【推荐1】My boss Jack was picky and distant. Once he scolded me for something, I thought I was paid to do it. I__________into his office and prepared to lose my job if needed, but not before I let the man know how I felt. I opened the door and he looked up. “What?” he asked__________.

Suddenly I knew what I had to do. I sat across from him and said calmly, “Jack, the way you’ve been treating me is totally__________. I’ve never had anyone speak to me that way. And I have decided that I can’t allow it to__________.” “Good luck,” I prayed. “Now I want to make a(n)__________to you. I will be a friend,” I said. “I will treat you as you deserve to be treated, with__________and kindness.” I slipped out of the chair and closed the door behind me.

Another day I left a note. “Hope your day is going great,” it__________. Over the next few weeks, there were no other__________between us. Every time I saw Jack in the hall, I smiled at him. After all, that’s what__________do.

One year after our “talk”, I had breast cancer. The statistics (统计数字) were not great for my long-term__________. Friends and loved ones visited me and tried to find the__________words. No one knew what to say. One day, Jack walked over to my bed in the hospital room and without a word__________a package beside me. Inside it were laid several stems. “Tulips (郁金香),” he said. He shuffled his feet, and then cleared his throat. “If you plant them when you get home, they’ll__________next spring. I just want you to know that I think you’ll be there to see them to grow up.” Tears__________my eyes, and I reached out my hand. “Thank you,” I whispered.

For ten years, I have watched those tulips__________their way through the soil every spring. At a moment when I prayed for just the right words, a man with very few words said all the right things. After all, that’s what friends do.

In a tiny room, Jenny was lying in bed waiting for an operation, nervous and worried. _______, another patient was squeezed in. After a gentle greeting, they _______the chatting. The 80-year-old newcomer was named Susan. Her son _______ran a company as CEO and her daughter worked on a TV station as director. Since her children were too _______to take care of Susan, she lived in an old people’s home. Susan was proud of her children who had wonderful _______ Jenny really _______Susan. Compared with Susan, Jenny was _______but an ordinary country woman whose children were just ordinary workers.

Soon, it was supper time, Jenny’s daughter cooked _______dishes which were her favorite. Jenny invited Susan to share her supper, but she_______Susan was ________her daughter when she received a call. ________,her children couldn’t come to visit her. Worse still, Susan had ________the mealtime in the hospital. She lay in bed, ________and silent. Jenny’s daughter offered to buy her some food but she had no appetite ________

The next day, Jenny and Susan would go through a series of regular medical checks before the operation. Jenny’s daughter ________to her carefully while Susan was still alone. Out of sympathy, Jenny’s daughter offered to queue(排队) up, fill in different ________and register for Susan. For several days in hospital, even during her ________,Susan’s children didn’t show up. Susan really envied Jenny whose daughter looked after her all the time ________she recovered and moved out of hospital.

Care from the loved ones when ill can really make one happy and encouraged, especially for a(n) ________parent. So while devoted to your career, don’t forget your role in your ________

【推荐3】At the mid-May in 2018, the 69 year-old amputee (被截肢者) Xia Boyu finally stood proud on two artificial legs on the peak of Mount Qomolangma, a symbol showcasing to the world the power of_________.

More than 40 years ago, Xia_________ both of his feet to frost bite after lending his sleeping bag to a team member during the trip to climb Mount Qomolangma.

Even though artificial legs were not _________in China at the time, Xia strongly _________ that he would one day fulfill his _________dream and so, before that day came, the best thing to do was to_________ himself by training constantly. Three years later he finally got his new legs, which enabled him to_________his sports career.

However, fate once again took a _________turn when he was in his 40s. In 1993, illness _________ on the stumps(残肢) on his legs, which required another third of his lower legs be amputated. Three years after that, he was diagnosed with lymph cancer.

Over the years, Xia never gave up his dream of climbing Mount Qomolangma. ____________ to his final successful climb in 2018, he had tried four other times to climb to the summit, but each time Lady Luck gave him the ____________.

The last time he ____________ his dream was in 2016. The then 67-year-old was only 94 meters from the summit, but a snow storm ____________ his way. Taking his team members’ ____________ into consideration, Xia made the ____________ decision to go back.

On May14, Xia felt ____________ and a strong sense of fulfillment ____________in him, standing on the peak of the highest mountain in the world.

“The key is to focus on your dreams, instead of the ____________ you encounter along the way. I didn’t regret anything that I had done and accepted everything that life had ____________ me, but I never stopped fighting against ____________,” Xia said, stressing that fulfilling one’s dream has nothing to do with age, disability or the thoughts or expectations of others, but a firm belief in yourself.

【推荐1】My daughter was reading her English composition aloud. It was titled My Mother. All of a sudden, she _____and walked to the kitchen where I was busy preparing for tea.

“Mom, what does ‘beautiful’ _____?” she asked.

“‘Beautiful’ is someone or something that is very _____to look at,” I explained.

“You mean like all those actresses you see on TV?” she said.

“That’s right ,” I said, hoping to end the _____.

“Are you, beautiful?”. She asked rather _____.

What was one to answer? She was _____my looks with those of some film stars and _____ it was I who treated beauty as good _____.

Suddenly I hit upon an idea to solve her _____. “Why don’t you ask Dad?”

As soon as my _____reached home and had his evening coffee, I saw her _____to her dad, “I have a doubt,” She said,

I couldn’t _____my curiosity and I listened to the father-daughter _____.

“Dad, is Mom beautiful?”

“Of course she is. Don’t you think so?”

Well…She began rather doubtfully.

“Let me show you our wedding _____. See here. Isn’t she the most beautiful person in the world”

“See, your mom was _____when she said beautiful is just looking good. When you _____someone, the person becomes beautiful in your eyes.”

My daughter was _____for a while. Then a smile _____climbed into her face as she _____ “Mom is beautiful…Dad is beautiful because I love you both…”

I was _____to have found someone who loved me enough to think of me as the most beautiful person in the world.

【推荐3】As an athlete, I’ve always worked hard to push m myself to my limits. And with that usually come some ________ and pains. So last year when I started to feel some muscle soreness (酸痛) after a________ physical exercise, at first I didn’t think it was a big deal. I was ________ for a marathon at the time, so over the weekend I’d done a 20-kilormete ________. The following Tuesday I hit my favourite gym to do a workout that ________ a lot of upper body weight lifting.My ________ told me to take it easy on my body, but I ________I’d be fine and powered through it. Afterward, my coach noticed a ________ swelling in my arm and said he was worried. I tried to brush him off but he ________ I drink a lot of water and check in with him in a few hours. Sure enough, by that afternoon the swelling had ________ and I headed to the doctor. I still thought he was making a mountain out of a molehill, but I ________ my coach so I did it.

The doctor took a close look at the swelling and diagnosed me with rhabdomyolysis (横纹肌溶解症), a ________ condition where muscle overuse causes kidney failure. As they gave me some medicine to help ________ the toxins (毒素), my doctor told me that we would have been having this discussion in the emergency room if I’d ________ even another 30 minutes. Things were touch-and-go over the weekend but I made a full ________. Thankfully I had a great coach I could trust-he saved my life!