【推荐1】 Little Jarrell was testing his mountain bike road outside of Columbus, Georgia, when his riding partner, Chris Dixon, stopped suddenly. Something in the distance_______among the trees caught her attention. It_______to be a sandy-colored five-month-old Great Dane mix.

He was skinny, and had a lot of road rash and a_______leg. The cyclists fed the friendly pup and_______their water. They were more than seven miles from_______and riding bikes. ''We couldn't_______ him," Little told his partner. He_______picked up his new friend and slipped the dog's hind legs into the back pockets of his cycling jersey. Then he put the dog's_______paws over his shoulders.

The 30-minute ride into town"_______at a bike store, where they got more water and __________ for the dog. That was when Andrea Shaw, a woman from Maine in town on business,__________by. The dog made a beeline for her, licking her. Shaw was__________and, after learning what had happened, declared her__________ : I am keeping this dog.

Shaw called him Columbo __________the town where they'd met and scheduled an operation on his leg. Today, Columbo is living the high__________on a farm with a horse, a pony, a six-year-old boy, and two coon dogs to keep him company.

【推荐2】Goran Kropp was a Swedish adventurer and mountaineer. In 1972, at the age of six, with his father’s help, he_____ Galdhopiggen, the highest mountain in Northern Europe. twenty-three years later, he stood on the highest peak in the world, Qomolangma. His journey to the_____shows just how independent, persistent (坚持的), and determined this ____ man is.

____most people arrive at the foothills of Qomolangma by some sort of modern ____, Kropp bicycled 7,000 miles from his home in Sweden. Traveling by bike was not ____. He stopped many times to ____ his bike because rough roads caused mechanical problems for him. In addition, he was run after by dogs, stung by hornets(马蜂) and was caught in the rain several times before he ____ the base of the mountain.

Kropp_____ to climb Qomolangma the same way he traveled to the mountain: without the______of others and without modern conveniences. Unlike other ____ Kropp climbed the mountain without a guide or helper. He did not _____bottled oxygen to help him_____ at high altitudes, and he carried all of his _____himself in a pack that weighed about 140 pounds.

It took Kropp _____tries to reach the top of Qomolangma. The first time, he had to ____ only 350 feet from the top because the weather was too dangerous. Just a few days earlier, at that same level eight climbers had _____because of a sudden snowstorm in the mountain. He felt deep sorrow for them, but became more _____. The mountaineer waited out the storm, ____, and tried again a few days later. This time, he was _____. After he walked down the mountain, he got back on his bike and rode the 7,000 miles back to Sweden.

【推荐1】I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was _______and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be _______ but a failure.”

After five years of _______ jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best _______ that could have happened to me. I _______ I wanted to do something positive (积极地) with my life because I wanted to prove to _______ that what people said about me was _______ . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s _______ it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my _______ and went to college. My first novel ________ while I was at college.

After college I taught during the ________ in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a ________ in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of ________ that job to write full time ________ I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself — ________ was a working--class boy who’d ________   school early, now teaching at the university.

My writing career took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and ________, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. ________ what does it mean? I ________ wish all the people that have put me down had ________: “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

【推荐2】In early autumn I applied for admission to college. I wanted to go nowhere but to Cornell University, but my mother didn’t _________ it. When she saw me studying a photograph of _________ on the sports ground of Cornell, she tore it up.

“You can’t say it’s not a great university, just because Papa went there.”

“That’s not it at all. And it is a top university.” She was still holding the pieces in her hand.” But we can’t _________ to send you to college.”

“Do you want me to get a job to help you and Papa?”

“No,” she said. “I don’t expect you to _________ us.”

Father borrowed money from his rich cousins to start a small jewellery shop. His main _________ were his old college friends. To get new customers, my mother had to help. She _________ a long-forgotten membership in the local league of women, _________ she could get to know more people. I knew that my parents had to wait for quite a long time _________ their small investment (投资) could receive some _________. What’s more, they had not wanted to be very rich and successful, and that was why they managed their lives so __________.

I was __________ between the wish to help them, and the __________ not to repeat their mistakes. But I had a strong belief in my power to get __________ I wanted. After months of hard study I won a full college scholarship (奖学金). My father could hardly hide his being __________ of me, and my mother __________ gave in to my success.

【推荐1】My life wouldn’t be so wonderful without my parents. Every time I look at them or even think of them, I am very _______.

Our native country was Vietnam, but, to _______ the war, we had to leave our home and all our _______ and go on a long boat journey to America. I was two years old and the youngest of seven children.

This journey was not _______ for my parents, but throughout they thought of their children first. I was even told that they once ate only apple peels to _______ the fruit part for me. This was special because at that time many children were _______ by their parents because of the war.

Our journey to America was not the last of our _______. We were also faced with starting a life in America with nothing. My parents’ strong _______ to give their children a good life was what has taken us where we are today. Of course, our beginning years were hard. We lived on just enough food bought with food stamps, wore old clothes and played with toys bought at second-hand shops. _______ almost everything we had was bought at second-hand shops, we were happy because our life was really peaceful.

My parents worked very hard to build a better life. I will always ________ how early they got up in the morning. After a few years my dad got a degree in business and then he got a ________. Slowly, our living status began to rise. My parents bought a car and ________ they saved up enough money to buy a house; this was the true sign of my parents’ success.

Today we moved out of the apartment, ________ all the hard times and starting our new ________. We really live very comfortably and my parents’ greatest achievement is that they have ________ that nothing is impossible.

【推荐3】Wilson, a New York cyclist, donated one of his kidneys (肾) two years ago. In order to _________ that the operation didn’t change his lifestyle, earlier this year on March 10, which marked the World Kidney Day, he climbed to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro with other kidney donors.

His idea to be a kidney donor first appeared _________ seeing a friend’s post on Facebook. The friend wrote that his teenage daughter had recently _________ a life-saving kidney donation from a stranger, which enabled her to lead a normal life.

When he got home, he started _________ kidney donations on the Internet. He learned that about 97,000 people were on the National Kidney Transplant List, and that many patients spent years on the list because there weren’t _________ kidneys available. He felt sorry for these patients and _________ to become a kidney donor. When Wilson told his wife about his idea to become a donor, _________, she totally supported his decision.

Wilson began taking the steps to become a kidney donor, including _________ tests and examinations.

Wilson’s operation was an even more advanced, minimally invasive (微创) one _________ a single-port surgery (单端口手术). Doctors removed Wilson’s kidney using an incision (切口) made in his belly. And then, his kidney would go for a perfect __________. After about two weeks, he was back on his indoor bike and began training __________ and carefully under the doctor’s guidance.

As a donor of a living thing, Wilson said, “__________ an operation may seem frightening, but all it took was several weeks for recovery.” He added, “The most important thing I want people to know is that when someone donates a kidney, life really doesn’t __________ at all.”

“If you can help others, it’s a wonderful thing, “Wilson said. “But the planet is a big place, so it is wonderful for a small individual (个体), even a stranger to make an impact on __________ person, and one will feel proud and honored to save others.” It is also a great __________ to the donor himself.