【推荐1】“Long time no see” is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence from an American friend’s email, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect ____of Chinglish. Obviously, it is a word-by-word literal(照字面意思的) translation of the Chinese greeting with a ruined English grammar and structure! Later on, my friend told me that it is a standard American ____. I was too amazed to believe her. Her words could not convince me ____. So I did a search on www.google.com. To my surprise, there are over 60 thousand web pages ____ “long time no see”. This sentence has been ____used in emails, letters, newspapers, movies, books, or any other possible place. Though it is sort of informal, it is part of the language that Americans use daily.   ____, if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word, the software will tell you that the grammar needs to be corrected.

Nobody knows the ____of this Chinglish sentence. Some people believe that it came from Charlie Chan’s movies. In the 1930s, Hollywood moviemakers successfully ____a world wide famous Chinese detective named “Charlie Chan” on wide screens. Detective Chan liked to teach Americans some Chinese wisdom by quoting(引用) Confucius(孔子). “Long time no see” was his trademark. Soon after Charlie Chan, “Long time no see” became a popular phrase in the real world thanks to the popularity of these movies.

Some scholars compare America to a huge pot of stew(大熔炉). All kinds of culture are mixed in the stew together, and they ____the color and taste of each other. American Chinese, though a minority ethnic(少数民族的) group in the United States, is also influenced some changes to the stew! Language is usually the first thing to be ____in the mixed stew.

【推荐2】Many language learners think their pronunciation is good enough because their teacher doesn’t correct them too often or because other students can ____ them.  

Pronunciation is the area which is ____ the least attention to in language learning. Working on each student’s pronunciation in class is just ____. Also the students who are ____ at pronunciation may be afraid that it will embarrass their classmates if they help ____ their mistakes.  

If you believe your pronunciation is good enough to ____ because it is good enough for your teacher and other students. You may be ____ when you actually go to a foreign country. One of my friends was the best student in his ____ class in Poland. When he went to America he found Americans didn’t understand what he said.  

Your pronunciation may still be quite different from that of a native speaker. If this is the ____, other people will find it ____ to understand what you’re saying and will not be comfortable with you. ____, don’t think you can communicate in a foreign language until you’ve tested your skills on real native speakers. ____ for native or near native pronunciation so that people you talk to can communicate with you ____. In order to achieve this goal there’s ____ that you will need to start thinking about pronunciation and ____ time on it.

【推荐3】Americans used the word “friend” in a very general way. They may call many connections friends. Americans _______ school friends, work friends, sports friends and neighborhood friends. These friendships are based _______common interests. When the shared activity _______, the friendship may disappear. Now Steve and Yaser are no longer classmates. Their friendship has changed. In some _______ friendship means a strong lifelong bond between two people. In these cultures friendships develop _______, since they are built to last. American society is one of _______ changes. Studies show that one out of five American families _______ every year because they must change their jobs. The result is that American friendship develops _______．People from the United States may _______ seem friendly. Americans often chat ________ with strangers. They exchange information about their families, hobbies and work. They may ________ warmly and say “Have a nice day” or “See you later”. Schoolmates may say, “Let’s get ________ sometime.” But American friendliness is not ________ an offer of true friendship. After an experience like Yaser’s, outsiders may consider Americans to be ________ . Learning how Americans view friendship can help non-Americans avoid(避免) misunderstanding. It can also help them make friends in the American ________.

【推荐2】Once Confucius（孔子）was passing by a village where he saw an old man with his young son pulling water from the well. Confucius was ______ to see this as at that time people harnessed（使用）horses or oxen to pull ______ from the well.

Confucius with ______ went to the old man and said, “Why are you unnecessarily ____ yourself and the young man, now that we have harnessed horses and oxen?”

The old man ______ to him, “Please speak _______ I don’t want my son to hear this. I can answer you, but please ______ when my son goes for lunch.”

Confucius was puzzled. He kept ______ and waited until the old man came to him alone at ______ time. Confucius questioned, “Why would you not let your son ______ what I said?”

The old man replied, “I am 85 years old and yet I have ______ to work side by side. If today I ______ horses to pull water, then my son will not be able to have the same strength at 85 as I have now. That’s why I ______ you not to speak about it in front of my son. It’s a question of his _______ We’ve heard that in towns people use horses or machines to pull water from the well. ______ if I use them now too, then what will he do? What ______ will it have on my son’s health? If he is saved from doing hard work now, then how will he be able to   ______ his health? ”

What we do today will affect us _______. What we do on one hand has an immediate effect on the other. He who _______ during the daytime destroys his repose（休息）of the night. Rest has to be earned through______.

【推荐3】I love and enjoy playing the piano. So when the recital (音乐演奏会) was _______, I was disappointed. I had expected it for long and already _______ my best songs.

However, Mom turned this _______ into something worthwhile. “You should _______ at Carriage House Manor. I’m sure the _______ there would really appreciate the music. ”To me, this was a win-win situation because not only would I play more songs, but I have the chance to _______ the residents, some of whom unfortunately didn’t have families.

The much-anticipated day _______ arrived. Stepping into the dining area, I saw several gray-haired people seemingly enjoying a dinner and the _______. Despite on-going conversations at tables, _______ still hung like a dark cloud in the room. After introductions, I sat down in front of the piano, butterflies in my stomach. But my ________ melted away as I played on.

The dinner hour flew by. One woman got up and began to cheerfully ________ about the room to the beat of the ________ while others snapped their fingers (打响指). I was ________ to see how music brought big smiles to their faces.

Calling off the recital was a blessing because it led to us ________ the gift of music with those who needed it most. Go spread ________ whenever possible.

【推荐1】I dreamed of being a scientist at 6. However, I decided at 10 that I was going to be a teacher because I had a ________ desire for superpowers. As a boy, I could clearly see some of my teachers had extraordinary powers.

There was an English teacher who could magically ________ us to different worlds by telling us stories and reading to us from books we would otherwise never ________. It was even shocking that my teacher could see the invisible. I was one of those who lacked insight. Yet my teacher would notice me and the ________ message in her eyes suggested that she could ________ my mind. She had another superpower and even now, I could still remember her lessons about the great masters of art, expanding our ________. She did this ________ her major was not art. Her lessons went beyond the textbook. I wanted to be one of those all—seeing ones with superpowers that made children feel safe and valued.

Being a teacher isn’t the easiest or the most financially rewarding of jobs. And there are occupational risks—your knees can become worn out from years of carrying piles of notebooks up and down the school staircase, your ________ can give in from too much talking. But ________ all that, there are those choosing this ________. To them, teaching is not just a job—it is a science, an art and it ________ emotional labor and devotion.

For three decades now, I’ve gone to work early everyday with a spring in my step. Occasionally, I meet my former students. Their obvious love for me and fond ________ of our time together are my rewards. When I meet others who ________ for superpowers, like the brand-new teacher ________ to perfect her skills with a brave face on, I feel ________ to belong to the same group.

【推荐2】We walked every evening and followed the route without incidents. Though Peety had the same bright look in his eyes, I could tell he was walking_________ than usual, struggling to keep up the_________pace established over our previous walks. He still had too much life in him for me to entertain (心存，怀有) the idea that he was in his sunset years.

We were_________east, away from the brightly lit street, when a man, large and drunken, stepped out of the _________.

“You got money? ” He said.

Peety stopped in his tracks, _________at the man and growled (低吠).

“Sorry, man,” I said. “Nothing on me.”

“Come on, boy.” I pulled hard on the _________ , but he stood there, frozen, growling deeper.

“Money!” the man reached out to_________me, and Peety barked, jumping—six feet in the air—mouth open and_________the man. I dragged the chain and stopped him before his teeth made contact. The man _________and scrambled (爬) on all fours before __________ back into the darkness

Peety__________, and tried to run after him, still barking.

How close we had just come to the edge of something terrible! Tears in my eyes, I looked at Peety, wondering where he found the__________to jump so high to protect me! I took a deep breath and felt__________ that we were OK.

I got down and petted him. My voice__________when I said “let’s go home”.

Peety walked in front of me, __________me like he had way back when the whole journey first started.

【推荐3】While taking a 20-hour train ride along the edge of the Taklimakan Desert in northwestern China, I had the kind of humbling, educational, and above all else, wonderful _______ with a local that all travelers long for. A young Chinese man approached me on the train. My _______ friend spoke virtually no English, so I happily took the chance to practice my Chinese.

Over several hours, he would tell me about how he had attended a two-year professional school to quickly find a job _______ highways in order to help support his family. Perhaps the most _______. however, was the fact. that this man spent hours studying every day after hard physical labor. Without batting an eye, he would _______ a translated Emerson passage before asking about the literary influence of American writers as a whole. “And what do you all learn about Russian authors?” I _______ him asking at one point.

It would have been easy to _______ my assumptions about this highway builder who had never been more than a few hundred miles from home. But this highly informed, _______, and admirable person prevented me doing so. In the course of a couple of hours, he showed me just how much one can gain from _______ with an open mind, and a willingness to __________ with locals from all walks of life.