【推荐1】I often read of incidents of misunderstanding or conflict. I’m left _________. Why do these people create mistrust and problems, especially with those from other _________?

I was growing up in Kuala Lumpur in the early 1960s, when children from different races and religions played and studied together in harmony. At that time my family lived a stone’s throw from Ismail’s. And no one was bothered that Ismail was a Malay Muslim and I was an Indian Hindu—we just _________ our differences. Perhaps, our elders had not filled our heads with unnecessary advice, well meant or otherwise.

We were nine when we became friends. During the school holidays, we’d _________ the countryside on our bicycles, hoping to come across the unexpected. At times Ismail would accompany my family as we made a rare shopping trip to town. We would be glad of his _________.

When I was twelve, my family moved to Johor. Ismail’s family later returned to their village, and I _________ touch with him.

One spring afternoon in 1983, I stopped a taxi in Kuala Lumpur. I _________ my destination. The driver acknowledged my _________ but did not move off. Instead, he looked fixedly at me. “Raddar?” he said, using my childhood nickname. I was astonished at being so _________ addressed (称呼). Unexpectedly! It was Ismail! Even after two decades we still recognized each other. Grasping his shoulder, I felt a true affection, something __________ to describe.

If we can allow our children to be themselves without prejudice, they’ll build friendships with people, regardless of race or religion, who will be by their side through thick and thin. On such friendships are societies built and then we can truly be, as William Shakespeare once wrote, “We happy few. We band of brothers”.

【推荐3】When I was a boy we lived across a river from the main road and the only way to get to our house was across an old, wooden, swinging bridge. We also lived right next to Camp Caesar which ____camps all summer long. And the ____ thing about it was that it had a public swimming pool. I ____spending almost every day of my summers at that pool. I would____there when the pool opened at 1P.M. and swim/ swam until it closed at 5P.M. ____ my brothers and a lot of my friends would be there too. We had so much____laughing, playing, swimming, splashing, and ____the diving board.

One time, however, I went to the pool, only to find it crowded with____. None of my friends were there.I stayed for a while but felt____.I left early and walked home sad and angry. When I got to the swinging bridge,____,I saw my one friend/ one of my friend who was never____ at the pool. He stood on the____with his face smiling and his tail wagging(摇动). It was my dog, Doobie____waiting for me to come home. I ____ across the bridge to hug him and then we both ran down to the river below our____to swim. We jumped into the cold, clear water____. We swam around each other. When we got____, we stopped swimming and played____with a stick in the shallows. And Doobie happily drove my loneliness away with his doggie kisses and gentle ____. During all of those Summers spent____as a boy that is the day I remember the most.

Shirley Allen loved to sing and play the piano. She studied music in college and her_______was to become a concert pianist or blues singer. Everything_______when she was 20 years old. She became sick with what doctors _______ was typhoid fever(伤寒)and she almost died. Doctors gave her medicine to help her get well, but the medicine _______her to become_______deaf. She could no longer hear the music which she had always_______.

Shirley would never give up playing the piano, _______she did decide to change_______She transferred to Gallaudet University and studied English .In 1964 Shirley graduated from Gallaudet and looked for_______.She wanted to be ____________and work full time.

For three years, Shirley worked as a clerk in Washington,D.C.____________,in 1967 she was asked to work at Gallaudet University as a dorm supervisor(宿舍监管员).Shirley supervised young women who____________in the university during the school year. She also taught English. Somehow she found time to____________ graduate school at Howard University in Washington,D.C. In 1972,Shirley received her M.A.degree.

Always ____________ a new challenge, in 1973 Shirley became a professor at National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), which____________deaf and hard-of-hearing students technical and professional training.

This____________ woman became the first black deaf female in the world to receive her Ph.D. She made ____________in 1992, ____________she received the highest degree in education from the University of Rochester in New York.

Dr.Shirley Jeanne Allen has traveled many roads and____________many rainbows searching for her dream. With courage and____________,she never gave up.

【推荐3】The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during the break. She seemed so small as she pushed her way ________ the crowd of boys on the playground. A sea of children, and yet to me, she stood out from them all.

I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing ________. She would practice dribbling (运球) and shooting over and over again, sometimes until dark. One day I asked her why she practiced so much. She looked ________ in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, “I want to go to college. The only way I can go is if I get a scholarship. I like basketball and I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the best. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t ________.” Then she smiled and ran towards the court to practice. Well, I had to give it in to her—she was ________.

One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head buried in her arms. I walked toward her and quietly asked what was wrong. “Oh, nothing,” came a soft reply. “I’m just too ________.” The coach told her that at her height she would probably never get to play for a top ranked team, much less offered a scholarship. So she should stop dreaming about college.

She was heartbroken and I sensed her ________. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just didn’t ________ the power of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, ________ could stop her except one thing—her own attitude. He told her again, “As long as the dream is big enough, the fact that you’re not tall enough is no big deal at all.”

The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship Game, she was seen by a college recruiter (招聘人员). She was indeed offered a scholarship. She was going to get the college education that she had ________ and worked toward for all those years.