【推荐1】The dream of many people is to leave their mark on the world however they can. This could be in countless different ________ , from coming up with a new invention to simply starting a family. No matter what it is, ________ the world in some way is the purpose of many lives.

That's ________ makes the Renaissance-an art period which centered in Italy between the 14th and 17th centuries-the era of world-markers.

When we hear the word “art”, it's very likely that we'll imagine a work from the Renaissance period. This was a time when many believe art made a revival（复兴）—“renaissance”, ________ , means to bring new life to something.

Take the works of Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci for example. His painting Mona Lisa became one of the best-known ________ on Earth. While many artists left their marks by bringing beauty to the world，Da Vinci did much more than that. The artist was fascinated with the study of human anatomy（解剖学）and even ________ time dissecting human bodies to help with his studies. Da Vinci also proved his ________ in many other areas，and he created sketches of ideas for many inventions，from bridges and machinery to even a helicopter and a robot.

The Renaissance also played host to many other great names in the world of art. Italian painter Raphael, for example, was another leader of this era. But his most famous work isn't ________ on a wall today. Instead, his masterpiece-the Raphael Rooms of Italy's Palace of the Vatican-is the wall. The walls and ceilings of the palace are filled with beautifully ________ paintings of the Bible scenes, which he started as a young artist in 1508.

Religious works such as Raphael's were the ________ style of the Renaissance period. We only have to look at the most iconic sculpture of that period-and perhaps ________ —to realize that.

Italian artist Michelangelo's sculpture David, ________ a biblical character，was firstly shown in the 1500s. The sculpture has ________ years of exposure to the rain, having rocks thrown at it by protesters（抗议者）, and even someone ________ it with a hammer in the 1990s. In spite of all these, David is still standing strong and ________ today-a true symbol of the Renaissance.

【推荐2】On a June morning, Nicolo _________ working the whole night at a factory in Turin. He stopped by the “after work auction (拍卖)” _________ by the Italian police where things with no owners were sold to the highest bidder (竞拍者). There Nicolo spotted two paintings he thought would look _________ above his dining room table. Nicolo and another bidder _________ until Nicolo finally won the paintings for $32.

When Nicolo retired and went to live in Sicily, he _________ the paintings with him. He hung them above the same table he had _________ from Turin. His son, age 15, who had taken an art appreciation class, thought that there was something _________ about the one with a young girl sitting on a garden chair. It was signed “Bonnato” or so he thought, but when he _________ it, he only found “Bonnard,” a French painter he had never heard of. He bought a book and was _________ to find a picture of the artist Pierre Bonnard sitting on the same chair in the same __________ as his father’s painting.

“That’s the garden in our picture.” Nicolo’s son told his father. They finally __________ that the painting was called “The Girl with Two Chairs.” They __________ the other painting and found that it was __________ Paul Gauguin’s “Still Life of Fruit on a Table with a Small Dog.” The __________ called the Italian Culture Ministry; the official __________ that the paintings were originals and worth as much as $50 million.

【推荐1】When I was young, I was quite shy and wasn’t great at school. Mrs. Kerswell was my English teacher. It’s hard to_________her exact age. When you’re a child, every adult is_________. She must be past middle age with grey hair and a(n)_________face. Her lessons were in a stress-free environment. However, I was really_________because I was from a village school.

I didn’t_________anyone. No one from my primary school went there. I really struggled in my first year to     _______. Thanks to Mrs. Kerswell, she was really the sort of humorous teacher, who read materials just for_________.

She managed to make Beowulf interesting to a number of_________.She was key in keeping my love of reading going. It certainly wasn’t a_________thing for a boy of that age to love reading as an entertainment. Actually, I just treated it as a learning task.

When I was 13, I wasn’t excellent at writing. But she allowed and__________me to write in a natural way. Unlike my other teachers, she told me not to use the fanciest__________. “Writing is not about flowery language but about real communication.__________, you’re having a conversation on a page,” she said. So it made me realize that I didn’t have to__________about it too much.

I saw her once, over 10 years ago. My writing career was going well, and she was proud of my achievements and__________as a writer, and I really__________her for keeping the fame on.

【推荐1】When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could to discourage me from becoming a brewer (酿酒师). He’d spent his life in local breweries, _________ making a living, as had his father and grandfather before him.

So I did as he asked. I went to business school and got a highly paid job at a business- consulting firm. _________, after working there for five years, I was haunted by _________. Is this what I want to be doing when I’m 50?

I remembered that some time before, my dad had been cleaning out the attic and _________ some old beers _________ . “Today’s beer is _________ water that can hold a head,” he’d told me.

I agreed. Americans pay good money for inferior beer, I thought. Why not make good beer for Americans using my family way?

I decided to quit my job to become a brewer. When I told Dad, I was hoping he’d put his arm around me and get _________ about continuing tradition. Instead, he said, “Jim, that is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard!”

As much as Dad objected, in the end he became my new company’s first _________, coughing up (支付) $40,000 when I opened the Boston Beer Company in 1984. Going from my fancy office to being a brewer was like mountain climbing: exciting, liberating and _________.All my safety nets were gone.

Once the beer was made, I faced my biggest __________ yet: no one had ever heard of it. I needed a name that was __________ and elegant, so I named my beer __________ Samuel Adams, a brewer and patriot (爱国者) who helped to found the Boston Tea Party.

The only way to get the word out, I realized, was to sell direct. I filled my briefcase with beer and hit every bar in Boston. Six weeks later, at the Great American Beer Festival, Sam Adams Boston Lager won the top prize for American beer. The rest is history. It wasn’t supposed to work out this way — whatever does? — but in the end I was __________ to be a brewer.

My advice to all young entrepreneurs is simple: Life is very short, so don’t __________ to make decisions. Life doesn’t let you __________.

【推荐2】It was Mother’s Day, but our mother was far away from us. I decided to drive to the ______ with my wife and our children to gather flowers.

After we arrived, we went hiking, played games, and collected all kinds of flowers and so on.How happy we were! Finally, though, we had to ______ our car and got ready to go back home. While the kids chatted and I drove, my wife sat behind me, surrounded by her flowers, a(n) ______look in her eyes.

Suddenly my wife ______to me, “Stop the car.Stop right here!” ______ I could ask her what had happened, she was out and went up a nearby grassy hill with the lilacs (丁香花) still in her arms. At the ______ of the hill was a nursing home and, because it was such a beautiful spring day, the patients were outdoors talking with relatives.

My wife went up the hill, where an elderly patient was sitting in her ______, alone with her back to most of the others.My wife ______the flowers to her and said something. The patient raised her head and smiled. They talked for a few ______before my wife ran back. As the car ______ away, I found in the mirror the woman ______ with the lilacs.

“Mom,” the kids asked, “Who was that? Why did you give her our _______ ? Is she somebody’s mother?” My wife said, “I didn’t know the old woman. But it is Mother’s Day. And she seemed so ______. Who wouldn’t be cheered by flowers? ______,” she added, “I have all of you, and I still have my mother, even if she is far away. That woman needed those flowers more than I did.”

Now, every May, our own yard is _______ with lilacs. Every Mother’s Day we drive to the countryside to gather flowers and sow more seeds in our yard. And every year I remember that lonely old woman in her wheelchair, and her smile on her face.

【推荐3】I was walking down the road one day when my cell phone rang. A strange voice on the other end spoke to me, “Dad, please come back soon. I miss you so much!” I judged that it was a _________ number. A little while later, the call came once again, so I rudely _________, “You’ve dialed the wrong number!” and then _________.

During the following days, I got the same _________ now and then. But I didn’t care much about it.

Then one day she constantly called me even though I didn’t answer. Finally I answered the phone and heard a weak voice, “Dad, please come back. I miss you so much! Dad, I’m _________ so much pain! Mom said you were too busy to take _________ of me. But, dad, please kiss me again, OK?” The innocent (天真) _________ was difficult to refuse. I made a _________ kiss on the phone and heard the weak voice say, “Thank you... Dad, I am so... happy, so....happy…”

Shortly after this, I became _________ about who had been on the other end of my phone. So I called back, and a woman answered, “Sorry, sir. I am really sorry to have bothered you. My daughter has suffered from bone cancer __________ she was born. And her father... died in an __________ a short while ago. I dare not tell her this sad news. Poor baby. When she couldn’t bear the painful chemotherapy (化疗), she would cry for her dad, who had always __________ her. I really couldn’t bear it, so I gave her my phone number...”

“How is your daughter now?” I couldn’t __________ to ask.

“She’s __________. You must have kissed her on the phone, because she passed away with a smile, tightly holding the cell phone...”

__________ filled my eyes and I was so sad to hear that.