【推荐1】I’ve always had a love for baseball. So when my daughter was born, I looked forward to the time when I could share   that______with   her.   From the time   that she   was quite______, we would spend   lots of   Sunday afternoons watching baseball games on television.   As she_____ a bit older,   we added   the regular activity   of     going out in the backyard to play catch. So it should be   no   surprise that I was_____ to take her   to see   a   live     game someday.

There   was a   baseball _______   in our town one day when my daughter was about seven years old, so we       made big plans to go to our first _________ baseball game together. The day finally came, and we had great seats. I ____ pointed out the position each player was playing and together we ______   each hit. We   shared hot dogs and soda. To our_____, finally the team we liked won.

As we headed across the parking lot to our _________   after the   game, an elderly gentleman _________   to us with a baseball in his hand and_____my daughter. “Excuse me,” he said, “I caught this baseball today and I already have a few.   Would   you like to have it? ” With ________   eyes, my daughter gratefully accepted the ball and we both___ the gentleman as he turned to go. It was the____ to a perfect day.

Years later, we were talking about things we had done when she was a kid. I remembered that first baseball game we   attended   together   and,   out   of______,   I   asked   her   what   she   remembered   about   it.   She____   responded with, “I remember that old man who _______   me the baseball!” Not the game   itself, not the players or the hot dogs, but some random (随意的) person we___ in the parking lot.

Sometimes the most___ things about the events aren’t the experiences   we   have   but   the   personal interactions we have with other people who are attending the same event.

【推荐2】I was recently invited to dinner by a friend. During the meal, the manager of the restaurant came _______ and said that our meal was free. He stood there _______ at me and he seemed a little _______ to me but I couldn’t quite remember him. _______ I asked him if he knew me. He laughed and said I had probably _______ him, but that I'd changed his life. My friend was quite _______ and asked him how I'd done that.

He said that twelve years ago he _______ a stress management class that I was giving. I asked the group what their greatest _______ was and most of them, including him, said it was their bosses.

He said I listened _______ and then took a chair and placed it in the center of the room. I __________ on the chair for a few moments, and then I __________ everyone to come and do the same. I wanted them to look at the room from up there. After everyone had done it, I asked the group to __________ how the room looked different when they changed their perspective(角度).

Then I asked them to __________ their bosses. Was him the same person who had seen their good __________ and hired them? Did they remember how happy they were to be __________ for the job? But how did these wonderful people become terrible bosses?

He said I looked at him and asked if he had __________ said "Thank you" to his boss for the __________ to earn a living. He answered he hadn’t. Then I asked him why he hadn’t tried being __________ to his boss.

He told us his __________ changed from that night. He went back to work the next day with a thank-you card to his boss, He said I’d __________ him to look at life from different perspectives and express thanks.

【推荐3】It was a grey winter day. Two inches of freshly fallen snow had _________ the ground. The night before had been so cold that I had to leave my water dripping(滴下) to _________ the pipes. Still, I had several packages to deliver. I opened the door, climbed into the _________ and started the heater. Then I drove out into the terrible day. I decided, though, not to let the _________ and darkness of it get to me.

I put a CD that I had recorded years before into the player. It was full of songs about _________, which made me smile and brought happiness to my heart. I _________ don’t sing in public. My voice is unpleasant and I don’t want others to suffer through it. But since I was in the car, I _________ the volume(音量) and let my voice join in. I may not have made a beautiful noise, but I did make a(n) _________ one. Song after song I sang along. It felt so good to sing again. I _________, I sang, and I let the love rise from my heart, through my __________, and out into the world.

After a while, I __________ something exciting. The sun was starting to break through the clouds. Its light was shining brightly on the __________ and making it sparkle(闪耀) with life. It was as if the Heavens had decided to join my song. I sang even __________ and let my spirit fly high.

Nobody can promise us a lifetime of sunny days. Sometimes you just have to __________ until the sun comes out in the sky. You have to create your own __________ and use it to brighten up the world. Don’t let your music die inside of you then. Sing! Live! Love! And shine!

【推荐1】The winter skies are grey and it’s cold outside. The nights come early and we spend a lot more time _______ and alone. Many people _______ winter: so cold, so dark, so boring. But I like winter because I have more time to read.

For many students reading means school; it means _______. Reading is something your teacher assigns and it’s something you’re _______. Reading is something you have to do, not something you want to do. But for me and many other people, reading is the most _______ thing we can imagine. Getting lost in a good book can _______ a cold winter evening disappear. Dull grey skies are no _______ for the fantastic adventures of Frodo in The Lord of the Rings (《指环王》), or for romantic trouble-making of Jane Austen’s Emma (《爱玛》), or for the youthful problems of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye (《麦田守望者》).

All of those books are studied in North American high schools. They are interesting and well written books that _______ young people. _______, even there, many high school students don’t enjoy reading the books because they are ________ their school work: “Oh, my God! Two hundred pages! I’ll never be able to read ________ much.” But sometimes a funny thing happens. They begin to read and they begin to follow the ________. Suddenly, the world inside the book becomes more exciting and more wonderful than the world they ________. At the moment the thought ________ reading is work disappears and reading becomes ________.

Reading anything is ________ but reading good books is a terrific way to improve your English. Good writers write English very well and ________ you with good examples to follow. And good books will tell you more about English ________: what people think, how they talk, how they interact with each other. But don’t let me ________ it by telling you that reading is good for you. Just think of it as a good way to ________ on a cold winter evening.

【推荐2】Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story _________ their children. And they must have realized how difficult it is to write a _________ children’s book. Either the author has aimed too _________, so that children can’t follow what is in his ( or more often, her ) story, _________ the story seems to be talking to the readers.

The best children’s books are _________ very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy the _________ who hears the story and the adult who _________ it. Unfortunately, there are in fact few books like this, _________ the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not _________ to solve. This may be why many of the books regarded as __________ of children’s literature were in fact written for __________.“Alice in Wonderland” is perhaps the most obvious of this.

Children, left for themselves, often __________ the worst possible interest in literature. Just leave a child in a bookshop or a __________ and he will more willingly choose the books written in an unimaginative (并非想象的) way, or have a look at the most children’s comics(连环图书), full of the stories and jokes which are the rejections of teachers and righting­thinking parents.

Perhaps we parents should stop __________ to brainwash (洗脑) children into accepting our taste in literature. After all, children and adults are so __________ that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the same books. So I suppose we’ll just have to compromise(妥协)over the bedtime story.

【推荐3】I will never forget one summer in my childhood. While walking in the attic (阁楼), I stepped on something and ______ down, with my hand landing on a floorboard that popped up and almost hit me in the head. When I ______ and looked inside the open space, I could not believe my eyes: There was gold in there! I ______ a handful of shining gold cubes, an to the bottom stair and ______,” Mama. I found gold up here under the floor!”

Back up the stairs I dashed. ______ my brothers almost knocked me back down as they ran right by me. When Mama opened the door and ______ her head m, she ______ said, “Honey, that’s insulation (隔热材料). Now put it all back.”

I felt really disappointed. I had thought I made a real ______.

When I ______ inside to put the fake gold back, my hand touched what felt like a book. I pulled it out. It was old and small: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, which I’d never heard of. And ______ I was bored, I decided to see what was inside this little book. To my ______, it was a book of passages, phrases, and proverbs and I could tell that this was going to be ______.

So I spent quite much time on it and found ______ in these pages, As I didn’t know how to express things clearly, I often ______ to talk about them. This book helped me ______ that I didn’t need to feel ashamed or ______, because other people had similar experiences.

When I went to college, Bartlett’s came with me. Over the years, I’ve kept my original ______, which to this day I often ______. Although it was a ______ to find the book, it liberated me in a way. It helped me see more than my young mind and heart were able to understand.

The book discovered under those floorboards was, ______, gold.

【推荐1】Doubling as educational centers and conservation centers, museums play an important role in the protection of ________. Although these institutions ________ in size and specialty, the task of most museums is around the display and care of their collections.

Today, many museums are among the most visited ________ in the world. In order to figure out how this important cultural phenomenon came to be, it is ________ important to understand its origins and trace how its role has developed over time.

The word museum ________ from “mouseion”, the Greek term for “a holy place for the Muses”. In classical Greek mythology, the nine Muses are the goddesses of the arts and sciences, making them perfect protectors for these ________ institutions.

Earliest museums were private collections and were only accessible to a narrow circle of people. They displayed ________ and curious natural objects and works of art. Some of them even ________ “wonder rooms” or “cabinets of curiosities”.

In 1683, an Englishman named Elias Ashmole donated the contents of his wonder room to Oxford University, forming the ________ of the Ashmolean Museum. Believing that “the knowledge of Nature is very necessary to human life and health,” Ashmole wanted to ________ the public through his unprecedented (前所未有的) donation. Following his footsteps, many like-minded collectors across Europe shifted their focus from ________ use to public access in the late 17^th and 18^th centuries. During this time, world-class museums began to make their art collections accessible to the public. The opening of these institutions ________ a string of similar movements in the 19^th century.

Today, the importance of public institutions is stronger than ever before. ________ taking care of collections and making them accessible to the public, many museums are using new technologies to improve their public programs, ________ their collections, and share their research. With these modern methods, museums are able to ________ audiences in new ways and extend their tasks beyond their walls.

【推荐2】Sea turtles have been on Earth for millions of years, but they may soon die out. The main_______ to them is people who kill them for food, according to Dr. Wallace J. Nichols of the University of California.

But the latest news may_______turtle hunting: Dr. Nichols has found that sea turtles_______a lot of pollution from the ocean. This pollution is_______ for both turtles and _______It can cause _______damage to their bodies and lead to death. Research shows that many people get sick and even_______eating sea turtle meat.

In the US, most people have_______eaten turtle. This is because turtles are_______by the United States law, which makes it________to harm or kill these amazing animals.“But many people in other countries still eat them,” explains Nichols. “Our first________was to save turtles; now we must save________ too.”

Davis said he also wants to send out a bigger________that we should protect the oceans.“The ________of the ocean, animals in the ocean, and our own health are all________. A clean ocean is really good for us too because of the food we eat from there.”