【推荐2】My brother and I were driving home together and became absorbed in a conversation. Because of this _______, my brother took a wrong turn.

Unfortunately, the wrong turn took us towards a bridge and we had no way to turn back. Reluctantly (不情愿地), my brother paid the bridge toll and drove on. He was clearly frustrated by the mistake and the _______ waste of $4.

We eventually reached an exit slip-way and, as we took it, my brother noticed a car that stopped by the roadside. A young guy was standing nearby, looking anxious. I was busy trying to _______ which way we went next but my brother pulled over and asked the guy if he needed any help. And he did. He had a(n) _______ tire (轮胎) and needed a wrench to get it off.

My brother gave him a wrench, then proceeded to help him change the flat. The young man said that this had been a(n) _______ week for him: earlier he had gotten into a minor car accident, and now this flat on his way home from work. He kept thanking us because he really would have been _______ if we hadn’t come along. After we had finished the job, he pulled out $20 to give to us. “No,” I said.

“We were never _______   to even get on that bridge. We took a wrong turn. But now we know why we did. It was to help you. Thank you for turning our mistake into an opportunity to _______.”

What I loved most was watching my brother throughout this process. He was able to see a chance to help (which I totally missed! ) even in an otherwise _______ situation. It can only come from a calm mind and a(n) ________ heart.

【推荐3】I have always been a big girl. I am comfortable with my body but there is a price to pay for being___ .

In primary school, I was enthusiastic about gymnastics but I had to _______   my shortcomings by hours after hours of extra practice, going over every____. It took months to master the ribbon (带子)，which I used to get in a terrible   __________. However, I carried on and   __________   greatly so that in 2015 I was in the National Championships Final.

Whenever I went up in a _________，I always got the sense that the _________   did not expect     much from the overweight child before them. They ______   about my weight in low voices. One   man___ said, “That's the ugliest leotard ( 紧身衣) I've ever seen and the elephant inside it isn't much____!”

I felt___ . Trying to smile away the tears, I decided to let my ribbon do the talking. I had worked particularly hard on my ribbon and it showed. On the first beat I knew it was to be _____ .I was gliding on the music, each move under _________   control. Soon the _________   of the        crowd turned to cheers. As I went into that last split leap, the crowd______ . I turned to face them   and found each one on their feet, applauding. It was incredible.

I was titled National Champion that year, but   the   best   thing   I   got   from   hours   of____ practice was the knowledge that my appearance cannot ______ who I am and should never limit   what I can do. Society seems to______ that overweight people are unhappy with their weight and have little___ , so they never amount to much. What a ridiculous guess! I believe I can achieve anything___ I am bigger than my body. Who wants to be ordinary anyway?

【推荐1】I was envious of my friends who stayed at school for lunch. They _________ the same things as the characters in my favourite TV shows. The meals we ate at home were different. One day, a classmate asked what I ate for lunch. I _________, feeling like I’d been caught. Like most days, we’d had fried rice. “Sandwiches,” I lied. My face got hot as I turned around, _________ she wouldn’t ask anything more.

Still, there was one day of the year when Mom made an _________ and I was allowed to stay at school for lunch. My dream would be realistic on that day. Every year, there was Chinese Day at the cafeteria to _________ Chinese New Year. “The school is honoring our heritage,” Mom would say. The first Chinese Day lunch I can _________ was when I was about six. I had _________ this day for weeks. When the bell rang for lunch, I rushed to the cafeteria. As I stood in line, I imagined the _________ they’d made waiting for me.

There would be _________, surely—every Chinese New Year meal included fish. I could explain to my friends what Mom had told me: How the __________ for “fish” in Chinese sounded like another word meaning “abundance”. There would be chicken, too, probably with the head still on, because a whole chicken for Chinese New Year __________ wholeness.   

The line was slowly moving forward until __________ it was my turn. The cafeteria worker passed me my plate and I looked down. I couldn’t __________ anything at all. All I did was sit there, confused. They called this “Chinese” lunch, so why had I never __________ it before? Those first few bites, I realized later, were my __________ to Chinese-Canadian cuisine.

【推荐2】Because people dine out often, there are lots of restaurants in Italy. Most of them are Italian, of course.. _________ , today the European country also has many ethnic(民族风味的) restaurants. Al Borgo Antico in Legnano, a town on the outskirts(城郊)of Milan, is_________ It offers traditional Italian food, but its owners are_________ .In 1989, co-owner Francesco Wu moved with his _________ from China to Italy. His parents opened a Chinese_________ near Milan. “When you move to a different country, you have to_________,”Wu told me during a recent interview. At the beginning, the business was_________ for the brothers. They had to_________ prejudices and the people who said that no one would eat Italian cuisine made by Chinese chefs. “It was_________ when people came in and saw our Chinese__________ and left, ”Wu said.

The brothers__________ it despite all of the doubts,“ __________, the restaurant became one of the best-known in the area,”Wu said, smiling.

In 2012, eight years after opening his restaurant, Wu__________ a business organization for Chinese immigrants(移民).“We__________ that something like this was missing, and that it could be__________ for both the Italian and Chinese community. ”Wu said.

【推荐3】At a family picnic for employees of the company where my father worked, they held a contest for children. I was 13, full of enthusiasm, so I ________ myself into it.

The host gave each child a cloth handkerchief and told us the winner would be the one who cast it the ________. The first throwers, took mighty wind-ups (挥臂投掷), but when the cloth left their hands, it ________ and landed on the ground a few inches in front of them. The crowd roared with ________. Not until then did I realize it was not meant to ________ any real skill, but simply for laughs. However, it stimulated my ________ for thinking outside the box.

It ________ me to see the kids throwing harder when the handkerchief always caught the air and died. It was obvious that using the same ________ would not work. Suppose I tied a ________ inside the handkerchief? When they inspected it, I’d be ________. So I began tying the handkerchief around itself to make it small and ________ packed together to keep it from unfolding. When I approached the line, people were already laughing, ________ a big strong-looking boy like me casting it just a few inches.

I took a long wind-up, and the balled handkerchief ________ off maybe 60 feet away. The laughing ________ in collective shock. I had not broken the rules. What I learned from this contest was that, in order to live creatively, you have to ________ the less-used parts of your brain, and not accept stereotypes (刻板印象), slogans and unquestioned ideas.