【推荐1】UPS driver Ryan Arens was making his rounds near a pond in Bozeman when he heard a strange sound. It was December, and about 15 feet from the frozen bank was the _______ of that sound — a half-submerged（半淹没）wire-haired dog, _______ to cling to a thin layer of ice. An elderly man was already on the _______ determined to save her. He'd _______ the pond in a rowboat and was striking the ice with a rock to create a _______ to the dog. It was slow going, and Arens, 44, thought he stood a _______ chance.

"Animals are my weakness,^” he said, _______ why he chose to take off his overcoat, even though the temperature was in the -30s, and _______ the rescue task.

His heart beating fast, Arens _______ the dog, using the other man's rock to break the ice. He gave one __________heave（拖动）with so much force that he slipped off the boat, __________ into 16 feet of cold water. Luckily, he __________ in time to see the dog going under. He swam about five feet toward her, took __________ of her collar, and pulled her to the ice. He then lifted the dog into the __________ and slid it back to the shore, where __________ bystanders carried the dog to the home of the rowboat owner. Once in the house himself, Arens jumped into a __________ shower with the dog until they both defrosted（解冻）. A few more minutes in the pond, and the dog would have likely __________ .

The next day, Arens was back working in the __________ neighborhood when the dog's owner __________ to thank him for saving Sadie. The dog's owner opened the door to his pickup, and Sadie ran out. She went __________ towards Arens, leaping on him and bathing him in wet kisses. "That special delivery was the highlight of my UPS career." said Arens.

【推荐3】I was having my dinner at McDonald’s one evening when an old couple slowly walked in. They _______ their meal, took a table near the window and started _______ food out of the plate. There was one hamburger, one order of French fires(炸薯条) and one drink. The man _______ the food into two halves and carefully placed _______ before his wife.

He took a sip(一小口) of the drink. His wife also took one and then _______ the cup down between them. “That _______ old couple! All they can _______ is one meal for the two of them,” thought I. _______ the man began to eat his French fires, I _______ to my feet, went over and said that I was _______ to buy another meal for them. But he _______ refused me and said that they made it a ______ to share everything.

______, the lady didn’t take a bite. She sat there ______ her husband eat, and taking turns sipping the drink. Again I ______ to buy them something but was refused. When the man finished eating and was ______ his face with a napkin. I ______ no longer stand it. I made an offer to them a third time. _______ being politely refused, I asked the lady ______,“Madam,why aren’t you eating? You said that you share everything. _______ is it that you are waiting for?” “The teeth,” she answered.

【推荐1】My father never kept anything for emotional purposes-except once. I was the only one in my family who cared about baseball and I always________watching my heroes at Yankee Stadium. One winter, I wrote down a schedule for the summer dates and dreamed every night. To my surprise, one evening I saw my father ________ it before going out to work.

The following Sunday, he told me, “Let’s put away some money into a ________each week, and maybe we can go to Yankee Stadium this summer. ”I ________washed out a jar and________a label: YANKEE STADIUM FUND, 1960.

Each of us ________to the jar weekly. However, we still hadn’t gone to a game because my father had to work every Saturday. So one day, I________him of the remaining time, and then he________me, “Don’t worry and we’ll have a free Saturday. ”

On the morning of the last game, I was waiting hopelessly with no________of my father who had been to work when he suddenly appeared and yelled, “I got two ________ !”.

I could hardly ________ when we finally sat together, father and son, watching my New York Yankees. I sat cheering, but for my father, all I could see is a face________ tiredness from working all week.

In 1963, my father died suddenly while working. In his bedroom, I noticed a ________ ticket in his yellowish book, which read, October I, 1960, General Admission. My father, who________ nothing for emotional reasons, had decided to keep this, a(n) ________ of our afternoon together.