【推荐2】I will never forget one summer in my childhood. While walking in the attic (阁楼), I stepped on something and _______down, with my hand landing on a floorboard that popped up and almost hit me in the head. When I _______ and looked inside the open space, I could not believe my eyes: There was gold in there! I_______a handful of shining gold cubes, ran to the bottom stair and_______, “Mama, I found gold up there under the floor!”

Back up the stairs I dashed,_______ my brothers almost knocked me down as they ran right by me. When Mama opened the door and _______her head in, she_______said, “Honey , that’s insulation (隔热材料). Now put it all back.”

I felt really disappointed. I had thought I made a real_______.

When I_______ inside to put the fake gold back, my hand touched what felt like a book. I pulled it out. It was old and small: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, which I’d never heard of. And________I was bored, I decided to see what was inside this little book. To my________, it was a book of passages, phrases, and proverbs and I could tell that this was going to be________.

So I spent quite much time on it and found________in these pages. As I didn’t know how to express things clearly. I often________to talk about them. This book helped me realize that I didn't need to feel ashamed or________, because other people had similar experiences.

【推荐3】“A good book is easy to find.” That is the _______ on a sign at Hernando Guanlao’s home in the Makati area of Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

Guanlao has _______ his home into a free public library. Visitors can borrow the books inside for free. Guanlao says he hopes his library will inspire people to read, _______ the young. The 72-year-old said that his library _______ books that all students can enjoy — from young children in kindergarten to _______ students in grade 12. He calls his library Reading Club 2000, which includes many different kinds of books.

He _______ his library more than 20 years ago when he set 50 books beside the walkway in front of his home. Guanlao’s _______ have grown greatly over the years — thanks to a continuous supply of books from donors.

Speaking of donors, he said, “They just _______ boxes of books outside my house.” He has also begun _______ books himself by sending reading materials to public schools in faraway communities.

Guanlao's ________ make a difference at a time when reading ability among students in the Philippines remains ________ . Some students in the Philippines are also facing learning delays（延迟）in math and science. He hopes to help more students ________ these problems.

Guanlao is ________ to stick to his goals. “My mission（使命） is to ________ used and donated books to others at no cost,” he said, “and to promote ________ through literature.”

【推荐1】Remains of ancient civilization are places which were designed and built as a lasting tribute(致敬)to some individuals or events. By visiting these________monuments, you are sure to be amazed by how________the ancient civilization that existed centuries before you was. Some of the facilities which could be dated back hundreds of years ago are still in use today. Besides, you will also________at the mysterious stories behind it. The Great Wall, ________, is probably the best-known monument of China, which consists of a network of wall and towers through which the attack warnings could be received within minutes. ________then had enough time to prepare. Estimates of the total length of the monument________, depending on which sections are included and how they are measured.

Even older than the Great Wall of China is the Great Pyramid of Giza. Over a 20-year period, thousands of workers made the vision become________with numerous blocks, each weighing more than two tons. It's still a(n)________to modern people how ancient men handled________of these giant stones in a time when cars or boats never existed some 4500 years ago. The pyramid served not only as a tomb for King Khufu, but also a place of religious activities. According to ancient Egyptian belief, the pyramid, where the mummy was placed, provided a place for the king to pass into the afterlife. Then his servants performed rituals(仪式)to bring_________to the dead king's soul, removing all the unrest and pain from his next life.

【推荐2】Ask people to name the world's tallest peak and anybody with general knowledge will say Mount Qomolangma. But quiz them on its exact_________and many will be not sure.

In 1975, Chinese surveyors_________that Mount Qomolangma was 8848.13 meters high. As_________improved, satellites, photoelectricity, radar and gravity measurement technologies were_________to get more exact figures. Of course, someone still had to carry_________to what is the world's rooftop.

In 2005, a Chinese team scaled Qomolangma and found that it was not as high as that, as they_________the height to be 8844.43 meters. Scaling Qomolangma is no_________task. The average air temperature there is - 29 degrees Celsius, even four degrees_________than in Antarctica. The snow there is 4 — 5 meters thick and hurricane-like_________blow all the time. Team members had trained to__________the extreme conditions.

In a nutshell, measuring Qomolangma's height is a tall order,__________a large number of financial and human resources. But it is worth the__________Mount Qomolangma is the perfect__________into crustal (地壳的) movements. And changes of the peak's height could__________whether the two plates are heading toward or away from each other.

Besides, the condition of snow and other natural materials at the top could be an indicator of upcoming climate change on the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau. That's why measuring Qomolangma's height is so__________.Put to good use, it can benefit mankind.