【推荐1】Animal Control Officer Bob McGrath was patrolling Cable Beach in Rye on Saturday. Then he _________a woman named Olivia Ireland, who was metal detecting along the beach _________. “I saw the lady near the water with a metal detector, on a busy beach day and thought it was a little _________,” Bob explained to The Portsmouth Herald. “I went and asked if she was having any luck.”

Through his _________with Olivia, Bob learned that she was _________to find her lost engagement ring, which recently fell off her finger in the water. “It was the day of the company party. I just came back from rowing. When I was in the water up to my knees with my _________for some fun, I felt it fell off,” Olivia recalled. “I saw it _________but then couldn’t find it. I was there with some coworkers and we _________for several hours, only to fail.”

After _________her story, Bob who has been metal detecting since he was 14, knew he had to help. Around 9:30 p.m., the animal control officer ____________to the beach with his detector ____________it was at low tide and began to ____________the area with his metal detector. It only took about an hour before Bob was ____________and found the lost ring, which was ____________under about six inches of sand.

Because it was late at the time of his ____________, Bob waited until Sunday morning to ____________ the good news to Olivia. “I could hear her ____________voice,” Bob recalled. “She said she never knew there were so many ____________people willing to help until this happened. She never thought, in this vast ocean, that it would be found.”

Rye Police Chief Kevin Walsh later ____________Bob for his actions: “Bob is definitely the superstar of this story. He is a police chief’s dream. He goes the extra mile for people because he cares about them and he shows the ____________we want in our officers.

【推荐2】I was 11 when I asked my mum for piano lessons. We were in an economic crisis and she'd recently been _______ off. She said a polite “no”.

That didn't _______ me. I drew a keyboard onto a piece of paper and stuck it on my desk. I would _______ notes on an online keyboard and “play” them back on my paper one — keeping the sound they made on the computer in my head. I spent six months playing without _______ a real piano. As my mum found I was _______ about it, she bought me 10 lessons with borrowed money.

I still remember the first one. I was _______ by how organic the sound of the piano was, as I had become familiar with the _______ electronic sound. The teacher was trying to explain where middle C was, but I could _______ play all the major and minor scales.

I _______ my grade one after eight lessons and got distinction. By the time I started secondary school, we couldn't ________ lessons again, so I returned to my paper keyboard. I passed grade three, then grade five, practising only on my piece of paper.

For the grades above that, there was an ________ that you add a certain sensitivity into your playing. The music teacher at my school said I could practise on the school's grand piano. I would wake up at 5:30 am to get there in time and play until lessons started. I'd ________ lunch and then practise after school until the caretaker kicked me out. At home, I'd have dinner, do three hours of revision, and then ________ practice until 1:00 am.

My school didn't offer music A-level. I found the Purcell School for young musicians. The audition （试镜）was extremely ________ , and I felt overwhelmed. To my amazement, I was offered a ________.

I had been told I had started playing too ________ to reach conservatoire （音乐学院）level, but when I left Purcell, I was awarded the senior piano prize. That was the point when I realized I wasn't behind everyone else. I am now at the Guildhall School in London, where I was offered a scholarship. I feel ________: it’s been 10 years since I drew my paper piano and I'm at one of the world's ________ conservatoires.

The irony is that I continue to do a lot of my practice away from the piano: what we call mental practice. It ________ key areas of the mind that are less readily accessed by piano playing alone. The paper piano helped stimulate my ________ about how music works.

【推荐3】Suffering the bone-weakening disease, Gary Rosheisen was a wheelchair-bound man living alone.His house felt_________and he brought home Tommy, an orange cat that soon became his best_________.

Because of his significant___________problem including seizures（疾病的突然发作）, Gary always kept the___________in the living room on the floor, and it had a speed-dial button_________to call 911. Gary trained Tommy in how to_________that button whenever he felt better___________there were any emergencies.

Then one day, while in his bedroom, Gary had a seizure which_________him to fall out of his wheelchair and onto the floor. Once the seizure_________, Gary soon realized he was unable to       _____. What made him feel terrible was that he__________to put his cell phone on the bed. So he lay there,__________and desperate.

Meanwhile, the police received a call from Gary's     _______. No one said anything. The line was__________，and then disconnected. And the dispatcher（ 调度员）__________, hoping to get an answer. When the phone just rang and rang, police were sent to______________.

Officer Patrick Daugherty entered the home and found Gary and his__________cat, Tommy. Tommy was lying next to the phone, while Gary was_________on the floor in his bedroom， And so, the only_________was that Tommy's training had been far more_________than Gary thought.

Thanks to the call made to the police! Both he and the police considered Tommy a hero.

【推荐2】There was a knock at the door of Great-Grandma Smith's home one Thanksgiving. Since she was the __ for this family holiday, she got up, opened the door, and shouted with delight, "Look who's here!"

She _____ a young man into the house, hugged him, and said, “It's ____ to see you again! Everyone will be so delighted!" Great-Grandma then hurried to ____ his coat and led him to the table. "Oh, just look who's here!” she ______ with joy. The families _____ to each other. She moved things around and _____ him in a seat between my uncle and herself. He was __ by families on both sides and faced Great-Grandpa Smith across the table.

"Coralie, get us another place setting!^”   Great-Grandma ______"We're so sorry that we ______ without you. No one knew you were coming,” she _____. "But you're just going to love everything. We have turkey and many other ______. Oh, and Coralie made an apple and a pumpkin pie for dessert even! So, just help yourself. My dear, it's a long time since I saw you!" She patted his arm again and ________ .

No one had __ her joyful speech from the moment she left the table to answer the door. After looking around the table at our ______, the young man turned and looked ______at Great-Grandma Smith's face, which was filled with love and joy. He said in a(n) __ voice, "I don't __ any of you. I just stopped at your house to get ___ !”

"But I really appreciate your warm-hearted dinner on this special day as I have lost my way here,” he added with ____ in his eyes.