【推荐1】When I was 25 years old, I had a big dream in my mind and lots of things in my backpack. I wanted to travel around Africa with my _______ So I left my hometown with great confidence and ______ in Cape Town on a one-way ticket, not really ______ what to do next. Luckily, before my trip actually started, I met a kind, old Nigerian man. He gave me the best travel ______ I ever received: “Be like a student on your way around the world.”

It sounds ______, but it really changed my mind about travelling. He helped me realize that travel is about learning and observing different ______ “It’s far to easy to go into ______ country for you and believe your ways are better. But if you study, ask questions, and ______ to learn from the locals, you’ll have far richer experience, ” he promised me.

On other trips ______ I was on my tour way to Cancun, I didn’t know the man so I was just a tourist. I only stayed there for a week to see the ______ and places of interest and then left. The culture didn’t ______ me. I left the cities and towns without really ______ anyone or anything. Those people and things existed in those very places to which I had ______ a visit.

This time, I promised myself that I would be a ______ student traveller. After seven months of ______ travelling from Cape Town to Cairo, I returned home. Having a student-like attitude helped me learn a lot. This trip satisfied me more than any other trip ever did to me.

【推荐2】When I was 25 years old, I had a big dream in my mind and lots of things in my backpack. I wanted to travel around Africa with my _______. So I left my hometown with great confidence and _______ in Cape Town on a one-way ticket, not really sure what to do next.

_______, before my trip actually started, I met a kind, old Nigerian man. He gave me the best travel _______ I ever received: “Be like a student on your way around the world.”

It sounds _______, but it really changed my mind about travelling. He helped me _______ that travel is about learning and observing different _______. “It’s far too easy to go into a new country for you and believe your ways are better. But if you study, ask questions, and try to learn from the locals, you’ll have far richer _______, ” he promised me.

On other trips _______ I was on my tour way to Cancun, I didn’t know the man so I was just a ________. I only stayed there for a week to see the sights and places of interest and then left. The culture didn’t ________ me. I left the cities and towns without really knowing anyone or anything. Those people and things ________ in those very places to which I had ________ a visit.

This time, I promised myself that I would be a ________ student traveller. After seven months of ________ travelling from Cape Town to Cairo, I returned home. Having a student-like attitude helped me learn a lot. This trip satisfied me more than any other trip ever did to me.

【推荐1】My Hero

What does it mean to be a hero? I think a hero is someone who goes out of his way to make others happy. My hero is Mr. Wright, my chorus(合唱队) teacher.

When I was 12 years old, my grandparents passed away. I was really close to them, and losing them was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to __ through. I couldn’t eat, sleep, or think; I felt like I couldn’t even breathe. It was as if my whole world had fallen down from under me, and I__ into this huge hole of depression(抑郁).

__I was battling depression, I was determined to make my high school years the best of my life. It was difficult to be __, but I had to try. I joined Women’s Choir. Mr. Wright was the choral director and he was so funny that the first day, I just knew I had made the best ____ of my life.

As the year progressed, I loved chorus more and more. I began to smile again and really enjoy ____.

Then one day that all changed. My friends—or those that I thought were my friends—started talking about me behind my back. I was ____ , and I sat by myself. Mr. Wright came over and asked what was wrong. The look in his eyes told me that I could ____him. Trying hard to ____ back tears, I told him the whole story.

When I finished, he nodded and told me, “If you never learn anything from me, learn this: No one is worth__your joy.” What Mr. Wright said really ____ a chord (心弦) in my heart. He ____ cared about me and what was going on. I’ll never be able to thank him enough, because he not only saved me but has ____ every day of it since. Any time I feel like giving ___, I remember Mr. Wright’s words and push forward.

I’m proud to say that I__ my depression, and I’m now a senior. I’m still a ____ of chorus, and now I’m also in the best choir at my school.

Mr. Wright is a hero ___ everyone he meets. He cares about every single person who walks through his door, and he loves what he does more than any other teacher I’ve known. That’s ____ he deserves to be Educator of the Year. He deserves the ____ not just this year but every year.

I’m glad I had the opportunity to meet you, Mr. Wright. You are an_____ teacher, and I hope you realize that. You’re my hero.

【推荐2】I was not very close to my father. He was a quiet man who _________ showed his love. As I grew older, however, his silence became an invisible wall between us. I was _________ that he didn’t love me.

I grew up, went to college far from home, worked hard and finally had a family of my own. My father and I talked often, _________ the talk was usually a prelude(前奏) to my longer conversations with my mother. There was a _________ of silence between us.

Then one day, a call from my mother told me my father had fallen down and was in _________ . I was unprepared for this diagnosis: He had Dementia with Lewy bodies(路易体痴呆).

I had read many _________ of Dementia with Lewy bodies, but my experience with the disease was _________: Because the disease transformed my father, it_________ the wall of silence between us.

It happened on the day when I _________ him with my five-year-old son, Jesse. The three of us sat on the bench, and my father watched __________ as I made small talk and my son played with me. His eyes widened as studied the obvious love I   __________ with my son.

Later in the day, my wife came and watched my son, __________ me to spend time alone with my father in his room. At first, there was the usual __________ between us. Then, to my __________ ,he began to speak.

“You know, I was __________ you and Jesse out there. Watching Jesse __________ me of the old days. It’s such a long time ago, but I have such a clear picture of that---of you---in my mind. You were a sweet little boy. My little boy”. He __________ and his eyes glistened(闪光)。

He__________ to me for causing pain. “I know I have a disease,” he murmured, “and that makes it__________ for me to think and remember.” “But you know,” he smiled again, “I am ________ that I have this disease. Because without it, I don’t think I would have been able to say this to you.”

He trapped his heart. “I love you.”

【推荐3】My daughter and I were driving from Los Angeles to Dallas. We were running low on gas somewhere in New Mexico and figured we'd see a _______ soon enough to fill up.

But that didn't happen and we _______ we were not going to make it to the next town. So my daughter mad up a _______ "Low on gas, Can u help?" and held it outside the car hoping that a driver in the next lane（车道）would notice it and stop.

There weren't too many vehicles passing us at the time. About 3:30 pm on a weekday, the road was quite empty. Then, a car was driving along happily in the neighboring lane _______ us. We caught up with it in the hope that the driver would _______ the sign.

An elderly gentleman was driving it and after a brief expression of _______ on his face, he seemed to have seen the sign and slowed down to _______ over. We stopped just right behind him.

He was friendly and was eager to help us. At first he _______ we didn't have enough money, _______ he offered to buy us gas at the next town Roswell that was about 10 mile away!

When we explained our __________ situation of not having enough gas to get to Roswell, he said he was a farmer who was returning home from work. His farm was about 10 minutes away and they had a gas pump on there, so if we could give him 20 minutes, he __________ head back there, get a can of gas and fill up our tank.

We could not believe our good fortune! We were filled with gratitude for the __________ of strangers such as this person as we waited for him to __________. Sure enough, he was back with the can and immediately filled our __________. He refused to take payment for the gas saying "what good is a man who cannot __________ another in need" . Tears flowed, as did our gratitude.

【推荐1】John graduated from a key university and he was very good at his major. He wished to find a good job. One day, he went to a company to ______for a job. He got the news in a newspaper. He did some research on this-company. When he was ______ everything went well. The manager asked him some questions and he answered them ______. John was very satisfied with his performances and was very ______ that he could get the job. But at that moment, the manager's phone ______. He picked up the phone, listened and nodded. And then he turned around and said to John, Sorry, I want to get some important ______ now. Please give me the book with the red ______on that desk. " John looked around and found 3 books on the desk, so John went to the desk, took one book and handed it to him ______.

Holding the book, the manager ______ the phone and said, “Sorry, we cannot give the job to you.” John was ______ and wondered why. The manager said, “ There are three ______. First, when you came into the office room, I found that the third button on your shirt had been missing. Second, there are three books with red covers on that desk, but you didn't ask me which one I needed and you took one randomly (随机地). Third, I was answering the call. You should ______ to the desk to save time. These ______ showed you are not a careful person.” _______ John didn't get the job.

We can learn a（n） ______ from John's experience. Some people don't ______ the details in our life. But it is the details that ______ Not only should we value what we learn but also we should pay more attention to the details. Sometimes they can even ______ our success or failure. We should form the habit of being careful and learn to keep the ______of quantity and quality. We should keep it in mind that ______ comes first, without which quantity is of no significance.

【推荐2】While I was waiting to enter university, I saw an ad in a newspaper, a teaching job _________ at a school about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of money and wanting to do something _________, I applied. And then, I began to fear that without a degree and with no _________ of teaching, my chances of getting the job were _________.

However, three days later, a letter arrived, calling me to Mount Bay for a meeting with the headmaster. It proved to be a _________ journey: a train to Mount Bay station, ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at _________ a quarter of a mile. _________, I arrived there, feeling too hot to be nervous. A man in a dark suit answered the door. _________, he introduced himself as the headmaster of the school.

“The school,” he introduced, “is made up of one _________ of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen.” I should have to teach all the subjects except art, which he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into three groups and teach them in turn at three different places, and I was __________ at the thought of teaching math, a subject at which I wasn’t very __________ at school. Worse perhaps was the idea of __________ to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be __________ themselves at that time.

__________ I had time to ask about my salary, he got up to his feet. “Now,” he said, “you’d better meet my wife. She is the one who really __________ this school.”

【推荐3】Last year, a storm hit a village in the New Territories and many people were injured. 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_________ on his back.

They talked for hours on end. 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 sad 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. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it for himself.

He slowly turned to look out of the window. Surprisingly, it __________ 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.