【推荐1】As a child, I lived on a college campus with my parents. Their students often visited and did jigsaw puzzles (拼图) with me, for which I quickly discovered my_______.I would sit alone for hours_________building a puzzle. My college “friends” would be_________next time they came.

Soon I_______ up from 500-piece puzzles to my highest _______:a 3,000-piece one. I was so_______at the thought of tearing it apart that I moved the finished puzzle_______ onto a large board and kept it as it was until we moved away and I _______ playing with puzzles.

Recently I can't help but_______my old days, when I could spend hours looking at small, oddly shaped cardboard pieces and ________them into appropriately spaced positions, enjoying myself.

I now live in a world of divided________, constantly jumping from one form of entertainment to another.________，I dislike it when I open my phone to send a quick text, but only to find myself, an hour later, clicking on countless YouTube videos that leave no impression on me. I miss being someone who didn't________ to be bombed with so many flashy external stimuli to be ________ .

I think a puzzle or two would force me to be another version of myself, a less impatient one. When I get home this summer, I'll________ the box of old toys somewhere in our basement. Maybe I'll find what I'm looking for.

【推荐3】“I couldn't survive without music,” says fifteen-year-old Steve. In the morning, Steve wakes up to his favorite _________ radio station. He listens to rock on the radio while he eats his _________.He puts on his personal stereo before he leaves the house and listens to cassettes on the bus to _________.

“Last week I put my headphones on in the maths _________,”admits Steve.“The teacher was really _________. She took my headphones away and I couldn't use them for a week. It was _________.” At home Steve does his homework to music—loud music.

“My mother _________ shouts ‘Turn it down!’,” says Steve.“She can't _________ how I can work _________ music on, but music __________ me to fix my attention upon my studies.”Steve would like to make music himself.“I'm learning to play the guitar. __________,it doesn't sound so good at the __________.But I'm going to keep Practicing!”

For __________ like Steve, music is a very important part of __________.Music is social. It brings people together at discos, parties and concerts. Fast, __________ music is full of energy. It helps people to forget their problems and have fun. Music talks about love, freedom and imagination. There are always new songs and new styles.

But Steve's mother agrees that music brings some problems.“Steve is a sensible(明智的)boy.” she says.“I don't think he would ever take drugs hearing rock. But I do worry about his hearing with all that loud music. And it drives me crazy!”

【推荐1】“Today I will give you a special test,” said the English teacher with a smile on his face.

All the students set up straight and ________ for the test to begin. The teacher began to ________ the test papers to all the students. ________ he finished handing out the test papers, he asked them to begin.

The students were very ________ to see that there was not a question but a black dot (圆点) in the centre of the paper. The teacher ________ the students’ surprise and said, “I want you to ________ about what you see there.”

At the end of the class, the teacher took all the students’ answer sheets (答题纸) and read the answers. ________ of them described the black dot. After reading all the answers, the teacher said, “Here everyone only paid attention to the black dot, ________ no one wrote about the white paper.” The whole class listened ________, because they were afraid to fail in the exam.

Then the teacher said, “Don’t worry about your ________ for this test. I just want you to think about our life. The white paper is like our whole life and the black dot in the centre of the paper ________ problems in our daily life.”

Our life is a ________ given to us by God, with love and care. Still, we just pay attention to the problems like ________ and poverty, and never see that these problems are very ________ compared to everything else we have in our life.

So we should try to take our eye off our problems and ________ each moment life gives us.

【推荐1】Standing on the edge of the plane, my tandem skydiving (双人跳伞) instructor, Bill, turned to face me. “Do you have any last words?” he asked. “Yes,” I said, joking. “I hope my parachute (降落伞) opens .”

I’d never felt more alive as Bill and I _________ and started our free fall. As we reached 4,000 feet, I felt a parachute open. This, I was told, would slow us down for a smooth _________. But why were we still traveling so fast? I could hear Bill swearing as he tried to_________ whatever had gone wrong.

Worse still, our emergency parachute unexpectedly got _________ on something. At that moment, I just felt so _________ that I’d even invited my family along to experience sorrow instead of watching my wonderful performance.

We _________ the ground. An unimaginable pain shot up my back. Feeling weak and tired out, I gathered all my strength, and turned to face Bill. He started screaming. From my neck down, I could hardly move. My mother couldn’t help crying as we were placed into a(n) _________ from the hospital.

After years of treatment, the deep physical and mental pain is _________. I heard Bill made a full _________ and returned to skydiving.

I was always terrified of being myself and doing the things I wanted. Now I’ve learned I need to be fearless. There’s nothing like falling from 15,000 feet without a parachute and surviving. It forces me to __________ every day!

【推荐3】Sumo wrestlers (相扑选手) are usually big, heavy men. The biggest sumo wrestler of all the time is Koni-shiki, who now ________ about 230 kg. Born in Hawaii, he was________a big boy. When he was a teenager, some people________he go to Japan and become a sumo wrestler.

Although he took their advice, at first it was a________life. “I had to clean the toilets and________the rubbish (垃圾),” Konishiki remembered, “I knew I had to________to life in Japan. I said to myself, ‘I________learn Japanese.’ Soon I could________it quite well.”

Konishiki’s career started________, and he was soon upgraded to a higher rank. But despite his________he soon had health problems. The doctors told him that he should________some weight. “I started dieting. I________to do it. But I did it too_____ ,” he said, “I lost some of my strength, too.”

He lost a lot of fights, and then his parents got________in a car crash. “I must go and________them,” he thought. Though it was only three days________a big tournament (锦标赛), he flew back to Hawaii. Despite his________, they were not badly injured.

When he returned, he knew that he had to do well. The newspapers said, “Konishiki must win,________he will go down in rank.”

Though he had many problems, Konishiki won 14 of his 15 fights, and won the Emperor’s Cup. He was so________that he cried. “You ought not to show your feelings,” he said, “but I couldn’t __ it.”