【推荐1】Jane was lying in bed waiting for an operation, nervous and worried. Just then another patient was ________ into the ward. After a brief greeting, Jane struck up a(n) ________.The 80-year-old newcomer was named Sue. Her son ________ ran a company and her daughter worked on a TV station. Since her children were too ________ to take care of Sue, she lived in an old people’s home. Sue was proud of the ________ of her children. Jane really ________ Sue. Compared with Sue, Jane was ________ but an ordinary country woman whose children were just ordinary workers.

Soon, it was suppertime, Jane’s _________ cooked some tasty dishes which were her favorite. Jane invited Sue to share her supper, but she ________.Sue was ________ her daughter when she received a call. ________, her children couldn’t come to visit her. Worse still, Sue had ________ the mealtime in the hospital. She lay in bed, ________ and silent.

Jane’s daughter offered to buy her some food but she had no appetite (食欲) at all. The next day Jane and Sue would go through a series of regular medical checks before the operation. Jane’s daughter at tented her carefully while Sue was still alone. Sue really envied Jane whose daughter looked after her all the time until she recovered and moved out of hospital.

Care from the loved ones when ill can really make one happy and encouraged, especially for a(n) ________ parent. So while devoted to your career, don’t forget your role in your _________

【推荐2】Mott hoped to find a lady on an Iowa community Facebook page，but she didn’t even know her name.All she knew is that the ____ woman looked to be in her 30s，had purple hair and was ____ gentle and compassionate.

At 10:25 am on Black Friday Mott was busy shopping ____ she received a(n) ____ phone call，which came in from the nursing home where her mom lived.The nurse on the phone ____ her that her mom passed away.Mott just kind of ____ ，kneeling down and starting to cry uncontrollably.

The lady came across Mott and，instead of passing by，she ____ and asked what was wrong.Then she kept Mott in a tight ____ until Mott was able to regain enough senses to get back on her feet.She even ____ Mott to the checkout line and asked if any shoppers had enough Christmas spirit to let the sad woman ____ in line.The lines immediately parted to let her ____.Mott，still ____，didn’t think to ask the lady her name after paying her bill.

In recent days，Mott’s ____ to the woman had been a comfort so much that she longed to thank her ____.So she reached out and hoped people would help her find the lady.

Stephanie，42，realized that Mott had been looking for her.The most ____ thing she could think to do was to attend Mott’s mother's ____.Once Mott ____ her，the two strangers-turned-friends wrapped each other in another big hug，tears running down.The family and other mourners ____ ，probably feeling what I felt:It was reassuring to see such a warm，visible sign that the ____ meetings and random acts of kindness we often take for granted sometimes ____ a big difference.

【推荐3】Winners are not born but made with efforts. I learned this ______ when I took the head coach job at a school with a weak football program in Georgia.

I made a ______ team soon and was ready to play against the old one at the end of spring practice, which was a school tradition. The old team had no coach, and even didn’t practice regularly. To win would be a ______ thing, I thought. However, to my disappointment we were defeated. ______ it, I came to realize that I had to change my ______ about their ability and potential.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little ______, treat them like winners. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their vacations, we ______ passing and kicking the football every day.

Six months after the ______ on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to ______. Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a（n） ______ for us even if we lost the game. But the truth was my boys beat the best team in Georgia. I was ______!

How the attitude of the leader can ______ the team! Instead of seeing my boys as ______, I ______ them and helped them to see themselves ______, and built themselves into winners.

【推荐1】All my students in my class knew I was getting married in June and moving out of the state. I was sorry to see the month of June ________; all my students wanted to learn more, They were obviously agitated (不安的) whenever I mentioned it. I was glad they had become ________ of me, but what was wrong? Were they angry about me ________ the school?

On my ________ day of class, the headmaster greeted me as I entered the building. “Will you come with me, please?” he said ________. “There’s a problem ________ your classroom.” He looked straight ahead as he ________ me down the hall. “I'm going to leave the school tomorrow, but what now?” I wondered.

It was ________! There were bouquets (束) of flowers in each corner, on the students’ desks, and on my desk. “How could they have done this?” I________. Most of them were so poor that they ________ the school assistance program for some ________ and enough meals.

I started to cry, and all my students ________ me.

Later I learned how they had succeeded doing it. Mark, who worked in the ________ shop on weekends, had seen ________ from several of my other classes. He mentioned them to his classmates. Too proud to ever again wear an insulting(侮辱的) label like “ _________ ”, Mark ________ his boss for all the “tired” flowers in the shop. Then he called funeral parlors (殡仪馆) and ________ that his class needed flowers for a teacher who was leaving. They ________ to give him bouquets saved _______ each funeral.

That was not the only present they gave me, ________. Two years later, all fourteen students graduated, and six earned college scholarships.

【推荐2】It was 1:20 a.m. I had just gone to bed, a bit _________ after celebrating my 31st birthday. Before dinner, I’d placed _________ outside my garden door and prepared the cell phone just _________. After all, it had been _________ that week, resulting in flood warnings.

I was awakened by the _________ of rushing water. When I swung my legs off the bed, I was shocked to feel cold water already up to my knees and _________ fast.

Shaking in darkness, I _________ my phone and turned on its flashlight. Then by the light I could _________ water was from the garden door. It must have breached (在……上打开缺口) the sandbags. The river, usually such a quiet, slow moving river in my region, had _________ burst its banks. And now I had to __________!

I took __________ action. Any effects of the alcohol before sleep were gone; __________ sobers (使清醒) me up. After I went outside, I learned the river had flooded the neighbourhood. Therefore, if I had woken up just a few minutes later, I would have drowned.

In the end, I think the experience made me __________ and determined to live each day to its fullest. I came very close to drowning that day. But rather than dwell on (沉湎于) what happened, I prefer to __________ what my mother told me afterwards, “Don’t remember the day when you lost everything. Remember the day you __________. That day marked the beginning of a new chapter in your life.”

【推荐1】Here I must put in a few words about my experience here in China. If I have _______ with a Chinese host, he always presses(硬塞给)_______ food onto my plate as soon as I have emptied the previous helping(份额). That often makes me _________awkward(尴尬). I have to eat the food even if I don’t _________ it, because it is _________ manners in the West to _______ one’s food on the plate. I have also _______ that when a Chinese sits at an American’s dinner party, he often _________ the offer of food or drink though he is in fact still hungry or _________. This might be good manners in China, but it is certainly__________ in the West. In the United States, it is____________ to keep asking someone again and again or press something on him. Americans are very ____________. If they want something, they will ask for it. If not, they will say, “__________”. Here’s an example: When an American is offered __________ by the host, and he doesn’t feel like beer, he will probably say, “No, thanks. I just don’t feel like it. I’ll   ____________   some Pepsi-Cola （百事可乐）if you have it.” That is __________ an American will do. ____________are taught that “Honesty is the best policy”. But in some countries, courtesy(谦虚) might be more important than ____________. So when I am here in China, I have to observe（遵循） the __________ here. But when you go to ____________, you had better “Do as the Romans do.”

【推荐2】Standing on the top of Mount Tai, I watched the sun rising through the cloud and taking its place in the sky. I haven’t seen many ______, but I can feel that seeing one from the top of Mount Tai must be one of the best ways to ______ the beauty of nature.

When I left for China, the ______ of climbing Mount Tai had not even ______ me. I was going to China to ______ its language, history and culture and gain a better understanding of international agricultural trade between my country and China.

Now I have stayed in China for a few weeks. In Beijing, my group have, ______ friendship with many Chinese students. Through our broken Chinese and their ______ English, we are still able to teach each other about our cultures. We ______ that we are all just students working towards the same ______ of having careers, families and lives and trying to make the world better. Cultural differences seem ______—even the language almost completely differs from our own. But their daily lives are similar to our own routines (常规). ______, people worry about the same things we do here. They are ______ food safety, pay close attention to the government and feel the effects of the economic markets.

This ______ makes me realize how many cultures my country has in common with other countries around the world. More importantly, it makes me ______ for travel, and I am i looking forward to having more ______ to engage in cross-cultural communication and learning.