【推荐1】As the foreign English teacher at my school in Japan, I have a weekly English _______ broadcast. I try to get the students to _______ songs to me. I usually _______ who recommended the song and then play it for everyone to _______ during lunch time. I give everyone a chance including one _______ student. This student _______ gets into fights with the other students and doesn’t study. Most of the other teachers and students push him away. I _______ , though, that he just needed a friend, or at least someone he can _______ with.

I could tell he was _______ to me over the last year. I told him to think of a song he likes and that I’ll play it on the broadcast for him. He eventually recommended a song. I actually really ________ the song and made sure to announce his ________ , so everyone knew that he ________ such a great song. ________ , the boy was ________ , and he’s been much happier and focused in English class ever since. While everyone else misunderstood him and pushed him away, I saw right through that he just needed someone who ________ him. There’s still a(n) ________ barrier between us, but words aren’t needed, and you can always ________ where you’re at with someone. He recently walked by me and gave me the most ________ smile that I’ve ever seen. My coworker turned to me and said “I’ve never seen him smile like that before. How did you get through to him?” “I gave him a(n) ________ ,” I said, “through just one ________ .”

【推荐2】We walked every evening and followed the route without incidents.

Though Peety had the same bright look in his eyes, I could tell he was walking ___than usual, struggling to keep up the________pace established over our previous walks. He still had too much life in him for me to________the idea that he was in his sunset years.

We were________east, away from the brightly lit street, when a man, large and drunken, stepped out of the________.

"You got money?" He said.

Peety stopped in his tracks,________at the man and growled(低吠).

"Sorry, man," I said, "nothing on me."

"Come on, boy." I pulled hard on the________, but he stood there, frozen, growling deeper.

"Money!" the man reached out to________me, and Peety barked, jumping-six feet in the air-mouth open and________the man. I dragged the chain and stopped him________his teeth made contact. The man __ and scrambled(爬)on all fours before __ back into   the darkness.

Peety________, and tried to run after him, still________.

How close we had just come to the________of something terrible! Tears in my eyes, I looked at Peety, wondering where he found the________to jump so high to protect me! I took a deep breath and felt________that we were OK.

I got down and petted him. My voice________when I said "Let's go home".

Peety walked in front of me,________me like he had way back when the whole journey first________.

【推荐3】I was waiting for a rickshaw (人力车) in Bombay, India. However, none of them were _________ to pick me up because they charged too much. So I started _________ when I saw a rickshaw and stopped him. When I asked him if he could _________ me to my destination and get the money I offered, to my surprise, he _________ agreed.

I got onto his rickshaw and our _________ started. “Why did these rickshaw pullers say ‘no’ when I offered the _________ money?” His reaction was in English, “Madam, this is what I _________ about these rickshaw fellows. These guys aren’t _________ and they think foreigners are all rich and _________ more.” Hearing his words, I was __________ how this old man, a rickshaw puller, spoke so __________ English. When I was thinking about it, what he said moved me. “I was a BSC graduate in 1975 and I was a __________ in a middle school for many years. I __________ the rickshaw just for two hours in the morning or afternoon and the rest of the time I __________ young students for free. My purpose is to let them know how important __________ is, and become a good human being.”

From this experience I really realize money may come and go in hands, but education and knowledge will stay forever.

【推荐1】I was 68 when I first stepped on stage as a standup comedian in 2003. I'd never set foot in ________ before. I've always been a(n)________ — I've worked as a singer, actor and musician — but all that came to an end after 9/11. I live in New York, and we watched the ________ towers fall from my apartment building. For a year afterwards, nobody wanted to go out or be ________.

It was then that I started to think about. comedy. I realised people needed to laugh, to enjoy themselves again, and thought that with a little ________ I could do it. I took a few classes, tried to work out a routine, and finally ________ the courage to get up on stage. That first time was terrifying. I had no idea what the audience would ________ of me.

In New York, comedians are ________ young men with beards. It's hard enough to ________ through as a woman, even harder as someone old enough to be their grandmother. As I stepped on stage that first time, people laughed nervously. They were clearly ________ to see me. I introduced myself, stated my age and tried my first joke. There was ________ But by the time I got to the third line, people were properly laughing. I was ________.

Now my sets differ. I might be on stage for 10 minutes in front of a dozen people, or my one-woman show is a full hour in front of a crowd of 100.

After a show, people young and old come up to me, saying what a(n) ________ I am, They say they want to be as active as me when they ________ my age, I'm pleased I can show that as an older person you don't need to take a ________ seat in life.

【推荐2】As a teenager, I hated sports and physical education classes. I was always making up ________ to get out of them.

However, when I started university, I decided to try kungfu. To my ______, I loved it! It was a friendly and casual club. I used to go two or three times a week to ______. Because it is not a team sport, I didn’t feel ______ about not being very good.

And because it is a combat (格斗) sport, you train in pairs, which means that you get to ______ people and talk to them. I also ______ that the focus of the classes was on getting better at kungfu, rather than exercising to change my body. I think that advertising puts us under an unhealthy pressure to change our ______. When I was doing kungfu, my body did change—I got stronger and quicker—but the ______ were a side effect of the sport, instead of the goal. ______, in the last year of university I was too busy to do kungfu most of the time.

When I moved to Italy this year, I wanted to start doing a ______ sport again. I found a great local club that does mixed martial arts. The club is more ______ than the one at my university and we do lots of sparring (practice fights). I think that sparring is like chess, but much faster and much more fun! If your sparring partner tries to punch you, you have to decide in an instant how to ______. You could dodge (躲避), block or even ______ their arm and then throw them to the mat.

When I was a teenager, I never ______ that I would like sports. Now I think that everyone should try as many ______ as possible because I believe there is something out there for everyone!