【推荐1】Seven years ago I began accompanying my father to the farmers’ market to sell vegetables we harvested from our farm. In the beginning I did what I could to _______ him.

As time went on, I increasingly _______ gardening, so I planted a garden of my own and became a vendor (小贩) myself. The farmers’ market soon became my workplace for many summers to come. The vendors at the market are _______ to share their gardening knowledge. My _______ in the farmers’ market helped me grow and opened doors I had never _______.

As I learned to manage my own gardening business, _______ came quickly. I had to rise early in the morning at 4 a.m. to go to the market with my fresh produce, which _______ I would be there to greet _______ customers.

_______, the President of the Farmers’ Union invited me to become a member. I greatly enjoyed this ________. Many members of the Farmers’ Union were very ________. I learned a lot from them.

Actually it is important to ________ the knowledge I gained to the next generation so that knowledge will not ________. I am very ________ for the gardening knowledge vendors taught to me over the years. I am happy when ________ about the different varieties of plants and how to raise them. I also want to ________ the knowledge that I gain at Washington University with others and be a positive ________. I think that knowledge is worthless ________ it is shared with others. I am a very determined person who ________ putting forth the extra effort to achieve. I will try my best to reach my full ________ and contribute to society.

【推荐2】I was confused while I was eating lunch in a restaurant the other day. I was sitting there looking at what I’d ___and wondered if anyone else could see the ___in my mind. I’m about to ___a lot of fat and wash it down with a diet soda.

What can I say? I’m trying to lose some weight. ___. I do things like that all the time, which is probably why the pounds are ___so slowly. I spent half an hour on the treadmill (跑步机) and I ___myself with potato chips. I ___that I will no longer eat them again, so I just eat a lot at this time. I make it all the way through the entire day doing everything absolutely right, and then at bedtime, “just one chip won’t ___it “turns into “where did that entire bag of potato chips go?”

Of course, I ___do well with my weight loss program, Once I put together two full weeks of eating properly and exercising ____. I was starting to feel a (an) ____. I could bend over to tie my shoes more easily. But just as it was about to become a ____. I entered a period of long, late nights filled with ____deadlines. I sat in front of my computer, eating snacks and drinking sodas to help me stay ____. Within a few days, the habit of a sensible eating and exercising was a ____.

Unfortunate but ____. I was too tired to get on the treadmill. ____, I had work to do, for which I needed all the energy I could ____. So I started skipping exercise sessions. And ____I started doing so, it became easier to skip them.

There are always reasons not to do the things that we really should do. Every reason is just another ____.

【推荐3】It was a cold and rainy day. I had no _________ to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn’s house. But she had insisted that I come to see something at the top.

So here I was, _________ made the two-hour journey _________ fog that hung like veils (面纱). By the time I saw how _________ it was near the summit, I had gone too far to _________. Nothing could be worth this, I thought as I _________ along the dangerous highway.

“I’ll stay for lunch, _________ I’m heading back down immediately the fog _________.” I announced when I arrived. At my words, Carolyn asked me to walk along a quite path thick with old pine needles. Gradually the _________ of the place began to fill my mind.

I stopped at a corner, __________. Rivers of flowers in bloom! Varieties of __________ from the palest ivory to the deepest lemon to the __________ vivid orange-pink—shined brightly like a carpet before us. It looked as though the sun had tipped over and __________ gold down the mountainside.

________ occupied my mind. Who created such beauty? Why? How?

As we drove home, we saw a __________ that read: “One Woman—Two Hands, Two Feet, and Very Little Brain.” “One at a Time.” “Started in 1958.” She __________ the world. Forty years had passed but she still __________ it.

The wonder of it would not let me go. I said: “Imagine,” I said, “if I’d had a __________ and worked on it, just a little bit every day, what might I have __________?

Carolyn smiled. “Start tomorrow,” she said. “__________ yet, start today.”

【推荐1】As I turned off the main road the other day, I noticed something unusual in the parking place.

There's a wide grassy land in front of the ________ where people often put up signs announcing their yard sales or events. That was what was happening this day, but the thing I ________ was worthy of a surprised look. A man in a suit was hammering（锤击）a ________ into the ground and a homeless man was ________ the sign when he hammered.

I was ________ by how the two looked so exactly ________, one with a soldier suit, snowy white shirt and matched tie, but the other with ________, mismatched clothing and messy hair waving ________ in the wind. And then the ________ humanity（人性）of the moment hit me. So many times we ________ homeless people and all we see is homeless people, almost as if we don't even notice them. But on this day, I saw the ________ of a man who walked over to help someone. The moment really ________ me, and it was a fresh reminder to look beyond the ________ and see the person instead.

A friend and I had an opportunity a few years ago to write the study guide to a book. It's an amazing book. The dedication（题词）was ______ on the first page and it said, "To Titus, who taught me to cheer for humanity."

Wow, what if more of us did that? Can you imagine the difference it would make in our world? In one of the chapters, the book tells about sitting in large crowds at places, like shops and airports, and cheering for humanity. It does change things. Just imagine an old lady down the street becomes a wounded soul who just needs ________ and a homeless person on the street becomes a real person who needs concerns and a hand. You really can help them.

【推荐2】A few weeks ago, I surfed the Internet and came across a book called The Debt to Pleasure. At first sight, I _______, immediately, to own it. Its structure was novel and it had won wide _______among readers.

But before I could _______ the Buy Now button, a tiny inner voice _______the library, the library, which was simply three blocks from my apartment. I searched the catalog（目录）of the library and sure enough, " _______" now. However, by the time the book was borrowed, I couldn't say with _______that I would love it. This worn, yellow-papered object was just so _______. No matter how promising our first _______was, my initial(最初的) desire _______sank. When the book was ________, I walked to the library and ________it into the Returns box. Once reshelved, it would ________for others. I sighed and walked off. It had never ________me from the very beginning.

One thing I should mention: I did end up loving The Debt to Pleasure, I loved it so much that I finally ordered a copy of my own. The library book does ________me the cost of a paperback, but it just delivers a temporary satisfaction, one that can't promise forever ________. Live your life fully, for our lives are only lent to us and can't be owned forever.

【推荐3】A friend of mine met with an accident driving in darkness. His legs were so hurt that he couldn’t move. What was the__________was that he found himself unable to ask for help—his mobile phone went out of work as a result of exhausted (用尽的) battery. Nothing could be done but__________in cold wilderness. It was 8 hours later that day broke, and then the__________of the rescue （救援队）.

It was almost_________ that he could stand the horror in the darkness for so long. Even more surprising was his explanation, “First of all I checked up my_______conditions and found myself not in deadly danger. As there was no________to call for help, I leaned back in my seat trying my best to keep the wound from bleeding. In this way I dozed (打盹) off.”

His story put an end to my regret for the failure of an exploration adventure that happened last year. A group of young men__________to explore a mountain cave and got lost. ________to find a way out in the dark cave, they were frightened and ran anxiously without a ________of direction. Finally, they fell dead in fear and exhaustion. According to the_________people that found them, the place where they got lost was only about 10 meters away from the_________of the cave. If they stayed on the spot when they lost their way and tried to________themselves, they would probably sense a faint light flashing not far away.

Don’t you think that you can compare it with__________itself? When you meet with difficulties in life, you are lost in darkness. Mind you that it’s unclear yet and you needn’t act_________ It seems to be a negative (消极的) attitude, _______   a person who can do so must have foresight （先见之明）as well as a great courage in the first place.