【推荐1】Recently, I received an invitation to have dinner at my friend’s house, and it turned out to be a meal unlike any I had ever experienced before.

All the friends invited were a little_______. It’s not that Ben is unsociable or a bad cook, but he is known for never _______ more than necessary. So, why was he hosting a meal for us? Did he buy something _______ for his friends? When we arrived, Ben greeted us at the door and led us into his dining room, where a beautifully set table awaited us. “Nothing but the_______ for my friends!” Ben exclaimed. We all sat down and looked nervously at each other — what did he_______ to?

Soon, Ben returned with four bowls of steaming hot soup. “It’s a _______of carrots, potatoes, and tomatoes,” he explained. The next course was equally mysterious, as it was _______blend of vegetables.

As we ate, we chatted, and eventually, the _______turned back to the food we were eating. Marina asked, “Did you follow a recipe for this, or did you _______it up?” Ben paused and put down his fork. “What I cooked ________ what I could find,” he replied. Marina was taken aback. “But you can find anything in supermarkets these days.” Ben smiled and responded, “True, but there’s________variety in what you can find outside of supermarkets.”

Seeing that we had all finished the food, Ben decided to tell the truth. He had read recently that supermarkets usually ________ away 5 percent of their food every day. So Ben decided to look inside his local supermarket bins. There he found food that was slightly out of________ , boxes of throw-away vegetables and fruit.

So Ben had ________ provided a decent (不错的) meal for his friends, and made us aware of the fact that there are many poor people who need the food, but the amount of discarded food is enough to________ millions of people.

【推荐2】When I was a teenager, we were the only family in our New York town that didn’t own a car. And having no car was ___because all my friends’ parents did. We were poor. Suddenly a moment arrived ___my life forever. For weeks a new Buick Road Master had stood in the window of the biggest store on Main Street. Now, on the special night, I stayed in the shadows at the edge of the crowd waiting for the winning ___to be drawn.

It had never even entered my mind that we would ___. But the loudspeaker called my father's name! ___I wormed my way up to the platform, the mayor had presented dad with the __, and he had driven off amid cheers. I ran home. Mother met me and told me that my father had asked Jim, his boss, if he wanted to buy a ticket. Jim said yes and my dad ___two tickets in his own name with his own money, ___ 348 for Jim and the winning number was 348 instead of ___one 349.

“Your father is struggling with a/an ___problem. But I think if you have character, you have the better part of wealth and I know your father will do what is right,” mother said ___. At last we heard dad’s step on the front porch，I held my ___. He went straight to the ___in the dining room and dialed. Jim’s phone rang for a long time...

___over the years, I know now we were never ___than we were at the moment when dad made the telephone call.

【推荐3】Since the popularity of smart phones, people spend lots of time on their phones, either messaging other people,

Firstly, spending too much time on cell phones may__________cancer. Scientific studies have__________that low levels of radiation(辐射) are given off from the batteries(电池) of cell phones. Not only that, but phones are constantly using microwaves to send and _________information. Since many people use their cell phones near their heads, long time exposure（暴露） could eventually lead to some very___________and unhealthy effects.

Secondly, when people spend too much time on their cell phones, they__________on the things going on around them. This has been proven over and over again by___________who use their phones while in their cars. This has been such a major cause of car___________, because drivers are too distracted（分心） by their phones to__________the road, that most states in the U.S. have banned（禁止） the __________of cell phones while driving. There are also other cases showing how using cell phones can_________people to miss out on the things around them. For example, I went hiking with a friend a few weeks ago. She was so__________to her cell phones the whole time that she missed out on all the__________things we saw on the mountains, and didn’t get a___________to experience the same awe(敬畏) of nature as I was able to experience.

Lastly, spending too much time on cell phones makes people forget how to have normal conversations._______, when people use text messaging, they use a form of shorthand known as “Netspeak” to________on the size of messages and make typing them on small keyboards fast and easy.________this, many people forget how to spell and use grammar__________.

【推荐1】When Julie got back home from school that afternoon, she noticed a pigeon sitting very closely to the front door of her ________ . It seemed as if the pigeon hadn't moved at all. Julie moved ________, noticing the pigeon had a wound on its left wing. Anxious that a dog or a cat would eat the ________ animal, Julie ran upstairs to tell her mom about the bird.

"We have to help it!" Julie insisted. Whereas Julie's mom made a disgusted face, "I don't want to. Pigeons usually have ________" she said. Julie began to cry. This made Julie's mom feel bad. She ________, but she gave Julie some ________ that the pigeon had to stay in the kitchen in a storage bin. Julie's mom didn't want to touch the ________ bird.

While Julie tried to ________ the bird bits of moist bread, Julie's mom looked online for local animal ________ organizations. She felt silly trying to save an injured pigeon. Finally she found an organization that would ________ the bird, but not until the next morning. Julie stayed up all night ________ the bird.

The next morning Julia and her mother took the ________ to the bird rescue organization. Many people on the train gave Julie and her mother ________ looks. Julie's mother just shrugged. When they ________ the site, the worker welcomed them warmly ________ a big smile, "It's so kind of you to do this. This means ________ to the pigeon!" ________ goodbye to the worker, Julie looked so ________ with a slight flush on her cheeks. On their way home, leaning on her mother' shoulder, Julie said softly, "Thank you, mom, for your support and ________." Julie's mom patted her head, "I'm proud of you, sweetheart. You've taught me ________: Every life deserves to be respected and loved."

【推荐2】It was the first night of a tiring seven-day 250km race across the Gobi Desert a year ago. Mr. Leonard found a little dog going around his camp trying to __ herself.

“Cute, but I’m not giving you any, ”Leonard thought.   Like all __ , he had packed just enough for the whole race. He’d been running competitively for three years, and he had a __to win.

The next day, at the starting line, the dog __ him again. He waved her away, __ she might be stepped on by the runners.   However, the dog followed him all the way until the day s race __ .   That night the dog snuggled (紧贴) up to Leonard again and finally __   get a little food from him. By then, he was determined to name her Gobi.

The pair went on to finish the seven-day race, with Gobi __ a distance of 125km on her own, and that was enough for him to make a __ he would take her home to Edinburgh.   “Seeing Gobi on the race changed my attitude to things. It made me think more about stopping and helping her, __ just focusing on winning, ” said Leonard, who finished second.   “It also made my running more __, giving me a lot of pleasure. ”

As Leonard was preparing to get Gobi home, she was __ . With a group of 20 local volunteers coming to his __ , he finally found her. After that, Leonard never let Gobi out of his __. Now Gobi’s favorite activity is still running, and she __ does at least 8km with Leonard up the hills.

【推荐3】Protecting China's Giant Pandas

China's giant pandas show the achievement of the international effort to save animals that are now in danger. In television programmes we often see pandas_________funny games. Children have panda toys and beautiful cards with pictures of lovely_________in them. They often visit the giant pandas in the zoos on_________holidays and have a good time there. However , scientists are worried about the_________of giant pandas. They know only about 1,000 giant pandas remain_________today. They think the giant pandas will die out in 30 years if the present conditions are not ________.

It is reported that the giant pandas have a very________birth rate. About 115 pandas live in the zoos and research centres mainly in China, but during the past 10 years they_________only 34_________pandas that are still alive. The survival rate of giant pandas in the wild is probably the same or lower.

There are several reasons for the low_________. The main reason is_________male pandas can make love with females in a very_________season—only a few days a year. When they do have babies, females often produce two pandas , but the mother is usually not able to care for_________of them. The newborn pandas________only a few kilograms each. They are too weak to live without special care. In the zoo, scientists can help the mothers_________the young pandas, but those living in the wild do not get enough_________. It is very difficult for mother pandas to bring up their young pandas.

Conditions for the giant pandas have been worse in recent years. Pandas in China continue to_________in number. We know pandas live on bamboos. But sometimes all the bamboos in one area die. The pandas there have_________to eat and die of hunger.

Giant pandas now live in 13 separate_________areas in China. Several years ago the Chinese government and the International Wildlife Organization agreed_________a project of protecting giant pandas in the wild. We hope it could be useful.