【推荐1】An old woman had lost her eyesight completely, so she went to a _________ to help her see again and made a bargain with him; if he could cure her, he would be paid well. But if he couldn’t, she would not pay him anything.

The doctor had a(an) _________ ointment (药膏). When it was put on the eyes for a period of time, it restored the eyesight of anyone who was sightless.

The doctor began to _________ his patient daily. But knowing that she couldn’t see, he started _________ the valuables in her house. When there was nothing left, he decided to cure her and _________ his payment.

When the woman recovered her eyesight, she saw that her valuables had gone and _________ the doctor was the thief. So, saying that she was _________   cured, she refused to pay him. The doctor was _________ and he insisted on his fees. But the old woman refused and the two went to the _________.

The judge asked the old woman ____________ she refused to pay the doctor. She said, “I did ____________ to give him the money if I recovered my eyesight. However, if I remained blind, I was to give him ____________. Now he ____________ that he has cured me, but I am ____________ blind.”

Everyone there looked at her ____________ . “ How can you say that? Everyone can see that your eyesight has been restored,” said the judge ____________.

The old woman replied, “ I ____________ can’t see. Before I ____________ my eyesight, I had seen many valuable things in my house. But now, I am not able to see a thing of ____________ in it.”

The judge ____________ that she was indeed blind and let her go.

【推荐2】What makes a home? Love, sympathy and confidence. It is a place where love exists among all the members of the family. The parents take good care of their children, and the children are _________ the activities of their parents. Thus all of them are_________together by love, and they find their home the_________ place in the world.

But for me, sometimes I can’t feel the love from my father and can’t feel the_________ of the home. _________ often happen between us.

“BANG!” the door caused a protest (抗议). “Never _________ this house again!” shouted father.

With tears welling up in my eyes, I rushed out of the house and ran along the street. A young father who held a child in his arm walked _________ me. I felt as if I saw my _________ from another space: happy and harmonious.

But then I didn’t know_________it was because I had grown up or because Dad was getting__________. We were just like two people coming from two different worlds. It felt like there was an iron__________ between us that could never be opened.

I wandered the streets __________ a destination in my mind. My heart was__________ on this hot summer night. As I walked on, there were fewer and fewer people in the streets, until I had only streets to keep me company. When I finally reached the high rise apartment block in which I lived, I saw that the light was still __________I thought to myself, “Is father waiting for me, or is he still angry with me?” After a long hesitation, I opened the door and instantly tears ran down my cheeks. I suddenly realized that the iron door that I had __________ between us did not exist at all because love is second to none.

【推荐3】I passed a man on the way home from work this evening. He was_______down the grass edge at the side of the driveway._______, he was swinging (摇晃), almost falling over, sometimes on the edge, sometimes off. I_______, wondering whether to stop and give him a lift. Then the car behind me overtook (赶超) me and I didn’t stop there as the road was so_______.

I couldn't be sure but he_______to be quite drunk. Yes, he was_______drunk. A _______turned sharply to avoid him at one point.

I thought I might as well sit and_______him to reach the car. He'd probably turn down my _______ of a lift or smell really bad or... a number of things went through my________while I waited.

Five________went by and I sat on. He reached the car. My________were down, and I asked him if he wanted a________. He said that he was going to the next town, just out of my way, but not far enough to put me to ________. So he got in.

“Sorry, I'm really quite________.” He called me brother and offered me his cool glasses as pay. I refused and said the________was in the giving.

Three times along the way he told me that “Whatever we give out there comes back to us. Something good will come to you for________me up.”

“The joy is in the giving,” I said again.

He________again for being so drunk.

“Anywhere around here is fine for me,” he said. So I________him at the next crossing. We ________hands and said goodbye to each other.

【推荐1】Being a parent is already a life-changing experience. However, this 40-year-old dad_________an astonishing transformation(转变) after a hike with his kids.

Before Jeremiah Peterson looked like a supermodel, he weighed 290 pounds. He was only_________to lose weight after he went on a hike with his family in 2017 and _________ how quickly he was tired out from the activity.

“Instead of remembering all the good_________we had made on this trip, all I can _________ is this one thing that kept playing in my head over and over again: I found myself running out of breath and having to take_________ on the way before my kids,” Peterson wrote online.

The dad then was_________to get into shape.

He started by giving up drinking and_________a ketogenic diet(生酮食法). Besides, he started _________ regularly. For five months, he would hike for two hours and spend one hour at the gym every single day.

After 150 days of a strict diet and lots of__________, Peterson lost 92 pounds. Not only that, he can now run non-stop up the hiking trail that once made him __________ exhausted.

Peterson now uses his story and fitness expertise(专门技能) to coach and__________almost 100,000 social media followers---but he says that his kids are the real__________for his success.

“Finding your reason is__________if you want to achieve success in life,” he wrote in an post. “If you don’t have a strong reason behind your__________you are less likely to get the results.”

【推荐3】I finally retired. After 30 years’______ as director of a radio station, I would have more time for housework, but I worried I’d lose the sense of ______ I had felt in my profession.

I pushed at the garage’s wooden doors, but they were______. I finally got the doors open and started to empty the shelves. Then my hand hit something ______. It was a common old metal can. I ______the cover and found a ______ envelope with a postmark of May 13, 1940 inside. ______, I opened it and found some flower seeds in it, “Eighty years old! I wonder if they’ll still grow.”

I ______ the seeds in a plastic pot. I checked it every day, but nothing happened. “I guess they’re just too ______ to be any good,” I told my wife Peg in ______. I picked up the pot to get rid of it, but something made me ______. I changed my mind and set it aside. Meanwhile, I was keeping ______, improving my photography skills and teaching my granddaughters gardening.

Six weeks later, I was out in the yard when I ______to notice the pot. A new bit of green — a leaf had ______. I proudly showed it off to my granddaughters. “Look, girls, even something this old can still ______for its purpose and be pretty cool. Just like your grand-papa!”