【推荐1】A young English teacher saved the lives of 30 students when he took __ of a bus after its driver suffered a serious heart attack. Guy Harvold, 24, had __ the students and three course leaders from Gatwick airport, and they were travelling to Bournemouth to __ their host families. They were going to __ a course at the ABC Language School in Bournemouth where Harvold works as a teacher.

Harvold, who has not __ his driving test, said, I was speaking to the students __ I realized the bus was out of control. The bus ran into trees at the side of the road and he __ the driver was slumped (倒伏)over the __. The driver didn’t __. He was unconscious. The bus hit a lamp post and it broke the glass on the front door before Harvold___ to bring the bus to a stop. Police __ the young teacher’s quick thinking. If he hadn’t reacted __, there could have been a terrible __.

The bus driver never regained __ and died at Easy Surrey Hospital. He had worked regularly with the __ and was very well regarded by the teachers and students. Harvold said, It was __ that no one else was hurt, but I hoped that the driver would __ .

The head of the language school told the local newspaper that the school is going to send Harvold on a weekend __ to Dublin with a friend, thanking him for his __. A local driving school has also offered him six __driving lessons.

【推荐2】My son has been in hospital again, this time with an emergency admission. He was_________in an ambulance from our local health centre to the children’s hospital.

In this country, all ambulances are_________and manned by firemen and it was no_________this time. While one fireman drove, the other was in the_________with me and my son. He started_________my son as soon as he was carried in, _________him whether he’d prefer English or Portuguese.

When my son_________either of them, the fireman requested speaking English so that my son could_________it with him. Of course, that gave him plenty of _________to draw my son’s attention to offering “tuition (学费)”-It was just a joke. The__________of them chatted for the full hour. __________, he had been assigned the task of keeping my boy__________. He did so skillfully that our son didn’t__________that I was tearing along with lights flashing.

Actually, the back of an ambulance is a__________place for me, and then I got sick and had to__________the window a little. It was cold, so this absolutely wonderful guy took his own jacket off and__________it around our son’s head and neck.

These excellent guy__________with us during check-in procedure, and finally__________when I made sure that my husband was on his way in the car.

I can’t be __________enough to the firemen. They’re our firemen, and they are all__________, of course.

【推荐1】“My name's Jim Shelley and I’m an addict(有瘾的人)...”

With these words I began to______the problem , the problem of my telephone addiction.I used to call people________, from the moment I woke up to the time I went to sleep.I ______ to be phoned ,I wanted to phone .Just one more call.

It started socially-a few calls each day.It seemed _________,just a quick chat.Gradually though , the _________got worse . soon it was _______use , until , finally , addiction.

And it began to affect my________. During the day I would disappear for________call .If i couldn't make a call , I spent the whole time waiting for the phone to ring .Getting more and more_________,in the end , I would ring someone , then someone else,________ myself just one more call.

I was phoning people and_________ messages to make sure ________ calls would see me through the day . I used to arrive at friend’s homes and before the door was closed , go straight for the phone with the ________“Is it OK if I just use the phone...?” At work ,I became_________ when my fellow workers tried to_______ me from using the phone.And one day I hit my boss (with the phone ).Finally , the police caught me________a phone box that had taken my last one pound coin, and I was_________to see a psychiatrist (心理医生).

I haven 't_________ a phone in the house for three weeks now , and it 's several days_________ I used a phone box .I try not to watch TV because there are_______   people on it making phone calls.My name is Jim   Shelley and I am an addict.

【推荐2】My mother worked as a housekeeper, and she often brought many leftover things home, including used ______ as well as many other things.

One December day, an old-model toy car ______ among a load of other things. It was as long as my forearm and took both hands to lift. I immediately began ______ it and polishing (抛光) it to a bright candy-apple red. It was a thing of ______, and I glowed (容光焕发) as much as it did from the pride of          ____.

Our relatives from France came to visit that Christmas, and my young French cousin ______ that wonderful, shiny red automobile. He’d been ______ so far in life, suffering severe illnesses as a child and ______ himself badly earlier in the year when his bicycle hit a plate-glass window.

By now, everyone ______ how I felt about the car, so nobody dared suggest that I give it to him. But, deep down, I knew it was the ______ thing to do. So, when they ______, my red car went with him. Though I was sad to see it go, my heart ______ when I saw the pleasant smile on his face as he tightly held it.

I still ______ that car and miss it to this day. But with that beloved ______ Christmas gift, I bonded (建立亲密关系) with my cousin for life.

Giving that gift away showed me that it is better to give than to receive. It was the first gift that I gave that keeps me ______.

【推荐3】Tolmacheva is from Russia, who has always wanted to be a teacher. She has ______ and realized her dream in Karamay, a Chinese city in Xinjiang far away from her home in Novosibirsk. Now, she lives in Xinjiang and ______ Russian in a local university.

______ having interest in the Chinese culture during her childhood, Tolmacheva didn’t ______ China until 2009. “In Urumgi, I saw different ethnic groups (种族) and busy night markets,” she said. She was especially surprised at the way people of different ethnic groups were getting along in Xinjiang. ______ by the energetic and culturally ______ city, she chose to study Chinese in Urumqi in 2013. Tolmacheva and her family moved to Karamay in 2019 after getting a job ______ there. Little did she know about the city ______ , but now she considers Karamay as her second ______ “The friendship and ______ of my students and colleagues made me feel at home.” she ______ , adding that she was enjoying her life there.

Tolmacheva was really ______ by the kindness and warmth of those around her, and she decided to work even harder to motivate her students. “The ______ environment is very important. So I tried my best to teach them Russian songs and organize short plays during courses,” she said. Having realized her dream of learning Chinese in Xinjiang, Tolmacheva is now ______ finishing her doctor’s degree and is planning to write some Russian textbooks. She does have a great ______ for her job.