【推荐1】It was a rainy and foggy day, and I had no desire to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn's house. But she insisted that I come to see something at the top of the mountain________.

So here I was,________ making the two-hour journey through the fog that hung like veils.

“How far is it?” I asked.

“About three minutes,” she said. “I'll________ — I'm used to it.”

After ten minutes on the mountain road, I looked at her________. “I thought you said three minutes.”

She________. “This is a detour.”

Turning down a narrow track, we parked the car and got out.

From the top of the mountain, sloping for several acres across folds and valleys, were________of colorful daffodils. It looked as though the sun had ________ gold down the mountainside.Here and there were coral-colored tulips. And as if these were not________, western bluebirds played over the heads of the daffodils joyfully.

Who created such beauty? How? When?

As we________ the home that stood in the center of the property, we saw a(n) ________ that read:“Answers to the Questions I Know You Are________About."

The first answer was: “One Woman-Two Hands, Two Feet, and Very Little ________.” The second was: “One at a Time.” The third: “Started in 1958.”

One at a time. She started almost 40 years ago, probably just the beginning of an idea, but she________at it. The wonder of it would not let me________. “Imagine,” I said,“if I'd had an idea and worked at it, just a little bit every day, what might I have________?”

【推荐2】I never thought I would be a “runner”. I was the girl who ran slowest in the PE class.A few years ago, I was walking with a group of friends in the Race for the Cure, a 5km race designed to ___ money for the fight against breast cancer,____one lady caught my____.

She was one of the ____ women I've ever seen. She must have been close to seventy years old, ____ a T-shirt with the word “Survivor”. She was so small that it seemed as if she could even be turned over by a strong wind. But, she was running. And she was____ me and my group of friends. She ran slowly, but ____ ---- as if each step pushed her cancer further into her past. Right at that moment, I____that in the next Race for the Cure, I'd be___ along with her.

A week later, I found myself in the____, running on the treadmill ( 跑 步 机 ) .Three minutes after I started, my face was bright red, I felt like my lungs were going to ____. I ___slow down to a walk. I thought of the____ at the race. I kept it up. I was able to go a little____each time. Three and a half minutes. Four minutes.Five.

A year later, I was____at the Race for the Cure, but this time, I____ with the runners. When the race started, the other runners passed me by. I ran forward. I____ if I'd be able to do it. But then, I remembered the____ woman. I ran as fast as I could until I finally crossed that finish line. I had just____my first race! I looked down at my legs, amazed. They had done something I'd never thought____ . I have never felt stronger than at that moment. And I knew that I wanted to do it again.

【推荐3】One day, I was taking a nap (打盹) in the chair in my office as usual when I_________ up to the sound of a car crash. I sat up and looked out of my window. Across the street, in a parking lot, a car had just___________into a fence (栅栏) . The car must have been moving fast, because the fence was_________and the car was totally in bad _________

I couldn't believe I was seeing this on a(n)_________ weekday morning. The driver got out of the car. I was_________ about what the vulgar-looking (长相粗俗的) man would do next. After a few seconds of_______ , he tried to draw the ruined fence back into_________ , but it wouldn't move.

I sat in my chair, looking out of my window, silently ___________.

The man tried to fix the fence. He pulled against it with his full weight, but the entire fence turned out to ________top of him.

I think I laughed out loud. The______________of this terrible man was making my whole day enjoyable. I________the man leave the parking lot. That, I thought, would be the ____________of it. The man was going to leave all the mess behind for someone else to __________up.

__________ , the man appeared a few minutes later with some____________ . He got to work immediately. For the next hour, he carefully fixed the fence. He even ____________it. Now the fence would be safer and stronger than before.

This unpleasant man was____________a hero while I was the lazy one. What I had thought, I realized, were all about____________ . I would have run away____________ fixing that fence. My window had woken me up from a nap to teach me a lesson in humility (谦逊).

【推荐3】Confucius was born on September 28, 551 BC in the Kingdom of Lu, in today’s Shandong Province. Chinese people regard Confucius as the greatest thinker and also the greatest _______ who had about 3,000 students.

Confucius himself was a(n) _______ learner who always reflected (反思) on his own _______. One day his student was cooking porridge for the teacher when something _______ dropped into the pot. He _______ got it out with the spoon and wanted to _______ the porridge away. But it occurred to him that it’s not _______ to gain the food, so he ate it. Just then, Confucius happened to come into the _______. He thought his student was _______ food to eat. So Confucius was ________ and decided to punish his student. But when the student ________ what had happened before, Confucius came to know that seeing is not believing.

For more than 2,000 years, Confucius’ ________ have been around in people’s everyday lives. But some people are concerned that young Chinese today are ________ their own history and culture. As a matter of fact, Confucius’ ideas are still ________ today’s Chinese youth. As a teacher, he said that all should go to school if they could and wanted to ________. His most important ideas are ________ and good manners. He had many ________ quotes, such as: young people should take care of the ________; people should think more of others instead of ________.

Nowadays, more than 100 Internet ________ are teaching people about Confucius and his ideas.