【推荐1】My name is Maria Helena Corrcia, and I studied biology at college. After ________, I first worked as a laboratory researcher. Since February, however, I’ve been a volunteer of WWF Greece(World Wide Fund for Nature). I made the ________ because I’m interested in animal ________ and nature.

Working on the Egyptian Vulture New LIFE project, I ________ to protect vultures (秃鹫) from danger. Livestock (牲畜) keepers sometimes use poison (毒药) to keep their livestock from being ________ by wild animals. But the poison and the poisoned animals are often eaten by the vultures, who end up ________.

To save the vultures, we have to show the livestock keepers that there are other ways of ________ wild animals. For example, I’ve been helping ________ electric fences (栅栏) which can put wildlife off. Now they have ________ their ideas of using poison to deal with wildlife attacks and accepted that fences can be a better ________.

Until now, I have had nothing but _______   memories of working here. For example, the livestock keepers and their families were especially ________ when we gave them new electric fences and dogs. They appreciated our help so much that they ________ us the best food from their farms.

As I mentioned before, I used to work as a researcher in a laboratory. But my experience here in Greece has changed my life ________. Now I want to ________ this work in the future and help more people and animals in need.

【推荐1】Last year, preparing to move to Italy, I sorted through everything in our New York apartment. Clothes, shoes, toys, china, handbags — you name it. I had to_______what to give away, what to throw out, and what to_______and ship overseas.

It forced me to review, remember, and relive my _______. Some surprises awaited me. Dealing with all the material goods_______over a lifetime, I rediscovered just how much I value_______. I found the letter President Ronald Reagan_______to my father, congratulating him for his_______to the deaf   community; _______for 1960s Broadway hits my grandma had taken me to see. I had rejection_______from magazine editors, and a typed letter from my lawyer uncle advising me to_______fooling around and get a real job. I_______Father’s Day cards and a poem to my wife on our 40th anniversary.

It proved to me that paper _______serves a purpose, even with life going _______ and all but paperless. Reviewing _______ that you can feel on your fingertips is a powerful trigger ( 触 发 ) for_______.

Going through these documents was an _______to better know myself, to recognize who I was and how I’d changed.

My love of paper gave me_______proof of a life: a marriage navigated, children raised, and struggles won or lost. It’s a life _______to the fullest.

I did it mostly for me. But someday my children may _______to find these “keepsakes” (传家宝). Perhaps they’ ll be drawn to_______the history only our family can claim.

【推荐2】My husband Dan and I were just finishing breakfast at a busy diner when a young soldier, his wife and their two school-aged children were seated at the table next to us. As they all sat down, the woman ________ her handbag and opened a small blue wallet.

“Eighteen,” she said softly to her husband after ________ counting out the bills inside. “And a few loose coins.” He nodded silently and then began ________ the menu, reading off food ________ to the children.

The kids ordered the silver-dollar pancakes while their parents requested scrambled eggs and sausage. “Can we get strawberries, too, puh-leeeeeeeze?” the kids asked with ________ . Mother and father exchanged a(n)________ look. “Sure,” the man spoke up. And the couple looked at the menus again, ________ their options. The soldier suggested they split something but his wife insisted she would just get toast. ________they spoke in hushed tones, we couldn’t help but overhear them in the ________ space.

Then we went to settle the bill at the ________, where Dan handed the cashier our check and asked if she could also add in a $25 restaurant ________ card.

“Sure,” the cashier responded. “Whose birthday?” Dan looked at her ________, a bit confused that she had immediately ________ this was a birthday gift.

“Oh, I just figured one of them was having a birthday today,” the cashier________, “because you’re the third person in the last few minutes who bought a gift card to send to that ________ table.”

【推荐3】As a child, I was a loner. I was an only child, and my mother was a single parent_________her son in the 1980s. I grew up pretty isolated(孤零零的),_________from other children. All I had were comic books and a bunch of dolls.

These feelings of isolation and loneliness_________until my teen years. I gradually became a lonely, angry and socially_________teenager. This was all bound to_________, however. As luck, or fate would have it, a kid in my class brought a book to our_________one day and began to show it around to the rest of our classmates._________struck, and I absolutely had to have a look.

The kid brought his brother’ s copy of Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook and was offering to teach the others_________to play. Looking at the beautiful cover, I was so_________that I asked if I could come over and__________.

The rest as they say is history, and since that day I’ve been gaming on and off and it also changed me a lot.

The__________not only helped me__________the isolation I felt, it also__________me to open up to others, making friends along the way. But that’s not the only thing I__________from playing Dungeons and Dragons. I also picked up a few life__________along the way.