【推荐1】Last year, I decided to explore Antarctica alone. To get some experience, I _________ for a two-week training course. I learned all the _________: how to camp in the snow and what clothing to wear.

In October, I flew to Antarctica from Punta Arenas. I’d planned to finish the adventure within 70 days, which would make it the longest _________ one-way exploration across Antarctica. I just took such basic _________ as food and clothing, and set off alone.

The first few days were _________. The wind was as fast as about 60 mph, and my sled weighed more than 120 kg. Even if the visibility (能见度) was good, I couldn’t _________ much-it’s white everywhere. I was on the move for 13 to 15 hours a day. Then, the conditions became even worse. During the last 40 hours, the wind blew so hard that I _________ about 14 times every two hours. After I _________ 922 miles, I felt too weak and had to ask for a helicopter to pick me up. The _________ I felt when I saw the helicopter in the distance was unbelievable.

Although I fell more than 100 miles short of my __________, I am proud of what I’ve __________. After the trip, I have realized that it’s __________ to change our initial goals. I don’t __________ with those who insist on conquering (征服) somewhere. Instead, I think we should treat places with __________ and hope they’ll allow us __________ passage.

【推荐2】One cold December morning, my dad and I were walking along the road to a store to buy Christmas presents. Suddenly a car ran to us out of ________. Pushed away by my dad, I was ________ while he was unable to escape and injured. My dad ________ unconditional love to me when faced with the accident. Since that day, I have _______ the power of love and the ________it can teach to those who take anything for granted, as I did everything before.

People wander into our lives for various reasons, but each one has something to ______, even the driver who caused the ______. He helped me a lot. Whether our ________is entirely good or not, there remains something to be gained from every person we ________. I have come to view ________ in this way. Sometimes, when schoolwork gets tough and I lack ________, I remind myself that I am here to make use of every lesson that I have been given. What a ________ it is to be able to acquire knowledge!

This unconditional love I have for ________allows me to see the world through what some may call rose-colored glasses, which helps me to love and be loved in complete confidence as well. ______, it offers me the power to see things clearly in the______ changing world and ______myself to overcome difficulties in my life. I am ______ to learn, and because of my ability to love, I ______ the challenges that will help me grow. I approach everything with interests, and ______ an opportunity for education on every page of my books, and even with difficulties and ________.

【推荐3】My kids and I were heading into the supermarket over the weekend. On the way, we spotted a man holding a piece of paper that said, “_______ my job. Family to Feed.”

At this store, a _______ like this is not normal. My 10-year-old noticed him and make a _________ on how bad it must be to have to stand _________ in the cold wind.

In the store, I asked each of my kids to _______ something they thought our “friend” there would _________. They got apples, a sandwich and a bottle of juice. Then my 17-year-old suggested giving him a _________. I thought about it. We were _______ on cash ourselves, but… well, sometimes _______ from our need instead of our abundance is ________ what we need to do! All the kids __________ something they could do away with for the week.

When we handed him the bag of ________, he lit up and thanked us with ________ eyes. When I handed him the gift card, saying he could use it for __________ his family might need, he burst into tears.

This has been a wonderful ________ for our family. For days the kids have been looking for others we can ________! Things would have played out so __________ if I had simply said, “No, we really don’t have __________ to give more.” Stepping out not only helped a brother in ________, it also gave my kids the __________ taste of helping others. It’ll go a long way with them.

【推荐1】For a long time Gabriel didn’t want to be involved in music at all. In his first years of high school, Gabriel would look pityingly at the music students, _________ across the campus with their heavy instrument cases, _________ at school for practice hours before anyone else had to be there. He swore to himself to _________ music, as he hated getting to school extra early.

However, one day, in the music class that was part of his school’s standard curriculum, he was playing idly (随意地) on the piano and found it _________ to pick out tunes. With a sinking feeling, he realized that he actually enjoyed doing it. He tried to hide his _________ pleasure from the music teacher, who had wandered over to listen. She told Gabriel that he had a good ear and suggested that Gabriel go into the music store-room to see if any of the instruments there _________ him. There he decided to give the cello (大提琴) a chance. When he began practicing, he took it very _________.

But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and was _________ to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well.

This meant, of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, _________ his heavy instrument case across the campus to the pitying looks of the non-musicians he had left __________.

【推荐3】In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory _______ course about 20 years ago.

The professor _______ the lecture hall, place upon his desk a large jar(广口瓶) filled with dried beans, and invited the students to _______ how many beans the jar contained. After _______ shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the _______ answer, and went on saying, “You have just _______ an important lesson about science. That is: Never _______ your own senses.”

Twenty years later, the _______ could guess what the professor had in mind. He _______ himself, perhaps, as inviting his students to start an exciting __________ into an unknown world invisible to the __________, which can be discovered only through scientific __________. But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even __________ the invitation. She was just __________ to understand the world. And she __________ that her firsthand experience could be the __________. The professor, however, said that it was __________. He was taking away her only __________ for knowing and was providing her with no substitute(代替品). “I remember feeling small and __________.” The woman says, “and I did the only thing I could do. I __________ the course that afternoon, and I haven’t gone near science since.”