【推荐1】The first week is always a bit hard in my writing classes. I’m unfamiliar ________ the students, most of them trying to ________ themselves to their new environment. When Jennifer ________me with a question on the second day, I was ________ for the chance to connect at least one name with a face.

Her writing wasn’t perfect, but her effort was. She worked hard and pushed herself to achieve. She was excited to learn,________ made me enjoy teaching her. I didn’t realize then how much she would also teach me.

One Friday afternoon, Jennifer stopped by after class. She wasn’t asking a question about a paper I’d returned.________, she said quietly: “I didn’t attend classes yesterday. I was at the health center the whole day.” I gave her a sideways look,________. “It was just a virus (病毒). I’m fine now,” she ________ me. Then she was gone.

Two nights later, her father called to tell me that Jennifer would be missing a few classes. She had been in hospital with meningitis (脑膜炎). I heard from him again a few days later, and again after that. Her condition grew ________. We made trips to the hospital room. I was ________ frightened when I saw the pale, thin and weak girl who, only ten days earlier, had displayed life and warmth in my classroom.

A week later, Jennifer herself called me to tell me she was on the road to ________. “I’ll be back to school one day,” she said. “I have no ________ that you’ll be with us.” I told her,________ tears. I remembered what her father had said in his first phone call: “school ________ everything to Jenny.”

Then five weeks later, I walked into my classroom to find Jenny in her seat, smiling. She ________all of her missed homework, completed with thought and excellence. The strength of her will to overcome shone out of her pale, weak, eighteen-year-old face.

【推荐3】Growing flowers from seeds needs both physical work and self-control. One must take care of the seeds, and make sure they get watered on _______ basis and believe they will actually produce flowers beautifully. Thus, _______ beautiful flowers without mistakes is a miracle（奇迹），which needs to be fed,_______ and hard work. How does the same thing _______in life?

The miracle I dreamed of was to become an excellent_______.I would, to be honest, sit in front motivational speakers as they spoke, _______ one of them would spot something valuable in me and encourage me to follow my _______.I neither said anything nor did anything _________wish. Then one day, I met a professional speaker at a conference I attended. He told me the National Speakers Association _______helps whoever makes up his mind to start professional speaking businesses. Their club was two hours' drive away from my home, and expensive, but I was very ________ to hear of it. Frankly, it didn't matter to be ________or to pay it. I joined it and made my first speech but I ________ halfway. I got so angry at myself that after getting home I locked myself in my home to ________making speeches for three days. And I ________ figured out what I would speak on and then tried to improve my speaking __________ .I stuck to it and sincerely said thanks to whoever ________ my shortcomings. All the time, I stopped the negative voice in my head from ________me.

Now five years passed, and a(n）________ was worked. At the age of 53, I became a professional speaker at last. What miracle are you hoping for? What seed do you mean to ________ and then water it, to grow your miracle? If you haven't started, remember to do it now, and the________, the better.

【推荐1】Grady threw down his backpack and slammed the car door shut.

“This is going to be a really ______week,” he said unhappily to no one ______ . He looked around the campground. Hundreds of tall and green fir (冷杉) trees, some as tall as church towers, covered the mountainside, giving it the appearance of a green carpet. The sun would be setting soon. Then, Grady thought, maybe the______wouldn’t be unbearable. But actually even up here in the ______the hot stickiness of July was closely attached to him.

Grady hated camping, but it was something his family______father liked cooking over an open fire, telling stories about how to______every summer. His things like bear attacks and swarms (蜂群) of bees. His mother and younger brother Jared liked to hike and take pictures of animals. Jared had a collection of bug pictures that he’d attached to the walls in his half of their room. Grady thought they were just scary and proof that Jared was a______kid.

They setup camp — two______, one for his parents and one for himself and Jared. While everyone else started preparing dinner, Grady, looking for someplace to cool down, set off for the nearby stream, which was deep enough to ______in.

As he ______the stream, something caught his eye. There was a (an)______black bear baby — no more than two feet tall with a lovely face. It was playing pretty______at the water’s edge,______its surroundings. Grady moved closer to get a better look. Then Grady heard a sound ______him. He remembered his father saying that bear cubs would never be ______. Then he turned around and saw the cub’s mother moving swiftly towards him...

【推荐1】Just recently I had been wondering if there was much point in doing little acts of kindness.So often they get ____,and occasionally they come back to bite you!

Then,just last week,after a long travel.I found myself____at a bus station.The bus was four hours late!So,I guess I wasn’t in a good____.

That’s when a woman asked me if I had any spare____to help her get a bus ticket.

“Oh,sure.”I said sarcastically（挖苦地）.”How much would you like?”

As I spoke,I mentally kicked myself for my____and reached into my bag for some money.As I handed her five dollars.I heard low sounds from her stomach because of real____.

I reached back into my bag and brought out a____I had bought earlier.I handed it to her with a(n)____that I hoped would make up for my earlier tone of voice.Getting a____look at her now.I realized she was extremely tired, like she had had several months of____days!

As she took the food,a look of____washed over her.In return,she tried to give me a Milwaukee bus ticket!I don’t live in Milwaukee and the ticket will probably____be used,but I took it.

A few minutes later she came back over,apologized,and told me she was still____of five dollars.I took some singles out of my bad and slipped a twenty in there as well.____,the voice in my head told me I was being a fool.

Five minutes later she came back again and tired to____my twenty.When I said it was for her so she could get something else to____,and that I was completely serious and I wasn’t taking it____,she started crying and hugged me.

From now on,when I wonder if it is____trying to help someone,I will remember that woman.Maybe I an really making a____for someone.So,sure,sometimes my efforts might not be noticed,and sometimes they might come back to bite me,but they might actually____another human being!

【推荐2】My grandfather died in 1970, leaving my grandmother living in their old house alone. Shortly after that, we went to the animal shelter and picked out a little_______to accompany Grandma. The dog was named Penny.

Grandma and Penny quickly became very attached(依恋)to each other, and that attachment grew much_______as years passed—they became very_______.When Grandma went to_______,Penny walked along and lay_______her until she woke up._______Penny aged, she could no longer jump up on the_______to lie next to Grandma, so she lay on the blanket beside the bed. Grandma never went anywhere without her partner by her side.

The time came when both my grandmother and Penny were becoming_______.Grandma had been sent to hospital several times, and Penny couldn't_______around very well. When Grandma was in hospital, Penny would sit at the window________out for the car bringing Grandma home and would________wait at the door when Grandma came through it. Each homecoming was a great meeting again between the two.

On Christmas Day in 1985,Grandma was again________to the hospital. Penny,________,sat watching out the window for the________bringing Grandma home. Two mornings later, I________she couldn't stand and wouldn't eat. Later, she had difficulty in breathing. I quickly________her to the hospital where Grandma stayed to let her see her________for the last time. There, as soon as Penny saw Grandma, Penny's eyes brightened suddenly and then slowly________.Grandma left this world, several________later.

After fifteen years of loving friendship, Grandma and Penny passed away on the same day. God had it all worked out—Penny was waiting at the door to________her when Grandma came home.