【推荐1】I was fifteen years when Dad called my two younger brothers and me into the entertainment room of our house. I was _______! I thought we would play games or even see movies together! “Bring a notebook and something to write with,” said my dad _______we reached the entertainment room. My brothers and I stopped dead in our tracks and   _______ each other in horror! His request was unusual, and our excitement turned to_______. We_______that games or movies were not the reason we were called out.

As we went back for a notebook and pencil, we _______to think about the reason for this gathering. We thought family meeting was not _______because Mom was out shopping. In the entertainment room, we found three chairs _________a huge blackboard. Dad asked us to sit down. “I want your full_______. We are going to have a weekly meeting every Saturday morning. That is ________ I’ve called you here,” he said, sounding businesslike. “I’m going to teach you what I’ve learned about life. So take it________.”

For the next five years, rain or sunshine, in sickness or in health. Dad ________us once a week. He taught us on a variety of ________— manners, the importance of education, respect for others, home repairs, and the list went ________. We filled one notebook after another, which we all ________well.

As I came to my eighteenth birthday, the lessons became__________lessons and then every other month, until they slowly drifted away. My brothers and I were older, and we had school activities, sports activities and job responsibilities that became very ________to manage.

It’s been years now since we had those classes with Dad. We are__________with careers (事业) and wives of our own. Very often, ________, one of us has a situation where we need help from Dad. At this time, we__________take out our notebooks; we needn’t call home.

【推荐3】In the past, American families tended to be quite large. Parents __________ five or more children were common. Over the years, the__________ of the family has decreased. One reason for this is an increase in the __________ of living. On the average, children attend schools for more years than they used to, making them ____________ dependent on their families longer. Moreover, children nowadays are better __________ and have more money to spend on _________ . The parents usually take the responsibility for all the expenses. Meanwhile, families are less close than they used to be. More and more American mothers _________ away from home. The break up of the family occurs when the parents ________ . A lot of children in the U. S. live part of their young lives with only one parent. Broken families usually result in problems for children and parents alike. Children blame themselves when their parents separate. They grow up feeling _________ as they are moved back and forth between parents. Usually one parent is responsible for raising the children. These single parents must care for the children’s emotional and psychological __________ while also supporting them financially. This is very demanding and __________ very little time for the parent’s own personal_________ . Single parents often marry other single parents. In this type of family, unrelated children are _________ to develop brother or sister relationship. The situations of many American families today are not good. However, recent signs ___________ that things are getting better. The divorce rate is__________ . The rate of childbirth is rising. Perhaps Americans have learned how important families are.

【推荐1】One of my father’s favorite sayings as I was growing up was “Try it!” I couldn’t say I didn’t like _______, whatever it might be, _______ I tried it. Over the years I’ve come to_______ how much of my success I owe to my _______ of those words as one of my values. My _______ job was just one I decided to try for a couple of years until I_______what I wanted to do as a career (职业) . _______ I believed I would work for a few years, get married, stay home and raise a family, so I didn’t think the job I took_______that much. I couldn’t have been more _______. I mastered the skills of that beginning level position and I was given the opportunity (机会) to________through the company into different ________. I accepted each new opportunity with the ________, “Well, I’11 try it; if I don’t like it I can always go back to my________position.” But I was with the same company for the past 28 years, and I’ve ________ every career change I’ve made. I’ve discovered I ________ a large number of different talents (才能) and skills that I never would have thought were within me had it not been for my being ________ trying new opportunities. I’ve also discovered that if I ________ what I’m doing and work hard at achieving my________, I will succeed. That’s why I am so ________ to be a part of CareerFables.com. I think ________ has come and I am determined to make it a success.

【推荐3】At the end of the First World War, in 1918. China was convinced it would be able to reclaim the territories occupied by the Germans in present-day Shandong Province. After all, it had fought along with the Allies. However it was not to be. The warlord government of the day had ________ struck a deal with the Japanese, offering the German colonies in return for financial support. The Allies, ________, acknowledged Japan’s territorial claims in China. When it became known in China in April 1919 that the negotiations over the Treaty of Versailles（凡尔赛条约）would not ________ China’s claims, it gave rise to a movement that might be considered even more revolutionary than the one that ended the Empire.

In the course of this May Fourth Movement, some 5,000 students from Peking University hit the streets to ________ the Versailles Treaty. But more was at stake than Japan’s grabbing of land. When one considers the 1911 Revolution as a mere regime（政体）change, it become clear that the numerous popular demands for modernization had not been satisfied yet.

The May Fourth Movement was part cultural revolution, part _______ movement. On the cultural side , the students had been inspired in the preceding two decades by Western thought, creating a feeling of frustration and _______ with Chinese tradition. In the intellectual ferment（酝酿/骚动）that resulted from this, answers were sought for the questions why and how China had lagged behind the West. The negative influences of traditional morality, the clan（宗族）system and Confucianism were seen as the main causes. China in its shaky state could only be cured by “Two Doctors”: Doctor Science（赛先生）and Doctor Democracy（德先生）.

At the same time, intellectuals untied in the New Culture Movement attempted to make Chinese culture more ________ to social groups beyond the traditional scholar-officials. To this end, they advocated a Literary Revolution, in which wenyan, the ossified（僵化的）system of ________ language, was to be replaced by a system based on conversational language, the so-called baihua. Hu Shi is one of the scholars who ________ with this movement, and meanwhile Lu Xun is seen as one of the most productive practitioners of this type of writing that came into _______ in the 1920s.

The social aspects of May Fourth consisted of attempts to free the Chinese woman, although this was often limited to movements to bring foot-binding to a halt. Nonetheless, in the cities newly ________ women, modern girls who had been educated, became a loud voice for further changes.

May Fourth is seen as a critical _______ for the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Before 1919, there was hardly any interest in what was happening in Russia. After May Fourth, Marxism was seen as a _______ revolutionary ideology for a predominantly agricultural society such as China still was.

Even today, May Fourth functions as a point of _______ for China. The Party may interpret the events of 1919 as being brought about by its earliest members, and it may turn Lu Xun into the Marxist writer he would refuse to be, but the fact ________ that May Fourth truly set China on its revolutionary path.