【推荐1】My 9-year-old daughter is reading in her room before bed. Every now and then I hear her _____ at a funny line. Sometimes she calls out to ask _____ she can read us something. It’s _____ and she should be asleep by now, but we say yes.

“Listen!” she reads us the _____. “Isn’t that wonderful?”

My husband and I _____. It is wonderful. I can’t help feeling a little _____, too.

Not that long ago, we’d read to her nightly before she went to sleep. We did so even as she _____ reading on her own. As a result, we were often _____ by what was going on in her books,_____ we’d miss chapters as she speeded ahead. No matter. Bedtime was ______ reading aloud as a family, and we ______ it.

After almost ten years of reading together, she’s ready to step away from that ______. It’s tough for my husband and me to ______ the tradition, even as we delight in the to-be-read pile growing next to her bed.

But we still talk to her about ______. She’s aware that reading isn’t everyone’s favourite thing,and that some find it harder to get into a ______ than she does. It was frustrating for her once too, though she doesn’t remember that ______. These days, she keeps a blog of her ______, and begins to talk to others about what she loves to read. She’s outgrown our ______ rituals (习惯) because she’s falling in love with books on her own. I ______ this makes me happiest of all.

We all used to read together, but my 9-year-old daughter has taken it to a new level. What a ______ from one bedtime reading tradition towards another!

【推荐2】I would like to suggest that for sixty to ninety minutes each evening all smart phones in the family be put away.

Let us take a ______, reasonable look at what the results might be if such a(n) ______ were accepted: Families might use the time for a real family hour. Without the distraction of phones, they might ______ around together after dinner and actually talk to one another. In fact , it is well-known that many of our ______ in every aspect of our life, from the generation gap to the high divorce and ______ some forms of mental illness are caused at least ______ by failure to communicate. By using the quiet family hour to ______ our problems, we might get to know each other better, and to like each other better.

On evenings when such a talk is ______, families could discover other active pastimes (消遣). Freed from smart phones, forced to find their own ______, they might take a ride together to watch the sunset ______ they might take a walk together. With free time and no smart phones, children and adults might discover reading. They might find there is more ______ in a good book than in an electronic game. According to educators, the generation ______ with smart phones can hardly write an English sentence, ______ at the college level. Actually, ______ is often improved through adequate reading. So with more time on books, a more literate (有文化的) new generation could be a (n) ______ of the quiet hour.

A different ______ of reading might also be done as it was in the past: reading aloud. The quiet hour could become the story hour. When the quiet hour ______, we may find it hard to ______ from our newly-discovered activities and expect the next story time.

At first glance, this idea seems radical (极端的). How will we spend the time then? The fact is that it has been only ten years ______ smart phones came to control our time. Those of us twenty-five and older can remember childhood without smart phones. It wasn’t so ______ as we think.

【推荐3】Reading is of great importance. That's why World Book Day came into being. World Book Day ___________on April 23rd every year, which____________to encourage people, particularly teenagers, to discover the ___________of reading so that they can fall in love with books. It's also the day to____________honor to those great writers who produced remarkable works of literature and made great _________to human civilization.

Many countries celebrate World Book Day and the___________is yearly held in different ways. On that day, millions of school children can buy books at a much_______price than usual in any bookstore in England, ___________attracts a number of students to flood into bookstores for they can pay less money to buy the_________books. World Book Day is also_____________in China. More and more people_______into the libraries and bookstores to read______________books. Most of them do more reading on that day, _______________they can change the world by changing themselves______________reading.

Reading makes us_______________and learned. Reading helps us to follow the___________development of science and technology. Reading enables us to have a good___________of and have a better understanding of foreign cultures and______. Reading also is one of the most important ways to learn foreign languages. We all know it's difficult and almost____________to learn everything in the classroom, yet the ways English people are living and working today can be__________by reading.

【推荐1】When my husband and I got married, he worked as a mechanic (机修工) from midnight to 8 a.m. However, I worked during the _______. So as he came home from work each morning, I was getting ready to _______.

We had very little _______ then, so when Valentine's Day (情人节) came around that first year, I knew we couldn't _______ anything for each other. After he left to go to work the night before Valentine's Day, I decided to _______ and make a Valentine's Day card for him. I _______ wrote a poem on the front of the card. When he came home the next _______， I felt foolish as I handed him the card, _______ that he wouldn't laugh at it. When he had finished _______ it, he slowly raised his head and looked at me. Then he reached down into his pocket. When he pulled his ________ out, he was holding ________.

He told me that he had ________ it for me during his lunch hour, but he had been ________ to give it to me because he thought I might think it was ________，and that I might laugh at it.

It was a small heart made out of aluminum (铝). ________ I had stayed up all night making him a valentine card, he had been cutting out a ________ for me. I still have the aluminum heart, and I ________ it in my desk. Every time I see it, all those ________ come flooding back to me. Over the years, we've been able to buy each other very nice, ________ presents for Valentine's Day. But none has ever been as dear or ________ as much as those handmade gifts made from our hearts the first year that we were married.

【推荐2】Seeing the news of the 2022 Nobel Prize on TV, I can’t help _________ a tale about a remarkable physicist, Albert Einstein. When Einstein was a little kid, his father bought him a compass as a gift. He was amazed by it. It was that moment, as Einstein later said, that _________ the beginning of his scientific journey. Many other great _________ in history had similar stories

It always amazed me how such an experience could have a huge impact on one’s life. _________ Einstein and other science giants, I don’t remember having any particular experience that _________ my interest in science. For me, I was not a matter of a single event, but rather many of them.

As a kid I enjoyed spending hours watching stars during summer nights. I tried to see if some of those shining dots displayed certain figures, I found magnetism (磁力) and electricity very interesting too. I didn’t really _________ these concepts, but I could play with them.

I showed great interest in physics at school. To learn more about it, I began my undergraduate studies. A lot changed about me at this stage. I still had the same _________, but my perspective (思维方式) was widened as I was introduced to many more fascinating parts of _________. Consequently, my interest in the field was shaped.

Following my graduation, I decided to study abroad. My initial _________ was to get an internationally—praised level of education. However, such an experience __________ more than that. Most importantly, it meant that I would be in an environment where I could fully immerse (沉浸) myself in my work and subjects of physics.

__________, I realized what I missed most during my undergraduate studies was __________ work. It was a lot more satisfying than just trying to do science on paper. __________, my master’s degree study program also gives me these opportunities. I get __________ to so many research areas and opportunities for practical work. __________ all these experiences, I’ve discovered for myself what I want to be in physics.

【推荐3】I met Mrs. Neidl in the ninth grade on a stage-design team for a play and she was one of the directors. Almost instantly I loved her. She had an unpleasant voice and a direct way of speaking, _________ she was encouraging and inspiring. For some reason, she was impressed with my work and Mrs. Neidl would ask me for my _________. She wanted to know how I thought we should _________ things. At first I had no idea how to answer because I knew _________ about stage design! But I slowly began to respond to her _________. It was cause and effect; she believed I had opinions, so I began to _________ them. She trusted me to complete things, so I completed them perfectly. She loved how _________ I was, so I began to show up to paint more and more. She believed in me, so I began to believe in myself.

Mrs. Neidl’s _________ that year was, “Try it. We can always paint over it _________!’’ I began to take __________. I had been so afraid of failing but suddenly there was no failing—only things to be __________ upon. I leaned to dip my brush into the paint and __________ create something.

The shy, quiet freshman achieved success that year. I was __________ in the program as “Student Art Assistant” because of the time and effort I’d put in. It was that year that I __________ I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing stage design.

Being on that stage-design team __________ Mrs. Neidl changed me completely. Not only was I stronger and more competent than I had thought, but I also __________ a strong interest and a world I hadn’t known existed. She taught me not to __________ what people think I should do. She taught me to take chances and not be __________. Mrs. Neidl was my comforter when was upset. Her __________ in me has inspired me to do things that I never imagined __________.

【推荐3】Last week, Tom and his mother went to a restaurant to celebrate his fifth birthday. When he and his mother were talking there, a waitress _________ curiously from a distance. Eventually, the waitress realized that the mom was talking in sign language to her little boy who also had _________ aids in his ears.

When the waitress _________ that it was Tom’s birthday, she decided to give the boy a special gift. She went to the Internet and _________ how to say “happy birthday” in sign language. She quickly got all the rules down. Then, she went up to Tom’s table and _________   to him, “Happy birthday to you!” Tom and his mother were really _________

Later, Tom’s mom said this was the first time he had _________ in sign language with people other than her and his teacher. It was a simple phrase _________ it was an important gift for Tom.

She added that the _________ from the waitress made her very moved. “Thanks to the __________ waitress, his fifth birthday is one that we will __________ for a lifetime,” the mom said. “My boy was always worried that he would appear very __________when he was talking in sign language. Today, he saw that someone __________ tried to talk to him in his   __________ language. It’s very __________ for him. ”