【推荐1】My son was ten at the time and we were on a late night family car trip to Cleveland for the get-together the next day. I was taking my _______ at the wheel while my husband and my little daughter _______.My son, full of energy, was wide awake in the back seat. I _______ to stay awake, too, and I didn’t want to _______ the radio, so I asked him to talk to me to help keep me _______.“Sure, Mom,” he said, “what do you want to _______?” I told him I’d talk about anything he wanted to talk _______.“How about frogs?” he asked. I said that would be _______,and for the next hour or so we talked about the _______ between frogs and toads(蟾蜍),and ________—basketball and soccer. He was quite ________ when we talked about Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson and how they got to be so famous. Now and then he would ________,but we’d continue to talk as I drove down the ________ road. 

About an hour and a half later, when I finally________,the bright lights woke everyone, and the magic of our discussion ________.But I knew I had taken the first step toward changing a bad listening habit with someone I love very much.

【推荐2】In mid-January the weather stayed clear and cold for several days． Jess had to ______ a week of school to stay home and______ his father to manure（给……施肥） the fields． This was his bad______，for he would have to make up his lessons as best as he could． It wasn't______， though． All the boys and girls at Pumpkin Hollow School were often kept home when they were needed．

Jess______ manuring， but he couldn't get out of it． Filling the wagon（马车） with heavy manure was a tiring ______． With a full load（装载）， his father drove over the fields； Jess stood in the back and spread the manure．

After several days at this job， both Jess and his father grew______ and impatient． It seemed as though life was too______ to stand． They fell into bed at night worn out， with nothing to ______ but another day of the same hard work． Jess was even ______ with it． "Why does brother Ben stay in a warm prison while I myself tried to do his work？ It's ______!" Jess thought．

His mother watched him ______． "You're looking thin，" she said． Then she turned to Jess's father and said，" Joseph， couldn't we hire（雇）somebody to help______ the manuring is done？"

Mr． Wright didn't ______， and Jess guessed why． His father couldn't______ to hire a man． The hundred dollars he had paid for Ben's fine had wiped out the family's savings． Jess said， "No， Ma， we don' t ______ to hire anybody． Pa and I can manage．______ I'm tired， and so is Pa． We'll______ it in a few days．"

The______ look his father gave him for understanding the problem was reward enough． When they went to the fields and were silently working together， Jess was ______ he'd spoken up．

【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.

When I was in the seventh grade, I was a volunteer at a local hospital in my town．Most of the _________ I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie．He never had any visitors and nobody seemed to care about his _________.

I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, _________ anything that needed to be done．He became a close friend of mine, _________ he responded with only an occasional squeeze (捏) of my _________. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma (昏迷).

I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was _________. I didn’t have the _________ to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear that they might _________ me he had died.

Several _________ later, when I was a senior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face．When I __________ who it was, my eyes filled with tears．He was __________! I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie. With an uncertain look __________ his face, he replied yes．I __________ how I knew him and that I had spent many days talking with him in the hospital．His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever __________.

He began to tell me that __________ he lay there comatose (昏迷的), he could hear me talking to him and could __________ me holding his hand the whole time. Mr. Gillespie __________ believed that it was my voice and __________ that had kept him alive.

Although I haven’t seen him since, he fills my heart with __________ every day．I know that I made a(n) __________ between his life and his death．

【推荐3】When we finished eating, I quickly grabbed (抓住)the check and ________________ to pay. Before I could get to the counter(结账处)a man ________________ me over to his table, saying "I know you saw ________________ at you and I'm sorry if it made you________________. It's just because you look like my old classmate 40 years ago." Then he asked if we would be with them for a few minutes.________________, Danielle and I sat down. We talked for about 10-15 minutes and then I ________________ I had something ________________ to do. As I stood up to leave, the man ________________ across the table and took my ________________ out of my hand. Before I could explain, he said "I would really like to _________________ this meal for you." He continued," The only thing I ask _________________ is that some day when you can help others, please pass on the _________________."

As I walked to my car _________________ what just happened, Danielle started jumping up and down with _________________ , saying, "Mama, now we can get a Christmas tree!" _________________ , we bought a Christmas tree for $8.97, which I still have today. I never put an angel (天使)on the top because it has a _________________ one! Although I never met that man again _________________ the years, there's hardly a day that goes by that I don't think of his _________________ .He was right. I have been able to pass it on. I became a speaker and passed on his _________________ to as many people as I could reach.

Whether he's divine (神圣的)or not doesn't _________________. I still think of him as a guardian angel.

【推荐1】I was writing a novel on chimpanzees (黑猩猩). To expand the reality of chimpanzees while writing my book, I needed to ________ them. One day, while searching the website about chimpanzees, I ________ the opportunity to complete a six-month internship (实习) with the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in Tanzania, East Africa. Despite having a full-time job, I just knew I had to go. And after ________ I was offered an all paid internship.

But very soon my logical mind jumped in. “You can’t leave. What are you going to do with your house and your life?” The whispers were continuous, so I ________. I did have a knowing in my heart that I wanted to take on the new ________. But I needed a definite answer to my question about why this trip ________ so much to me.

My mind and heart had always been in ________ in the next few weeks, but ________ I made up my mind. I drove to my company headquarters and ________. Soon I boarded a plane to Tanzania.

During my six-month internship, I never ________ my decision. I met wonderful friends and completed several community projects for JGI. I also visited Gombe and the ________ staff there who took me chimpanzee tracking. So much happened during my stay and all of it ________ to the most wonderful unfolding of my highest life lessons.

I’ll carry the lessons and the light of those ________ in my heart. I experienced immeasurable ________ in learning how to listen to the desires of my soul and be ________ to new adventures.

【推荐3】Think of the ways you use your eyes every day. Imagine your life ________ sight. Cover your ears, and ________ being deaf and blind for the rest of your life. Think about the songs, the voices, the music you will never hear again.

For the first 19 months of her life, Helen Keller was able to see and hear. But then a sickness struck her. She became ________ blind and deaf. For the rest of her life, she was never to see or hear. She didn’t have memories of sight or ________. And the sickness struck her when she was a baby ________ she learned to talk. But Helen Keller became a teacher and writer. She was in the hearts of millions of people.

________ did this miracle(奇迹) happen? For the first seven years of her life she was almost like a ________ animal. Her mother and father did not know how to ________ her. She screamed, kicked and cried. She wanted very much to have others understand her, but there was no way she could do. ________ her parents decided to send for a family teacher to treat her. Some went away shortly after they spent a few days with her, until the last one-Annie Sullivan came, who seemed to be sent here by ________, for during the rest of Helen’s life, she stayed with Helen to overcome a lot of unthinkable ________.

Sullivan was a lovely young woman with great patience and imagination. She was a born teacher, ________ of turning a deaf-blind creature into a useful human being. It was this teacher that did not let Helen’s world be       ________. Through the teacher’s hands and fingers, Helen heard the sounds ________ one could hear on a farm, the noises made by cows, horses, chickens and pigs.

________ back on those years, Helen once said, she was greatly struck by her teacher’s wisdom and she was very grateful to her teacher.