【推荐3】阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

It was my first job, working as a temporary sales girl during the Christmas rush at Richardson’s, the finest jewelry store in our city.

The job was very important to me. Dad had passed away and Mother and I did not have enough to live on in those hard Depression years. I worked in the diamond department. My duties were to arrange the goods, keep them clean, and run errands (跑腿). It was interesting work that I enjoyed thoroughly.

As Christmas drew near, the days became more rushed, but also more exciting. One afternoon, Miss Allan, the head of the department, asked me to get her the diamond ring from the end showcase. I hurried back, with the ring in my hand when I noticed a man on the other side of the row of showcases. He was tall and in his early thirties. But it was the expression on his face that stopped me. He looked bitter, angry and confused. From his well-cut but worn-out suit, I could tell he was one of thousands trained for jobs they could no longer find. He gazed at the beautiful stones with the despair of a man whose right to earn them had been taken away. I had a sudden feeling of sympathy. But I had other things on my mind and soon forgot about him.

A few minutes later Miss Allan called for me again. This time for the clip (夹子) that went with the ring. The clip was at the very front of the window. I got it. But just as I was backing out, my sleeve caught on the corner of a tray (盘子) of diamonds. The tray started to fall, and six magnificent diamond rings rolled across the floor.

Down on my knees, I collected five rings with the greatest speed and put them in the tray. But I couldn’t find the sixth! I thought it must have slipped through the tiny opening between the showcase and the window. I ran around the counter and looked down. It wasn’t there. Just then, out of the corner of my eyes I saw the tall man moving quietly toward the door of the shop, a few yards away. At that moment I knew that he had the ring. He had been standing at the only spot to which it could have rolled. I reached him just as he got to the door.

注意: 1. 所续写短文的词数应为 150 左右；
2. 应使用 5 个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语.
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“Excuse me, please,” I said.
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“What do you want?” he repeated.
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Our three kids were all under age five. We’d recently moved to the suburbs, and I’d stopped working to be a stay-at-home mom. Most of our friends lived outside our immediate community and didn’t have children. This all added up to a nonexistent social life for my husband and me.

I needed to fix this, so I became a room parent in my son’s kindergarten class, partly to spend time with him, but also to make more friends within the school community. I also signed my son up for weekend soccer. While those activities gave me the opportunity to socialize with other moms, it was challenging to cultivate friendships. I only saw my fellow room parents a few times a -year, usually during class parties. On the soccer sidelines, I found it impossible to watch the game, keep track of my young children, and maintain conversations with other parents at the same time.

I desired deeper interactions with the smart, interesting moms I saw around school. But we all led busy lives. How could I make this happen?

“You should throw a party,” suggested a friend who happened to be a professional event planner. “I can’t do that. I don’t really know these women,” I replied quickly. I hardly even had my closest friends over to my house. The thought of hosting an adult party terrified me.

“Just invite a few people that you’ve talked to and ask them to bring along a friend. You’ll meet even more people that way. It will be fun,” my event-planner friend said. I ran this idea by my husband, and I was certain he’d agree it wouldn’t work. “Great idea,” he said. “I’ll stay upstairs with the kids, and the party can take place on the main floor.”

I picked a date and set up an electronic invitation, making a guest list of moms from my son’s soccer team, my fellow room moms, and a few other moms I’d started saying “hi” to at school pick-up. But I didn’t hit Send. I started to talk myself out of it. There were so many reasons this wouldn’t work.

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1. 续写词数为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

With four mess makers in my household, I imagined many “what ifs”.

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But you know what? Everyone showed up.

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【推荐2】阅读下面的材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

It was an overnight trip to New York, and I was taking it with a few friends of mine from the boarding school I was attending. I was headed home to surprise my family for holidays and was pretty excited about it.

We settled into (安心待在) our seats for the long ride ahead，well-stocked with candy. The bus slowly settled down for the night, as each of us tried to make ourselves as comfortable as possible. Most of us tried finding comfortable sleeping positions as a peaceful silence fell upon the moving bus.

And then, the silence was broken by a decidedly unhappy cry. It was a baby, and he was crying loudly. His father tried hard to silence him, but did not succeed. He seemed unsure of what to do, how to deal with the baby in his arms. And he was all alone.

I wondered what would cause a man so young to be traveling alone with a baby. My heart went out to him; he looked ready to cry himself. And that baby just broke my heart.

So I took a step out of my comfortable seat and went up to his dad.

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stranger 陌生人； the bedtime song 摇篮曲;rock in one’s arms 在怀中轻轻摇晃
“Here, let me try，” I said.
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After a few moments, the baby relaxed in my arms.
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【推荐3】阅读下面材料, 根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段, 使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Oh, this was terrible. “Thank you for volunteering to coach soccer…” the letter began.   Coach? Soccer? Me? That was crazy. My knowledge of the sport began and ended with you-can’t-use-your-hands.

I have just graduated from high school. There was a summer holiday long enough to do something unusual, Father advised me to pick up a part-time job in our community, like teaching kids to swim or helping them with their subjects. “You’ll learn a lot,” he said. So, when Community Sports asked for volunteers, I signed up for data entry, which, I thought was helping to put data into a computer. Keyboards, I knew. Coaching? Impossible!

Realizing there must be something wrong, I quickly called the head coach about the misunderstanding. It did not go well. He had been away from home and would not be coaching at all. Panicked, I called the other assistant coach. He said, “It isn’t difficult to teach a bunch of first graders about soccer. Be confident.”

“Are you kidding me?” I hang up the phone, smiling bitterly.

I phoned a Community Sports officer about our dilemma. “I am sorry,” he said. “Not enough people are willing to volunteer. If you cannot coach, we will call your team and let them know they will not be playing this season.” Seriously, that was his solution? I hang up the phone, saying I would call back to let him know my choice.

That afternoon, when Father came back, I told everything to him, complaining how careless and ridiculous the community workers were. They should have suggested my “pretending” to be a coach.

Father stared at me, “Hey, listen! I remember you like watching soccer games.”

“Watching is one thing but coaching is another,” I protested.

“Why not learn the game with the kids? To those first graders, it’s just a game. Just make it fun. Besides, you’ll gain more than them.” I couldn’t imagine the kids’ disappointed faces when they were told their team wouldn’t play because they couldn’t find them a coach.

注意: 1, 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The next morning, I called back.

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Then came the day when I would meet those kids for the first time.

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