【推荐1】Robin Hughes, 60, is a special education teacher at SouthShore Charter Academy in Riverview, Florida. She was reading a book about snow when she noticed that some of the children looked _________.

When she asked how many of them had_________snow before, only two of them raised their hands. Hughes, who grew up in Louisa, Kentucky, was shocked. “It’s hard for kids to _________the concept because they don’t have the relevant knowledge.”

_________to show her students snow for the first time, Hughes reached out to her sister, Amber Estes, who lives in Danville, Kentucky. She asked her to make a snowman and_________ it overnight to her, but Estes didn’t think it would be possible.

“I said to her, ‘We haven’t had a considerable amount of snow.’ I was making every excuse in the world,” Estes told The Washington Post. “In the end, I accepted the _________hesitantly because I knew that I would never have to live up to it anyway.”

But in January, after Danville was_________with 10 inches of snow, Estes went into her backyard and made a snowman, _________with blueberry eyes, a carrot nose, and sticks for arms.

She then packed it into a container filled with _________ packs and sealed the box__________ . It cost $78 to overnight the snowman to her sister’s __________ through the U. S. Postal Service. Estes named the snowman “Lucky” in the hope that he’d make the 800-mile journey to Florida without__________.

So Hughes’ students met Lucky__________. The kindergartners__________gathered around the box to look at the snowman, and some couldn’t resist__________ him.

【推荐3】When Walter Myers was growing up, he showed great interest in reading books. He would be the whole day _________ in books. Today, he is the author of more than 100 books, most of them _________ children.

Myers was _________ in a black neighborhood. As a boy, he loved _________   people in his community. But he couldn’t find many books about the stories of _________   people. So he chose to write the stories that reflect the lives of kids. “Some kids feel abandoned（被遗弃的）or _________ ,”Myers says, “but they’ll _________ a book of mine and find themselves or their families.”

It takes lots of _________ to write as many books as Myers does, but he loves it. He gets up early in the morning, and then begins his _________   at home. Myers first writes a (n)__________ for every book, which he calls prewriting. He imagines what the story will be, writing down ideas in a notebook. To __________   enough action and dialogue for a good story, he comes up with thirty __________ .He writes a short description of each scene in his notebook. He also __________ pictures of real people and pins（用图钉钉住）them on his office walls to get ideas for characters.__________ he knows what the story will be and who the characters are, he begins to write the whole book. He __________ five pages a day on his computer.

When Myers is not prewriting a book, he might be rewriting something he has already __________.Then he’ll send the story to his __________.They may make suggestions for the story. After these final __________ are made, the book is published and __________ its way to bookstores and libraries.

By that time, he’ll be in __________ for his next book. “I want to do the best with my writing,” Myers says. “I don’t have a need to do anything else.”

【推荐1】Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503. He was working _______a special painting for a church at that time, _______ the church painting was not _______ well. An Italian businessman asked da Vinci to paint a picture of his second ________. This is the woman who _______ be seen in the Mona Lisa.

All in all, the Mona Lisa is a very good example of da Vinci’s _______ and it satisfied the husband. Da Vinci used _______ and light in a clever_______ in the painting. Da Vinci loved science and _______. Right away a person can see that there is a lot of geometry (几何形状) in the Mona Lisa. The face of the Mona Lisa is made of many circles and ________ shapes like________. Even her ________ can be seen as a small part of a large circle. The woman in the ________ is sitting on a balcony, and ________ can be seen behind her because Da Vinci loved to study rocks, and these can also be seen________ in his other paintings. The woman is sitting with her knees ________ the side. Her head is turned to look out of the painting. Her hands are ________ together in front of her. This way of ________ is now used by many ________ when they are ________. The Mona Lisa is a remarkable master.

【推荐2】An artist had painted many pictures of great beauty. But he thought that he had not yet painted the most beautiful picture still. So he packed up and started to look for the most beautiful _________ for it.

In his_________ along a dusty road, he met a priest(牧师)who asked him where he was going. “I do not know, ” said the artist, “I want to paint the most beautiful thing in the world. Perhaps you can show it to me. ”

“How_________,” replied the priest, “In any church, you will find it. Faith, is the most beautiful thing in the world.”

The artist traveled on. _________ he met a young woman who told him that the most beautiful thing in the world is “Love”. She said, “Love _________ the world a beautiful place. It can _________ the poorest life into a beautiful thing. Without love there would be no _________ in life.”

The artist _________ his journey and met a soldier. The artist asked him the _________ question and the soldier answered, “Peace is the most beautiful thing in the world. Wherever you find peace, you’ll find Beauty, Faith and Love.”

“How can I __________ them—Faith, Love and Peace?” thought the artist. As he went on, he kept__________ how he could set them down on paper. He was __________ that without thinking where he was going, he reached a __________ house. After he entered the door, his face lit up and he __________ that his search was over.

In the __________ of his wife and children, he saw Love, Faith and more. “Not a minute passed by that our children and I had not__________ you. We prayed that you would return to us __________ ” his wife said as they held him in their arms. As he sat down in his __________ old chair, he came up with a very good __________ for the picture.

At last, the artist got the most beautiful picture in the world and called it “ __________”.

【推荐1】Travis laughed as he tore at the wrapping paper on his birthday present. He was so _____! Finally, he would have the coolest pair of name-brand basketball shoes.

All the guys in his team were wearing the name-brand shoes of a popular basketball player, Chuck Hart. _____ Hart was criticised for his poor sportsmanship and infamous _____, he was a great player. In fact, Travis wasn’t thinking about Hart’s behaviour；he had only expected to see Hart’s name on the side of the box. The first indication that something was _____ came as he tore away the last piece of paper. Not Hart’s. The new shoes were the name-brand of another player, Robert Ryann, who was _____ for his amazing work in the community.

Travis’s hands _____; his heart stopped. It wasn’t that the Ryann shoes weren’t nice, but what would his friends think? They were the wrong shoes and Travis would be _____ by the other players. When he looked up into his dad’s eyes, however, Travis _____ he would not tell him. “Thanks, Dad. I was really hoping for the shoes,” Travis said as he pulled the shoes out of the box.

The next morning his dad drove him to school. When they _____ in front of his destination, Travis slowly opened the car door. Just then, his dad stopped him. “Hey, Travis, wait a minute, look...” his dad said ______, “Travis, I know those aren’t the shoes you had hoped for, but I saw the names of the two guys and made a（n） ______. The guy whose name is on those shoes,” he said, pointing down at Travis’s feet, “is someone I admire. Do you know how often Ryann has found himself in ______?”

“No,” Travis said.

“Never. He’s never talked back to his coach or started a fight, and he’s a team player. You could have acted like a（n） ______ when you didn’t get the shoes you wanted, Travis, but you were polite and made the best of it. You have such a good ______, like the guy whose name is on these shoes. I’m hoping that someday, your name will be on the coolest pair of shoes I’ll ever see.”

When Travis looked down at his feet, he saw the shoes ______. His dad had used his mind and heart to give the son a thoughtful gift.

【推荐2】It was raining heavily. I was ________to go for the physical training and was________at Fort Campbell, where the traffic was moving slowly. I was probably going to be late and growing more and more________. The speed slowed almost to zero as I________Memorial Grove, the site built to honor the soldiers who died in an airplane crash.________it was close to Memorial Day, a small national flag had been________in the ground next to each soldier’s memorial plaque (墓碑).

My________at the time was getting past the bottleneck, getting out of the rain and getting to the physical training on time. To my________, just as the traffic was getting started again, the car in front of me stopped. A soldier________in the pouring rain and ran over toward the Memorial Grove.

I couldn’t ________it! This stupid man was________everyone for no reason! I________sounding the horn (喇叭), with the purpose of________the same worry and anger in him.

He was getting completely________. He ran up to one of the memorial plaques,________the small national flag that had________and set it straight again. Then, he came to attention, took a(n)________salute (敬礼), ran back to his car and drove off.

I’ll never forget what happened that day. That soldier________me more about duty, honor, and respect. That simple salute-the act of________his dead brothers moved me. All the army values were contained in one gesture.

I am thankful for examples like that. I will remember all those who gave up their________for our motherland as well as the soldier who honored them in the heavy rain.

【推荐3】The books in David’s schoolbag felt like bricks as he ran down the street. What he wanted to do was to play basketball with Eric, ___his mother told him he would have to return his sister’s books to the library first. He had ___ set foot in a library and he wasn’t about to do so today. He would just____the books in the outside return box. But there was a ___; it was locked. He went into the building, only a few minutes ___closing time. He put the books into the return box. And after a brief____in the toilet, he would be on his way to the playground to ___Eric.

David stepped out of the toilet and stopped in ___- the library lights were off. The place was __ . The doors had been shut. They ___be opened from the inside, he was trapped(被困) - in a library! He tried to   ___a telephone call, but was unable to ____ What’s more, the pay phones were on the outside of the building. ___the sun began to set, he searched for a light and found it. ____he could see. David wrote on a piece of paper: “ ___! I’m TRAPPED inside!” and stuck it to the glass door. ___, someone passing by would see it. He was surprised to discover that this place was not so unpleasant, ___. Rows and rows of shelves held books, videos and music. He saw a book about Michael Jordan and took it off the shelf. He settled into a chair and started to____.He knew he had to __ , but now, that didn’t seem to be such a ___thing.