【推荐1】Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we come to realize that those challenges are the very things that ________ us and make us who we are, it is the same with the challenges that come with ________.

When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two ________ to beat it off or to call it quits. Although there are certainly ________ when calling it quits is the right thing, in most ________ all that is needed is ________ and communication.

When we are committed to something, it means that no matter how ________ or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to ________ it instead of running away. Communication is making a(n) ________ for discussion and talking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong. ________ you can say to a friend, “I got my feelings hurt,” ________ “You hurt my feelings,” you are going to be able to solve the problem much faster.

In dealing with many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for ________ they are: small hurdles you need to jump or ________ on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is ________ to get over, and hurt only ________ to make us stronger. It’s all part of growing up, it happens to everyone, and some day you will look back all of this and say, “Hard as it was, it made me who I am today. And that is a good thing.”

【推荐2】Choose what you want to do, and don’t stop until getting there. You can ______ beyond your wildest dreams.

My goal for myself last year was to ______ a half marathon (马拉松). I was inspired by the runners in the world, seeing them run a half then ______ a full marathon, seeing my parents-in-law’s ______ as they told me about their upcoming marathon. I knew I wanted to do a half.

I completed my first 10k last April. Feeling happy, I ______ to take the next step and sign up for the Hampton’s Half in September. As the marathon drew near, I became more ______. I just didn’t think that I was ______ to be a runner, I had never been ______ at running. Why suddenly could I do it now? 13.1 miles was further than anything I ever dreamed of. Unexpectedly, a month before the ______ I hurt my hamstring (脚筋) seriously one rainy night. ______, I felt somehow relieved. Now I had a good ______ not to run. I didn’t have to feel ______ when I couldn’t finish, because I could simply explain that I had hurt myself and could no longer ______. It was like a weight had been ______ from my shoulders.

My attitude finally changed I believe that I can do anything, and my body is ______ to do amazing things. I signed up for the DC Cherry Blossom 10 miler with some friends, and with all of them   _____ me, I couldn’t draw back. Unfortunately, while training hard, I was again ______, I hurt my knee in an accident and couldn’t ran for months. The thought of using it as an excuse that I couldn’t run came across my ______ but I threw it away after a couple of minutes. On that exciting day I ______ it to the finishing line, though not a good result. The ______ distance I’ve ever run, one I had never thought possible.

【推荐1】In seventh grade, my mum suggested I join the golf (高尔夫) team. ________ I had been taking golf lessons since I could walk, I had never played nine real holes of golf. And she ________ me to join a league (联盟)? I was sure she had lost her ________. But as always, my mother ________. I played on the middle-school golf team in seventh grade… and eighth. When the summer before high school came, I was ________ to play on the high school team.

At a time when most teenagers try to spend the smallest amount of time with their ________, I was growing closer to mine. That summer I ________ almost every Sunday morning on the golf course with my ________, and too many afternoons there with my mum. This close ________ with my parents continued during my high-school years. My mum and I talked about things in the middle of a round of golf that we would ________ do at home, where she is Mum and I am an annoying teenager. On the golf course, we’re just two people who ________ golf.

Golfing has ________ a part of me over the past years. My friends know in the summer the place to find me is on the golf course. Golf has ________ me and made me into the person I am today. And I have to ________ that all of it is thanks to my mum making me join that middle school golf league. I guess she was ________ -as usual.

【推荐3】My mother had me when she was 19. Although I did not grow up with her， I know she's kind to me because she wants to____me the best of everything. I____her when I was a teenager. It was a____ year with various kinds of quarrels and____. We were through heaven and hell ____we made it through. We have a different kind of ____，the kind of bond that you can____ from a mother and a daughter with a 19﹣year﹣age ____.

We are not the hugging﹣kissing﹣I﹣love﹣you type. For some reason I find it____to hug my mom. I make my mom feel loved and special as a friend.

We lend our____to each other from jewels to books. We do things like shopping for clothes， movies， haircuts____in our free time. I usually ask her for____on matter important to me. It creates a sense of____in her that I value her ideas. From fashion advice on my party night， to the courses I ought to ____ when I entered university， to my recent ____to get married and move out of the country， I____my mother.

And every time she gives me her thoughts， I can see her eyes ____softly， either from sadness or happiness， although I can never be too ____. But there's one thing I am certain I know my mother knows how____I am and that I love her with all my heart， even if I don't say it as ____as I should.

【推荐1】I was excited when Mr. Dudley at the newspaper office said I could have Nina's paper route. Nina's family was _______ to Texas. When I told my parents the news, they were pleased but _______.

Dad said, "Nina has had two years' _______   handling that paper route. Do you think you can _______ it?"

I told him I was sure I could learn.   My_______ purpose was to make more money, but I also looked forward to the   _______ of a larger route. I would work hard at it. My parents finally _______ that I could try. Mom added, "Try it   _______ an experiment, Marlene."

I_______ the experiment by working with Nina for two weeks. The first morning, Nina didn't ________ to think I could handle the route. She acted as if it were a lot of trouble to show me ________ she rolled and packed the papers.

That weekend when the carrying bag was ________of Sunday papers, Nina watched me riding ________ down the street on my bicycle. As I changed gears, I lost my   ________ . I fell, spilling papers all over Travis Street.

Nina and I both   ________ laughing, and she told me that the   ________ thing had happened to her.

________my little accident, Nina gave me all the help I needed. During the next few weeks, I learned to balance a   ________ bicycle. I improved my throwing arm and got used to   ________ dogs and changing weather. I also learned how to   ________ vacations, new customers, and collections. The experiment was working out just fine.

【推荐2】I sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a town of Italy.

As we enjoyed our coffee, a man entered and sat beside us. He called the waiter over, saying, ”Two cups of coffee, one of them there on the _________”

We heard his order with _______ and noticed that he was served one cup of coffee _________he paid for two.

When he left, the waiter put a piece of paper on the wall saying "A Cup of Coffee".

While we were still there, two other men entered and ______three cups of coffee , two on the table and one on the wall. They had two but paid for ______.   This time also, the waiter did the same thing.   It was ______unusual for us.

After a few days, we had a chance to enter this coffee shop again. While we were enjoying our coffee, a man _______appeared homeless entered. He looked at the wall and said, "One cup of coffee from the wall."

The waiter served a cup of coffee to this man with _____. The man had his coffee and left without _______. We were amazed to watch all of this as the waiter ________ a piece of paper off the wall and threw it into the bin.

Now it was no surprise for us---the matter was very ______. The people of   this town showed great respect for those people who needed help.

Just think about ______ this man wanted. He didn’t have to lose his face to ask for a(n)_______ cup of coffee.   _____asking or knowing who was giving him this cup of coffee, he only looked at the wall, placed an order,_____ his coffee and left.

It’s a truly beautiful thing---probably the most beautiful wall anywhere in the world.

【推荐3】I’ve been farming sheep on a hillside for 54 years. I use a small tractor (拖拉机) to get about. My dog Don always sits beside me in the passenger seat.

One morning I ______ a lost lamb when I was in the top field, near where a motorway cuts through my land. The lamb had become separated from its ______, so I jumped out of the tractor to tend to it while Don stayed in his seat.

Lamb and mother ______, I turned back to the tractor only to see it move suddenly away from me. This was so ______ because I had put the handbrake (手刹) on when I jumped out. ______ Don had somehow made the vehicle move.

My heart froze in my chest as I ______ the tractor heading towards the motorway. I ran desperately(不顾一切地) but failed to ______. It crashed through a wooden fence and disappeared. The ______ thing I saw was Don’s face, looking calmly back at me.

Heart in mouth, I reached the fence and looked over. The tractor was ______ against the crash barrier in the central reservation, having miraculously (奇迹般地) crossed the ______ road with fast-flowing traffic. I couldn’t see Don, but as I ______ the tractor he jumped out onto the road, apparently ______, and rushed back to me.

The police ______ and the motorway ran normally again. I couldn’t quite believe my ______ —it turned out no one got badly hurt, but the result could have been ______. Don was given a special meal that night—I didn’t want him thinking I was angry with him!