【推荐2】I was walking down the road one day _____my cell phone rang. A strange voice on the other end spoke to me, “Dad, please come back soon. I miss you so much!” I judged that it was a ___number .A little while later, the call came once again, so I rudely _____, “You’ve dialed the wrong number!” and then _____.

During the following days, I got the same ____ now and then. But I didn’t care much about it.

Then one day she constantly called me even though I didn't answer, which ____ me that something unusual would happen. Finally I answered the phone and heard a weak voice, “Dad, please come back. I miss you so much! Dad, I’m ____ so much pain! Mom said you were too busy to take ____ of me. But, dad, please ____ me again, OK?” The simple ____ was difficult to refuse. I made a ____ kiss on the phone and heard the weak voice say, “Thank you．．．Dad, I am so…happy, so…happy…”

Shortly after this, I became ____ about who had been on the other end of my phone. So I called back, and a woman answered, “Sorry, sir. I am really sorry to have ____ you. My daughter has suffered from bone cancer ____ she was born. And her father… died in an ____ a short while ago. I dare not tell her this sad _____. Poor baby．When she couldn’t bear the painful cancer treatment, she would cry for her dad, who had always given her ____ to carry on. I really couldn't bear it, so I gave her your phone number…”

“How is your daughter now?” I couldn't ____ to ask.

“She’s _____. She passed away with a smile, tightly holding the cell phone…”

Tears filled my eyes and I was so sad to hear that, ____ at the sky for a long time.

【推荐1】The ancient art of opera can be brilliant entertainment; it is a_______of music drama, and sometimes dance, staged with artistic sets and costumes. Opera is often_______by many, however, partly because of some of the stereotypes(成见)associated with it. Some of its critics say that the tales are too_______. Others complain that operas cannot be understood because they are often performed in_______languages. Stereotypes aside, opera is an art form enjoyed by many music lovers. Operas can be comedies or tragedies or stories taken from history.

The story of an opera is generally simple so as to avoid_______the audience from the music. The libretto, or script, sets each scene and describes the action in both words and stage directions. The music of an opera the way it advances the action and the feelings it_______in the listeners-is particularly important. The three major musical_______are the overture, including interludes(幕间表演,插曲)-mini-overtures between acts, the recitative, and the aria.

The overture is the instrumental_______to the opera, the purpose of which has changed over time. During the nineteenth century, the overture began to combine excerpts of melodies from arias, ballets, and other musical elements in a variety of the opera's musical themes.

A recitative is less a song than a monologue that is sung_______spoken. A recitative is an clement, older than the overture that was________at the beginning of the seventeenth century as a means of telling a story in music; the first operas were actually a series of recitatives joined by musical interludes. Because an opera is________a play set to music, the recitative is a means of telling the________what is going on and what is about to happen.

An aria is a solo performance-often one of the highlights of the opera. Arias can be declarations of love or expressions of hope, joy, sadness, or________. Many composers have written arias to________the vocal gifts of singers; some sopranos(女高音歌手)were indeed famous for the very high notes that they could sing. Arias are not the only songs in opera, however. Duets, compositions for three or four________, and large-group numbers (choruses) are also common. These diverse musical elements, combined with visual elements in costumes and sets as well as the dramatic content of the story, make the opera the complex art form that it is.

【推荐3】As the drumbeat changed, the dress fluttered(翩翩飞舞)in tune with the girl’s changing steps. Finally, she _________the performance in a neat pose onstage before the audience.

The girl _________is actually me. I’ve learned Latin dance since childhood. However, when I became a young girl, conflicts brought by Latin dance made me_________. The fair skin and slim bodies of mainstream beauty stand in contrast to what Latin dance pursues: power and wildness. As a young girl, I am _________for beauty. But a girl like me with strong muscles _________ in a crowd. In addition, _________feelings caused by unkind judgment piled up in my heart. It was so much that I compromised between power and_________

Luckily, in Vienna the match for the Chinese youth team_________my attention, dragging me out of_________.Players from different countries gathered to __________ the honors, and I was no exception. Though I had made my efforts, I was__________to find that I didn’t get the score I expected. The reason, obviously, lay in my__________. With my reduced intake of protein and carbohydrates(碳水化合物), I __________ lost a lot of weight, but at the cost of a sense of pow er and speed in dance.

In between games, I saw a little girl from Europe take firm and powerful steps in the__________. Her beauty came from her full muscles. The confidence in her eyes was__________. Definitely, she won the top prize. __________ her so much, I made her acquaintance and__________my difficult situation. Till now I do remember the confidence that__________me and some of her words: “Just be yourself.”

Looking back, I’m still the dancing girl but my__________has grown lighter. Something within me is __________

【推荐3】One day, my father and I were watching a dance reality show. For some reasons, I disliked one of the dancers from the very beginning of the show.

Unknowingly, I kept finding his _________ and criticizing (批评) his dance moves. _________, my father was watching the _________ with a smile all the time. When the performance ended, he looked at me and asked softly, “How much do you _________ about the dance competition, Martha?”

“No, Dad, not at all,” I said.

“Then how do you know that he is a _________ dancer?” he asked still with a smile.

“Just _________ the other dancers! He is not as good as them,” I said.

“But he is among the final 10 competitors who were carefully _________. How can he be bad? Maybe his dance is of no _________ to you, but that doesn’t mean you can _________ or even criticize his creativity.’’

“Why not?” I asked carelessly.

“Because criticizing someone or something __________ nothing but negativity around you. Instead of criticizing something you don’t like, you should spend your time __________ something you like, which will spread __________ thoughts,” my father said.

So choose __________! Never criticize anyone or anything unless you have a good __________ of it. This is the most __________ advice my father has ever given me.