【推荐1】It was 4 o’clock in the morning when I received the phone call.

“This is the emergency room calling and your son was just_________in with serious burns on his face, neck and arms.” The doctor described the_________, which caused the burns. At 6 a.m., my son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers in the courtyard of their apartment. Unfortunately, the charcoal burst into flames because they had sprayed too much petrol. The flames_________my son’s shirt tail and shot from his waist to well over his head.

Fortunately, one of the boys was quick- minded, grasped my son, and_________him on the grass. While it saved his life, there was not enough_________to save him from fearful burns and the terrible scars (伤疤).

After he recovered from the treatments, the doctors told him they would not do plastic surgery (整形手术) for 6 months _________ it took that long for the skin to stop shrinking and wrinkling. So he had to return to college with typical scars of burns.

When I was a child, my mother told my sister who had a very_________10-inch scar on her arm, “Nancy, if you ignore the scar, other people will ignore it. It does not mean they will not_________it, but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn’t matter to you.”

I_________this wisdom on to my son. He took my advice to his__________and returned to school with his head held high-glad he was alive. By the end of the six-month waiting period, he felt that the scars did not__________, so he made the__________to give up any plastic surgery.

We all have “scars” that we believe will__________people to keep away from us. And we spend a lot of time thinking that if we looked different, or dressed differently, people would like us better. But you see, people will only judge you by your looks, or your clothes, if you are judging yourself by these__________standards. Put your imperfections out of your mind and concentrate on what you value__________yourself, and your beauty will shine through.

【推荐1】My name is Timothy. I’m 21 years old and I’ve been diagnosed with autism (自闭症) since the age of 2. I’d like to       _______ my story with you about my life with autism.

Firstly, autism makes me a loner. I can’t easily____________too much human-to-human communication at the same time. I find it difficult to process all that spoken and unspoken information. I also__________some other stuff that has been a rocky roadblock during my life. It’s very____________to live through the times that I put up with during my life_________ teasing, struggling to adapt to new__________like schools, on and off depression._______seeing my relative’s death and the struggles with my disability. Well,__________all of those horrible barriers that tried to cut me down, I have overcome them.

Those things I mentioned are just a(n)_________part of my life.__________, there are good things in my life. Currently, I work at a local library to get some_________. Outside of that, I’m a writer and motivational speaker to reach people and__________their spirits. Now, I’m writing a book titled Through My Eyes: Tim and his Poetry, which is about my life and the 50_____________I’ve written.

Every day, there will be______________challenges that are going to fall on me, but I will get stronger as I conquer them. Now, autism can still___________me and I go back into my own little__________for a short time, then I bring myself back by trying to be as___________as I can. I have a few__________ to be sociable with people. The first one is to ask others about how their day is going.__________ the reply, and then try to talk about something we have in____________.

【推荐2】When I was young, I wondered why neighborhoods didn’t plant fruit trees to build community. Later, my husband and I decided the right way to answer this question was to do it ourselves, so we set about ________ our front yard with fruit trees, such as strawberries, pomegranates (石榴) and oranges.

Every crop brought us ________ to neighbors and strangers. The food was a(n) ________ to communicate. Kids in the neighborhood, including our sons, learned patience and gentle timing. When we had extra, we’d ________ it. Then, we received a ________ lesson: a gift hidden as a loss. Our first ever crop of pomegranates had ripened, ________ at harvest, they were all gone, ________ in the middle of the night. We were shocked, sad and ________. One of my friends had fun suggesting we post a ________ to curse (诅咒) the thieves.

________, we made a decision that we really need a sign, but our sign would encourage sharing and community. Last fall, we had a larger crop of pomegranates. We posted a sign that ________, “If you’d like one, please knock and introduce yourself and we’d be happy to cut one ________ the tree for you. Cutting ________ the branches and is good for future growth so we can continue to share with new friends like you. Thanks, the Green Family. ”

Today, I am happy to role model ________ for my young sons and to have been blessed with the opportunity to _________ an edible (可食的) front yard for others.

【推荐3】It’s about 250 miles from the hills of west-central Iowa to Ehlers’ home in Minnesota. During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting, Ehlers _____ about the small dog he had seen trembling alongside the road. He had _____ to coax (哄) the dog to him but, frightened, it had _____ .

Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that _____ dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove _____ . After a long and careful _____ , Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving _____ away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with _____ . It just started licking (舔) Ehlers’ face.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one _____ as lost in the local paper. The ad had a ______ number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers ______ the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had found their dog.

Jeff had ______ in Iowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched ______ for Rosie in the next four days.

Ehlers returned to Minnesota, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan.

“I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as ______ to it as I am to my dogs,” says Ehlers. “If it had been my dog, I’d hope that somebody would be ______ to go that extra mile.”