【推荐1】The True Story of Treasure Island

It was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson’s imagination. _________ , recent research has found the true story of this exciting work.

In 1881, Stevenson returned to Scotland for a _________ with his wife Fanny and son Lloyd.

Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a long _________ over the hills. They had been _________ this for several days before the weather suddenly worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain, Lloyd felt the days _________. To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some _________.

One morning, Robert _________ the boy caught a beautiful map of an island where a large cross in the middle of _________. “What’s that?” he asked. “That’s the buried treasure,” said the boy. Robert suddenly saw something of an adventure story in the boy’s _________. Then, he sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the __________ a twelve-year-old boy, just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate (海盗)?

Henley, Robert’s friend, walked around with the __________ of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to __________ such a man in a story. __________ Long John Silver, the pirate was born.

Thanks to a __________ September in Scotland, we have one of the greatest __________ stories in the English language.

【推荐2】It was 1972，and I was in second grade. In the classroom the teacher, Ms. Boyette, was ______aloud to us from Island of the Blue Dolphins. And we had just come to a part of the book where the main ____was training a wild dog. I was listening, caught up in the wonder of all.

Not far away from me, there seated a boy who always frightened or ______others, so I was ______of this boy. While Ms. Boyette was reading, I looked over at him, for he was someone I was in the ______of keeping an eye on. I ______that he was listening too, that he was engaged by the story, that he was leaning forward in his seat and listening with all his heart. I ______at him, open-mouthed. I was ______with a sudden knowledge that this boy was in fact just like me. He was a kid who liked a story. The boy must ______my eyes on him, because he turned. Then something amazing happened. He smiled at me. _______，I smiled back, unafraid. We were two _______smiling at each other.

Why have I never forgotten this _______moment? Why do I still recall every detail of it? I think it's because that moment illustrates so beautifully the______of reading out loud.

It shows us into a safe room, where everyone involved, the reader and the listener, can have that chance to______each other. We humans long not just for the story, not just for the flow of language, but for the ______that comes when words are read aloud.

【推荐3】This was my first year teaching in a special needs school. I was uncertain what to _______ at our annual Special Sports Meeting. My students had different _______, from mild learning disabilities to severe brain diseases.

Mark was one with the latter, limited to a _______ However, he _______ greeted everyone with huge smiles. His classmates loved him and often took their time to make sure of his participation in group activities, especially Mike, Andy and Lucas, all _______ at sports. Mark imagined being like them. Watching and cheering for their elegant _______ on the playground seemed to fill him with wonder.

The big day came at last and the final _______ was the 400-meter race. Everyone was invited to _______ according to their own ability. Mike, Andy and Lucas _______ to prove who the best athlete was. But when they reached the finish line they paused and looked behind them. At the back, determined not to be left behind, was Mark, ________ on the track in his wheelchair with half the distance left to ________. Looking at each other, a ________ thought passing between them. Slowly, they jogged back towards their friend, ________ him on as he had done for them before.

The progress was ________, but eventually they crossed the finish line together to the cries of their teachers and classmates. I came to understand what makes the Special Sports Meeting so ________.

【推荐1】I had heard a great deal about Miss Beam’s school. But not till last week did the ________ come to visit it. When I arrived, there was no one ________ but a girl of about twelve. Her eyes were ________ with a bandage and she was being led ________ by a little boy who was about four years younger.

Miss Beam was all that I had expected --- middle-aged, full of ________ , yet kindly and understanding. I asked her some questions about her teaching ________ which I had heard were simple.

“The real ________ of this school is not so much to teach thought as to teach thoughtfulness --- kindness to others and being ________ citizens. Look out of the window a minute, will you?"

I went to the window which ________ a large garden and a playground at the back. “What do you see?" Miss Beam asked.

“I see some very beautiful grounds," I ________, “and a lot of cheerful children.

It pains me,________ , to see that they are not all so ________and active-looking.”

Miss Beam laughed. “Oh, no!" she said. “Don’t worry. There is no problem with their health. It is only their day to experience being blind, deaf or lame. To make our children ________and understand misfortune, we make them share in misfortune too. Every term, we ________set a day for this activity. They all learn so much this way. Before the day is over, even the most ________child realizes what misfortune is.”

【推荐2】As she waited at the edge of the ice for her music to start, Peggy took a quick look at her father standing nearby with a group of parents and teachers. He smiled at her. Then she _________ out at the audience, _________ to see her mother. These two, Albert and Doris Fleming, had driven all the way from California more than 2, 000 miles away, to see their _________ compete in this sports meet in Cleveland, Ohio.

The music _________ and Peggy moved onto the ice, letting the music _________ her along into her turns, and she began skating with much _________ in herself. The cold fear she always had in the _________ seconds before skating onto the ice was gone. She was feeling the movement of the _________ and letting it carry her. She skated _________, then did some jumps, a final turn and her performance was finished.

The crowd loved it and cheered as she __________ off the ice. “Nice job,” said one of the other __________. It was the remark that always came after a free-skating performance. But what should the __________ say? Standing beside her father, Peggy __________ for the scoring to be finished. On all sides were other young skaters, some waiting __________ alone, others with a parent. Shortly before 10 o’clock the results were announced. The new United States Women’s Figure Skating Champion was Peggy Fleming of Pasadena, __________.

【推荐2】I come from one of those families where you have to yell at the dinner table to get in a word. Everyone has a strong _________ and talks at the same time, and no one has a _________ leading to heated arguments. We often talk or even debate with each other on different topics. _________ a family like mine has made me more _________ about the world around me, making me tend to raise questions about anything that anyone tells me. But it has also made me realize that I’m not a good listener. And when I say “Listening”, I’m not _________ to the nodding-your-head-and _________ answering-Uh-huh-or-Ooh-I-see variety. I mean the kind of listening where you find yourself deeply _________ with the person you’re speaking with, when his story becomes so _________ that your world becomes less about you and more about him. No, I was never very good at that.

I spent summer in South Aftica two years ago. I worked for a good non-profit _________ called Noah, which works __________ for children affected by AIDS. But __________ you asked me what I really did in South Africa, I’d tell you one thing: I listened, and I listened. Sometimes I __________ , but mostly listened.

And bad I not spent two months __________, I might have missed the __________ moment when a quiet little girl at one of Noah’s community centers, orphaned（孤儿）at the age of three, whispered after a long __________ “I love you.”

__________ that summer, I knew how to hear. I could sit down with anyone and hear their   __________ and nod and respond at the __________ time—but most of the time I was __________ about the next words out of my own mouth. Ever since my summer in South Africa, I have noticed that it’s in those moments when my mouth is closed and my __________ is wide open that I’ve learned the most about other people, and perhaps about myself.

【推荐3】When my 12th-grade results were declared, I was excited. It was the first _____________ news for us in a long while. My father had an accident and was in hospital. My mother was there to look after him. I rushed to _________ them of the good news. Maybe my mood was contagious (传染的) — a pretty lady I had never met smiled at me in the elevator.

My performance ___________ me a place at the city’s top college. Despite difficulty, my mother _________ to get the fees. On admission day, I ___________ filled the form, packed my bag and ___________ on my bike. Once I arrived, my heart almost ___________ when I found my bag gone. I ___________ but with no luck.

I rode to the hospital, but I couldn’t gather the ___________ to go in. I stood outside, gazing listlessly (无精打采地) when I felt someone ____________ my shoulder. It was the woman from the elevator. “Anything I can help?” she asked. Tears streaming, I told her everything. She ____________ and said, “Don’t worry.”

She reached for her bag and ____________ me some money. I hesitated, but she placed the money in my hands. “Take care of your father and stay ____________,” she said. I was overwhelmed by the ____________ kindness. I returned many times in ____________ of meeting her but I never did.