【推荐2】When I think of the word perfect, I think of something only a few can achieve, anything that I can compare myself to. For a few weeks, I have been _______ one girl who is in a few of my middle school classes. It seems like she has a _______ life—lots of friends, all A's, and everything anyone could ever want, _______ in my point of view.

One day, I was talking to my teacher about one of the upcoming tests when I saw the girl _______ me in a strange way. I _______ started to feel surprised and think, “Why is she looking at me? Did I do something wrong? Is my hair messed up?” When the class was over and everyone was _______ to their next class, she caught up to me and said, “I just thought you should know, I think you are really _______ . " I then watched her as she walked away and thought, “She thinks I am pretty?”

The whole day, I _______ up thinking about one thing. That was, “Why does she think that?" After thinking about that _______ in my head through each second of the day, I came to learn one big ________ in our life. In the whole society, almost everyone has a（n） ________ of their own insecurities（不安全感）, even though they may not be discovered on the outside. In this case, I was thinking that she was everything I wanted to be and she ________ the same of me. Both of us are not perfect. It is our ________ to either accept that and love ourselves or keep torturing（折磨）ourselves with ________ . I think that being able to fully love yourself is the ________ meaning of the word perfect.

【推荐3】Do you think you have what it takes to be a successful scientist? A successful scientist is generally a good observer. He makes full _____of the facts he observes. He doesn't accept ideas which are not___on obvious facts, and therefore__ to accept authority as the only truth. He always checks ideas__ and makes experiments to prove them.

The rise of modern science may perhaps be considered to__ as far back as the time of Roger Bacon, the wonderful philosopher of Oxford, who lived between the years 1214 and 1292. He was probably the first in the Middle Ages to __that we should learn science___observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself __many important truths.

Galileo (1564－1642),___，who lived more than 300 years later, was the greatest of several great men in Italy, France, Germany, and England, who began to show how many important ___could be discovered by observation by degrees. Before Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies ___more rapidly towards the earth than small ones, __ Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to the ___of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two __ stones and proved Aristotle was wrong. It is Galileo's __ of going direct to nature, and proving our __ and theories by experiment, that has____all the discoveries of modern science.

What __ those people good scientists? From the example of Galileo, we know clearly that ___scientists are those whose observations have___ better results.

【推荐1】Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. _________ man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon. His bed was next to the room’s only _________. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

They talked for hours _________. Every afternoon when the man by the window could sit up, he _________ pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The other man felt his world would be _________ and brightened up by all the wonderful world outside.

The window overlooked a _________ with a lovely lake. Ducks played on the water while children _________ their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm in flowers. A fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the _________.

As the man by the window described all this in delicate _________, the other man would close his eyes and __________ the picturesque scene. One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing __________. Although the other man couldn’t hear the __________, he could see it in his mind’s eye as the gentleman by the window pictured it with __________ words.

Days and weeks passed.

One morning, the nurse arrived, __________ to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and had the body taken away.

The other man asked to be __________ next to the window. Painfully, he sat up to take his first look at the world outside. __________, he would have the joy of seeing it for himself.

He slowly turned to look out of the window. It faced a blank wall.

The man asked the nurse what could have __________ his roommate to describe such wonderful things outside. The nurse __________ that the man was blind. “Perhaps he just wanted to __________ you.”

Shared grief is half the sorrow, __________ happiness when shared, is doubled.

【推荐2】When my best friend, Jane, and I were 16, we were in the same class. About a week before Thanksgiving Day, we found out our teacher Edward was having some financial(经济的) _____. We wanted to do something to help, so we decided to ___food, clothing and gifts to ___ his family had a good Thanksgiving Day.

When Jane told her family about our plan, her mother was ____. Together they_____ their house for things they could ____. Her mother went to the kitchen, pulling out a big turkey and saying, “Thanksgiving Day won’t be ___ without a turkey dinner.” To this day, Jane _____ how moved she was by her mother’s generosity(慷慨).

Before _____ gifts，we said some words of appreciation for the wonderful chance to __ others. I will never forget the __ look of our teacher and his wife when they ____ the door; their four children stood around them as we handed out the gifts. It was a cold night. _____, we all felt warm inside.

Last month ______ I was in a meeting, my secretary informed me, “Your high school teacher Mr. Edward is wondering if you could _____ him a few minutes. He’s sitting in your office right now!”

I left my meeting and went to my office ____. My teacher and I hugged and began to speak of the last 42 years. He told me he _____ remembered that cold winter night when we brought the _____ of Thanksgiving Day to his family. The food and gifts were certainly _____, but what warmed his heart that night was to see a group of teenagers who understood the ____ of Thanksgiving Day.

【推荐3】When I was a boy we lived across a river from the main road and the only way to get to our house was across an old, wooden, swinging bridge. We also lived right next to Camp Caesar which ____camps all summer long. And the ____ thing about it was that it had a public swimming pool. I ____spending almost every day of my summers at that pool. I would____there when the pool opened at 1P.M. and swim/ swam until it closed at 5P.M. ____ my brothers and a lot of my friends would be there too. We had so much____laughing, playing, swimming, splashing, and ____the diving board.

One time, however, I went to the pool, only to find it crowded with____. None of my friends were there.I stayed for a while but felt____.I left early and walked home sad and angry. When I got to the swinging bridge,____,I saw my one friend/ one of my friend who was never____ at the pool. He stood on the____with his face smiling and his tail wagging(摇动). It was my dog, Doobie____waiting for me to come home. I ____ across the bridge to hug him and then we both ran down to the river below our____to swim. We jumped into the cold, clear water____. We swam around each other. When we got____, we stopped swimming and played____with a stick in the shallows. And Doobie happily drove my loneliness away with his doggie kisses and gentle ____. During all of those Summers spent____as a boy that is the day I remember the most.

【推荐1】I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. ________, he didn’t teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was ________ and ill.

My father was ________ a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness________ all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is ________. One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started ________ about life, and I told them about one of my ________. I said that we must very often give things up ________ we grow — our health, our beauty, our friends — but it always ________ that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father ________ up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up ________! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I couldn’t think of anything to say. ________, he answered his own question, “I________ the love of my family.” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.

I was also________ by his words. After that, when I began to feel angry at someone, I ________ remember his words and become ________. If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be ________ to give up my small anger. In this ________, I learned the power of acceptance from my father.

Sometimes I ________ what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful for this________.

【推荐3】I run a hotel in London. My knowledge on volcano is from my son’s science textbook, which says “volcanic ash is formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when dissolved gases escape __ into the atmosphere”. During the days with the terrible ash cloud which spread Europe from Iceland in May, 2010, I was   __   to a London radio station called LBC. People called in ___ their stories of trouble. Some had missed   __   for holidays, and some couldn’t get home following the volcanic eruption.

The story that most   __   me was a call from Peter, who had just gotten __ the previous weekend to Maz. They had planned to   __   their honeymoon to the Dominican Republic but could not   __   the ash cloud. When James O’Brien, the radio presenter, asked if he was unhappy, Peter said: “Not at all. I’ve married the   __   girl in the world whom I love, so…no… I’m not __ at all.” Both the presenter and I were so impressed by the beautiful __ .

A little later, after receiving many cancellations(取消预订), an idea __ to me and I called LBC. I spoke to the producer of the show and asked if she could keep __ with Peter to offer him and his wife a room for the weekend at my hotel __ . She later __ to say Peter and Maz were delighted and would love to take up the __ . The producer asked if I would like to __ offer it to them on the radio show, but I said no as I didn’t want it __ to the public.

So, two days later, Peter and Maz arrived at the hotel and   __ . I was so pleased to have made a bad situation better for a young couple. Nobody could ever imagine how   __ I was of myself.