【推荐1】Don’t you love it when you have a bit of free time? After school or work, or during the weekends, it’s _______ to squeeze in a little time for yourself. It is “free” because it is time _______ not working or studying. Do you _______ in front of the television or de-stress by cooking a nice meal?

I _______ working as a teaching assistant at the end of April. So I had a whole _______ of free time at home with my parents before I _______ a new job. However, this period of time was not all that I _______ it would be. Before I came home, I had _______ about what I would do during this month off. I had plans to get fit, read more, visit museums and art galleries. And guess what... NONE of it happened. I was _______. I watched television all day and I ate too much chocolate.

I’ve ________ that when you have too much free time, it just ________ “time”. It becomes much more difficult to ________ yourself to do interesting things when you don’t actually have anything to do in the first place. It’s a strange ________, but I think it’s the same for most people. When you only have a little bit of free time, it becomes more ________, so you use it well, but when it’s all you have, you ________ waste it.

【推荐3】My daughter was being thrown out of the sixth grade. The teacher said, “She may not be _________ what we’re trying to accomplish.” He was _________ saying she didn’t have the _________ . I got mad because I knew she was smart, just as my father had known about me when I was _________ in school. We had her _________ and found that the troubles she was having were exactly what I had had—dyslexia (诵读困难症). By then I was a _________ television writer, and had won an Emmy Award for “The Rockford Files”.

If I had known earlier that something beyond my _________ could explain why I was a low _________, I may not have worked so hard in my late 20s and early 30s. I was working for no other reason than to hear people _________ me, because I did __________ in all my courses.

I once asked a friend who always gotten an A, “How long did you study for this?” He said. “I didn’t. I just __________ it.” So he must be smarter. “What if I’m not good at anything?” I began to ask. Despite my __________, I did become successful, and people now say to me, “So you’ve __________ dyslexia.”

No. You don’t, you learn to __________ it. Most people who go through college read twice as fast as I do. I __________ dialing a phone if possible, because I sometimes have to try many times to get the numbers right.

Despite my weaknesses I view dyslexia as a (an) __________. Many dyslexics are good at right-brain, abstract thought, and that’s what my kind of creative writing is. I can write quickly, and can get up to 15 pages a day. Writing is my __________

The real __________ I have for dyslexic children is not they have to struggle in school, but that they will __________ on themselves before they get out of school. Parents have to create __________ for them, whether it’s music, sports or art. You can make your dyslexic child able to say, “Yeah, reading is hard. But I have other things I can do.”

【推荐1】Brennon had been an experienced barber for a shop for years. He ______ half a year ago because he wanted to do something meaningful. Later, on a busy ______ in Philadelphia, with a chalkboard saying “Haircuts for the Homeless”， he was ______ free haircuts to any homeless person around Philadelphia.

Such a ______ is sure to draw the eye of average passers­by. Sean Johnson was no ______. He was willing to give Brennon a job. However, Brennon said he had to ______ because he didn’t do this to get paid but just to ______ the homeless.

A month later, Sean invited Brennon to his new barbershop after ______ Brennon again who was giving haircuts on another sidewalk. Sean did something ______ when they got inside — he gave Brennon the ______， saying, “It’s yours now.”

“You see many bad things in this city. When you see ______ things, you just want to be a part of them，” Sean said. Brennon saw this as an ______ to do even further good for the homeless and accepted Sean’s ______．

Tuesday through Sunday, Brennon’s barbershop would be just a ______ one, serving the paying customers. But every Monday would be set aside ______ for providing haircuts for the homeless, still free of charge.

【推荐3】Hundreds of people got stuck in snow on U. S. Interstate 95 due to the arrival of a sudden storm. But a _________ day took a turn for the better through a positive sort of highway robbery.

With some cars _________ babies, pets, and elderly people, a lack of opportunities to _________ provided as much discomfort as the bitter _________ to hundreds of motorists on I-95 who got stranded (滞留的) when a winter storm dropped around a foot of _________ in Virginia.

A Maryland couple, Casey and her husband John, hadn’t eaten for 37 hours while _________ for the snow to clear when they _________ a Schmidt Baking Company truck.

Not thinking it would work, the _________ couple called the company’s customer service line asking if they could have some of the _________.

“We didn’t think it would actually work, but __________ less than 20 minutes later we got an incredible __________,” wrote Casey in a Facebook post. “We __________ a personal call from the owner of the company, Chuck, who contacted the __________.”

“It was not a(n) __________ decision,” Chuck Paterakis, the CEO of H&S Baking, who owns Schmidt, told the Washington Post. His words to the driver were “__________ all the bread”.

The driver Ron Hill __________ the back of the truck, and with Casey and John’s help __________ 300 packages of bread and rolls to more than 100 stranded motorists.

“We just kept giving it out __________ we couldn’t walk anymore although it was so __________,” Holihan told NBC. “It felt incredible just hearing people __________ say thank you.”

【推荐1】When I came to my new school three years ago, I was surprised at how lonely I felt. Then one of my classmates invited me to her house for a dinner_______ I was a little anxious, but finally I gladly_______.

Not really knowing how_______the bus ride should be, _______ when I saw the landmarks _______ on my friend's hand drawn map. But when I got close enough to the _______. I found none of the streets were shown on the map. I was_______on a busy road with cars driving past without a person in sight. I had no_______when the next bus would come, _______ when a bus did come by, I ________ got on. I told the bus driver where I wanted' o go and he said that I had caught the ________bus, but he let me stay on. After he had finished his scheduled bus route, he________ to help me out. I grateful showed him my little hand--drawn map but________did not help much.

He finally ________ me off at a main road to catch a different bus and was________that he could not help me more. After a few minutes of walking, I noticed a bus pull up near me. It was the ________ bus driver. He explained that he didn't want to leave me there________. He sent out a call and someone radioed back, saying that the bus I needed to catch was about ten minutes away. At last I made it to the dinner party________. I was over an hour late, I am forever thankful for the ________ that this bus driver had for me. His act of kindness left a________ on my heart.