【推荐1】On a snowy evening, a rich lady was standing by the road. She was very worried. Her _________     had broken down. Just then a poor man named Robert came. He was______his way back home from work as______.

The lady wondered, “Is the man going to ______me? He looks very cold and hungry.” But to her surprise, he ________and said with a______, “Can I help you, madam?”

After forty______, the car was at last fixed by Robert. The lady wanted to______him.

“No, that’s ______, madam,” he said. “ I was just helping someone in _____. If you really want to pay me back, I hope______you see someone in need, you should give him a hand.”

A few minutes later, the lady     ____ a shabby(破旧的) house by the road. She remembered Robert’s words, so she______.

The hostess warmly asked her in. The lady could see that was a________family and that they need help. When the hostess was making tea in the kitchen, the lady_______500 dollars on a table and went away ____.

Robert came home later than before, thinking how _______their life was. His wife was pregnant(怀孕) and the baby was to be born the next month but there was not ________money. His wife went up to him, gave him a kiss and said softly, “Don’t worry, dear! Everything is going to be all right.   A _______has helped us out.”

Let’s always be ready to______others because helping others is helping ourselves.

【推荐2】My grandma is good at gardening. She could make anything bloom (开花), _______me. In my eyes, she was inspiring and _______. For most of her life, she lived on a farm, where she brought up four children, and buried my grandpa.

I visited her on weekends. After the gardening work, I was _______ to climb the mountain, singing songs and gathering flowers. Sometimes the plants scratched me. She would say, “Beauty has a _________. I hope it was worth it.”

“Yes, ma’ ma,” I’d say. “ _______ was.”

I loved gathering flowers on my own. But what I loved best was gathering them with her. Even then, as a child, I knew what I wanted most from my grandma was not her flowers, but her _______. She’s been gone for years, but sometimes, when I _______ down to pick a flower or pull a weed, I see her _______, not mine.

I thought I’d grow up to be a gardener too. I told myself, someday my children had children, I’d be a gardening grandma. Then the grandbabies started showing up, and I discovered I’d much rather run after them _______ go digging. Actually I’m no gardener. I’m a __________, not a planter. I differ from my grandma in lots of ways, but this: I will always carry __________ me a heart she made from her own.

I needn’t plant a garden. My children are my flowers. They delight and complete me with a beauty that is worth any price. All I need to do is __________ them with time, water them with love, and hope that someday, when they hold their first grandchild, they might see my hand.

【推荐3】Andy rode slowly on his way to school, day-dreaming about the fishing trip that his father had promised him. He was so busy dreaming about all the fish he would catch that he was _______ of everything else around him.

He rode along _______ a strange sound drew him to the present. He came to a stop and looked _______ up to the heavens. What he saw shocked and _______ him. A huge swarm of bees filled the sky like a black cloud and the buzzing mass seemed to be _______ angrily towards him.

With no time to waste, Andy sped off in the _______ direction, his heart _______ rapidly and his legs pumping furiously. As the bees came closer, his _______ increased. Andy knew that he was _______ to bee stings (蜇). The last sting had ________ him in hospital! He had been ________ to stay in bed for two whole days. Suddenly, his father’s words ________ him. “When you are in a ________ situation, don’t panic. Use your brain and think your way out of it.”

On a nearby hill, he could see smoke ________ slowly skywards from the chimney of the Nelson family home. “Bees don’t like smoke,” he thought. “They couldn’t get into the house.” Andy raced towards the Nelson house, but the bees were gaining ground. Andy knew he could not reach the house ________. He estimated that the bees would catch up with him soon.

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eyes, he ________ a small dam used by Mr. Nelson to irrigate (灌溉) his vegetable garden. Off his bike and into the cool water he dived, disappearing ________ the surface and away from the wild insects. After holding his ________ for as long as he could, Andy came up for air and noticed the bees had gone. Dragging himself out of the dam, he ________ up the hilly slope and rang the doorbell. Mrs. Nelson took him inside and rang his mother.

“You’ll really need that fishing break to help you recover,” laughed his mother with ________. But Andy did not hear her. He was dreaming once again of the fish he would catch tomorrow.

【推荐1】At the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, the sport of canoe（赛艇）racing was added to the list of international competitions. The favorite team in the four-man canoe _______ was the United States team. One member of that team was a young man named Bill Havens.

As the _______ for the Olympics neared, it became clear that Bill’s wife would give _______   to their first child at about the same time, so Bill   _______ himself in a dilemma. Should he go to Paris or should he stay at home with his family and _______ about the Olympics? After all, competing in the Olympics was one of his lifelong   _______ .

Bill, after a great deal of thinking, decided to withdraw from the competition.

_______it turned out, the United States four-man canoe team won the gold medal in Paris, and Bill’s wife was   _______ in giving birth to their child. She was _______   late, in fact, that Bill could have ________ in the event and returned home in time.

It was a shame, but Bill said that he had no   ________ . Bill knew what was most important to him and he ________ what he believed was best. Not everybody has the ________ of character to say no to something that he or she ________   wants in order to say yes to something that truly   ________ .

There was a（n）________ end to Bill’s story. The child   ________ born to Bill and his wife was a boy whom they ________Frank. Twenty-eight years later, in 1952, Bill   ________ a telegram from Frank. It was sent from Helsinki, Finland, where the 1952 Olympics were being held. The telegram ________: “Dad, I won. I’m bringing home the gold medal you lost the chance to win while waiting for me to be born.”

【推荐2】There’re stories behind Olympic medalists. Among them, a very ________ one is that of former weightlifting champion Óscar Figueroa. He ________ in the Olympics four times, but with those events came plenty of ________ before he finally won his victory.

21-year-old Figueroa made his first ________ in the 2004 Olympic Games. Though ranked fifth — a good position, he was ________. He looked forward to the 2008 Beijing Games to prove himself. ________, just two weeks before the event, his hand was injured, which ________ Figueroa in his weightlifting and cost him the competition. Figueroa had got ________ than ever by the 2012 London Games. So he took home the silver medal. Despite all he’d already ________, he still wanted more. In 2016, he headed to Rio to ________ for the top prize and he did. After his final lift, knowing just how ________ his performance had been, Figueroa fell to the ground in ________. Then he put his shoes on the stage, indicating he would ________ from the Olympics. That year, he became the first Colombian man to have ever taken home the ________ in his category.

“It’s many years since I started; now is the time to stop,” he said at the 2016 Olympics. “But I am full of emotion — it’s as though I was ________ for the whole country.”