【推荐2】Friendship is pleasant and necessary to people's life. A man without _______ is an angel without wings, _______ life will suffer because of _______ and depression. Friendship is the mother of our soul, which will warm us when _______ occurs. We have much to _______ with our friends in life, confusion, excitement, bitterness etc. And it's great to _______ up a sincere friendship.

It _______ many special qualities to make a friend. _______ should come first. Only when we get a better understanding of each other can we gain a(n) _______ and meaningful friendship. We may find our hobbies of __________ interests. This feeling of natural attraction gets us closer and closer. It also takes a special kind of love that seems to know no end. Never __________ to show your kindness to your friend when he/she is __________. Love is not selfish. Love is a(n) __________ by God that we should treasure all our life. Tolerance(宽容) is the third __________ part in friendship. There is no doubt that we are __________ persons. This personal difference may __________ disagreements between us in every aspect of our life. Don't just think about ourselves. Try to tolerate him/her in an easy mood. Saints(圣人) are not perfect, __________ those ordinary people like us. Afterwards, we should get a good communication.

Understanding, __________ and tolerance are the first three essences that come to a sincere friendship. Other qualities are also __________ such as thoughtfulness, trust and __________. Remember, friendship is your spirit's guard, treasure it.

【推荐3】Both my parents were born to help plants grow well. Our family ______ the food we grew in our huge vegetable garden. My mother canned much of the produce for winter, and my father sold vegetables to the stores and high schools. Our garden was the ______ of the neighborhood. But one summer, we had a ______. Someone was stealing some of our vegetables.

Then one of the neighbors tipped us off that an old bachelor (单身汉), who lived a short distance from us, was seen ______ some vegetables in a nearby town. Benny didn’t have a garden, so he was ______ getting his vegetables from someone else’s garden. Actually, Benny wasn’t a(n) ______ fellow. My dad often ______ him for part-time jobs just to help him out. My parents figured he was taking our vegetables just to earn a few extra dollars. ______ stealing is stealing. My father decided to ______ this situation his own way: hiring Benny to guard the garden. But the others in my family were all ______ it.

When my father asked him about the job, Benny was obviously a bit ______, but he finally agreed. Needless to say, there were no vegetables missing the next day. Whether or not Benny slept most of the night wasn’t ______. The fact was that Dad’s plan was working, ______ better than my father had planned. You see, each morning, after Benny got done sleeping, guarding the garden, he’d ______ long enough for breakfast with us.

Now, Benny got to like this garden business. By the following spring, Benny had his own garden with my father’s help. Of course… for some ______, we don’t need a garden guard anymore.

【推荐1】On the night of the play，Jack was at the theatre early and he was already dressed in a suit of policeman’s clothes long____the end of the first scene． He certainly looked the part all right， he thought as he____himself in the mirror．

Then he suddenly felt nervous． After all， it was his first time to____a part in a play．____could he face all those people watching the play？ He put his head in his hands and tried to____his lines（台词）， but nothing____to his mind．

A knock on the door made him look____． He was to go on stage（舞台） in the second scene． “Have I ______my part and ruined（破坏）the play for everybody？” he thought to himself． But____was only the manager． She____how nervous he was and____he should stand near the stage____he could watch and follow the play． It was a good____of getting rid of his nervousness， she said． She was right； it seemed to _____． In fact the more he watched the play， the____he felt himself part of it．

At last the____came for him to appear on the stage． But suddenly the manager came to him again，_____worried as she placed a hand on his arm to____him back． “Has anything gone____？” Jack asked． “I’m afraid you’re going to be___，” she said． “They’ve jumped three pages of the play and have missed your part out completely．”

【推荐3】It was the first night of a tiring seven-day 250km race across the Gobi Desert a year ago. Mr. Leonard _______ a little dog going around his camp trying to _______ herself.

“Cute, but I’m not giving you any,” Leonard thought. Like all_______, he had packed just enough for the whole _______. He’d been running competitively for three years, and he had a_______ to win.

The next day, at the starting line, the dog_________ him again. He waved her away, _______ she might be stepped on by the runners. _________, the dog followed him all the way until the day’s race _________. That night the dog snuggled (偎依) up to Leonard and even __________ to get a little food from him. By then, he was determined to________ her Gobi.

The pair went on to finish the seven-day race, with Gobi __________ a distance of 125km on her own, and winning Leonard over, enough for him to make a ________ — he would take her home to Edinburgh. “Seeing Gobi on the race__________ my attitude to things. It made me think more about stopping and helping her, __________ just focusing on winning,” said Leonard, who finished second. “It also made my running more________, giving me a lot of pleasure.”

As Leonard was preparing to get Gobi home, she was ________. With a group of 20 local volunteers coming to his ________, he finally found her. After that, Leonard never let Gobi out of his ________. Now Gobi’s favorite activity is still running, and she __________ does at least 8km a day with Leonard up the hills.

【推荐1】The stage lights dimmed, and I took a quick look from behind the heavy black curtains into the audience. Blinded by the lights, I quickly _________. It seems that a great number of eyes were looking at me. I took a deep _________ as the music of my dance began to play. I entered the stage and began my performance, the graduation test of the classical Indian dance.

After a decade of learning this art form, I had _________ been considered ready to take on the most difficult act. The test is the most important event in a dancer’s life as it pays _________ to all the factors in one’s life that develop the dance form: one’s culture and family.

The performance is undertaken only by the most _________ and determined students. It is a difficult process that requires much _________. For more than six months, I spent two to three hours every day practicing these dances. Many times, I _________ myself to my physical and mental breaking point, but still I would not stop. I could not give up. There was always so much more to do and so much more to learn.

I _________ a lot about myself in those tiring hours. I learned that I was far too _________ to give up, and I was too proud to prove myself __________ after I had set an unrealistic goal. Even with physical pain and mental __________, I forced myself to meet my __________. Even when I was at the end of my __________, there was always something driving me on, forcing me not to give up.

Fortunately, I made it. What I had done __________ the success. It was in those hours that I learned what a dancer truly is. Those time was evidence that I could __________ something I set out to do.

【推荐2】“I noticed something,” my friend Ashley said. “Your bookshelf is ___________.”I nodded absently. I could feel my best friend staring at me with ___________.

“I’m looking at your online bookshelf right now. It’s clear of books this year. Why? ”she asked.

“I wish I could read, ”I replied, ___________ the many hours I'd spent helping someone with their computer or browsing (浏览) online news articles ___________ reading novels.

“But who's going to___________ fun books to me?” Ashley asked, sounding shocked. “You always were my book buddy (朋友). ”When I got home that day, I deleted a calendar event that was supposed to happen at 9:00 pm and typed into the description box, “Read a novel.”

When the time for the ___________ event came, I felt so guilty (内疚的) that I ___________ to turn on the audiobook. With ___________, though, I finally pressed Play and sank into a cozy young-adult novel. I soon ___________ and noticed that I was really enjoying myself.

I started clearing my calendar for myself. Each time I put“____________ time” in my calendar, I felt really happy.

When it came time to __________ for the second night, it was ____________ than the previous night. I even turned off my phone and sank into bed with headphones on.

Then I __________ my phone and called Ashley to tell her that I had __________ a lot of upcoming appointments. She was __________.“That's really great. I'm glad to have my book buddy back.”

【推荐3】I used to be the shyest person in the world. I hid behind my older sister, whenever I had to speak to a(n) _______ person — including the McDonald’s cashier, or even a distant relative.

_______ asked to speak in class, I could hardly _______， much less speak. Even among the few friends I had, my high, timid (羞怯的) voice earned me jokes­about being a girl.

Then in the seventh grade, my sister suggested I _______ voice lessons. After a little bit of _______， I did — as long as it stayed a secret. I began a series of vocal (发声的) exercising. After exercising a lot, I finally gained _______ in my voice.

A few months later, I was asked to sing for some retired people. I thought I would do better than before _______ the voice lessons. I opened my mouth and nothing. I couldn’t remember the words of the song! My face turned hot. The _______ pianist whispered a prompt (提示), and I remembered just enough to keep singing.

Then the thought _______ me: I’ve embarrassed (尴尬) myself enough in front of this ________ . There’s really nothing else to lose. So in my second song, I just ________ and felt the energy of the song lift me. And I did much better.

After that, I started singing to myself as ________ as I could in my own room. That’s something I would never have done before.

On a recent school trip, I was asked to sing again. It was ________ how much people liked my singing. One classmate ________ said that I should be in the school’s talent show.

I am not a shy person any more. ________ has made me more outgoing. Today, I’m almost a loudmouth. I can meet people without being afraid. I can also stand in front of the whole class and give a big speech. I am proud of myself.