【推荐1】One day I was doing some grocery shopping. A _______ man, who was talking to himself, walked toward a group of us at the checkout stand (收银台). He said to the man in front of me, “I don’t want to steal from this _______. Would you buy me some food?”

The man in front of me _______ not to hear him. It was as if he were invisible (隐形的). I waited for my turn to be questioned, _______ it never came. So I asked him, “Can I buy you something to eat?” He _______. The man got a bag and began putting _______ into the bag. One, two, three... He finally_______ and I asked him how many sandwiches he had got and he replied ten.

The cashier (收银员) looked at me in _______ and then added the ten sandwiches to my _______. After a while, the man said he wanted to drink ________. The cashier kept a close eye on him. So did I, as I didn’t want him to ________ anything either. I told the cashier that if he got a bottle of milk I’d just ________ it. In the end, we both left the store.

This man’s situations ________ me. How many homeless people also ________ a mental illness? Maybe that’s even what led him to be homeless. I hope to ________ him again someday. Maybe we can sit down and have lunch together.

【推荐2】Years ago some salesmen ran to catch their flights. In their ________ , one of these busy salesmen ________ over a table, where baskets of apples were. Apples flew everywhere. Without ________ , they all tried to reach the planes quickly, all but one. He paused and told his friends to ________ without him, asking one of them to tell his wife that he would take a later flight.

Then he returned to the place where the apples were. The girl at the apple table was totally ________ ! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly ________ for her apples as the crowd walked around her. No one stopped or cared for her ________ .

The salesman gathered up the apples, put them into the ________ , and helped set the table up once more. As he did this, he noticed many had become broken; these he set aside in another basket. When he had finished, he ________ out his wallet and said to the girl, “Here, please take this $20 for the ________ we did. Are you okay?” She nodded   ________ her tears.

He continued, “I hope we didn't spoil your day too ________ .” As the salesman started to walk away, the girl who couldn't see anything called out to him, “Mister...”He turned to look. She ________ ,“Are you angel?” He stopped and wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch his flight with that ________ in his soul: “Are you angel?” Do people mistake you for angel? Try your best to ________ those in trouble and you would be the angel all the time.

【推荐3】Last winter was extremely cold and it was also a difficult time for me. A(n) _______ injury happened to me and it might keep me in bed for several months, just in time for the New Year. But how could I feel the _______ when the snow was so heavy and I had months of physical _______ ahead?

One day I was doing my housework _______ there was a tap against the window from a branch of a fruit tree. On hearing this, I began to _______ the fall of 1995 when somebody placed a pipe from my pump next to the _______. The earth was so wet that it _______ immediately with most its bare roots upward. Seeing this, my mother _______ to pull it out, but I refused, _______ the direction of its strong holding of the earth, and said, “It is __________ of a chance to survive.” With tools, we __________ dry soil around the tree and put up some supports into the ground, making it __________ upright.

Several months had passed before I could be __________ of it. Surprisingly, when spring returned, my “rescue stick” had grown some leaves and many __________. In 2009 it had grown into a towering tree. What a(n) __________ miracle of life!

The day before the New Year, the __________ at the window was continuing, as if to remind me to look up and appreciate its __________ life. That night I slept peacefully having a(n) __________. In the dream some flowers were coming out __________. The next morning I stood against the window. __________ the window was the tree bursting with life.

【推荐1】I was on a bus one March evening. The driver didn’t _________to start the bus soon because it was not yet full. A middle-aged woman got on. Tired and sad, she told her story _________, not to anyone in particular. On her way to the station, half of her money was stolen. The other half was hidden under her blouse, so she _________still had some left. A few minutes later, she stopped crying, but still looked _________.

When all the seats were taken, the driver started the engine. The conductor began to collect fares. When she came to an old man in worn-out clothes, he _________ that he had spent all his money when he had accidentally got on a wrong bus and now he was trying to go home. On hearing this, she ordered the old man to _________ the bus. The old man was almost in tears as he_________ her to let him take the bus home. The driver took the conductor’s side and repeated the conductor’s _________.

The woman was watching the incident. When the driver and the conductor raised their voices at the old man, she interfered (干预).

“Stop _________ him! Can’t you see he’s only trying to get home?”

“He doesn’t have any money!” the driver __________.

“Well, that’s no reason to throw him off the bus,” she insisted.

Then she reached inside her blouse, took out her__________money, and handed it to the conductor. “Here’s his fare and mine. Just stop giving him a hard time.”

All heads turned to the woman. “It’s only money,” she shrugged.

She rode the rest of the way home __________ a happy smile, with the money she’d lost earlier __________.

On the road of life, the help of strangers can __________ our loads and lift our spirits. How much sweeter the __________ will be when we make it a little smoother for others!

【推荐2】Ever since I was 13 years old, I wanted to be a photographer. I had a(n) _______ of working for some magazines, which would allow me to travel around the world to ________ the right picture.

After leaving high school, I ________ in photography in the University of the Arts. However, I kept reflecting on my choice ________ I learned a lot in my freshman year. There was nothing ________ with the school, but it was not ________ for me.

I ________ my high school photography teacher and couldn’t help but envy (羡慕) his work. Such a feeling made me know teaching students how to ________ their full potential in their artwork was what I wanted. And ________, I wanted to be involved in a ________ that made me feel like I was actually making some ________ in the community.

I decided to transfer (转学) to Buffalo State College. When I was in class, I always ________ myself with what I was learning. Then, during my first on­site teaching lesson at a middle school, it ________ me that this was what I would want to do for the rest of my life, and I ________ loved it. Now, as I’m finishing my senior year, I’m happy I came to such a ________ in my life. I believe this is just the one for me.