【推荐1】Eight years ago, I went to a wonderful school, West Catholic High School, in the United States. I was lucky enough to have an opportunity to study as a(n) ______ student from Ukraine when I was fourteen years old.

I remember my first day at that school ______ it was yesterday. I was very ______ as if there had been many butterflies in my stomach. My main ______ was that I would not be able to ______ myself due to the language barrier (障碍). I was trying to have as little ______ as I possibly could. And I almost ______,until we had to introduce ______ in front of the class.

And the moment the word “international” flew out of my ______,I was surrounded by thirty people who were asking questions one after another. It ______ to be the opposite of less communication, but it was so much fun.

During the first three months, I ______experienced a little bit of cultural shock. I think Americans are the ______ people I have ever met in my entire life. They always smile and say, “Hi, how are you？”

One day, I ______ the students looking at me with doubt. Finally, one classmate ______ to my locker (寄物柜) and whispered, “Is that true that you are a princess and that you came to study here so that nobody would ______ you？” At one point, I even had an image of myself ______ a crown and gracefully waving at the crowd. People do have a wild ______!

I think it was a ______ one­year experience! I saw a totally new world, experienced great culture, met a lot of incredible (极好的) people and ______ my language. This trip inspired me to learn foreign languages. That is one of the reasons ______ I speak five different languages today.

【推荐3】How do young people learn best? This is something I think a lot when I am teaching foreign languages to young people. I often ______ that traditional teaching ______ are hardly effective for young brains to learn a foreign language.

After moving to southern Italy, I was ______ to have had the chance to ______ a private course teaching English to children under 7. I ______ children liked singing and enjoyed games so I wanted to use these ______ to help my students ______ English conversation skills. I found some fun and easy songs online,______ they loved. I also found the English version of some nursery rhymes (童谣) they once were ______ with. All of them were very entertaining and helpful but ______ could still not have a basic ______ in English.

I wanted these guys to be ______ in the language I was teaching and I also wished them to speak it. I was eager to deliver 90 % of my lessons in English.______, I knew it would be difficult to get them to talk in a foreign language they ______ speak outside our lessons. So I had to ______ a simple yet effective plan.

One day I decided to ______ a dialogue in English and rather than simply getting students to repeat the phrases, I got them to sing and chant (唱)______. I discovered that chanting along to some conversational sentences was a practical way to get students to speak in English — it ______!

So when teaching English to young people now, I ______ them to make up their own songs and chants to help them remember ______ or complex sentences.

【推荐1】I love animals a lot. When I first came to the United States. I_________together with a local family that had a lovely dog named Charlie. One week the whole family was away for a trip, so they asked me to give Charlie a_________every day. I was so fond of Charlie that I said yes without_________. The first day they left, I went to the park nearby to walk Charlie. I kept him on the leash (牵狗绳) and_________towards the park. As soon as we arrived at the park, Charlie stopped to do a poop (大便). I waited_________until Charlie was done. Then I kept walking. Ten seconds later, I heard a (n)_________coming from behind. Turning around, I saw an old lady walking her own dog_________. She gave me a bag when she came close to me. Seeing my_________look, she explained that the bag was for the dog poop. She told me that once there's rain, the dog poop left on the ground would go everywhere, sending out a strong smell and polluting the environment in the park. Feeling a sense of_________, I walked back and put the dog poop in the bag. From that day on, whenever I walked Charlie, I would take some__________just in case he would do a poop.

【推荐2】When I was 13, my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant ________ Miller King, who was the best player at our school.

Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for ________ . Just before September, Miller was hit by a car and lost his right arm I went to see him after he came back from ________ He looked very pale, but he didn’t cry. That season, I ________ all of Miller’s records while he watched the home games from the bench. We went 10-1 and I was named most valuable player, ________ I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for (负有责任) Miller’s ________

One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller stuck going over a fence-which wasn’t ________ to climb if you had both arms. I’m sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept ________ from. But despite that challenge he accepted. I helped him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally ________ on the other side, he said to me, “You know, I didn’t tell you this during the season, but you did ________. Thank you for     ________ me.”

His words freed me from my bad ________ . I thought to myself, how even without an arm he was more of a leader. He was ________ ahead of me. I was right to have ________ him. From that day on, I grew ________ and a little more real.

【推荐3】Tim Ma's parents came to the United States from Taiwan in the 1970s. They opened a________. It was not a success. They found________in America, however, in computers and engineering. In part because of their own________, Ma's parents hoped he would study to become an engineer. They wanted________security for their child.

Growing up, Ma considered many________-writer, fireman, even president. But he had a sense early on. He didn't want to be a(n)________.

Ma did well in math and science classes in high school. And he________choosing to study electrical engineering in college. Several engineering jobs later, though, Ma had a(n)________of heart.

His________could not understand why he would want to leave such a good job to open a restaurant. They had worked long hours________their own restaurant still failed. But Ma remained________. He was going to do things differently than his parents. He was able to learn from their one major________as restaurant owners-they knew very little about the art of cooking. Their chef________and opened a Chinese restaurant across the street which really put them in a bad situation.

So, at age 30, Ma left engineering and returned to school-cooking school. He received training in________cooking. In 2009, Ma opened his first restaurant, Maple Avenue, in Virginia. The restaurant________excellent cuisine.

At Maple Avenue, Ma worked long hours, seven days a week. His long hours________. Ma opened his fourth restaurant last year, Kyirisan in Washington, D.C. He________his training in French cooking with his Chinese heritage (传承) to create________dishes.

Kyirisan's success is due to the________menu and food, Ma says. But a lot of it just comes from “pure hard________.”