【推荐1】One morning in early fall, I spotted a pair of wild geese in our pool: The beautiful sight caught me by _______ , because we'd never seen geese there before. I wondered where they came from and _______ they'd chosen our pool.

The next morning, the geese were _______ our guests. I stopped by some trees near the pool's edge and quietly looked at this handsome pair through the _______ . I was surprised to see that they were also _______ me!

One day, as they were feeding in the grass near the driveway, I discovered the reason for their _______ — the male had a broken left wing. He was unable to fly, and his lifelong mate would not leave him _______. I was surprised at the bond between them. I asked a wildlife biologist friend what I should do. He _______ that sometimes a broken wing will heal (痊愈) _______ itself and suggested letting nature take its course.

On the first day of November, I caught some movements from the corner of my eye. Both geese were running toward the pool, wings beating violently. ________ , both took off and flew over the pool. The geese gained enough ________ to fly past a neighbor's house, and then flew back toward me, ________ no more than 50 feet over my head as if to say goodbye. Then they were out of sight.

The season's first snow fell the very next day. The birds must have sensed that ________ was coning and it was time to go.

I grew ________ of them during their stay at our pool, and now I miss then. I'll never forget their ________ to each other. We can all learn a lesson or two from this pair.

【推荐2】I woke up by my dog barking in the early morning. I went outside to find a koala (考拉) at the yard gate wanting to enter. It was the first time that I had ______ a koala in my neighborhood. What a welcome ______ !

I was wondering why he was here, as koala ______ came down from the trees and didn’t like walking, either. ______ , there was no eucalyptus (桉树) around. Was he hungry or lost? Or maybe the bushfire across Kangaroo Island ______ him here?

He just sat there, clearly ______ , and sort of looked at me with a look, like helping me out of my suffering. At a(n) ______ look, I discovered a long cut at his back with bloods, ______ of attacks or cuts of something sharp in some other way.

I rushed into my room and came out with some iodophor (碘伏药水). It was not a ______ problem as I was a nurse. This poor koala seemed to quite ______ my kindness when I ______   the cut with the liquid. It ______ out that he came to ask me for ______ !

After the treatment, I watched the koala finally ______ in the wild, hoping he was able to ______ the hard time and live his life as he should.

【推荐3】Sharks have lived in the oceans for over 450 million years, long before dinosaurs appeared. There are now about 360 _______of sharks, whose size, behavior, and other characteristics differ widely.

Every year, we catch and kill over 100 million sharks, _______for food and for their fins. Dried shark fins are used to make shark fin soup, which sells for as much as $50 a bowl in fine Hong Kong _______ Other sharks are killed for sport and out of fear. Sharks are vulnerable(脆弱的) to overfishing because it _______most species 10 to 15 years to begin reproducing and they produce only a few offspring.

_______ by movies and popular novels, most people see sharks as people-eating monsters. This is far from the _______ Every year, a few types of shark injure about 100 people worldwide and kill about 25. Most _______are by great white sharks, which often feed on sea lions and other marine mammals. They sometimes mistake human swimmers for their normal prey, _______ if they are wearing black wet suits.

If you are a typical ocean-goer, your _______of being killed by an unprovoked(无缘无故的) attack by a shark are about 1 in 100 million. You are more ________ to be killed by a pig than a shark and thousands of times more likely to get killed when you drive a car.

Sharks help ________ human lives. In addition to providing people with food, they are helping us learn how to ________ cancer, bacteria, and viruses. Sharks are very healthy and have aging processes similar to ours. Their highly effective immune system ________wounds to heal quickly without becoming infected, and their blood is being studied in connection with AIDS research.

Sharks are among the few animals in the world that almost ________ get cancer and eye cataracts. Understanding why can help us improve human ________ Chemicals extracted from shark cartilage have killed cancerous tumors in laboratory animals.

【推荐2】I met Daisy Banks on the way to Maghar. She was walking down the road with her white stick, and I saw her walking towards a muddy ________. If she continued, she might have ________ into the water. Not wanting this to happen, I stopped my ________ and called out, “There’s a hole in front of you, Daisy. If it’s all right with you, I’ll ________ you to your place.”

She happily ________ my suggestion. I took her bag so she could climb on my motorbike. On the way, she told me that she lost her eyesight as a baby. We also talked about her ________, and I knew she was on the way to her school.

Daisy had called me a couple of times since our chance ________. However, I had been unable to meet her ________ my busy schedules. Finally, we agreed to ________ at the Mahdu Mall. We talked about a range of issues, and I came to ________ that Daisy possessed (拥有) knowledge which would challenge that of many ________ fit people.

Although she has a mother and three brothers, Daisy has been ________ on her own for the past years. She cooks for herself and washes her own clothes while ________ to teach every morning at Magha’s Primary School. While ________ herself, she kept listening to the news and tried to learn other things. She is a(n)________ person, telling me that she said no when her brothers wanted to take turns to look after her. I really admire her confidence and the way she carried herself in her life.

【推荐3】In 1991, I went to visit my grandma in an old folks’ home. At the time, she was 89, and I was 28. I felt a bit _______, because the place was full of people at the last stage of their life. I didn’t know how to ________ that.

When I saw Grandma, they were having a ________ in the hall. After she introduced me, a woman in a wheelchair beside told me how much she ________ dancing. So I asked her to dance and she ________ accepted my invitation with a big smile. I ________ her to the open area, and I lifted her arm up and spun her wheelchair around, and we laughed a lot. When I wheeled her back, I ________ a lot of little old ladies smiling at me. So I ________ with them and we snowballed the party into a great dancing ball.

Of course, I danced with Grandma. While dancing, I asked how she dealt with ________. She said: “Just accept the number of candles on the cake. Life won’t stay the same. So accept the ________ and make every day count. There’s a ________ that golden years are a time to celebrate accomplishments and ________ gained from experience.” Then I realized how ________ it was for me to see the old as they saw themselves. They weren’t thinking that much about growing older. ________, they lived at the moment and ________ that room like stars.