【推荐1】Often firefighters are referred to as heroes because they are willing to put their lives on the line. My husband is a firefighter.

He has been in _________ situations many times over the years. _________ being married for twenty years, it is strange that I don't often worry about the _________ he takes in his job. What makes him a hero to me are all the things he _________ in his personal life while being a firefighter in his professional life.

Our friends often _________ on how lucky he is to have a work schedule that _______ him to be home in the middle of the week. What is often _________ is the time that he is away. His job _________ that he leave his family half the month. But it _________ for us and our marriage is stronger for it. We have to sacrifice many important family __________ such as our anniversary, our son's soccer games, and many holidays. We have had to __________ because of his absence. He cannot come home for a(n) __________ pipe or to help with a chore. I have never thought of asking him to do that.

This type of marriage might not work for everyone, __________ we are willing to do what it takes to make it work. When George comes home, we have all of his __________ . He can be found __________ at the kitchen table helping our son with a school project or __________ some household errands (差使) for me. He leaves his helmet behind at work and __________ his husband, father or gardener hat. When I __________ in my mind, my firefighter, I see the amazing personal   __________ he makes to make sure others are safe while always trusting that we are too. He is my __________.

【推荐1】For hours I had been traveling up the Nile Valley，from Luxor to Cairo，on a train jammed with Egypt’s working poor.

At 1 am I_______Cairo and took a taxi to Tahrir Square. I was_______and，having been to Cairo before，knew that while most of the city was_______at this hour，a couple of fast­food restaurants would be open there.

The taxi dropped me_______across the street from Hardee’s. A moment later，just as I was about to_______the restaurant door，two street children ran towards me with full_______ for food.

Being a veteran (老练之人) traveler_______having once lived in Egypt for a year，I was no stranger to children_______or people asking me for help. But seldom had I been so_______by the sincerity of the request.

I turned back to the________and asked them to wait while I went inside to buy them food. At the counter I________two hamburgers for the boys.

When their food was ready，I walked back________and invited them in to eat with me. “No！” they cried________. “We do not belong in such a nice place！”

________to persuade them otherwise，I brought the________out，and as they took the burgers，they showered me with 30 seconds of nonstop________，praying that Allah would bless me always.

And this is________，five years later，I still ask God’s blessings for those two Egyptian boys. I________as sincerely as they had for me，________that while they had nothing material to give，they had given me something________：an awareness of my spiritual poverty and a desire for a softer heart.

【推荐3】The stage lights dimmed(变昏暗), and I took a quick look from behind the heavy black curtains into the audience. Blinded by the lights, I quickly _______.It seems that a great number of eyes were looking at me. I took a deep _______ as the music of my dance began to play. I entered the stage and began my _______, the graduation test of the classical Indian dance.

After a decade of learning,I was finally ready to take on the most difficult act.The test is the most important _______in a dancer's life as it pays respect to all the factors in one's life that _______the dance form:one's culture and family.

The performance is undertaken only by the most_______and determined students.It is a difficult process that requires much _______For more than six months,I spent two to three hours every day _______ these dances.Many times,1_______myself to my physical and mental breaking point,but still I would not stop.I could not give up.There was always so much more to do and so much more to________.

I discovered a lot about myself in those tiring hours,and I forced myself to meet my ________.Even when I was at the end of my limit,there was always something ________ me on,forcing me not to give up.

Fortunately,I made it.What I had done ________ the success.It was in those hours that I learned what a dancer ________ is.Those time was evidence that I could achieve something I________out to do.