【推荐2】I used to have this destructive problem.

I would remember something ____ or stupid I did when I was younger and the memory would hurt. In fact, I don’t know if it was pain in my ____ or just physical pain, ____ it would hurt.

I would be eating dinner or taking a shower and I would feel the memory approaching suddenly. There was no way I could ____ it. All I could do was wait until the memory went away. It took me a long time to recognize I was ____ a type of grief (悲伤) and the way I was dealing with it wasn’t ____. I’d stop and clench (攥紧) my fists until the ____ of the memory passed: half fighting it, half letting it defeat (击败) me. It truly was like a person who ____ roller coasters riding a roller coaster: I would ____ it firmly while on the ride, scream, let it move quickly, and then just wish it would be over.

Then, one day I ____ there had to be something better than letting the ____ disaster of my life hurt me whenever they wanted to. I finally decided to handle the next incident ____. That next time turned out to be a cold winter morning as I ____ across the parking lot from the subway station. I could feel ____, shame and guilty start to hit me. But this time, I didn’t react in an unhealthy way. ____, I stopped walking, closed my eyes, and opened my ____ as if I was about to give someone a hug (拥抱).

【推荐3】"Dr. Papaderos, what is the meaning of life?"

The ____ laughter followed, and people stirred to go.

Papadakos held up his hand and _____ the room and stared at me, asking with his eyes if I was serious and seeing from my eyes _____ I was.

"I will answer your question."

Taking his wallet out of his hip pocket, he _____ into it and brought out a very small round _____.

And what he said _____ like this:

"When I was a small child, during the war, we were very poor and lived ___in a remote village. One day, on the road, I found the broken pieces of a mirror from a wrecked German motorcycle. "I tried to find all the pieces and put them together, but it was not_____, so I kept only the largest piece. I made it round. I began to play with it as a _____, interested by the _____ that I could reflect light into dark places where the sun would _____ shine. It became a game for me to get light into the most______ places I could find---in deep holes and dark closets.

I kept the little mirror, and, _____ I went about my growing up, I would take it out in idle moments and continue the ______ of the game. As I became a man, I _____ to understand that this was not just a child's game but a metaphor (隐喻) for what I might do _____ my life. I came to understand that I am not the light or the _____ of light. But light---truth, understanding, knowledge---is there, and it will shine in many dark places ______ I reflect it.

"I am a fragment (碎片)of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know.______, with what I have I can reflect light into the black places in the ______ of men. This is the meaning of my life."

【推荐1】Ken Jeong is more than an actor; he’s also a lifesaver. The 48-year-old person is best known for _______ crazy Spanish teacher Ben Chang on Community, an American comedy television series. Over the weekend, he proved he has got much more in common with his _______ from his Dr. Ken when he jumped into action to _______ a woman with a medical emergency.

Jeong _______ his career as a medical doctor and is now licensed（给予执照）as a physician（内科医生）in California, _______ does not practice medicine. He was _______ at the Stand Up Live club in Arizona, on _______ night when a woman in the audience _______ had a shock.

Jeong _______ the woman’s medical emergency and came down into the audience where he cleared ________ for the woman and attended to her as others ________ paramedics（护理人员）.

As he helped the ________, he received help from a member of the audience who happened to be a nurse. They ________ with the woman until an ambulance（救护车）arrived and she was ________ to the hospital. Following the incident, Jeong returned to the ________ where he was greeted with a round of applause（掌声）before he then finished his set.

Holmberg, who was in the ________ at the time, took to twitter to ________ her first experience. “A woman had a medical emergency during the ________. Ken jumped off the stage to assist. A nurse helped, too. Then on with the show! Great ________! I am thankful to have grown up in a country where people ________ each other”.

【推荐2】Jay Chou (周杰伦)was born in Taiwan on January 18, 1979. Now he is one of the most popular singers in China and famous as the king of Chinese popular music.

Jay was _________ by his mother who was a single mother and a teacher in a high school. Showing _________ in music, little Jay was taught to play the piano at the age of three. _________ he was a third-grade student in a primary school, his mother _________ to give him music lessons every day. She also took him to concert (音乐会)to _________ his taste for music. Those were beneficial to his careers later.

Jay first entered the music industry when he _________ a talent show as a pianist with his friends. Although his performance wasn’t _________, the organizer saw his music _________ and gave him a chance. He was _________ to write music for other singers. During the following years, he ____________ many songs and some of them became popular, but almost ____________ knew him.

Later, Jay got a ____________ to produce an album of his own. In 2000, he released (发行)his first ____________, to everyone’s ____________, which became an instant hit (成功). Soon he is popular throughout Asia, ____________ Taiwan.

Jay ____________ both Chinese and western music to produce his own music, which is quite different from mainstream Taiwanese music. His songs cover ____________ topics. For example, the song Dad I am Back is about family life, and the song Rice Fields ____________ environmental protection. Taipei Times once named his music Chou Style.

According to Baidu, the most popular Internet search engine in China, Jay is the number one searched singer in 2002, 2006 and 2007. And Jay was ____________ as one of the 50 most important ____________ in China in 2009.

【推荐3】Brenda Bongos was a girl with one big ambition—to play the drums in a band. But a(n)_________ lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to practice a lot, but she lived next-door to lots of _________ people in a care home. The sound of beating drums would really annoy them. Brenda was _________. She always tried to find a way of practicing her drums without bothering other people, but without success. However, _________to practice as much as she could, Brenda tried all kinds of ways.

One day, while watching a science documentary, she heard that _________ cannot travel in space without air. At that moment, Brenda bongos decided to become a _________astronaut. So Brenda built a space bubble connected with a machine, which drew out all air. Inside was a _________ of drums. Once inside, Brenda _________ the machine and played like mad!

It wasn’t long before she had become _________. Many people came to see her play in her space bubble. ____________ afterwards she started giving concerts out of the bubble. ____________ Brenda became a real musical astronaut as the government asked her to be part of a space journey, and had gone far beyond her first ____________ of playing drums in a band.

When asked how she had ____________ all this, she said, “If those old people next-door hadn’t ____________ so much to me, I wouldn’t have gone to such ____________ to find a solution, and none of this would have ever happened.”