【推荐1】In the clinic, I asked if Michael could be retested, so the specialist tested him again. To my ________, it was the same score.

Later that evening, I ________ told Frank what I had learned that day. After talking it over, we agree that we knew our ________ much better than an IQ test. We ________ that Michael’s score must have been a ________and we should treat him ________ as usual.

We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year. He got ________ grades in the school, especially in biology and chemistry, which was a great ________ for the couple.

Michael ________ Indiana University in 1965 as a pre-medical student, soon afterwards, his teachers permitted him to take more courses than ________. In 1968, he was accepted by the School of Medicine, Yale University.

On graduation day in 1972, Frank and I ________ the ceremony at Yale. After the ceremony, we told Michael about the ________ IQ score he got when he was six. Since that day, Michael sometimes would look at us and say ________, “My dear mom and dad never told me that I couldn’t be a doctor, not until after I graduated from medical school!” It is his special way of thanking us for the ________ we had in him.

Interestingly, Michael then ________ another IQ test. We went to the same clinic where he had ________ the test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126, an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be ________.

Children often do as ________ as what adults, particularly parents and teachers, ________ of them. That is, tell a child he is “ ________”, and he may play the role of a foolish child.

【推荐2】Dad is a liar(说谎者), definitely. He never tells the truth about anything_______, or anything that he thinks is bad to me, even though I_______that I don’t mind hearing these things.

He is the kindest man I have ever met, who never_______others, as well as the_______man, for he’s always hard on himself. Every time I_______home from college and asked Dad how his_______was getting on, he would always reply, “Oh, couldn’t be_______!” When I asked my mum the same question on the phone,_______, she honestly told me every_______with Dad’s business. I didn’t blame Dad for his________. I felt a deep sympathy for him.

Dad is a miser (吝啬鬼), undoubtedly. I hardly see Dad wear________clothes. In fact, his closet is half empty. Even in this half, two-thirds is occupied by Mum’s clothes and the other________belongs to him. I urged him to buy some new clothes,________he simply shook his head, “The old clothes are still good enough.” Were they? I saw________in them.

It________my heart up when I saw Dad________terribly with his hand covering his mouth. When the pains became unbearable, he________took some pills.

So it surprised________when the day came that Dad got sick. He was lying in bed. And all the family gathered around him. I knelt(跪) by his bedside, tears filling my eyes.

Dear Dad, you’ve been________yourself too hard, which you should not have. I know I might as well________a river to flow backward as hope to talk you out of working so hard. But I still want to say, “Dad, take better care of yourself!”

【推荐3】I have invented robots that   crawl   (爬)   through   pipes   to   check   them   for   damage.   Two   of   my____________ allow cars to be used as power plants on wheels. My love of building things __________   when I was a kid. It wasn’t until I learned about Thomas Edison, though, that I really became excited about inventing.

When I was in fourth grade, our teacher gave us a ____________. We   had to write to a company and learn   about the   __________________   it made. Each student would then give a report in front of the class to finish the project   (课题). I____________ the Thomas A. Edison Company.

Soon after I wrote to the company,   our mailman delivered a _______________   to me. It contained a book about       the life of   Thomas   Edison.   How   I________________ reading   and   rereading   about   his   inventions!   The   ones   that impressed me most were movies, recorded sound and the electric light. Edison became my hero.

My dad noticed my interest in inventing and ____________   me. He showed me how to turn my ideas into plans and, finally into new things.

Together, my dad and I repaired radios and televisions. Once, I surprised my dad with a ________________   I made to adjust the brakes (刹车) of our car. Later, we found a similar tool in a store. That’s when I learned that______________ inventors often invent similar things. It is not ____________   for this to happen. I learned, too, that not all great   ideas work.______________ is a common part of the inventing process.

As my father and I worked together, I began to______________ that my dad was quite an inventor himself. His   guiding hands, combined with my _______________   in inventing, led me to become an engineer and inventor. But I am_______________ to Thomas Edison, too, for first lighting that bulb (电灯泡) inside me.

【推荐1】Sandy MacNeill was vacationing in Florida. One day, he was walking down a street in Indian Rocks Beach right when Tom Reddon _________ to the sidewalk.

Reddon had just had a quick warm-up walk with his friend when he _________ fell to the ground, unconscious. As Reddon’s _________ called 911, two passing pedestrians ran to _________ someone who could _________ CPR (心肺复苏术) — and luckily, they managed to _________ MacNeill.

Though MacNeill says that he has taken several CPR classes in the past, he had _________ actually performed the procedure on another person until Reddon.

MacNeill immediately performed nonstop chest compressions on Reddon _________ the ambulance arrived on the scene five minutes later.

After being _________ to the hospital nearby for emergency surgery, Reddon was __________ treated for heart attack — and he says that he is apparently very __________ to be alive.

“For my type of heart attack, the success rate is not very __________, so to have somebody there to __________ call 911, to do CPR and to have a __________ close by … and to have cardiac surgeons on hand to give me a(n) __________, I mean, it’s amazing that everything fell together so __________ for me,” Reddon told CBC.

It wasn’t until later when the two Canadian men were reunited that they __________ that they were both from Fredricton, New Brunswick.

“It’s __________ that we come from the same place.” Reddon said. “We got along famously well, and I think we’ll get together when we __________ in Fredericton over a glass of beer or two and __________ life and things like that.”

【推荐2】Ivan Fernandez Anaya is a long- distance runner from Spain who competes in cross-country and marathon races. Ivan showed his_______on a race track in Navarra, Spain, and he lost the race _______showing the world what true sportsmanship looks like!

Ivan was just about to finish a cross-country race when he_______Abel Mutai, a Kenyan athlete who' d been in the lead, began to slow down as he_______the finish line. Abel did not understand Spanish so he got _______by the signs and thought he had already_______. Ivan saw what was happening in an instant and could have_______dashed past his opponent (对手) to win the race himself._______, he slowed his own pace and pointed Abel towards the_______finish line so he could win.

“He was the rightful ________,”Ivan said later. “He created a gap (鸿沟) that I couldn't have closed if he hadn't made a ________ As soon as I saw he was stopping, I knew I wasn't going to________him.

Everyone who witnessed the whole________was rightfully impressed with Ivan' s actions! He didn't ________to do that, only__________that being an athlete with right________is one of the most important aspects of sports. Later, a journalist asked Ivan why he didn't________the opportunity to win the race and he________his reason for doing that, “…But if I did that, what would be the________of my victory? What would be the honor of that ________? What would my mom think of that?”

【推荐3】It was a hot, wet summer day a few years ago. At a local gas station, I noticed two elderly ladies _________ away from their car. There was a look of shock and _________ on their faces. I looked and saw what they saw. Five wasps (大黄蜂)had started to _________ a nest around the gas cap. My eyes _________ in surprise. I shared the ladies' fear. The nest seemed to be forming.

Wasps had never been _________ of mine. Several times wasps had _________ me while I was cutting my grass, bringing me a lot of pain _________ I was afraid to cut the grass for a long time.

The most _________ time, however, was when I was a young boy. A friend of mine and I were running and playing in my backyard. I had _________ stepped on one of their hidden nests because before we knew it, we were being run after and __________ over and over by the wasps. We ran to my mom with tears in our eyes. My mom immediately let us have a cold bath and put us in the __________ water before giving us medicine to fight all the __________ in our little bodies from the stings(刺毛).

Recalling the past stings, I knew I couldn't let fear prevent me __________ others now. I reached into my back pocket for a paper towel and tore out the nest while the __________ wasps flew around me. The ladies finally thanked me and I said “You're welcome!” with a smile and a(n) __________ heart.

【推荐1】I was ready to pay for my bananas at the grocery one night, when fear seized me. My wallet was gone. I could only have left it on the G9 bus, which was now speeding in the dark to some _______ station. How much time and money would it cost to replace the contents of that little wallet? The credit cards, the driver’s license, the cash, all lost to the bus.

Two hours later, I heard a knock on the door. My husband answered it while I was on the phone. In my husband’s hand was my wallet, with not a penny _______. She left before I could even make it to the door to offer my thanks.

After sharing the story online, someone identified the lady as Erin Smith. Without _______, I called to thank her. She said she _______ my wallet on a bus seat. “If I were in that situation, I would want someone to try to find me,” she said.

This one stranger responded beautifully to my small _______, but she actually wasn’t the only one. Right after Erin took my wallet on the bus, she posted a picture of my driver’s license to an online forum, trying to see _______ anyone knew me. No sooner did she leave my doorstep than I had emails from two women whose kids go to my son’s nursery and who recognized my face. I’ve never _______ words with those moms beyond small talk, but they wanted to help. I read that people are more divided than ever, but that’s not how the people I _______ tend to act.

Erin had gone _______ what almost anyone would have done, finding my house on a bitterly cold night, and for that I was extremely __________.

【推荐3】Over the weekend, a ______damaged houses, roads, and bridges, leaving many people nowhere to go. The powerful flood damaged Hagan’s bridge, leaving him and his wife______from the community (社区). He turned to social media but never______he would receive a call from his grandson’s coach Ryan Jesop. “The Hagans have done so much for this area, so it was a/an______decision to help,” Jesop said.

The Switzerland County football coach drew up a plan telling his team to build a new bridge ______the old broken one. Hagan received a(n)______that a team would be at his house Monday at 9 a.m. to work. “People I’d never seen before were walking down my driveway to help us,” Hagan said. “It was______and brought tears to my eyes.”

______, the steel frame base structure (钢架基础结构) of the bridge wasn’t damaged by the flooding. Dozens of people went to the bridge and______the old one plank (木板) by plank. Then the team built it back up by______an assembly line (流水线). “The______of our team is to help them through teamwork,” student Linebacker Gabriel Rose said. The team______the project in only a few hours. “They were here at nine o’clock, and I looked at my______when it was done and it was 11:45,” Hagan said. The Hagans now reconnected with their______thanks to their grandson’s football team. As for Coach Jesop, he is chalking it up as the biggest______of the season.