【推荐1】When we're small, we don't think about the difficulties of learning something new; we just go right ahead and do it, sometimes with funny results. One _______ is when I was learning to paint. I was very small so the paint got everywhere. But _______ getting angry, everybody would be patient with me, _______ me and showing me the correct way to hold the paintbrush, and after some time I was able to paint _______.

This is an important _______ to learn when we learn another language. Many people only need one language, because their friends and family can speak the same language. As a _______ , when these people try to learn a new language, it is usually more difficult. This can be for a number of _______. First, the best way to improve in anything is to have the chance to _______ . In the case of a language, this means having the chance to _______ with speakers of the language they want to learn. If this chance is not there, it can ________ the pace (速度) at which the language can be learned. Second, it is easier for the learner to lose interest because they have less chance to see their ________. Without this ability to see how much improvement has taken place, it is ________ for the learner to keep believing that development is happening.

It is ________ to learn something slowly, and then move at a pace which is right for the individual (个别的) learner, than to rush into learning too fast. It is a ________ I try to follow in my own teaching, and I hope my students benefit (得益) from a teaching method which ________ them to learn at their own pace.

In schools all over the world boys and girls are learning foreign languages.______ knows his own language, but ______ is very useful, especially when we travel to other countries. ______   we go to France, we ought to be able to speak French, and in Germany people will ______ us to understand German.

How many languages are there in the world? There are about fifteen hundred, but many of them are not very ______. English is one of the most important languages______so many people use it, not only in England and the USA,______in other parts of the world. More than 200 million people speak it ______ their native language, and about another 200 million people use it as a foreign language. It is ______ to say how many people are learning it. Many millions of school boys and school girls are trying to do so.

English children study French,______ is also a very important language. An Englishman can_______ find someone in almost all parts of the world who is able to talk to him in either English or ______.

Which is the best way to learn a language? We should remember that we all learnt our own language well when we were children. If we could learn another one in the same way, it would not seem so ______. Think of what a child ______. It listens to what people say, and it tries to imitate(模仿) what it hears. When it wants something, it ______ ask for it. It is ______ the language, talking in it, and thinking in it all the time. If people have to use the language they are learning all the time, they will master it quickly.

____ is also important to remember that we learn our own language by hearing people speak it, not by seeing ______ they write. We imitate what we hear. In school, ______ you learn to read and write as well as to hear and speak, it is ______ to learn all the new words first through the ear. You can read them, spell them, and write them later.

【推荐2】After one night of partying in college, drinking and taking pills prescribed for my arthritis (关节炎) and migraines (偏头痛), I woke up the next morning and remembered nothing. I started hiccupping (打嗝), and it wouldn’t ________. After a week, I went to the campus hospital, but they said ________ was wrong. How much I would hiccup ________. They would get worse if my stress levels were up, or if I hadn’t had much sleep.

When I first spoke to my family, they thought I was ________ it. It was only when I saw them in person that they started to believe me. They could hear me hiccupping all night, so they knew it was ________. The doctors thought it was all in my head. It made no ________ that I would lie about such a thing — it was painful and annoying.

I got kicked out of class because I was ________ others. I wouldn’t go to the movies because I thought I would ________ everyone. The problem was physically and mentally ________.

Then I stopped taking pills and drinking. My life got back on track, but the hiccups didn’t ________. Over the years, I’ve been given lots of different ________. I thought things might never get better. After eight years, my hiccups never stopped completely, but the medication eventually made them less ________. I’ve now been living with hiccups for 12 years. I feel mentally ________ for going through this, as well as a more patient person. I’m so ________ to having them that it’s like blinking to me, ________ my daughter does still laugh when she hears me hiccup.

【推荐1】As we all know, eyes are considered as the window of the souls. Through one’s eyes, we can _____sorrow, happiness or encouragement and many other _____. Eyes are always one of the fastest and most direct organs to ______ our thoughts.

I still remember an ______ experience, which happened when I took part in a singing contest at the age of nine. It was the ______ of my mother’s eyes that encouraged me to go for it. I had showed great ______ in singing before that. But I was too shy to sing in ______. So one day my mother took me to ______ up for the singing contest. With my mother’s ______and encouragement, I was determined to meet that ______. Standing on the stage, I suddenly found I became the ______ of all the eyes. I got so nervous that I couldn’t even ______ my eyes open. When it was my turn to be introduced to the audience and sing, I became even more ______. I felt my legs were shaking and my memory seemed ______, as I couldn’t remember anything. Searching for help, I______ my mother’s eyes which were sparkling with encouragement and strong power. It seemed that they were ______ to me, “Come on, Baby! Take it easy. I’ll ______ be with you!” I read the message through her eyes and at that moment I ______ my confidence and began to sing my song. When I came down from the stage, she came up to me and gave me a hug, saying, “Great! I’m ______you!” At that time, I found her eyes filled with tears of ______. Sometimes, you see, just the encouraging eyes themselves can make a shy person brave.

【推荐2】A few years ago, I was conducting a series of customer service conferences in New England. And once again, my client had ___________ a motel (汽车旅馆) for me to stay at in Glen Innes. Everything about the service I received at this motel was beyond what I could ever have ___________. I was ___________ on arrival, welcomed with a handshake and a friendly smile, and ___________ to my room. At 6 am the next morning, I ___________ a country-style breakfast. As I ___________, the owner of the motel thanked me for staying with him and gave me a fresh red apple to eat as I drove on my way.

The Central Motel in Glen Innes is owned and ___________ by David and Rosemarie Bryant and is one of the ten motels in the township. Since that first visit, I have stayed at the Central Motel on several other ___________. However, the most significant fact is that in the course of that time I have ___________ over 1,000 conferences for over 70,000 people. At nearly all of these conferences, I have told my story about how the great service at the Central Motel and the little extra touch of the fresh red apple on my departure ____________ me to stay again.

I have no special rights in the Central Motel, other than being a ____________ customer who likes to tell the story of how well I have been ____________. My story also supports the idea that word of mouth endorsement (认可) and unsolicited publicity (主动宣传) will follow in abundance if you just treat your customers with sincerity and ____________.

If one thing can be learnt from my experience, it is that attention to ____________ really matters when it is coupled with genuine and sincere customer service. It also shows that most often it is the little things that ____________ in business if you want to create and build long-term loyalty.

【推荐3】I had always been warmly praised for my basketball shooting ability when I was in high school. But when I went to Ohio State, I discovered that everyone on the team was _________ in his hometown.

To win a starting job on the team, I had figured I would have to _________ the coach with my shooting ability. But it turned out that the team was _________ full of attacking players and what it needed was someone to _________ on defence. Unwillingly, I decided to take that role, but didn’t expect the _________ was to make all the difference to me later.

One day, when we were _________ a game against the Bucks, I was called out by the coach, Milwaukee, who gave me the _________ to guard our court. Though-feeling a bit _________, I accepted. Throughout the game, I continued paying the defence role.

Then, near the end of the game, in a(an) _________ to widen the gap, Milwaukee gave me a precious __________. He asked me to organize an attack. Driving up the middle of the court, I __________ the ball. It was a __________ three-point play and minutes later the championship was ours.

Standing there in that circle of cheering audience, I came to __________ the importance of teamwork. Just as Milwaukee said, “__________ teams often have one or two players who stand out; good teams have five who work together. It is amazing what can be achieved when no one cares who gets the __________.”