【推荐2】I sat down at my desk and tried to focus on my studies. In just seven more days, finals would be over and all the students in my college ________ would be leaving to     go home-________ me. I would be moving ________ to another dormitory for the Christmas break.

I had no ________. I was a student from Pennsylvania attending college in Utah and my family of ten couldn’t ________ to pay for my ticket home. The only ________ I was even able to attend college was that I had received several scholarships.

I started at the white snow dancing through the air. This would be my ________ Christmas away from home. I felt so ________ that I could weep. ________ I swallowed down the ache that was rising in my throat, my phone rang suddenly. I reached over and picked it ________.

“Hello?”

“Hi, Teddi. This is Elsie.” What was my boss from high school grocery job ________ me for? “All the workers here ________ that you weren’t able to make it home this year. ________ we bought you a ticket. You’re coming home!”

I screamed.

Fifteen minutes later I was off the ________ and jumping up and down for ________. Neighbors came over to see what the ________ was all about.

“I’m going home for Christmas! My ________ at my high school job bought me a ticket!” I told them.

Christmas ________, I was awoken by laughs and screams of joy. The smell of roasting turkey and the wrapping paper（包装纸）that grew higher and higher filled me with love and ________. The kindness of some special fiends ________ me to have the best Christmas ever.

【推荐1】Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future and wanted to make a ______ in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that. That’s ______ I learned about the Lighthouse Project.

I started my ______ as a Lighthouse Project volunteer by reading as much as I could about the experiences of previous ______. I knew it would be a lot of ______, and that I would be away from my family and friends for a very long time. ______, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project ______.

I sent in all the paperwork needed for the application. After countless interviews and presentations, I managed to ______ among the candidates and survive the test alone. Several months later, I finally received a call asking me to report for the ______. I would be going to a small ______ near Abuja, Nigeria.

After completing my ______, I was sent to the village that was small and ______ in need of proper accommodation. Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their homes, hearts, and food ______ I were their own family. I was asked to ______ a small team of local people in building a new schoolhouse. For the next year or so, I ______ in that same schoolhouse. But I sometimes think I learned more from my ______ than they did from me.

Sometime during that period, I realized that all those things that had seemed so strange or ______ to me no longer did, though I did not get anywhere with the local ______, and returned to the United States a ______ man. The Lighthouse Project had changed my ______ forever.

【推荐2】In a land far away, once upon a time there was great poverty (贫困), and only the rich could manage without great _______. Three of those rich men and their servants were _______ together on a road when they came to a very _______ village.

The first could not stand seeing the poverty, _______ he took all the gold and jewels from his wagons (四轮载重马车) and shared _______ out among the villagers. He wished them all the best of luck, and he left.

The second rich man, seeing the _______ situation, stopped for a short time and gave _______ all his food and drink, since he _______ see that money would be of little _______ to them. He made sure that they each ________ their fair share and would have enough food to ________ for some time. Then, he left.

The third rich man, on seeing such poverty, ________ and went straight through the ________ without stopping. The two other rich men saw this from a distance and commented with each other ________ the third rich man lacked sympathy. It was ________ that they themselves had been there to offer help.

However, three days later, they ________ the third rich man, who was coming in the opposite direction. He was ________ travelling quickly, but his wagons, ________ the gold and valuables they had been ________, were now full of farming tools and bags of ________. He was rushing back to help them out of poverty.

【推荐3】“Mama，when I grow up，I’m going to be one of those！” I said this after seeing the Capital Dancing Company perform when I was three.It was the first time that my______took on a vivid form and acted as something important to start my training.As I grew older and was______to more，my interests in the world of dance______varied but that little girl’s dream of someday becoming a______in the company never left me.In the summer of 2005 when I was 18，I received the phone call which made that dream a______； I became a member of the company______back to 1925.

As I look back on that day now，it surely______any sense of reality.I believe I stayed in a state of pleasant disbelief______I was halfway through rehearsals(排练) on my first day.I never actually______to get the job.After being offered the position，I was completely______.I remember shaking with excitement.

Though I was absolutely thrilled with the change，it did not come without its fair share of______.Through the strict rehearsal period of dancing six days a week，I found it vital to______up the material fast with every last bit of concentration.It is that extreme______to detail(细节) and stress on practice that set us______.To then follow those high­energy rehearsals______a busy show schedule of up to five performances a day，I discovered a new______of the words “hard work”．What I thought were my physical______were pushed much further than I thought______.I learned to make each performance better than the last.

Today，when I look at the unbelievable company that I have the great______of being a part of，not only as a member，but as a dance captain，I see a______that has inspired not only generations of little girls but a splendid company that continues to develop and grow—and inspires people every day to follow their dreams.

【推荐3】Jane Sun, CEO of Ctrip, Asia’s largest online travel company, connects people with the best places the world has to offer. She believes travel and cultural experiences can _______ divide and conflicts, strengthen industries and create peace.

Actually she herself is a _______ advertisement for how travel can _______ a life. But her journey was much longer and more _______ even than marathon.

While_______ Peking University, Sun was invited to a program in the University of Florida, where she finally managed to_______ her study. Compared to others, Sun’s life pace was_______. She bicycled 6 miles to the _______ each morning, taking the earliest classes so she could spend the rest of the day, working to make money. However, Sun _______ those days, “I learned a lot from my experience in the USA.”

“Many discussions I had still __________ my style today. In particular, I have __________ a habit of hearing people’s different __________over certain topics.” “In today’s world, you’d better have a good understanding of different people and __________different cultures. ”

Feeling it her duty to help others, Sun __________an organization to help students. Her advice for them is to give 100% effort to whatever you want to __________. Now as a mother of two daughters and CEO, she has__________ both for her children and Ctrip. “Some people ask me why I work so hard, because I feel mothers are the best ____________for children, ” Sun says. “To work is actually to __________ yourselves, but if you double your efforts at work and being a mother, it is doubly__________.”

As for her future efforts, Sun is preparing for the day when advanced technology and even space travel will change the travel industry. One thing that won’t change: the __________ of travel is to build bridges.