【推荐1】On Friday afternoon Class Seven had an Art lesson. It was their favourite lesson of the week. Everyone _______ Trudy Hubble looked forward to it. Trudy had arms that stuck out and always hit things so that they broke.

When Trudy came into the classroom, Rob Mason said, “Look out, here comes Trouble!” All the kids _______. Trudy had to smile and pretended she didn’t mind. How she wished she could be more like Lisa Gibbs, who had small hands and feet and never _______ things over!

That day, they were going to paint animals. Again, Trudy tripped over the jam jar. Dirty water spread in a pool across the table and _______ Lisa’s dragon. Every time Trudy tried to do Art, it was always a _______.

As soon as she got home, Mum asked her to take a _______ to Mrs. Willow.

Trudy knocked on the door and the door opened. There stood an old lady, so tall and elegant, like her house, which was full of _______ china.

“My mum’s your home help. She won’t be able to come tomorrow. She’s got a cold.”

“I’m sorry to hear that. What she needs is my special cold _______. Come inside and I’ll give you some. ” Mrs. Willow opened the door wider.

Keeping her arms pressed to her sides, Trudy stood _______, much like a statue, afraid to move in.

“Why?”

“I am the clumsiest person in our school! I know something will get broken when I’m ________.”

“I used to be clumsy (笨拙的) too, a real ugly little duck,” Mrs. Willow smiled. “But I grew up to be a swan (白天鹅).”

“But I don’t think I shall,” Trudy doubted. “I’ll just grow up to be an ugly ________.”

“Not if you do as I did. You have to keep telling yourself that inside, where it matters, you’re really a swan.”

“I’m a swan,” Trudy ________ her throat and took the medicine, heading for home.

Next morning Mum’s cold was much better. “If Mrs. Willow’s cold cure is a kind of ________, then her swan cure must work as well.” Trudy couldn’t wait to try it out.

In the school playground some children stood looking up into the chestnut tree. Lisa was in tears.

“What’s the matter?” asked Trudy.

“It’s my kite,” Lisa said, wiping her eyes. “Rob let go and it’s got ________ up the tree.”

“I’ll get it down for you,” Trudy said kindly.

“No, you’ll tear it!” Lisa looked ________. “It’s a special Chinese kite! I got it for my birthday.”

For a moment Trudy felt like her old ________ self. But then she remembered what Mrs. Willow had said. It didn’t matter how she looked outside. Inside, she was really a swan.

She jumped up and grabbed the lowest ________ and began to climb. “Swans never rush,” she told herself. It took her ages, but she didn’t rush. At last she managed to ________ the kite. But now she had to climb down again using only one hand. Very, very ________ she swung herself down to the ground. The kite was safe!

“Thanks, Trudy.” Lisa showed it to the others. “Look, it’s all right!”

Trudy felt very, very proud and different. Smiling at everyone, she walked swan-like across the playground and into school, so tall and ________.

【推荐2】At a restaurant, a cockroach(蟑螂) suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady. She started screaming out of ______. With a frightened face and trembling voice, she started ______, with both her hands desperately trying to ______ the cockroach. Her reaction was within expectation, as everyone in her ______ also got scared. The lady ______ managed to push the cockroach away ______ it landed on another lady in the group.

Now, it was the ______ of the other lady in the group to ______ the drama. The waiter rushed forward to their ______. In the relay of fear, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter. The waiter stood firm, calmed down and ______ the behavior of the cockroach on his shirt. When he was ______ enough, he quickly caught it with his fingers and threw it out of the restaurant.

Enjoying my coffee and watching the whole ______, my mind picked up a few thoughts and started ______. Was the cockroach responsible for their histrionic (有如演戏的) ______? If so, then why was the waiter not ______? He dealt with it near to perfection, ______ any mess.

It was not the cockroach, but the inability of those people to ______ the disturbance (困扰) caused by the cockroach, that disturbed the ladies. I realized that, it is not the shouting of my father or my boss or my wife that makes my life a(n) ______, but it’s my inability to deal with the disturbances caused by their ______ that disturbs me. In other words, it’s my reaction to the problem that ______ mess in my life.

【推荐3】To millions of readers, Jeff Zaslow was a bestselling author. But to me, Jeff was a(a) ______ mentor（导师）who gave countless hours of his time and energy to ______ authors.

When I was in middle school, Jeff and his family ______ near our house. At a neighborhood party, I was a ______ kid playing basketball alone. Jeff walked over, introduced himself to me. He took a true interest in getting to ______ me, asking about my hobbies. Although we had just met, I had the ______ that this new neighbor truly cared about me.

Looking back, Jeff was the first adult who ______ me like a peer（同龄人）, and it helped me find my confidence. At the time, I had no ______ that Jeff would become a mentor to me or that I would enter the writing ______.

Twenty years later, I decided to ______ my first book. In search of ______ on developing a plan, I ______ to Jeff. Less than three hours later, his ______ landed in my mailbox. He invited me to call him any time, day or night. He asked me ______ questions and listened to my responses.

When I started writing, I ______ Jeff’s work as a model and his personal example as a reminder of what it meant to put other people first.

In 2012, before I finished writing my book, Jeff lost his ______ in a car accident. I missed the ______ to tell him what an influence he had on me—not only as a writer, but as a role model for how to live a good life.

Jeff Zaslow never got the chance to give his last ______. I don’t know what he would have ______, but I know how he would have made you ______ during the talk. He would have amused you with humor and encouraged you to seek for the most meaningful moments in life.

【推荐1】Nowadays young people in the UK hardly ever go to music shops.In fact,there aren't many music shops _______on British high streets and small independent music shops have almost completely disappeared.You could be forgiven(谅解）for _______that British youngsters are no longer interested in music. _______ ,music is still an important part of life for most British people.In a recent survey young people had to imagine what they would _______if they lived on a desert island and 90 percent of those who _______chose music first.

The main difference between attitudes to music now and in the past is that lots of young people would _______the idea of paying for music nowadays."Music is free,"they say,"and you can get it from the Internet."So illegal downloading of music is _______according to the survey,saying that an average teenager has 800 illegally down loaded songs on his or her MP3 player.Another research has shown that many teenagers listen to music_______on their computer hard drive,which contains over 8,000 songs_______

So,what does this mean for the bands(乐队）that make their money from the________ of their music?In the past bands could make some money from T shirts,CDs and posters but now they need to be more creative now.Some of the big names in British music are________some interesting ways to make money.For example,you can choose a Gorillaz lamp if you want to brighten up your bedroom.You can ________dry your Coldplay cups with a Supergrass branded tea towel while listening to music.

If you are thinking of   ________your own band you have to go to your audience to make yourself known.This means on social networking sites such as Facebook and My space where a lot of teens can be found in the evening.It is more difficult for bands that are just starting out in the music business to make money but easier for them to find________.UKbands is a site devoted to new music,where it gives bands a chance to________their music across the web.So dig out your guitar and maybe you could be an Internet star.

【推荐2】Charles Dickerson believes music teaches important life lessons. “Music instills (灌输) within a person _________ of life, self-determination, and the pursuit of excellence to do something _________.” That’s why this conductor has _________ his over four-decade career to making classical _________ more accessible to communities of African American.

Dickerson is the _________ and conductor of both the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA) and the South Side of Chicago Youth Orchestra (SSCYO). Both of them are nonprofit groups. Many of his students didn’t _________ an orchestra (管弦乐团) program in their _________ before.

Since starting ICYOLA in 2009, it has _________ to be the largest African American orchestra in the country. In July 2019,Dickerson expanded, launching another orchestra to _________ children in the city of Chicago. The program is __________ and mostly made up of high school students in need, but it is also open to students of all ages __________ on their music level. Many of Dickerson’s students come from Kenwood Academy High School. Nicholas Thomas, 16, has __________ the violin since age 6 and is now one of SSCYO’s original __________. Thomas says that SSCYO has been “more like a family than an orchestra” to him and __________ him to grow as a person.

Dickerson flies to Chicago from L. A. every Friday to be there when the __________ holds its weekly concert. All concerts the orchestra puts on are free to the public. __________, he’s more than just a conductor. He has become like a “father figure” to many of his students over the years. “He’s a good __________. I always turn to him for advice. I think he’s someone that you can __________ with easily,” said Morgan.

Based on the __________ in Los Angeles and so far in Chicago, Dickerson __________ to open more orchestras in other cities across the U.S.

【推荐3】I’m a big fan of pop music and I enjoy listening to music quite a lot. Although people can listen to _________ music on their music players when they are travelling, working or studying, music festivals and _________ are becoming more and more _________. I think it is because they offer two main _________.

The first one is that the sound is much _________ at live concerts where the music and voices come _________ from the musicians. This makes it a much more emotional (有感染力的) _________ because you have direct contact with the _________ and you react (回应) to them and they react to you.

The second advantage is the atmosphere (气氛). _________ listening to a recording __________ on your personal music player, at a concert you are __________ with a huge crowd of people and __________ the music together. This means it is a __________ as well as an artistic experience.

The main __________ is that you cannot listen to live music __________ you want like you canon a personal music player. Besides, the noise from the audience sometimes damages the quality of the sound.

【推荐1】I could feel the excitement rising in me as I held the beautifully wrapped present in my hands. Unable to _______ my curiosity any longer, I ripped it open, surprised to see a brand-new laptop. I was _______ with it for scoring straight “A”s for my examinations. I had always _______ my friends who were exchanging news about “chat rooms”, “instant messaging” and “emailing”, all of which I knew nothing about. Now I was going to _______ .

It started out _______ enough. I was just searching for some information online when I _______ a social networking site. Soon I became _______ to my new-found electronic friend, began to spend more time on YouTube, and even became enslaved by Facebook and Twitter. Never in my _______ dreams had I thought about the day when I was so focused on the glowing screen before me. As time passed, it even came to a _______ where I chose to lock myself in my room, refusing to engage in family discussions. Soon, my sleep was __________ to only scattered (分散的) naps, and my study suffered.

It was about this time that my parents started their __________ . I was asked to reduce my use of the Internet. Hard as I tried, I was unable to pull myself away, unable to __________ my chat sessions and concentrate on my lessons. I was __________ for just another click and another look at my message board. Then one day, my father took away my laptop. I complained but to no avail (无济于事).

Over time, I realized that Dad and Mom had always wanted the best for me. That was when I decided to __________ my Internet addiction. Quitting was harder than I had expected. But with dogged __________ , I knew that I would turn over a new leaf.

【推荐2】My mother used to ask me what is the most important part of the body. Through the years I would _______what I thought was the correct answer.

When I was younger, I thought sound was very important to us as humans, so I said, “My _______, Mommy.”

She said, “No. Many people are deaf, but they live a happy life. You can keep thinking about it and I will ask you again soon.”

Several years went by before she asked me again. Since making my first _______, I had _______the correct answer. So this time I replied, “Mommy, _______is very important to everybody, so it must be our eyes.”

She looked at me and told me, “You are learning fast, but it is not the answer because there are many people who are _______.”

Over the years, Mother asked me a couple more times and always her answer was, “No, but you are getting smarter every year, my child.”

Then last year, my Grandpa _______. Everybody was _______. Everybody was weeping. Mom looked at me when it was our turn to say our _______goodbye to Grandpa. She asked me, “Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear?”

I was _______when she asked me this at that moment. I always thought this was a _______between her and me. Seeing the confusion on my face, she told me, “This question is very important. It shows that you have really _______your life.” I saw her eyes _______with tears. She added, “My dear, the most important body part is your shoulder.”

I asked, “Is it because it holds up my head?”

She replied, “No, it is because it can _______the head of a friend or loved one when they cry. Everybody needs a shoulder to cry on sometime in life, my dear. I only hope that you have enough love and friends that you will have a shoulder to cry on when you need it.”

Then and there I knew the most important body part is not a _______one. It is sympathetic to the pain of others.

【推荐3】Soon after Savannah Phillips got fastened into her window seat on a flight from Oklahoma to Illinois, she glanced over at her seatmate. He was in his 60s, wore bright yellow sunglasses, and was busy _________. The font (字体) was _________large and the screen was_________, making it easy for Phillips to read what he was _________ out: “Hey Babe, I’m sitting next to a smelly fatty.”

“It was like_________of the negative things I think about myself,” the 33-year-old mother wrote in a Facebook post after the flight. Soon tears_________down her cheeks as she_________the cabin wall, trying to make herself as _________ as possible.

Sitting a row behind them and across the_________was Chase Irwin. He could see the man’s texts, too—and he could see Phillips. He noticed her looking at his__________. He was __________to his stomach. He could not ________ this guy sit next to her this whole flight.

In an instant, Irwin had unfastened his seat belt and was hovering over the texter. “Hey, I need to talk to you,” Irwin told him. “We are ________ seats —now!” When the texter asked________, Irwin said, “You're texting about her, and I’m not________ that.

The texter agreed ________. Irwin took his place next to Phillips and was soon cheering up his new__________.

“He________me not to let that guy________to me and that everything was going to be fine,” Phillips wrote on Facebook. “He was my ________.”