【推荐1】This was the big game. The boys were _________ and excited. It was a clear night, and my son Andy’s baseball team, which had _________ all year, had shocked the better teams by making it to this championship game. The atmosphere was _________: the other team’s slugger (强击手) ,a big kid, was like a snake, dangerous and ready to ___________.

Nervously, I looked out Andy’s way. I was _________ to see Andy looking straight up at the night sky! Obviously he wasn’t _________ on the game. I was horrified that he wouldn’t even know the ball was coming. “Come on, Andy. _________out there,” I said to myself. Thank goodness the big kid made a mistake. We (Andy and I) had been _________ and our team still led by one run.

Andy ran up to me at the _________. I was about to __________ him when he said loudly, “Did you see that shooting star?” Andy’s eyes were glowing (发光) with __________ I paused. “Yes.” I said. “Well one inning (局) to go. Hit a homerun (全垒打) !Okay!” said Andy, and her an back to his __________

I suddenly realized it was nice my son would take timeout to __________ the wonder and beauty in life. You might be surprised by the beauty you can find when you least __________ it. Andy hit a triple (三垒打) in that last inning But I still wish I had __________ that shooting star, too.

【推荐2】A few years ago, I was doing a part-time job at a local ice cream shop. While handing an ice cream to an older _______ at the window, I noticed that she had a box of what appeared to be purple tomatoes in her car. “What is that?” I _______.

As I gave her the ice cream, I said, “Those tomatoes look _______! What kind are they?” She opened her mouth, so I thought she was about to start _______, but instead she replied, “Here, have some!” Within seconds I had a handful of wonderful purple tomatoes. “Oh, no, you don’t need to give me any!” I said. Those _______ looked expensive. “Here, have more,” she insisted, and now I had six of the prettiest tomatoes I had ever _______ I tried to _______ to take the tomatoes, “Really, you didn’t have to give me any, but I _______ it.”

The woman _______ again and said, “I hope you enjoy them. And to answer your question, it’s a rare ________ that my mom used to plant. So they aren’t like the ones you get in the grocery store.” I said thank you again, and she ________. She was like an adult version of the tooth fairy: I gave her ice cream and she gave me tomatoes.

About two weeks later, my boss at the ice cream store sent me a ________“I want to let you know that your gardener dropped off a box of vegetables for you.”, “My gardener?” I replied. That night, my boss showed me the box. It was full of tomatoes, cucumbers and green beans. The tomato fairy was back! I was both happy and confused. Why did this woman act so ________?

I never saw her again, but to this day her random act of ________ inspires me to share my garden harvest with anyone who’ ll have it. All I expect is just a “Thank you” ________. Better yet, pay it forward and be someone else’s secret gardener.

【推荐3】I was said to be the worst student in my class and my family thought I was hopeless. I had to _________ sixth grade. At that time a new teacher, Miss Sadia, came to our school.

One day after class, she _________ that I was staying alone during the lunch break. She came to me and began to talk to me. It was just a normal conversation. After that day, she gave me particular _________ and it made me feel special. I started to work hard because she gave me the feeling that someone believed me. So my _________ started to improve in her subject.

Months later, she moved into a house near my _________. We would walk home together after school. Her constant support helped me, _________ in my studies. I knew she would check my grades both in her subject and the other subjects. So I tried my best and finally _________ second in my class.

Then, after sixth grade, she started to drift apart (逐渐疏远) _________ still kept a constant check on me. By the time I was in seventh grade, we hardly spoke. But by then I had become the _________ in my class. When I left school, I lost _________with her. As she never answered the _________ when I called her.

Then I graduated and went to a good university. One fine day, our paths _________ again. I met her at a wedding. I could not _________asking her, “Why did you stop talking to me?”

“You are a clever boy. I wanted you to be a tree _________ on your own roots, not depending on others. Now here you are and I feel _________ of you. You are your inspiration and do not need to look for a shoulder,” she said. I could not say anything, but I smiled. I’ll always thank her.

【推荐1】The other day I was talking to a stranger on the bus he told me that he had a good_________in Chicago and he wondered if, by any chance, _________to know him. For a moment, I thought he might be_________, but I could tell from the expression on his face that he was not. He was_________. I felt like saying that it was ridiculous (可笑的) to_________that out of all the millions of people in Chicago I could possibly have ever came across his friend. But _________ I just smiled and reminded him that Chicago was a very_________city. He nodded, and I thought he was going to be content to give up the subject and talk about something else. But I was wrong. He was silent for a few minutes and then he_________to tell me all about his friend.

His friend’s main_________in life seemed to be tennis. He was an excellent tennis player, and he   __________ had his own tennis court (球场). There were a lot of people with swimming__________, yet there were only two people with private tennis court; his friend in Chicago was one of them. I told him that I knew several__________like that including my brother who was doctor in California. He__________that maybe there were more private courts in the country than he__________but he did not know of any others. Then he asked me__________ my brother lived in California. When I said Sacramento, he said that was a coincidence__________his Chicago friend spent the summer in Sacramento last year and he lived next door to a__________who had a tennis court in his backyard. I said I felt that really was a coincidence (巧合) because my next-door neighbour had gone to Sacramento last summer and had__________the house next to my brother’ s house. For a moment we stared at each other, but we did not say anything.

“Would your friend’s name happen to be Roland Kirkwood?” I asked finally. He__________and said “Yes. Would your brother’s name happen to be Dr Rey Hunter?” It was my__________to laugh “Yes,” I replied.