【推荐1】Have you heard of “Green hotels”? ____ you stay at a green hotel, you help reduce the unfriendly ____that hotel has on the environment.

“Green hotels” include any hotels, motels, and inns that use energy and other resources ____environmentally (环境) responsible ways. These green hotels take advantage of (利用) ____resources when possible, make effective ____of resources that can’t be reused, and ____that many byproducts(副产品)are reused or recycled.

____ 2.6 million hotel rooms are rented in the United States daily. ____, an astonishing number of hotel ____ need clothes washed, meals prepared, fresh water for showers and toilets, and energy for lights, heating, and cooling. Thus, there is a great ____ for green hotel practices(做法).

____a guest of a green hotel, you will receive quality service ____knowing you are helping the environment. Hotels also realize cost savings when they ____green hotel practices, which they can then use to ____guest services.

Some green hotels are already making a big ____. For example;

1. By switching to more energy-effective ____, the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City has saved 1.2 million kilowatt hours per year.

2. One hotel reduced water use by 2 million gallons per year when it ____a chef (厨师)who was improperly defrosting(解冻)food by running water over it.

3. The Fairmont Acapulco Princess and Fairmont Pierre Marques filter(过滤器) and treat____and reuse it to water their golf courses.

These and other green hotels are ____responsible steps, but many others have not yet accepted the green hotel challenge. You can help by supporting green hotel practices every time you ____.

【推荐2】As a physician who travels quite a lot, I spend a lot of time on planes listening for that dreaded “Is there a doctor on board?” announcement. I’ve been____only once-for a woman who had merely fainted. But the____made me quite curious about how____this kind of thing happens. I wondered what I would do if____with a real mid-air medical emergency-without access____a hospital staff and the usual emergency equipment. So____the New England Journal of Medicine last week____a study about in-flight medical events, I____it with interest.

The study estimated that there are a(n)____of 30 in-flight medical emergencies on U.S. flights every day. Most of them are not____; fainting and dizziness are the most frequent complaints.____13% of them-roughly four a day-are serious enough to____a pilot to change course. The most common of the serious emergencies____heart trouble, strokes, and difficult breathing.

Let’s face it: plane rides are____. For starters, cabin pressures at high altitudes are set at roughly____they would be if you lived at 5,000 to 8,000 feet above sea level. Most people can tolerate these pressures pretty____, but passengers with heart disease____experience chest pains as a result of the reduced amount of oxygen flowing through their blood.____common in-flight problem is deep venous thrombosis（血栓）-the so-called economy class syndrome（综合症）.____happens, don’t panic. Things are getting better on the in-flight emergency front. Thanks to more recent legislation（立法）, flights with at____one attendant are starting to install emergency medical equipments to treat heart attacks.

【推荐3】Kurt closed the door of his mother’s car with great _____. Today was the day he was finally going to be on a _____. For the first time in his life, he was going to     _____soar through the sky.

The car ride felt _____, but that’s because Kurt could not wait to get to the _____and see this ______ through. They arrived at the airport in just a few minutes. Kurt helped his mother load the trolley (手推车) neatly and then ______ it towards the terminal building proudly.

It was ______than Kurt thought it would be. It was a huge building _____ with hundreds of people looking around and ______ to get to wherever they were going. He immediately felt the rush of ______as he walked towards the _____desk.

He watched as his mother Val took out their passports and gave them to the friendly lady on the other side of the desk. Val was handed some _____ and off they went to security. Then the security officer______Kurt to empty his pockets and put his bag through the big X-ray scanner. Kurt had never done this before and felt a little ______.

But Kurt started to feel more confident after he walked through the machine. After a few minutes, the plane was ready for _____. Then the air steward took his ticket and______him down the aisle (过道) to his seat. Kurt immediately sat down in his seat, fastening his seatbelt. He just couldn’t wait to ______that weightlessness that everyone talks about at school when a plane takes off.

The plane started to move, and went backward slightly. After that the plane started to _____, going faster than Kurt had ever gone in his life in any car or boat. And then, as if by ______, the plane lifted off the ground. And Kurt knew this would be the first of many adventures that started this way.

【推荐1】It was a mid April－a time when the planet Earth turns under the hot rays of the Sun. There was a large desert in Africa with no trace of _______ except a little rose. There was not a bird or a tree in _______ . The sand dunes(沙丘) became piles of burning coal as the days _______ . But the little rose _______ the cruelty of the Sun. The Sun was very _______ to have seen the rose’s ability to _________ such unfavorable conditions.

One afternoon, the Sun said to the little _______ , “Dear Rose! I am the supreme power in this universe. I have the _______ to give and take life. Thousands of living things _______ every day, as they are not able to bear with my heat. But, you have been weathering even my hottest rays ________ any complaint. May I know the source that gave you this great ________ ?”

“Oh, mighty Sun,” the little rose said ________ , “I don’t know much about this desert. But it appears ________ and there seems to be no one else in the whole world my eye could stretch. I began to feel ________ for the loneliness of this desert and ________ to help it as possible as I could. And in this process, I never ________ anything that causes pain to me. My whole ________ has been to be a good friend to this desert and ________ its loneliness.”

________ by the little rose’s care for the large desert, the Sun offered a(n)________－millions of other roses filled the desert with their sweet smells and thus turned the entire stretch into a great oasis of life.

【推荐2】My teenage son Karl refused to talk to others after his father died. As a single parent, I tried to do my best to talk to him. But the more I tried, the more he ________. When his report card arrived during his junior year, it said that he had been absent 95 times from classes and had six ________ grades for the year. At this rate he would ________ graduate. I sent him to the school adviser, and I even begged him. ________ worked.

One night I felt so ________ that I got down on my knees and pleaded for ________. “Please God, I can’t do anything more for my son. I’m at the end of my rope. I’m giving the whole thing up to you.”

I was at work when I got a phone call. A man introduced himself as the headmaster. “I want to talk to you about Karl’s absences.” ________ he could say another word, I choked up and all my ________ and sadness over Karl came ________ out into the ears of this stranger. “I love my son ________ I just don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything to get Karl to ________ to school and nothing has worked. It’s out of my hands.” For a moment there was silence on the other end of the line. The headmaster ________ said, “Thank you for your time”, and ________ up.

Karl’s next report card showed a marked ________ in his grades. Finally, he ________ made the honor roll. In his fourth year, I attended a parent-teach meeting with Karl. I ________ that his teachers were astonished at the way he had turned himself around. On our way home, he said, “Mum, remember that ________ from the headmaster last year?” I nodded. “That was me. I thought I’d play a joke but when I ________ what you said, it really ________ me how much I was hurting you. That’s when I knew I had to make you ________.”

【推荐1】Johan and his younger brother, Rahim, had an unforgettable fishing experience. They could not spend the evening ________ their schoolwork with their mother. They had to go out fishing. Their father, a fisherman, was feeling ________ . The brothers had to catch some fish so that their father could ________ them in the market the next morning to support the family.

That evening, Rahim decided to ________ the sea early. He knew that if he and Johan were to set off late, they might not be able to find a good ________ at sea to catch plenty of fish. Rahim urged Johan to hurry and instructed him to ________ the fishing net onto their boat quickly.

While out at sea Rahim helped ________ the boat when Johan cast the net into the waters. Although it was ________ work, they were glad to be able to help their sick father. While waiting to pull the net in, the brothers took out their ________ from their bags to revise. It was not easy as they could not see clearly under the dim light from the oil lamp. Suddenly, their boat _________ hard from left to right. Rahim gasped (喘气) and held his brother’s arm __________ . Although he was __________ , Johan remained calm. He went to the __________ of their boat to take a look. He saw the net shaking.

Excited about the __________ , Johan decided to pull in the net. To his surprise, there were no fishes. Upon taking a __________ look, Johan found that the net had a huge __________ in it.

“A big fish must have damaged the net while trying to escape,” Johan __________ seeing this.

__________ , the brothers returned home. However, their parents were __________ that they had persevered (坚持) and put in their best __________ that night.

【推荐3】I had an old neighbor named Doctor Gibbs and he was always very kind.

When Doctor Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting _________. His house sat on ten acres, and his life’s   _________ was to make it a forest. He had some _________ theories about planting trees. He hardly _________ his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked _________ and he told me that watering plants spoiled them because it made them grow _________ . He said you had to make things _________ for the trees so that only _________ could survive. He talked about how watering trees made them _________ shallow root and how, if they were not watered, trees would grow __________ roots in search of water. So, __________ watering his trees every morning, he’d beat them with a rolled-up newspaper, I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s   __________ .

Doctor Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked __________ his house and looked at the trees __________ he planted some twenty five years ago. They were all tall, big and robust since they have deep roots now.

I planted a couple of trees myself a few years ago. Two years of __________ these trees meant they grew up weak. __________ a cold wind blew, their branches trembled. Adversity seemed to __________ Doctor Gibb’s trees in way comfort and ease never could.

Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I often __________ that their lives will be easy. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to __________ my prayer. I know my children are going to meet with __________. There’s always a cold wind blowing somewhere. What we need to do is to pray for deep roots, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won’t be torn apart.