【推荐1】There is something graceful about a well-made hurricane lamp, especially the antique ones. Mom had affection for them.

I can remember ______ through countless flea markets for hurricane lamps, which are _______to keep their light lit through the _______of moments. Mom tried hard to buy the lamps in ______, as her favorite of all the lamps had no mate.

The spring after Mom’s first ______ with cancer, we went to a local craft fair to pass the time, to keep ______. We were still waiting to hear from the doctors on the ______ of her follow-up tests.______ to search something for my mom, I bounded ahead of her and baby brother as they ______ along the tables. I didn’t ______ far before something caught my eye. Standing proud on the display table sat a lamp.

I was excited, as I _______back through the crowd to my mom. “Mom! You have to see something!” I shouted. “______. I think I’m going to get these lamps. What do you think?” She _______so I could see them but I didn’t even look at them. “You’ve got to see what I found first,” I ______her through the fair. When she saw the lamp, she picked up the lamp ______, running her fingers over the bowl, over the hurricane glass, and ______ it closely. “See this?” She pointed at a very small mark in the glass. “The one at home has the same mark.” She smiled. It was the first time I had seen her ______ smile since the doctors first found the cancer.

When the lamp ______ in our house, next to its mate, she cried. She went to light the lamps and sit on their glow until she could sleep. Years later, I understood her ______ for those lamps, through the darkest moments of her life. Mom was my hurricane lamp. She was inextinguishable (永不熄灭的)—through the darkest moments. She lit my way without ______. She still does.

As a young reporter, Sparky asked Lu Haoting, a business reporter from China Daily, for help on interviewing. He found that interviewing people is not as _______ as just asking questions. To his _______, journalists also need to do a lot of homework _______ an interview. Lu shared her _______ of a recent interview with the president of Boeing China, David Wang, with Sparky.

There are two _______of interviews, inclusive (群访) and exclusive (专访). The inclusive interview is _______ in the form of a press conference. In a(n)_______interview, only you and the interviewee talk _______ . You need to _______ all your questions for both types of interviews ________ .

“ ________ you don’t prepare, you will ask some silly questions and ________ your time,” Lu said.

“I wanted to know Boeing’s new strategy in the Chinese market. ________ I checked out over 20 reports from different newspapers about Boeing and its rival, Airbus,” Lu said. She also found useful ________about the two companies on their websites.

On many occasions, interviewees ________ journalists to provide a question list in advance of an interview. In order to ________ a proper objective story Lu also interviewed some ________ to get their comments on Boeing’s performance in China.

________her interview with David Wang only lasted about half an hour, her ________ helped her to ask many good questions about Boeing’s development in China.

“After a successful interview, you always find all that homework was really ________ it,” Lu told Sparky.

【推荐1】A homeless man rescued all the animals at a shelter after it caught on fire. Hamlin, the_________of the W-Underdogs shelter, told CNN.

Keith Walker, 53, a homeless man,_________ his life to save several cats and dogs _________at an Atlanta animal shelter after it caught fire, the facility’s founder said.

“I was nervous as hell. I was really_________to go in there with all that smoke. But God put me there to save those animals and I _________into the shelter after a fire engulfed (吞没) its kitchen.” Walker told CNN. “If you love a dog, you can love anyone in the world. My dog is my best friend, and I wouldn’t be here _________ him, so I knew I had to save all those other dogs.”

_________the shelter was not completely destroyed, the fire left it uninhabitable, according to W-Underdogs founder Gracie Hamlin.

“He is my guardian angel,” Hamlin told CNN. “Even the firefighters didn’t want to_________dogs. They called animal control, but Keith was already in the building pulling out the cats and dogs until they were all _________.”

Hamlin__________ knew Walker, who has been homeless since he was 13 years old, because she lets him __________his dog, a pit bull named Bravo, at the shelter every night.

Walker was on his way to __________ Bravo and take him for a walk when he saw the fire. He was able to rescue all the animals-six dogs and ten cats.

“I can’t thank him__________ for saving my animals,” Hamlin said. “I’m still in__________, because I’ve been around a fire and I know how fast it spreads. Homeless man as he is, Walker is my__________.”

【推荐2】A man was employed to paint a boat. He brought paint and _________ and began to paint the boat as the owner wanted. While painting, he _________ there was a hole in the body of the boat and decided to repair it. When he finished painting, he received his _________ and left.

The next day, the owner of the boat visited the painter and _________ him with a cheque (支票), much higher than what he was paid for the painting work. The painter was _________.

“You’ve already paid me for painting the boat, sir!” he said.

“This is not for the paint job. It’s for repairing the _________ in the boat.”

“Ah! But it was such a small service.” the man said. “Certainly it’s not worth paying me such a high amount for something so _________!”

“My dear friend” the owner said, “You don’t understand. Let me tell you _________happened. When I asked you to paint the boat, I _________ to mention the hole. When the boat dried, my kids took it and __________ a fishing trip. They did not know that there was a hole there. I was not at home at the time. So when I __________ and noticed they had taken the boat, I was hopeless. Imagine my __________ and joy when I saw them returning safely from fishing.”

“Then, I examined the boat and found that you had repaired the hole! You now see what you did? You __________ the life of my children!”

Each of us has a moral duty to offer help, wipe tears, listen carefully and repair all the “hole” we __________ in our life journey, because a small act will make a big __________ in the future.

【推荐3】A student at Hellesdon High School in England has been called “Rubbish Girl” for her environmentally­friendly ways. _____, that has not stopped her from cleaning up the environment.

Using the basket on her bicycle, 12­year­old Nadia has been _____ rubbish along her two­mile route to and from school since September of last year. _____ her good intentions, some of the kids at Nadia’s school have nicknamed (给……起绰号) her “Rubbish Girl” and have bullied her for her selfless efforts to help the _____. But instead of letting them bring her down, she’s using their negativity as motivation (动力).

“I’m not going to _____ doing the right thing because of them,” she said. “I’m doing something to _____ the world which they also live in. It’s everyone’s job. We are all _____ for keeping this world safe, instead of believing it’s always someone else’s job.”

Nadia’s mum, Paula, said she is _____ proud of Nadia for not only standing up to her bullies, but also standing up for what she believes in. “I told her she had two _____ — she could either stop collecting rubbish, stop attracting their ______ so that they would leave her alone, or she could face the challenge, be the ‘rubbish girl’ and keep her ______.”

As a result of the local media attention, Nadia has created a group named “Team Rubbish Girl”, where she shares updates on her green efforts. Positive ______ have poured in, all in ______ of Nadia, encouraging her to carry on with the green efforts.

“Sweetheart, you are a star that ______ really bright above the rest. Hold your head high and never let others ______ you. You are doing something selfless and amazing. Shame on the bullies,” wrote one of the local citizens on her web page.