【推荐2】As I share the experience of this kindness, I’m wearing my widest smile. I usually go to my workplace coffee shop to place    1    order but this Wednesday, it was    2    (slight)different. I called the four waiters,     3    (ask)them to make a choice of a drink and dessert and bought it for them instead. At first, they didn’t sense    4    was happening but when truth dawned, they    5    (surprise)and a bit embarrassed. However, I explained that it was an act of     6    (appreciate)and they were truly deserving. This brought a “big” smile and a loud, “thank you.”

I had for a long time had a desire    7    (reach)out to them but my doubting mind had always had an upper hand. On this day too, I had     8    (thought)like, “What if they refuse?” “What if they say, they don’t like any of the food or drinks?” “What if this” and, “What if that”, but I decided to let go of the worries and listen    9     my heart.

Now, it was     10    (they)smiles that drew me to the coffee shop.

【推荐3】It is said that a giant rock was located in the North Sea but once many boats and ships struck it and     1     (sink)．

About a century ago, a kind and imaginative minister came up with an idea of having a buoy (浮标)     2     (fasten) to the rock. A bell was placed on the top of the buoy,     3     would ring whenever any ship got closer. On hearing the bell ringing, sailors knew where the rock was and stayed safe. One day, the sea robber Rover happened     4     (sail) not far away from the rock.

Seeing the buoy     5     (float) in the water, he decided to play a trick. Soon his crew broke     6     chain that held the buoy, let the bell go into the water and then sailed away. In the following weeks, they robbed many other ships around the seas and filled the ship with a great     7     (various) of treasure.     8           (unfortunate), when returning, they themselves had no idea how to get away from the terrible rock     9     the ring. The ship was moving swiftly in the dark     10     there was a great crash. It was the very rock and the ship began to sink.

When Jane Austen wrote her novels in England, she was writing about a world most of us wouldn’t recognise. But today Austen’s books are in greater demand than ever. In the last 10 years, five of her six novels     1     (make) into Hollywood films, while her books continue to be     2     (best-seller).

Richard Jenkyns,     3     university professor of English at Oxford, argues that her novels still appeal     4     people because they focus on issues that are as relevant today as they were when she wrote them. Her novels are about women     5     (try) to find a perfect husband, but also explore issues surrounding     6     (marry), friendships and the family. The stories are fairly timeless about human interaction     7     we are all familiar with.

The     8     (famous) book Austen wrote is Pride and Prejudice, a love story about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy. They     9     (gradual) fall in love with each other, but still have to overcome the opposition from the family.

All of Austen’s books,     10     (accept) widely all over the world, work on different levels so people can take what they need from them, making them popular with both children and adults.

Dame Barbara Cartland is famous for being the sugary pink English romantic fiction     1    (novel) as well as being the step-grandmother to Diana, Princess of Wales. During her career, she wrote more than 700 novels, once     2    (put) out 23 in a single year, becoming one of the most prolific and also best-selling     3    ( author) of the 20th century. By the time of her death in 2000, Cartland     4     ( sell) more than 750 million books     5    38 languages.

However, her world records for pumping out formula romance fiction were not Dame Cartland' s only    6    ( achieve ) . Before her writing career, Dame Cartland's contributions to early aviation(航空学)    7    ( actual) helped Britain to fight the Nazis during World War Ⅱ's Normandy campaign.

During the 1920s and 1930s,Cartland was a glider pilot(滑翔机飞行员).Watching German amazing play, where gliders would     8    (pull) out on short trips by airplanes, Cartland wanted to design a means for a     9     (long) glider flight. Together with two air force pilots, she built her own glider, in which she made a 320-kilometer-long (200 mi) pulled flight in 1931.

Cartland's work led to the invention of the long-haul troop-carrying gliders,     10     played a very important role in delivering troops and supplies into France during the war.

Mr. Vincent was tired of     1    (live) in the big city where he worked. He wanted to move to the country and live in a house from     2     he could get to his office in the city early every day. He was looking for a house until he saw an ad in a newspaper one day. The ad said that a suitable house in a quiet area was up for sale     3    a reasonable price, and the house was within a stone’s throw of a railway station from which there were frequent     4    (train) to the big city.

“That’s exactly     5    I need.” Mr. Vincent said to     6    (he). So he called the house agency and arranged to go down by train the next day to have     7    look at the house. The house agency     8    (meet) him at the station and they started walking. It took them at least 15 minutes to get to the house. When they arrived, Mr. Vincent said     9    (angry), “I should be very     10    (interest) to meet the man who threw the stone you mentioned in the newspaper.”

Mr. James owns a company. He put an advertisement     1    a newspaper for a boy to work in his office. Out of nearly fifty people     2    came to apply, the man selected one and dismissed     3    others.

“I would like to know,” said a friend, “the reason you preferred that boy, who brought neither a single letter,     4    a single recommendation.”

“You are wrong,” said the gentlemen. “He had many. He wiped his feet at the door and closed the door behind him,     5    (mean) that he was careful. He gave his seat immediately to an old man, showing that he was kind and     6    (thought). He took off his cap when he came in and answered my questions quickly, showing that he was a polite gentleman. Everyone else steeped over the book that I     7    (put) on the floor purposely. He picked     8    up and placed it on the table, and he waited quietly for his turn instead of pushing and crowding. When I talked to him, I noticed his tidy clothing, his     9    (neat) brushed hair, and his clean finger mails. Can’t you see that these are excellent recommendations? I considered them to be more significant than     10    (letter).”

Hearing the words, the friend nodded in agreement.

The grandfather and father are playing chess     1    (seat) at the table when the son comes.     2    (nervous) approaching the table, the son tells his father that he has decided not to go to university and that he wants to have a career in music when he     3    (leave) school.

The father is     4    (surprise) and wants him to be a lawyer in the future. He says that lawyers help people and     5    (respect) by people. However, the son isn't interested     6     law.

The grandfather remembers that the father wanted to be a professional football player when he was young. However, the grandfather wanted him to be an engineer and advised him to think carefully. The father found the career     7     suited his talents in the end.

The grandfather advises that his grandson     8    (go) to university and play music at     9     same time. In this way, he can have two     10    (option) for his future.