【推荐1】Axel Winch was born nearly 13 weeks prematurely(早产地). He _______ 2 pounds, 12 ounces and had bleeding in his brain, vision and hearing _______. After a week in the _______ in Grand Junction, where parents Melissa and Adam Winch live, he _______ a life-threatening intestinal(肠道的) condition. Doctors _______ to airlift(空运) Axel and Melissa more than 200 miles to Children’s Hospital in Aurora.

His health remained _______ over the next few weeks as his lungs shut down. “There were many times we didn’t think he was going to _______.” Adam said. _______, support was on the way. Melissa, 39, is a police officer. The police department in Grand Junction _______ officers in Aurora. Soon, members of the Aurora police department ________ the hospital with offers of help. One brought them banana bread. A detective gave the ________ a place to stay.

But then things got ________ again. After weeks of caring for Axel in Aurora, the couple had to briefly return to Grand Junction on two separate ________. First, their house had been under contract and they had to ________ in two days. The second time, Melissa’s ________ had run out, so she had to return to work for a few days. They hated having to abandon their son, who had improved but was still facing ________ surgeries.

“We were afraid he was going to die while we were gone,” Adam says. Aurora police Mike set up a ________ for his officers to spend time with Axel—when his ________ couldn’t he there. They ________ the parents photos of themselves asleep with Axel and updates from the nurses. After four months in the hospital, Axel was ________ enough to go home.

【推荐2】“Excuse me,” he waved to the waiter. The waiter arrived at our table. “I ________ cottage cheese, but this is the mushroom.” The waiter returned with a(n) ________ smile on his face and said, “I’m sorry sir. I ________ took the order for the mushroom.” “Then change it immediately,” I said angrily. I had ________ my professor, who had retired as CEO of a billion-dollar multinational corporation, to lunch at the ________ restaurant. The waiter smiled awkwardly. I ________ to begin the “do-you-know-who-he-is” dialogue. But my professor was quicker. He said, “It’s alright. Just don’t ________ me for both dishes,” and laughed. “No, sir. Sorry, sir. Thank you, sir,” the waiter said and the ________ and gratefulness were written all over his face.

“Why did you do that, sir?” I asked, ________ .”It’s his duty to change your dish,” I said. “See how crowded the restaurant is? It’s a(n) ________ noon. Vernon,” my professor said. “Changing my order would mean more ________ for him and the chef. Maybe the waiter is ________. He probably would get a warning from the manager for this ________. Why put them through all this ________? This mushroom isn’t bad.”

When the bill arrived, my professor ________ paying it. He even left a big tip. When we walked out, he smiled at the waiter, who ________ so low that I thought he’d break his back. My professor also smiled and ________ the doorman when he thanked us for visiting.

Here was my professor, Mr. Smith, being sympathetic to people below his ________, and treating them like friends. “The true measure of a man is ________ he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good,” said Samuel Johnson. I’ll follow my professor’s ________ and try my best to do the same.

【推荐3】Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something to make their neighborhood a safe area.

When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn’t ________ drive to a store and back home. He always looks ________ up and down the streets of his neighborhood. He looks for anything ________ such as strange cars, loud noises, ________ windows, or people gathering on street corners.

Tim ________ to a neighborhood watch group（巡逻小组）in Strongsville, Indiana, USA. The neighborhood watch group ________ on he third Wednesday of every month. That’s ________ Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community ________. Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police ________ their homes, streets, and families.

Tina Stedman, ________ president of neighborhood watch group, agrees with Tim. “People seem to think that crime happens to other people but not ________ them. Actually, it really happens,” she said, “and I think nobody has the ________ to steal from other people or to make them feel ________ at their own homes.”

Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbors were ________ to help one another, “We ________ each other’s homes. We keep watch on the neighborhood at night and on weekends. Usually a ________ of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn’t look right, we will call the ________. For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for ________, or someone destroying property（财产）, we report to the police.”

Alex feels the neighborhood watch group ________ a lot in reducing crimes. Her husband Jim agrees, “Police are good people, but they can’t do ________.

【推荐1】One Friday, 12-year-old Janet was going to stay all night with her friend Amy. They had to ________ Mr. Dawson’s house on the way to Amy’s house. As they got close, Janet saw him sitting in his front yard and ________ they should cross over to the other side of the street. Janet was ________ of the strange old man because of the stories she’d heard about him.

Amy said not to ________. Still, Janet was growing more nervous with each step closer to the old man’s house. When they got close enough, Dawson looked up with his usual frown (皱眉). ________, when he saw it was Amy, a broad ________ changed his entire face as he said, “Hello, Miss Amy. I see you’ve got a little ________ with you today.”

Amy smiled back and told him Janet was staying overnight and they were going to listen to music and play games. Dawson said that sounded fun and gave them each a freshly picked ________ off his tree.

After they left Dawson’s house, Janet asked Amy, “How come he was so ________ to us?”

Amy ________ that when she first started walking past his house he wasn’t very ________ and she was afraid of him, but she ________ he was wearing an invisible (看不见的) smile and so she always smiled back at him. After some time, he started smiling real smiles and then started ________ to her. Now he always ________ her an apple, and was always very kind.

Smiles are contagious (感染他人的). If you pretend he is smiling an invisible smile at you and you smile back at him, ________ he will really smile.

【推荐2】Exercise and I had never had a good relationship due to my fear of sports. From a young age, my dad _______ me into a dozen sports. I didn’t like any of them, _______.

When I entered the University of Regina, my dad _______ telling me “You have to find a way to stay _______.” or “You don’t want to get the Freshman 15, do you?” So I _______ to give swimming a shot, but I _______ managed to go to the pool twice during the fall semester (学期). Worse still, I was _______ to convince myself that’s OK.

The spring semester came. A friend of mine _______ me if I wanted to try Zumba (尊巴) with her. All I knew about Zumba was that it was basically a kind of exercise: dancing to Latin pop songs. It didn’t sound too bad, but I couldn’t be _______.

I went, and that was it. Zumba became my ________ of tea. The instructor would always say, “Don’t worry about the steps. Have fun. Do your own thing.” That removed my ________ of sports. I didn’t have to be ________. I didn’t even have to be good. I just needed to ________ the music and move. Zumba did ________ me from the Freshman 15, and it also did so much more. It let me make ________ with my unpleasant past about physical exercise, and enjoy staying healthy.