【推荐1】When school started on that warm August day, I threw myself into everything I did, including playing volleyball. I decided to become ______ ,or at the very least, skinny. I stopped eating completely. Soon I began losing weight, which thrilled me, and I even grew to love the tiredness and lightheadedness that came with my ______ diet, for those feelings meant that I was_______ .

______ the season progressed, things had become______between my head volleyball coach, Coach Smith , and me. She felt that something was wrong with my ______. She talked with me about my eating and was______ that I turned a deaf ear to her when she tried to make me eat. She tried to persuade me in a determined way and so we fought ______. Then my ______ started to affect my performance. I was so tired that practice and games were becoming a (n)______. One afternoon, with hurt in her eyes, Coach Smith asked me what I had eaten and I told her nothing yet. She looked at me,______ in her eyes, knowing she couldn’t make me stop, and walked away.

A couple of weeks later I attended a formal dinner for our volleyball team. I stood there as my coach managed to say something nice about me. I______then that I had ruined my senior year by being______, and I had probably ruined her expectations as well. So that evening I wrote her a letter ______ and thanking her.

Then one Saturday, as I was reading in the library, I felt someone _____ take my arm and say softly,“Lynn Jones, how are you doing?” I ______ and saw the familiar face. “Thanks for the letter,” she said. “It meant a lot.”

When I think of a coach, I think of someone superior to me, someone who gives ______ — not a friend. But Coach Smith is ______, and, like any other good friend, she dealt with my problem in a______ way even when I hated her for it at that time. I didn’t ______ her kindness, but she gave it anyway. I will forever be grateful for her help, and now for her friendship.

【推荐2】No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own _________.

I learned this lesson from an experience many years ago. I took the head coaching job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.

It was a tradition for the school's old team to play against the _________ team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn’t even practice to prepare for the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment, we were defeated. I couldn’t believe I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to realize that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were _________ me. I had to change my _________ about their ability and potential.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little _________. Most importantly, I began to treat them like _______. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their vacations, we met every day and practiced passing and kicking the football.

Six months after suffering our defeat on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second and continued to improve. Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a _________ for us even if we lost the game. But that wasn’t what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me one of the greatest _________ of my life!

From the experience, I learned a lot about how the attitude of the leader can affect the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and _________ them. I helped them to see themselves ____________, and they built themselves into winners.

Winners are made, not born.

【推荐3】Alia Baker is a librarian in Iraq. Her library used to be a_______place for all who loved books and liked to share knowledge. They discussed various matters all over the world. When the war was near, Alia was_______ that the fires of war would destroy the books,   which are more _______to her than mountains of gold. The books are in every language- new books, ancient books, even a book on the history of Iraq that is seven hundred years old.

She had asked the government for _______to move the books to a_______ place, but they refused. So Alia took matters into her own hands. _______, she brought books home every night, filling her car late after work. Her friends came to help her when the war broke out. Anis who owned a restaurant _______to hide some books. All through the night, Alia, Anis, his brothers and neighbours took the books from the library, _______ them over the seven foot wall and _______them in the restaurant. The books stayed hidden as the war ________. Then nine days later, a fire burned the ________ to the ground.

One day, the bombing stopped and the________ left. But the war was not over yet. Alia knew that if the books were to be safe, they must be ________ again while the city was ________. So she hired a truck to, bring all the books to the houses of friends in the suburbs (郊区). Now Alia waited for the war to end and ________peace and a new library.

【推荐1】Pass Your Love On

Waiting for the airplane to take off, I was happy to get a seat by myself. Just then, an air hostess approached me and asked, "Would you mind _____ your seat? A couple would like to sit together." The only _____ seat was next to a girl with her arms in casts (石膏绷带), a black-and-blue face, and a sad expression. " _____ am I going to sit there,” I thought immediately. But a soft voice spoke, “She needs help." Finally, I _____ to move to that seat.

The girl was named Kathy. She _____ in a car accident and now was on her way for _____ .

When the snack and juice arrived, it did not take me long to _____ that Kathy would not be able to _____ herself. I considered _____ to feed her but hesitated, as it seemed too ______ to offer a service to a ______ . But then I realized that Kathy's need was more ______ than my discomfort. I offered to help her eat, and ______ she was uncomfortable to accept, she ______ as I expected. We became closer and closer in a short period of time. By the end of the five—hour trip, my heart had ______ , and the ______ was really better spent than if I had just sat by myself.

I was very glad I had reached ______ my comfort zone to sit next to Kathy and feed her. Love ______ flows beyond human borders and removes the fears that keep us ______ . When we stretch to ______ another, we grow to live in a larger and more rewarding world.

【推荐2】Many children may be fond of animals, but few ever think of making the study of animals as their career. Even fewer will be _____by the whole world, enjoying the title of United Nations Messenger(使者) of Peace.

But one woman has ____ all that. She has lived with chimps in the African forest for many years and made great discoveries. Jane Goodall’s lifelong ____ in animals began at an early age. By the age of 10 or 11, Goodall ____ going to Africa to live with animals. This was quite a strange dream in those days, as young girls didn’t think of having such “wild” actions. But she was ____ by her mother. She told her that if she really wanted something, she should work hard, take advantage of_____and never give up looking for a way.

When a close friend invited Goodall to Kenya in 1957, she readily ___　it. Within a few months of her arrival, she met the famous anthropologist(人类学家) Dr Louis Leakey, who soon decided that Goodall was the _______ person he was looking for to begin a ____of wild chimps on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania.

In the beginning, studying the chimps was not easy for her. The animals fled from her ____. With a strong ____, she searched the forest every day, trying not to get too close to the chimps too soon. Gradually the chimps became used to her presence.

In October 1960, she observed a chimp making and using _____to fish for termites(白蚁). This discovery threw ____ on the popular idea at the time that man was the world’s only toolmaker. The longer Goodall’s research continues, the more it becomes obvious that chimps are very ____ to humans.

Since the mid-1980s, Goodall has been lecturing around the world to raise people’s sense about environmental ____. “ Let’s live in the new age with hope, respect for all living things, understanding and love.” she said.