【推荐1】There was in Washington a policeman who was known as the man who arrested the president. The_______ took place when the man was a green officer_______ at No. 1 Street.

One evening, President Grant, who had been invited to a party of friends, was_______ home to meet the engagement. The _______, with its four horses, was running down the street so fast that the new policeman _______ the driver to stop. The driver _______ him and asked what was the _______. “Don’t you know you are driving about nine times as fast as the law _______?” said the officer.

“Yes,” answered the president. “I suppose I was, _______ you speak of it.”

“Well, then, you may __________yourself under arrest and go with me to the station house.”

There were some marks from the other __________of the carriage __________ whom was a foreign minister, but the president said, “The man is __________ right.” and asked the policeman to __________himself behind him.

__________ the policeman heard a soft voice, “I only thought you __________ know that it’s President.” The officer was very __________ and begged them to let him go, __________ the president would have none of it.

When they reached the station, the captain turned __________. Apologies were made, but the president __________on paying the proper fine.

【推荐2】An eight­year­old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money left. When she heard her daddy say to her _______mother with desperation (绝望)，“Only a miracle (奇迹) can save him now.” The little girl went to her bedroom and took out her piggy bank. She _______ all the change out on the floor and counted it carefully. Then she _______her way six blocks to the local drugstore (药店).

“And what do you want?” asked the chemist.

“It's for my little brother,” the girl answered back. “He's really, really sick and I want to buy a miracle. His name is Andrew and he has something _______ growing inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him.”

“We don't _______ miracles here, child. I'm sorry.” the chemist said, smiling _______ at the little girl. In the shop was a _______ customer. He stooped (弯腰) down and asked the little girl, “What kind of miracle does your brother _______?”

“I don't know,” she replied. “He's really sick and daddy says he needs a(n) an operation. But my daddy can't pay for it, so I have brought my _______.”

“How much do you have?” asked the man.

“One dollar and eleven cents, but I can try and get some more,” she answered quietly.

“Well, what a coincidence (巧合),” smiled the man. “A dollar and eleven cents—the ________ price of a miracle for your little brother. ________ me to where you live. I want to see your brother and ________ your parents.”

That well­dressed man was Dr. Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon. The operation in the hospital was completed without ________ and it wasn't long before Andrew was ________ again and doing well.

The little girl was happy. She knew exactly how much the miracle cost—one dollar and eleven cents plus the ________ of a little child.

【推荐1】The day I met Hani, she was a shy, 17-year-old girl of the Indonesian international school, where I taught English. She asked if I could help her_________ her English. I could tell it took great_________ for the young girl to_________ me and ask for help. “I want to go to a US university,” she said with confidence. I was surprised.

I agreed to help her. For several months, Hani _________ each morning at five and studied on the bus. At 4 p.m.，she reached my classroom, _________ but ready to work. When meeting Hani at her shabby (简陋的) house, I realized it was impossible for her to_________ the expenses of a US university. Hani’s interest was increasing with her language ability but I was becoming more and more_________.

One day I received the announcement of a_________ opportunity for a major US university. After reading the_________, I knew Hani couldn’t meet the qualifications (资格).I told her the truth. But she remained__________. “Will you send in my name?” she asked. I couldn’t turn her down and completed the application.

In the following weeks, I arranged for her to take the Test of English Fluency, which would be a big __________ for whoever had never__________ a computer before. For two weeks, we studied how a computer works. Then, she received a letter from the scholarship association. She had been__________.

I leaped (跳跃) around the room, overjoyed and shocked. Hani stood by, smiling. I realized it is not talent alone that brings success, but also the__________to succeed, the commitment (投入) to work hard and the courage to__________ yourself.

Shirley Allen loved to sing and play the piano. She studied music in college and her_______was to become a concert pianist or blues singer. Everything_______when she was 20 years old. She became sick with what doctors _______ was typhoid fever(伤寒)and she almost died. Doctors gave her medicine to help her get well, but the medicine _______her to become_______deaf. She could no longer hear the music which she had always_______.

Shirley would never give up playing the piano, _______she did decide to change_______She transferred to Gallaudet University and studied English .In 1964 Shirley graduated from Gallaudet and looked for_______.She wanted to be ____________and work full time.

For three years, Shirley worked as a clerk in Washington,D.C.____________,in 1967 she was asked to work at Gallaudet University as a dorm supervisor(宿舍监管员).Shirley supervised young women who____________in the university during the school year. She also taught English. Somehow she found time to____________ graduate school at Howard University in Washington,D.C. In 1972,Shirley received her M.A.degree.

Always ____________ a new challenge, in 1973 Shirley became a professor at National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), which____________deaf and hard-of-hearing students technical and professional training.

This____________ woman became the first black deaf female in the world to receive her Ph.D. She made ____________in 1992, ____________she received the highest degree in education from the University of Rochester in New York.

Dr.Shirley Jeanne Allen has traveled many roads and____________many rainbows searching for her dream. With courage and____________,she never gave up.