【推荐1】I was on a train to another city when I started a(n)_______with a young man near to me. From what he said, I_______that he came from a farming family. He was_______enough to give me a window seat, help a co-passenger when he dropped his coffee, etc. These small_______showed he was a good person! 

I was lost in reading a biography(自传)on Arnold Schwarzenegger. He has played a huge role in my life_______I haven’t met him. Reading a_______about him is fun.  

Now my co-passenger_______to see the book, so I handed it to him. From the train window, I_______him reading carefully. Towards the end of the trip, I even saw him_______something about the book and asked me where he could buy it.  

“You can________ it,” I said. “This is the second time that I’ve read it anyway.” 

Actually it was last weekend that I bought it! I loved it so much and how I________to hold on to it myself!________, his kindness taught me that I should do something too. “Wow,” the man said to me. “This is really________. Thank you so much. ” 

“No problem. Don’t worry about it. ”

I got off and walked into the new city with a sense of________. I did not regret giving the book to him as I believed ________each other is a good thing.

When I was young, my parents ran a snack bar in our small town.

One evening in early April, my mother told me to fill in at the snack bar_______а worker who had the flu. I told her I would mess it up, _______I had never worked at the bar before. I _______that instead of making money, I would end up owing it.

“You can do it,”said my mother. “_______, you won’t get much business until lunch.”

“But I’ll never remember the orders, and I’m no good _________money. Please, Mom, don’t_______me.”

“Then I’ll help you,”she said.

I shrugged my shoulders. I thought my mother’s_______was a bad one, but I _______ .

When I got to the bar the next day, I found my mother was_________. Because the weather that day was rainy and cold, people wanted hot snacks and drinks.__________, I was really slow at taking the orders and making change. The line of people grew, and everybody seemed__________I was so nervous that my hands shook, and I__________a cup into pieces. What a mess! Then my mother came to__________me, and she also showed me how to make____________. If someone gave me $5 for something that cost $3.25, I handed over__________quarters and a dollar and said, “75 cents makes four dollars, plus one dollar makes five.” Things went more__________after that.

By the end of the day, I could remember orders, __________the bill, and make change quickly with a smile. I was even a little__________when the sun came out and dried up business. My mother said she was proud of me, and when she__________that I work at the snack bar again next year, I did not even shrug. I was too busy__________the restaurant I would open one day.

【推荐3】An English battleship was sailing at sea in the severe weather for several days. The visibility was poor ________ heavy fog, so the captain landed on the watchtower,________ all the activities.

Shortly, a lookout reported that a light ahead was ________. The captain asked, “Is it steady or ________ towards our ship?” The lookout replied, “The light was steady, but our ________ was going to ________ into that one.” The captain ordered the lookout to send a signal to that ship and told them that the two sides would have the risk of crashing into each other if they didn’t ________ course. Back came a signal, “It’s ________ for you to change course.” Then the captain shouted angrily. “Send, I’m a battleship. You’ll change course.” “Captain, I’ve never seen you ________ your top before.” the lookout said and did. Back came another signal, “I’m a lighthouse!” The captain was extremely ________ after knowing this, and they had to change their course ________.

On our path in life, we sometimes have to change course:________, we would run into the ________. Some people spend much time trying to change everything around them, not realizing they can ________ it only by changing themselves. They’re hitting their head on the barrier but expecting a good result. It’s just as stupid as not changing their course When those are about to collide (相撞) with a lighthouse. So when life puts an unmovable ________ in front of you, stick to the secret: changing course and going on.