【推荐2】I don’t really enjoy watching baseball, but I love listening to it. Back in 1991, I was 18, the freshest of college freshmen, making the most of my newly found _________. Not long before I had attended _________, I spent a weekend with the family on my dad’s side in a lakeside cabin(小屋)to _________grandparents 40th anniversary.

This was the time before smart-phones and social _________ . It was before the continuous need to _________information at all hours. I wasn’t so _________about the travel. I wanted to be around my new friends. At least, I was more _________to be around a television. But there would not be even television in the lakeside cabin. Unexpectedly, that weekend _________up long-lasting memory.

On Saturday night, my grandfather built campfire _________. He brought a portable radio outside, and together we ____________Game Six of World Series. That night I got my favorite-ever ____________moment with my grandfather. We didn’t ____________much — just listening to radio and sat quietly under the sky with beautiful stars, enjoying the beauty of ____________. Since then , I've been interested watching baseball games and ____________the baseball on the radio.

Sometimes, the baseball game ____________from my life. Somehow, though, when I return, it’s to the____________.

In movie City Slickers, a character admits being ____________to baseball is “foolish”. He ____________,”But when I was 18, and my dad and I couldn’t ____________about anything, we could still talk about baseball. ” That doesn’t quite completely ____________my experience with baseball. But I get it.

【推荐3】Career hunt hits pavement

When it comes to job hunting, few consider holding a cardboard sign on the pavement a   _____ option. However, Yan Xinyi, a 21-year-old commerce graduate of University of Toronto, traveled the path less taken and received her _____.

After _____ herself on the street as an eager candidates for a job in the advertising and marketing industry, she _____ a position as a research analysts at Reprise Media, a global online marketing agency, reported The Toronto Star.

Yan had been searching for a job since she graduated early last year. “I have posted hundreds of job applications but wasn’t getting any _____,” she told The Star.

By December she _____ to make her big play. “I want to make it happen,” She told The Star, “even if I have to do something a little …_____.”

She held the cardboard and _____ resumes on the street. Whoever _____ one would get a bag of candy canes as a Christmas gifts. ______ HR from Reprise Media reached out to her online and ______   an interview.

Joseph McConnellogue, Reprise Media’s managing director, ______ Yan being energetic during the interview. He was convinced Yan was the real deal when she ______ a PowerPoint presentation about her street-sign job search.

“We were very impressed with her ______ and her, ”McConnellogue told The Star. “She took things into her own hands, took a very different ______ to finding a job. Sometimes think outside the box and you find the solution.”

【推荐2】Carl didn’t talk much, but would always greet everyone with a big smile. He was a _______ man. No one really knew him, _______ he had lived in our neighborhood for over 50 years.  

Carl had a slight limp (跛行) from the wound in a _______. Watching him, we worried that although he had survived World War Ⅱ, he might not make it through the increasing _______.  

When our local church advertised a volunteer job of _______ a garden, Carl got the job. Later, the thing we had always _______ finally happened.  

Carl was just finishing his _______ when three young people approached him. Ignoring their bad attempt (企图), he simply asked, “Would you like a drink from the hose (软管)?” The tallest said “Yeah, sure” with a(n) _______ smile. As Carl offered the hose to him, the other two knocked him down and the tallest _______ his watch and money.  

Carl tried to stand up but failed until someone came to help him. A few weeks later the three ________. Carl again offered them a drink and they treated Carl as before.  

And one day, Carl was ________ by the sudden approach of someone—one of the three guys! Carl prepared himself for the expected ________. “Don’t worry. I’m not going to hurt you, ” the young man spoke ________, offering the watch and money to Carl. Confused, Carl asked, “Why would you help me now?” The man said, “I ________ something from you. Every time we did something bad to you, you kept showing your ________. ” 

After Carl was dead, another advertisement showed, “A person needed to take care of a garden”, and the young man took the job.