【推荐1】The pea incident happened when I was eight. My grandmother, my mother and I were having lunch at a restaurant. I _________ a Salisbury steak. But when served, it was _________ accompanied by a plate of peas.

I have always hated peas. It is a complete _________ to me why anyone would voluntarily eat peas.

“Eat your peas,” my grandmother said.

“Mother,” said my mother in her _________ voice. “He doesn’t like peas. Leave him alone.”

My grandmother looked at me and said the words that changed my life: “I’ll pay you five dollars _________ you eat those peas”. Five dollars! And only one plate of peas stood between _________ and the possession of that unimaginable amount of money. I began to _________ the awful things down my throat and finally swallowed the _________ one of them. My grandmother handed me the _________. “I can do what I want, Ellen, and you can’t stop me,” she __________ to my mother. My mother glared at her and also glared at me __________.

Several days later, at dinner, my mother offered me some steaming peas and I, of course, __________. My mother fixed me with a cold eye as she __________ more peas onto my plate. “You ate them for money,” she said, “You can eat them for love.”

Oh, despair! Now, too late, I realized that I had been __________ in a terrible place from which there was no __________. “You ate them for money. You can eat them for love.” Did I eat the peas? You bet I did. I ate them that day and every other time they were served thereafter.

【推荐2】A few years ago, I was leaving the dog kennel (养狗场) where I worked, only to find a baby goat at the end of the driveway. The kennel’s owners are animal rescuers, and I figured someone ________ him over the fence. The kid was ________ nervous but stood perfectly still as I approached.

I’m an animal ________ and I’ve brought home dogs, cats, horses, chickens, and fish, but never a goat. The tiny kid was too ________ to resist. I ________ him Quincy and bottle-fed him in my bathroom.

Quincy proved to be quite ________ When he was about a week old, I tapped my fingers on the floor and said “________.” I was amazed when he dropped down. I was even more amazed when he did it three times ________. A quick study, Quincy learned to lie down, bow, and turn in a circle in no time. He knows the name of everything I feed him, and even joins us for ________ to the dog park.

I often take my dogs to shows where they can perform their ________ . Quincy did his first show at just six weeks old. He knew only a few tricks then, but he did them perfectly and never ________ or got nervous in front of the crowd. Now he’ll shake hooves, come when called, walk on a leash, wave, smile for the ________ (“Say cheese!”) , and more. Quincy and my dogs perform regularly at schools, nursing homes, and charity events. Quincy can even “read” his tricks off cue cards, which always ________ the most applause.

The goat kid nobody ________ turned out to be one of the smartest animals I’ve had. He’s by far the sharpest of my bunch—just don’t tell the ________ .

【推荐3】A few years ago，I moved to Aurora，Ontario. I was a radio broadcaster，but I didn’t have the ______ of colleagues (同事). That was because I worked not in the office，but at home, and I ______ it to the power of technology. Shortly after the move，therefore，I found myself feeling lonelier than ever before. I was ______ to make a friend.

Then I saw her. From the window of my ______，I caught sight of a beautiful，tall girl taking her recyclables and walking ______, and I was attracted. I thought，“I recycle too！We have something in common!”

The question was ______ we would meet. “Should I knock on her door and say hi，or what if I just ______ to be running by?” But after ______ a few times around the block(街区)，I still didn’t see her. Finally，I decided to ______ the one thing I already knew about her—recycling.

The following Tuesday，I got up a bit earlier. Around 8 a.m.，she ______ again，with the same confidence. “Just act ______” I said to myself. Then I walked outside，______ a trash can fast. “Nice to meet you. I’m Megan.”   I said，trying to hold nervousness back and appear calm. “Good morning. Michelle.” she replied.

Wearing a big smile，I walked back inside. After our “chance” recycling meetups continued for a few weeks，I gathered my ______ to invite her to my home. Then at my home we settled down，sharing stories about our own life. We also found more ______ between us two young women：putting ourselves out for what we’ve been looking for—a new ______ to fall in love with.

【推荐1】When I arrived in Sydney two years ago from Brazil to study, I struggled to find work to support myself. My savings soon became dangerously _________ and I was upset that I might have to _________ my overseas dream.

One day, I was at the park, worrying about the future and _________ with my own thoughts. A lady sitting next to me noticed the _________ expression on my face and gave me a sincere smile. She asked if something _________ had happened and if I needed any _________. I didn’t want to bother someone I had just _________ with my problems, so I _________ that everything was fine. But we _________ chatting nearly two hours later about life in Brazil and what I thought about Australia. This lady gave me lots of tips about places to visit in that country.

__________ we knew it, it was almost five o’clock. She said she had to go to work and ____________ invited me to accompany her. Why not? I ____________ although I felt a little surprised.

We arrived at a restaurant and the most ____________ thing happened. She said that she ____________ the place and needed some help in the ____________ as one of her chefs was leaving soon. She asked if I wanted to take a part-time job there. I ____________, of course, and started the next day.

I spent almost one year ____________ in her restaurant, improving my English, and ____________ my skills. And most importantly, I built a good ____________ with my boss. Even now living in different cities, we are ____________ close friends and enjoy sharing long chats about life.

【推荐1】A 25-year-old architectural designer spends at least five hours a day _______ on the Internet, but not just for work _______ sending e-mails to friends. To him, the most important thing is _______ he can have on-line talks with his girlfriends, a primary school teacher in south China.

A shy young man is active in the virtual world. _______ his girlfriend, he has many on- line good friends .“It’s not a _______ thing for net chatters to have on-line friends of the opposite sex or even _______ a girlfriend or a boyfriend, ”said a graduate student of Beijing university. “Many of _______ classmates and friends have had such an experience.”

He and his girlfriend surnamed Wang first met on the Internet, and on-line discussions became the starting _______ of their love story. Nowadays “Net-love” is no longer a strange _______ to many young Chinese, and on-line recreational activities have sprung up.

Evidences show that the number of net chatter in China __________ 79.5 million by the end of last year.and 32.2 percent of the them said that the purpose of surfing on the Internet was to have fun and make friends.

【推荐2】A “blogger” is a person who writes on an Internet website called a “blog”. The word “blog” is a_________way of saying “web log”, or “personal website”. Anyone can start a_________, and they can write about anything they like.

There are millions of blogs on the Internet today. They_________news, information and ideas for people who read them. They contain_________to other websites, and they provide a place for people to write their_________and react to the ideas of others.

A research company called Perseus has_________more than 3,000 web logs. It says that blogs are most_________with teenage girls. They use them to_________their friends know what is happening in their lives. The study_________says that more than 100,000 bloggers stopped taking part in the activity after a year.

__________, some people develop__________blogs to present political and other ideas. __________, the Republican and Democratic parties in the southern state of Kentucky recently started their own blogs. And American companies are beginning to use blogs to advertise their__________.

At the same time, some longstanding blogs have__________. Last week, blogging leader Dave Winer closed his free blog service “weblogs. Com”. He said the site became too expensive to __________. He started the blog four years ago, and thousands of people had written on it. They were upset that the site had been closed.

【推荐3】Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his diary; now, a teenager with _______  problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog (博客). In many ways, a diary and a blog are very _______. But what makes blogging different from writing in a(n) _______ diary?

The biggest difference is that a blog is much more   _______ than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats his diary like a book full of _______ that he does not want to _______ with others.

It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog _______ a diary will probably write nearly the same information.

I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her _______. She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. _______ I was her age, I wrote about the same thing, but ________ in my dairy. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was ________ that my sister might read it.

The biggest ________ with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something ________ about him in my diary, he would never know. ________, if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might ________ her blog and get angry.

There are also ________ to blogging, of course. If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “Nobody cares about me…” Because no one would ________ about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friend would quickly ________ and tell her how much they ________ her. Blog help people ________ in contact with their friend and know what the people around them are doing.