【推荐1】I looked out of the door of my 100-year-old house and saw my newly built garden. I realized nothing is rubbish. I was full of _______ and appreciation.

I _______ to look at the things that we usually think of as _______— plastic bags, polluted water, rubber bands, and newspapers, clothes and furniture we _______. I also began to think, act and live according to a belief that all things have the _______ of being reused as long as we try to _______ it. And I explored the worth of _______. I mean recycling isn’t just about _______ rubbish like putting glass and paper in _______ bins. It also requires creativity, commitment and even love.

My neighbors would put the autumn ________ by the roadside to be picked up by the garbage truck. This didn’t ________ with my newfound concept of recycling trash, so I made a new ________ with moving boxes and put up a ________ saying, “Dump (倾倒) leaves here”. I watched carefully through the autumn as my neighbors ________ the leaves in the new garden. I also watered the leaves ________ with rainwater and collected dogs’ waste as fertilizer. Then I ________ flower seeds. Finally, I had a new ________ garden, full of colorful flowers.

Nothing has to be really ________. If you try hard enough, everything can be recycled. I even used my bath water to water my garden, though it might be a little ________ for my friends. But I think if we all can turn waste, sometimes a little dirty, into ________, the world will be a much better place.

【推荐3】I’m an ocean lover. Living in Montreal, far away from the ocean, makes it even more a dream land for me. And I _________ to visit the ocean at least once a year and I’ve been doing it for at least twenty _________.

When I was younger, I would _________ shells and rocks and bring them back home and ended up having tons of them on my shelves, floors, desks, etc. But as I _________ the ocean more and more, I started picking up the _________ left by careless people, picking up less and less _________ treasure. I was beginning to question my habits and one day, in California, I just had this idea.

I realised that a stone you find in the ocean has a(n) _________ colour that makes you pick it up but then, when it _________, you won’t find it as lovely anymore, so why pick it up in the first place? Anyway, I just realised then that natural things are nice in their natural _________ and that if everybody picked up every shell from the ocean, and __________ the wastes out there, the beach would become something not so nice very __________.

So I decided that day, when I was probably 28 or 29, that I would just “borrow” things from the ocean, and bring them back after a while, since that __________ of shells does so much good for me.

I __________ the quantity and keep it to the smallest amount. So if you’ve seen a strange lady picking up rubbish and __________ shells back into the ocean, from a box or a bag, on a beautiful sunny day, it was __________ me.

【推荐1】My community and state are still recovering from the catastrophe that hit recently. A wall of storms with hurricane force winds_________ late on a Friday evening, knocking down trees, _________ roads, damaging homes, and destroying power lines.

Hundreds of thousands of people_________ found themselves in the_________ without water, electricity, air conditioning, telephones, Internet, and television. They found themselves cut_________ from the modern world bearing 37℃plus heat with no help and no idea_________ it would be over.

The most amazing thing happened, _________, as the reality of the crisis sank in：it brought out the best in us. While there were a few_________ acts, they were overwhelmed(淹没) by the wave of_________ and sympathy that came from the hearts of so many.

People shared their food, ice, and gasoline. People who still had power opened their homes to those who had__________. People__________ to clear roads and homes of__________ trees. Selfless power crews worked around the clock to repair the damage and restore electricity.

People__________ on front porches to talk. Strangers came together as one family to help one another in this time of great need. It was such a(an) __________ seeing all these people acting like this under such tough circumstances.

Life's__________ strike all of us from time to time. No one is__________. We all get hurt. We all get challenged. We all get squeezed by__________ during our days here. How we respond to them, though, is__________ us. We can let them bring out the __________ in us or we can let them bring out the best in us. We can react to them like demons of selfishness or like angels of love.

May you always bring the best from your heart and soul to whatever life may__________ at you then.

【推荐2】Jan Tchamani, an English teacher in Birmingham, UK, suddenly developed a serious illness and had to quit her job. At age 50, she found herself ______ at home with only her computer to keep her company. After a while, she discovered that surfing the Internet could help her feel less _______. She could listen to music, watch films and ______ the world. She also joined an online group where she could talk about her problems and get ______ and advice from others. She realized that one of the greatest benefits of the Internet was its ability to remove the ______ that exists between people.

She was so ______ by the people she met online that she decided to start an IT club to teach ______ people how to use computers and the Internet. Many people have been ______ by the club. A 59-year-old man learned how to ______ work online and found a great job. A 61-year-old woman living alone has started a small online company which has become quite _______.

Jan has started taking online classes to learn more about using the Internet to make society _______. She believes that it’s important to ______ the digital divide and make sure that everyone has ______ to the Internet and knows how to use new ______. Her next goal is to start a charity ______ to raise money for children in poor countries.

【推荐3】John and Mary had a nice home and two lovely children, a boy and a girl. John had a good _________ and had just been asked to go on a business trip to another city and it was _________ that Mary needed an outing and would go along too. They _________ a reliable woman to care for the children and made the _________, returning home a little earlier than they had planned.

_________ they drove into their hometown, they found a home in flames. Mary said, “Oh well, it isn’t our fire; let’s go home.”

_________ John drove closer and exclaimed, “That home belongs to Fred Jones who works at the plant. He wouldn’t be _________ work yet. Maybe there is something we could do.”

John drove up and stopped and they were both _________ to see the whole house in flames. A woman on the lawn was in hysterics _________, “The children! Get the children! They are in the basement.”

__________ Mary’s protests, John grabbed the water hose and soaked (浸湿) his clothes, put his wet handkerchief on his head and __________ for the basement which was full of __________. He found two nearly suffocated (窒息的) children and after carrying them to safety, he asked how many more children were __________ there. They told him two more and Mary __________ his arm and screamed, “John! Don’t go back! It’s __________! That house will cave in any second!”

But he shook her off and went back by __________ his way down the smoke-filled hallway and into the room. It __________ a long time before he found both children and started back and at last when they came out into the __________ and fresh air, he found that he had just __________ his own children.

It turned out that the baby­sitter had __________ them at this home while she did some shopping.

【推荐3】Careers in science are generally believed to be too complex for students who aren’t talented or clever enough, but Seott Kelly, commander of the International Space Station, would prove it’s _________.

As a kid, he was _________ and uninterested in science and all other _________ as well. He couldn’t _________ what the teachers were saying, spending most of his time in school _________. Therefore, he earned terrible _________ and barely graduated from high school, and he even thought he would never _________ his dreams.

That all _________ when he picked up and read The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe’s classic account of the pioneering Americans who first explored space. _________ at last, he was determined to be an astronaut which meant doing well in science classes. So that day, he __________ his mind to do well in it.

After so many years of daydreaming, it wouldn’t be __________. But he started thinking about it like a game. The more he __________ his study skills, the more he __________ and the better he got. __________, it became a(n) __________ with himself to see how good he could get. No one was more surprised than him when a __________ daydreamer started getting straight A’s in science, which is __________ to be an astronaut.

So we need to stop __________ the statement that science is just too hard. If you’re students who have been told “you are not a science person” or “your brain doesn’t think that way”, just __________ the comments! Everyone who wants to can learn this stuff— they just have to be __________ to do the work.