【推荐2】阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Years ago, my daughter Hope was in a forth grade class with a group of children neighbourhood. Most of the children in Hope’s class had at least one parent working in a factory. Hope loved her class and often told me stories of her classmates, including a boy named Robert who was in trouble a lot. He always stood in the corner for poor behavior in class. I volunteered to act as “the classroom mom”, meaning brought snacks and planned parties and special outings for her class, even though I worked full-time as a social worker.

One day I saw Robert standing in the corner and asked the teacher if he could join our Mother’s Day party. She refused, saying he needed to learn a lesson. I wasn’t sure what he had done to make the teacher place him in the corner, but I felt sad for him as we ate cakes and played games while he continued to face the corner. After the party, I asked Hope what was wrong with Robert. “It seemed that he went to school only for basketball. He didn’t listen to our teacher in class and he talked back. If you were his mother, I bet he wouldn’t talk back,” Hope said. I knew Robert’s smother worked long hours in the paper-making factory. I knew she was a good woman, who found it hard to care for her four children alone. She tried her best, but I was sure there were days when she felt hopeless and was unable to manage it.

Hope said Robert often got angry in class when he didn’t know the answer to a question and couldn’t read as well as the other children. Hope’s words struck me and made me think about whether I could help Robert on a one-to-one basis. His teacher allowed me to come two days a week during my lunch break and help Robert with reading. We read second grade-level books, the highest level he could master.

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2.请按如下格式作答。

Slowly he began to master these books, almost enjoying them.

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At the end of the fourth grade, Robert and his classmates took the final exams.

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【推荐3】阅读下面材料, 根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段, 使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Mrs. Johnson lost her husband to cancer after months of failed treatment. She spent every penny she had saved working as a teacher, hoping her husband’s illness wouldn’t return. She only had $5 left in her bank account and didn’t know how to survive. She was just living on leftovers and junk. What’s worse, she hadn’t paid the house rent.

Standing before the ATM, Mrs. Johnson put in her card and entered her password. In no time, she saw a five-dollar bill slide out of the machine. The old lady was so focused on the dollar bill that she barely looked at the screen.

Holding a bag full of about-outdated food items, the old lady slowly walked towards her house. Upon reaching her apartment door, she saw an envelope with her name on it in the mailbox.

Once she entered the house and kept the grocery bag on the kitchen counter, she slid the envelope out and opened it. It was an invitation for reunion from the school where she had taught all her life, but she didn’t feel like going there.

After having dinner, the old lady picked up her phone, hoping to find a job. A message caught her attention, which was a notice from her bank regarding her cash withdrawal. She read the message and was about to exit it when the remaining account balance caught her attention. A hundred thousand dollars! ! !

The next day, Mrs. Johnson visited the bank, thinking this was a big mistake. After checking, the bank told her the records showed that Norma Tyler transferred the money to her account. There was no mistake.

However, Mrs. Johnson didn’t know any Norma Tyler! After thinking about all her friends, relatives and acquaintances, Mrs. Johnson could only think of one Norma— one of the students who never performed well in class. Mrs. Johnson thought of how hard she worked with Norma. She wanted the girl to get good grades, but nothing worked. No matter how hard she tried to teach new concepts to the teenage girl, she would never understand a single word.

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1. 续写词数为150 个左右;
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It hit Mrs. Johnson that she could attend the high school reunion to meet Norma.
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Norma said she wanted to thank a special teacher who never gave up on her.
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【推荐1】阅读下面短文，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

There have always been ups and downs in life. When I was doing my first job after graduation from college, which I neither liked nor was good at, I was at the lowest point of my life. For along time, I was depressed by my job. I often had to work overtime and barely made a living of the little money I received. After continuing this cycle of work and sleep for years. I finally decided to give up and take up the job of a joker. I don’t know why I chose to be a joker. The pay was exceptionally low, but at least the work was less. I wondered how this job would be any different from the last job. They were both meaningless.

Once I was called in a hospital to put up a show for the little kids who were admitted for weeks in this hospital. I had no mood to go but I had to pay my bills. Upon reaching the hospital I dressed as a joker putting on my ridiculously colorful costume in the restroom. Then I was on my way to the stage when I saw a kid staring at me with glittery eyes. He was a beautiful kid with no hair, a pair of dimples and a smile that you would never forget. He was in a wheelchair with an TV on his arm. The nurse who was attending him told me that he was suffering from cancer. I could feel the pain he was going through. The smile which came on his face upon seeing me made me realize that I must give this brave young fighter some comfort even if a little, during his sufferings. The nurse took the kid to his seat with other little patients.

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1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

I walked up to the stage and began to throw my tick.

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After that day, my career as a joker peaked.

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【推荐2】阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在相应位置作答。

We were headed to the nationally famous Blue Owl Restaurant, in historic Kimmswick, Missouri, to celebrate our sixtieth anniversary. It is said that the restaurant is warm and romantic with smiling waitresses dressed in long blue dresses with white aprons. The food was delicious, and the service was extremely attentive. On Valentine’s Day, the restaurant offers a sweetheart dinner that is well worth the price. So we decided to have a try.

The weather report had forecast freezing rain, but not until long after midnight. We would be safely home by then. But then, as we approached the restaurant, there was a downpour of freezing rain. We were closer to the restaurant than home so it seemed wise to advance in that direction.

By the time we arrived, the street in front of the restaurant was a sheet of ice. The parking lot was also a sheet of ice and in front of our car was a pool of water. I couldn’t pull in the parking lot and I knew, even if I parked on the street, we would never be able to get out and walk on that ice.

My husband couldn’t walk steadily and I was not strong enough to accompany him to cross the street. I was afraid we would fall, so we were planning to give up the meal in the fancy restaurant. But we really wanted to try the special chocolate-covered strawberries that were as large as baseballs. Also, we wanted to take pictures of the two of us for our memory album.

At that moment, an unknown lady walked toward us.
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To our surprise, the lady, who patiently helped us go into the Blue Owl, was just the owner the famous restaurant.
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【推荐3】阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

The challenges of being a businessman can come with many highs and lows. For a 10-year-old business owner, an unfortunate event led to a huge amount of support from the community and strangers. It even resulted in a boom in his business.

One weekend, David Hove of Toronto was selling homemade pancakes on his street. He thought of the idea as a way to make money to buy himself an expensive gaming system — an Xbox. After a number of hours, the boy went inside his home for a bathroom break. He left his pancake stand unattended for a couple of minutes, and when he returned, his pancake stand was gone. Someone had stolen his table, a cooler and even his water bottle. All that remained was the handwritten sign that reads “Homemade pancakes. $3.50 each.”

The boy’s father, David York, was surprised that somebody should steal a kid’s pancake stand. “My son was so heartbroken. How can anyone do that to a ten-year-old kid?” He reached out to neighbors asking if anybody had any clue who the thief was, but in vain. He posted on social media with the hope that perhaps the thief would return the pancake stand and maybe apologize to his son, who, he stated, developed a “distrust in humanity” because of what occurred.

A local TV station picked up the story and broadcast it. “It pains my heart to see my son going through this,” said the father in the news report. “He came up with the idea to do something that gives himself an income and it’s teaching him life lessons.” He also appealed for the return of the stolen items in the news.

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

To the great delight of David Hove and his family, the story had a happy ending.

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Thanks to the generosity of the community and strangers, David was soon able to be back in business.

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