【推荐1】One day during my holiday in Thailand, I was___________a mountain near a river when I heard a(an)___________crying as if it was quite___________. Turning around and looking down, I immediately recognized that something was___________, and ran down to the edge of the near bank. There I saw Ma Shwe with her three-month-old calf（幼患）___________in the fast-rising water, and it was a life-and-death struggle. Her calf was floating and___________with fear. Ma Shwe was getting as near to the far bank as she could, holding her whole body___________the rushing water, and keeping the calf pressed against her huge body. Every now and then the rushing water would sweep the calf away.

There was a sudden___________in the water and the calf was washed over the mother's body and was gone. Ma Shwe turned___________to reach it and pressed the calf with her head and trunk（象鼻）against the rocky bank. Then with a huge effort, she________the calf in her trunk and tried until she was able to________it on a narrow shelf of rock.

Just at this moment she____________back into the river. If she were____________, it would be certain death. I knew, as well as she did, that there was one________where she could get up the bank, but it was on the other side from where she had put her calf.

While I was____________what I could do next , I heard the sound of a mother's____________. Ma Shwe had________the river and got up the bank and was making her way back as fast as she____________, roaring（吼叫）all the time,____________to her calf it was____________.

【推荐2】I became a gardener when I was twelve. My early _________ of gardening may not have originated from my love for nature. It was to _________ my parents.

At that time, we had a big yard in which a beautiful maple tree stood. But my mother often looked with _________ at this work of natural art. Those golden leaves seemed like tons of rubbish to her, “something else to _________!” Seeing the neighbors busy with gardening, my father even thought it a waste of time.

At that age, I always did something _________ to whatever my parents did! If gardening were something they found _________, I would plant a garden!

I planted some lily seeds in the yard. But they failed to _________. I continued to plant sunflower seeds and roses. Wild _________ joy, I found the first rose bloom. One by one, the flowers bloomed their heads off. _________, I was touched by this land of wonder.

________, my parents showed no interest in my garden. My father even __________ at me because he found it was __________ to move around my garden to the driveway. To my mother’s __________, I put in her vase my real roses which, in her eyes, were merely weeds __________ flowers.

Regardless of their __________, I kept on planting my garden and __________ to enjoy the pleasure of gardening. Plants make such good companions: they breathe, they bloom, they __________ to care and love.

It has been many years since I made my first garden out of my desire to __________ my parent. Today I become known as Mrs. Greenthumbs, teaching gardening and hosting a gardening show, which makes my parents feel very __________. And now I could say it is my affection for __________ that makes me a real gardener.

【推荐3】On a foggy Sunday morning, Amrisha Vaish was sleeping soundly at home in Arlington, Virginia. The sound that woke him at 7:15 was so loud that he assumed it came from inside his house. As he got up to _______ carefully, he heard another sound, this one coming most definitely from outside. Looking out of his bedroom window, he noticed a tree _______ in smoke about 500 yards away. A car was wrapped by smoke around the tree’s base, and its engine was on fire.

Seeing that, he immediately grabbed buckets of water and ran to the crash site. Up close, the _______ looked worse. The car was split nearly in two, and the tree was where the driver’s seat ought to have been, as if _______ there. He thought that no one could have survived this crash, and yet there was 15-year-old Quintin Thompson, still _______ with his terrified face pressed against the driver’s side window, in visible pain. Vaish tried putting out the fire with his buckets of water yet with no success. When the   _______ got into the front seats, he realized he had to get the boy out of there as soon as possible.

Instantly, Vaish tried to open the back door, but he failed. He picked up a stone beside the tree and hit the back door. This time, it _______. The back door was opened and Vaish crawled in. Thompson was struggling to get free when Vaish noticed how _______ his legs were. Using a pocketknife, Vaish sawed through Thompson’s seat belt. Now that Thompson was free of restraints (束缚), Vaish pulled him out of a window, and then dragged him to safety before the car was _______ surrounded by flames. Vaish called an ambulance as Thompson suffered severely. Soon, the doctors arrived and Vaish felt ________.

【推荐1】I do believe the saying “The rose’s in her hand, the flavor in mine.” Therefore, I am always in the ________of giving money to every beggar or homeless person I pass by. But my friends say it is not good to encourage them because such beggars or homeless people begging every day and all beggars have their ability to survive. It ________them that I never listen.

On a ________day, my friend and I were walking to the ________when I passed a beggar lady. I had seen her several times before and had always given her a few cents. That day, I gave her 2 euros. I was waiting for the bus and reading a book when I ________to see that lady standing in front of me. She ________me a piece of paper covered in a plastic bag to prevent it from getting ________ She stood there, looking at me ________. Putting my book away, I took the paper, which said she and her family had to ________their country because of floods, and she was ________to support them. She had got a bit of money, but she needed ________5 euros to get home. I felt in my pockets and found 20 cents. My friend ________a 5-euro note. I asked her to give it to the lady, and said that I would ________ the next day. When she got the money, the lady hugged us and said thanks again and again, and went on her way. Later on the bus, I wondered where her home was and how she had gotten to this country. In her story, I felt that my friend and I would always remain part of it as the ________, who helped her get home on a rainy day. But for me, helping a stranger did bring me happiness, giving me a pleasant ________.

【推荐2】Last July 4th, three police officers went into a supermarket to get something cold to drink.

Once inside, the cops were________by a store security guard who asked for help with a theft. The woman being suspected didn’t have the look of an________criminal. She was obviously scared, and her cheeks were wet with tears.

The cops looked________her bag. “We just saw several boxes of food. Nothing else,” Mike told CBS New York.

“I’m hungry,” she explained________.

Being caught, the woman no doubt would be taken to jail for the________just because of being hungry while poor. But the cops had another idea. “We’ll________for her food,” Sojo told the surprised security guard.

The three men had no discussion at all. It went________. Instead, each of them________out 10 dollars to pay the tab. She would not be arrested that day.

The woman wept for________. Drying her eyes with a kerchief, she________, “Thank you, thank you.”

She wasn’t the only one touched by this act of________. “It was a very beautiful,________moment,” says Paul, who was at the store. He was so________by what he’d seen that he posted a photo on the Internet for all to see.

But attention was________what the officers wanted. They were driven by a far more common emotion. As Sojo told CNN, “When you look at someone’s face and see that he needs you and he is actually hungry, it’s pretty________for you to walk away from something like this.”

【推荐3】The Best Holiday

I was unbelievably proud of my nine-year-old daughter, Emily. ________ to buy a mountain bike, she’d been saving her pocket money all year, as well as doing small jobs to earn extra money. By Thanksgiving, she had collected only $49. I said, “You can have your pick from my bicycle ________.” “Thanks, Daddy. But your bikes are so old.” She was right. All my girls’ bikes were 1950s models, not the kind a kid today would ________ choose.

As Christmas ________ near, Emily and I went bike shopping. As we left one store, she noticed a Salvation Army (基督教救世军) volunteer standing next to a big pot. “Can we give something, Daddy?” She asked. “Sorry, Emily, I’m out of ________,” I said.

Throughout December, Emily continued to work hard. Then one day, she made a ________ announcement. “You know all the money I’ve been saving?” She said hesitantly. “I’m going to give it to the poor people.” So one cold morning before Christmas, Emily handed her total savings of $58 to a volunteer who was really very ________.

________ by Emily’s selflessness, I decided to contribute one of my old bicycles to a car dealer who was collecting used bikes for poor children. ________ I selected a shiny model from my collection, however, it seemed as if a second bike took on a glow. Should I contribute two? No, one would be enough. But I couldn’t ________ the feeling that I should give a second bike. When I later ________ the bikes, the car dealer said, “You’re making two kids very happy, Sir. Here are your tickets. For each bicycle contributed, we’re ________ away one chance to win a girls’ mountain bike.”

Why wasn’t I surprised when that second ticket proved to be the ________? I like to think it was God’s way of ________ a little girl for a sacrifice beyond her years — while giving her dad a lesson in the ________.