【推荐2】Traveling is fun and it gets more _________ when we take a long trip for the first time, all alone.

We had planned that I would visit my grandparents with my parents. But since _________ unexpected job came up for my parents, I chose _________ alone. From then on I was nervous and excited about _________ the trip would go.

_________ the day of the trip, my mom packed my bags, prepared food for me and then _________ me a 30-minute lesson on being careful and staying away from _________. She also told me that I should phone _________ at every station that I went through. Throughout the journey, I was not sleepy at all. I kept _________ my book, and didn’t say much to anyone asking me questions.

I kept phoning my mom at every station. __________, I reached my destination (目的地) after the three-hour journey. There, my grandparents were waiting to collect me. I was very happy to have completed my first trip alone and loved it.

【推荐3】The e-mail request came into Ekiben Restaurant in Baltimore late on a Thursday afternoon. Brandon was writing on behalf of his mother-in-law, Rina, a(n) _________ customer of the restaurant. For the past six years, every time she visited Baltimore, the first place she wanted to go was Ekiben so she could order that one dish -- broccoli tempura (西兰花天妇罗), Brandon _________ she was suffering from lung cancer at her home in Vermont and that he was hoping to get the _________ to make it for her there.

Steve Chu, one of the restaurant’s chefs, read the email and quickly replied with an alternative _________. He wrote. “We’d like to make it _________ for you in Vermont.”

That Friday after work, Chu loaded his truck with a hot plate and some cooking facilities filled with ingredients and then _________ for Vermont with his two _________. They stayed overnight in an Airbnb rental and _________ the next day to Vermont.

On their arrival, they _________ the gate of the truck, hooked the hot plate to the truck’s power port, and started __________. They also made tofu with peanut sauce and fresh herbs. After neatly __________ everything up, they knocked on their customer’s door. As soon as Rina opened the door, she __________ the fragrance (香味).

Brandon said his mother-in-law was so __________ to enjoy her beloved broccoli with a side order of __________ one last time.

“It was an honor to help fulfill the family’s __________.” Chu said.

【推荐2】Love Is Blind: The Magic of Tabby

In October, 2019, I started my work at a local animal shelter. Tabby was a 14-year-old dog. What’s more, she was blind and deaf. Tabby’s adoption (收养) seemed impossible. After all, we didn’t have many adopters coming in asking, “Can you show me all of your really old dogs who are also _________?” We had all thought that Tabby would live out the rest of her life at the _________.

One day a woman named Loretta came to the shelter. Her son, Gary, had _________ Tabby’s picture and stories on the shelter’s website at home. They were interested in meeting her! It was the only _________ we ever received about Tabby. What could a young child possibly see in a 14-year-old dog who was both blind and deaf? Most boys would want a dog who could grow with them and _________ through grassy fields on summer days. Tabby would _________ be able to do that. But after meeting her, Loretta and Gary decided that she was the right dog for their family. They adopted Tabby!

If Tabby’s story had simply ended with her _________ adoption, it would still have been something very special indeed. _________, it was what happened after her adoption that people might regard as “magic”. Gary _________ seizures (癫痫). Since Gary and Tabby met they became __________. They did everything together. Besides, Tabby could be aware of the coming of Gary’s seizures __________ they happened, giving his family a(n) __________ that one was about to strike. What’s more, Gary seemed to be having fewer and fewer seizures since Tabby’s __________.

How could it be? Nobody could explain __________ Tabby did it. But those of us who were fortunate enough to know her and her family had witnessed (见证) the magic, the kind that has its roots in __________.

【推荐3】Last winter, we were on a vacation in Dubai. One day, we were   ____ Abu-Dhabi, traveling with a few passengers in a bus. At our first stop, we got out to ____ some pictures. At our second top, we ____ that we’d forgotten our shoulder bag at the first stop. The ____ part was that our passports and many other valuables were inside it. We were in great ____, as we had to return to India in 2 days.

During the process of ____ our bag we met so many strangers who were quite concerned and helpful with our ___.

A tour guide helped us stop a taxi so that we could travel back to the first stop to ____ our bag.

A taxi driver stayed with us for 3 hours. He took us to a mosque（清真寺）near the first stop, ____ that a cleaner might have found the bag and taken it to a ____ place. He took us to the nearest police station and helped us with our ____ with the policeman, who only spoke Arabic, He ____ comforted us by saying, “Nobody ____ their goods in our country. There’s no ____ for you to worry!”

A tourist who was walking outside the masque hail to be somewhere. ____, he decided to lend us a helping hand.

A local man, who ____ found our bag，cheeked the bag and found a (n) ____ of a travel guide. He called him, so we got our bag back at last.

On that day t there was   ____ worry inside me and I was thinking of what would happen next all the time.

I’ll never forget those strangers. I’m grateful to them for their acts of _____! The world needs more humane like them and I decide to try to ____ one of them.

【推荐1】Sometimes, we have difficulty in understanding others^’ view about the world. _______ , I heard a funny story about _______ the other day.

A( n) _______ named John was known for his _______ view about the role of the teacher. One of the other lecturers arrived at work on that morning and _______ the main lecture theatre on the way to his class. He _______ to glance in and saw John giving a lecture in the room, John was gesturing _______ and eagerly writing on the board. But when the other lecturer looked around the theatre, it was totally _______ . He was a little concerned about John's sanity(神志)， _______ he decided to talk about the ________ gently at morning tea later on.

"John," he said , "I saw you teaching in the lecture theatre this morning. But I noticed there didn't seem to be any students."

"Yes, that's right. ________ turned up, John replied with a smile.

“But you were ________ teaching,” the other man said, waiting for some ________ Sure enough,"John replied, “Well, they ________ me to teach, and thafs what I was doing!

"It was at this moment," the other lecturer told me, "That I realized teaching and ________are two separate things. ”

People's attitude to the whole world are ________ . That's where metaprograms (元程序)come in. When we ________ people around, we'll also notice that some people are different in the same way. These same differences are metaprograms, and I think they are very useful for all types of ________ . When we are trying to communicate, we are toying to ________ communication channels and take part in communication, not necessarily trying to ________ others or accept another person's values.

Recently I was invited to a friend’s house for supper. Ben, the _________, had also invited his girlfriend Marina, and another colleague called Alistair. We were all a little surprised by the _________. It’s not that Ben is _________, or a bad cook, but he never spends more than he has to. Money has been hard earned and so should be spent _________. So why was he inviting us round for a _________?

Ben greeted us at the door with a grin(露齿笑), and as we _________, a laid table was waiting for us. He was still smiling in a strange way. “Nothing but the best for my friends!” said Ben. We sat down and looked _________ at each other—what was he up to?

Ben returned with four bowls of soup. It was a mixture of carrots, potatoes and tomatoes. The next _________ was just another mixture of things. There was some bread too, but it was a little stale(不新鲜的).

“Did you follow a set of _________ that tells you how to cook this,” asked Marina, “or did you just make it up yourself?” Ben put his fork down. “What I cooked depended on what I could __________.” Marina was surprised. “__________ you can find anything in British supermarkets these days.” “But there is less choice __________ supermarkets,” he replied.

We all __________ at him in amazement. “What do you mean by outside supermarkets?” asked Alistair.

Seeing that we had all __________ the food, Ben decided that it was time to tell the __________. He had read recently that a lot of __________ was thrown away by supermarkets every day, because they only want to sell __________ food. So Ben found those vegetables and bread inside his local supermarket bins.

We were all __________ . Ben said he can afford not to eat __________ food so he would not do this regularly. However, he also said, “There are many poor people who __________ the food, and the amount of food thrown away is enough to feed millions of people.”