【推荐1】Ciudad Perdida, Colombia’s “Lost City” is older than Machu Picchu. There are no trains or buses allowing of _________ travels to reach its ruins. The remote place is only _________ on foot: a tiring multi-day hike.

Despite this, I couldn’t _________ the opportunity to visit Ciudad Perdida. 12 other hikers and I went there in _________ with a licensed guide. The dirt path, which _________ through towering palms and dangling vines (藤蔓), proved _________ right from the start. Along the way we also met the _________. They have been left undisturbed for centuries and there’s a deep _________ between them and the land.

The next morning, we were off early to _________ the heat, but high temperatures and muscle pain had already __________ by the time we reached the final stage-1,200 stone steps to __________. After finally lifting my painful body up the long flight of stairs, my eyes rested on the scene that had __________ the backbreaking journey: Ciudad Perdida.

I looked down and wondered at the beautiful site below. While the return trip included __________ the mental hurdle (障碍) of having already accomplished our goal, the experience is the one I would do __________. It is the difficulty that makes the journey a more __________ one. Earned views are always better.

【推荐2】The murmuring stream in the green forest flowed past the glorious wild flowers gracing the little house there.

Suddenly, a deer________into the courtyard, where a little boy was playing. The deer________the boy's clothing with its antlers (鹿角).This________ the little boy so much he let out a howl that brought his mother out just ________to see the deer running off towards the mountains with her little boy.

The boy's mother was________! She ran after the deer as fast as she could, and not too far away, she found her little boy siting safely on the grass. When he saw his mother, the little boy laughed and ________ out his arms to her. His mother scooped him up crying.

She hurried back to their home with her________son. When she got there, she stopped ________in her tracks,________ at what she saw. The huge tree behind their house had ________ over while she was out chasing after the deer to save her son. The whole house was crushed under its great________.

Then the little boy's mother remembered the day about a year before when a deer fleeing a ________had run into her house. She felt sorry for the frightened deer, so she covered it with some clothes and let it return to the forest.

The deer seemed to ________ that she had saved its life. It kept bowing its head to her, as if thanking her________.

She never________ that the deer could remember her kindness. She murmured, "Saving the life of another is the same as saving your own life”

【推荐3】Wayne Rogerson’s close friend, Ashley Cooper, died when he was seriously injured in a crash in 2008. His family later _________ his donated organs (器官) helped save seven people. This _________ Mr Rogerson to start donating blood.

Mr Rogerson said he _________ to do his bit and had donated blood 21 times, seldom _________ an appointment over eight years. But he could not have known the _________ act of giving blood would _________ save his own life.

At a donation _________ in 2017, a Red Cross Australia Lifeblood nurse discovered Mr Rogerson’s hemoglobin (血红蛋白) count was low and _________ him to seek medical care. “I had no _________, none at all,” he said. After Mr Rogerson went to a hospital and had medical tests, doctors said that he had developed cancer. Mr Rogerson spent about three months in hospital for an operation and treatment. During that time he _________ two blood transfusions (输血). “I was so _________ that they got it in time … I was fully recovered in November that year,” he said. But, to his _________, he can no longer donate blood due to_________ reasons. “After being both a(n) _________ and a recipient (接受者), I urge everyone to donate if you can,” he said.

“The _________ you save might just be your own.”

【推荐3】As a businesswoman, I care deeply about my customers. But like anyone for whom you feel affection, _________ can also drive you mad. They’ll come rushing in, _________ their handbag’s been stolen. They’ll _________ that they left it in the changing room, create chaos （混乱）and then _________ it had been in their car all the time. I do know how upset the shop staff can get, but I try to persuade them to keep _________.

I remember the first really _________ customer we had at Covent Garden. She was _________ absolutely everything, nothing was right and I was rather surprised that she became a “regular”. After a while, she _________ for the way she behaved at the beginning. She had split up with her husband the week before, was living in a flat by herself, and since she’d found it too much to cope with（应对）, she’d taken it out on other people.

That taught me a valuable _________ and I pass it on to the people who ____________ in the market. Don’t take it ____________. If a customer is rude or difficult, just think "Maybe she’s had a row with her husband. Maybe her child’s not __________.” Always water it down and don’t let your ego（自我）get ____________. If you do, you won’ be able to __________ it and the whole thing develops into an unpleasant scene and that ____________everyone’s day.