【推荐1】My husband, Tom, has always been good with animals, but I was still amazed when he befriended a female grouse (松鸡). It’s ______for a grouse to have any contact (接触)with people. In fact, they’re hard to spot, ______they usually fly off when they hear humans approaching

This grouse came into our lives in _______ .Tom was working out in the field when he ______her walking around at the edge of the field. She was ______unafraid and seemed to be ______about what he was doing,

Tom saw the ______bird several times, and site got more comfortable around him. We quickly grew ______of the bird and decided to call her Mildred.

One day, as Tom was working, Mildred came within a few feet of him to watch. Tom ______he didn’t see her and kept working to see what she would do next.

Apparently, she didn’t like to be ______. She’d run up and peck (啄) at Tom’s hands, then ______ off to see what he would do. This went on for about 20 minutes, until Mildred became tired of the ______and left.

As spring went and summer came, Mildred started to ______more and more often. ______Mildred felt comfortable enough to jump up on Tom’s leg and stay long enough for me to get a ______of the two of them together. This friendly grouse soon felt ______no just with our family, but with anybody who walked or drove by.

When hunting season opened, we put a ______at the end of our driveway asking ______not to shoot our pet grouse. My father, who lived down the road, ______warned people not to shoot her. ______, hunters would stop and take pictures, because they had never seen anything like her.

【推荐3】Mr and Mrs Moore were invited to a Christmas party at a hotel one year. They     ____ their car outside and went in. Mr Moore had never got drunk (醉) before, so he was ______ not to drink too much, ______ his friends asked him to drink more ______ .

During the party,Mrs Moore found that she had ______ to bring her bag, so she asked her husband to go out to the car and ______ it for her. He ______ so,but on his way back to the hotel gate,he heard a car horn(喇叭) blowing near his own car. He thought ______ might be in need of help and went over to the car with the ______ . He found a small black bear sitting in the driving-seat and blowing the horn.

When Mr Moore ______ the party, he told several people about the bear, but of course they did not believe him and thought he was drunk. When he took them out of the hotel to ______ that his story was ______ , he found that the car with the ______ in it had gone. There were so many ______ about Mr Moore's black bear during the next week that he at last put an advertisement(广告)in the newspaper;“If anyone saw a black bear blowing the horn in a car outside the Century Hotel ______ the     evening of Christmas Day, please tell…”

Tow days later ______ Mrs Richards called him and said that she and her husband had left their pet (宠物) bear in their car outside the Century Hotel for a few minutes that evening, and that ______ he had blown the horn.

Mrs Richards did not ______ to think there was anything ______ about that.“Our bear likes blowing car horns,”she said,“and we don't ______ when we are not driving the car.”

【推荐1】Burdon decided to host an improvised (临时安排的)graduation ceremony (典礼)for his daughter Angela in their backyard. After hers was _________ due to COVID-19 (新冠肺炎), Burdon wanted to make it up to his sorrow-stricken daughter in some way. Best of all, his daughter didn't _________ about it beforehand.

Angela wasn't the only one _________ by the cancellation; her father Burdon could hardly _________ his daughter's sadness. The devoted dad _________ to host his own graduation ceremony for Angela in the _________ in Memphis rather than accept his daughter's dream as forfeit (被没收的东西).Over the course of just six weeks, Burdon     _______ to reserve a photographer and a stage without his daughter's knowledge, which _________ her greatly.

When the _________ day finally came, Angela was shocked to find a full-sized stage waiting for her in her yard. 40 people __________ the ceremony, and it met COVID-19 prevention guidelines, all sitting six feet apart with __________ on—and her father even played sacred (神圣的) music as she walked up to get her __________ .

"Angela never saw anything __________she came out to walk, " Burdon said. " At that moment, I didn't have any worries. I was __________ to see my baby walk across the     _______________ and all her friends, family, neighbors and people that we don't even know __________ in the street to witness (见证) this. I couldn't _________ anything better. "

"My daughter couldn't have her official __________ due to the pandemic (疫情) so I __________ one for her! " "Now I'm __________ that I made it happen! "

【推荐2】More than I had dreamed of

From the time I was seven, I had a dream of becoming a member of the students’ union. I always _________ my school leaders for taking responsibility for all of us. So I dreamed of being a leader.

Years flew by, and soon I was able to participate in the elections, _________ I would win. But the reality struck me that I hadn’t had a chance. I wasn’t pretty. Girls across the school hardly knew me. I just did not have what it took to win a school election. I was _________.

As I cried in my room that evening, I _________ took a deep breath and decided I wouldn’t stop dreaming. I decided that I would enter for elections again in my final year at school—and I would win.

I recognized that my _______ had a lot of things in their favor. What were the points that would work in my favor? I had good grades, and I was friendly and helpful. And my biggest _________ was the faith I had. I would not allow my _________ appearance to hold me back from putting my best foot forward. That evening, I _________ my election plans a whole year in advance.

I realized that girls would have to get to know me and recognize that I had the ability to _________ them. I loved making friends and I liked being helpful, so I decided that perhaps I could use these qualities to work to my advantage. In order to learn how to present a great election __________, I also attended a course on effective public speaking.

The day after the election, when the principal announced I won the highest number of votes, the students __________. That joy on the faces of all my friends showed me that my victory was also theirs.

Suddenly, I realized that I had __________ much more than I had dreamed of. I had made many new friends and had helped people __________ the way. I had won the __________ and love of my schoolmates and they knew me as somebody who would stand by them. I was able to put a smile on their faces and __________ their day.

【推荐3】A woman professor was giving a lesson to her students on stress management. As she raised a glass of water, everyone in the class_______they would be asked the “half-empty or half-full” question.

_______, with a smile on her face, she asked the students, “How_______ do you think this glass of water weighs?”

Answers called out _______from 100g to 300g. She quieted the students down and then replied, “It does not matter on the_______. It _______on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right_______. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb. In each case, the weight of the glass of water doesn’t change, but the_______I hold it, the heavier it becomes. Why?“

Lost in_______, all the students kept silent and listened to the professor carefully.

“Our________ and worries in life are like that glass of water. If we________our burdens (负担) all the time, sooner or later, we will feel exhausted.”

What you have to do is put all your burdens down, as________ in the evening as possible. Don’t carry them through the evening into the night; by doing this, we can get ________next morning and are able to move forward.”

“More often than not, life gets terrible when we think too much. And the moment you________your burdens, you’ll find yourself feeling so much more relaxed.”

“So rather than feeling________ and sorry for yourself, start doing something about it. After all, life is too short to waste on anything that is not making you happy.”