【推荐1】When I was little, I loved Irish dancing but I didn’t have the chance to continue. So when Aofie-Mai was seven. I started sending her to ________ classes. I want to ________ her every possible chance. I suppose I’m living my dream ________ her.

At first, it was just for fun, but she is naturally ________ and has won prizes and medals. She dances four times a week and has between 15 and 20 competitions a year. She even won a world medal in a team dance ________ she was nine, which is a great ________. It’s a very expensive hobby. We can’t ________ family holidays any more, so whenever we’re traveling around the UK or Ireland for ________, we treat it as a break. My husband comes too, ________, but because he’s self-employed, he doesn’t ________ for days off. Additionally, each trip costs around ￡1,200.

It’s a crazy world of false eyelashes (睫毛) and so much make-up---but the girls ________ it. I found the heavy make-up a bit ________ at first, and still think there’s no ________. The dresses are beautifully made and cost around ￡2, 000 each. We go to a designer called Eire Designs by Gavin Doherty ________ they’re top quality. To have a Gavin ________ is amazing.

We do make too many contributions. I no longer have a social life and I ________ have any time for myself. My husband and I hope she ________ it, though, because it teaches discipline, hard work, helps her fitness and builds ________ with her teammates. I do fear ________ the cost. I often think about what I could do with that ________, but I love seeing her on the stage.

【推荐2】I was so blessed for all the special moments I had with my mother. When she was eighty-two, she thought she was ________ me by asking me to take her to the many doctor visits she had, but it was a ________ for me to spend quality time with her.

I tried to make a(n) ________ of our days together, ________ her doctor’s visits with doing something thrilling. One day, while we were driving and deciding where to eat lunch, I ________ to a stoplight and saw a large sign outside a restaurant. I looked at the ________ sign and asked my mother. “Have you ever played Skee-Ball?”

“No.” she replied.

So we chose to eat in this restaurant. I ________ the special lunch buffet, and it came with fifty tokens (代币) for the arcade (电玩) games. I ________, “Aha! We are rich!”

After we ate, it was time to use those golden tokens. Mom loved playing Skee-Ball and collecting ________. She moved from game to game like a child. She had fun ________ as one machine spewed (喷出) out seven tickets again and again! I ________ her token after token for the next game to be played...until we ________ tokens.

When we went to ________ in our handfuls of tickets at the automatic counting machine, Mom chose a toy whistle. The man gave her a(n) ________ one for me, so we had fun blowing whistles together.

I keep that whistle on my desk, a ________ of a wonderful experience with my mom as we embraced (欣然接受) her willingness to make the most of every day.

【推荐1】We’ve all heard the stories of an actor’s struggles before a career breakthrough. Shelby, the star of “A Dog’s Way Home”, has a hard-luck tale that could top them all. Before her _________, she was living in a landfill, _________ through garbage for her next meal.

Shelby’s _________ came in April 2017, when animal-control officer Megan Buhler was _________ in Cheatham County. Buhler saw and approached what she recalled as a _________ scared puppy. “I knelt down and just said, ‘Oh, come here, baby,’” said Buhler. “She was so_________, but she came right up to me, and I was able to put her in my truck.” The pair headed to the county animal_________, where the staff began calling the new resident Baby Girl.

3,200 kilometers away, Hollywood was _________ a dog to play Bella in a film. The find-a-Bella job went to trainer Miller. Her _________ was to search shelters for a dog that could play Bella. One day, Miller __________ Baby Girl’s adoption photo. “ __________, it was a really good picture, and she was flat-out smiling,” Miller said. Then she met Baby Girl, and assessed her on __________ and through tests further evaluated her multiple abilities to __________ to simple commands. After all these and overall __________ her, she adopted Baby Girl from the shelter, __________ her Shelby and took her for training. Miller and Shelby trained for just over three months before __________ began. Then they were together each day on the set.

Most __________ about the film have praised Shelby. They made the __________ “an amazing dog”! Shelby has come a long way from the garbage. But Buhler said when she saw Shelby recently she just needed only a second to __________ the movie star to the dog she found from piles of trash. “She’s __________ the same,” Buhler said.

【推荐3】Do you know one bird whose name is crow (乌鸦)?Here is a story about one of them. There was once a lazy crow who thought it was too much trouble to _________ food. “Caw! Caw!” he said “If someone brought me my food every day, I’d be very _________!”

One day he saw a(n) _________ pigeon flying by. “How happy and well-fed it looks ” the crow said to himself. So the crow _________ the pigeon until they came to a _________. There were some other _________ there too. Before long an old man came along and brought them a large bag of food. When the man had gone ,the crow flew over to the pigeons. “Caw!Caw!” said he. “Can I _________ you?”

“No, you can’t!” _________ the pigeons angrily. “We don’t know you.”

The crow went home feeling _________. But he suddenly had a(n) __________. “I’ll paint my __________ grey,” he said, “and then the pigeons will __________ I am one of them.” After he finished the painting, he flew off to the park and was __________ by the pigeons. The crow was so hungry that he got very excited at the food. “Caw! Caw! Give food to me!” he said loudly. __________ the pigeons found he was a crow. They flew after him and made him __________.

Sadly the crow flew to his own forest. But when his old friends, the other crows saw him they asked him to __________. They did not __________ him because of his grey-painted feathers. So the crow felt __________ than before. His own __________ did not want him, __________ the pigeons wouldn’t let him into their group.

“What looks easier isn’t always so,” the crow said to himself. “I wish I had never painted my feathers grey!”