【推荐1】Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, it _______ patience. If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be willing to _______ some action. You must first go where there are people. You won’t make friends staying home   _______.

Joining a club or group, talking to those who like the same things _______ you do is much easier. Or join someone   _______   some activity.

Many people are _______ when talking to new people. _______ meeting strangers means seeing the unknown. And it’s human nature to feel a bit _______ about the unknown．Most of fears about _______ new people come from doubts about ________. We imagine other people are ________ us — finding us too tall or too short, too this or too that. But don’t forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept yourself ________ you are, and try to put the other at ease. You’ll both feel more comfortable．

Try to act self-confident ________you don’t feel that way when you ________ a room full of strangers. Walk tall and straight, look at other people directly and ________.

If you see someone you’d like to ________, say something. Don’t wait for ________ person to start a talk.

Just meeting someone ________ does not mean that you’ll make friends with that person. ________ is based on mutual (相互的) likings (兴趣) and “give and take”. It takes time to ________ friendship.

【推荐3】On the first day of your senior high school you must meet many new classmates. Do you want to make friends with them? Do you know how to make friends with them? The following article will tell you how to do it.

Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, it improves ________ practice. If you want to meet people and make friends you must be ________ to take action. You must first go to places where there are people. You won’t make friends ________ at home alone. Join a club or group, for talking with those who _________ the same experiences as you is easier, so ________ them in some activities.

Many people are ________ when talking to strangers. After all, meeting strangers means facing___________, and it’s human nature to ________ a bit uncomfortable about the unknown.

Most of our fears about dealing with strange people ________ from doubts about ourselves. We always ________ other people are judging us, thinking us too tall or too short, too this or too that. ___________, don’t forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept yourself ________ you are, and try to put the other person at ease. You’ll ________ feel more comfortable.

Try to act self-confidently ________ you don’t feel that way________ you enter a room full of strangers, such as a new classroom. Walk straight, look ________ at other people and smile. If you see someone you’d like to________, say something. Don’t wait for the other people to ________ a conversation.

Just meeting someone ________ doesn’t mean that you will make friends with that person. Friendship is ________ on mutual（相互的）liking and“give and take”. It takes time and effort to develop. And there are things that keep a new friendship from growing.

【推荐2】It impressed me a lot. I never thought that little help will _______ out to be the most satisfying thing I have ever done. He was tired, and _______ to climb further. With a broad _______, he asked if I could help him with some money. He was paralyzed(瘫痪) in both legs and was _______ money for some operation. He said that if operated successfully, he could _______ training offering him a job. I was full of _______ and even asked him to show his legs. I gave him the _______ money. After a few days, he again came at my doorstep asking for more money for accommodation. This time I was more or less _______ he is not cheating me. I gave him some and said this is all I have.

A year went by and I had moved to a(n) _______ place. One fine day I got a call from an unknown number. The caller called out his name but I didn’t ________ him. Then he said he is the very paralyzed person I helped a year ago.

I asked him how he was doing. He said，“What sir? you recognize me not by my name but by my ________ state.”

“With your kind help I am now able to ________ on my legs without support. I was operated ________. I am married to a beautiful lady and have a stable ________.”

I don’t ________ remember if I gave him my phone number. ________, what he said next was touching. He said he wanted to return the money so that I didn’t feel cheated and continued to help people ________ in the future. I don’t know whether he read my facial expression the day I helped him but tears were ________ down my face. That day I promised him I will continue to help people as I see a(n) ________ —small or big. ________ that changed my life.

【推荐3】Recently, one of my best friends spent the weekend with me. We’ve ________ just about everything since the first day of kindergarten. Several years ago I ________ to a new town, so we’ve both always looked forward to the ________ chances a year when we can see each other.

Over the weekend, we spent hours and hours, ________ up late into the night, talking about the people she was hanging around with. She started telling me ________ about how she experimented with drugs and was into other self-destructive behaviors. I was completely ________!

No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she ________ better, she didn’t believe me. Herself-respect seemed to have ________. I tried to convince her that she was ________ her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting ________.

By the time she left, I was really ________ about her and exhausted by the experience. It had been so ________, and I had come close to telling her several ________ during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to ______ our friendship — but I didn’t. I put the power of ________ to the ultimate test and wanted to believe that it could ________ anything.

A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our ________, and then she told me that she had ________. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly ________ moments in my life. Never had I been so ________ of a friend.

【推荐1】During my first three years of college, I put on weight quickly. Between classwork and a part-time job, I had zero time for ______. Besides, I ate a lot of fast food. Not surprisingly, I _____ a fat stomach.

After leaving college, I ______ to take exercise. Invited by a friend, I ______ working out with exercise machines three times a week. I was the kind of person who did not try something ____. I ate the same food; I did the same thing. M friend, however, became ______. One day, he said, “We’re not getting enough exercise. We should play tennis instead.”

Me? Play tennis? No way. I was strongly against his ______. I was not good at sports and I was ______ the exercise machines. ______, weeks later, I found myself standing on a tennis court (球场). As I held my racket (球拍), I felt ______. I ran after every ball he served to me, completely ______ about 90% of them, hitting the rest into the other court.

The first few months were quite ______. But one day, as the ball came flying toward me, my racket and the ball finally met in the place where it is most effective to hit a ball. I watched ______ as my return landed where I had aimed (瞄准) it. I had finally ______ how to play tennis properly!

I learned a ______ during my journey toward learning to play tennis: I can do whatever I set my mind to.

【推荐2】Dave King is in his second winter of snowplowing (铲雪) people’s driveways for free.

April Frazier is one person who has________from King’s kindness. She is a single mother. After one snowstorm last year, she was busy looking after her________and just knew she was not going to be able to get out there and________the snow. Frazier saw a post online in which King________people to call him if they needed help with that day’s storm. She________to him and offered to pay him, but he________.

Frazier was________— and has been surprised to see, every storm since, King has________to her house and plowed her driveway, never________a penny. Now he also plows her parents’ driveway for free. And one time, he even plowed her parents’ neighbors’ driveways without anyone________him. “He is loyal and________,” said Frazier.

King got the________when he overheard a neighbor complaining (抱怨) she was having difficulty with the snow in her driveway. It________to King that he could plow the driveways of people in need for free.

King went online and invited anyone who needed their driveways plowed________to get in touch with him. People were________at first, as though he had some kind of dishonest plan going. But they were quick to find out he was sincere and started accepting his________.

King hopes to________this kindness and generosity and set up a whole network of volunteers to help people in________.

“King is making a positive________in the community,” Frazier said. He is an________hero for this town. He inspires hope in humanity.