【推荐1】Canadian students devote much of their spare time to community volunteering. In fact，most schools require their students to ______ a certain number of community hours during their four years of high school. Students can find volunteer jobs at ______ places，from the school library to a charity.

Not long ago，I was a(n) ______ at a community school as a teacher's assistant (助理). Since the class I was ______ was an elementary class with students aged between 4 and 10，I needed to ______ the teacher with the class work as well as ______ the kids. From escorting (护送) them to the bathroom to ______ their fights，I helped to keep them in order.

When I started doing this job，I was very ______， as I wasn't used to dealing with kids. When I ______ talked to them，it was like there were tons of butterflies in my stomach. But as time went by，we started to ______ very well.

They began to talk about their ______ with me—what they did at the weekend，what kind of hamburgers they had at McDonald's，and what books they had ______.They also told me about their favorite cartoons and ______ their snacks with me in the classroom.

Once，the teacher asked the kids to ______ their best friends. Many of them drew a tall guy，and they said to me as they pointed at the ______，“This is you，You are my best friend.” After ______ that，I was so happy—I ______ thought I'd become so close friends with kids so much ______ than me.

______ I've already completed my community hours，I still go to the community school every week，mainly for the warm greetings from the kids and the ______ they bring me.

【推荐2】My first and favorite hero is my dad. I still _______ times when he would stay up with me to watch those funny shows at midnight after a long day of tiring work. The_______and excitement I felt every time he came home from work with a toy in his hand, _______but still willing to give me the world. And how my dad would go to the store and buy me a cartoon-themed cake_______ it wasn't my birthday because he knew how much I liked to _______ myself with cake.

Our life _______ when my sister was born. She was sick. I couldn't_______ anything except the fact that my parents were_______. She went through multiple hospitalizations, during which my mother was by my sister's side the entire time. My dad assumed the_______of my mom. I did everything with him, from sleeping in his bed because I was ________at night, to going to work with him every single day. And complaining to him that I was hungry every day after school. This________went on for years.

I didn't really care for________when I was younger. I just________they were people with super abilities. Now, I think my dad________ under that category. He has the________to make me feel happy and joyful. He makes me feel safe, warm, and loved.

【推荐3】When Pat Jones finished college，she decided to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could______she was young. Pat wanted to visit Latin America_____，so she got a job_______an English teacher in a school in Bolivia. Pat spoke a little Spanish______she was able to communicate with her students even when they didn't _____much English．

A sentence she had read somewhere stuck in her mind: if you dream______a foreign language, you have really mastered it. Pat repeated this sentence to her students and______that some day she would dream in Spanish and they would dream in_____．

One day, one of her______students came up and explained in Spanish that he had not done his homework. He had______early, but had slept _______ .

“What does this have to do with your ______?” Pat asked．

“I dreamed all night，Miss Jones. and my dream was in English.”

“In English?” Pat was very______，since he was such a bad student. She was______ secretly jealous (嫉妒的). Her_______was still not in Spanish. But she encouraged her young student. “Well，_____me about your dream．”

“All the people in my dream_____ English.” the student said. “And all the signs were in English. All the newspapers and magazines and all the TV programs were in English．”

“Great. That's______，”said Pat. “What did all the people say to you?”

“I'm sorry, Miss Jones. That's______I slept so terribly. I didn't _____a word they said. It was a nightmare (噩梦 )!”

【推荐1】It was pouring outside when we all waited inside the door of the Wal-Mart. Some were patient while others _______ , because nature messed up their hurried day. I got lost in the sound and sight of the heavens _________ the dirt and dust of the world. Memories of running, splashing so carefree as a child in the rain awoke in me as a short relief of the _________ of my day.

Then, a sweet voice broke the atmosphere, “Mom, let’s run through the rain.”

“What?” Mom asked.

“Let’s run through the rain!” She _________ .

“No, honey. We’ll wait until it _________ a bit.” Mom replied.

This young child waited about another minute and repeated it again.

“We’ll get wet if we do.” Mom said.

“No, we won’t, Mom. That’s not what you said this morning,” the young girl said firmly.

“This morning? What did I say?”

“Don’t you remember? When you were talking to Daddy about his cancer, you said if God could get us through this, he could get us through anything!”

The entire crowd stopped, _________ silent. I swear you couldn’t hear anything but the rain. Mom _________ and thought for a moment about what to say.

Now some would laugh it off and scolded her for being silly. Some might even _________ what was said. _______ this was a moment of confirmation in a young child’s life and a moment when ________ can be developed into faith. “Honey, you are absolutely __________ . If we get wet, we’ll maybe just need washing.” Mom said. Then they ran off, holding their shopping bags over their __________ just in case.

They got wet. But they were followed by a few who __________ and laughed like children all the way to their cars. And yes, I did. I got wet. I needed washing.

Circumstances or people can take away your material possessions, including __________ and health. But no one can ever take away your precious ________ . So don’t forget to take the opportunities to make memories every day!

【推荐2】Jane had lived her entire life in a small town. While she had spent decades dreaming about_________,she never took action to make it happen.

On her 65th birthday, Jane made a brave decision. She sold all her _______and with a back-pack, she set off. The first days on the road were _______—she felt like she finally lived the life she had always_________.

Yet, after a few weeks, she began feeling _________. With each new step, her legs hurt more and more. _________,she slammed (怒摔) her backpack on the ground and sat down with tears. Staring hopelessly into the road ahead, she shouted loudly. “I have nothing left in my life!”

It _______ that a life adviser heard her words. He decided to help her, so he caught hold of her backpack and _______quickly. Shocked and in complete sadness, Jane cried more loudly. “That backpack was all I had. Now everything is_________.”

About twenty minutes later, she collected her________,and slowly walked forward. Then ________, she saw her backpack on the road n short distance ahead of her. She was so__________that she couldn’t help exclaiming (喊叫),“Oh, thank heavens! Now I can continue onward.”

As we journey through our lives, we may________ incredible disappointments. During this time, it seems we’ve lost everything. __________, actually, we are holding a backpack of support.

So don’t lose ________. Keep going, and you’ll achieve your dream.