【推荐1】Alice is a student who came to my class last year. Though she has already turned 60, Alice looks so fit and _______, with a bright smile and an enthusiastic attitude. I am Alice’s teacher in class, but I feel she is my teacher in life.

For my 2-hour class every Saturday morning, Alice has to take a 3-hour round-trip on the road. But she is never _______ for class. Alice is very passionate about learning English. She often says, “Don’t _______ me as a 60-year-old. I am just a new beginner who wants to learn anything _______. You know, I am very excited to come to the class!” So I feel a strong sense of _______ to make sure what I teach makes sense to her.

Alice came to me with very _______ English skills, but she turns out to be a very fast learner because she always puts English _______ on a daily basis. I _______ her homework before every class. Her homework is usually not what I _______ for the class, rather it is something that she ________ to put together. She makes various sentences using the important words and phrases she learned from our ________ class. I am always ________ by the quality of her work.

I feel fortunate to have a student like Alice. She has ________ me so much. Our interaction (互动) is a great learning experience for both of us. Though I have no idea why she learns English, I hope I can help her ________ her dream,________ it is.

【推荐2】Grandpa Hodge was the wisest man in the village. He was so philosophic (贤明的)   in speaking and doing things that everyone ____him as "Grandpa Wisdom".

One day, a man _____ to Grandpa Wisdom, out of breath, saying with excitement, "Grandpa, I have a piece of ____ to tell you…"

"Wait a moment," Grandpa Hodge ____ his beard(胡须) gently and cut the man ____, "Have you carefully ___ the news you will tell me with three sieves(筛子)?"

"Three sieves? Which three sieves?" the man asked with ____.

"The first sieve is the truth. Is the news you will tell me ___ ?" Grandpa Hodge asked, narrowing his ____.

"I don’t know because I ____ it from the street."

"Now let's check it with the second sieve," Grandpa Hodge ____, "If the news you will tell me is not true, it should be friendly."

The man ___answered, "No…just the other way round…"

Grandpa Hodge once again____ him, "So let's ____ the third sieve. Can you tell me if the news that is ___ you is very important?"

"It is not so important," the man answered with ____.

Grandpa Hodge patted the ____ of the man and said significantly(意味深长地), "Now that the news you will tell me is not true, friendly or important, please don't tell me. Then it won’t ___ you and me either."

The man realized his ___and never ____ the overheard news ever since.

【推荐2】Many years ago, when we first went to Canada, we were driving through Montana to Colorado with our two children. As it was getting late, we ________ looking for a hotel only to find out that it was ________ time in that part of the country, and all the hotels were _______.

Finally, we stopped at a gas station to fill the car up with gas. My husband asked for a(n) ________ book and told the woman at the counter that we were trying to call and find a hotel. She told us it would be ________ to find one. But he stuck to trying for 15 minutes and obviously he was __________. The woman, Linda, said she and her family lived nearby and would be happy if we spent the night at her home.

My husband was _______ at her offer of generosity. She called her son to ________ us, since she had to work at the gas station till midnight.

When we reached their home, her husband ________ us. He invited us to have coffee and chat while we _______ his wife. She came back past 12 a.m. We asked if we could slip away in the morning so as not to ________ them. They said we were now ________ and we would have to have breakfast with them.

Next morning, we ate breakfast, and when we were leaving, my husband asked if he could offer some ________. But they would not accept it and insisted that we were their guests. We kept in touch with them for many years, and ________ them to our home, too. Over the years, we have lost touch with them, but have never forgotten their ________.

【推荐3】When life gets hard, you don’t have to do it by yourself. Just ask Lynn. An interaction made Lynn feel like she could ________ the life she wants to have.

One day in 2022, Lynn visited one of her favorite ________, known for its clear water. She ________ her car and headed for the shore with everything she needed for the day: a chair, a beach umbrella, a cooler and so on. It was ________ work. “It was just really hard to take along so many ________ things, and I was struggling,” she said. She ________ a part of the beach entrance where there was a large ________ down. Unsure if she could take it ________, she hesitated, wondering what to do.

“When I ________ there, a young, kind-of 30-something-year-old man ________ me and asked, ‘Do you need some ________ ?’ And I said, ‘Sure!’” she recalled. The man ________ some of the things she was ________ . Then he gave his hand to help her down the step. Lynn felt ________ .

“As I age, I’m feeling a little ________ and unable to do the things that I want to do as I was young,” she said. “Having that kind of help and ________ at just that right moment felt like, ‘I can continue the life that I want to have.’” The man’s act of ________ extremely comforted Lynn and it occurred to her that when life gets ________, you don’t have to do it ________ .

“If you feel like there will be somebody there who will help, you can keep the ________ that you want in your life. Without the young man, I couldn’t enjoy myself that day. So that’s why I’m grateful to him,” she said.