【推荐2】As we all know, a friend in need is a friend indeed. I really didn’t know the meaning of this proverb（谚语）until one day something _________ happened to me.

That morning, I got up late and _________ to school without breakfast. While I was crossing a street, my bike hit a stone and I fell on the ground, with my both knees badly hurt.

I managed with the _________ and continued my riding. On my arrival at school, my teacher took us to the _________ for a basketball match._________ I could hardly walk normally, I joined in the game. When I _________ to pass the ball, I was knocked down and fell down on my back. I could not _________ the terrible pain and cried. My classmates all continued their match without noticing me._________ on the ground alone, hungry and painful, I couldn’t stop crying.

Just at that moment, Jack, one of my teammates,_________ towards me from the other end and helped me. He kept me company the whole day and even send me home after school was over.

It was on that day that I learned and believed the proverb “a friend in need is a friend indeed” to be __________.

【推荐3】Never did I imagine I would land into a place that I used to dislike. However, my working here in Saudi Arabia has turned out to be a _______. I have learned many things about life.

One of those is _______. I had been very impatient for the years before I came here. _______, I had made wrong decisions and _______ many learning chances that life had offered me. When I _______ here, everything and everyone seemed completely different. I had to _______ different kinds of people from different countries with the _______ kind of personalities (个性) and attitudes. I couldn’t improve the situation but I could change my _______—to be patient with everything and everyone. Gradually, I found myself doing my job _______, enjoying every single thing. And I began to share feelings with my ________ here and everything turned out just ________.

Second is the ________ of respect. My world back home has mostly made the ________ of my attitudes, personalities and beliefs. It has ________ me to become the person that I am now. Yet, I should ________ the way people here have lived their lives. I may not like their culture or ________ but that doesn’t make them any less and still they ________ my respect.

The most ________ and wonderful experience I have here is the joy of living contently. I have been living in this foreign place for two years and I have been ________ how to live a simple life, how to ________ the kind of life I have right now.

【推荐3】Established in 1988, C.D. Moody Construction Company, is an award-winning general contracting and construction management firm. The owner of the company, Dave Moody, is the combination of a good education, his wife, and a(n) ________ for architecture, which led him to become ________.

When Moody was young, he found he had a great interest in ________, and he regarded his knowledge of architecture as a (n) ________ in the construction business. ________ he applied to a construction company and ________ his dream job in Atlanta. After ________ his family from his hometown to Atlanta to follow his dream for two weeks, the company that ________ him suddenly came to an end. Years later, Dave said, “What was my worst day became my ________day.”

With ________ left to lose, he ________ his own business. Today, that business has ________ into a big firm, a full service company that has worked on big ________ like Turner Field, which used to be called Olympic Stadium. When asked if he’s a millionaire, Moody prefers not to focus on ________. Instead, he aims at the question, “If we had nothing tomorrow, would people want to be around us ________ who we are or what we value? That’s how we ________ success. Do people feel better after being around us, or worse?”

Moody and his wife started a scholarship foundation and ________ large sums to Georgia Perimeter College, Howard University, and Central State University. Fortunately, he is a ________ of his poor childhood and willing to talk about his difficulties as well as how to ________ them. “There is somebody out there who can change that person’s life and instill that potential for hope. And once you touch and grab hope, you’re something. You can do some ________ things” said Dave.

He hopes that the generations to come will have a desire and an opportunity to be successful, and he is trying to instill hope in those future generations through construction.