【推荐1】I remember everything about my first Cubs game, although it was a few years ago. My uncle took me to it on a Saturday in spring, a bright sunny day. When we got there, I_________that even though we were at the upper level, I could see everything clearly, the_________field. It was great-seeing it this way was much better than watching it on TV. Then the game started, and everyone cheered when the Cubs_________on the field.The man next to me said, “This is going to be the year. This year they’re going all the way.” My uncle said to him, “Let’s hope this is the one.” But then he_________to me, “I think he is too hopeful. We’ll have to wait and see I always start the year thinking they’ll win the World Series, but then I remember the_________year. They started the season_________and then they had a long losing streak.” The final score was 7 to 0, so it was nine winnings of hoping and then losing. We were_________about that score.

“Tomorrow, they’ll win. I’m certain!” I heard one person say as we left to go home. “_________”another replied. When we were returning, I asked my uncle, “Why were they so_________ when the score was 0 today-how can they be sure that tomorrow the team will win?” That’s__________it means to be a Cubs fan: we believe in tomorrow. When they win, it’s the best. If they lose, we expect it will get better, even though__________may tell us it won’t. Every year, we hope; every game we hope and we don’t abandon hope, that’s__________. It’s about__________your team no matter what.

And the next year we were there too, cheering.__________they lost, then it was amazing what happened this year. The Cubs won the whole thing-they won the World Series.Their fans were so excited-I’ve never seen adults scream and__________that way.

【推荐2】It was a very exciting day for us-the championship Little League game of the season. Two teams would be _________ it out one more time for the championship.

Ben, my husband, who had to stay in _________ for a grave disease, had coached the Little League team for the past two years. He had coached _________ undergoing many doses of chemotherapy (化疗) and many stays in the hospital, along with daily trips to the hospital for _________. Despite being worried and _________, he had continued to coach.

He taught the teams how to play the game and about good _________, fair play and physical fitness. He also taught his family and a _________ community how to fight a terrible disease with faith, _________, courage and dignity. He gave us all the courage to hope when all hope was lost. One famous _________ he loved was by Winston Churchill: “Never, never, never, never __________.”

Today, one __________ father, whose son was new to the team, came to the game with twenty five paper cups on which he had written different baseball __________: “Get a base hit”, “Catch that fly __________”, “Pop-Up”, “Bunt”. What fun it would be for each __________ to read a message on his cup after drinking his water.

The score was close; it was a(n) __________ game. In the fourth inning (回合), our son, Jared, also a player, pulled a cup out for his drink of water. __________ he ran from the bench over to me with the cup. Written on his cup were the words, “Never, never give up.” The news __________ fast among the players. Ben was there, __________ in spirit only. Needless to say, we won the game, and the very __________ now sits on a shelf next to Ben’s bed, who is recovering from his __________ day by day.

【推荐1】People with autism (自闭症) generally see the world through a lens different from the rest of the world. Such is the _______ with Anthony Schmidt. Anthony is driven by his love for cars.

Anthony’s large collection of model cars is _______, but his love for automobiles doesn’t _______there. He also has a good _______ of nearly every car. Show him a car, and he can _______ you the car’s make, model and year immediately.

Anthony lives with his mom, Ramona. She says her son’s car enthusiasm_______ when he was about two years old. By age 6, he’d begun _______ a photographing series of tableaux (画面) starring his model cars. Ramona started a page on a website to _______ Anthony’s extraordinary works.

With his mom’s _______, Anthony has gone on to launch his own product line that includes books, calendars and photographic prints. To keep________ of his model collection, Anthony uses an Excel spreadsheet. __________ many people with autism, organization and mathematics are intrinsic (固有的) to his worldview.

Anthony loves cars. His mom says he ________ to make them his life’s work. He hopes to ________others with special needs and their families. “You can set your ________ to whatever you want,” he explained.

Anthony’s determined focus opens a ________ to another world and another way of seeing altogether. And that is a priceless gift for all of us.

【推荐3】My parents said that I started reading tomato soup labels when I was two. But my earliest________are of The Poky Little Puppy, comics I found on the bookshelf. I quickly moved on to the library. I_________Little House on the Prairie and absolutely anything by Judy Blume.

I don’t know whether I read because I was curious or I was curious because I read. Probably________I do know,________, that books were my refuge (避难所). They gave me________and comfort when life was confusing or uncertain. They were a(n)________and a shelter. Books transported me to places I never________and exposed me to ideas I had never considered. I preferred Watership Down to hide-and-seek with the neighbor________. My father worried that I was turning into a recluse (孤独者), but I was________. Maybe they made me smarter. I know they provided me with________.

So, when I had my son, it surprised no one that I filled his room with________. With a certainty I didn’t know, I read to him for hours, hoping that I would________the magic to him. It did. Now he writes________about fire engines, policemen and flying birds. He is becoming a(n)________storyteller--just like his parents. I________to him through stories in a way I didn’t envision (想象).