【推荐2】One day, while I was walking to work, I decided to bring some flowers that I had picked from my garden that morning. On the way, I ________ a stranger and presented the flowers to him with a smile card. ________ by the sense of joy I felt from giving flowers to another person, and may be ________ his day, I wanted to do it again.

When I got to my office, I had the ________ of anonymously( 匿名) leaving flowers around the workplace. The impersonal ________ of the building where I work makes me ________. It just feels a little boring sometimes, ________ it's a nice building with great light. I ________ lots of people might feel the same way, so why not put a little ________ there, and throw in an inspirational quote(引言) while I'm at it? ________, who doesn't like flowers？

So, for the past month, I've been ________ flowers in a little cup on the sink in the bathroom. Each week, I ________ the flowers and the quote. It always feels ________ for me to read quotes like Henry David Thoreau's "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with a ________ unexpected in common hours. " and Gandhi's "The fragrance always ________ on the hand that gives the rose.” If anything, I figured, it at least makes me ________ each time I visit the bathroom.

Then today, when I walked in, I noticed ________ flowers in the cup, and a quote that someone else had written! It ________, "Be the change you wish to see in the world. " ----- Gandhi. This little act________ me that, at the end of the day, we're all just people with hearts ________ the various roles and different hats we may wear in the workplace.

I did a little dance and am smiling wide for the rest of the day!

【推荐3】I always knew that I depended too much on my phone. ________ didn’t know how much, so I decided to do this ________ to find out.

Every morning since I got a smart phone, I’ve used the Weather Forecast App to find out what to________. On the first morning I had to dress without guidance, but ________ I was able to guess that the day would be cold and foggy by looking out of my window.

I couldn’t know what time it was. I haven’t worn a watch for more than a year, because my phone told the time. So I was late for ________ friends who had been on the bus for two hours from Santa Monica to Palos Verdes. I was also ________ for my part-time job. And ________, I couldn’t call people to tell them that I was running late.

Getting places was harder, too. I got lost because I couldn’t use the GPS on my phone. My driving, though, got a lot ________ because I no longer had my phone in one hand checking directions while driving my car.

But the number one trouble was not having my contact list. I forgot to write down my friends’ and family members’ phone numbers before I ________ the challenge. It was sad to realize that I couldn’t remember my brother’s and my mum’s cell phone numbers. Oh, how I ________ to turn on the phone for just a second to look up phone numbers!

Even with all the problems, however. I found ________ not worrying about missing a text message or an e-mail.

This challenge was a (n) ________ learning experience. It surprised me how I’d taken no notice of even the ________ things like remembering phone numbers. We all should ________ some time to think about how we can depend ________ on our cell phones.

【推荐1】The story of British cycling’s rise to global power begins with the adventures of Frank Bowden, a young British lawyer, born in Exeter in 1848. He made his _______ in Hong Kong during the 1870s, but became seriously ill. When he returned to England he was told by his doctor he probably only had six months to live, but that _______ a bike might prolong(延长) his life.

Frank _______ up cycling with a passion and, a year later, was healthier than ever before. He wanted to share the health _______ of the bicycle—and at the same time make money. He found the perfect _______ when he came across a small bicycle company based in Raleigh Street, Nottingham. Frank was so impressed by the bikes they made that he _______ the business and in 1888 the Raleigh Bicycle Company was born. Rapid development followed. By 1896 they _______ a five-acre factory in Nottingham, and had such _______ in their bikes that they offered a lifetime promise of _______ with every one they sold. Frank Bowden died in 1921. By that time he’d turned a backstreet ________ into the biggest bicycle corporation in the world,________thousands of people to enjoy the health benefits of the pastime that had once saved his life.

The first half of the 20th century was a good time for cycling especially Raleigh. They helped create a colorful cycling ________ in Britain. At first it was largely male—women riders were regarded as unladylike. But,________ more women started cycling and there were women’s racing clubs too. More and more men and women saw the bike as a(n)________ purchase to get them to and from work. It was also a needed form of personal ________ for the postman, the policeman, the midwife and the district nurse. And the company developed a range of children’s bikes too, so that, by the 1930s, a bicycle had become one of the most popular birthday presents.

【推荐2】When you are storm chasing, most mornings start off in a cheap hotel sipping _________ coffee and trying to remember where you ended up the night before. This morning, we were in Wichita, Kansas, midway through a project to _________ the destructive weather that travels across the middle of the United States every spring.

We loaded the car with our _________, and off we went, driving under cloudless blue skies for hundreds of miles. Then we reached the _________ of our targeted storm and entered a dark scene of clouds and occasional rain. As we _________ the heart of the storm, we found ourselves _________ with high winds, violent rain, and severe hail（冰雹）.Photographer Krystle, at the wheel, _________ to get in front of the storm, but it was moving too fast. We could _________ keep pace with it.

Then we caught sight of something _________, created by the storm: a rain-wrapped tornado half a mile to our right. The chaotic conditions made it ____________ for us to keep it in sight. We lost our cellphone ____________ and all the data we were desperately ____________ for communication. We couldn’t see beyond 20 feet. That was when Nick, our expedition leader and weather expert, ____________, “We have to flee.” Krystle ____________ changed direction, driving the car north onto a country road, ____________ the madness of that dangerous chase.

We weren’t done. After a stretch of clear skies, we found another ____________ waiting for us. This time, we ____________ to get in front of it, stopping to photograph it and racing back to the car to ____________ its extreme anger.

A little past midnight, we let the storm go. We watched as the lightning-filled cloud ____________ , displaying the night sky-a beautiful ____________ for those reckless（不顾危险的）enough to seek it.

【推荐1】Soon after my arrival in Luanda, I realised that I was going to have some free time available. I decided to spend it doing something useful and involving (参与) in the _______ community.

I started my search for volunteering opportunities here and a blog post _______ my eye. It was Ashima’s _______ on how she started her volunteering _______ in Luanda. Ashima has been volunteering at the Foundation for Art and Culture for more than a year. I decided to get in touch with them and soon after I got a very warm and welcoming _______ inviting me to the foundation. The next day as I _______ into the foundation little did I know it would become such a(n) _______ part of my life in Luanda.

I was a bit hesitant at first as I had never worked with children before and my Portuguese (葡萄牙语) then was much _______ than now. But as I slowly started doing some activities with children, there were not any _______. All that you needed was a heart full of love and everyone ________ the language of love.

I found plenty of ________ to do with kids, keeping them busy and having fun. Together we played, sang, learnt new things, ________ new games and reinvented the old. The children coming to the foundation are wonderful, and full of ________ and energy. It is a beautiful place with wonderful projects. Without doubt it is the best ________ I could have found in Luanda, and I am very happy to go there as often as I can. The staff ________ there really make you feel welcome and at home.

【推荐2】It was the start of my second year of university. After thinking for a long time about environmental and social issues, I decided to stop _______ meat and fish and become a vegetarian (素食者). Now, being a vegetarian in the UK is generally quite _______. Almost any place that serves food in Britain will have some kind of vegetarian choice on its _______. Sometimes it turns out to be a slightly _______ salad, but the large quantity (数量) of different foreign restaurants means there are many different choices on offer.

But two years later when I graduated from university and _______ to move to Spain, I suddenly realized that I might meet some _______! Considering that one of its most famous sports is about killing bulls, animals might not exactly seem like Spain’s main _______. I had been to Spain a few times before becoming veggie, and all I could remember now was meat, meat, meat.

As you can imagine, I was quite _______ about eating out in Spain. In some ways, I had a _______ to be. A large number of Spanish dishes are based around meat or seafood, the most ________ of course being ham and a rice dish with seafood. Vegetarianism is quite ________ in Spain and Southern Europe, and many older Spaniards have trouble understanding it.

At the beginning, ________ many unfamiliar food words that weren’t in my Spanish-English dictionary, it did feel very difficult. But as I began to ________ Spanish menus, a whole world of vegetarian and truly Spanish food ________itself up to me, and I don’t just mean vegetarian versions of usually meaty dishes. If you ________ there are more vegetarian treats, and many of them are a little more healthful than these potato-based delights.