【推荐2】A teenager who once became homeless graduated at the top of his class in Houston, Texas this weekend. Derrick Ngo.18, had a_______childhood, growing up without a father and finding his mother in and out of prison through the years.

Ahead of his________. Ngo had been to 12 different school, At 15, be started to________on his own with some help from his mother, but it was barely enough that he________homeless about two yean later. Ngo________his childhood to VOA."We often didn't have that much food. We didn't have that much money. We didn't have a_________source of income and that was one of my biggest________in growing up - that Lack of parental________."

Determined to change his future, Ngo_________all his frustrations (沮丧) into his studies-efforts that________landed him as the top student of his class at Energy Institute High School. "I________that if I didn't use schoold, education and the resources that were________to me, then there would be no way that I would get out of the________I was in," he said.

In December, Ngo learned that he had been________by Harvard, where he will be attending this fall. It was ,at first, a _________…I just got into Harvard. My heart was________." he said. He was very excited. The young man_________his success to discipline(自制力)and laser-like (激光一样的)________on end goals. "With a dream in your heart, you will have a clear_______that you're working towards. Although it's not real yet, is________that is going to be real one day."

【推荐3】Imagine loving someone so much that you’d swim more than 5, 000 miles to see him or her. Dindim ____ swim that far every year to visit his friend Joao. This is ____ , not only because of the love between the two friends, but because Dindim is ____ a penguin. Joao found Dindim covered in oil, barely alive on a beach near his home. He picked him up, cleaned him off and brought him to his house where he ____ him and got him healthy again. Joao named him Dindim.

After a week, he brought the penguin back to the beach and tried to release him, _____Dindim refused to leave Joao. They lived together for the next eleven months. Then, Dindim disappeared. ____, Joao thought he’d never see his friend again. But just a few months later Dindim was back. He found Joao ____, and followed him home. Each year he ____ four months to live with other penguins. For the other eight months, he lives with Joao. Joao says that each time they meet again, Dindim seems ____ to see him. He says he loves the penguin ____ he were his family. He feels certain that Dindim loves him in the same way. Ecologist Carl Safina says that animals can and do love humans. He writes and speaks a lot about animals and their ____ . According to Carl, it’s clear that animals feel love for humans. What’s less obvious is whether or not humans love animals enough to ____ them. Hundreds of thousands of animals are killed by the same oil that____ Dindim when Joao found him.

Fifty percent of ____ has died out in the last 40 years because of humans’ ____their habitats. Scientists say we’re in a new mass extinction period. In the next two generations, they predict that we’ll lose 75 percent of the remaining species on earth.

【推荐2】Tom was a middle-aged businessman whose repeated failure in his work made him an upset man, often complaining (抱怨）that others had been playing tricks on him. One day he told his wife he was so______with the city that he had to leave. So his family moved to______city. It was in the evening of a weekend when Tom and his wife were busy______up their new home that the light suddenly went out. So they had to______work. Because Tom had forgotten to bring along candles, he had to wait helplessly in a low mood. Just then he heard slight knocks on his door that sounded clear in the______night.

“Who’s it?” he wondered, since Tom had no______in the new city. And this was the moment he especially disliked being disturbed or troubled.______, he went unwillingly to the door and opened it impatiently. At the door was a little girl, shyly asking, “Sir, do you have______? I’m your neighbour.” “No!” answered Tom in anger and he shut the door______. He complained about it to his wife, “As soon as we settled down, the neighbour came to borrow things.” After a while, the door was knocked again. He opened it and found the______girl outside. But this time she was holding two candles，saying, “My grandma told me the new neighbour downstairs might need candles. She______me here to give you these.” Tom was very______by what he saw. When he fully understood, he said, “Thank you and your______. God bless you!”

At that moment he suddenly realized what caused his______in life. It was his coldness and unkindness to other people. The person who had cheated him in life was in reality nobody else but himself, for he had fallen for his heartless______.

【推荐3】Every year my parents go out to the streets of San Francisco to hand out gifts, sleeping bags and other clothing to the homeless in the Winter season.

My parents _______ their first homeless person of the day. He was_______and a bit confused (迷糊的). My parents asked him what happened. He said he had all his things stolen. His name was Tom Cronin. My parents decided to_______him, and then asked if he would like to have them _______ his family for him, and he pulled out of his pocket a _______with his brother’s name on it. What happens next is a crazy _______.

After giving him_______ and a sleeping bag, my Mom came home and asked me to _______the name of his brother. After I had found the _______ of his brother in Big Sur, my Mom contacted him. He told us Tom suffered from epilepsy (癫痫), which sometimes made him lost and unable to take care of himself.

Brother Dan came to San Francisco and _______ the streets with my Dad, but there was no _______. Then a (an) _______was created by Dan called Findtomcronin.com. What happened later was _______. People started emailing Dan.

Less than two weeks later, police officer Rodney Barrera _______Tom who might get ill and immediately brought him to the _______ room. The hospital contacted Dan. With the efforts of so many, a family was reunited.