【推荐1】It happened on a rainy Saturday morning last month. My wife Catherine and I were driving along what some people called moose (麋鹿) alley. It was so _______ that there were few cars on the road. _______, a moose jumped out across our path. I had been driving for years and was _______ in driving. In order to avoid knocking _______ the moose, I made a quick turn to the other lane. Had I not done that, the moose might have been killed, and my wife and I might have got _______, too. A few seconds later, when I stopped and looked back in my rear view mirror, the moose was getting up and then ran into the bush. Shaken but _______, we both looked at each other with a surprised expression.

From then on, I often thought about the _______ between humans and wildlife. We know that animal species have appeared and disappeared _______ since life began on the Earth, which is a(n) _______ phenomenon. However, animal species have been ________ at a much faster rate for about a century now ________ human factors such as pollution.

Certain philosophers and scientists keep repeating that if we don't save animals, how we will be able to save ourselves. A better ________ of animals gives us a better understanding of our own species. The ________ to protect animals and nature in general ________ the value of a society. And all animals play roles in nature and have a right to ________. Therefore, I think we should try our best to save endangered animals, because humans cannot live on the Earth alone.

【推荐2】Last month, Koch went to make breakfast and found a(n) ________ guest using his pool. A large moose (驼鹿) was swimming in the deep end, ________ in the solar cover (太阳能覆盖膜).

“I looked out in the backyard and there’s the moose absolutely panicked and ________,” Koch told The Dodo. “She stepped on the solar cover and put her ________ through it and she was ________ trying to get free.”

Koch has noticed more wildlife around his home in Ottawa, ________ he had never seen an animal________impressive before. He rushed outside and pulled the solar cover off the ________ moose, who continued paddling ________ the pool, proving to be a surprisingly skilled swimmer.

The wild moose seemed to be having trouble finding her way out of the pool, so Koch called the police and wildlife services to see if they could ________ a hand. “She looked so pitifully sad out there that my wife said, ‘I want to give her a ________.’”

Workers from wildlife services intended that they would get her to a safer spot, but they couldn’t ________ it until she was out of the water. “The best thing that happened was that after 3.5 hours she climbed out of the shallow end and ________ the fence,” Koch said.

The moose ________ unscratched, but the same can’t be said for Koch’s pool — which now has two hoof-sized ________in the bottom.

【推荐1】It was 7:15 a.m. and Gary Messina was on his morning run along New York City’s East River. Suddenly something caught his eye — a man screamed for help _________ the current pulled him away from the seawall.

David Blauzvern and John Green _________ their phones and keys on land and jumped in. Messina, a police officer, also joined them in the river. Just as the man was losing _________, they stabilized him, with Blauzvern _________ his back and Messina and Green holding him _________ from either side. After ten minutes, they managed to get to the river’s edge and stayed as close to the _________ as they could.

Fifteen minutes later, a rescue boat turned_________. As they approached the boat, there came a new _________: The wave created by the current was sucking them under the boat.

Blauzvern remembers being _________ down just as someone in the boat held on to the man, __________ Blauzvern to let go. Somehow, he grasped a pole attached to the boat deck and dragged himself __________. The men in the water pushed the drowning guy while the men in the boat pulled him up and, finally, to __________. The man they had saved was taken to the hospital for medical aid. Details on his __________ have not been released.

As for the rescuers, each of them was at work by 10:30 a.m. “I was a bit late,” __________Blauzvern, smiling. “But I had a good __________.”

【推荐2】Last year, a community theater decided to find someone to act in the production of The Sound of Music. My husband said our daughters might enjoy playing a(n) _________ in it.

“You can try out for the band,” he said.

“I’m not trying out for the band,” I answered. “I’m trying out for the show.” But there was one _________ with my declaration(宣布): I’d never sung _________.

My daughters wanted to _________, so we prepared to audition(试镜). But when the day came, I started to get cold feet. My children looked to me for courage. _________ would set a bad example. Since I was auditioning alongside them, I had to build _________.

“Whether you’re chosen or not isn’t important—doing your best is what matters,” I’d been telling them. Now I had to _________ it.

I sang my song, _________ to look comfortable and confident. My daughters _________ quite well. Then we waited. I was __________. Not only was I chosen—I was a lead and we all made it!

To __________, I sang to the cat and the dishes when I was at home alone. I knew I’d have to get over my __________ since I’d never sung in front of so many people.

I told friends and family about the __________. Everyone wanted to see it __________ I was in it with my daughters. I didn’t want the theater to be __________, but I didn’t want it packed either. __________, if it was full, I preferred to fill it myself with __________ faces.

The show went off smoothly. Friends and acquaintances(熟人) all __________ us. After that experience, I __________ more auditions and even learned to enjoy singing on stage. And I filled my life with __________.

【推荐3】A 23-year-old woman has achieved an unbelievable feat that many of us dream of -visiting every country on Earth.

Lexie Alford was born into a family of travel agents, which gave her the opportunity to ________ places such as Cambodia,Dubai and Egypt during her childhood, according to Forbes magazine. She began saving up at age 12 to ________ her goal of visiting all countries. By her 18th birthday, she had travelled to 72 nations. In October,2016 she realized she could see the ________ nations on her list in time to set an official record. Many people ________her travel on social media platform Instagram, so she decided to chase the world record partly to ________ others. “Honestly，in the beginning, I ________ wanted to push the ________ of what I thought I could do with my life and see as much of the world as possible in the ________,” she told Forbes. “It wasn’t until things started getting really________ that I realized I was inspiring people around me, especially the ________．”

I also loved visiting Northern Pakistan, for the natural beauty of the mountains and kindness of the locals were astonishing,” Lexie Alford said. “The most pleasant surprise about travelling to all these misunderstood areas of the world was that the countries that I had the________ expectation for ________ being the most incredible.”

“My ________ for young people is to believe that you can do anything you set your mind to do. If you want to travel, you have to ________ sacrifices to travel around the world. And it’s only a matter of ________ until you can make it a reality.”

【推荐1】In a national spelling contest in America, an 11–year–old girl was asked to spell a certain word. But with her ________ voice the judges were not sure if she spelled the word with the letter A or E. They talked it over and finally decided to simply ask her what she had said. By now, the girl knew she had ________ the word. But instead of lying, she told the truth that she had said the ________ letter — so she lost the contest.

As the girl walked off the ________, the entire audience stood to their feet clapping to applaud her _______ Later, dozens of newspaper reporters wrote about this 11– year–old girl’s honesty, even when it _______ her the contest. But the fact is that she won the biggest contest that day: the contest of her _______

Probably the biggest test of our character and honesty is what we would do if we knew we would never get _______. This young girl could easily have ______ and nobody would have known it but herself. But that’s just it: She would know she did wrong. It’s been said, “If you ______, you make yourself cheap.” This young girl was strong and smart enough to prize her own conscience and character more than the prize from a spelling _______

. Her respect for herself was more important than any ________ others might give her for winning a contest. She knew she would have to live with herself and the ________ she made in that moment will have long–lasting influence.

It’s so true that the choices you make today________ what you are tomorrow. Our children will follow our behavior much more than our advice. So if we want them to ________ to be honest, we must show them the way by being honest ourselves.