【推荐1】When I was in 9th grade, my family moved to Germany. I usually didn’t talk to people because I was not _________ in the new language-German. In class, I didn’t _________ and always chose to shut my _________ because I also was not very confident to speak in front of everyone.

One day, my school held a basketball game in the _________. I didn’t take part in it _________. I just watched everyone play. They were all having so much _________ and enjoying the wonderful moment. _________, I am very interested in playing basketball and can play it well. So while _________ them play, I was very jealous（嫉妒的）and eager to join. I said to myself, “I can’t just _________ on the seat of the stadium”. This __________ pushed me to step out of my comfort zone. I __________ and directly joined them, playing happily. After that my life changed. I made a lot of __________. In class, I also changed my __________ and I was active in every discussion because I’ve gained more __________. I joined the sports club. I become more __________ to come to school every day to see my friends.

Everybody may just want to stay in the comfort zone. However, when you get out of your comfort zone, you will be able to __________ things that you thought you couldn’t. You will __________ something new about yourself that you didn’t even know before. You will develop more __________ with others. You will become more positive about life. Lastly, it will __________ your confidence. And that is the greatest thing that actually ever happened to me. It’s a（n）__________ feeling being out of my comfort zone.

【推荐2】As we all know, a friend in need is a friend indeed. I really don’t know the meaning of this proverb until one day something _________ happened to me.

That morning, I got up late and _________ to school without breakfast. While crossing a street, my bike _________ a stone and I fell on the ground, with my both knees badly hurt. I managed the _________ and continued my riding. On my arrival at school, my teacher took us to the _________ for a basketball match. _________ I could hardly walk normally, I joined in the game. When I _________ to pass the ball, I was knocked down and fell down on my back. I could not _________ the bad pain and cried. My classmates all started _________ at me and continued their match. __________ on the ground alone, hungry and painful, I couldn’t stop my crying. Just at that moment, Jack, one of my teammates, __________ towards me from the other end and helped me. He comforted me and tried all __________ to make me stand. He asked another classmate to take his __________ and kept sitting beside me. He kept me company the whole day and even __________ me home after the school was over.

It was on that day that I leant and believed the proverb “a friend in need is a friend indeed” to be __________.

【推荐1】A dog named Nanuq is back with his Alaskan islander family after going missing for over one month. Nanuq was found over 200 kilometers away across sea ice.

Nanuq _________ in March when Iworigan and her family went to visit friends on another part of St. Lawrence Island. She believes Nanuq together and another dog ran out onto the ice to _________ food. The other dog, Starlight, stayed away for a number of weeks but came home. Nanuq did not come _________.

About one month later, Iworigan said people in the town of Wales began posting _________ of a dog they had found. Her father _________ her the photos and said they looked like Nanuq. Iworigan looked at the photos and yelled(叫着说), “That’s our dog. What is he doing in Wales?” If you look at a map, you can see that the town of Wales and St. Lawrence Island are _________ by a lot of water. But in the winter, most of it is _________. This might have permitted Nanuq to _________ 241 kilometers either floating or running on the ice.

The trip is being _________ as a miracle(奇迹). But no one will ever know everything about Nanuq’s story or how he __________ for so long.

“I have no __________ how he ended up in Wales,” Iworigan said. “Maybe the ice __________ while he was hunting.” Iworigan said the dog probably ate the remains of other animals such as a seal or caught and ate a seal. “He’s smart,” she said.

Nanuq came home to his family on an airplane last week and Iworigan’s daughter, Brooklyn, yelled with __________ when she saw him. The dog had been __________ by another animal leaving scars(伤疤) but was otherwise in good __________ after his longtime away from home.

【推荐3】Hundreds of community members poured into the home to express their condolences (哀悼) to Eli's family. I walked in and_________myself, saying I was the headmaster of a school in a neighboring city. I then told the following_________ to the family.

When I was in middle school, I was the troublemaker and always behaved_________in class. One day, when I was bored in class, I_________a paper ball at the teacher. With a bright red_________face, the teacher lifted the ball and said, “I will ask only once for the student who did this to_________and get out of the room. I won't_________class until that student leaves, "The room was_________. I was not going to give myself up. I never_________what would happen next. After 30 long seconds, a boy named Eli, who was always a__________and well-behaved student, stood up and walked out with his__________ down. He had no reason to help me but he__________to anyway.

I wiped my __________ and said, “I want you to know that Eli saved my life. Through that__________act, he conveyed to me how concerned he was about my dignity (尊严). That shook me up. From that __________ on, I took my life more __________. With a lot of work, I stopped being a __________.

When I heard that Eli __________, I had to go to let all know that if I've __________ people's lives through my work as an educator, it's all due to Eli's__________and selflessness.

【推荐2】Last night my husband and I were walking when we saw a man bending over on the ground, crushing (碾碎) something with a rock. He was so _______ his task that he didn’t look up at anyone passing by. We kept _______ him and wondered what he could be doing. I thought he was crushing stones to make something, but why would he do that?

Finally, we decided to go up and ask him, He was crushing pieces of leftover (剩余的) bread that he had collected to _______ food for the birds that come there early in the morning. The large pieces of bread would be difficult for the birds to eat _______ he crushed them into powder (粉末). Every afternoon, after coming home from his _______ as a tailor, he _______ the villas (乡间别墅), collecting leftover bread from all his _______. He then eats a quick meal and comes here, and spends the next 1 to 2 hours _______ crushing each piece and makes a neat pile for the birds. He has been doing this for the last 3 to 4 years, which _______ us a lot. When we told him that we ________ an interest in this, he felt amazed, since for him it wasn’t a big ________.

When we asked him what encouraged him to do this act of ________, he said, “It’s just something small I do, so that the leftover bread doesn’t go into the ________ and the birds get food.” We ________ his story with the hope that it would remind us to be aware of leftovers, too and that it might encourage someone to start something ________ in their own area.

【推荐3】My husband, daughter and I made our way into the small restaurant in our Winnipeg hotel for breakfast. Only two other tables were _________, one by a family with young children. There was a little girl and a little boy, and the boy was so excited because sitting at the table directly behind us was a face he _________. “Mom, Mom, look!” he managed to _________. “It’s Wayne Gretzky!”

_________, there at the other table was Wayne Gretzky, obviously discussing important business with some gentlemen in _________. They were speaking _________ and just finishing up breakfast. Well, this little boy could hardly _________ himself. He was squirming (蠕动) in his seat, wanting to talk to Wayne Gretzky and get a(n) _________. After all, this might be his only chance! But his mother just kept _________, “He’s in a meeting, honey. He needs his __________. This is not the time. ” The poor little boy was almost __________. You could see he couldn’t eat. Instead, he kept indulging (沉迷于) in the __________ excitement of looking over his shoulder and seeing his hero — right in the same room!

Well, it was hard not to __________ what was going on. Wayne excused himself from his __________ and went over to the little boy. He knelt down, put out his hand and said, “Hi, I’m Wayne Gretzky. What’s your name?”

The little boy’s face totally __________! His jaw dropped, and his mouth hung wide open. His __________ looked like they were going to pop right out of his head. The whole family was __________. It was wonderful to watch as Wayne shook hands with the little boy and then signed his autograph on a place mat from the __________.

I was so impressed. What a wonderful __________! It was such a little thing, and yet it said so much. It made me realize that he sincerely meant all the things he has said about __________youngsters — and that Wayne Gretzky was as much a hero off the ice as he was on.