【推荐1】Hank, a two-year-old cat, is a homebody. But recently, he got _______ in a 60-tall tree for five days and four nights without food or water.

Hank’s big _______ started last weekend. He explored the neighborhood _______, and a dog came out, running after him and sending him flying up a tree.

When Hank’s owner, Delores Bushong, _______ him in the neighbor’s tree, she immediately called the Humane Rescue Alliance for help._______ , Hank was too high for any ladder (梯子) to reach and the tree branch wasn’t _______ enough to support the climb of the rescuer. Bushong felt extremely _______, but her neighbors showed her that she wasn’t alone.

The neighbor, whose tree Hank had climbed, let Bushong sit in his backyard and _______ Hank down. Another neighbor _______ a can of fish, hoping it might attract the ________ cat to come down. By day five, they tried a new ________ and it worked! They ________ a pulley (滑轮) system by circling a rope around a tall branch, and ________ a basket with some of the owner’s personal items. The cat, following the familiar scents, climbed into the basket and was ________ from the tree.

Bushong said the help of her community was ________ , and Hank’s adventure taught her a lesson about neighbors helping neighbors!

【推荐2】Daniel angrily stormed out as he learned his parents had had a violent quarrel again. He no longer cared about what happened at home. School didn’t_______and neither did his_______.While he had wanted to be a pilot, it might_______only a dream now. Disappointed and desperate, he_______got into bad habits like smoking a lot, which he thought made him feel relieved. His friends were like him, too, from _______families and they lived a life that left them on the streets often._______, there was no one waiting at home to care! Daniel remembered the_______when he and his friends were_______by the police for getting _______in gang fights or even robberies. Whenever informed about it, his father became speechless while his mother__________in despair all day.__________, Mom’s tears didn’t move Daniel any more for he took it for granted that his parents were__________.

The other day, Daniel saw his neighbor, Rob, __________his feet to school. Rob, disabled, was adopted at a young age. His foster parents (养父母) loved him but didn’t spoil him, always__________him to work harder if he was to__________the rest of the students.

With all his__________, Daniel turned to Rob’s father, Mr. Pattinson, and__________out all his problems. Having listened attentively, Mr. Pattinson said, “I know your parents are suffering a lot but they do love you. So it is your__________to do something for yourself. Using an abnormal family as a(n)__________not to fulfill your ambition is weak. Just as the old saying goes, ’When life hands you a lemon, ask for sugar.’ Cheer up, Daniel and you can also help your family in the__________.”

Daniel looked long and hard at Mr. Pattinson, tears finally returning to his eyes.

【推荐3】One day, I treated my professor to lunch at a restaurant. ''Excuse me, '' he_________to the waiter, who arrived at our table right away, ''I have_________cottage cheese, but this is mushroom, ''he continued. The waiter said_______,''I'm sorry, sir. I didn't mean it. I_______took the order for mushroom. '' I said angrily, ''Then_______it immediately. '' Feeling embarrassed, I was_______to say ''do you know who he is'',_______my professor was quicker. He said, ''It's all right. Just don't charge me for both dishes, ''and laughed. ''No, sir. Sorry, sir. Thank you, sir, '' ''the waiter said and the_______and gratitude(感激)were written all over his face.

''Why did you do that'' I asked, totally_______by my professor's unexpected response. ''It is his________to change your dish, you know.

''Have you seen how crowded the restaurant is? It's a________evening,Vernon, ''my professor said. ''Changing my order would mean more________for him and the cook, maybe the waiter is________. He would probably get a warning from the manager for this________. This mushroom isn't bad. Why bother to get him________.''

My professor insisted on(坚持)paying for it when the bill arrived. He________left the waiter a large tip. When we walked out, he smiled at the waiter who________so low that I thought he'd break his back.

Here was my professor, Mr. Smith, who always feels________for low-status people and treats them like friends. The true measure of a man is how he________someone who can do him absolutely no good. I'll________my professor's example and try my best to do the same.

【推荐1】Last year I ruined my summer vacation by bringing along a modern convenience: the iPad.

Instead of looking at nature, I _______ my email. Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading _______   newspapers each morning. And that was the problem: I was acting as if I were still in the office. My body was on vacation but my _______ wasn’t.

So this year I made up my mind to try something _______ : getting away from the Internet. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, _______ I’m not good at self-control. But I was _______ . I started by handing the iPad to my wife. Then, a stroke of luck: The mobile phone _______ at our cabin was worse than in the past. I was trapped, forced to carry out my plan. Largely _______ from e-mail and my favorite newspaper websites, I had little way to _______ the world. I had no ________ but to do what I had planned to do all along: read books.

With determination and the strong support of my wife, I succeeded in my vacation struggle against the Internet. I finally ________ that it was I, of course, not the iPad, that was the ________ .

I knew I had ________ when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “Don’t need it.” I said. ________ , as I return to work, a test begins: Can I survive when I’m back at work? I don’t plan to ________ my iPad completely. But I hope to resist the temptation（抵抗诱惑）to use it every five minutes.

【推荐3】Born into slavery in Georgia in 1848, Susan Baker King Taylor went to live with her free grandmother in Savannah where her _____ education by teachers and tutors disobeyed laws banning _____ education for African Americans.

After _____ slavery, she joined hundreds of enslaved refugees (难民) at Union­occupied St. Simons Island. When she was just 14 years old, she became the first Black teacher to _____ educate African Americans in Georgia.

She married Edward King, a Black officer. When she wasn't working as a nurse, she _____ soldiers to read and write and“...learned to _____ a musket (火枪) very well...and could shoot _____ and often hit the target,” she wrote.

While working as a nurse at a hospital for African American _____ in Beaumont, South Carolina, she met and _____ Clara Barton, the pioneering nurse who would ______ the American Red Cross. After the war, Taylor and her husband moved to Savannah and opened a ______ for African American children in 1866. When he died and the school ______, she took a job as a domestic servant with a wealthy family, with whom she moved to Boston.

In 1902, Taylor became the first and only African American woman to write a memoir (回忆录) about her ______ in the Civil War. She wrote of the persistent racism ______ after the conflict, but ______ a glorious time of the fight for freedom.

【推荐2】Most kinds of rose plants come from Asia. But roses are also native to other areas including North-west Africa Europe and the United States.

In 1986, Congress _______ the rose as America's national flower. Technically, Congress and President _______ it the "national floral emblem(象征)". Whatever the name, the decision did not smell _______ to supporters of other popular flowers.

Some people say roses are _______ to grow. But you have a good chance of success if you start with a few suggestions from experts. You should plant your roses where they can get _______ for about six hours on bright days.

You can buy roses from a garden centre or by mail _______. You can buy potted(盆栽的) roses , also known as container roses, or bare-root plants. Each kind has its fans.

Some gardeners say potted roses are easier to plant. They say the roots develop better. But Jeffrey Dinslage, an expert of Nature Hills Nursery, _______ that bare-root roses come without soil. So they _______ less to transport.

Jeffrey advises getting bare-root roses as close to _______ time as you can. If they arrive________you are ready to plant them, make sure the packing material is moist(潮湿的). Keep the plants in a ________ , dark place. You plant the roses while they are dormant(休眠的). The resting plants have no ________ but still need water.

When growing roses, the ________should feel moist deep down.________ should be done in the morning. That can ________ problems called black spot and mildew(霉病).

If your soil is very dry, you can add peat or compost, which returns nutrients to the soil. If insects invade(侵袭) your rose bushes, you may be able to force them off with just a strong spray of water.

【推荐3】My school appeared on the news last week because we had made an important change in our local area. Our class had planted a large garden, which was a lot of work, but it was all ________ it. I got blisters (水疱) from ________, and we all got insect bites, too.

I learned a lot about gardening and teamwork, and then I learned about the ________. Our teacher telephoned the TV station and ________ them of what we had done. She spoke with the ________ but he said there were plenty of stories ________ to ours. He wanted to know what was ________ about our garden, because many schools planted gardens.

The teacher explained that, we made a prairie (草原) garden. We had been to a prairie and gotten ________ from the plants, and then we ________ them. We did not water the garden, but we did ________ it, which helped the prairie grow better. We decided to let ________ water it with rain, because that was how prairies grew in the past. We sent a picture of the garden to the news station. In the picture, the grass was so high that it stood ________ than the fourth-grade students.

As a result, the producer sent a reporter to our school. The reporter ________ us and asked us many questions about the garden. We explained to him what we had learned through this ________.

That night, we watched the ________, and there we were. The news reporter told our story. It was only two minutes long, but it was us. All those blisters were worth it.