a lie, but got a well-paid job because he told the truth.

【推荐2】Life is colorful. Sometimes it’s just like potato salad.

With three young children to bring up, my husband John and I were very _____. “Can we go on a picnic, Mum？” my six－year－old daughter, Becky _____. “Please. ” I had said no so many times in _____ months，and I decided the usual Saturday morning chore could _____. So to her surprise, I agreed her _____.

I prepared a few sandwiches and _____ a cooler with ice and drinks and called John _____.

My eleven－year－old twin sons loaded the cooler and the picnic basket in the trunk and off we went to spend some _____ time together as a family.

About the time I got the lunch _____ out on the table, John arrived on the ______. That was one of the happiest meals we ever shared together. John and the boys ______ rocks into the lake, Becky fed the ducks and I sat quietly at the picnic table，thanking God for blessing me with such a wonderful family.

That night as our children went to bed, I kissed their cheeks. As I walked out of the room it dawned on (逐渐明白) me that even the busiest ______ could become a picnic when it’s shared with the ones you ______. Even though kids have now grown up and ______ from home, I can still remember how I felt that day while sitting at the picnic table.

Since life is like potato salad, let’s make it a ______.

【推荐3】This past school year I was pleased when a student I had in third grade came back to personally invite me to his wedding. He said I was the_______teacher that had believed in him. And at the_______I was made to sit with the father as if the whole family were_______to me.

Then his parents said they wanted me to know ''_______'' I had done for their son. They said that after he was in my_______， he had a really bad year where a teacher constantly(不断地)_______him down. He began writing that he was_______， he was dumb(不爱说话，沉默的) and that he hated himself. Then one day he went out into their barn(车库) with the_______of hanging himself(上吊自杀). He thought of me and my_______in him and couldn't do it. His parents then________me for their son.

Needless to say (不用说)I was moved with________.After I left the wedding reception(婚宴), I________all the way home. I have always promised myself that I________retire when I no longer enjoyed getting out of bed and________for school. On that trip home I made a silent________to this young man that as soon as I couldn't support my students I would________.

That didn't seem enough somehow(不知怎么的) and a friend suggested I write this down and________it somewhere in order to affect a lot of________. Letting teachers know that they do (确实)make a________was a way for both other teachers and me to really use this to help make a difference in someone else's________.

【推荐1】Wilson, a New York cyclist, donated one of his kidneys (肾) two years ago. In order to _________ that the operation didn’t change his lifestyle, earlier this year on March 10, which marked the World Kidney Day, he climbed to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro with other kidney donors.

His idea to be a kidney donor first appeared _________ seeing a friend’s post on Facebook. The friend wrote that his teenage daughter had recently _________ a life-saving kidney donation from a stranger, which enabled her to lead a normal life.

When he got home, he started _________ kidney donations on the Internet. He learned that about 97,000 people were on the National Kidney Transplant List, and that many patients spent years on the list because there weren’t _________ kidneys available. He felt sorry for these patients and _________ to become a kidney donor. When Wilson told his wife about his idea to become a donor, _________, she totally supported his decision.

Wilson began taking the steps to become a kidney donor, including _________ tests and examinations.

Wilson’s operation was an even more advanced, minimally invasive (微创) one _________ a single-port surgery (单端口手术). Doctors removed Wilson’s kidney using an incision (切口) made in his belly. And then, his kidney would go for a perfect __________. After about two weeks, he was back on his indoor bike and began training __________ and carefully under the doctor’s guidance.

As a donor of a living thing, Wilson said, “__________ an operation may seem frightening, but all it took was several weeks for recovery.” He added, “The most important thing I want people to know is that when someone donates a kidney, life really doesn’t __________ at all.”

“If you can help others, it’s a wonderful thing, “Wilson said. “But the planet is a big place, so it is wonderful for a small individual (个体), even a stranger to make an impact on __________ person, and one will feel proud and honored to save others.” It is also a great __________ to the donor himself.

【推荐2】Follow Every Rainbow

Shirley Jeanne Allen loved to sing and play the piano. She studied music in college and her ________ was to become a concert pianist or blues singer.

Everything ________ when she was 20 years old. She became sick and she almost died. Doctors gave her medicine to help her get well, but the medicine ________ her to become totally deaf. She could no longer hear the music which she had always ________ .

Shirley certainly loved playing the piano, but she did decide to change ________ . She transferred (转移) to Gallaudet University and studied English. In 1964, Shirley graduated from Gallaudet and looked for a ________ . She wanted to be ________ and work full-time.

For three years, Shirley worked as a clerk in Washington, D. C. ________ , in 1967 she was asked to work at Gallaudet University as a dorm supervisor (宿舍监管员). She also taught English. Somehow she found time to ________ school at Howard University in Washington, D. C. In 1972, Shirley received her MA degree.

Always ________ a new challenge, in 1973 Shirley became a professor at National Technical Institute for the Deaf( NTID ), which ________ deaf and hard of hearing students technical and professional training.

This ________ woman became the first black deaf female in the world to receive her PhD. She made ________ in 1992, when she received the highest degree in education from the University of Rochester in New York.

Dr Shirley Jeanne Allen has travelled many roads and ________ many rainbows searching for her dream. With courage and ________ , she never gave up.

【推荐3】One day, a train was approaching the small town of Cheekyville. On the train was a ______ man with a big suitcase. He was called William and he looked very ______ indeed. But what made him most unusual was the fact that whenever he needed to ______, he did so by singing opera. Even if someone said “good day” to him, he would ______ his throat and respond: “Gooood dayyy to youuuu ... tooooo!”

Almost everyone considered William unusual, since no one could get a normal ______ word out of him. As no one knew how he made his living --- he lived quite simply, always ______ his same old second-hand suit --- they often disrespected him and sometimes even ______ him.

William had been in Cheekyville for years, when, one day, a rumor (谣言) ______ round the town: William had ______ a role in an important opera in the nation’s capital, and there were ______ everywhere advertising the event. Everyone in the capital had gone to see it, and it was a great ______. And to everyone’s surprise in Cheekyville, when William was being   ______ by reporters, he answered their questions by speaking ______ singing. And he did it with good ______ and with a clear and pleasant voice.

From that day on, William ______ singing at all hours. He sang only during his stage appearances. Some people had an idea ______ he had changed, but others still had none, and continued believing him to be mad. They wouldn’t have thought so ______ they had seen what William kept in his big suitcase. It was a large stone with a hand-carved message on it. It said “Practice every second, for you never know when your ______ will come.”

Little did people ______ that William got the role in the opera because the ______ had heard him singing while out buying a newspaper one day.