【推荐1】After a long day work, I was heading home tired but happy. Stopping at a fruit market, I chose a _______ space and reversed (倒车) in. But then I was being _______ by one of these passers-by of almost running her daughter over. The girl was actually a teenager, who was old enough to have her own common _______. It is seldom to see a little kid running wild in a carpark, where you would _______.

After I parked, I walked up to the lady and _______ her what else I could have done. When she pointed out that I was heading into one car space but changed my mind, I told her _______ that I had never intended for the parking space in front and mentioned that I had my reverse lights _______. “So let’s just regard it as a misunderstanding, shall we?” I suggested, rather than _______ with her about the parking. She said “Yes, let’s”, but showed me her _______ face.

Later, an elderly couple nearby who had ________ it all and told me I had ________ it well and that the angry woman was in the wrong. This ________ some comfort to me. While in the market, I thought about the ________. If I had responded to the lady in anger, then I would have ended up taking her poison on too. But by managing to stay calm, there was a totally different ________.

Car parks in summer are never the most ________ places to be anyway. Fuses (导火线) run short ________ the heat and busyness. People are likely to lose ________ in crowds. But if we are able to ________ other people instead of only thinking of ourselves, it will avoid adding more ________ to the fire.

The car park incident left me with ________ and self-love while it left the other people with anger. I know which I would prefer.

【推荐2】Start Today

＂What can you do when you have done nothing but mess up(把……搞糟)your whole life long?" These were the ____________ I heard when I turned on the TV the other day. They came from one of the talk shows that are so   ____________ on TV these days. I started to turn the channel but the words I heard made me ____________looked at the speaker. He couldn't have been more than 18 years old,   ____________ already thought of his life as a useless waste.

I wanted to ____________ at him,"You are not dead yet!”

It is so ____________ that so many people can't get rid of the past or live in the present. There are people in their twenties who already think they have ___________ the boat to success and happiness.There are people in their thirties and forties who sit around ____________ that life has passed them by. I want to shout at them all, “____________!You are still young! Chances are everywhere!”

If you want a happy life,you   ____________ just think about your past mistakes. If you want joy and love in your life, you must ____________ them today.Never put off what should be chosen until tomorrow!

A new chance in life   ____________ before us every morning. We can live with hope starting at this moment. It doesn't matter how hard our   ____________has been.Our present can be full of joy and our future can be full of happiness. It doesn't matter ___________ we are eight or eighty-we can still make our lives wonderful. Life isn't over   ___________ your last heartbeat. Start today,then,to make your heart beat with joy and love.

【推荐3】The most destructive(破坏性的)wildfire in California’s history started on Nov 8, 2018, ______ by bad electrical cables(电缆)in the town of Paradise. It burned for 17 days and caused $16.5 billion in ______, destroying nearly 19,000 buildings, killing 85 people and leaving 50,000 others homeless. Paradise was ______ a paradise(乐土).

Shane Grammer grew up 15 miles away in Chico, and he ______ the news of the fire’s deadly path from his home in Los Angeles. The 47-year-old father of three works as a creative director for Disney’s theme parks. Grammer still has ______ in the Paradise area. When his childhood buddy, Shane Edwards, posted pictures of his white chimney ― the only part of his house to ______ ― Grammer felt helpless. And then he had a(n)______.

“I’ve got to paint that ______,” he told Inside Edition. “It was an opportunity for me to express myself and be a(n)______.

On Dec 31, Grammer ______ three hours painting a beautifully sad black-and-white image(画像)of a woman on the chimney — a reminder, perhaps, of the ______ of life, or even just of life itself.

Grammer ______ the image on Instagram. The victims(受害者)）of the fire, especially, had ______ feelings. “You bring beauty and hope,” one said.

____, Grammer realized that his artistic expression had ______ into something deeper, the hallmark(特征)of true art. Over a period of three months he returned eight times, ______ 17 pictures of victims and mythical(神话里的)heroes on walls, pickup trucks, and ruined buildings. “There is______,” he explains. “There is beauty in the ashes.”

Grammer’s work in Paradise has become a bigger ______. He has traveled the world painting big pictures in ______ places that needed some light: a home for orphans(孤儿)in Tijuana, Mexico; a youth center in San Francisco. “I want to do something powerful and create art that ______ people,” he says.

【推荐1】As we all know, a friend in need is a friend indeed. I really don't know the meaning of this proverb until one day something_________happened to me.

That morning, I got up late and_________to school without breakfast. While crossing a street, my bike_________a stone and I fell on the ground, with my both knees badly hurt. I managed the_________and continued my riding. On my arrival at school, my teacher took us to the_________for a basketball match.

_________I could hardly walk normally, I joined in the game. When I_________to pass the ball, I was knocked down and fell down on my back. I could not_________the bad pain and cried. My classmates all started_________at me and continued their match.______________on the ground alone, hungry and painful, I couldn't stop my crying. Just at that moment, Jack, one of my teammates,______________ towards me from the other end and helped me. He comforted me and tried all______________to make me stand, He asked another classmate to take his______________and kept sitting beside me. He kept me company the whole day and even______________me home after the school was over.

It was on that day that I leant and believed the proverb "a friend in need is a friend indeed" to be______________

【推荐2】I was on a train to another city when I started a(n)_______with a young man near to me. From what he said, I_______that he came from a farming family. He was_______enough to give me a window seat, help a co-passenger when he dropped his coffee, etc. These small_______showed he was a good person! 

I was lost in reading a biography(自传)on Arnold Schwarzenegger. He has played a huge role in my life_______I haven’t met him. Reading a_______about him is fun.  

Now my co-passenger_______to see the book, so I handed it to him. From the train window, I_______him reading carefully. Towards the end of the trip, I even saw him_______something about the book and asked me where he could buy it.  

“You can________ it,” I said. “This is the second time that I’ve read it anyway.” 

Actually it was last weekend that I bought it! I loved it so much and how I________to hold on to it myself!________, his kindness taught me that I should do something too. “Wow,” the man said to me. “This is really________. Thank you so much. ” 

“No problem. Don’t worry about it. ”

I got off and walked into the new city with a sense of________. I did not regret giving the book to him as I believed ________each other is a good thing.

【推荐3】Wishing to encourage her young son’s progress on the piano, a mother took her boy to a Paderewski concert. After they_______, the mother spot a friend in the audience and walked down the aside to_______her.

Seizing the _______to explore the wonders of the concert hall, the little boy rose and_______explored his way through a door_______ “No Admittance”. When the house lights became weaker and weaker and the concert was about to begin, the mother returned to her seat and discovered that the_______was missing.

Suddenly, the curtains parted and spotlights_______the impressive Steinway piano on stage. _______, the mother saw her little boy sitting at the key-board, innocently_______Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

At the moment, the great pianist made his________, quickly moved to the piano, and________in the boy’s ear, “Don’t quit. Keep playing.”

Then leaning over, Paderewski reached down with his________hand and began filling in a bass(低音) part. Soon his right arm reached around to the other side of the child and he________a running obbligato(伴奏). ________, the old master and the young boy transformed a frightening situation into a ________ creative experience. The audience were deeply moved.

That’s the way in life. What we can________on our own is hardly worth mentioning. We try our best, ________the results aren’t exactly graceful flowing________. But when we trust in the hands of the Great Power, our life’s work truly can be________.

Next time you set out to accomplish your great career,________carefully. You can hear the voice of the Master, whispering in your ear, “Don’t quit. Keep playing.”

【推荐3】Zachariah Fike has an unusual _______. He seeks old military medals for sale in antique stores and on the Internet. But _______ most collectors, Zac tracks down the medals’ rightful _______ , and returns them.

His effort to _______ families with lost medals began with a Christmas gift from his mother, a Purple Heart with the name Corrado A. G. Piccoli, found in an antique shop. Zac knows the _______ of a Purple Heart—he _______ one himself in a war as a soldier. So when his mother gave him the medal, he _______ right away what he had to do.

Through the Internet, Zac tracked down Corrado’s sister Adeline Rockko. But when he finally reached her, the woman _______   him with questions: “Who are you? What antique shop?” _______, when she hung up, she regretted the way she had handled the ________ . So she called Zac back and

________. Soon she drove to meet Zac in Watertown, N.Y. “At that point, I knew she meant ________ ,” Zac says. “To drive eight hours to come to see me.”

The Piccolis grew up the children of ________ immigrants in Watertown. Corrado, the older son of the family, was a translator for the Army during WWII against Nazi Germany, and was killed ________ in Europe.

Before hearing from Zac, Adeline hadn’t ________ realized the medal was missing. Like many ________ medals, the one Zac’s mother had ________ was a family treasure. “This medal was very precious to my parents.” Adeline says. As a child, Adeline couldn’t understand why the medal was so significant. “But as I grew older,” Adeline says, “and missed my ________ more and more, I realized that was the only thing we had ________ .” Corrado Piccoli’s Purple Heart medal now ________ at the Italian American Civic Association in Watertown.