【推荐1】One morning in early fall, I spotted a pair of wild geese on our pond. The beautiful sight caught me by ________, because we had never seen geese there before. I wondered where they came from and why they’d ________ our pond. As the days passed, I couldn’t ________ getting a closer look and started talking to the geese. They craned their necks and raised their heads ________ but seemed to realize I was a friend and not an enemy. I felt ________ we were bonding.

One day as they were feeding in the grass near the driveway, I discovered the reason for their ________—the male had a broken left wing. He was ________ to fly, and his lifelong mate would not leave him behind. I marveled at the ________ between them.

I asked a wildlife biologist friend what I should do. He explained that sometime a broken wing will heal by itself and suggested letting ________ take its course.

________ the first day of November, I was working in the vicinity (在……附近) of the geese with my tractor. I caught some ________ from the corner of my eye.

Both geese were running toward the pond, wings beating ________. The geese gained enough altitude to clear a neighbor’s house, then ________ back toward me, flying no more than 50 feet over my head as if to say goodbye. Then they were out of sight.

I grew ________ them during their stay at our pond, and I miss them. I’ll never forget their ________ to each other. We could all learn a lesson or two from this pair.

【推荐2】This happened when I was ten. On a normal Sunday, I went to the barber shop where I always went. That day, along with the barber there was an assistant, who had recently ___________ the shop.

So I sat for the haircut. The uncle asked me how ___________ I wanted it. I answered, “Just do as my dad had ___________ you the last time.”

He smiled. Before starting the ___________, he added, “What if I keep it long?”

I ___________ he was joking. So I joked too. I said, “I can’t ___________ what would happen to your shop then!”

The moment I said itthe assistant ___________ from behind. “How dare do you say that! Who are you to threaten us, eh?”

I admit I was too ___________ at that moment and the uncle standing beside me was giving me an ___________ look.

From that day on, I ____________ stopped joking about anyone’s profession and works. It is one of the most ____________ incidents in my life, which taught me to ____________ the profession and works of a person, no matter how ____________ they are.

I’m ____________ that the assistant responded in a way that made me rethink the power of my words. Words do make a ____________.

【推荐3】My mom used to say “Life is full of challenges. But a willingness to learn something new gives people the right attitude to overcoming difficulties.” This is now my attitude towards _______.

One life experience that helped me develop this _______ to try new things was learning to _______. You may have heard the expression, “You can’t teach an old _______ new tricks.” Now I’m not calling myself an “old dog” quite yet! But I certainly had my _______ about trying diving for the _______ time as a 30-year-old man. I thought, “_______ can I swim wearing all of the diving equipment? What if something goes _______ and I can’t breathe? How can I _______ to other divers if there’s a problem?” Worries like these caused me to ________.

To my surprise, the three-day training period proved to be anything but a disaster. Our lessons ________ three parts. First, an instructor ________ us to all of the equipment as well as the hand signals for communicating underwater. This part ended with a test to make sure we understood what we had just ________.

Next, we headed to a swimming pool where we practiced breathing techniques. We began at the pool’s surface. Each new technique we practiced allowed us to go ________ in the water. Eventually we ________ to the bottom of the pool.

On the third day, we took all of our ________ knowledge to the ocean! We made sure to follow each step of the process ________. Before I knew it, I was really diving.

I dived above the ocean floor as all kinds of fish swam by. I felt ________ for the opportunity to discover new depths. With my mom’s words still ________ in my ears, I knew the experience gave me a new ________ to life.

【推荐1】I was working as a lifeguard at Tower 15 on Newport and two blocks to my right was another guard named Mike, working at Tower 17. He called me over the phone and said, “Hey, I have ________ two kids who are swimming in the dangerous zone. I have to give them a warning. Keep an eye on us.” I said “Sure.” In case of __________ , anytime we got out of our tower, we were supposed to ___________ somebody else.

Mike hung up the phone and ___________ the lifebuoy(救生圈). Then he realized that these two kids had been _________and that there was a great tendency for them to be ________ by the wave. ___________, Mike rushed toward the ocean. I __________ the water and all I found was two small heads. The mother of the two kids knelt(跪) down on the beach with ___________ .

When I dropped my binoculars(望远镜) and reached the mother, Mike was in waist-deep water, __________ the two kids. I turned to the mum and said, “Hey, it’s OK. They are safe.” I saw the terror started to _________. Then she glanced back and got her first good look at Mike. A new kind of ______ washed over her face as though there was another threat to her kids’ lives. She snatch(抢) her kids without __________ .

Mike had some seemingly ______behavior, and his shaved head showed a scar(伤疤). Maybe he had no ___________ manners, but his lifesaving ability ____________ his unsatisfactory skills in PR(public relation). In the mother’s __________ , Mike was a really terrible guy. However, that couldn’t change the fact that he had just______her kids.

Mike just glanced at me and smiled. As I jogged back to my tower, I promised myself I’d never let my own ___________ prevent me from ___________ a hero when I meet one.

【推荐2】“Just the man I was looking for,” said a voice at Winston’s back.

He turned round. It was his friend Syme, who worked in the Research Department. Syme was a philologist, a specialist in Newspeak. Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now ______ in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak dictionary.

“How is the dictionary ______?” asked Winston.

“Slowly,” said Syme. “I’m on the adjectives. It’s fascinating.”

He had ______ immediately at the mention of Newspeak.

“The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,” he said. We’re getting the language into its final shape --- the shape it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we’ve finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again. You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re ______words --- scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the ______. The Eleventh Edition won’t ______ a single word that will become obsolete before the year 2050.”

His thin dark face had become animated and his eyes had grown almost dreamy.

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. It isn’t only the synonyms, there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other words? A word contains its ______in itself. Take ‘good’, for instance. If you have a word like good, what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well --- better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good’, what sense is there in having a whole string of ______useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning, or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you want something ______ still. Of course we sue those forms already, but in the final version of Newspeak there’ll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words --- in reality, only one word. Don’t you see the beauty of that, Winston?”

A sort of vapid eagerness fitted across Winston’s face. Nevertheless Syme immediately detected a certain ______ of enthusiasm.

“You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston,” he said almost sadly. “In your heart you’d prefer to ______ to Oldspeak with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year? Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to ______ the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly ______. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we’re not ______ that point. But the process will still be continuing ______ you and I are dead. Every year fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that. Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?”

【推荐3】All of us in Monte Vista Christian School know we’ll one day have graduation photos for the yearbook taken. As the time _________ , the girls start to have a _________ about what they’ll wear and where to take the photos, while the boys, _________, hardly talk about it. As for me, I _________ for my photos to be taken by the sea.

When I arrived there, I met my photographer, Annie. She asked me to make some poses and I _________ her advice. After that, I asked if she could make me look _________ by takings photo in a different way, _________ I’m less than 1.6 meters tall. To my _________ she responded, “I will make no _________ to make you look like someone you’re not. You look good in your own way.” She __________ that she wouldn’t try to edit the photos either.

I was shocked by what she said. Girls always __________ to look perfect by using different visual angles. When you go to a photo studio, photographers always try to hide your __________ by telling you to stand in a certain way. And picture editors can easily __________ your look by making you appear any you want to. __________, that’s not the case here. Seeing I was __________, Annie explained: “Everyone has his uniqueness. You need to __________your own beauty. You cannot live in a world of __________photos.”

It was the first time that I had met a photographer who doesn’t __________ photos at all. After the shoot, I saw the photos — they are __________ special and natural. But what’s even more special are Annie’s __________, which will always stay in my heart.

【推荐1】It is every kid’s worst nightmare (梦魔) and six-year-old Jaden Hayes has lived it twice. First, he ______ his dad when he was four and then last month his mom died unexpectedly, ______ him an orphan (孤儿).

Jaden is understandably heartbroken. But there’s another side to his ______. A side he first made ______ 3 weeks ago when he told his friends that he was tired of seeing some people sad all the time. And he had a plan to ______ it.

Here is how it all ______. Jaden asked his aunt to buy a bunch of little ______ and take him to downtown Savannah to give them away. He ______ people who aren’t already smiling and then turns their day around, expecting ______ in return—but a smile.

So far he has gone out on four different occasions and ______ nearly 500 smiles. Sometimes he doesn’t get exactly the ______ he was hoping for: it simply confuses some people ______ a six-year-old would give them a toy. They ______ to behave awkwardly: stepping back or giving a ______ smile. In most cases, however, he will be paid ______ in hugs. Those good reactions have worked wonders: the more people that he made smile, the more ______ came out of him.

For Jaden, he would ______ his parents with each passing day. ______ he is a little fighter; he chooses to ______ his life with a smile. Meanwhile, he puts smiles back on the face of others to lift their ______. He reminds us too, that however tough life can be, there is always some measure of joy.

【推荐2】In Washington DC, there is an entrepreneurial (创业的) teen, who owns and _________ his own bakery business. Young Michael Platt is the owner of Michael’s Desserts.

Born with a (n) _________ love for sweets, he became _________ in baking when he was nine. Since he was diagnosed with severe epilepsy (癫痫) at 10, Michael has been homeschooled by his mother. With his activities _________ by his medical condition, Michael threw himself into _________ However, this is not just a (n) _________ bakery business. It operates on a one for one donation model for every cupcake sold he _________ one to the homeless.

“I knew that I wanted to start a (n) _________, but I knew I didn’t just want to make_________ -I also wanted to ____________ people in need at the same time, “he says. His business ____________ creates new baked goods, which include ____________ cookies and cupcakes, and cupcakes are his biggest seller.

Stephanie Gerstenblith, one of his ____________, comes to buy cupcakes every day. She says that Michael’s cupcakes are not only delicious, but also have ____________her to “provide everyone with sweetness”.

____________ running his bakery, Michael hosts bake sales for the non-profit No Kid Hungry. Jessica Bomberg, a leader of fund-raising for the campaign. says. “Young heroes like Michael prove that everyone can make a difference in society.

It is Michael’s faith that everyone should take the responsibility to take care of others. “When I see people lack foods, I want to give them something.” he says. “It’s my way of telling them that they haven’t been forgotten.”