【推荐1】There is a tradition in my school.Every year，before the Grade 9 students graduate，all the students in _____ grades，from Grade 7 to Grade 8，will gather together on the ground in front of the teaching building and cheer on the Grade 9 students who are standing upstairs.Only when I took part in the activity，did I understand the real _____ of the school tradition.

I was in Grade 8 at that time._____ that special day，all the Grade 9 students stood in the hallways and _____ at the younger students below.We all shouted loudly together，“Believe in yourself！You are sure to _____！”

Soon _____ will be my turn to be blessed(祝福)in this way.It also means I will have to say _____ to my school._____ it will be sad，it will still be one of the brightest times of my life to be cheered on by so many students.

I’m sure our teachers and parents will be _____ us because we have grown up and can ______ problems by ourselves.

【推荐2】The year I went to college was a very difficult transition(过渡期)for me． _______is probably true with many people，I got quite homesick and_________thought about going home．

Although the_________time for many students is getting_________from home，my mailbox was frequently _________．One day when I went to the mailbox，there was a postcard_________out at me．I sat down to read it，_________a note from someone back home．_________I became increasingly puzzled as_________ postcards were like this：It was a full news report about a woman named Mabel and her newborn baby．I took the card back to my room and__________about it．

Several days later I__________another postcard，this one__________news about Maybelline，Mabel’s cousin．Soon after，another card arrived and then another，__________full of news of different people．I began to __________ look forward to the next one，__________to see what this author would come up with__________．I was never__________．

Finally，the cards__________coming，right about the time I had begun to feel__________about college life．They had been such a happy distraction(调剂)that I have__________all the postcards and still bring them out to read whenever I need a lift．

【推荐3】Life is not easy, so I’d like to say “ When anything______, believe in yourself. ”

When I was a young boy, I was   _____ shy to talk to anyone. My classmates often laughed______me. I was sad ______ could do nothing. Later, _____happened, and it changed my life. It was an English speech contest. My mother asked me to _____it. What a terrible _____! It meant I had to speak _____all the teachers and students of my school!

“ Come on, boy. Believe in yourself. You are sure to _____.” Then mother and I talked about many different topics. At last I______ the   topic “ Believe in yourself ”. I tried my best to _____all the speech and practiced it over 100 _____. With my mother’s great love, I did_____ in the contest. I could hardly believe my______when the news came that I had won the first place. I heard the cheers (赞美) _____the teachers and students. Those classmates _____once looked down on (瞧不起) me, now all said “ Congratulations! ” ____ me. My mother hugged me and cried excitedly.

___ then, everything has changed for me. When I do anything, I try to tell ____ to be sure and I will find myself. This is ____ not only for a person but also for a country.

【推荐1】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 (观众),________ to see her mother. These two, Alvert and Doris Flemint, had ________ all the way from California more than 2,000 miles away, to see their daughter compete in this sports meeting 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 ________. She was feeling the movement of the music and letting it carry her. She skated easily,________ did some jumps, a final turn and her performance(表演) was finished.

The crowd loved it and cheered (欢呼) as she skated off the ice. “Nice job,” said one of the other ________. It was the remark (评价) that ________ came after a free-skating performance. But what should the ________ say? Standing beside her father, Peggy waited for the scoring (打分) 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 ________. The new United States Women’s Figure Skating Champion was Peggy Fleming of Passdena,________.

【推荐2】Even though my grandfather was a farmer, my grandmother would iron (熨烫) his work clothes every day. She would sprinkle (喷洒) grandpa’s _______with something, hang them over a chair so they could dry a bit, and then iron them. I _______ her do this through my childhood. I thought every old woman in the world did it. But as the years passed, I began to _______ this practice. Why did grandfather need his work clothes   _______? Most days, he never met anyone but me and a few other farmers.

One day I asked grandma about it. She told me that grandpa was the most _______ man in the world, and he was the _______ of her life.

Later that day, I looked closely at grandpa. He sure didn’t look all that handsome to me. He was a short and skinny man. His hair was _______ on top, and his false teeth didn’t line up very well when he smiled. So I _______ grandma about it again. I informed her I had observed grandpa. She _______ and said, “You just aren’t viewing things from the right perspective (角度). Those eye wrinkles haven’t always been there. He has beautiful blue eyes.” She ________,“I want him to feel beautiful. I iron his clothes every day ________ he has made me feel beautiful for all these years. He is a man worthy of ________．” I heard what she said and was still puzzled. How could this old woman think that an old man with false ________ was beautiful?

The years went on, and I watched grandma and grandpa grow old together. I ________ knew what beauty really was — it was grandma ironing grandpa’s pants. I was ashamed and decided to ________ the question I had asked.

【推荐3】My parents operated a small restaurant in Seattle. It was open twenty-four hours a day, six days a week. And my first real job,when I was six years old,was_______the diners’ shoes. My father had done it when he was young,so he taught me_______to do it efficiently(有效地),telling me to_______to re-shine(再擦亮) the shoes if the customer wasn’t_______.

Working in the restaurant was a cause of great_______because I was also working for the good of the family. But my father_______that I had to meet certain standards(标准) to be part of the team. I_______to be punctual(守时的),hard-working,and polite to the_______.

I was_______paid for the work I did at the restaurant. One day I made the mistake of advising Dad that he________give me $10 a week. He said,“OK. How about you paying me for three meals a day you have here? And for the times you bring________your friends for free soft drinks?” He________I owed him about $40 a week.

I remember returning to Seattle after being________in the US Army for about two years. I had just been promoted(升迁) to Captain at that time. And full of pride,I walked into my parents’ restaurant,but the________thing Dad said was,“How about your________up tonight?” I couldn’t________my ears! I am an officer in the Army! But it didn’t________as far as Dad was concerned,I was just________member of the team. I reached for the mop(拖把). Working for Dad has taught me the devotion to a________is above all. It has nothing to do with________that team is involved in a family restaurant or the US Army.

【推荐3】A lot of people admired our neighbor. One day a delivery truck unloaded a large _________ system at their house. And the kids discussed the new sound equipment my neighbor had just bought. Meantime, we were living in a house decorated _________ and dressing our kids in second-hand clothes. We lived a _________ life.

My poor mother-in-law, in town for a visit, got to hear my complaints that night. “I feel so _________ sometimes,” I told her, as we _________ the table after dinner. “I know we’re doing the right thing, living frugally (节俭的), saving money, but it feels so hard. There’re so many things I’d like to _________, so many things I’d like to do, but we just can’t.”

She _________ as she folded a cloth napkin in silence. Then she turned to me and said, “When you make a comparison between yourself and others, it’s easy to _________ what you don’t have. But there’s one thing you two do that many other couples may _________ to do. You two often go out together and take time to focus on your __________. And that’s a very important thing.”

I stopped wiping the table and __________ for a minute. I thought of the movie my husband and I had seen a week earlier. I __________ the bike rides, the hikes and the picnics. Most of all, I remembered how __________ we were together, even after twenty years. How many people can say that?

I looked around my home in a new __________. Our refrigerator was too small for a family of six, but it was __________ filled with delicious food. Our kitchen was small and we had no big TV, but we’re happy! And that’s enough!