【推荐1】Valentine’s Day had arrived. My husband, Roy, planned a_________like we had never had before—he_________a table at an expensive restaurant.

After a hard day at work, I_________home and jumped into the shower. When my husband arrived, I was dressed in my finest clothes and ready to go. We were both_________. Unfortunately, the youngest daughter, Becky, wasn’t so _________ She wanted Roy to take her to buy me a_________, but time was running out.

The entire evening was _______. I couldn’t help being concerned about the_________in Becky’s eyes. I_______how the joyful Valentine’s Day glow had left her face, just__________the door closed behind us. She wanted me to know how much she__________me.

When we arrived back home, Becky was________ on the couch, holding a box in her hand tightly. When I kissed her cheek, she awoke. “I’ve got________ for you，Mom,” she said with a__________. It was a heart-shaped pillow made by my daughter, with “I Love You” on it.

I don’t know if a pillow can hold magic, __________this pillow has surely held a great deal of joy for me over the years.

【推荐2】My elder brother,Steve,in the____of my father who died when I was six,gave me important lessons in____that helped me grow into an adult.For example,Steve taught me to face the____of my behavior.Once when I returned in ____from a Saturday baseball game,it was Steve who____the time to ask me what happened.When I____that my baseball had flown through Mrs.Holt's basement window,____the glass with a crash,Steve encouraged me to apologize to her.After all,I____not have played in the path between buildings.____my knees knocked as I explained to Mrs.Holt.I____to pay for the window if she would return my ball.

I also learned from Steve that____property is a sacred（神圣的）thing.After I found,a silver pen in my fifth-grade classroom,I wanted to____it,but Steve explained that it might be important to____else in spite of the fact that it had little value.He reminded me of____I'd hate to lose the small dog my father gave me to someone else.I returned the pen to my teacher,Mrs.David.

Yet of all the____Steve gave me,his respect for____is the most vivid in my mind.When I was twelve,I killed an old brown sparrow in the park with a BB gun.____with my accuracy,I screamed to Steve to come from the house to have a look.I shall never forget the____he stood for a long moment and stared at the bird."Did it____you first, Mark?"he asked.I didn't know what to answer.I really felt terrible then,but that moment____out as the most important lesson my brother taught me.

【推荐3】In 1989, an 8.2 earthquake almost flattened America, killing over 30,000 people in less than four minutes. Just after the catastrophe, a father left his wife safely at home and rushed to the_________where his son was supposed to be, only to discover that the building was as_________as a pancake.

After the unforgettably initial shock, he remembered the_________he had made to his son. And tears began to fill his eyes. As he looked at the pile of_________, it looked hopeless, but his commitment to his son kept appearing in his mind. He began to_________his attention towards his son's class; he rushed there and started_________the ruins. As he was digging, other_________parents arrived, just standing there crying heartedly. Other well-meaning parents tried to_________the father what was left of the school and told him to face the_________. To each parent he__________with one line: "Are you going to help me now?" And then he continued to dig for his son, stone by stone. The fire chief showed up and tried to stop him, saying "Explosions are__________everywhere and fires are breaking out. You're__________.", to which this loving , caring father asked, "Are you going to help me now?" The police came and said, "It's over. You're__________others. Go home. We'll__________it!" , to which he still replied, "Are you going to help me now?"

No one helped.__________, he went on alone because he needed to know for himself; "Is my boy__________?" He dug and dug, screaming his son's name, "ARMAND!" . Finally in the 38th hour, when he__________a large stone, he heard his son's exciting but weak voice—" Dad? It's me, Dad!" Besides his own son, the determined father saved 14 kids. Later, when they talked about the__________ the son told his father "I believe if you were alive, you'd__________me. You promised, 'No matter what happens, I'll always be there for you!' You did it, Dad! We were__________, hungry, thirsty but thankful you were there."

【推荐2】In 1923, Frank and his daughter Nova took a cross-country drive with Bobbie. During a stop poor Bobbie was _______ after by fierce local dogs. Thinking Bobbie would take care of himself as usual, Frank left for hotel, _______ to find Bobbie return there to join them.

After hours without Bobbie, Frank got _______. Since Bobbie used to respond to the sound of the car horn (喇叭), Frank first drove _______ all around, honking frequently until midnight. Bobbie never appeared. After a week of _______ and placing newspaper advertisements, the _______ family had to give up and start driving home. Fall turning to winter, the family had to _______ the fact that they could no longer share their happiness with beloved Bobbie.

Six _______ later, Nova was walking down a street when she _______ at the sight of a messy and ragged looking figure walking out of woods. His eyes were half-closed and red with ________, his feet bleeding. Nova screamed out “Bobbie” and in moments, aware of something, Bobbie began jumping up again and again to ________ her face, making unclear sounds of relief mixed with sobs of ________. He was skinny, footsore but he was happy to see her. At home he shook his tail, rolled over on his back, held up his pads and fixed the family with his eyes, seemingly to tell them his returning- home ________.

Imagine being 2,500 miles from home with no transportation and you cross freezing cold mountains and deserts for half a year. How incredible! But Bobbie, the Wonder ________, made it, which ________ the hearts of a nation.

【推荐3】Throughout history, female scientists, engineers and mathematicians have changed the world. But while their_______have been remarkable, their names and their stories have_______received a lot of attention. Physicist Jess Wade wanted to_______the stories of great scientific pioneers who may be ignored and she_______a unique way to do that: writing Wikipedia pages.

Wade told CBS News that while the_______of women in science is small in comparison to that of men, she has always had_______in the field. When she was a graduate student, Wade_______an inspiring woman in science, Kim Cobb, who is a climate scientist at Brown University.

“So when I met her I thought she is a(n)_______person and I need to learn more about her. When I did a little search, I couldn’t_______any information about her. What I________was a Wikipedia page but it wasn’t there.”

That’s how Wade got the________—to start writing Wikipedia pages for diverse people in science who don’t yet have them.

In her free time, Wade searches the Internet to________information, and then she gets to work writing Wikipedia pages. She’s written more than 1,700 so far.

Wade is now making a__________for herself in science and she knows she wouldn’t be here without those who came before her. “We all have a role to________in making science a more diverse and________place,” she said.