【推荐1】The story happened when I was ten years old. At that time we had to move to a(n) _________place. I was sorry because I had spent all those years in that old house. When the day came, I ran to a corner and sat ________. I thought and thought and began to cry. Suddenly I felt a hand on my head, I looked ________. It was my grandpa. I knew he was sorry too. He sat beside me and said, “It is _________, isn’t it, Tommy?” _________ I could find any words, he went on saying, “Good-bye is a cold word, too cold for us to ________.”

Then we walked in the garden, hand in hand. We _______ in front of some flowers. “It’s so _______here.” I said.

“Yes, you think it is beautiful only because it is a special place in your ________,” said my grandpa.

After a moment he said, “I planted the _______ a long time ago, when your father was born. Then the _______ came. Like many the other youths he went away to fight. Ten ________ later, news came that your father had died. That afternoon I picked some flowers from here, put them in front of his ________ and said good-bye to him.”

With tears in his eyes, grandpa ________me in his arms and said, “We are going to ________ far away, but we won’t say good-bye to our old house, never, never...”

【推荐2】My first visit to Cubs game is still impressive, though it was a few years ago. My uncle took me to it on a Saturday in spring, a bright ______ day. We went to the stadium by ______ because my uncle said the traffic would be very heavy.

When we got there I ______ that even though we were at the upper level, I could see everything clearly in such fine weather, the ______ field. It was great—______ it this way was much better than watching it on TV. Then the game started, and everyone cheered when the Cubs ______ on the field. The man next to me said, “This is going to be the year. This year they’re going ______.” My uncle said to him, “Let’s hope this is the one.” But then he ______ to me, “I think he is too hopeful. We’ll have to wait and see. I always start the year thinking they’ll win the World Series, but then I remember the ______ year. They started the season ______ and then they had a long losing streak.” The final score was 7 to 0, so it was nine innings of hoping and then losing. We were ______ about that score.

“Tomorrow, they’ll win. I’m certain!” I heard one person say as we left to go home. “______,” another replied. When we were returning, I asked my uncle, “Why were they so ______ when the score was O today—how can they be sure that tomorrow the team will win?” “That’s what it means to be a Cubs fan: we ______ tomorrow. When they win, it’s best. If they lose we expect it will get better, even though ______ may tell us it won’t. Every year we hope; every game we hope, and we don’t abandon hope. That’s ______. It’s about ______ your team no matter what. Despite the fact that they ______, it’s still fun.”

And the next year we were there, too, cheering, even if they lost. Then, it was ______ what happened this year. The Cubs won the whole thing— they won the World Series. Their fans were so excited—I’ve never seen adults scream and ______ that way.

【推荐1】I had reached the age of twenty-eight. Still, I_________whether the letter from my past would make it to me, all these years later. It sounded ridiculous, but it was a creative writing task when I was eighteen. The teacher collected our letters to our _________ selves in self-addressed (寄给自己的) envelopes with stamps and promised to _________ them ten years later. But since so much time had passed, would he even _________ ?

Thinking back on the_________ , I recalled giving my future self some advice. When you’re eighteen years old, twenty-eight seems like a_________age, but I wasn’t feeling as mature as I believed my younger self had _________ me to be.

When the letter finally reached me, I opened it_________ . It began, “How much do you bet this letter will never get to you?” It continued to greet me casually as if we were having an IM (instant messaging) chat. As a senior in high school, facing the_________ important exams and college application, my eighteen-year-old self was so __________ !   She was apparently not quite happy and hoped I wouldn’t worry so much in the future, and that I would live in the present and__________my life!

__________ to my belief, my eighteen-year-old self did not have any demands on me, or expectations I might have failed to meet. Instead, she wrote, “I’ll__________whatever you do. Even if you are not the one I’m imagining now, I’ll support you, because maybe __________ I’m imagining is someone else, but you’re not someone else — you’re me.”

I was __________, and tears came to my eyes at this self-acceptance (自我接受) time. I had put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best version of myself that I could be. However, I came to realize what I would have accomplished in ten years would pale in comparison (显得逊色) to how I’d feel and who I’d be.

【推荐3】I always dreamed of becoming a full time writer. After two years as a salesman, I _________ my job and made up my mind to realize my _________. No one could tell me whether I would succeed or not. I rented a basement and _________ to write. I had so many things to write because the enthusiasm (热情) was _________ in my heart.

After a year or so, _________, I began to doubt myself. I found it _______ to earn my living by writing. None of my novels were _________ that year. But I _________ to follow my dream, even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of _________. I believed anyone with a dream must learn to struggle for the __________.

During the hardest period of my life, a friend came to see me and tried to __________ me, “Come to our company, __________ we will pay you 2,000 dollars a month.” 2,000 dollars was really a big fortune at that time. It would enable me to live a __________ life. As the money was dancing in my __________, something cleared my senses. Hadn’t I dreamed of being a writer, a full-time writer? “Thanks, but no,” I said __________, “I’m going to stick to writing.”

Again and again, I said to myself, “I will be __________. People will love my novels.”

__________ my first novel was published in 1991. I had the kind of success that few writers ever __________.

Twenty years have passed, but the effect it had on my life has __________. Now I often __________ the time working in that cold basement. I will say, “Anyone with a dream and persistence will be successful.”

【推荐1】Yesterday I was doing some shopping and a man, who was in worn clothes, walked towards a group of us at the checkout stand (收银台). I ______ him say to one woman in front of me, “I don’t want to steal from this store… would you ______ me some food?” But the woman ______ not to hear him; it was ______ she hadn’t seen him, I waited for my ______ to be questioned, but it never came. So I asked him, “Can I buy you something to eat?”

He ______ accepted. The man got a ______ and began putting sandwiches in the bag. As my ______ were being rung up (结账) I watched the man put the sandwiches into the bag; 1, 2, 3… He finally stopped and I asked him how many he had got and he answered 10.

The ______ cashier (收银员) looked at me for a while and then added them to my ______. After I was through, the man was wandering around the store saying he wanted something to ______, too. The cashier seemed to be keeping a ______ eye on him. I admit I was too, as I didn’t want him to ______ anything either! I told the cashier that if he got a drink I’d just ______ it.

We both ended up ______ the store, but he stood outside talking to ______. Or maybe he was talking with someone who he thought was there.

This man’s situation made me ______. How many of the homeless also ______ a mental (精神的) illness? Maybe that’s even what ______ him to be homeless. I ______ to run into him again someday... maybe we can sit down and have lunch together.

【推荐2】It's unusual now to get into a new neighborhood and find yourself welcomed by the local people. Yet，Katie and Patrick Smith were_________with truly open arms when they first set foot on Newton. Katie got pregnant   before the _________and within months of settling in, she gave birth to Lisa. ________tests discovered Lisa was   born deaf. The Smiths knew _________Lisa was going to take some more work and _________

The neighborhood was still _________at Lisa's coming，but they realized what a(n) _________situation it was for her parents. They wanted to make things _________for the family. Learning sign language to help Lisa learn to _________as the grew was a great idea. The neighbors agreed to__________the job of mastering an entirely second language for their youngest member, although it was indeed__________. When 3-month-old Lisa learned at a center for the deaf, the 18 neighbors__________a sign language learner, which would get all of to help in Lisa's__________

Now in the street or the grocery store，Lisa feels included every time a neighbor greeted her in a __________language--she's a__________of this community.