【推荐1】Traditional fairytales are being abandoned by parents because they are too scary for their young children, a study found.

Research revealed one in five parents has ________ old classics such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and Rapunzel （长发公主）in _______of more modern books. One third of parents said their children have been left in_____after hearing the horrible details of Little Red Riding Hood. And nearly half of mothers and fathers ______ to read Rumplestiltskin （纺织姑娘）to their kids as the ________ of the story are kidnapping and killing. ______, Goldilocks and the Three Bears was also a tale likely to be________ on the book shelf as parents felt ______ condones（宽恕）stealing.

The ______ of 2,000 adults was commissioned（委任） to_______ the launch of the hit US drama GRIMM,_____starts tonight at 9 p.m. on Watch, and sees six pieces________on traditional fairytales. The poll found a quarter of parents polled wouldn’t ________ reading a fairytale to their child until they had ________ the age of five. And 52 percent of the parents said Cinderella didn’t send a good _________to their children as it describes a young woman _________housework all day.

Steve Hornsey, General Manager of Watch, said: “Bedtime stories are supposed to comfort children and send them off to __________soundly.

Fairytales can be dark and dramatic tales so it’s _________that parents worry about reading them to young children. The study also found two thirds of mums and dads try to ________stories which might give their children nightmares. ________, half of parents said traditional tales are more likely to have a strong moral message than a lot of modern kids’ books, such as The Gruffalo, The Hungary Caterpillar and the Mr. Men books.

【推荐2】For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In ______ a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend ______ can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are ______ readers. Most of us develop poor reading ______ at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency ______ in the actual stuff of language itself-words. Taken individually, words have ______ meaning until they are strung together into phrased, sentences and paragraphs. ______ however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to reread words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over ______ you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which ______ down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as one reads.

To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an ______ , which moves a bar(or curtain)down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate ______ the reader finds comfortable in order to “stretch” him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, ______ word-by-word reading, regression and vocalization practically impossible. At first ______ is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but your comprehension will improve. Many people have found their reading skill drastically improved after some training. ______ Charlce Au. a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute ______ the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can get through a lot more reading material in a short period of time.

【推荐3】In my class were many children who had had great trouble with reading. I decided to try at all costs to __ them of their fear and dislike of __.

One day in class, I said to to them, “Now I’m going to say something about reading that you have never heard a teacher say before. I would like you to read a lot of books this year, but I want you to read them only for __. I am not going to ask your questions to find out whether you __ books or not, if you understand enough of a book to enjoy it and want to __ reading it, that’s enough for me.”

The children were __ and silent. One girl, who had just come to us from a school where she had had a very __ time, looked at me for a long time after I had __ .Then she said slowly, “Mr. Holt, do you really __       that?” I nodded.

Apparently she decided to __ me. The first book she read was Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas, not a(n) __ book even for most third graders. For a while she read a number of books at this __. Perhaps she was understanding some __ about reading that her teacher had never given her enough time to       __.

During the spring semester, she really __ me, however. One day, in one of our many free periods, she was reading at her desk. I __ what the book was. I said to myself, “It can’t be.” ___ I asked, “Don’t you find parts of it rather difficult?” She answered, “Oh, sure, but I just __ those parts and go on to the next good part”

【推荐1】Last week I met a homeless man over the phone when I was calling Father Benno’s, a soup kitchen（贫民救济处）. I invited him to have lunch with me at the Soup Plantation   _______ he could eat as much as he wanted to fill his stomach, I felt ________ inside made me invite him to lunch. Since he did not have a ________, I offered to pick him up.

We had a ________ four-hour lunch. I learned a lot about his ________ but more importantly, I left lunch feeling ________ for a roof over my head, warm shower, comfortable bed, and food on the table-all of which we may not ________ twice about. He, too, ________ the connection, his lunch, and a rest from spending his afternoon on the streets.

I learned long ago that one person alone cannot ________ the homeless epidemic（泛滥）in California or the U.S. ________, each person can make an effort to ________ the homeless in their own way. Did you know that 40% of the U.S. population get salary that barely cover the ________ living expenses. Should a ________ emergency or burden occur, any one of those 40% can end up ________ on the streets.

For this holiday season, perhaps you may want to ________ something new to help the homeless. Buy a meal for the person asking for money instead of giving him spare ________. If you can make the time and find courage, invite them to ________ a meal with you. Jesse Jackson once said, “Never look down ________ anybody unless you are helping them up,” and Rumi ________ us, “When we practice loving ________ and sympathy, we are the first one to profit.”

【推荐3】It was a sunny Friday afternoon. I, however, was _______ sitting in the mentor's (导师) office, staring at the spreadsheet (电子数据表) on which we had _______ our goals for the week. I shaded my cells red; I had not been able to _______ any of them. My mentor, Tristan, gave me a reassuring smile, reminding me not to _______ myself too much. “It’s OK to be_______, but make sure your three weekly goals are workable and measurable,” he _______.

Halfway through my grade school, I was_______with a sea of experimental failures and lost without the structure I was _______ to as an undergrade. When my mentor Tristan saw that I was struggling, he suggested an _______ from his experience in a sport, which is called Three to Thrive(T2T), referring to three goals set each week to help ________ progress.

We set up a shared spreadsheet where we would plan our goals, which can be ________ and academic. At the end of the week, we would meet and ________ our progress in the “Friday Finish.” Then we realized the ________ themselves were the problem. It was ________ for me to see where I wanted to be in one year, or five, but I had a hard time figuring out what weekly ________ would get me there. ________, I was setting goals too high to achieve in a week. Since then, Tristan has helped me learn to ________ my big-picture goals into smaller tasks that are challenging but ________.

With T2T, I have been able to regain some ________ of my life. T2T has also helped Tristan and me develop a much more honest and ________ mentor-mentee relationship, connecting on everything from professional techniques to tips for not eating too much ice cream.