【推荐1】When Alice started to cycle home from Jenny’s house, she wasn’t nervous. She was certainly not afraid of the dark. _____, it was only a 15-minute ride home. But halfway there, she began to wish that she hadn’t been so ______.

As she rounded a sharp bend, it suddenly ______ cold — very cold. Alice’s breath became puffs of white cloud and her legs were so cold that it became hard to ride.

With her heart beating fast, she struggled so hard to move ______ that she didn’t hear the car which suddenly appeared beside her. She stopped by the road. The big black car also ______. Slowly, the passenger-window began to slide down. Alice held her breath. In the soft light inside the car, something ______. Then, the light brightened and Alice was staring at a sweet, grey-haired old lady. “Hello, dear,” said the old lady. “I need ______. I’m afraid I’m lost. I need to find the nearest airport. I must be there in the next five minutes.”

“Airport? You ______ are lost,” Alice said. “You need to go back five kilometers ______you reach the T-junction. Turn left and ______ for about another 10 kilometers to the main highway. From there, just follow the ______ to the airport. But I’m afraid there’s no ______ you’ll get there in five minutes!”

“Thank you very much, dear,” replied the old lady. “Don’t worry — I’ll ______ in time.”

The ______ moved up and the car started off. A little way ahead, it ______ and with headlights flashing, it drove past Alice. But then, something ______ happened. The car began changing. First, its color ______from black to silvery-grey. Then, the wheels began disappearing, but the car continued to move forward, ______ just above the ground. As the car ______ into the dark sky, the big red tail-lights grew larger and larger and glowed more and more brightly. With a faint whistling ______, the car was gone in seconds, leaving Alice shaking her head in disbelief…

【推荐2】It was a sunny weekend. I had planned to go mountain climbing in the suburbs with Daniel. However, a sudden heavy rain that morning disrupted my plan. Looking out of the window, I couldn’t help feeling a little _________ as the rain poured down.

However, Daniel _________ , “Since we can’t go mountain climbing, why don’t we go to an old _________ in the city? I heard there are many interesting shops and delicious food there.” I thought it was a good idea and _________. We braved the heavy rain and arrived at the old neighborhood. Although the sky was still _________, the old buildings and unique atmosphere of the neighborhood attracted us.

We walked through the narrow streets and admired the _________ shops to both sides. In one coffee shop, we tasted the delicious coffee. _________ a strange figure walked into the coffee shop. He looked _________, whose eyes seemed to be looking for something. Out of _________, we took the __________ to talk to him. It turned out that he was a photographer and he had just lost an important memory card which contained his works of many years. He had been searching for it for a long time, but still couldn’t find it. After hearing __________ his troubles, we decided to help him. We searched around, but in vain. Just when we were about to give up, a little kid __________ to us with a memory card and said he had found it by the roadside. We excitedly took the memory card and after checking it was __________, we gave it back to the photographer. The photographer looked at us gratefully with tears in his eyes. We felt happy that we could help him and it added more meaning __________ this unexpected trip.

This experience made me realize that life always has unexpected surprise and twists. Sometimes, __________ your plan is not a bad thing and it may bring you a more wonderful experience.

【推荐3】At Dayton School，one student has inspired a big change to the curriculum. Morey is the   school’s first ____ student. The school ____ the opportunity to teach all the students some   sign language so as to make her feel ____ .

Now the walls of halls are lined with the language posters，and students have learned ____ to sign more than 20 words related to school.“____ Morey came to our school，”said school   Principal Sampietro，“our students knew little about the culture of sign language. ”The school   installed(安装)a hearing system and ____ an extra teacher to receive special training in   putting sign language into every class. Meanwhile，many teachers began using their free time   to ____ sign language videos and read books on special ____ so as to help other possible   disabled students in the future. The class are also getting some ____ from Morey：“Morey   helped all of them to ____ the alphabet，”Sampietro said.

To reward the students’hard ____ ，the school invited the singer Cinderella who knows sign language to come to sing for the students and ____ her stories about friendship starting from sign language. “Most students in the school had not ____ other people with a hearing   disability，”said Principal Sampietro. “We wanted our students to ____ this isn’t something they can ____ speak with Morey. ”

【推荐1】It was a few years ago. A friend_________me a restaurant gift card for Christmas and I picked a sunny Sunday afternoon to use it. It felt good taking my two grown sons and daughter to a nice_________instead of the fast food places we usually ate at. The meal was delicious and we all had a good time just being together. When the waitress brought the_________, I noticed that the gift card_________almost all of it. I_________my wallet to get enough cash to afford the rest.

At that moment my_________flashed back to 30 years ago. I was working as a(n)_________in a restaurant much like the one we were in. It was long hours of hard work for low incomes. I went home just barely making enough to_________my young family. I also remembered how more than once I saw the waitresses counting their few tips while worrying about how they were going to pay the house rent and_________their kids the things they needed.

I blinked(眨眼) and back to the__________again, with my fingers touching the smaller bill in my wallet. I smiled, pushed it back down, and__________out the much larger bill. As we all got up from the table I handed the larger bill to the hard-working waitress. “You keep the__________, ” I said with a__________smile and a happy heart.

We are all one family in this world. We live together, rejoice (欣赏) together, and suffer together. Do your best to be a__________person. Do your best to__________the suffering with joy.

【推荐2】As my husband, Doug, stood on the busy New York city street trying to stop a taxi, I tried to protect my daughter from the cold December wind and rain. I put my head down to kiss her tiny face.

_________and wet, my husband gave up his attempt to flag down a taxi. I knew the feeling. Just after her first birthday,we were told our daughter Katie has a _________brain illness. Since that moment, Doug and I felt like runners in a marathon race where the finish line kept disappearing. We knew Katie was running out of _________and that chances were slim._________, we didn’t lose hope. It had taken months before we finally had a name for the_________but we were told only a few of specialists in the world knew how to _________it. Now, as we finally found a brilliant doctor to _________our girl, we were in a strange city in the cold rain.

Just at the moment, a middle-aged woman pulled over and_________us, saying, “Pardon me? May I offer you a ride?” Before we could say anything, she continued, “It’s really no_________for me. Just get in.” It was then that I noticed her thick Irish accent, which warmed me up like hot soup. We simply said, “Thanks! Roosevelt Hospital, please,” as we got in her car for the ride.

“Are you going for the baby?” she asked us. I nodded my head, holding back my_________. At the hospital, we _________her a dozen times for the ride. As the woman hugged me, I_________her face was wet with tears. She promised to pray for us before she left.

_________three more visits to New York and two more brain operations afterwards, Katie was cured. But the_________of the Irish Angel, the woman who gave us a free ride, still rang as a constant reminder of a tiny ray of light that appeared in our_________days.

【推荐3】One of Max’s favorite daily activities is helping his mom carry in any ________ that arrive on their doorstep. But when his ________ received a new hommock (吊床), the hobby gave Max an unusual ________ .

Not ________ the trouble Max had gotten himself into, Traci, Max’s mother, was upstairs with her 2-year-old daughter when she heard some ________ coming from the front porch. The 40-pound little boy had ________ to lift the large and heavy package and ________ found himself pinned (被压制) by it.

“ I was ________ . I was going to fall down the stairs. ” Max said later. “ I was saying ‘ Help! ’ and then the package man just came back and ________ the box. ” That “ package man ” is a delivery truck driver and Chicago — area dad named Marco Angel. In a video ________ by the family’s ring doorbell camera, it’s ________ that Marco is an everyday hero!

“ He didn’t think twice. ” Max’s dad said. “ He came rushing. It was pretty cool. ” Marco was quick to attribute (把……归因于) his quick action to his years of ________ as a father.

“ I pictured my boys in his situation, ” Marco explained. “ ________ , I will go into full dad mode to make sure the kid is ________ . ”

________ Max, other than some faint aches and a bit of scare, he’s back in tip-top shape!

【推荐1】I was said to be the worst student in my class and my family thought I was hopeless. I had to _______ sixth grade. At that time a new teacher, Miss Sadia, came to our school.

One day after class, she _______ that I was staying alone during the lunch break. She came to me and began to talk to me. It was just a _______ conversation. After that day, she gave me particular _______ and it made me feel special. I started to work hard because she gave me the feeling that _______ believed me. So my _______ started to improve in her subject.

Months later, she moved into a house near my _______. We would walk home together after school. Her constant support helped me, _______ in my studies. I knew she would _______ my grades both in her subject and the other subjects. So I tried my best and finally ________ second in my class.

Then, after sixth grade, she started to drift apart(逐渐疏远) ________ still kept a constant check on me. By the time I was in seventh grade, we ________ spoke. But by then I had become the ________ in my class. When I left school, I lost ________ with her. As she never answered the ________ when I called her.

Then I graduated and went to a good university. One fine day, our paths ________ again. I met her at a wedding. I could not ________ asking her, “Why did you stop talking to me?”

“Yon are a clever boy. I wanted you to be a tree ________ on your own roots, not depending on others. Now here you are and I feel ________ of you. You are your inspiration and do not need to ________ a shoulder,” she said. I could not say anything, but I smiled. I’ll always thank her.

【推荐3】A 70-year-old Air Force veteran (退伍军人) from Salem, Illinois is being praised as a hero for his good deed.

Marshall Helm had been ______his granddaughter to the bus stop early in the morning when the smoke and ______ arising from the house next door ______ his attention. Helm ______ to the endangered home and threw open the garage door only to find flames climbing up one of the building walls. ______, at that very moment he did not ______ to charge past the flames and into the house so he could make sure his neighbors were______.

Gary and Kathy Benjamin had been ______ upstairs when they awoke to hear Helm shouting about the fire. Although they were confused by the ______ and had no time to figure out what had happened, they ______ to run into the hallway and escape with Helm through the back door just as the flames were swallowing the ______ through which he had come in only a minute before. Thanks to Helm’s quick ______, the Benjamins suffered smoke intake-and even though only ______ they lost their home in the fire, they are simply ______ to Helm for saving their lives.

“Lifesaver-lifesaver is all I can say,” Mr, Benjamin said. His wife added, “Hero, he’s our______.”