【推荐1】I want to share a moving story with you. A friend, who started up and ran her own youth ____ group, lost her husband because of cancer 2 years ago. Almost after he ____, she found out that she had ____, too. She is still going strong and her ____ is working well for now. She always has a smile and kind words for everyone, just as she usually did during the ____ days.

One of the ____ I have had over the years is to -take photographs, ____ candid(偷拍

的) shots of people laughing and smiling. I have a great headshot of the fried and her husband, from about a year or 2 before he died. They ____ have the loveliest smiles in the photo. An idea came into my mind when I ____ the photo. So I ordered a(n) ____ of it and put it into a nice frame for her. I gave it to her last night at a meeting of the theater group. I didn’t know if she would like it, so I was very ____ of how it might go. ____ there were floods of tears from her and a few other friends, we all had lots of hags and ____. It was a friendly and warm ____ that I hadn’t had for many years.

My friend said, “It is one of the nicest ____ I have of him and, though I normally ____ pictures of myself, I love this one.” She couldn’t ____ me enough and was really shocked that I had done such a(n) ____ thing for her. I felt it was only a ____ effort on my part, but it ____ an amazing result.

【推荐2】In a used furniture business, unlike new, you cannot order stock from a catalogue. People call in, and you have to go out and make an offer. “You can't _______ what you don't have,” my father would say.

When I was aged thirteen, my father _______ his store manager, a one－armed guy who could do more with his one arm than many will do with two. With his _______ gone, my father came to me. “Will you come in while I go out to _______ the day's calls _______ I find the right person?” he asked. The store has tens of thousands of _______. “People like to bargain,” he told me. “So I don't _______ prices. You just have to know a _______.”

He took me around and said, “A quarter－horse motor you can sell for four dollars. For a refrigerator, depending on the_______，you can sell for thirty－five dollars to sixty dollars. However, if it has a freezer all the way across, sell it for eighty dollars; ________ excellent condition, maybe one hundred dollars. Dishes come in with a houseful of furniture, and I don't even figure them in when I give a price. You can sell them for a nickel to a quarter. Something really nice.”

Every day after ________，I would pedal (骑自行车) down to the store. Soon after, I was writing up a sales slip (纸条) for an attractive plate when my father walked in. I had asked a dollar and the guy did not hesitate. I was very ________. My father glanced down at what I was doing, ________ the customer and said, “You sure got a________ today. My employee gave you the price and that's the price.” Afterward, I asked my father, “What was that all________？”

It turned out that it was a(n) ________ plate, worth a few hundred dollars. I was shocked. Here I was ________ to help my father in the business and instead I was losing money for him.

He said, “I could have stopped the sales if I'd wanted to. You were just writing up the slip and hadn't yet taken the money. ________， by civil law, you're ________ age. But, a man stands by his word and the word of his agent.” It ________ my father a small amount of money, but I learned a lifelong lesson in integrity (正直).

【推荐3】On the first day of our science class, Mr. Whitson gave us a lecture about an animal called “Cattywampus”, an ill-adapted nocturnal (夜行的) animal that was _________ out during the Ice Age, and he passed a skull (头骨) around as he talked. We all took notes and later had a quiz.

When he returned our papers, we were shocked—a big red “×” _________ each of our answers. We’d written down exactly what he’d said. There must be some mistakes!

“Very simple,” Mr. Whitson explained, “I had _________ up the story about the Cattywampus. There had never been such an animal. The information in your notes was, _________, incorrect. Did you expect _________ for incorrect answers?”

Needless to say, we were annoyed.

“You should have _________ it out,” Mr. Whitson said. After all, at the very moment he was _________ the skull(in fact, a cat’s)around, hadn’t he been telling us that no trace of the animal _________? He had described its amazing night vision and the _________ of its fur he couldn’t have known. He had given the animal a ridiculous name, but we still hadn’t been __________.

Every class was a(n)__________ with Mr. Whitson. One day he told us that his car was a living organism (有机体). It took us two full days to __________ for our clarification (阐明). He didn’t let us off the __________ until we had proved not only the reasonable statement of an organism but also that we had the courage to stand up for the truth.

We put our __________ skepticism (怀疑) into all our classes. Teachers and textbooks are not always right. In fact, no one is. Don’t let your minds go to __________. Instead, speak up if you thought the teacher or the textbook was wrong.

【推荐2】Truth be told, a life-changing college experience doesn’t begin or end with a high GPA or great university tour. And although parents and teachers alike work diligently to prep their students with the cutting-edge classes and impressive transcripts, they’re _______ one vital skill: emotional intelligence.

A poll of 1,502 first-year college students in the U.S. found that a majority of them wish they had received more _________ preparation for college. Emotional preparedness is _________ “the ability to take care of oneself, adapt to new environments,_______ negative emotions or behavior and build positive relationship,” according to the survey.

“Survey data indicate that college readiness requires far more than just a solid academic foundation – a find that seems _________ conventional higher education preparation, said John MacPhee, Executive Director of the Jed Foundation, which co-sponsored the survey. “It is clear that emotional preparedness should be better _______ the work that high school communities are doing to guide students through the transition into college.”

Data show that college students _______ far more than their academics – and their stress can take a serious toll(代价) on their _______ in school. Forty percent of survey participants felt pressure to pay for college expenses, followed by 30 percent who said their biggest _______ was to make new friends.__________, keeping in touch with family and friends not at their college (28 percent) and being independent (16 percent) also weighed heavily on college students’ shoulders.

All of these __________ had a negative impact inside and outside of the classroom. Students who felt less emotionally prepared for college were more likely to have a lower grade point average, regularly ____________ drugs and/or alcohol, and rate their overall college experience as terrible or poor.

“As high school seniors start applying to college around this time of year, parents and people ____________ in their lives can play an important role in helping children build confidence and life skills, said Marisa Giarnella-Porco, Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Jordan Porco Foundation, a survey co-sponsor. “It is important to __________ them to choose a college that best fits their needs first and foremost – not only in a(n)__________ sense, but also relative to emotional needs.”

Thankfully, whether your child is packing up for school this fall or still in diapers, it’s never too late (or too early!) to begin prepping them for university life. Here’s what parents should do to help their college-bound kid, starting now.

【推荐3】Shamarr Allen was dozing at home one evening Inst July when he was shocked awake by a TV news item. There had been a _______ among a group of children in the 7th Ward of New Orleans, and a nine-year-old boy named Devante Bryant had been killed. Allen was _______ and heartbroken. He thought of his own nine -year-old son.

_______ from the city's rough Lower 9th Ward, Allen is one of the most celebrated jazz trumpeters in the city. After seeing the _______ news that morning, it didn't take long for Allen to _______ a possible solution. He had a few spare _______ lying around. Maybe he could offer them to kids in exchange for their guns.

Allen named the _______ My Trumpet Is My Weapon. He met with the New Orleans mayor to _________ how to make children feel safe coming forward with their guns.

Allen has _______ seven guns so far, a small but symbolically important __________. But he doesn’t stop with the __________ of gun for instrument. After the exchanges, Allen connects the children with local __________ who give diem free virtual trumpet lessons.

More importantly, he has brought hope for his city and young people __________ for a better life. “I just say, ‘Look, I come from where you come from, and I can show you the __________ that got me out,’” says Allen. “And __________ may not be the way for you, but it will at least open your mind to see what's out there.”

【推荐1】Space exploration has always been the province of _________: The human imagination readily soars where human ingenuity (创造力) _________ to follow. A Voyage to the Moon, often cited as the first science fiction story, was written by Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649. Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries before the first manned rockets started to fly.

In 1961, when President Kennedy declared that America would send a man to the moon by the decade’s end, those words, too, had a dreamlike quality. They resonated (共鸣) with _________ and ambition in much the same way as the most famous _________ speech of all, delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. two years later. By the end of the decade, both visions had yielded concrete results and _________ American society. And yet in many ways the two dreams ended up in _________ with each other. The fight for racial and economic equality is intensely pragmatic (讲求实用的) and immediate in its impact. The urge to explore space is just the opposite .It is figuratively and literally otherworldly(超现实的) in its _________.

When the dust settled, the space dreamers lost out. There was no grand follow-up to the Apollo missions. The technologically compromised space shuttle program has just come to an end, with no _________. The perpetual(不断的) argument is that _________ are tight, that we have more pressing problems here on Earth. Amid the current concerns about the federal deficit(赤字), reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxury-- __________ saving one-thousandth of a single year’s budget would solve our problems.

But human ingenuity struggles on. NASA is developing a series of robotic probes that will get the most bang for a buck. They will serve as modern Magellans, __________ out the solar system for whatever explorers follow, whether man or machine. On the flip side, companies like Virgin Galactic are plotting a bottom-up attack on the space dream by making it a reality to the public. Private spaceflight could lie within reach of rich civilians in a few years. Another decade or two and it could go __________.

The space dreamers end up __________ all of us-- not just because of the way they expand human knowledge, or because of the spin-off technologies they produce, but because the two types of dreams feed off each other. Both Martin Luther King and John Kennedy appealed to the idea that humans can go beyond what were once considered inherent __________. Today we face seeming challenges in energy, the environment, health care. Tomorrow we will transcend(超越) these as well, and the dreamers will deserve a lot of the credit. The more evidence we collect that our species is __________ of greatness, the more we will actually achieve it.

【推荐2】Have you ever been in a rush to get to school? Have you ever not had time to eat breakfast? You are not alone. Many students have this problem. So should students be allowed to eat in class? Some schools and teachers are _________ about food and drink in classrooms. Students aren’t allowed to eat _________ class. And the only drink that they are allowed to have in class is water. A student’s water bottle has to be_________ so that teachers can see that it is water that they’re drinking. Mrs. Hammond, an eighth grade English teacher says, “I don’t _________ my students eating in class, because they leave crumbs (碎屑). But I do let my 3rd hour class eat. If they make a _________ then the privilege (特权) is lost.”

However, some teachers and students don’t think _________ is a big deal. Mrs. Deltenre, a Spanish teacher at Greenfield Junior High says, “I don’t have a_________ if my students eat in class. Students usually get very _________ around 3rd and 4th hour, being so close to lunch. Eating in class can cause a mess, so they really just have to _________ after themselves. Students usually do better in school when they are __________.”

Harlee Scott, a seventh grader at Greenfield, __________ with Mrs. Deltenre, “I __________ to eat during class. If I couldn’t eat in class I would starve.” This is exaggerated (夸张的), but not eating might lead her not to __________ her best in class.

Teachers expect students to do well in school. Students’ performance in school is __________ by their level of hunger. Students can’t pay attention to their studies when they are hungry. They often __________ looking at the clock. This is why we students need to eat to increase our brain power.

【推荐3】As a parent trainer I am now dealing with helicopter parents—the ones who________all the difficulties and make it smooth sailing for their kids. Sometimes watching kids________without jumping in to fix it for them is the________thing parents can do. I appreciate someone who knows when it is time to let kids struggle a little________that’s real life and Mom( or Dad) won’t always be there give help. So, lets kids________real life and grow up by failing, keeping on trying, never giving up and sometimes________learning from making mistakes.________other words, parents have to be comfortable with the idea of allowing kids to fail as part of the learning________ What matters in learning? It isn’t about whether or not it is perfect or correct. It matters whether or not kids have________to go to places, to see things, to play, to inquire and so on. That is what I think   ________should do for kids: give them time to be kids; give them chances to grow up and experience life themselves.