【推荐1】语法填空

The question was once asked of a     1    (success) businessman, "How have you done so much in your lifetime?" He replied, "I have dreamed. I have turned my mind loose     2    （imagine）what I wanted to do. Then I went to bed and     3    (think) about my dreams. In the night I dreamed about my dreams. And when I awoke in the morning, I saw the way to make my dreams real.

While other people were saying, "You can't do that, and it is     4    (possible)." I was well on my way to     5    (achieve) what I wanted. As Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of     6     U.S., said, "We grow great by dreams."

All big men are dreamers. Some of us let these dreams die,     7     others protect them and take care     8     them through bad days until they bring them to the sunshine which always comes to those who     9    (sincere) hope that their dreams will come true. So please, don't let anyone steal your dreams, or try to tell you they are too unrealistic. "Sing your     10    (song), and dream your dreams; hope your hope and pray your prayer."

Once a man was walking along a beach. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. In the distance he     1     see a person going back and forth between the surf’s edge     2    the beach. As the man approached, he could see there were hundreds of starfish stranded(搁浅的) on the sand as the result of the natural     3    (behave) of the tide.

The man was stuck     4     the apparent uselessness of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to die. As he approached, the person continued the task of     5    up the starfish one by one and throwing them into the ocean.

As he came up to the person, he said, “You must be crazy. There are     6    (thousand) of miles of beach     7    (cover) with starfish. You can’t     8    (possible) make a difference.” The person looked at the man. He then bent down and picked up one     9    (many) starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, ＂It surely made a     10    to that one!＂

A week ago, when I went down the stairs, my neighbor Ivy stood at her door. She asked me why I had stopped    1    (visit) her family, as they had been waiting for me to come to play with them. I didn't want to tell her the fact because my dad and mom had warned me of the danger of going into a neighbor's house.

    2    (final), I decided to follow her into her house because my dad and mom were going on their business at that time. I wanted to find out the "danger"    3    my own. There were four people in her family -Ivy, her mother, her husband, and her son    4    was two years and a half    5    (young) than me. I played with her son all the afternoon and we kept laughing and shouting. I was so happy that I even forgot    6    time. Ivy invited me    7    (have) dinner with them. I just couldn't refuse her and we had another good time while having dinner.

I    8    (want) to tell my    9    (parent) of the truth that I didn't find the "danger" in our neighbor's house. Instead, what I really got were    10    (kind) and warmth from the whole family.

【推荐2】Our ancestors（祖先）made the old saying that friends    1    (be) like wine-the older,the better.Because of that, many people think old friends to be    2    (important) than new ones.For example,if two pieces of advice are given to solve a problem,one from a new friend and the other from an old friend,people always prefer to choose the latter one,     3    the new friend's advice may be better.

    4    (disagree) with the old saying,I believe that new friends are not    5    (necessary) worse than old friends. Why?Because the    6    (long) of time cannot tell whether your friendship is better or not.

Once you call someone friend,he must be a person who is    7    (rely) and whose interests are in common with     8    (you).Maybe a friend's outside look    9    (change) all the time,but the inside characters of him and his interests won't change at all.It is just these unchangeable characters and interests that make him a friend to you.    10    ,there is no difference between old friends and new ones on this point.

At each stage of our life, we meet different kinds of people. Some are funny; some teach us lessons in life while others occupy a special space in our heart. The people     1     (call)“best friends” are just these special     2    (friend).

In our childhood, “best friends”might have meant the persons who are always by our side, whether it may be in the classroom or in the dining hall. However, as we are getting     3     (old) than before, our definition(定义)of “best friends” changes. In my opinion, best friends are those who love you     4     who you are and help you become who you should be. People in our life come and go, but some people stay. They are the people we should never lose.

True friends are those     5     will never leave you when you need them most. They are always there waiting for you and they love you when you forget to love     6     (you). The best feeling in the whole world is knowing that there is     7     person who always prays for us and always keeps us in his/her thought. Friendship may not     8     (necessary)be based on age, but it is based on     9     (understand). Even our parents also can be our best friends! So let us build our friendship and try our best     10     (see)the good side of everyone!