【推荐2】One day a man was traveling on a train. All of a sudden he felt very_________and got off at the next station to look for water. No sooner had he_________water fountain than he heard the train whistle（鸣汽笛）. He ran back but_________the train.

He waited and waited for another one to come. It was getting_________, and he decided to spend the night at the station. The next morning he asked about the next_________. He was told that there would not be another one until the next_________. He decided to find a place to_________for the night. He went to a nearby_________to ask for a room, but they were full.

_________he reached a small house belonging to a local villager. He asked the owner of the house whether he could stay for a day. The owner__________agreed.

That day the owner__________him food and gave him a room and did not ask or expect anything__________.

At 7 p.m. that night the man heard a knock on the door. When the owner__________the door, there was a man dressed in colorful, fancy clothing. He entered the room and__________that the owner pay his debts immediately. The man__________that his host was in desperate need of money. The next morning he left a（n）__________on the table in the room and left.

When the owner found the envelope, he was__________. He looked inside and found a note with his name on it. The note read, "Yesterday you__________me when I was in need, and you asked for nothing in return. I would like to show you how__________I am." Much to the owner's__________, money fell from the envelope.

【推荐3】It was the end of the Depression, and things were tough. Mom had a hard time _______ us kids on her own. Looking back, I realized what mom went _______ sending us kids to school. Every morning she would tuck (塞) a new piece of _______ in our shoes, because our soles (鞋底) were _______. We were _______ to move constantly these years. Although the _______ was twentyfive dollars a month, mom couldn’t afford it.

Christmas was _______, and we were given a twentyfivedollar Christmas fund because of social services. Mom said _______ buying some delicious food, she would use the money to pay for the rent, assuring us a _______ over our heads for a little while longer.

Unknown to mom, I had been doing parttime jobs to earn enough money to ________ a pair of new boots, which were with no cardboard in the soles. But on the way to the shopping mall, I ________ many houses with Christmas lights and decorations. It was then that I ________ that in our house, we had no lights, no decorations, nor any money for Christmas food.

As I continued walking, I felt ________. Here I was going to buy a pair of new boots ________ mom was in tears at home. She must be trying to ________ to us why there were no presents. Then I ________ my mind. I should do something for my mom. I went into a grocery store, filled with ________. I bought some food and some other Christmas treats. I spent every cent of my hardearned money. Arriving at home, I knocked on the door. I could ________ wait to see my mother’s face! When mom opened the door, some of the groceries ________ down onto the floor, and she just stood there surprised. Holding ________ the tears, I shouted, “Merry Christmas, mother!”

【推荐2】It’s a memorable period when I lost a longtime job. It happened in 2004, when our company announced the job _________, facing the global economic crisis (危机). We all _________ the insurance company we worked for was not as _________ as it used to be. Then, one day, I entered my office and was _________ I became unemployed.

During that week, I did almost nothing to change my situation, _________ renewing my old relationships with writers that I built when I worked as an experienced _________ many years ago. At other times, I remained a _________ unemployed loser. Soon enough, I received an order (订单，订货) from a writer. Then I was _________ by a few more people, and gradually my reputation (名声) was built.

Though this _________ job couldn’t support me long, I could make ends meet while ____________ a job. During my hard times, I had the ____________ with a man from Japan, who wanted to have his novel translated into English quickly, and I ____________ that. We worked together for a while. He inspired me to find new opportunities from ____________ companies instead of the same ones. I started to look at the world in another ____________; I figured out what I truly wanted, and ____________ the thought that “the man is for work, not the work for the man”.

【推荐3】I joined the army as an infantryman (步兵) instead of as a helicopter pilot because I only had the literacy (读写) level of an 11-year-old. I had no idea that I had a reading level that _______; I had just _______ words when I didn’t know them, and usually ended up getting them wrong.

It was just before I turned 19 that I _______ my very first book. I can vividly remember the sense of _______ and achievement I felt. It was meant for primary school children but I didn’t _______. I had read a whole book, and I was _______. From then on I read anything and everything I could get. I just wanted to get as much _______ as I could.

I learned in those days at the _______ education center. There are always people looking forward to helping you and _______ you stuff. But you are never going to ________ unless you keep learning. The unbelievable educational ________ that the army offers make it one of the few places that can help you climb up the ladder of social classes in the UK.

For me, improving my literacy level had another more surprising ________. When I left the army, I was asked to write a(n) ________ of the Bravo Two Zero Mission and that led to the unexpected career change of becoming a(n) ________.

I have spent quite a bit of time over the past few years ________ schools, and workplaces, as well as army bases and businesses, to talk about my past and ________ others to start reading and writing like me. The ________ I give to all the people that I chat to is that if I can do it, anyone can. If that is a message that even one of them accepts and ________, then it has been ________. My experience shows that the best soldier out there is the one with a ________ card.

【推荐1】We may have heard that it’s never too late to pursue your dreams. Now, a man _________ that to be true by achieving his lifelong _________ after 84 years. Earlier this year, 101-year-old Merrill Pittman Cooper _________ his high school diploma during a surprise graduation _________. His family worked with local school officials to _________ the celebration.

Cooper attended Storer College from 1934 to 1938, but life condition _________ him from finishing school and earning his _________. Without his father around, his mother worked as a live-in housekeeper in order to _________ his school tuition and board, but that wasn’t _________. After realizing his mother couldn’t __________ to make the final tuition payment for his senior year, the teen __________ her to move them to Philadelphia to be closer to her family.

In Philadelphia, Cooper worked to help his mother pay the bills and he was __________ as a city trolley (有轨电车) car operator in 1945. That job led him to a long and __________ career in transportation where he __________ became president of the local union in Pennsylvania and later vice president of the International Transport Workers Union in New York City. But despite such a successful __________, he always regretted not graduating and getting his high school diploma.

But now, after 84 years, Cooper was __________ able to see his lifelong dream come true. His family got the idea to __________ him with the honorary high school diploma. Cooper could hardly __________ his tears when he discovered their plan.

The whole thing was a dream come true for Cooper, who now __________ his diploma proudly from its perch (栖息处) on his bedroom dresser. “I can’t think of a __________ day,” says the inspiring 101-year-old man. “I’m really happy to have it.”

【推荐2】I had always hoped to travel to Hawaii but couldn’t afford it. By chance, a friend _________ “pet sitting”, a service to help look after pets when owners are away from homes. I quickly began _________ opportunities on a pet sitting website. There were only a couple of sits available, but I tried my luck, sent an _________, waited a few days and _________ landed a three-month job in a beautiful house.

A month into my sit. I had explored the _________ pretty well. Impressed by such a beautiful island, I decided to start a travel blog to share the beautiful beaches. _________, for every photo of a beautiful beach there were 10 photos of rubbish. It was not _________ for me to ignore (忽视) the plastic pollution _________. So I began to share photos of the rubbish I _________ and how much I could __________ on my daily dog walks. The blog was used to raise __________ and highlight plastic-free travel.

I changed my way of living and even my __________ to adapt to more organic foods without plastic packaging. It’s been over three years now and I __________ to do what I can.

This journey has led me to some amazing __________ polluted places, and I have even organized some country-wide beach clean-up activities. My __________ now is to keep ongoing.