【推荐1】An earthquake hit Kashmir on Oct. 8. It took some 75,000 lives, _______ 130,000 and left nearly 3.5 million without food, jobs or homes. _______ overnight, scores of tent villages bloomed _______ the region, tended by international aid organizations, military ranks and aid groups _______ day and night to shelter the survivors before winter set _______.

Luckily, the season was mild. But with the _______ of spring the refugees will be moved again. Camps that _______ health care, food and shelter for 150,000 survivors have begun to close as they were _______ intended to be permanent.

For most of the refugees, the thought of going back brings _______ emotions. The past six months have been difficult. Families of __________ many as 10 people have had to shelter __________ a single tent and share cookstoves and bathing __________ with neighbors. “They are looking forward to the clean water of their rivers,” officials say. “They are __________ of free fresh fruit. They want to get back to their herds and start __________ again.” But most will be returning to __________ but heaps of ruins. In many villages, electrical __________ have not been repaired, nor have roads. Aid workers __________ that it will take years to rebuild what the earthquake took __________. And for the thousands of survivors, the __________ will never be complete.

Yet the survivors have to start somewhere. New homes can be built onto the stones, bricks and beams of old ones. Spring is coming and it is a good time to __________ again.

【推荐2】Volcano

Every time we mention a natural disaster, we always think of the_______volcanic eruption. The volcano is one of the most surprising frightening_______of nature.

Have you ever seen a volcano_______violently with your own eyes? To be true, few people have such a_______. Maybe you have seen quite a few pictures of these “fireworks” of_______. Sometimes when a volcano_______, a very large wall of melted rock moves down the side of a_______. It looks like a “river of fire”. Sometimes volcanoes explode, _______the melted rock and ashes high into the air. But where does this melted rock come from?

The earth is made up of many layers. The top layer that we see is called the crust(地亮). Under the crust are many layers of hard rock. But far, far beneath the crust whose rock is so_______, that it is soft. In some places it even________. The melted rock is called magma (岩浆).Sometimes the magma breaks out to the________through cracks in the crust. These cracks are volcanoes.

Most people think of mountains when they think of volcanoes. But not every mountain is a volcano. A volcano is________the opening in the earth from which the magma________. The hot magma, or lava as it is called, cools and builds up on the surface of the earth. Over thousands of years, this pile of________lava can grow to be very, very big. For example, the highest mountain in Africa, Kilimanjaro, is a volcano. It________more than 16,000 feet above the ground around it.

【推荐3】The heaviest snow in a hundred years hit the south of China. It snowed_________for half a month. Many people were_________in railway stations, bus stations and airports. People did everything they could to fight the_________ ; nobody was killed from cold and_________ . Gradually, the trapped people all went back home_________. While fighting the snow, people_________their animal friends until a moving story of a swallow couple appeared on the Internet.

The couple hadn’t eaten anything for several days_________the snow. They tried to fly into people’s home to warm themselves, but every house was_________tightly. They got to a side of a balcony (阳台)where wind couldn’t reach. They jumped and flapped (拍打)their wings to_________the attention of the people inside the house, who were__________their own things. The wife’s body was__________. She couldn’t move any longer. The husband came near and__________her with his wings. The husband lost his heat soon because of his opened wings.

The next morning, the housemaster went to the balcony to__________his flowers and saw a dead swallow outside. __________ it, he found they were two embracing (拥抱) together. Thinking of the__________the snow had brought to people, he was moved to tears. He took them in for giving them some warmness they couldn’t feel any longer. He found a small box, filled it with some hay (干草) and lay the couple in. He buried them in the garden of the community.

【推荐1】The other day, Miss Ellis gave her pupils a new kind of homework — homework on happiness. Her pupils would be “happiness ________”, and were to see what would happen when they tried to bring happiness to those around them. As part of their homework, all the students did really ________, wonderful things, but what Carla Chalmers did make everyone ________. Several days after the homework had been handed out, Carla turned up carrying a big bag.

“Here in this bag I have all the happiness I’ve collected so far,” she said ________. On seeing this, everyone was full of ________, but Carla didn’t show anyone what was in the bag. ________, she pulled out a small box and gave it to her teacher. When Miss Ellis had taken the box, Carla took an instant camera out of her own pocket and stood with it at the ready.

“Open it, Miss Ellis.”

The teacher slowly opened the box and looked inside. A big smile ________ on her face, and at that moment Carla took a photo, which came out of the camera immediately, and she ________ it to Miss Ellis along with a sheet of paper. The teacher read the paper in silence, and when she finished, she pointed at the ________.

“Oh, so it’s...”

“Yes!” ________ Carla, opening the bag. “It’s a great big pile of smiles!”

She opened the bag and photos of different ________ fell out.

The rest of the class tried to ________ how Carla had managed to create such a great big chain of happiness. All there in the box was a photo of a big smile. But everyone who had seen it felt ________ being transmitted (传送) to them, and in return, every person ________ a smile of their own.

Carla managed to ________ understanding of the smile truth that every time you smile you are sending a gift to the world.

【推荐2】Setting off on a solo trip, I soon realized I was never really alone.

After traveling to the UK to visit my ______ who studied there, I decided to return to America. I didn’t sleep well the night before I ______. In fact, although I had really ______ every minute of my pleasant stay, I was once again ______ about traveling alone. Directions were not my strong suit. ______, I was faced with a new ______: I had to change planes in Frankfurt, Germany. “You made it here, Mom. ______ yourself. You’ll also go back home ______,” Whitney said when she saw me off at the train station.

The first ride was ______ enough, but after getting off the ______, I had no idea where to find the bus to Gatwick Airport. I was swept up in a sea of people. Filled with ______, I asked help from a man beside me. “I’m going that way,” he said “______ me.” He never slowed down but kept an eye on me while we went across the bus station. “There it is,” he said, pointing as we reached the bus.

I arrived at Gatwick with plenty of time to spare, and I ______ my plane without any difficulty. I was never so happy to get on a plane. I sat down in my seat with a sigh of ______. I’d been worried about traveling alone, but the   ______ I’d received made me feel I was never really alone.

【推荐3】In the United States there was an unusual story telling of the daughter of a mechanic (技工) . One day while walking along the bank of a lake, the girl ________ to see 20 eggs laid by a wild goose. After some time the girl realized the mother would not return to her eggs and she ________ to take them home. There she carefully ________ the eggs in the heat of a lamp. Several days ________ the eggs broke and the baby geese came into the world.

Geese are known to take the first living thing they see as their mother. ________ , to these young geese, the girl was their mother.

As they ________ , the girl was able to lead her birds to run across the grass , but she could not teach them to ________ . The girl became increasingly worried about this , both when ________ and in her dreams. Later , she had an ________ :She would pilot a plane to guide them in ________ . She asked her father for a plane and he assembled (组装) a small aircraft for her.

Caring about ________ safety , the father decided to pilot the plane himself. However, the birds did not ________ or follow him, and instead slept in the grass.

One day , the girl ________ into the plane , started it and soon left the ground. Seeing their mother take to the air, the birds ________ flapped (拍打) their wings and ________ . She flew the plane freely in the sky , her young birds following.

【推荐1】I never really enjoyed running. But my _________ with running has changed. I’m a _________ living in London. When my mom became ill with cancer and there was no _________ of her living much longer, I decided to move back to Harrogate. My work as a musician didn’t _________ and I just wanted to be with my mother.

I have been _________ psychotherapy(心理疗法) for more than three years, which has helped with my anxiety, but back in Harrogate, I _________ to do something else positive for myself, as looking after my mother _________ me. I wanted to do something physical and running _________ that need.

Getting up before six was _________ for me. But I made myself go running three times a week. After starting last summer, I would run with __________ members and talk about my mom with those I’d known better. It helped me put my __________ in the right place to face another day. And it helped me process my feelings after my mom __________ in October.

Although therapy has been the __________ for all the positive things in my life, running has added to that. Together, they have changed my __________ to life and I’m now less anxious than I was. While running, I feel grounded and I live in the __________.