【推荐2】Like many families, we had a dog — Little Joe. We all loved him dearly. He always trotted (小跑) around the streets. We tried to teach him about the ________ of the road, and finally locked him in the yard. However, one day, Little Joe dug a hole under the fence and ________.

Sometime later, the ________ news came that a truck had seriously injured Little Joe. We children ran to the ________ of the accident. Apparently unable to move, he lay with his eyes open, awaiting death by a policeman’s bullet, the ________ method in those days of dispatching (处决) injured animals. Tears filling our eyes, we ________around him, frustrated by our inability to respond to the ________ for help in his eyes. The policeman ________ us away from the dog and drew his gun. Wide-eyed, we began to back away with feet that seemed to be made of ________.

Suddenly the crowd began to ________ . My father elbowed (用肘推) his way through and spoke with ________ to the young policeman. “Put that thing away!” Then, ________, he removed his worn jacket and carefully ________ it around Little Joe. Little Joe’s broken body could not have been moved with more ________.

I’ll never forget that homeward journey. My father led a group of admiring children. We held our heads high with pride as we ________ behind the man who had saved our dog.

After struggling for several days, Little Joe finally survived. He went on to live a long life.

【推荐3】It was early in the morning when people heard unusual noise. They had no choice but to _________ to see what it was. The workers _________ the Parnu River cautiously to _________ the strange noise they overheard. It was not until they were about 100 yards out that they could _________ what it was. It turned out that there was a _________ animal.

The animal making the noise seemed to be “dog”! Upon rescuing the “dog”, the men quickly wrapped the animal in a thick blanket to provide some much-needed _________.

The men phoned their local animal hospital, and then they were _________ that they should take it there as quickly as possible, so that’s what they did. The whole time there, the animal didn’t _________ at all. In fact, it slept all the way silently there.

Unfortunately, the vets felt confused and didn’t _________ know what they had on their hands. So they phoned a local hunter. Thankfully, the hunter hurried down to the ____________ and recognized exactly it as a wolf they ended up saving!

Sure enough, the wolf began to return to its ____________ ways the moment it started to recover. It was a one-year-old wolf. The ____________ arrived for the wolf to go back home. When they ____________ the cage that fine morning, it walked forward slowly and looked back several times. Not until they waved did it fly like a(n) ____________ from the string and then disappeared into the ____________.

【推荐3】Life is pretty unpredictable. One can never know what is there in store for them unless it is unexpectedly _________ at them. Some people drown away in sorrows, while others learn from it and come out even _________ . Similar was the _________ with Jordan.

Born in Pittsburgh, Jordan was _________ about many sports since his childhood. He would never _________ out on practices and would always be on top of his game. Jordan became a(n) _________ player in a very short lime.

However, his professional career as a sportsman _________ when he was at his peak. He was one of the strongest and most competitive players on his team, but the _________ was all it took to bring him down. He _________ from a serious damage in his lower back, due to which he could never __________ to professional playing.

__________ going into an period of shock and depression, Jordan made this __________ an opportunity to grow in a new field. With his career being ended on a premature note, he promised himself to educate __________ on moving properly and taking care of themselves. He would also __________ the body to physical and mental extremes.

As this 35-year-old professional went through the stage of ending his career __________ , he is always   __________ by the passion for training and developing __________ life routines for youth athletics. He aims to help them grow and reach their __________ to the fullest and do not __________ the same mistake that he did that ended his career. With high-spirited individuals like Jordan, ambitious sports personalities have an excellent source to be __________ from.

【推荐1】My grandmother died when my mother was 11, so my mother never learned how to cook particularly well. Cooking skills aside, she’s a(n) ________ nurturer (养育者). Two years ago, she flew to care for me while I ________ from an operation. At my apartment, I handed her a grocery list of comfort foods, which included Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup.

“I should make you some chicken noodle soup ________,” she said.

“Mom, you have never made me chicken noodle soup in your life — except from a can (罐头). You did many ________ things for me, but there was no chicken noodle soup.”

“Well, now I’m going to make you some soup,” said my mother.

I then ________ my friend Kate, an amazing chef. I wrote that my mom was making some chicken noodle soup and asked her to send us a ________.

Three hours and a dozen e-mails with Kate later, my mother had ________ made the chicken soup. It looked good. It was definitely chicken soup made with ________.

All we needed was the noodles.

I watched as my mother ________ an entire bag of noodles into the soup when I got the e-mail from Kate. “Noodles, I forgot to say how many. It should be like... a cup.”

We watched in ________ as the noodles soaked up (浸泡，吸收) all the soup. We tried to add more water, but it was too late. We stood in the kitchen, hurriedly spooning the ________ soup into our bowls.

“It’s my fault!” said my mother, ________.

But let me tell you, that one bowl of chicken noodle soup was ________. We did not think about the soup-soaked noodles while we ate, nor did we think about the ________ of life. I was my mother’s best dinner ________, and she was my favorite chef.

【推荐3】When I was a kid in junior high, I owned a big brick of a recorder. I’d ________ it at the dinner table, then push the red ________ to record. No one but me knew it was there.

One December night in the early 1970s, I ________ to record the moment when my younger brother began to ________ whether spirits existed. And for a bit more than six minutes, my mother and father tried to ________ him that, yes, spirits are ________ and are what we have faith in.

This turns out to be one of the only recordings I have of my mother’s ________ . She died of cancer a few years after the tape was made. She ________ the disease for nearly four years. Her suffering ________ my memory of what she was like before: before the illness—I could ________ remember her before she was sick. But ________ the tape now has brought that time, and my mother, back to me.

Surely this is a gift—maybe even a gift from spirits. As my mom ________ to us all those years ago: spirits are a ________ , a feeling.

And I can hear her voice today, all because I pushed the button on a tape recorder and ________ the exact moment a young child began to doubt—and a mother tried to keep him ________ a little while longer.