【推荐3】About 30 years ago, I left Cuba for the United States with my 4-year-old son. After getting ________finally in Brunswick, New Jersey, I enrolled（注册）my son in ________Several weeks later, my son’s teacher asked me to meet him at his ________.

In the teacher’s office, an exchange of ________was followed by his questions: “Is your son mentally retarded （弱智的）, Does he suffer from any kind of ________disability?”

Was he talking about my wonderful Scola? No, no it can’t be. What a ________. lonely moment! I told him that Scola was a quiet, sweet little boy, instead. I asked him why he was asking me all these questions.

My son could not ________the teacher’s directions, he told me, and ________. Scola was disrupting the class. Didn’t he know my son did not speak English yet?

He was ________; “Why hasn’t your son been taught to speak English? Don’t you speak English at home?”

No, I didn’t speak English at home, I ________, I was sure my son would learn English in a couple of months, and I didn’t want him to forget his ________language. Well, wrong answer! What kind of person would not speak in English to her son at home and at all time? “Are you one of those people who come to this country to save dollars and send them back to their country, ________wanting to be a part of this society?”

________, I tried to tell him I was not one of “those people”. Then he told me the ________was over, and I left.

As I had ________, my son learned to speak English ________before the school year was over. He went on to graduate from college and got a ________, earning close to six figures. He travels widely and leads a well-adjusted, contented life. And he has ________from being bilingual（双语的）.

Speaking more than one language allows people to ________with others; it teaches people about other ________and other places something very basic and obviously lacking in the “educator” I met in New Jersey.

【推荐2】At middle school I found it ________ to run around the playground and I was always one of the last students to cross the finish line. One day, my friend asked me if I would like to run a 10K event with him. My first reaction was, “No way! I hate ________ .”

Over the weekend I thought about his ________ . I thought, “Why do I hate it when I haven’t done it since Grade 7 in middle school?” In the end I decided I should have a(n) ________ .

I told my friend I would like to join the 10K event with him. He ________ me to turn to the Internet for a running programme to help me learn how to run. ________ I chose a 14-week running plan that would teach me how to run for 30 minutes non-stop. I had to run three times a week for different lengths of ________ . As the weeks went on I could run for longer periods. I enjoyed following the plan as I could see ________ in my running each week. I went from being ________ to run for more than 30 seconds to running for over 30 minutes! My younger self would not have ________ it.

On the day of the 10K running event I was both excited and ________ . It was the first time I had apply my new skills to practice. I lined up with other ________ . My friends and family came to support me. With their encouragement and my training, I ________ to finish the 10K in 72 minutes. It was ________ but I felt very proud of having tried It.

From this experience I learned it was a good idea to try something before saying “I hate it!” It turned out that I ________ running.

【推荐3】As a boy, Kerr wanted to be a park ranger (护林员). _________, he spent four decades in a broadcasting station. He retired at 65 without any particular _________   in mind. After several boring weeks, he decided to drive to visit family in Wyoming.

On route, he _________ to stop at the Yellowstone Park Foundation, which was looking for people to _________ park guests on wolves. Kerr _________, and later, became an internship (实习生) of the Student Conservation Association.

Kerr _________ in the intern crowd, most of whom were college and even high school students. But he had been well _________ for this since his youth. His outdoor adventures with his grandfather had given him a _________ of nature.

There are 31 million Americans between 44 and 70, some searching for something where they feel as if they’re making a _________ to make their neighborhood just a little bit __________. Kerr also had that deep __________ to do something meaningful.

From his internship, he moved up to ranger, educating park visitors, making for safe __________ between guests and animals, and responding to medical emergencies. He __________ his work, which he describes as one of the most beautiful places on Earth, enjoying moments when he __________ a visitor to an up-close look at wolves through his telescope.

“These are rich and all-too-rare __________,” recalls Kerr. “I will never forget them.”