【推荐2】Weeks ago, I was traveling by train. After several stations, the delivery man from the cafeteria came along to_______ the pre-booked hot meals and drinks. Just behind him rushed in a 9-year-old girl, who put out her hand, _______some food. The food supplier was_______and pushed her out of the coach（旅客车厢）. Something in me made me_______. I stepped outside and saw the child still standing there and crying. I asked her if she was hungry and she_______. So I grabbed her hand and said I’d buy her food.

When I took her to the coach with the cafeteria, the people standing there had a(an)_______expression on their face, seeing the little girl with me. _______their reaction, I asked her to_______whatever she wanted. As I pointed to each item, she_______nodding.

________, we collected so much food. When I turned to the cashier to pay the bill, the little girl________hurrying down the train. The cashier shook his head in disbelief and said the girl must be laughing for having fooled me into________her unhappiness.

As I returned to my coach, the cashier’s________made me doubt whether she’d really fooled me. So I__________and went down the train, following the ________the little girl had taken. After several coaches, I walked to a relatively-deserted coach. Here I saw a________which left me surprised. This little girl was sitting in a ________with two other miserable-looking young boys. She had put all the food in the center and was________ putting food into the hand of a young blind boy. Seeing all this, I couldn’t help________. The little girl taught us that one can be________even when poor.

【推荐3】Everyone enjoys a fitting reply; it is wonderful to say the right thing at the right time!

When I was a senior in high school, I _______   knew I wanted to pursue writing as a career.

Writing had basically ______ me when I was only 7 years old, _____     since that time, I'd been bombarded(轰炸) by guidance counselors and career planners who all ______ me to have " a back-up-plan" in case writing didn't work out.

I'd never even _____ a different career path, so I was very _____ and worried. After much thought, I decided _______ would be my "back-up-plan", and I signed up for a class through my high school.

This _______ that every morning, I would serve as a teacher's helper for my favorite 6th grade teacher, Mr. Ralston. Morning after morning, I showed up in Mr. Ralston's classroom and ______ papers for him.

Sometimes, I even ______ a lesson or two. It was fun, and the students seemed to like me, so I was surprised when it came time for my _______.Mr. Ralston looked me right in the eyes and asked, "Do you really want to teach?"

"Had I really been that _______?" I thought.

"Don't misunderstand. You'll do fine in teaching," he continued. "But, is your _______ really in it?"

"Not really," I _______. "I want to write. I want to write new stories and fiction and poetry and so much more... but I've been told it's tough to make it as a writer _____ I thought maybe I would teach and then use my summers _______ to pursue writing."

As I shared with Mr. Ralston my hopes, dreams and carefully plotted-out back-up plan, he smiled and said, "Why are you preparing to ________ with this back-up plan? If you want to be a writer, go for it! Pursue writing!"

Mr. Ralston's _______ to follow my dreams was the little nudge(推动) I decided to help me push past my ______ of not making it as a writer and simply "Go for it!"

That's what an encouraging word will do when spoken in love in ______ season. So, Let's try and be like Mr. Ralston and speak that word of encouragement at just the right time and make a difference in someone's life today.

6.

A．embarrassed

B．confused

C．annoyed

D．frightened

10.

A．reviewed

B．skipped

C．took

D．presented

15.

A．unless

B．if

C．because

D．so

【推荐1】I was cycling and noticed a person, about a quarter of a kilometer in front of me. I could tell he was cycling a little slower than me and _______ to try to catch up with him. I had about a kilometer to go on the road _______ turning off.

So I _______ cycling faster and faster and every _______, I was gaining on him just a little bit. After just a few minutes I was only about 100 yards _______ him, so I really picked up the pace and _______ myself. You would have _______ I was cycling in the last section of the London Olympic triathlon.

_______ I caught up with him and passed by him. On the inside I felt so _______. I beat him, of course, but he didn't even know we were ________.

After I passed him, I ________ that I had been so focused on competing against him that I had ________ my turn. I had gone nearly six blocks past it and had to turn around and go all the way back.

Isn't that what happens in life when we ________ competing with co­workers, neighbors, and friends, trying to ________ that we are more successful or more important? We spend our time and ________ chasing after them and we miss out on our own ________ to our future.

The ________ of unhealthy competition is that it's a never­ending ________. And there will always be somebody ahead of you, someone with a ________ job, more money and more education, etc.

Therefore, just take what life has given you, your height, weight and personality. Stay focused and live a peaceful life. There's no ________ in life. Run your own race and wish others well!

【推荐2】Last spring, Ada stopped at a traffic light, where a man was sitting with a sign reading “HELP!”

She_________down her window and shouted, “I’m driving around giving_________haircuts. If I go grab my chair, do you want one?”

“I have a wedding to go to this week. I was_________hoping to get a haircut,” said the man. Hearing this, Ada pulled out a(n)_________chair from her car and_________ the man cut his hair immediately.

Until last year, Ada had given such haircuts to people_________on the margins(边缘)around the city. She was clearly _________of the power of her cleanup job. “It’s _________a hair-cut,” she said. “I want it to show value and respect, but also to get to know _________. I want to build relationships.” Ada knew that a haircut could change a ____________. One changed hers: As a teen, she____________a severe disease, and her hair thinned dramatically.____________this, her mother arranged for her first professional haircut. Ada sat down and had somebody look at her and talk to her like a person and not just an illness, which helped her feel ____________about and less alone. After that, Ada dreamed of her own salon so she could help people feel the way she’d felt that day. In 2009, she began a project called Red Chair,____________to people on the streets.

It all began with a belief in simple acts of ____________, such as a free haircut.

【推荐3】Many people panic when things go wrong, but others know how to take charge. For a(n) _________group of students in Topsham, Maine, brothers Connor and Seamus Collins fall into the latter _________. Sixteen-year-old Connor and 12-year-old Seamus were _________ the bus to school one morning when suddenly Connor saw their bus driver Arthur McDougall _________ a medical emergency and hit the floor heavily. The bus was _________ the ditch (沟渠) on the right. Connor who learnt how to drive _________ immediately what he had to do.

“I _________ and pressed on the brake and told my little brother to call 911,” he said, recalling the _________ at the moment. “I need to stop this bus before it goes into the ditch.”

The teenager held the steering wheel (方向盘) while jamming his _________ onto the brake.

Meanwhile, Seamus made sure someone called instead of him and began to __________ the other students to get off the bus __________. All the while, he kept his cool and even paused to __________ a crying student and comfort him.

While Seamus __________ the other kids, Connor and another student had just __________ giving Arthur CPR when the police arrived on the __________. Using a defibrillator (除颤器), they __________to get the victim’s heart going again. Then he was sent to the hospital at once.

The brothers are being praised for their __________. Police say they kept the __________ under control and prevented anyone else getting hurt. “If not for them, we would've maybe __________ a little later,” said Gomez. “Thank them for __________ and being heroes.”