【推荐1】I think I will never forget the special day in November. It was hotter than normal. This was the______ my father and I had waited so long for, because we had been working towards this______ for three years. Dozens of familiar faces from church and school flashed across my view. They had come for me. I saw worry and______ on my father’s face. Then the race began!

For the first two and a half miles, I felt______. I had never before been so ready for something. The weeks leading up to the race were filled with controlled______ and a strict diet. My friends hadn’t seen me in weeks, but they understood the______required to make my dream a reality. As in all of my races, I didn’t______ out in the front. I loved the pleasure of passing people as my strength overtook their premature speed.

Then without warning，my strength began to______. Neck and neck with one of my greatest competitors, I could see the finish line. I had begun the final dash into______ when my knees became weak and my legs gave way. Nothing I could do would make them______ weight.

I watched as runners rushed by me.______ I knew my dreams of victory were destroyed, I had to finish the race. However, my legs hurt badly. With all of the______ left in me, I got on my hands and knees and crawled (爬), inch by inch, across the finish line. Voices, both______ and familiar, cheered me on. They gave me the courage to keep ______ until the very end.

The ______ were there in seconds, but my eyes searched the crowd for him. There was only one person I wanted to talk to. I whispered, “I’m so sorry, Dad, I’m so sorry I ______ you.” He looked at me, saying, “You could never disappoint me. Sometimes these things just______. All that matters is that you did your best.”

“But we worked so hard. What about our dream?” He ______over for my hand and said, “Don’ t you know that you are my dream and it has come true?”

It wasn’t long before my running shoes were back on, marking a______ path for my journey. I learned that all of the miles, the tears, the sweat, and the pain my dad and I ______ together were not for a race. What I realized, though, was that to him, I was the greatest prize he had ever won.

【推荐3】When I was 13 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant beating out Miller King, who was the best ________ at our school.

Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for ________ .

Just before September, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he came back from ________. He looked very pale, but he didn’t cry.

That season, I ________ all of Miller’s records while he ________ the home games from the bench. We went 10-1 and I was named most valuable player, ________ I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame(责备) for Miller’s ________ .

One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller in trouble going over a fence—which wasn’t ________ to climb if you had both arms. I’m sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept help from. But even that challenge he accepted. I ________ him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally ________ on the other side, he said to me, “You know, I didn’t tell you this during the season, but you did ________ .Thank you for doing the job for ________ .”

His words freed me from my bad ________ . I thought to myself, how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated, he was ________ ahead of me. I was right to have respected him. From that day on, I grew ________ and a little more real.

【推荐1】It was rush hour in San Angelo. Heather Santé was driving her Mazda with her nine-year-old daughter and ten-year-old son in the back. Suddenly, a red pickup truck ________ them off. Santé turned the wheel hard to the right, sending the Mazda ________ off the road and down an embankment (筑堤) that ended in a drop-off after about 50 feet. If the car didn’t ________, it would fall onto the road some 20 feet below. Then a bit of ________: As the car raced toward the edge, its undercarriage got ________ on the concrete lip of the embankment, stopping it ________.

The occupants, however, were far from safe. The car had come to rest on top of a wall, literally (确实地) on the edge of ________. One sudden move by anyone inside could send it over.

Jacob Rodriguez watched the ________ unfold from the company where he works. Then he and four other men ran to the car. They ________ onto the trunk to balance the weight as the ________ kids in the back seat watched.

_____, Julio Vasquez and his nephew, Marco Vasquez, were driving to their jobs nearby. Julio jumped out of the car to help ________ Marco went to the shop, ________ a heavy-duty belt, and returned to the ________ car. He tied the Mazda to a truck that had been driven over by one of the other rescuers. With the car ________, the group carefully opened the ________ doors and helped the children out.

But their departure changed the car’s ________, causing it to tip forward. The men, still on the trunk, ________ Santé to jump into the back seat to re-balance the weight. She did and then inched out the back door. Finally, the men carefully ________ the car. Everyone was safe. Another foot, Rodriguez told USA Today, “and this would be a different ________.”

【推荐2】My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summers we would go sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at _______. As for me, I _______ both before twelve because of living close to Lake Ontario.

The last time Dad and I set sail together is really _______. It was a perfect weekend after I graduated from university. I came home and _______ Dad to go sailing. Out we set soon on the calm lake. Dad hadn’t sailed for years, but everything _______ well with the tiller (舵柄) in his hands.

When we were in the middle of the lake, a _______ wind came all of a sudden. The boat was hit _______. Dad was always at his best in any danger, but at this moment he _______.

“John! Help!” he shouted in a trembling voice, with the tiller still in his hands.

In my memory he could fix any _______.He was the one I always ________ for strength and security. Before I could respond, a ________ of water got into the boat. I rushed to the tiller but it was too late. Another huge wave of water ________ the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was struggling aimlessly. At that moment, I felt fiercely ________ of him.

I swam to Dad quickly and assisted him in climbing onto the hull (船壳) of the boat. Upon sitting on the hull, Dad was a little awkward about his flash of ________. “It’s all right, Dad. We are safe now,” I comforted him.

That was the first time Dad had counted on me in a moment of emergency. More importantly, I found it was my turn to start ________ my father.

【推荐3】MacArthur's love for sailing dates back to when she was just 4 years old, when she first got the opportunity to have a try on a boat. “It kind of _______ me that this boat had everything we needed to take us anywhere in the world. And as a child,that opened up everything and made me feel the greatest sense of   _______，” she explained.

This experience _______ a passion within MacArthur that she wanted to sail around the world. Growing up in the countryside. she had no idea how to _______ it. However, she knew that was what she wanted to do at some stage. So she acquired knowledge and _______ for years to seek her dream in sailing. Having merely potatoes and beans every day for eight years, she _______ could afford the right equipment. By reaching such _______goals and asking technical questions about ___________ , MacArthur felt as though she was getting _______ to her ambition.

“The impossible could be possible and ________ high is not necessarily such a crazy thing to do. "she said. And it seems that MacArthur's ________ to become a sailor went beyond her expectations. At the age of 24,   she started to ________media attention after winning the second place in the Vendee Globe, a single-handed non-stop yacht (帆船)race that went around the world.

Four years later, MacArthur chose to sail for 71 days and 14 hours,   ________ more than 26_,000 miles. This led to her scoring a new record. ________       this record has since been surpassed (超过)，MacArthur is still considered as Britain's most successful offshore racer.

So when you know where you're going, you can actually get there—even if it seems ________     !