【推荐1】I was in fifth grade and about to take a science test. Since first grade I had always been good at school. I always did well on tests._______it came to fifth grade science, however, I was_______. I couldn’t seem to understand it no matter how hard I tried. I was_______.

My mom and dad had always been so proud of my grades, and I didn’t want to let them_______.So just before the test I had written several_______from the text book on my desk in pencil. The writing was so_______that it could hardly be seen. I sat_______as the teacher started to hand out to the test. I didn’t want to get_______, but I didn’t want to fail either.

As the teacher was starting down my row,_______the fire alarm went off. We all__________the door and stood together, waiting to be allowed back into the building.

As I stood outside in the warm sunshine, I__________what a fool I had been. I knew my mom and dad would still love me no matter what my__________were. As soon as we came into the classroom, I walked to my desk and__________the notes away. I had been given a second__________,and I wasn’t going to__________it. I took the test, did my best and felt__________. I don’t remember what my grade was, but what__________that day has stayed in my heart and mind ever since.

Life is full of second chances, but you have to be willing to__________them. You have to be willing to accept your__________and grow from them. Every day when you wake up, you are given a second chance at life. Treasure it! And use it __________!

【推荐2】The fall leaves are really starting to change now. It looks like the trees and mountains have become a canvas _________ by a loving artist. The bright beautiful reds are shining in the sunlight and the yellows are glittering like gold. Some trees have only a few leaves changed, some are half-way and others have already completely _________. Some of the leaves are falling to the ground too turning it into a colorful _________. I am enjoying this so much because I am completely aware when winter arrives all of the trees will be _________ with the leaves down. It is always a little _________ to see but I know it is the circle of life. Those dead leaves will become the soil that nourishes the trees and _________ new life next spring.

Today I noticed a lovely little girl from our _________ picking up the fallen leaves from the ground. The prettiest reds, yellows, and oranges were picked up and _________ in her arms. Soon she had quite a pile and carefully carried them over to her mom and then with a smile gave them to her as if they were delicate flowers. Her mom accepted them with a smile and together they _________ them out on their porch and stared at them like the priceless __________.

I watched this __________ from my living room window with a smile on my face as well. The world creates a circle of love as well as a circle of life. And I am __________ that the former like the latter will never end. It will __________ all through this life and into the next. Take your place in the circle. Give love. Receive love. Live every day of your life to the __________ with love. And your __________ will shine bright like the most beautiful tree in Autumn.

【推荐3】A family owned a farm near Beulah, Michigan U.S. They kept a bull _______ an old elm tree. The bull walked around the tree, _______ a heavy iron chain with him, which cut a trench (沟痕) on the surface of the tree about three feet off ground. The trench _______ over the years, though for whatever _______, it didn’t kill the tree. Later, the family sold the _______ and took their bull to their new home in another state. They cut the chain, _______ the iron ring behind around the tree. Over the years, bark (树皮) _______ covered the rusting (生锈的) chain.

Then one year, an agricultural disaster _______ Michigan. All of the elms lining the road leading to the farm became _______ with the disease and died. Everyone figured that the old, badly wounded elm could hardly ________. The farm’s owners even considered cutting down the tree ________ it died. But they simply ________ to do so. It was as if the old tree had become a family friend. So they decided to leave it as it was.

________, the tree didn’t die! Year after year it ________. Nobody could understand why it was the only elm still standing there. ________experts came over to study the tree. They observed the trench left by the iron chain, now almost completely covered by bark and badly corroded (侵蚀). The experts ________ that it was the rusting chain that saved the elm’s life. They ________ that the tree must have absorbed so much iron from the rusting chain that it became ________ to the disease.

It is said that what doesn’t kill you will make you ________. Or, as Ernest Hemingway put it, “Life ________ us all, but afterwards, many of us are strongest at the broken places.”

【推荐1】While reading the New York Times today, I came across a story titled “Free Sweets in His Cab to Delight and Heal”.

Mansoor Khalid, a 37-year-old electrical engineer from Pakistan has been driving a ______cab in New York City since 1996. In 2010, his son, Saad, was born with a heart disease. Every time Mr. Khalid visited him in the hospital after his day shift, he would bring much ______ to drink during nights so as to take care of his son. He even gave some to the doctors and nurses there, who______ him “coffee man”.

Last April, Saad ______ away at 18 months old. Although Mr. Khalid was so sad, he had to ____ to work. After his son’s death, he got into the habit of _____   some sweets for his passengers, which nearly cost him $300 every month.

From his ______ in the hospital with his son, Mr. Khalid learned that giving to others could at least ______, if not heal his own feeling of _____ .

“I’d like to buy something for people; I feel ______,” Mr. Khalid said. “When you giving something from your hand, someone gives a ______ to you in return.”

Since then, he has become famous on the Internet. His kind behavior ______ a steady stream of customers, with frequent request for pickups from fans who send their ______ to him via Twitter or Facebook.

But he doesn’t expect the 13,000 other yellow taxis to ______ the same. The $300 a month Mr. Khalid spends on candy would ______ help many people to support their families for a time. Actually, it is not a small sum.

“If you think about it, you will ______ why he does it,” said Juan Miranda, who drives Mr. Khalid’s cab during the nights.

“Everybody is sometimes depressed and_______. Living in New York City is not very ______, so when a passenger see all the candies, chocolates, they will ______ in a short time,” Mr. Khalid explained. “Some people even start screaming with _____ .”

【推荐1】The stage lights dimmed, and I took a quick look from behind the heavy black curtains into the audience. Blinded by the lights, I quickly ________. It seemed that a great number of eyes were looking at me. I took a deep ________ as the music of my dance began to play. I entered the stage and began my _______, the graduation test of the classical Indian dance.

After a decade of learning this art form, I had ________ been considered ready to take on the most difficult act. The test is the most important ________ in a dancer’s life as it pays respect to all the factors (因素) in one’s life that ________ the dance form: one’s culture and family. The performance is undertaken only by the most focused and ________ students. It is a difficult process that requires much commitment (付出，投入). For more than six months, I spent two to three hours every day ________ these dances. Many times, I ________ myself to my physical and ________ limit, but still I would not ________. I could not give up. There was always so much more to do and so much more to learn.

I ________ a lot about myself in those tiring hours. I learned that I was far too stubborn (固执) to give up, and I was too proud to prove myself ________ after I had set an unrealistic goal. Even with physical pain and mental _______, I forced myself to meet my ________. Even when I was at the end of my_______, there was always something driving me on, forcing me not to give up.

Fortunately,I ________. What I had done ________ the success. It was in those hours ________ I learned what a dancer ________ is.

【推荐3】My mother and her family kept information about my father and his family a secret from me for over half a century. In 2010 I began to ______ my father through Ancestry.com. However, I learned he had ______ cancer on August 6, 1999 in a hospital in Dallas, Texas.

When I got my father's death ______， the medical examiner told me because my father had no ______ around the city, they buried him in a body bag in a(n) ______ grave in an old cemetery.

I knew my father ______ in WW2 so I decided to work on getting his remains ______ to my state to be buried in our national cemetery. From 2011 to 2017 I kept working on ______ my debt from a divorce and increasing my ______ score so someday I could get a personal loan.

That certificate of ______ service proved my father served 43 months in WW2   in the USA Army Air Force fighting the Nazi's. I still did not have the money ______. In July of 2018 a bank approved a $10，000 personal loan so I had a funeral director ______ a permit to exhume my father. After 4 months of ______ I asked Senator Brown for help again in November. Six days after he contacted Texas officials a permit was ______.

On July 9, 2019 an airplane will ______ at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport ______ I will be finally ______ with my father and touch his metal casket and the missing piece of my heart will be ______.

On January 10, 2019 the Ohio Patriot Guard Riders will escort my father's hearse through my ______ to be buried with honors in our states National cemetery and one day in January Senator Brown will have an American Flag ______ over our Nation's Capital to honor my father.

If you never give up one day your dream will become a reality.