【推荐1】One day I visited an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting. I was expecting a quiet ____ of the splendid artwork.

A young ____ viewing the paintings ahead of me ____ nonstop between themselves. I watched them for a moment and found the lady was doing all the talking. I admired the man’s ____ for putting up with the ____ stream of words. ____ by their noise, I moved on.

I met them several times as I moved ____ the various rooms of arts. Each time I heard her continuous flow of words, I moved away ____.

I was standing at the counter of the museum gift shop making a ____ when the couple approached the ___. Before they left, the man ____ into his pocket and pulled out a white object. He ____ it into a long stick and then ____ his way into the coatroom to get his wife’s jacket. “He’s a ____ man,” the clerk at the counter said. “Most of us would give up if we were blinded at such a young age. During his recovery, he made a promise that his life wouldn’t change. So, as before, he and his wife come in ____ there is a new art show.”

“But what does he get out of the art?” I asked. “He can’t see.”

I learned something about patience, ____ and love that day. I saw the patience of a young wife describing paintings to a person without ____ and the courage of a husband who would not______blindness to change his life. And I saw the love shared by two people as I watched this couple walk away, their arms interwined (交缠).

【推荐2】Five years ago, I lived in a countryside, whose road was extremely terrible. Every evening when I was away from home on business, my little boy would ask _________of his mother to take his black   _________and his daddy’s walking stick, to make the half-mile_________from the house to the fence which_________the beginning of the dirty driveway.

One day, I was busy with my business and was_________for about an hour, completely forgetting about the _________little boy down the road who might be_________for his daddy.

On my way home, the rain was so thick that I could not_________ten feet in front of me. All I could_________was finishing my journey and getting out of the rain. _________, the downpour began to abate(减弱). It was only a drizzle(细雨) by the time my car turned the last_________and approached the final street between me and a warm home and nice meal.

_________, I caught sight of my little boy, who was_________an umbrella in one hand, a walking stick in the other, and was wearing the biggest and most beautiful smile ever to lighten the _________   of a little boy.

As I stopped the car and_________the door, he ran into my arms and held me long and hard. He was wet and_________with cold, but he never_________the rain, nor the hour-long wait. He simply said, “Daddy, I missed you. I am so glad you are home.”

Last year, we_________to a wonderful new home provided for a special season in our lives. We no longer have a long country road. _________, I have never forgotten the rainy day and the little boy and his black dog. Often, perhaps a thousand times, that_________has appeared in my mind. Like all events in our lives, it happens once, and must be treasured.

【推荐1】I keep a pocket knife in my handbag and it comes in handy for all sorts of things. I have _______ carried it with me since I discovered it on a boat we bought and _______ for about twenty years. It has been through many   _______ with us.

I recently _______ an interesting flight and was pulled up at the departure gate. When my bag went through the x-ray machine, my _______ was discovered. I had forgotten it was there and as I rarely _______, it hadn’t crossed my mind that it would be discovered and confiscated(没收). We had gone through the gate and it was the time for us to _______ the plane so there wasn’t time for me to go _______ and post it to myself.

The security lady at the gate saw that I was _______ at losing one of my treasure possessions. They usually ________threw away things that got confiscated. But she ________ to post it to me if I wrote down the ________and gave her the postage money.

I was so grateful that I tried to ________her and she asked me to stop as they weren’t supposed to do this and she would get into trouble ________ anyone found out.

The next day in the post I ________ a little package with my pocket knife and the ________ from the $10 note I had given her, even though I had ________ her to keep the rest for her ________. It was so nice to be the recipient(接受者)of a kind deed ________ that.

Now I often do ________ things for others and have started using smile cards. Hopefully the world is becoming a kinder place bit by bit.

【推荐2】

Many children may be fond of animals, but few ever think of making the study of animals as their career. Even fewer will be_________by the whole world,_________the title of United Nations Messenger of Peace.

But one woman has_________all that. She has lived with chimps in the African forest for many years and made great_________. Jane Goodall's lifelong_________in animals began at an early age. By the age of 10 or 11, Jane_________going to Africa to live with animals. This was quite a strange dream in those days, as young girls didn't think of having such "wild" actions. But she was_________by her mother. She told her that if she really wanted something, she should work hard, take advantage of chances and never give up looking for a way.

When a close friend invited Jane to Kenya in 1957, she readily_________it. Within a few months of her arrival she met the famous anthropologist（人类学家）Dr Louis Leakey, who soon decided that Jane was the _________person he was looking for to begin a__________of wild chimps on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania.

In the beginning, studying the chimps was not__________for her. The animals fled from her__________. With a strong__________, she searched the forest every day, trying not to get too close to the chimps too soon. Gradually the chimps became used to her presence.

In October 1960, she observed a chimp making and using__________to fish for termites（白蚁）. This discovery threw light on the popular idea at the time that man was the world's only toolmaker. The longer Jane's research continues, the more it becomes obvious that chimps are very__________to humans.

Since the mid-1980s, Jane has been lecturing around the world to raise people's sense about environmental protection. Let's live in the new age with hope, respect for all living things, understanding and love," she said.

【推荐3】Academically, I was an average B+ student, shy and awkward. In my personal life, there was no one to ________ me to pursue my talent, nor acknowledgement that I even had a talent. ________, Miss Judge, my English teacher, introduced me to ________ that initially inspired me to write. It was she that saw the ________ in me that I didn’t even know existed.

Miss Judge was a kind and lovely person. She first ________ me some classic works, like To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men and Greek Mythology. Then came The Horror, the one ________ my love of fantasy and magic and everything ________, which will always remain on my bookshelf.

Once in class, we were assigned to write a scene inspired by Hamlet, the play we were reading. ________ about the chance to write, I worked extra hard on it. After I ________ my assignment, Miss Judge was really impressed and asked ________ she could read it to the whole class. I ________. Even today, I still regret that ________. At the time, I felt like everyone would think I was ________ trying to impress them by rubbing my great story in their face.

In my senior year, Miss Judge asked us to write journal entries, which she would read. I was still ________ about others reading my writing. To ________ from that fear, I decided to just be funny. My journal was filled with my ________ observations, kind of like what you see on the blog today. And she loved them, saying I had a natural ________ as a writer. Nothing was more ________. So, I kept writing. She wrote me many encouraging notes, pushing me to ________ a career as a writer. I still have those notes, hoping that next time she ________ my name, it’s because I’d have won the Pulitzer Prize.

【推荐1】Mrs. Smith knew something was wrong with Miguel, one of her best students. Lately, he looked so tired and hungry that he no longer _________ his studies. As a result, he was always _________ in his tests recently. Mrs. Smith was very _________ but the boy told her he was all right until she found Miguel on the _________, sitting on the ground and studying.

That night, Mrs. Smith visited Miguel’s _________, only to be told that they had just out of _________. As a result, Miguel’s families had no _________ and lived in a shelter. Miguel now didn’t have a _________ to do his homework on, and it was so _________ that he couldn’t concentrate on his study there.

Mrs. Smith knew she had to do something to __________ her student. She arranged a small desk in the back of her __________ for Miguel, got him extra school supplies and permitted him to stay back after __________ to do his homework in the office instead of on the street. Meanwhile, she __________ the school principal to hire Miguel’s parents at the school cafeteria.

With Mrs. Smith’s help, Miguel was able to focus on his studies again and get his __________ back on track. Undoubtedly, it is Mrs. Smith’s kindness and care that really make a big __________ to Miguel’s life.

【推荐3】When I came to my new school three years ago, I was surprised at how lonely I felt.

Then one of my classmates invited me to her house for a dinner_________I was a little anxious, but finally I gladly _________ .

Not really knowing how_________ the bus ride should be, I _________ when I saw the landmarks (路标)_________on my classmate’s hand-drawn map. But when I got close enough to the _________ , I found none of the streets were shown on the map. I was_________ on a busy road with cars driving past without a person in sight. I had no _________ when the next bus would come,_________when a bus did come, I __________got on. I told the bus driver where I wanted to go and he said that I had caught the __________ bus, but he let me stay on. After he had finished his scheduled bus route, he __________to help me out. I gratefully showed him my little hand-drawn map but__________ did not help much.

He finally __________ me off at a main road to catch a different bus and was __________ that he could not help me more. After I walked for a few minutes, a bus stopped beside me. It was the __________ bus driver. He explained that he didn’t want to leave me there __________ He sent out a call and someone radioed back, saying that the bus I needed to catch was about ten minutes away. At last I made it to the dinner party __________ I was over an hour late.

I am forever thankful for the __________that this bus driver had for me. His act of kindness left a __________on my heart.