【推荐1】When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in late October 1931, he had no way of knowing that his life was about to change completely. The class_______that day was to show how______ a container of water would bring oxygen bubbles(气泡) to the surface. The container John was about to heat, _______, was not like the containers students everywhere had used. Someone had been ______ and put the wrong label(标签) on the bottle. And _______ John heated it with a Bunsen burner, the container _______ , sending the liquid flying in all directions. John Wilson came away from it, completely _______.

Wilson spent the next two months in hospital. After he returned home, his parents _______a hard time to find a way to deal with the_______ that had happened to their lives. But Wilson did not _______ the accident as a disaster. He knew he had the rest of his life to live. He learned Braille(盲文) quickly and continued his _______ at the esteemed Worcester College for the disabled. There, he not only _______ as a student but also became an accomplished rower, swimmer, actor, musician, and orator.

Many people, faced with the_______ John Wilson met with, would have _______of their experience. Perhaps they would have considered themselves to be _______ by ill fortune and discouraged in their _______ to do anything significant with their lives. Wilson, however, lost his sight but found a _______. Through his practical action and life attitude, he proved to us_______that it’s not what happens to us that _______our lives — it’s what we make_______ what happens.

【推荐2】When my daughter was in grade school, she brought home four tiny branches one day. They were small _________ given to the students to plant. None of them looked very strong, but with a _________ for the future, I planted them in our backyard. Over the years the _________ soil brought an end to three of them.

All that was _________ was a single evergreen. It never got very tall and _________ to one side. Then, I noticed that it was starting to _________. The lower branches were becoming brown. Only the top ones of the tree were still _________.

I did my best to _________ it by feeding it a lot of fertilizer (肥料), but it seemed hopeless. One morning I went out and looked at it again, _________ if it would be better to just cut it down. As I walked over to take a closer look at it, __________, I noticed something moving among the branches. It was a bird __________ building a nest (巢) in the topmost branches. I smiled and __________ that maybe this old tree had some life and usefulness left in it yet. It may not be healthy or pretty, but it was still giving a bird a __________.

This tree __________ me that all of our lives have a purpose. It doesn’t matter if we are young and strong, or old and sick. Until our last __________ we still have things to do: love for us to give, and joy for us to share. We can help to make this world a better and lovelier place.

【推荐3】My wife Pat and I were having drinks outside our home, the weather was unusually_______for March in Mississippi, There was barely any breeze, after we finished the second cup, flashes of_______danced across the sky. When the first drops of rain drove us_______, the phone rang. Pat’s face_______on that gray and hot day. It was our son, David, a helicopter pilot who_______in the US Air Force in South Korea. David intended to sound_______, but we recognized the sign of homesickness from his voice._______, the power of conversation made us feel_______,until a crash shook the windows.

David wondered what it was, “Just thunder, “Pat said.

There were several seconds of silence,“David”,I asked, “are you_______there?”

“Yes…apart from the two of you, do you know what else I________most? Thunder, We have rain, wind, and________here, but it never thunders, Remember? Dad, when I was a kid, you laughed me out of fear of thunder? I wish I were there to________with you now.”

“Yes…”I said, trying to________my tears, On hanging up the phone, I told Pat, “I’m going to record our son some ________.”“Bob, the neighbors will think you’re crazy.”

“David won’t,” I said and went outside with a recorder, Later I ________the tape to David with a single line: A ________gift.

David called again, “Dad, “he said, “You won’t believe that some friends and I had a thunder party where we realized we were listening to the sounds of ________, Thanks, Dad! It was really a special present,” While David was in Korea, we found ourselves ________thunderstorms. ________feeling blue, we regarded the thunder as special which let us know that wherever we might be, we were ________together as a family.

【推荐1】As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to rely on other musicians to help them. So during the broadcasts they just ______ to sing. Anyhow their ______ were humorous enough to be copied by other groups. They were so popular that their fans formed clubs in order to get more ______ with them. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs ______ by other musicians. ______, after a year or so in which they became more ______ about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they     ____ their own records and started touring and playing their own music. In the USA they became even more popular than the Beatles and sold even more ______. The band ______ up in about 1970, but happily they reunited in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, _______which they celebrated their former time as a real band.

【推荐2】Laughter is so familiar to every one of us. There is an English saying that _________, “He who laughs last laughs the hardest.” High School Musical star Zac Efron is laughing a lot these days.

_________ a young boy, Efron was picked on in school because he was always the smallest in his class and _________ because he had a big space between his teeth. In sixth grade, Efron’s basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime(两个加时赛), with three seconds left, he rebounded the ball and passed it-- to the _________ team! They scored and his team lost the game.

But history, as they say, is a thing of the _________. Now at 21, Efron is one of People Magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People, graces the cover of Entertainment Weekly, Hollywood’s most _________ magazine, and is traveling the world _________ the third High School Musical film. Director Adam Shankman _________ Efron as “ the biggest teen star in America right now.” Simply google “Zac Efron” and you get more than 14 million_________. Yes, it seems Efron has a lot to smile about these days.

Efron was born and __________ in California. He took school __________. According to Efron, “I would get crazy if I got a B and not an A in school.” It was his father who encouraged him to act. He took part in school __________ and acted in a local theater group. He also__________ singing lessons. He graduated from high school in 2006 and was __________ to the University of Southern California to study film. But he put it off--why study movies __________ you can star in them?

Now Efron is also earning more than $3 million for his __________ in High School Musical 3. Not bad for a 21-year-old. But Efron __________ remembers those bullies(欺人者). “You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they __________.” Efron said. “Also, when you get made fun of, when people point you’re your __________, it’s an opportunity for you to rise above.”

Efron has risen all the way to the top of the movie business. And he can now __________ all the way to the bank.

【推荐3】In October 2016, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the first to receive this_______for songwriting. He has been regarded as the _______living artist in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

In his_______ years he listened to the radio-first to blues and_______,when he was a teenager,to rock and roll. He formed several bands while_______Hibbing High School. Their_______ of"Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay"at their high school talent show was so _______ that the principal cut the microphone. But this didn't cause him to _______ interest in music in and after high school.

At the University of Minnesota,his_______on rock and roll gave way to American________music. He said, "Songs of rock'n'roll weren't________ or didn't reflect life in a realistic way. I knew that when I   ________ folk music,it was more of a serious type of thing. The ________are filled with more despair,more sadness,more success,more faith in the supernatural,much deeper ________. "

However, Dylan ________ college at the end of his first year and traveled to New York City where he performed and________ materials from other folk singers. He made a lot of attempts to show his talents and ________ gained public recognition.

Dylan has________more than 100 million records as a________ ,making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. On the road to success, Dylan has ________ many difficulties with great efforts and persistence.