【推荐1】I am the “Laundry Goddess”. Well, that’s what my kids call me anyway because I have the talent for finding the right _________ for any stain. From spaghetti sauce and grass marks to ballpoint ink stains, whatever my _________ throw to me, I seem to be able to find a way to make it look brand new again. It’s a skill I got from my mother. My mom wouldn’t admit it, but I think she _________ doing the laundry.

The laundry room was Mom’s territory. It was _________, with only the sounds of the washing machine or the hum of the dryer to interrupt her. She would _________ down early in the morning, often still in her housecoat, to put in the first _________ of the day. We would find her there, leaning against the machine, peacefully having a coffee, and reading the newspaper in her territory absorbedly.

I don’t remember Mom teaching me the ways of the laundry room. I learned to _________ towels and small items as a youngster. I spent many hours ironing clean cotton handkerchiefs and pillowcases. But the _________ wasn’t part of my training. So, when I left home and _________ to another city, __________ the stain required an expensive long-distance phone call home.

My washer and dryer seem to have more __________ than a jet plane, certainly many more than the machines with basic functions used by my mom. I have made the __________ from laundry powder to liquid, and I have my own favorite stain __________. But every time I step into the laundry room and think about how to deal with a particularly difficult stain, I __________ the Laundry Goddesses who came before me for her wisdom and perseverance. And each clean item of clothing is a(n) __________ force in a messy world.

【推荐1】Two months ago we were staying in the city of Hyderabad for a holiday. One day, along with my________, I went to the Cake Castle. I took out my________ from my bag to pay for what I bought and then we________ our hotel.

While we were________ back to the hotel, I got a call from a________ number. It was my hotel manager who________ me that someone called them saying that I’d left my purse in the Cake Castle. He________ the number of that person. Only after that call did I know that my purse was________, so I immediately called that person. He said voluntarily he could send my purse back to the hotel. How________ I was! After some words to express my________, I said, “Let’s________ in the hotel hall.” I went there along with my friend. I was________ because I didn’t know that person and it was a new city for me. And the purse was of vital importance for me________ my gold earrings which cost around $800 and my ATM cards were all in it.

In the hall, I met that person who handed me my purse and asked me to________ my belongings, which were totally________. After giving back my purse, he left________, even before I knew his name. Later I came to know that he was________ a customer of the Cake Castle. After seeing that purse, he________ it and found the bill of my hotel, from which he knew my hotel phone number. ________ my earrings is a big event, so he went to my hotel at once. That day I________ that kind humanity (人性) really exists everywhere.

【推荐2】Harriet Tubman was born a slave. She didn’t get a _________ to go to school. _________ a child, Harriet had to work very hard in _________ all day. That way, her owner could _________ a lot of money when he sold his crops. Harriet _________ think that she was being treated fairly.

_________ Harriet grew up, she ran away from the plantation(种植园) to the northern United States. There，and in Canada, _________ could be free.

Harriet liked to be free. She felt _________ for all of the black people who were _________ slaves.

Harriet returned to __________ to help other slaves to run away. She made __________ that they got to the north and became free.

Harriet was in great __________ because of a law that __________. The law said it was not permitted to __________ slaves run away. She also __________ that the slave owners said they would __________ 4000 dollars to anyone who could catch Harriet Tubman.

There were many stories about Harriet __________ slaves run away. In all, she made nineteen trips back to the South and guided about 300 slaves to __________. When the Civil War broke out, the northern states __________ against the southern states. Harriet __________ the northern states because the northerners believed that slaves should be free. She worked as a nurse and spied behind enemy lines until the northern states won the war.