【推荐2】Reeves is a 7th grader in Michigan. He was honoured as a hero for preventing his school bus from ______ after the bus driver lost consciousness (知觉).

On April 26, the bus driver was taking students home from Carter Middle School when she ______ to experience “some faint (昏厥)”. She attempted to pull over but didn’t make it to where she planned to park and eventually ______ .

The bus began to turn to oncoming traffic. That’s when Dillon Reeves ______ into action. Reeves, who was ______ about five rows back, “got up from his seat, threw his backpack down, ran to the front of the bus, ______ the steering wheel (方向盘) and brought the bus to a stop in the middle of the road, despite the reasonable ______ ,”   Warren Consolidated Schools Superintendent Robert D. Livernois said.

In a video released by authorities at the news meeting, Reeves is seen taking ______ of the steering wheel and then shouting to the other passengers, “Someone call 911. Now!”

The Warren Police and Fire Departments responded (回应) quickly to the scene to ______ to the driver and the students were loaded onto another bus to be ______ taken home. No injuries to the children on the bus were reported.

Warren City Councilman Jonathan Lafferty is calling Reeves a hero. “The City of Warren is very ______ of our 7th Grade Hero Dillon Reeves! This young man reacted quickly when his school bus driver experienced a ______ emergency, bringing the bus to a stop and ______ what could have been a very severe accident. We all admire you for your heroic actions!” he said.

“Dillon, he’s really been a ______ guy this year,” his mother Ireta said. “To do something like this just ______ my heart and touches me.”

【推荐3】Early in my teaching career, I heard countless excuses for why students didn’t have their homework. As time passed, I became_____________of hearing “I don’t have my homework because…” So I_____________accepting any excuse.

When I moved to another school, I _____________ my students “No excuses!”. I collected homework each class. When a student didn’t have it, I never asked why._____________, I sighed loudly, shook my head and recorded a zero in the _____________ book.

Then, one afternoon, Anthony _____________me. “Could I talk to you a minute?” he asked _____________, not taking his eyes off the _____________ . “I know you said it doesn’t matter _____________we don’t have our lessons done, but I don’t want you to think I’m ____________ because I come to school without mine so often.”

Anthony ______________up at me for the first time. “It’s just that… well, my dad moved out, and my mom waits tables at night, so I have to ______________ my little brothers. Sometimes they cry a lot, and it makes it hard to______________”

“Why are you just now telling me…?” I stopped in mid-sentence. I knew why. So I ______________the question. “Would it help if you stayed here in my______________ after school and worked on it before you go home?” He swallowed hard and ____________.

The things I learned that year weren’t taught in the classes I’d taken in college. I discovered that not all kids come from homes that are safe and ______________. Not all kids have a ______________bedroom with a desk and study light. Some don’t have a home where a parent is even around. And some kids do go to bed ______________.

Most importantly, I learned that “I’ll listen”______________much better than “No excuses!”

【推荐1】One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Colorful ________ of various shapes and sizes filled the sky like beautiful birds. As the strong winds blew against the kites, a string kept them ________.

________ blowing away with the wind, the kites arose against it to fly higher. They shook and pulled, but the string ________ them facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to say, ”Let me go! Let me go! I want to be ________!“They soared beautifully even as they fought the restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites ________ to break loose. “Free at last,” it seemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind. ”

Yet freedom from being ________ simply put it at the mercy of an unfriendly breeze. It fell ________ to the ground and landed in a mass of weeds.

How much like ________ we sometimes are. The heaven gives us rules to ________. We can grow and gain ________ from them. Some of us go against the rules so ________ that we never succeeded reaching the heights. We keep part of the rules and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.

Let us each try our best to reach the ________. We should recognize some of the rules that we may be ________ at are actually a steady force. It helps us achieve a higher ________.

【推荐2】Tom had lived in Palo Alto and been alive during _______ earthquake. Nothing much happened _______ him or his home on that day. _______, a few_______later, _______traffic accident made him_______his life.

After Tom died, his wife came to his car he hadn’t used for some months. When she began_________it out she noticed first that the front seat had been equipped _______ it could flatten backwards. Then she noticed that the back seat had_______ rigged (装配) so it would pop out ________ to make you climb into the trunk (行李箱). ________ the trunk she found old clothes, bottles of water and two hundred ________ of rope. It seemed that, ________ he was not a man planning for the future, Tom was at least prepared for________trapped in an earthquake. ________, we should learn from ________Tom. Everyone should ________ for something ________ some accidents ________ fires and earthquakes happen________.

【推荐1】It was a sunny weekend. I had planned to go mountain climbing in the suburbs with Daniel. However, a sudden heavy rain that morning disrupted my plan. Looking out of the window, I couldn’t help feeling a little _________ as the rain poured down.

However, Daniel _________ , “Since we can’t go mountain climbing, why don’t we go to an old _________ in the city? I heard there are many interesting shops and delicious food there.” I thought it was a good idea and _________. We braved the heavy rain and arrived at the old neighborhood. Although the sky was still _________, the old buildings and unique atmosphere of the neighborhood attracted us.

We walked through the narrow streets and admired the _________ shops to both sides. In one coffee shop, we tasted the delicious coffee. _________ a strange figure walked into the coffee shop. He looked _________, whose eyes seemed to be looking for something. Out of _________, we took the __________ to talk to him. It turned out that he was a photographer and he had just lost an important memory card which contained his works of many years. He had been searching for it for a long time, but still couldn’t find it. After hearing __________ his troubles, we decided to help him. We searched around, but in vain. Just when we were about to give up, a little kid __________ to us with a memory card and said he had found it by the roadside. We excitedly took the memory card and after checking it was __________, we gave it back to the photographer. The photographer looked at us gratefully with tears in his eyes. We felt happy that we could help him and it added more meaning __________ this unexpected trip.

This experience made me realize that life always has unexpected surprise and twists. Sometimes, __________ your plan is not a bad thing and it may bring you a more wonderful experience.

【推荐2】“Excuse me,” he waved to the waiter. The waiter arrived at our table. “I ________ cottage cheese, but this is the mushroom.” The waiter returned with a(n) ________ smile on his face and said, “I’m sorry sir. I ________ took the order for the mushroom.” “Then change it immediately,” I said angrily. I had ________ my professor, who had retired as CEO of a billion-dollar multinational corporation, to lunch at the ________ restaurant. The waiter smiled awkwardly. I ________ to begin the “do-you-know-who-he-is” dialogue. But my professor was quicker. He said, “It’s alright. Just don’t ________ me for both dishes,” and laughed. “No, sir. Sorry, sir. Thank you, sir,” the waiter said and the ________ and gratefulness were written all over his face.

“Why did you do that, sir?” I asked, ________ .”It’s his duty to change your dish,” I said. “See how crowded the restaurant is? It’s a(n) ________ noon. Vernon,” my professor said. “Changing my order would mean more ________ for him and the chef. Maybe the waiter is ________. He probably would get a warning from the manager for this ________. Why put them through all this ________? This mushroom isn’t bad.”

When the bill arrived, my professor ________ paying it. He even left a big tip. When we walked out, he smiled at the waiter, who ________ so low that I thought he’d break his back. My professor also smiled and ________ the doorman when he thanked us for visiting.

Here was my professor, Mr. Smith, being sympathetic to people below his ________, and treating them like friends. “The true measure of a man is ________ he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good,” said Samuel Johnson. I’ll follow my professor’s ________ and try my best to do the same.

【推荐3】One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to borrow at least one book for the summer in the public library. This was one more weapon for her to___________my strange problem — inability to read. In the library, I pulled a few books off the shelf at ___________.The cover of a book caught my eye. It __________a picture of a beagle (小猎兔狗). I had recently had a beagle. But one morning, he was gone, ___________to someone who had the space and the money to care for him. I never forgot my beagle. There on the book’s cover was a beagle which looked ___________to my dog. I ran my fingers ___________the picture of the dog on the cover. My eyes ran across the title, Amos, the Beagle with a Plan.___________, I had read the title. Without opening the book, I borrowed it from the library for the summer.

I started to read about Amos. ___________pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been ___________from his family and who finally found his way back home. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final __________of reunion, on and on. My mother’s call returned me to the real world. Something ___________me: I had read a book, and I had loved reading that book. I never told my mother about my “miraculous” experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable ___________in my classroom performance during the next year. And years later, she was __________that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and ___________his own books, articles, poetry and fiction. The power of the ___________has held.