After my speech about how everyone can benefit from football, Michael, a short and thin boy, approached me. Although I told him about our_______ and his weakness, every effort was_________He was_______   joining us. I knew he would probably not_______ it, but by the_______   of my speech, I allowed him to have a go.

On the opening day of practice, we started a one-mile jog around the track. Repeatedly Michael fell, each time _______ himself up. The same thing happened for weeks. Gradually, Michael gained strength both socially and _______. He began to laugh and made friends with most of the teammates. By the last week of practice Michael could run the mile without _______ One day after practice, the team captain, Steve, came up to me. He was _______ but kind of lazy. Steve pointed to the field where Michael was ________ all alone and asked me why he was still out there. I told Steve to ask him. The next day, I was ________ to see Steve exercising right next to Michael.

Our big game came. At first, we were losing ________ twelve points. I could see that some kids had already ________. But Michael was playing as hard as he could ________ the team to keep trying. Finally, we ________ the game in the last ten seconds.

At our celebration dinner, we always gave a big award to the most ________ player. Steve had scored the most points that season, and everyone ________ as he received his award. " There's someone who ________ it more than I do," Steve said," Everything I accomplished, and everything the team accomplished this season, is________ one person. " The entire team cheered once more as Steve turned the ________ over to Michael.

【推荐2】My husband, Tom, has always been good with animals, but I was still amazed when he befriended a female grouse(松鸡). It’s ________for a grouse to have any contact(接触)with people. In fact, they’re hard to see, because they usually ________ when they hear humans walking nearer.

This grouse came into our lives in ________. Tom was working out in the field when he ________ her walking around at the edge of the field. She was ________ unafraid and seemed to be ________ about what he was doing.

Tom saw the________ bird several times, and she got more comfortable around him. We quickly grew. ________ of the bird and decided to call her Mildred.

One day, as Tom was working, Mildred came within a few feet of him to watch. Tom________ he didn’t see her and kept working to see what she would do next.

Apparently, she didn’t like to be ________. She’d run up and peck (啄) at Tom’s hands, then ________ off to see what he would do. This went on for about 20 minutes, until Mildred became tired of the ________ and left.

As spring went and summer came, Mildred started to ________ more and more often. ________ Mildred felt comfortable enough to jump up on Tom’s leg and stay long enough for me to get a________ of the two of them together. This friendly grouse soon felt ________ not just with our family, but with anybody who walked or drove by.

When hunting season opened, we put a________ at the end of our driveway(车道) asking ________ not to shoot our pet grouse. My father, who lived down the road, also ________ people not to shoot her. ________, hunters would stop and take pictures, because they had never seen anything like her.

【推荐3】Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He advertised for hired hands. Most people were _______ to work on farms along the Atlantic. They feared the awful _______ that spread across the Atlantic, damaging the buildings and crops. _______ the farmer interviewed applicants for the job, he received many _______.

Finally, a short, thin man, well past middle age, _______ the farmer. “Are you a good farmhand?” the farmer asked him.

“Well, I can _______ when the wind blows,” answered the little man.

Although _______ by this answer, the farmer, _______ for help, hired him. The little man worked well around the _______, busy from dawn to dusk, and the farmer felt ________ with the man’s work. then one night the wind howled loudly in from offshore. Jumping out of bed, the farmer took a lantern and ________ next door the hired hand’s sleeping room. He shook the little man and ________ , “Get up! A storm is coming! Tie things down ________ they are blown away! The little man rolled over in bed and said ________ , “No sir. I told you, I can sleep when the wind blows” ________ by the answer, the farmer was tempted to fire him on the spot. ________, he hurried outside to prepared for the storm. To his ________, he discovered that all of the haystacks had been covered with tarpaulins. The cows and the chickens were all in the ________ places, and the doors were fastened. The windows were tightly ________. Everything was ________ , Nothing could be blown away. The farmer then understood what his hired hand meant, so he returned to his bed to also sleep while the wind blew.