【推荐2】I used to walk around the store with my parents and beg them for something. I remember the_________of all the bright bags of chips and candies. I asked my mom to_________for me. I had no real knowledge about the value of _________.

When I was about twelve years old, my dad always_________my begging and told me, “You can waste all the money you want when you have a job.” I_________him when he said that and_________I was going to get a job as soon as I was_________enough. But before I could legally (合法地) get a_________, I babysat to make some money. I remember the feeling of getting new money in my pocket.

A few years later when I was in high school, I got a job information. I started to think about the money I could make, so I_________. Soon I got an email, inside which I was__________to a meeting the following night and learned all about the__________.

After being trained for several months, I__________started the job and made some money. The more money I made, the less I wanted to__________. Instead of wasting my money on useless things, I started saving up. I finally came to the__________that money meant so much more to me because I was the one working for it. Because I__________my money, I now have 3, 300 dollars in the bank.

【推荐3】On the Inspection Day one year, we were told an officer of education was coming to see how our school was _____. As usual, our teachers asked us to be ________. The top rankers were ________ seated, with some of them on the back benches. After all, there was every ________ of the inspector watching the class from the back and talking to them!

_____ all this, no inspector came. At the end of the day, Mrs Sushila Tragi, our Hindi （印度语）teacher told us the inspector had come and quietly ________ the class from the back door. He had also left an unfavorable _____! We were very shocked and disappointed. Would we now be punished for having ________ our teachers? There were no answers from Mrs Tragi. Instead, she wrote the Hindi word "dukh" on the ________. And then she did something I have never seen a teacher do in my ________ school life. She ________ to us.

"I'm sorry for having taught you something wrong. I ________ the dots between the letters 'du' and 'kh'. The _____ told me this in the staffroom. I hope you will not make this ________ in future." she said.

That admission had a(n)________ effect on me. If our teacher can say sorry to us when she is wrong, why can't I? The incident helped me ________ my two common ________ -ego（自负）and dishonesty.

Recently I went to ________ Mrs Tragi and told her how her ________, decades-long apology had transformed me for ________."It's tough being a teacher. But every once in a while, when an old student comes along and tells me that I did something right, it makes up for everything else." she said.

【推荐1】I woke up by my dog barking in the early morning. I went outside to find a koala（考拉） at the yard gate wanting to enter. It was the first time that I had ______ a koala in my neighborhood. What a welcome ______ !

I was wondering why he was here, as Koala ______ came down from the trees and didn’t like walking, either._________ , there was no eucalyptus（桉树）around. Was he hungry or lost? Or maybe the bushfire across Kangaroo Island ______ him here?

He just sat there, apparently ______ , and sort of looked at me with a look, like helping me out of my suffering. At a(n) ______ look, I discovered a long cut at his back with bloods, ______ of attacks or cuts of something sharp in some other way.

I rushed into my room and came out with some iodophor（碘伏药水）, It was not a ______ problems as I was a nurse. This poor soul seemed to quite ______ my kindness when I ______ the cut with the liquid. It   ______   me that he came to seek my ______ !

After the treatment, I watched the koala finally ______ in the wild, hoping he was able to ______ the hard time and live his life as he should.

【推荐2】Corks is now an incredibly happy and loving dog with a love for life. However, you might never guess the ___ story of his past.

Late last year, Corks was found ____. Doctors believed that he might have been dragged(拖拽)behind a car, causing serious injuries to his legs. Corks was treated and placed in a ___ , but the scars (伤疤)of the wound he’d experienced ran_____.

Rescuers from Dogs Without Borders stepped in to ___ him. “ Careful of people and considered ____,Corks was about to be put down at the shelter,” Corks’ rescuers wrote. “He had lost so much ___ in humans.

Now, at least, Corks was safe. In time, Corks’ body began to recover, __ his heart was slow to follow. Hearing Corks’ story, Wilson ___to take him in-soon realizing that Corks clearly wasn’t used to kindness. Under Wilson’s ___and constant doting, the sad dog began to open up to her. Wilson said,” At first, ___to let a single person touch him, he now loves to jump up and ___me with kisses all over the face.

Corks, who was once considered broken, was whole again. ___ the difficulties he had faced, a happier life was never out of reach. His happiness and joy now ___ . “He amazes me every day. “ Wilson said. “Getting a dog like Corks to trust you can be ___, but love and patience can truly work miracles (奇迹).”

【推荐3】The young seal couldn’t have been more than two days old, and yet he was all alone. Sometimes he would swim ____ ,but he always came back. At first we thought it was_____that he kept swimming back to us, until we noticed that he obviously had been _____and had nowhere else to go. We called him “Curious George”.

Without his mother’s milk, George appeared very _____with his eyes closed. I jumped into the water and swam up to him,______we could be close enough. My heart went out to George and I just hoped that he had the ________to interact (互动) with me. Suddenly he _____ his eyes and immediately he jumped up between my arms, putting his head against my chest. It was a(n) _____moment. But I knew that George wouldn’t _____without some help.

We __________the local conservation volunteers. They were _____that in the absence of his mother, he had developed a ______relationship with us. They promised they would bring him to an area with______people living there and keep an eye on him. Even though it hurt to see him   ________,we knew that he was in better hands.

The next day we ______the conservation volunteers and asked how George was doing. ______the volunteers informed us that he was too close to humans, we realized that was probably our _____! They decided to bring him to a small island wildlife reserve with a lot of seals in the area, where they could better _____him.

A week later, we called again, and were informed that George was______in the water swimming with other seals. George was______and back to his world. And he will always swim in my heart.

【推荐1】From the window of my room, I could see a tall cotton-rose hibiscus (木槿). In spring when green leaves were half ________by mist, the tree looked very charming dotted with red flowers. This________neighbor often set my mind working. I gradually regarded it as my best friend.

________, when I opened the window one morning, to my________, the tree was almost bare beyond________as a result of the storm the night before. Struck by this scene, I was________with a sudden sadness at the thought “all the flowers are doomed to fall”. I could not help________with emotion: the________of life never runs smooth, for there are so many ups and downs, twists and turns. The vicissitudes (变迁) of my life saw my beloved friends________one after another. Isn’t it similar to the tree whose flowers fell in the________?

This event   ______from my memory as time went by. One day after I came home from the countryside, I found the room airless and________opened the window. Something outside________my eye. It was a plum (梅子) tree all red with flowers beautifully set off by the sunset. The surprise discovery struck me with_________

When the last petal (花瓣) dropped, all the joyful admiration for the hibiscus was gone as if nothing was left,_____________the landscape was again charming with the red flowers to________people of life’s alternation (替代) and continuance. Can’t it be said that life is actually a symphony, a________composition of gain and loss?

Standing by the window lost in thought for a long time, I realized no scenery in the world remains________. As long as you keep your heart________in the sun, every dawn will________a fine prospect and the world will always be about new hopes.

【推荐2】Did you ever have a dream? I'm talking about a conscious dream where you would like to ____ a new future, a different choice of employment and a ____ of your own.

Several years ago, I had a dream about inventing a board game that would ___ my fortune. After many revisions, a board game was developed. It was a(n)_____ time. Our dream seemed to come true with sales starting to ___, and our company was also founded.

___ ,another new board game come into the ___ and made great progress in sales. Eventually, our company was dissolved (解散).Perhaps for a game developer, the ____emotions that it never was meant to be will discourage his future dreams of a different life. To me, maybe I didn't succeed to the level I ___, but there is one thing I'm ___ of: at the very least I turned my dream into a reality. If I had never transferred my dream into a ___ and then to action, there wouldn't have been valuable lessons to be learned from the failure. It may take many ___ but success is only achieved. Once dreams are ___ action, failure becomes a better action plan in future. The important ___ here is that success only comes by turning dreams into reality and realizing that the ___ that you fortunately get along the way are only stepping-stones to final success.

【推荐3】Yesterday, I went to the bookstore to pick up a present for my mother’s birthday. I found one of the books I wanted, but not the other. When I went to _________, I asked the clerk behind the counter if I could _________ the second book.

A lady was standing _________ behind me at the checkout. The clerk said she could order the book for me, but would I mind if she let the lady behind me pay for her _________ first. The lady behind me said no, it was fine, she’d wait.

It took nearly 15 minutes to _________ my order through! The lady behind me had a(n) _________ chat with us for the entire time.

When it finally came time for me to pay. I _________ two $10-off cards on the counter. The clerk informed me the offer was only valid (有效的) for the book I was buying in-store and wouldn’t _________ for the book I’d ordered. This meant that I’d have one $10-off card _________.

“You can come back and buy another book.” the clerk __________. “The offer is valid until the end of the week.”

I thought about this for a millisecond and then __________ to face the lady behind me who’d been so patient, kind, and charming through the very long wait at the checkout, “Here.” I gave her the $10-off card.

She was very __________ and said, “Really?”

The __________ didn’t cost me anything. I knew I wouldn’t be back before the end of the week and it __________ someone whose attitude left a smile in my heart. Most __________, a win-win moment.