【推荐2】The life of the dog, Shelby, is a surprising story. The little dog went from living in garbage heaps (垃圾堆) to winning the hearts of moviegoers around the world.

Shelby was first found near Nashville two years ago when Megan Buhler, a Cheatham County Animal Control officer, was patrolling (巡逻) nearby. He saw the poor dog searching for something to eat in the garbage.

“There were lots of cars passing by — I mean, it was heavy traffic,” Buhler said. “She was so scared when crossing the road, and finally came up to me for help.”

Shelby was then taken to a local animal centre where she was _________ , without the worry for food. Most importantly, the workers here took _________ of her smiling face to improve the _________ of her being taken home by people. However, they never expected this would put Shelby on the _________.

At that time in Hollywood, filmmakers were _________ for a new movie called A Dog’s Way Home. They _________ to find a dog to play the leading role. So they asked Miller, a(n) _________ dog trainer who had trained dogs for years for help.

Miller _________ three dogs, but none of them stood out after some time of training. He then _________ the pictures of Shelby by accident from Cheatham County Animal Control and immediately became __________ to see it. It turned out that Shelby was __________ after three months of training.

Since the film was put on, Shelby has been __________ for the way she carried humour and brought much __________ to people.

Shelby is now taking a break in Tinsel Town. __________, she’s still winning hearts through her __________. She serves as a treatment dog in hospitals and special needs schools.

【推荐1】When we seem to have finally obtained things we’ve worked hard for, most of us tend to think that we can relax and enjoy life. ________, life has some rude awakenings for us.

This was the ________ for Stevie. He worked hard and years later, he was able to buy a really nice home on a cliff ________ the ocean. It seemed that all his work ________ and that he had finally realized his dream.

Well, as life would have it, along came the events over which he had no control. Above all, the ________ started to erode (风化) badly from the ________ winds and rains over the years. What was once a one-hundred-foot backyard was rapidly ________ week by week, and to make matters even ________, he became badly ill to the point where he had to take lots of time off from work.

Then the most ________ things happened. The backyard totally disappeared and what was __________ was the back of the house sitting dangerously on the edge of the cliff. What was even more __________ was that he had no house insurance because the family could not get any from insurance companies who knew of the __________. No insurance, and so sick that he couldn’t work—now what? A person who thought he had finally reached the __________ and now only to find almost everything had __________ through no fault of his own.

The good news was that he wasn’t done—friends, neighbors and even those who didn’t know him __________ responded to fund-raisers to help him start over.

Life has a way of turning around and __________ us from behind and even kicking again when we are really down. But life also gives us a way __________ if we don’t give up. There is __________ and comfort as well as—an opportunity to start again if we have a __________ to move forward. Keep focused on new life and move beyond all those things that may __________ us to the present.

【推荐3】A plane was flying somewhere to cut an abandoned oil pipeline. The pilot Downs ________ eight employees of the oil company and a man named Eliot on board.

Halfway, the plane was ________ by a sandstorm. It was ________ to successfully land. While the ten men were ________ for the survival, they found themselves in the depth of the desert. The plane was badly damaged and all the communication equipment didn’t ________. There were quarrels among the eight ________ for different escape plans. Soon, they ________ to fight against each other. Natural disasters had not killed them yet, but ________ disasters were about to destroy them ________.

At the moment, Eliot ________ shouted, “I’m an airplane designer. The main parts of the plane are not ________. As long as everyone works together, we can mend the plane.” People immediately stopped fighting and were ________ in their hearts. Under Eliot’s command, they began to be ________. Food and ________ could only last for ten days so they only ate two meals a day and ________ drinking water as planned. The repair work_________ in an orderly manner. Eight days later, the plane had not been ________ yet, but a camel team of businessmen passed by and ________ them.

Later, Downs knew that Eliot wasn’t an airplane designer at all and asked Eliot why he cheated them. Eliot said calmly, “If I hadn’t ________ then, could everyone live to this day?” Downs suddenly realized: being trapped in the ________ is terrible, but what is more terrible is that there is no hope for survival!