【推荐1】My most rewarding experience throughout the past two years was volunteering at the swimming competition for Special Olympics where a disabled friend of my community took part. This had special _________ for me because the experience helped improve my leadership skills, my character, and support my community.

Firstly, my leadership skills developed when I _________ directed each swimmer where to line up at the platform and _________ each player when they needed to swim. I had to make sure that the swimmers were positioned and ready to perform. This kept me on my toes at all times and _________ of each event's time and location. I learned each swimmer's name, since many of them swam in more than one _________.

Secondly, my _________ was greatly improved when I saw the swimmers get their awards for winning each swimming event. I was _________ that most swimmers could swim better than I. It astonished me by their _________, whether they won or lost. This also expanded my horizons, offering me the opportunity to _________ people I would normally not come across. I went out of my __________ zone and did whatever was needed. It was especially __________ when I saw the cheerful faces o£ the players.

Lastly, I was of __________ to my community by lending a hand to this organization in need of help. To be a part of it gave me a chance to improve my community and become __________ with the people living in this area.

As Winston Churchill once said, “We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give. " The __________ should be done throughout one's life. Fortunately, through the opportunities my community has offered I was honoured to be __________ in this exciting and important event in these players' lives. I hope to be an assistant at this event in years to come.

【推荐2】When I became an amputee (截肢患者) at age 29, I was forced to rethink the idea of physical perfection. My life became different, as I changed from an acceptably attractive woman to an object of pity and _________ .

Too busy_________physical pain and obvious mobility limitation, I was not aware of this change at first. I was determined to _________, feeling good about the progress I had made, as I moved forward.

_________, as I made my first excursion(远足)outside the hospital, society had already assigned me a new status. Happy to be free of my restriction in the hospital, I rolled through the shopping mall – a_________ survivor, feeling like a war hero. Unfortunately, I had a rude_________ as I discovered that others did not view me in the way I had come to view myself.

All eyes were upon me, yet no one dared to make eye contact. Their efforts to_________my eyes forced me to realize they saw only my missing legs. Mothers _________held their children closer as I passed. Elderly women patted me on the head saying, “God Bless You!” with _________in their eyes.

While I sat thinking about what had happened, a small girl came up to me. She stared with unembarrassed __________ at the empty pants. Finding nothing there, she looked up at me with a puzzled look, she innocently asked, “Lady, where did your legs go?”

I explained that my legs had been sick. Since my legs hadn’t been strong and healthy like hers, the doctors had to__________them. Leaning her head upwards, she asked, “Did they go to ‘Leg Heaven’?”

That incident made me think about how __________children and adults react to the unknown. To a child, an odd appearance is an interesting curiosity and a __________learning experience while adults often view the same thing with fear and horror. I began to realize that, I, too had been__________of the same inappropriate reactions before I knew what life was like for an amputee.

To fulfill the wholeness of my mind and spirit, I now smile warmly, make eye contact, and speak in a confident manner. By using a__________approach, I attempt to enlighten society about the fact that having a not-so-perfect body doesn’t mean having a poor quality of life.

【推荐3】I recall as a young child bringing bunches of brilliant yellow flowers to my mother. It didn’t matter that the stems（茎）felt sticky or that both my parents cursed the _______of these flowers in the lawn. I thought they were beautiful!

And there were so many of them! We spent hours picking the flowers and then breaking the blossoms off with a snap of our fingers. But the supply of dandelions (蒲公英) never ran out. My father or brothers would _______all the heads with the lawn mower (割草机) at least once a week, but that didn’t _______ these amazing wonders.   

And for those flowers that _______the honor of being hand-delivered to my mother or the sharp blades of the lawn mower, there was another level of_______. The soft, round balls of a dandelion gone to_______ caused endless laughs and voices of delight as we unconsciously spread this flower_______ the yard.   

As I worked in my garden last week, pulling unwanted weeds out of the space that would become a safe place for tomatoes, corn, peas and sunflowers, I was again _______ at the flower that some call a weed with admiration. And I thought, “If only I had the staying _______ of a dandelion.”   

If only I could stretch my roots so deep and straight that something dragging my stem couldn’t__________ me completely from the source that feeds me life. If only I could come back to________ the world with a bright, sunshiny face after someone has run me over with a lawnmower or worse, ________ attacked me in an attempt to destroy me. If only my foliage (叶子) was a nutritious ________ of vitamins that help others grow. If only I could spread love and encouragement freely and fully ________ this flower spreads seeds of itself.

The lawns at my parents’ homes are now beautiful green blankets. The only patches of color come from well- placed, well-controlled flowerbeds. Chemicals have managed to kill what human persistence couldn’t.

I hope you and I can be ________. I hope that we can make our roots get deep enough that the most poisonous chemical can’t reach our souls. I hope that we can overcome such poisons as anger, fear, hate, criticism and competitiveness. I hope that we can see flowers in a world that sees weeds.

【推荐2】While in the army there was nothing I dislike so much as the map reading course, for the simple reason that I always feel     _________ even with a map in my hand. For weeks I had_________awake at night thinking of the practical_________I would have to face at the end of the course.

At last, the day arrived. It was my responsibility to_________a small group of soldiers back to camp from the middle of_________. We were driven out in a closed truck and_________in a ploughed (犁地) field with_________to get back to camp as quickly as possible.

Well knowing my weakness, the soldiers smiled as they saw me_________the map and they made all sorts of helpful suggestions. I said that we would_________east. After walking for over an hour we came to a wide stream. Hopelessly, we sat down in the cool__________and I feel like__________the map into the water. Fifteen minutes later, a boat passed and I asked the boatman if he could give us a__________to the nearest village. I__________that we had been out for a walk and__________ got lost. Not long afterwards, we__________that boat and, following the boatman’s instructions, took a bus into the village and got back to camp.

【推荐2】“I guess I’m never going to see Hawaii before I die.” My mother said these words many times during the last years of her life. Her father, a soldier from World War II, was one of the ______ of the Pearl Harbor, who had passed away shortly before I was born, and it had always been a ______ for her to visit the place which ______ such a historical and emotional meaning for her.

In fact, my mother was lucky enough to travel all over the world during her marriage to my father and she saw many places we would be ______ of. She once lived in Dubai with my father, and they spent some amazing time visiting that beautiful city.

______, she never got to Hawaii. As my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary ______, my sister and I decided that ______ was going to be a better gift than ______ our parents were in Hawaii for their golden celebration. So finally, after years of ______ my father took her there, and completely ______ everyone by reviewing their vows of love in their youth on a beautiful beach. I think it was one of the happiest ______ in her life, and one of the most unforgettable moments I carry with was that my sister and I ______ our father to make that trip happen. But the good time was short, because my mother’s health ______ became worse after she came back and she passed away the next year.

I’ll forever be ______ that my mom had that time with my father in Hawaii before she left us. My father had a chain that he had bought for my mother as a ______ of that trip, and now he wears it every day. My mother will stay in our mind forever.

【推荐3】I woke up to rain loudly hitting my window. It was the most __ alarm I’ve had this school year. Weekends are my only chance to sleep in, but I couldn’t. My brain was __ and full of ideas, so I finally decided to get up and finish my English __ homework.

I drove to a nearby coffee shop and began my observation process, __ notes on what was happening. When I __ over at the parking lot, an elderly couple in a car caught my __. After parking in the handicapped space, an old woman __ on the passenger side and slowly walked over to help her __ husband out of the car. They entered the shop holding hands together.

Immediately they sat down at the table by me, another car __ in the parking lot, with all four windows rolled down. The __ driving it had turned their speakers up so high that I could __ their music inside the coffee shop. But they were not bad kids.

All of them were __ moving their hands and bodies to the __. They were so young and __, with easily-spread smiles.

A series of __ flied from my mind, ranging from photos with my family to the most recent dinner with my host dad. I could not stop __ people who have been by my side from my earliest memories. I watched raindrops slide down the window and __ with each other to form bigger drops of water.

__ to life in the real world, everyone is different, but whether friends or __, we are all still part of the same group: mankind. When having a conflict (冲突) or hold a stereotype (刻板印象) against a person or a group of people, we should take a step back, look __ and try to understand others before making a judgment.