【推荐1】There was a man who raised a pig. He felt     1     (tire) of it and was    2    (determine) to give it up.     3    the pig always knew the way to go home so that the man couldn’t succeed in     4     (do) so several times.

One day, the man drove his car, turning many     5     (time) on the way, then gave it up. Late at night, he found he was     6    trouble. He telephoned to his relative and asked     7     (hope), “Hasn’t the pig returned home this time?”

A member of his family answered, “It has! And where are you now?”

The man shouted, “I don’t know. I am     8     (lose)!”

“What can we do for you?”

“Turn     9    the pig! Let it answer the telephone.” The man     10       (burst).

【推荐2】Every day has the potential to be a good and, in some cases, a great day for you. Few of us get up in the morning,     1     (think) that we want this to be a bad day. Yet in many cases the day turns that way because of a person or an event     2     we worry about.

Think about those small     3     (event) which can throw you off balance and affect your whole day     4     (negtive）. Who stole your day?     5     (Be) it your boss, an odd driver on the way to work, or an impolite waiter at lunch that did?

Every day numerous people or things can prevent us     6     having a good day, if we let them. The key is that we should adopt     7     positive attitude towards life. We cannot control     8     happens to us in many cases,     9     we can control how we react to them.

Lao-tzu, a Chinese philosopher, said, “He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers     10     (he) is mighty.”

【推荐3】Hidden camera shows are popular all over the world. But the     1     (origin) concept started way back in the 1940s with Candid Camera.

Candid Camera     2     (create) and produced by Allen Funt. It started out on radio in 1947, but ended up on TV in 1948. The idea for the show was simple. Hidden cameras would film ordinary people in unusual     3     (situation). When the joke was revealed, the victims would be told the show’s catch phrase, “Smile! You’re on Candid Camera.”

The humour was based on putting real people in fake situations. There     4     (be) many versions of the show since then, including Just For Laughs Gags and Trigger Happy TV, but Candid Camera was the     5     (begin).

There was bad news for the show in 2001. Philip Zelnick, 35,    6     of the victims of the show, started a lawsuit (诉讼)    7     Peter Funt (the son of the founder). Zelnick claimed he was injured during one of the show’s tricks. As part of this prank (恶作剧), Funt was posing as a security guard at     8     airport. He instructed passengers     9     (go) through a fake X-ray machine. When Zelniek was getting off the conveyor belt, he got injured in the leg. The jury (陪审团) awarded Zelnick a total of 5300,000, with Peter Funt and the show     10     (order) to pay $ 150,000 each.

There once were a goat and a donkey that lived     1     a farm. The donkey worked the hardest so the farmer fed it the most     2    . Sometimes the donkey was given more food     3     it could eat. This made the goat so jealous    4     it began plotting against(谋划对付)the donkey. "Hey, donkey," the goat said one day. "I think you do too much work on this farm. You carry such heavy things from morning to night. Why don't you pretend     5     (get) sick so you can take a day     6    ?'' The donkey thought the goat had a great idea. So the next morning, the donkey lay in the stable(畜栏)on its side with its eyes     7     (close). Right away, the farmer called the doctor.     8    looking at the donkey, the doctor said it needed a special medicine made     9     the heart of a goat. So the farmer killed     10     goat and gave the donkey medicine made from its heart.