【推荐1】When Aiden asked me to accompany him on a camping trip, I pictured a wooden cabin with a fireplace. Imagine how my _______ image of camping became a nightmare (噩梦) when Aiden and his brother, Lebron, _______ with a truck filled with camping supplies! I did pack a backpack, as instructed, but I had no idea we were going on _______ training!

Lebron, ever so _______, hurried me to get in so we could leave the noisy city behind us. Ahead, the mountains came into view bigger; the trees were _______. At least the weather was _______ — cotton candy clouds dotted the deep blue sky.

At the trail-head, Lebron lectured Aiden and me about hiking _______. The first part of the trail (小路) looked more like a wooded road. _______, the path became narrower and steeper,   _______ me to focus on the task at hand. Finally, we reached the top. My legs aching, I dropped my pack and groaned (呻吟). “No time to __________,” Lebron said, looking up at the __________. “We need to set up camp.”

Lebron and Aiden worked __________, while I stood around and pretended to __________, thunder rumbling in the distance. Each time lightning lit up the tent, I drew back with fear. And just as __________ as the storm came rushing in, it died down, allowing us to exit the tent. The __________ was superb — I could see for miles.

【推荐2】This is a story about workers and their boss in a small pizza restaurant in New Jersey. It’s also a story about how one good turn________another.

Bryan Morin________a pizza restaurant in the town of Jersey Shore. In summer, it delivers pizzas to the beach, a few blocks away. In winter, customers usually gather in the________restaurant.

But Bryan Morin was________these days. He stayed awake in bed night after night when the health crisis spread rapidly in the country. Eventually, it brought life to a full stop and led to massive________as businesses closed down.

Bryan Morin was________not to let this happen at his pizza restaurant.

“If our workers don’t have a salary, they won’t be able to________their rent, their credit card bills and their gas,” he said. “I decide to do the right thing and take the________. I’ll make it up later in the future.”

So about two weeks ago, he borrowed $50,000 from the bank. He________to his workers that they’d have a job for at least the next two months and that he’d do everything possible to keep the checks flowing after that.

As word of the promise got around, customers began________. They usually put an extra $10 on top of the usual 20%________.

But then, something________happened. In order to show their________for the health workers, people called and asked Bryan Morin to charge their credit cards for food to be sent to those frontline heroes. In just two days last week, Bryan Morin________took.in more than $4,000.

“This is such a________time,” said Kirsten Phillips, a nurse at one of the hospitals. “But we care about each other. This is also the best pizza I've ever had.”

【推荐1】I was waiting to pick up a friend at the airport. That day I had one of those experiences that could ______ people's lives.

It happened just two feet away from me. I noticed a man, carrying two bags, coming toward me. He stopped next to me to greet his ______ .

First of all he ______ his bags and came closer to his younger son(about six years old); they gave each other a warm, loving hug. Then the father looked in his son's eyes with ______ , "I missed you so much. It's so good to see you, son!" The boy smiled and said, "Me too, Dad."

Afterwards the father said “Hi, baby girl." to his baby daughter. She was shouting ______ in her mother's arm and watching her returning father all the time. The man gently took his little daughter,   ______ kissed her face all over and then held her close to his chest. The little girl laid her head on his shoulder in ______ .

After several moments, the man looked at his ______ and said “I've saved the ______ for last!” and shared with her the most passionate ______ . They stared at each other, beaming big smiles. They ______ me of newlyweds.

Suddenly, I heard myself asking “Wow, how many years have you been ______ ?”

“Twelve years.” "Well then, how long have you been away?" He replied with a smile on his face. “Two whole days!”

I was astonished, as I ______ that he had been away for several weeks at least. I could only say, “I ______ that my marriage is still that passionate after twelve years." The man looked straight into my eyes and told me something that changed my life: “Don't hope, friend,   ______ !” From him I just learnt "Better go home and make a net than long for a fish in front of a pond.”

【推荐2】As a woman walked down the streets one day, she noticed a beggar. The man looked old and ill-dressed. She _______ asked the man, “Sir? Are you hungry?” She tried to pick him up. “You need to _______ something,” the woman said.

The man looked at the woman, who, clearly by her appearance was from a _______ background. “No,” he said coldly.

The woman finally managed to _______ the man into the cafeteria and ordered him something to eat.

When the man was eating his meal, the woman stared at the man and asked “Jack, do you _______ me?” Old Jack examined her face. Then his face suddenly lit up. “Now I remember you. I used to be at the counter. You came up and asked me if you could work for something to eat.”

“Then you _______ me the biggest roast beef sandwich, a cup of coffee, and a table for me to sit at. I saw you put the _______ of my food in the cash register.” the woman said.

She opened her purse and pulled out a business _______. “Please pay a visit to the personnel director of my company. We need your help. We can pay you the _______ in advance.”

“How can I ever repay your ____________?” Jack asked.

“You don’t need to”, the woman smiled.

【推荐3】I was 12 then in the summer of 1941. One day, my dad _________ my little brother, Joe, and me with the news that we were going all the way to San Francisco, California for the Word’s Fair (世博会) on Treasure Island.

The day before we set out, mama fried up one of the chickens we raised _________ we’d have our own travel meals. We _________ our hair in snoods (束发带) which were very popular then. Mama had also bought me a handbag that matched hers, and from then on, it went everywhere with _________.

The trip from Alabama to California took a full 3 days. In California, we _________ the ship for Treasure Island each morning to see sights at the fair. I remember seeing and hearing Benny Goodman and his Big band playing their popular dance tunes for _________ in an open-air theater.

On the way home, we changed trains in New Orleans. During the two-hour stopover, everyone in our family was tired _________, we were on the train heading back home to Birmingham when I discovered that I had _________ my handbag in the New Orleans train station.

I felt _________ and started crying and Dad tried to __________ me in his usual calm manner. Mama scolded me for being so careless.

A few weeks after we were home, Dad returned from work one day with a __________. He had __________ the New Orleans station, where a woman had found my handbag and returned it to Dad.

Through all these years, my handbag has been __________ me around. It is __________ a lovely handbag. It is a __________ of happy times with my family.