【推荐1】A man, a woman and a child are telling a tree their troubles.

“How can I do what others say,” asked the child, “and _______ be me?” The tree said, “I _______ in the wind, move downwards in the rain, yet I always _______ myself, a tree.”

The man said, “I can’t _______ my life.” “Look at me,” said the tree. “I change every _______ from green to brown to green again, from shoots to flowers to _______ leaves. Yet I always remain myself, a tree.”

“I can’t love any more,” said the woman. “With my love, I have _______ all that I have.” “Look at me,” said the tree. “There are birds in my _______, moss (苔藓) and ladybugs _______ on my bark (树皮). They may take what I ________, but not what I am.”

Whether we know it or not, we are like the tree. Only our pride hangs on to a ________ sense of self, wanting to keep everything, refusing to ________ advice or spiritual direction.

What we do doesn’t matter; how we do it is what ________. Change and growth is as ________ as the sun coming up every morning and sinking every night.________ what is inside you and listen to what your ________ tells you. Why not just for today,________ once more to a place that exists outside yourself without your own or others’________?

We can easily ________ a child who is afraid of the dark; but the real tragedy (悲剧) of life is that men are afraid of the ________.

【推荐3】We were about to gather up our things and return to our car when a man came up.He looked very_________ indeed and asked us angrily if we knew that these grounds were his own.Father looked troubled and the man _________ a notice,which said that camping was strictly forbidden.Poor Father explained that he had not seen the _________ and did not know that camping was not allowed._________ Father apologised,the man did not seem satisfied.He asked Father for his name and _________.All the way home,we were so _________ that hardly anyone spoke a word.This unpleasant thing had spoiled(损害) a wonderful day in the country.

For the rest of the week,we_________ what would happen.The following Sunday,we stayed at home even though it was a _________ day.About noon,a large and very expensive _________ stopped outside our house.We were surprised when we saw several people preparing to have a picnic in our small __________.Father got very __________ and went to ask them what they thought they were doing.You can imagine how __________ he was when he saw the man who had taken our address the week before!Both men burst out __________ and Father welcomed the strangers into the house.We became good __________.And we learned a lesson we have never __________.That’s “Don’t do to others what you don’t like to be done to you.”

【推荐2】On Christmas Day, I got my long-wanted radio-controlled truck. But you would not believe the _______and work that went into getting this holy toy.

For over a month I stared at   _______ magazines I received from my friend until I had made up my mind: I wanted a Pumpkin truck. I   _______to carry out some plans immediately, _______hints to my father about it.

My first job was to tell him about how the steering(操纵杆) on my old car didn’t _______, but he just blamed the problems on my bad   _______.

My next plan would have to be more _______ “Look at this, Dad, the truck with controller and battery pack—all for only US$250!   You can’t _______ to miss out on this bargain!”

His _______ was that he certainly would lose nothing to miss this   ________ and for US$250 you could buy   ________educational like a telescope. “A telescope? To look at the moon? I’ll look at it when I’m 97 years old and living in a ________ home! This is my youth! I am supposed to run about.”

I went to my room, ________at how mean my father was. It was obvious that he didn’t   ________that I would die if I did not get the Pumpkin radio-controlled truck.

When I   ________on Christmas morning I wasn’t excited. I had been ________. I opened all my presents until there was just one big package ________. “The telescope,” I thought. I ________ the packaging and looked at the top of the box—it was a Pumpkin truck. I had won. I loved my ________! I felt like I could do anything! I could   ________ get an A+ in English class.

【推荐3】Once upon a time, there was a poor man. His home was also very poor — a small and empty house, which was _______ with spider webs (蜘蛛网). People tried to avoid coming into his house as they didn’t want to come to such a _______ place. And the poor man thought that poverty (贫困) was the _______ for his unlucky life.

Then, the poor man _______ a wise man and told him about his poverty. The man felt sorry for the poor man and gave him a vase (花瓶). “This will save you from _______,” the wise man said. The poor man took the _______ from the wise man and wanted to _______ it at first and then spend the money on drinking, as usual. Besides, why would he _______ such a beautiful thing? But then he started looking at the vase carefully and decided not to take it to the market. He brought the vase back to his _______, put it on the table and started watching it again.

“It’s not ________ for such a beautiful thing to be ________,” the poor man thought. So he ________ some flowers and put them into the vase. It became even ________. “Not good that such a beautiful thing stands next to a spider web,” the poor man thought again.

So the poor man started ________ his house. He cleaned the dust, washed the floor and whitened the walls. And it became clear that his house wasn’t poor, ________ rather warm and comfortable. And the poor man wasn’t a poor man anymore, but a hard-working host, who had no time to think about poverty.