【推荐2】I’m a university professor at an art school. Last year, I decided to ________ online classes to gain some knowledge of Arabic (阿拉伯语).

My teacher and I would meet a few times a month to practice ________ and go over grammar. During our communication, he also ________ details of his life. Gradually, the ________ of the first few lessons gave way to more familiarity and comfort. I stopped feeling embarrassed and began to open up about my own ________ and my battle with Arabic. “Don’t worry; I’m here to ________ you. You’re hardworking and I’m sure you’ll do well in it,” said my teacher. I had ________ my students with similar words in my own teaching. It was ________ to hear them directed at me. The tables turned.

“You are ________ today,” my teacher would say when I used varied vocabulary or expressions. When I heard these four words, I got a feeling of ________. It also surprised me that my confidence could be encouraged by such ________ praise. That was when I became aware how ________ I had praised my students, because I thought much praise made them self-satisfied. But now, I had a change of heart and ________ that these plain words can mean a lot. Words ________. And now I become more ________when I use them.

【推荐3】William Weaver was one of 14 black students integrating(使融合进入) the all—white West High School. A teacher told him that he “didn't belong.” He had a test and the teacher ______ him and then just took the paper away and said, “ ______ is up.” The first report card he got was ______ F’s. So he started to think maybe he didn't belong and that he was ______ .

One evening he was at home and Edward Hill, his science teacher from the ______ school, came by to visit. Weaver told Mr Hill that the white school were trying to ______ him away. Mr Hill asked Weaver to come to his old school after ______ . So every day waiting for him would be Mr. Hill with other teachers and they ______ him. Once he got past those F’s, he stopped ______ himself. But no matter what he did, he was never ______ at that school. Weaver never had a ______ with a counselor(辅导员)about going to college. But, to his ______ , he got a letter telling him he had been awarded a scholarship. Weaver ______ it and went on to ______ Howard University.

Many years ______ , Weaver came across Mr Hill and told him, “Mr Hill, if I had not gotten that ______ , I don’t know what would have happened. And I don't know ______ I got the scholarship because I never even applied for it.” Mr Hill said, “I know, because I filled in the ______ and sent it off for you.” So Mr Hill stepped ______ and changed his life, ______ at that time Weaver didn't realize how much he was being helped.

【推荐1】Peggy Lewis lost her house in a brutal tornado, but the tornado couldn’t take the one thing that meant the most.

One _______, Peggy Lewis and her husband, Harris Lee, were ______ the trees blow in the wind outside their home in Eureka, Kansas. The next, they were surrounded by glass from the house’s _______ windows. The roof tore off. The walls caved in. After the tornado had _______, it took a team of neighbors to take them to the hospital. “I thought we were going to_______,” says Lewis.

When the pair ______ to their property three days after that awful night last June, it was _______ that what remained of the house would need to be torn down. But _______ Lewis would let that happen, she wanted one thing—her family Bible.

Lewis had bought the Bible 35 years earlier, at the start of her _______. Like many folks, she’d used it to hold and preserve her ________ history: decades-old photos, a lock of her daughter’s hair, ________ a piece of a scarf her uncle had brought back from the Korean War.

The Bible was the first thing Lewis _______ when she returned to the house. It wasn’t ________ she’d last seen it, _______ top of a dresser in her bedroom. In fact, the dresser wasn’t there at all.

When two volunteers ________ to help the couple dig out, Lewis had one mission for them: “If you can find anything,” she said, “please find my Bible.”

After an hour of _______, one of the volunteers ran up to her. Lewis had tears streaming down her cheeks and a book in her hands. Stunningly, while many books inside the home had been destroyed beyond________, the Bible was still intact(完好无损), even though it had sat in the rain for days. “I________broke down,” says Lewis.

“I thought it was gone forever. It was a(an) ________.”

She knows that while every good book tells stories of catastrophic(灾难性的) weather and unlikely survival, this one actually________it.

【推荐2】Two years ago, my best friend Gina was killed in a car accident. What made things____ was that her husband was badly ill with cancer. At that time, I made a___ to take on their two sons, which changed the___ of my life. But I didn't hesitate (犹豫) for a moment,___ I was a single mother of three children myself. I know I have done the____ thing. I don't see myself as a saint ( 圣人 ), just a good friend. I_____ that Gina would have done the same for my children. How many other people are___ enough to experience a friendship like ours?

From then on, I decided to ______ her sons at my best. With five children and two houses to   look after, life was not so _______. It divided my family into two and made me ______ my favourite job. I got a new job in a restaurant and worked as a____, which helped pay the bills. Two years have passed, and we have______ it. We love each other and help each other. ______ can seperate us from each other.

Gina's boys call me Aunt Jane____Mum. They are right. I'm just their mum's best friend. To my____, they are so close to me and my children. My __ times are when we all sit round the table for a family dinner. We_____to make sure that happens twice a week. In those____, I feel Gina and her husband are there with us again. How could I___ regret a decision like that? I get to feel close to my best friends every day. Through the boys, they_____.

【推荐3】Have you ever had problems in your life and don’t know how to be happy? If _______, you will find “Being a Happy Teenager” by Australian writer Andrew Matthews _______. In his book, Matthews _________us how to have a happy life and answers the _______of teenagers. There are many _________such as parents and friends, and the book _______ we should stop being angry and forgive. The book tells us of useful skills _______ how to put what you have learned into pictures of your mind to _______ your memory better.

Many teenagers think _________happiness comes from a good exam result __________praise from other people. But you can ________ be happy when there are no such “good” things. Success comes from a(n) __________ attitude. If you ________ from problems, you will have success in the future.

Some school students have ________such as being too tall or too short. But Matthews tells us that __________comes from thinking about things in a positive ________.If you are __________, people notice you and you can get a __________view at the movie; if you are short, your clothes and shoes __________less room in your bedroom! This is Matthews’ most important __________: you choose to be happy!

【推荐2】The world is full of opportunities. Ignoring them or seizing one depends on one’s attitude. Mike seized the chance and did what he wanted to do.

Mike used to be a janitor (看门人) at an elementary school. He collected and cleared away the _________ for the school too. This school has a _________ place in Mike’s heart. He went to this school as a young boy and was a teacher there for 19 years. However, before his career in teaching, he _________ in the same school as a janitor. He has always been good at _________ with students.

Seeing this, the teachers _________ him to pursue a teaching career. After years of hard work and fierce ___________, Mike finished his degree in 2003 and _________ a teaching job at the elementary school. Since then, he has become a constant _________ in the school.

Mike found teaching a very rewarding job. For him, it was important that the students grow up not just remembering the _________ but also how a teacher made them feel. Mike was excited to teach the children at the school and was _________ to teach the fifth grade. He was shocked when the directors offered him the _________ of principal a week before the school year started.

“I am _________ grateful. I don’t do anything special. I just _________ and try my best,” said Mike. He was also very excited to take on the challenges of being the new _________ of the school, assume new responsibilities and help _________ the school.

【推荐3】William Butler Yeats, a most famous Irish writer, was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865. His childhood _____ the harmony that was ______ of a happy family. Later, Yeats shocked his family by saying that he remembered “little of childhood but its pain”. In fact, he ______ excellent taste in art from his family — both his father and his brother were painters. But he finally ______ literature, ______ drama and poetry.

Yeats had strong ______ in the coming of new artistic movements. He set himself the ______ task in founding an Irish national theatre in the late 1890s. His early theatrical experiments,______, were not received ______ at the beginning. He didn’t lose heart, and finally enjoyed ______ in his poetical drama.

____ with his dramatic works, Yeats’s poems attract much ____ notice. The subject matter includes love, nature, history, time and aging. Though Yeats generally relied on very traditional forms, he brought modern ____ to them. As his literary life ________, his poetry grew finer and richer, which led him to worldwide ______.

He had not ______ a major public life ______ winning the Nobel Prize in 1923. Yet, he continued writing almost to the end of his life. Had Yeats stopped writing at age 40, he would probably now be ______ as a minor poet, for there is no other example in literary history of a poet who ______ his greatest works between the ages of 50 and 75. After Yeats’s death in 1939, W.H.Auden wrote, among others, the following lines:

Earth, receive an ________ guest:

William Yeats is laid to rest.

Let the Irish vessel (船) lie.

Emptied of its poetry.