【推荐2】In the movie Cast Away, Tom Hanks _________ a man named Chuck. Chuck is a businessman who is always _________   busy that he has little time for his_________. He is a successful manager in a company that sends mail all over the world. One day Chuck is _________ across the Pacific Ocean _________ suddenly his plane crashes(坠落). Chuck survives(生存） the crash and lands on a(n) _________ island.

On the island, Chuck has to learn to make a_________ all alone. He has to learn how to collect water, hunt for food, and make fire. Perhaps the most difficult challenge(挑战) is _________   to survive without friends. _________   survive,   Chunk   develops   a   friendship   with   a(n) _________   friend—a   volleyball   he   calls Wilson.

Chuck learns a lot about _________   when he is alone on the island. He realizes that he hasn't been a very good friend _________   he has always been thinking about himself. During his five years on the island, Chuck learns how to be a good friend to Wilson. _________   Wilson is just a volleyball, he becomes_________ him. He talks to him and treats him as a friend. Chuck learns that we need friends to _________ happiness and sorrow, and that it is important to have someone to care about. He also learns that he_________ cared more about his friends. When he makes friends with Wilson, he_________ that friendship is about_________ and that we must give as much as we take.

The lesson we can_________ Chuck and all the others who have unusual friends is that friends are teachers. Friendship helps us understand who we are ,why we need each other and_________ we can do for each other.

【推荐3】My interest in Chinese Kunqu opera (昆曲) began when I was eleven or twelve just about the age when one can first fall in love with words and start _________ them. At first, my interest was literary (文学的). I _________ the imaginative language. I copied my favorite words into a notebook. Then I started _________ the rhymes and tones (押韵和腔调) and appreciating the musicality (韵律). Gradually, I_________ that Kunqu is not only what’s written, it is also the melody (曲调), the dance moves, the dresses.

_________ I grew up in a northern town with no Kunqu performances, I never imagined I could learn and perform it myself, until I _________ Saturday classes with teachers from the Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre. I was _________and often got up before 5 a.m. to go to class. My _________ started with the basics, like bow to stand and walk onstage. I understood then that the many constraints (约束) of the form are the only way to artistic _________. Performers put in so much effort to show how seemingly__________ they are onstage.

As I continue __________Kunqu after moving to the United States for college. I am__________to see my rapid progress and how this ancient art form has mixed with my studies and creations in modern art and poetry. When people ask me why Kunqu is connected to my __________and to the Western art world today. I say that Kunqu’s values and influences will never __________.

Kunqu has a magical power which means I’m__________ to it for the rest of my life. Thanks to this cultural heritage, I know I have a home within.

【推荐1】British Cycling had recently hired Dave Brailsford as its new director. At the time, professional cyclists in Great Britain had ________ nearly one hundred years of mediocrity(平庸). In fact, their________   had been so poor that one of the top bike companies in Europe ________ to sell bikes to the team because they were afraid that it would hurt sales if other professionals saw the British people using their bikes.

What made Brailsford different from previous coaches was his________ of searching for a tiny improvement in everything they do. The whole principle came from the idea that if you________   everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, improve it by 1 percent and you will get a________ increase when you put them all together.

Brailsford and his coaches began by making small________. They redesigned the bike seats to make them more________. They asked riders to wear electrically heated over-shorts to ________ ideal muscle temperature while riding and used biofeedback sensors to ________how each athlete responded to a particular workout.

But they didn’t stop there.They________ to find 1 percent improvements in overlooked areas. They hired a(n)________ to teach each rider the best way to wash their hands to reduce the ________ of catching a cold. They even painted the ________ of the team truck white, which helped them ________little bits of dust that would normally slip by ________ but could affect the performance of the________tuned bikes.

As these and hundreds of other small improvements were ________, the results came faster than anyone could have ________. Just five years after Brailsford took over, they________ the road and track cycling events in all the important Games.

Many years ago, on a lazy summer day right before the beginning of the second grade, my mother changed my life forever.

I had just_______ a picture book about the tornado, so I_______ to play games with my sister outside because I feared it. I_______ myself for a nice hour or two of staying at home_______ and there seemed to be nothing for me to do.

My mother, no doubt, didn't think I had _______ to do, so she pulled a “big person” book off her personal_______ and gave it to me.“Here, you might like this.” I was_______ to be given a big book to read, _______ I was daunted (吓唬) by the fact that there were no pictures. I made up my_______ to give the book a try. I couldn't put it ________ the rest of the whole day. After that I became fond of ________ various books.

It stands out in my mind as the single most ________ moment in my entire childhood. It shaped the course of the rest of my ________.If my mother had told me to go to watch TV, or put me ________， I can imagine how________ life would be for me. I might not be a published author, and might not be as ________ as I am now.

There may have been a hundred other moments when my parents________， a hundred other moments that went wrong, but those________ don't matter because they got it right that one time. Now that I have my own child, I believe I'll get it ________ that one time, and that I don't regret the moments that ________ too much.

【推荐3】I'm standing in a class of wild 14-year-old girls as they throw paper and howl (大喊) with laughter. They won't _________ me. I was 23 and I didn't know what I was doing. I never wanted to _________. I wanted to be a writer. But when I arrived in London, they were short of teachers.

My efforts at teaching were _________. When the bell finally rang, I rushed to the staff room, red with anger. The other teachers weren't _________. “That's 4B, the worst class in school,” one said.

I dreaded (害怕) our next _________, but I couldn't give up. I needed the job. So. I _________ formal lessons. Instead, I brought _________ for class discussions. One of the liveliest talks was about the arguments they had with their parents. They paid attention and shared about their lives. I was _________. So I had them write about themselves. Most wrote about families with little money and big problems. As time went on, their essays became a _________ between us. I admired their humor, toughness and insight, and I think they ____________ my interest in their lives.

The musical My Fair Lady was playing in the West End, but they had never seen a ____________stage performance. They lived just a few subway stops from the West End, but none had ever been. I asked if they'd like to see the musical. They thought I was ____________. No teacher had ever ____________taking them out. A few weeks later, 4B and I were sitting in a ____________. They loved the music, the costumes and the characters. It was the ____________ of their year, and they talked about it for days.

Near the end of the semester, someone knocked on the door of the staff room. The two most rebellious (叛逆的) girls in 4B were there — with flowers. I was proud to know I had ____________their lives. I enjoyed teaching and getting along with ____________.

When I returned to Australia several years later, I still wanted to be a ____________. For the first time in my life, I stopped ____________ and started writing. My first story was titled. My Fair Ladies. Teaching wasn't the ____________ of my writing career; it was the beginning.