【推荐2】Born on July 2,1932 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dave Thomas never met his birth mother. Later on, Dave's father who had remarried________to Fort Wayne, Indiana. There, Dave did several________such as a paperboy, golf caddy, and a counter in a drugstore. When he was 15, Dave was first________to the food and service industry through his first job. For some reasons, his family decided to move again. ________, Dave refused. He then dropped out of________in the 10th grade and worked full time. He worked very hard and was lucky to get an opportunity to earn $1.5 million.

Dave, being________about food, found it hard to find a good burger in Columbus. This tiny________soon turned into a multi-million dollar business after he decided to________the first Wendy's restaurant in 1969. Wendy's caught a lot of________and popularity for their square burgers and________and abundant toppings（配料）. Within a decade，Wendy's turned into a thousand-store franchise.

After some business mistakes had________Wendy’s financial stability, Dave began visiting each franchise to________employees with his “mop-bucket attitude”, which proved to be a(n)________strategy. He soon became the television spokesman for the company and became very famous and________. His charming personality drove a lot of Americans to________the Dave Thomas brand, and regard Wendy's as one of the US's most well-received fast food chains.

【推荐3】The lions and leopards of a national park in India normally do not get along. They ______ each other for space and food. But about a year ago, a young lioness in the park ______ a baby leopard.

The 2-month-old baby with brown ears and blue eyes was ______, and the lioness spent weeks nursing, ______ and caring for him until he died. She treated him as if he were one of her own two sons, who were about the same age. This was a ______ case of cross-species adoption in the wild, and the only documented example involving animals that are normally ______.

______, the park workers thought the association would be brief, but this went on. The family were ______ to tour the park. The lioness took care of the baby, and ______ meat she hunted. The new brothers played with him and occasionally followed him up trees. This unlikely ______ was surely amazing.

Although this adoption was puizzling, it highlighted the ______ between the two species. Until they reached young adulthood, when social differences ______, the lions and the leopard played and begged for milk in similar ways. For this mother lioness, she may have ______ the baby’s more leopard-like features—his smell, size and spotted appearance. She just jumped in.

The ______ of the inter-species adoption in the wild would be sweet enough for a children’s book, yet ______ enough to draw scientists.

【推荐1】I’m a professor teaching people how to think more creatively. _________, this lifetime passion was awakened by a casual contest when I was a child.

At a family picnic, children used to have the handkerchief-throwing contest, which I realize now, was not meant to show any real _________, but simply for laughs. But it stirred my love of thinking outside the _________.

The host gave each child a cloth handkerchief and told us the winner would be the one who threw it the farthest. The first little throwers _________ mighty strength, but the cloth opened and fell to the ground. So when one kid after another threw harder when the handkerchief always opened, it _________ me. The secret was not to throw harder but to keep the cloth from _________! Suppose I hid a rock in the cloth without tying it. The rock would _________ the cloth at least farther than the others, and when they separated, people might not notice a small rock _________ in the grass. I had a good chance of _________ with it, but I didn’t want to win by cheating. I had to make the handkerchief fly like a rock. I began tying the handkerchief around itself to make it __________. When I approached the __________ as the final contestant, people were already laughing. I took a long wind-up, and the balled handkerchief rocketed off maybe 60 feet away. The laughing __________ suddenly. The host stared at me and then ran to __________ if I’d cheated the crowd. “It’s just the handkerchief,” he declared. The adults applauded and I felt __________.

This is how I learned the secret to creative thinking. I wanted to continue looking __________ what things seemed to be.

【推荐2】It was my first attempt to challenge the highest volcano in the world, Ojos del Salado, in South America. I’d decide to ______ with a local guide. I left camp just after midnight. “You go first and I’ll be behind you,” he said. As the hours passed and the terrain (地形) became more ______, I wondered if I’d made a huge mistake. Looking at the view behind me, I listened out for the sound of my guide’s steps but I was all alone, so I had to found my way by ______. Breathing heavily, I realized I’d run out of ______ soon.

Back home, 11,000 km away in Melbourne, my dad was following my _____ with my GPS tracker. However, now ______ on the side of a volcano, all I could do was to ______ my energy as I climbed higher and higher.

______ the top was the ultimate goal, but really it was only half the ______. Had I gone too far this time? As my breathing became more laboured, I felt extremely ______.

Pushing on, I ______ made it to the top, where I took in the breathtaking views. But I only spent a few minutes taking photos before I ______ the mountain. I was surprised to see my guide on the way down and it turned out that he had ______ a climber in danger and had to abandon our exploration to ______ him.

Through blood, sweat and frozen tears, the last 10 years had taken me all over the globe. And with every high and painful low, I learnt more about myself. I’d pushed my ______, both in body and mind.