【推荐1】An 18-year-old boy from Connecticut saved a family of four. Justin Gavin _________a car on fire as he walked down a local street. At that point, the local police department had received some_________about a car on fire. Without an officer on the scene, Gavin took it upon himself to_________ to the vehicle and help the woman in the car to_________by opening its door. After_________the woman, Gavin noticed there were also three children inside the car, which was_________becoming enveloped in fire. As the_________grew larger, Gavin managed to_________all the kids out, including a 1-year-old baby.

“That got_________because I didn’t know whether I was going to be able to get everyone out in time,” he said. “And__________, I did it.”

Later that day, Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo __________Gavin a “Challenge Coin” to honor his heroics. The coin is typically only given to officers who perform a(n)__________of bravery.

“I provide people with what’s called a challenge coin to__________their heroic deeds or excellent work,” Spagnolo told Gavin in the department’s Facebook video. “It’s just to praise this heroic act that you do today, and just an expression of my__________for you being a great member of this community. I hope that when you see the coin, it just__________you of this day and you can think of all the good that came out of this for you and the family you saved.’’

【推荐2】It was New Year's Night. An ____ man was standing at a window. He raised his ____ eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were ____ like water lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake. Then he ____ them on the earth, where a few more ____ people than himself now moved towards their certain goal---the ____.He had already passed sixty of the stages   leading to it, and he had brought from his Journey ____ but errors and regrets. Now his health was poor, his mind vacant and his heart ____.

The days of his ____ appeared like dreams before him, and he recalled the serious moment when his father placed him at the ____ of the two roads--one leading to a peaceful, sunny place, the other leading to a deep, ____ cave. He looked towards the sky and cried ____, "Oh youth, return! Oh my father, place me once more at the entrance to life, and I will choose the ____ way! " But both his father and the days of his youth had ____.

The clock in the church tower ____ and the sound made him remember his parents’ early ____ for him. They had taught him and prayed to God for his and prayed to God for his ____.

But he chose the ____ way. His darkened eyes were full of tears, and with a despairing ____, he burst out a cry, “Come back, my early days!”

And his youth did ____, for all this was only a dream which he had on New Year’s Night.

【推荐3】Until I was 13， I supposed I was just like everyone else. But one day I read a piece of paper in my dad's briefcase that _______everything. That's when I saw the words:

"Simone is said to have Asperger syndrome   (自闭症)."

I screamed at my dad， "Tell me what it is!" He_______ that I have a mild form of brain disorders， which was a   problem that shapes the   way I interact with other   people. I wasn't sure exactly what he_______ ， but it didn't matter. I just wanted to try to _______my shock and go back to the way things were _______ I knew.

But even though I wouldn't consciously think of the news， Asperger's still destroyed my confidence and   made   me _______ and isolated. I felt like an outsider   ﹣ not just     because Asperger's made it hard for me to make friends， but because now I had this _______. I just wanted to be like everyone else._______， at 16， I said to myself， "Enough! You can't run and hide from it， girl. Just face it."

It's funny， the first time I thought something was _______ was not because of what I couldn't do ﹣ it was because of what I could do. In the sixth grade， while other kids were ________ with spelling， I was like a human spell﹣checker! I've also had a splendid memory， and ________ I   call   my   "super   powers"   ﹣ excellent   hearing   and sharp awareness: I can ________phone numbers people dial just by the sound the buttons make when   pressed or   ________ hear   one incorrect   note in an entire song!   And I can________ pay attention to two things at once.

Don't get me wrong. Asperger's can be very confusing. For years I felt like a butterfly ________ in   its   cocoon   (茧)， waiting   to   emerge. It   took   years   of   work   with   a psychologist to ________the difficulty of making friends.

I'm not going to let Asperger's create ________for me. That's why I am happy to have found out about it and faced my ________. Asperger's is a metaphor (象征) forlife: We all have ________ but the key is to be able to have the ________ to face what's bad about them and still find what's good.

【推荐2】Jonathan Anstey and seven other skiers were walking along a path in snow-blanketed western Newfoundland.

As they turned off the main road, the group _________ a moose (驼鹿)that was neck-deep among the white area, only with its _________ exposed out of freshly fallen snow.

“The moose appeared to have got stuck in a _________ ,” Anstey said. “It was trying to _________ , but its back legs seemed to be firmly trapped in the snow.”

“When a moose gets upset, it fixes its ears back and its hair stands up on its back,” he said. “You could tell it was extremely _________ .

Some members of his group took tools and walked to the back of the _________ , where they figured they would be safe from the animal’s _________ . After a few minutes of _________ , they made a path behind the moose. _________ , one of the skiers managed to attract it to __________ and the moose managed to pull itself out of the hole.

Realizing it had stepped on __________ ground, the released moose hung around for a bit to dry off, occasionally looking at its __________ as if to say a big thank-you. All of the members were smiling at it.

“It isn’t __________ to come across moose in bad condition while exploring Newfoundland,” Anstey said in an interview. “And this is not the first time we have __________ a moose in danger. We do what we need to help __________ animals as much as possible and give them their space.”

【推荐3】A small dog's loyalty recently melted the hearts of millions of Japanese people. It was reported that it had been waiting for his owner to __________ for three years, not knowing that she __________ would.

A few years ago, an old lady from Osaka, Japan, __________ a cute little lost dog that she named Fu Shi. The two lived __________ for a while, but tragedy came three years ago, when the old lady __________ a brain disease which eventually led to dementia (痴呆). She had to be taken to a nursing home to be under constant special __________, and the small dog found itself all alone again. But he had no __________ that the old lady was never coming back, so he __________ the last three years waiting for her.

__________ told news reporters that, every day, Fu Shi could be seen waiting for his __________ at the corner of the alley-to her house. He would sit there all day, until nightfall, and would then return to the now-abandoned house that they had __________ Touched by the animal's loyalty, one of the neighbors contacted an animal __________, and told them his touching story. Apparently, Fu Shi __________ on the food that the neighbors left for him ever since his owner __________, but they couldn't do anything about his __________.

After giving Fu Shi a check up, a vet __________ that he was 8-years-old, and suffering from intestinal worms. He was given a __________ and made a full recovery.

Fortunately, this heartbreaking story has a __________ ending. After full media __________ in Japan and other Asian countries, Fu Shi has been adopted by a loving family. He also has a new __________ now, Sky.