【推荐2】Hiro walked up to the microphone. He looked out at the huge crowd and felt a heaviness in the pit of his stomach. They were all ___ at him, waiting.

“Uh, hi，” Hiro said into the microphone. For a moment, his mind went ___, Then    he  saw  Tadashi’s face in the audience. He was smiling and giving Hiro a thumbs-up.

Hiro smiled back and took a ___. “Sorry. My name is Hiro Hamada, and I’ve been working on  something I think is pretty cool. I hope you like it.”

Hiro put on a headset and reached into his hoodie(连帽衫). He ___a small object no bigger  than a paper clip. “This is a microbot.” The small object in his hand took a bow. “It doesn’t    look   like  much but when it links up with the rest of its fellows, things get a little more interesting.”

The crowd didn’t seem ___. Then a murmur rose as the audience noticed waves of tiny mircrobots twisting across the floor. The single microbot flew from Hiro’s ___and joined  a towering column of microbots that had now formed onstage.

Hiro smiled and tapped his headset. “The microbots are  ___ with this neural transmitter(神经传导器).” He took the headset off and the microbots collapsed   to  the floor.    They reformed into a column as soon as Hiro put the headset back on.

“I think of what I want them to do,” Hiro said, “and they do it!” The microbots took the ___of a hand waving. Everyone in the audience smiled and waved back. “The ___of this tech are limitless. Take construction.”

Hiro stared at the microbots, and with a wave of his hand, they picked up cinder(煤渣）blocks and assembled them into a tower. “ ____used to take teams of people working by hand for months or years can now be ____by one person!”

“And that’s just the ____Hiro said as he jumped off the tower. Everyone gasped, thinking he was about to ____,but the microbots rose and ____him midair. Hiro smiled. He could see Tadashi giving him another ____.

“How about ____?”Hiro asked. The microbots transformed into a set of legs that ____Hiro through the audience. “Microbots can move anything, anywhere, ____. ”

As they approached the stage, the microbots formed a set of  ____so Hiro    could    climb back up  to it. “If you can think it, the microbots can do it!” Hiro said.

The audience was with him now. The moment belonged to Hiro, and he was on a roll. “The only limit is your ____! Microbots!” he exclaimed, and the audience burst into applause.

【推荐1】I had a bad habit of skipping to the last pages of a book. I just wanted to see how it ended ______ I was still in the middle of it. This habit ______ first my mom, then my friends, and ______ even my own daughter. Often my ______ wouldn’t be limited just to the books I read but also to what others were ______ as well. Then one day my daughter told me in anger, “Dad, please just read a book one ______ at a time like everyone else!”

At times I didn’t ______ this bad habit to just books either. I also tried to skip ahead in my own life and ______ out what to do months and even years from now ______ enjoy each day at present. Although I knew that the ______ of my life wasn’t done yet and that I had many pages ______ to go. I still couldn’t control my burning desire to write the ______ of it half-way through. Time and again, I would ______ jump ahead and try to solve every potential problem before it happened. Life, ______, doesn’t work like that. It loves to ______ us, and you never know what new problems, changes or opportunities each new day will ______.

Recently when I found myself living in the ______ again, I felt a voice that gently told me I needed to “live one day at a time.” When I heard those words, I ______, turned the book of my life back to the ______ page, and thanked God for today.

Each of us has to ______ the book of life line by line, moment by moment and trust that our story will be brought to its perfect end.

【推荐2】Steve was a seventh grader, a big boy, looking more like a teenager than a 12-year-old. Yet, he went unnoticed — he had been________ every examination since first grade — until Miss Wilma.

In the middle of the first semester of school, the entire seventh grade was________ for basic skills.

“You all did pretty well,” Miss Wilma told the class after going over the________ except for one boy. And it________ my heart to tell you this, but…” she________ , “the smartest boy in the seventh grade is failing my class.” Steve________ his eyes and carefully examined his fingertips.

After that, Steve still wouldn’t do his homework. Even if Miss Wilma________ punished him, he remained________ .     

“Steve, please! I care about you!”________ , Steve got it! “Someone CARES ABOUT ME?!”

One Monday a couple of weeks later, Miss Wilma gave a________ on the weekend homework. Steve________ through the test and was the first to hand in his paper. With a look of________ , Miss Wilma took his paper and began to look it over.

Miss Wilma’s face was in________ shock! She glanced up at Steve, then________ , then up. The smartest boy in the seventh grade had just passed his first test!

From that moment, nothing was the same for Steve. He discovered that not only could he remember and understand________ , but he could translate what he learned into his life. He became________ . After high school, Steve enlisted in the Navy, and he had a(n)________military career. During his naval years, he inspired many young people who might not have________ themselves without him. A________ took place within the heart of a boy all because of one teacher, who________ .

【推荐3】My kids sit in Gee’s room, curiously selecting their favorite ornaments (装饰品) out of a well-loved box. Gee stands by and patiently _______ each treasure. These _______ objects, which she and Tom displayed on the Christmas tree, have found a new _______.

I first met Tom in the early days of my marriage. Someone had been _______ our garbage cans to the garage each garbage day. I had wondered who. Then one day I _______ him: an elderly man living across the street.

I left a thank-you note outside the garage. When we got home that day, I found a typed letter had _______ the note. The letter was from Tom. He said when he’d been fighting wars overseas, his young wife, Gee, had lived alone. It was the neighbors who had taken the time to _______ her garbage cans. Now he repaid their _______.

Tom died last month. Overcome with _______, we photocopied that letter and gave it to Gee. We told her how ________ we were to have known Tom. When Gee invited us to look through those Christmas ________, I realized how hard it was for her to ________ that box, a piece of Tom.

These days, we’re planning a ________. Our old house is crowded with furniture, toys and people. ________, we decide to wait till January. This Christmas, we’ll decorate our tree with Tom and Gee’s ornaments. Maybe I’ll talk to the couple. Thank you. For teaching us what it means to be a ________.