【推荐1】A five-year-old girl is being described as a hero for helping save her mother and baby brother’s lives.

Angela and her two children, 5-year-old Lexi and 10-week-old Peter, were_______home from a vacation. She played_______music so that her kids could sleep, but the mother_______as well.

The family’s car_______down a 40-foot embankment（路堤）outside the mountainous town and crashed into a tree. Angela was knocked_______. Lexi woke up to her baby brother’s_______, and spotted her mother stuck between the front seat and the_______. She tried to wake her mother up, but Angela didn’t_______. Knowing that the car could not be seen by other drivers,_______they were down a steep embankment, she managed to________herself from her car seat and kicked open the________car’s door.

Her shoes had come off. The________girl climbed the rough ground to get to the highway above and________down a vehicle for help.________, the driver who stopped for her had once been medically trained for emergencies. Without________, he ran down the hill. He removed Peter from the wreckage, but he________the mother should not be moved. Otherwise, she might become permanently disabled.

Twenty minutes later, the family were________by ambulance to a health care center. If the quick-thinking girl hadn’t________help as fast as she did, her mom and brother may have suffered terrible________. Everyone was amazed by what Lexi had done. The family survived because of the little girl’s brave________to get help.

【推荐3】I ran into a stranger as he passed by. “I am so sorry!” was my reply. Then he said, “Excuse me too... I wasn’t _________ noticing you.” We were very polite, this stranger and I. Then we went on our _________ ways after saying goodbye.

But at home, a _________ story is told. Later, in the kitchen, as I cooked our meal, my daughter came up to me quietly. When I turned, I nearly _________ her down. “Get out of my _________!” I _________ with a frown （皱眉）. She left, _________ her little heart broken.

That night, as I lay _________ in bed, God’s quiet _________ spoke to me and said, “While __________ a stranger, you use common courtesy (有礼貌的言辞), __________ with those you love, seem to be too severe... Go and look on the kitchen floor, and you will find some __________ there by the door. She brought them for you. She picked them herself: pink, yellow, and blue. She stood there quietly, not to __________ your sur- prise, and you never saw the tears in her eyes.”

By this time, I felt sad and small and now my own tears had begun to fall. I quietly went and knelt by her bed, “ Wake up, sweetheart, wake up," I said,“Are these the flowers you picked for me? She smiled, “I found them, out by the tree. I wrapped them in a napkin, just for you. I knew you would like them. __________ the blue.” I said, “I am so sorry that I missed them today... And I shouldn’t have fussed at you that way. ”

And she whispered, “Mommy, that is okay... I still love you __________.” I hugged her and said, “I love you too... And I love my flowers, especially the blue.”

Are you __________ that: If you die tomorrow, the __________ that you are working for could easily replace you in a matter of days. But the family you leave __________ will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we __________ ourselves more to our work than into our families — an unwise __________ indeed .

【推荐1】I live in a big city．It is noisy and dirty and I always feel very_______. At the weekends, I like to leave the city and get some _______air and have a good rest. A few weeks ago, I decided_______ to see my_______．I was really looking forward to _______ them as soon as possible．

My parents live a long way away. I went to see them with James, a friend of_______. And we drove there_______ Friday night. In the middle of the road it began to rain．

The roads became very wet and it was difficult to_______.We _______ home just after midnight, feeling very tired. The next morning it was still_______. James took his car to a garage(汽车修理厂)________ was very good.

In the afternoon the________ got better. We wanted to go for a drive. My parents________ us their car. But their car was not very good. It didn’t________on the way. How ________ we were! We had to call up the garage. “Oh”, they said, “your car won’t ________until tomorrow. ” So it wasn’t ________for us to go for drive. We had to stay at my parents’ home all day. On Sunday my mother ________ a heavy box on her foot and we had to hire(雇佣)a taxi ________ her to hospital. When James and I drove back home on Sunday afternoon, we got stuck in a car accident. Oh, my God! Next time if I want a rest, I will stay in the_____.

【推荐2】I was writing a novel on chimpanzees (黑猩猩). To expand the reality of chimpanzees while writing my book, I needed to ________ them. One day, while searching the website about chimpanzees, I ________ the opportunity to complete a six-month internship (实习) with the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in Tanzania, East Africa. Despite having a full-time job, I just knew I had to go. And after ________ I was offered an all paid internship.

But very soon my logical mind jumped in. “You can’t leave. What are you going to do with your house and your life?” The whispers were continuous, so I ________. I did have a knowing in my heart that I wanted to take on the new ________. But I needed a definite answer to my question about why this trip ________ so much to me.

My mind and heart had always been in ________ in the next few weeks, but ________ I made up my mind. I drove to my company headquarters and ________. Soon I boarded a plane to Tanzania.

During my six-month internship, I never ________ my decision. I met wonderful friends and completed several community projects for JGI. I also visited Gombe and the ________ staff there who took me chimpanzee tracking. So much happened during my stay and all of it ________ to the most wonderful unfolding of my highest life lessons.

I’ll carry the lessons and the light of those ________ in my heart. I experienced immeasurable ________ in learning how to listen to the desires of my soul and be ________ to new adventures.

【推荐3】One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife entered the hall of a small hotel in Philadelphia. Trying to get out of the rain, the couple approached the front desk hoping to get some _________ for the night.

“Could you _________ give us a room here?” the husband asked.

The clerk, a friendly man with a _________ smile, looked at the couple and explained that there were three conferences in town. “All of our rooms are _________,” the clerk said. “But I can’t send a nice couple like you out into the rain at one o'clock in the morning. Would you perhaps be willing to sleep in my room? It’s not exactly a _________, but it will be good enough to make you folks comfortable for the night.”

When the couple _________, the young man pressed on. “Don’t worry about me, I’ll _________ just fine,” the clerk told them.

So the couple agreed.

As he paid his bill the next morning, the elderly man said to the clerk, “You are the kind of _________ of the best hotel in the United States. Maybe someday I’ll build one for you.”

The clerk looked at them and smiled. The three of them had a good laugh. As they drove away, the elderly couple agreed that the helpful clerk was _________ excellent, as “finding people who are both __________ and helpful isn’t easy.”

Two years passed. The clerk had almost forgotten the __________when he received a letter from the old man. It __________that stormy night. In the envelope was a round-trip ticket to New York as well, asking the young man to pay them a visit.

The old man met him in New York, and led him to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. He then pointed to a great new building there and said, “That is the hotel I have just built for you to __________.”

“You must be joking,” the young man said.

“Surely I am not,” said the old man.

The old man’s name was William Waldorf Astor, and that splendid structure was the __________Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The young clerk who became its first manager was George C. Boldt. This young clerk never __________the turn of events that would lead him to become the manager of one of the world’s best-known hotels.

【推荐1】Rehan was an American boy, who had a tough childhood. When he was 8, his mother _________ his father. After his mother left, the family faced _________ difficulties because Rehan’s father tried to raise two sons all by himself.

By the 7^th grade, Rehan’s home life had suffered _________ under the pressure. "There was no breakfast every day," he said. "Sometimes there was no electricity at _________." Despite his hard home life, Rehan _________ boxing for comfort.

Rehan continued to _________ academically while training to be a professional boxer. However, his _________ was broken when he suffered a shoulder injury in the 12th grade. His hope of being a professional _________ was gone. He hurriedly applied to a number of colleges but was _________. At last, he had to work as a cleaner.

His colleagues wanted to __________ why he was there and would suggest he go to school. They eventually spoke to Bates, the __________ of the company, about the __________ young man. Bates soon took Rehan under his __________ and brought him to Bowie State University to meet a professor. This professor was so __________ by the conversation with Rehan that he agreed to admit Rehan.

"I studied so __________. I was winning so many honors — it was crazy." Rehan said. By the end of his second year, Rehan made a decision to go to law school. Then Rehan transferred to University of Maryland, where he became a graduate in 2018. Over the course of the following year, Rehan worked in downtown DC, while still studying. He was accepted to law schools at Harvard, this spring.

【推荐3】The management of a software company decided to teach its employees (雇员) about finding real ________ to solve problems. When called to play a ________ in a hall, the team of 30 employees was quite ________. As they entered the hall, they found a huge box of balloons (气球) at the centre. They were ________ to pick a balloon and blow it up. And the team leader asked them to ________ their names on their balloons. All tried to do that, but not everyone ________ it. A few balloons burst (爆裂) due to pressure and yet they were given another chance. Those who ________ even after the second chance were ruled out of the game. In all, 25 employees were left for the next ________. All the balloons were collected and the team leader asked the employees to ________ the balloon with their names marked. Also, he told them no balloon should be ________. It was almost 15 minutes and no one was able to find his own balloon.

Now it was the third and final level. The employees were asked to pick any balloon in the room and give it to the person ________ on the balloon. Within a couple of minutes all the balloons reached ________ employee.

The team leader said that this was the real way to solve problems. Often everyone is crazily ________ ways to solve problems without recognizing the ________ way. Most of the time, ________ and helping others can give you the tools you need to deal with all problems.