【推荐2】Eight years ago, when Kyle Amber was five years old, he came face-to-face with a huge problem: His brother, Ian, ten, was diagnosed with leukemia(白血病). Their parents, Laurie and Henry, were spending much of their__________with him in hospital. Kyle often felt alone and   ____

What could a kindergartner do? Not much, it seemed._____, Kyle was determined. He looked around and saw lots of kids being______for cancer and decided he could help them by helping the hospital, which was trying to______money for bone-marrow(骨髓)transplant.

But how? Since Kyle’s grandfather was in the printing business, he______bring decorative cards for Kyle, who______with the idea of selling them_____. He made a large sum of money-$80-for the hospital. His next______was a candy sale at this school, Palmetto Elementary, and it has turned into an annual______.

Within a year Kyle’s idea turned into an official fund-raising organization called Kids That Care Cancer Fund. Today it is one of the______organizations in the country run by kids and______kids. It’s hard to estimate just______the group has collected, says Laurie, but it is more than $100,000. As the Mayor of Miami wrote to Kyle, “ Your efforts have made a remarkable______in the lives of many suffering from this disease.”

Never once has Kyle thought of_____, because the smiles of the kids are too important. “ Basically, the entire feeling that you get is very______,” he explains. Helping other kids has taught him to be less______. And there’s another thing he learns for sure: “ There is______going to be a time when you’re going to have a very hard barrier,” he says. “______you overcome that, you can do anything.”

【推荐2】Typhoons and hurricanes are the same weather phenomenon: tropical cyclones ( 热带气旋).

However, they go by different names_________ where they occur.

Typhoons develop in the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. They most _________ occur from late June to December. When winds blow into warm sea water, a lot of warm air _________ rapidly, while colder air moves in below. This creates air _________ causing the winds to move very quickly. The more warm air there is, the more_________ the winds. When the winds move faster than 119 kilometers per hour, a typhoon is formed. If a typhoon_________ 241 kilometers per hour, then it becomes a super typhoon.

The_________ of a typhoon is called the “eye”. This is right in the middle of a typhoon and is _________. In the “eye”, the wind does not move so fast. Around the “eye” is the wall of clouds. This is where the_________ winds and hardest rains are found. The rain bands ( 雨 带 ) are the outer part of a typhoon that spins (旋转) with it.

Typhoons do bring water to people, but they also can be very __________. They __________ houses and cars, and even kill people. For example, tropical storm Megi hit the Philippines in April. More than 220 people died from__________ and flooding caused by the typhoon.

China is __________ one of the countries most affected by typhoons.The __________ time for typhoons landing is from July to September.__________, China’s coastal residents face 10 typhoon landings each year.

【推荐3】We had a tornado (龙卷风)touch down near the school, and as expected,，we went into our emergency tornado procedures. It was a day we never wanted to happen, but _______ prepared for throughout the school year. I wasn't even in the _______ when it happened. I had taken a student with me to the workroom to help _______items for a project. When the alarm stared _______ ,I immediately took my student ’ s hand and _______ as fast as I could back to the classroom.

Never did I imagine needing to put our tornado_______ to use. I never imagined actually needing to _______ my students up against the wall, have them crouch (蹲)down with their knees and heads_______ the ground, hands on the backs of their heads. Their hears were_______ so fast that they couldn’t catch their breath，and the ________ filled their eyes looking up at me as they asked i their families and ________ were going to be okay.

In the midst of the very ________and dangerous situation, my students ________ themselves with the attitudes and mindset of children much ________ than them. Never in my life have I seen my students ________directions so quickly, and without hesitation. Even though some tears ________ down, and some hearts were beating fast, my students were brave. They had such a firm ________ in my assistant and me that they were able to be 100% ________ . They were brave beyond their ________ today and for that, I am very grateful.

Right now, I ________ the day and am thankful for our safety，courage, and bravery.

【推荐1】The_______ picked up the thermos and poured some hot water into the tea-cup and placed it on the small table in front of his _______, who were a father and daughter, and put the lid on the cup with a clink. Obviously_______ of something, he hurried into the inner room, leaving the _______ on the table. His two guests heard a box of drawers opening and a rustling(飒飒地响).

They _______ sitting in the living-room, the 10-year-old daughter, looking at the flowers outside the window. The father was just about to take his cup when the_______ came, right there in the living room. Something was hopelessly broken.

It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor. The girl looked _______ her shoulder at once, startled(吓一跳), _______. It was _______.Neither of them had touched it, not even a little bit.

The sound caused the host to rush back from the inner room. He looked at the ________ floor and blurted out(脱口而出), “It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter!”

The father started to say something. Then he muttered(嘀咕), “ Sorry, I________ it and it fell.”

“It doesn’t matter,” the host said.

Later, when they left the house the daughter said, “Daddy, I saw your ________ in the windowpane(玻璃窗). You were sitting perfectly ________. Why did you say…?”

The father________, “What then would you________ as the cause of its fall?”

“It fell by itself. The floor is uneven(不平). It wasn’t steady when Mr Li put it there.”

“It won’t________, girl. It sounds more ________ when I say I knocked it down. There are things people accept less the more you ________them. The truer your story is, the less true it sounds.”

The daughter was________ in silence for a while. Then she said, “Can you ________ it only this way?”

“Only this way,” the father said.

【推荐2】Michelle couldn’t have been better prepared for the speech, her first presentation as a college student. She had learned her speech ________ The day before the talk, alone in her room. Michelle felt ________. But as soon as she was invited to the stage, she was full of fear she had ________ too many times before-the fear of getting ________ because of her stutter(口吃).

It began when she was a child. She felt ashamed and ________ as little as possible at school. She put a lot of ________ into math and science. In these subjects, she could ________ her teachers with written exams and reports rather than spoken ones.

But by the time Michelle got to middle school, her stutter had made her a ________ for bullying(欺凌), which hurt her academic performance. ________, she went to a cooking school, where she hoped her cooking would speak for itself.

Michelle saw her future as a ________ until a nutrition class, when the teacher’s lecture ________ her of her love of science. She found that her thirst for learning more biology was ________ than her fear of stuttering during oral exams. She started to work in a research lab and tried speech therapy(治疗). With the help of her therapist, she ________ realized the real problem was not the stutter itself; it was her fear of stuttering. It took her about a year to _________ during one weekly meeting that she loved herself as she was.

Now, instead of ________ public speeches, she actively seeks opportunities to be on the stage. And if she happens to stutter along the way, so be it.

【推荐3】Lots of children want to know what to give their mom for Mother's Day. Of course, a handsome card is always great, but it's not ____ to come up with that extra something.

A few days before Mother's Day, my friend Ollie and I were discussing what ____ is good enough for his grandmother Abuela, who is pretty much like a ____ to him. Right then, Abuela walked inside with a tray of food.

“Sweetie, won't you ____ us for lunch? We're having sandwiches. It's my speciality. ” she said to me.

“This is delicious!” I said after taking a bite and then asked. "Speaking of ____, what's the most delicious food you've ever eaten?”

She thought for a minute. "Well, nothing could match the special strawberry ice cream my grandmother ____ when I was a girl on certain occasions. We winked at each other, knowing that we had already found a Mother's Day __ his grandmother would love.

Over the next few ____ , Ollie and I asked everyone we knew if they ____ to have a nice cream machine and old fashioned one _____—but no luck. So my dad helped us _____ some recipes online, and fortunately we found a fun one that didn't require any ______machine—just a couple of empty coffee cans in different sizes.

Mother's Day ____ arrived. We were very ____ to make the ice cream. Sitting outside, we all took ____ rolling the can while we sang the Mother's Day song for Abuela. We had to roll the can for half an hour. _____, it was so much fun； When the ____ was finally ready, Abuela was the first to try it. "Mmm! The ice cream you made is even far better than I ______!” Abuela smiled from ear to ear.

For Mother's Day, _____ time together while we made the ice cream was just as much fun as _____ it. It is company with love that means more than gifts.