【推荐1】If you have strong arms and feet, patience and a good temper, you might_______a good waiter. You must start, _______not in the restaurant, but in the kitchen, helping the chef, to learn how each dish is _______.

From this first step, you may enter the restaurant_______a “commis” (厨助). But you won’t be_______to serve the customers yet. They will only let you do the bottomed jobs,_______the tables and carrying the plates. But all the time you must watch and learn with_______.

Later you may become “chef de rang” (a waiter in charge of a number of tables). You may even become a head waiter_______if you have the right sort of personality and you are not_______of hard work.

When Carlo Bianchi first arrived in London, he spoke only two words of English — “please” and “Hello”. He__________to get a job helping in the kitchen of a restaurant, and he spent what little__________time he had learning English. He was a good worker and soon they__________him a job in the restaurant as a waiter.

Every night, Carlo__________ to go home exhausted, but never too__________to study the language for half an hour before going to sleep. And no matter how tired or ill he felt, he always wore a__________for his customers. They liked him, and people came and asked to be__________by Carlo.

Now, twenty-five years later, Carlo is in__________of six restaurants, and he__________to open a seventh shortly. So friends, in this world success never comes overnight. Start from the__________and make progress step by step with enough patience and__________chances will fall upon you.

【推荐2】I recently heard a story about a famous research scientist who had made several very important medical breakthroughs. What set him so far apart from others?

He____that, in his opinion, it all came from an____from his mother that happened when he was about 2 years old. He had been trying to____a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he lost his ____on the slippery(光滑的) bottle and it ____, making its contents pouring all over the kitchen floor.

When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of____at him, giving him a lecture, or punishing him, she said: “Robert, what an(a)____and wonderful mess you have made! I have____seen such a huge pool of milk. Well, the damage has already been done. Would you like to____down and play in the milk for a few____before we clean it up?”

Indeed, he did. After a few minutes, his mother said: “You know, Robert,____you make a mess like this, you have to clean it up at last and restore everything to its proper____. So, how would you like to do that? We could use a sponge, a towel, or a mop. Which do you____?” He chose the sponge and together they____up the milk.

His mother then said: “You know, what happened just now is a____experiment in how effectively to carry a big milk bottle with two tiny hands. Let’s____out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can____a way to carry it without dropping it.” The little boy____that if he held the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it.

This scientist then____that it was at that moment that he knew he didn’t need to be afraid to make____.

Wouldn’t it be great if all parents would respond the way Robert’s mother responded to him?

【推荐3】Though it had been a bad day in the early morning, I thought work had to be done. Filled with _______ thoughts, I got in my car to drive into town. In the few minutes it took me to travel to the _______. I made a decision. I would be careful not to _______ my bad day off to anyone else. I would be _______.

Standing in line at the bank, I was _______ talking to myself. Actually, I was _______ myself. All of the events that had made my bad day were, in fact, so very _______. I was over-reacting. I tried to _______ those who had been affected (影响) by the war, by the earthquake.

A voice broke through my mental thoughts. Somehow I had _______ finished my bank business and the teller was trying to get my ________. "Young lady," she was saying. Her eyes showed ________ as she softly said, "I don' t know what is happening inside of you, but ________ me that everything will be okay."

My hands were ________ on counter. She took her hands and placed them gently on top of mine. The ________ was quick but electric. And in that moment my world ________.

In the moment of her touch I found ________. I knew that love was being channeled through the________ of this beautiful woman directly into my heart. I knew that I am ________. I didn't say a word standing there. I ________. It was my first smile of the day. But it would not be my ________, as from that moment on my entire day was changed.

A warm handshake. A kind word. Through these, we open the power of love.

【推荐2】September 22, 2018 will be World Car-Free Day, a day on which people across the globe are encouraged to find______methods to meet their transportation needs and re-discover buses, bikes, and their own______.

On this day, people get together in the streets, intersections, and neighborhood blocks to______the world that we don’t have to accept our car-controlled society.

While______along these lines had taken place from time to time starting______the 1973 oil crisis, it was only in October, 1994______a structured call for such projects was______in a keynote speech by Eric Britton at the International Accessible Cities Conference held in Toledo (Spain).

The first national campaign was launched in Britain in 1997, and the French followed suit in 1998. In 2000, car Busters issued an open______for a “World Car-Free Day” to______with Europe’s Car-Free Day on September 22.______then, we have begun to call for citizens to organize______on or near this day.

However, we do not want______one day of celebrations and then return to______life. World Car-Free Day is the______time to remind city planners and politicians to______cycling, walking and public transport. It is up to us, cities and governments to help______permanent changes to______pedestrians, cyclists and other people who do not drive cars.

While______accomplishment has been achieved in terms of media coverage, these events______to be difficult to achieve real success and even a decade later there is considerable uncertainty about the usefulness of this approach. Broad public support and______to change is needed for successful implementation (执行).

【推荐3】I hate driving down the highway, watching _____ of smoke from power plants rise into the clear sky, seeing rubbish _____ the streets in my neighborhood, catching my friends throwing away their plastic bottles _____ recycling. In fact, I am _____ by the slightest piece of paper on the surface of the pond next to my house.

At times, my friends have questioned my intentions: why I want the _____ of our globe, the purity of our water，the _____ beauty of our plains. I try to answer them with a clear answer, yet at times I don' t know how to _____; seeing rubbish on the floor, smoke____ the sky like a thick blanket feels so unnatural for me. One Saturday night, for example, when I was walking back home, I _____ a pile of beer bottles at the entrance of the woods near my neighborhood. A group of deer stepped into the _____ but didn’t stay long --they were _____ by the strong smell of rubbish. I looked at the tall trees first and then at the setting sun. The rubbish seemed like something _____ the beauty of nature. I decided to clean up the pile. I went back home and found a large plastic garbage bag. I ran into the grass and tried to _____ all the bottles into the single bag. Finally I had to go back home to get another bag. Dragging the waste behind me on my way to the community dump, I thought, I want to help the environment because I want to own a _____ globe. I hate litter and _____ because that’s just who I am—sort of an environmental freak (着迷的人).

【推荐1】Never had I given back to the community. I gave generously to family since my father had drilled into my mind that _______ begins at home, but rarely to any cause outside.

One day, my _______ phoned me. “Aunt Lene,” she said in her sweet voice that never fails to _______ my heart, “the blood bank asked if I would _______ blood. Would you donate with me?” I couldn’t _______ her.

I didn’t know_______, that I would be able to donate blood in the name of someone _______. On the wall were photos of people who were _______ severe illnesses. One photo was of a little girl, named Alexis, whose smiling face, although swollen from drugs, _______ me. Then I decided to donate blood in her name.

I braved the __________ and the procedure was relatively painless. __________, that gave me a lot of happiness, so I continued to __________ several other donations.

One morning I happened to __________ a report about Alexis on the radio. I was thrilled, but I wasn’t __________ to learn how she had tried to help others although she was struggling with cancer, because when I first saw her angelic face, her __________ was so full of joy and __________ that I began to like her __________. I was so happy that I joined her trying to help.

I am grateful for this experience as it has __________ me to the fact that every little thing we do to help has its __________, not just to the one receiving, but to the one __________.

【推荐3】A series of thunderstorms damaged our area recently. ______ rains, high winds knocked down trees. I spent the afternoon ______ branches and throwing them away.

Then, just before I was getting ready to walk my dogs, the ______ came on my television that another storm was ______ our way. I took my dogs outside ______. Huge black clouds were rolling in while thunder (雷) boomed over the hills. The ______ seemed terrible. That was when I saw it: the tiniest blink (闪烁) of ______. I smiled. The first of the fireflies (萤火虫) had ______at just the time I needed to see its light. It ______ me how far their light travelled in the darkness of the night. How didn’t they seem bothered at the coming ______? Looking at the lightening fireflies, I noticed that the darkness no longer seemed so ______ and that my fear had changed into ______.

In our life, we have to ______ storms caused not only by nature but also by ourselves. We shouldn’t be ______ of them, however. We are here to ______ our light, to share our love, to drive the dark away and to make this world a better place.