【推荐1】For most of my life, I knew nothing about motorcycles. I believed that motorcycle riders were tough and leather-wearing ____. In my mind they were the kind of people who were constantly looking for trouble, ____ the roar of a motorcycle engine to frighten others off.

Then, on a warm May evening outside our house my boyfriend began to ____ me his new motorcycle. “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” he asked. I didn’t really ____ what I was looking at.

It wasn’t ____ August that I was able to actually ride on the motorcycle with him. I ____ very well: a new helmet and slightly oversized leather jacket.

The first ride was ____. I held on a little too ____ and breathed a little too infrequently. The cars felt a little too ____ and traffic seemed to move too fast. Then, the bike carried us higher and higher into the hills. We ____ and stopped to watch the sun set over the city ____. I swung my leg over to get off the bike, slightly ____ and full of nervous energy.

Sometimes, when he was gone on a Saturday ride, I’d ____ his leathers and look in the mirror, ____ if I looked like a biker myself.

Since then, I’ve learned a few things and slowly my prejudices about motorcycles and motorcycle riders have started to ____. Sitting on the back of a motorcycle, ____ all your trust in someone to get you safely home is a way of ____ you that you love them.

Maybe the most important lesson, ____, is that you really can’t judge a book by its cover --- no matter how much leather it wears. Motorcycle riders are not ____, or mean, or unapproachable. They are adults who remember the freedom of riding their ____ motorcycle, and are continuously seeking to recreate the experience.

【推荐2】I remember when I was young, people often asked me, “What are you going to be when you grow up?”

It _________ being a cowboy or some super hero. Later it was a fireman, a policeman, a lawyer. As I grew older, my dreams for the future _________. When I was in college, I set my heart on becoming a (n) _________ like my father. _________ I studied and prepared for that. I reached the _________ in the end and I was teaching _________ full-time for much of my adult life. However, there is a “thief” that goes around stealing our _________. Sometimes, the thief will come as a parent, or a friend, but the _________ thief is usually _________.

We find ourselves just about reaching the top, and a “small” __________ inside says, “You’ll never make __________”. “You __________ possibly do this.” On and on, the “small” voice predicts our failure. Failure, __________ is one of the most important tools we have, may teach us valuable __________. When we learn these lessons well, we are ready __________ success.

I always tell my children that you are __________ to do anything that your heart desires. Remember the saying, “Nothing is __________ for a willing heart.” There are __________ “overnight” successes, but with determination, they will come. Imagine __________ a life you dream of. Then in your heart, believe it will happen to you. Then work, work, work. You’ll get the picture.

So, be true to your dream, and don’t let anyone __________ it from you — especially yourself.

【推荐3】In England, there is a nice cottage with a large garden where lives an old man. The______where bees and butterflies dance and gorgeous flowers______all year around is so well-tended that every passer-by cannot but stop for a______.

One day a young painter______this garden and he was totally lost in admiration at its beauty,______how happy he could be if he lived in such a______place. Then, suddenly he found the old gardener was blind.______, the painter______that old man, asking “Why are you busy______these flowers which you can’t see as a matter of fact?” The blind gardener said______, “I can tell you four reasons. First, I was a gardener when I was young, and I really like this job. Second,______I can’t see these flowers, I can touch them. Third, I can______the sweetness of them. As to the last one, that’s you.”

“Me?______you don’t know me.” responded the painter.

"Yeah. But I know flowers are angels which everyone knows and would______turn them down. People who love life would stop by and this______prospect would have their eyes______and hearts pleased. Mean while, it also extends a______to me to have a word with you here.”

Actually, the blind man______flowers in his heart. Failing the______of the beauty of blossoming, he surely can______the voice of it, I suppose.

【推荐1】Sam, the four-legged superhero, works to keep a park in Santiago clean. The dog’s superpower? Collect garbage as a _________ for visitors.

Sam, who takes regular _________ in Santiago’s park with his owner Gonzalo Chiang, has become a(an) _________, wearing a green cape(斗篷) in a comic(连环画) used as an educational guide.

It _________ when Sam and his owner had to stop again and again in the city’s largest green area to _________ plastic bottles, cans and food packages. “On Sam’s walks, we began to find a lot of _________,” Chiang said. “From there, the need to come prepared to take away the garbage that we found on each visit became _________. The walk is a good opportunity to _________, rather than litter,” Chiang said.

Park officials were impressed and decided to use Sam’s _________ in its park care campaign. Catalina Aravena turned Sam into a cartoon in Sam: The Parquemet Superhero, __________ visitors to take their waste with them or use __________ points along the path. “This became much more __________ than expected,” Aravena said. “It reached different schools and has spread very well on social media.”

The __________ launched anti-litter campaigns last year urging drink vendors(摊主) to switch from plastic to glass cups and started __________ garbage into separate bins.

“Sam and Gonzalo have __________ us to accelerate this education process and structure this garbage classification,” said Eduardo Villalobos, the park’s acting director.

【推荐2】After a tearless farewell with my daughter, we left her new dorm room, but then in the campus we saw her jogging against the August heat. I quickly ________ down the car window and Sarina turned, nodded at us and merrily waved goodbye. I was in ________ why the tears hadn’t come when we ________ on her first day in university.

Our first ________, the day she left my body, was a nightmare of pain and suffering. However, our togetherness following the birth was so ________ that I felt her small body still seemed to be ________ to mine. In the years to come, the sound of her feet running around our house was like the gentle pounding that ________ me that my little girl was here and that someday she would run to the ________ I couldn’t follow.

Last year Sarina turned 16 and decided to ________ art in college. She was in excitement about college life with so much to anticipate, but I was ________ because it would be a long plane ride away from home. I tried to imagine what separation would be like, but I couldn’t. Separation, although on the horizon, ________ felt distant.

Until the next morning when I awoke in a house ________ of her footsteps, the ________ ultimately came and wouldn’t stop. I understood that Sarina had left the house, and I held onto the memory of her ________. When the tears stopped, I was relieved that with our love and support, she had the courage to ________ an unfamiliar distance, to glance back, yet to keep moving forward.

【推荐3】My friend Dom recently set himself a 21-day kindness challenge. Dom took up this challenge because he had been _______ some difficult times after a relationship breakup. Instead of feeling _______ for himself, he turned a negative into a positive.

He started Mother’s Day by _______ his mother at her work with his brothers. He had won some money before, so on Day Two he donated some of his _______ to a local disability organization. Later that day, the local district was _______ by strong winds so he _______ his elderly neighbour’s gutters (排水沟) on Day Three.

On Day Four he _______ some elders in the retirement village, chatting with them. Trading in his car _______ for a bicycle helmet (头盔) for the next two days was Dom’s way of being _______ to the environment. On Day Seven and Eight he picked up rubbish that was ________ the river shore and he drove to the blood bank to make his blood ________. And then on Day Nine he bought a lottery ticket (彩票) and put it in an envelope with Act Of Kindness ________ on it before sending it. On Day Ten my daughter and I found ourselves ________ in a supermarket car park with a flat battery. I called Dom, who came to our ________ with a smile and ________ started the car so we could get home.

And so Dom’s kindness continued for ________ eleven days. He ________ people to check his Facebook wall each day to see what he had achieved with the ________ that others would feel inspired. His posts attracted more and more likes ________ the days went on. I have loved every minute of this, he posted on the last day. I encourage you all to ________ your comfort zone to continue the challenge.

【推荐1】Because people dine out often, there are lots of restaurants in Italy. Most of them are Italian, of course.. _________ , today the European country also has many ethnic(民族风味的) restaurants. Al Borgo Antico in Legnano, a town on the outskirts(城郊)of Milan, is_________ It offers traditional Italian food, but its owners are_________ .In 1989, co-owner Francesco Wu moved with his _________ from China to Italy. His parents opened a Chinese_________ near Milan. “When you move to a different country, you have to_________,”Wu told me during a recent interview. At the beginning, the business was_________ for the brothers. They had to_________ prejudices and the people who said that no one would eat Italian cuisine made by Chinese chefs. “It was_________ when people came in and saw our Chinese__________ and left, ”Wu said.

The brothers__________ it despite all of the doubts,“ __________, the restaurant became one of the best-known in the area,”Wu said, smiling.

In 2012, eight years after opening his restaurant, Wu__________ a business organization for Chinese immigrants(移民).“We__________ that something like this was missing, and that it could be__________ for both the Italian and Chinese community. ”Wu said.

【推荐2】One day there was a lady and a boy in a plane. It was a very sunny day when the plane ________from the airport. When the plane was in the middle of its journey, thunder, lightning and heavy winds began. Great________ were felt inside the plane. Passengers were afraid and________ . The lady then quickly grabbed her seat. However, the boy was calm and still playing his ________. The lady was surprised why the boy was just________ and wasn’t afraid of what would happen next. The boy suddenly________up and went to the rest room and went back to his games happily jumping and smiling. She asked the boy, “Hey! Aren’t you afraid of what will happen next?” The boy just________ her, “No, I am not.”

The lady was________ . Then the lady asked him, “We are in________. Why aren’t you afraid?” The boy then answered the lady calmly with a________ on his face, “I should not be afraid and will not be afraid, because the one who is flying the plane is my father.”

Sometimes in life we are afraid of what will________ to us and we tend to forget that someone is in control of all the________ that we experience. Sometimes, we don’t believe in the one who can________ all that is happening. We need to be like the boy in the story. We should stop________ because everything is under control. We should not lose faith in the person who can make things________ for us.