【推荐2】This morning, I stopped by a local grocery store to pick up a few items. The small store was almost________and only one cashier(收银员)was working. I waited while the guy in front of me was putting all the________groceries back into his shopping cart(购物车). He was about to________when he asked if he could push the cart to his________a quarter mile away, unload it and then________ it.The cashier was new there and was not________. I said that I’d be happy to give him a________back home.

Then, we loaded his________into my car and talked on the________trip to his living place. He had just moved to the town recently, but like all of us, he was feeling the________of the high cost of living. I nodded with a sigh and helped him unload his groceries before________back home.

On my way home, I thought to myself, “The cost of living keeps going up, but at least the cost of loving doesn’t________.”That is the funny thing about loving. It almost costs us________. You might think if you spent your love________your family, your neighbors, your friends, and even the________you meet in the street, sooner or later your love would________.You might think sooner or later your________like your wallet would be empty.________, love doesn’t work like that. When we________our love, the cost doesn’t rise.________,we find that we have even more love.

【推荐3】Over the years, thanks to my life’s obstacles (障碍). I understood the meaning of faith and the strong will to survive. It was Hurricane Ike that made me fully _________ the beauty of our strength and a human’s motivation to _________.

Mom had a two-week vacation in summer. While we enjoyed our holiday in Southeast Texas, we didn’t realize the fact that Ike would cause months and likely years of “labor”. By September 7th, the “eyes of Texas” were watching Hurricane Ike more closely, making the typical mad rush for last-minute hurricane _________. Two days later, both oil and food were in _________ demand.

In the early hours of September 11th, some neighbors were planning to _________the storm in their homes, while others were making final preparations to get away. At first, we decided to stay. But that afternoon, the Houston-Galveston area would be on the more dangerous side of the storm. Mom and I packed some of our most _______ belongings in the car and headed for the East Texas town of Lufkin.

As Ike pushed farther inland, we _________ power in Lufkin. On Sunday, our next-door neighbor told us via cell phone that our house had remained well. Our hopes could not have been _________. But a few hours later, the neighbors reported that our brick chimney had gone, and it was sitting on our living room _________ a hole in the roof between two skylights (天窗).

We wouldn’t be allowed to return home until September l7th. I climbed upstairs, and looked toward the hole in the roof which showed a beautiful blue sky.

Without hesitation, I shouted, “Wow! A third skylight!”

My neighbors could not believe I was making jokes instead of crying, but __________ is always good medicine. It was with that joke that I knew, given time, everything would be okay.

【推荐1】Americans used the word “friend” in a very general way. They may call many connections friends. Americans _______ school friends, work friends, sports friends and neighborhood friends. These friendships are based _______common interests. When the shared activity _______, the friendship may disappear. Now Steve and Yaser are no longer classmates. Their friendship has changed. In some _______ friendship means a strong lifelong bond between two people. In these cultures friendships develop _______, since they are built to last. American society is one of _______ changes. Studies show that one out of five American families _______ every year because they must change their jobs. The result is that American friendship develops _______．People from the United States may _______ seem friendly. Americans often chat ________ with strangers. They exchange information about their families, hobbies and work. They may ________ warmly and say “Have a nice day” or “See you later”. Schoolmates may say, “Let’s get ________ sometime.” But American friendliness is not ________ an offer of true friendship. After an experience like Yaser’s, outsiders may consider Americans to be ________ . Learning how Americans view friendship can help non-Americans avoid(避免) misunderstanding. It can also help them make friends in the American ________.

【推荐3】Body language is quiet and secret and it is the most powerful language of all! It speaks louder than words. According to specialists, our bodies send out more _________ than we realize. In fact, nonverbal communication takes up about 50% of what we really _________. And body language is particularly _________ when we attempt to communicate across cultures. Indeed, what is called body language is so _________ a part of us that it's actually often unnoticed. And misunderstandings occur as a result of it. _________, different societies treat the distance between people differently. Northern Europeans usually do not like having _________ contact (接触) even with friends, and certainly not with _________. People from Latin American countries, _________, touch each other quite a lot. Therefore, it's possible that in _________, it may look like a Latino (拉丁美洲人) is __________ a Norwegian (挪威人) all over the room. The Latino, trying to express friendship, will keep moving closer. The Norwegian, very probably seeing this as pushiness, will keep __________—which the Latino will in return regard as __________.

Clearly, a great deal is going on when people __________. And only a part of it is in the words themselves. And when parties are from different cultures, there's a strong possibility of __________. But whatever the situation, the best __________ is to obey the golden rule: treat others as you would like to be treated.

【推荐2】When smoke was found coming out of the back of the school bus early Tuesday morning, the bus driver, Teresa Stroble, immediately knew what to do. Thanks to her ________ thinking, more than 50 students’ lives were ________

While ________ a group of 56 students to their middle school in Duncan, South Carolina, on Tuesday, Teresa Stroble noticed the heavy ________ rising from the back of her bus. She ________ pulled the bus over, evacuated(疏散)the students, and asked ________ to call 911. Firefighters arrived at the scene shortly after the fire began and quickly ________ the fire, which was so ________ that people driving by were able to feel its heat inside their cars. Parents of the children on the bus were ________ the fire, but thanks to Teresa Stroble, the news they received was all ________: not a single child had been hurt.

Since then, Teresa Stroble, who has been a bus driver for seven years ________also works as a teacher’s assistant (助教), has been ________ for her brave actions. “We are so ________ of our bus driver,” headmaster Scott Turner told local CBS News. “She was ________. She also kept the students calm. She made sure they were safe. She didn’t leave the bus ________ they all left. She is our hero today.”

【推荐3】The first time I left my mother, I was five years old. She told me I couldn’t go out to play _______ I picked up my toys. Who could put up with such _______? “I’m running away,” I announced. “Oh, dear, I’ll _______ you. But if you really want to _______, I guess I shouldn’t stop you.” Mother got my red coat from the cupboard and _______ my white gloves in a pocket. She walked me to the _______, kissed me good-bye, and _______ the door behind me. Off I went. As I _______ the house next door, my footsteps _______ . It struck me for the first time that I had no ________where I was headed, and after a moment, I turned around________ on our front steps, I began to consider my immediate ________. But as the afternoon wore on, I didn’t ________ from my place.

Mrs. Ford, our neighbor, took out her rubbish and called, “Hi, honey! How are you doing?”

“I’m ________ ,” I said, and my lips started to tremble.

“You are? Well, I won’t ________ you then,” she said, and went back inside.

As darkness fell, I decided to be ________ . I knocked on the door, and when Mother opened it, I walked past her. “I’ m giving you another ________ ,” I said, as she enveloped me in a warm hug. I ________ ran away again.

But I ________, and that’s different. When I left for college, Mother waved until my train pulled out of sight. When I got to the college, I found a ________ she had hidden among my sweaters that read, “We’re so proud of you!”