【推荐1】I was at the post office early that morning, hoping to be in and out in a short while. Yet, I_____myself standing in a queue that went all the way into the hallway. I had never seen so many people there on a weekday. It seemed someone might have made an announcement,_____customers to carry as many packages as they could and bring them in when I needed to have my own package_____. The queue moved very slowly. My patience ran out and I got_____. The longer it took, the angrier I became. When I got to the counter finally, I finished my_____quickly and briefly, and then walked past the queue that was then extending past the front door.

“Excuse me,” I said, trying not to be too pushy. Several people had to move_____to make room for me to get to the_____.

I stepped out, complaining about the_____conditions. Thinking I was going to be late for my dentist appointment, I headed into the parking lot.

A woman was coming across the parking lot in my direction. She was walking with determination, and each step sounded very heavy. I_____that she looked as if she breathed fire. It stopped me in my tracks. I______myself and it wasn’t pretty. Had I looked like that? Her body language said that she was having a______day. My anger melted away. I wished I could wrap her in a hug but I was a______. So I did what I could in a minute______she hurried past me — I smiled. In a second everything changed. She was astonished, then somewhat______. Then her face softened and her shoulders______. I saw her take a deep breath. Her pace slowed and she______back at me as we passed each other.

I continued to smile all the way to my______. Wow, it’s amazing what a simple smile can do.

From then on, I became aware of people’s______and my own, the way we show our feelings. Now I use that______every day to make me______that when facing the world, I can try a smile.

【推荐3】A policeman moved along the street. Near the door of a dark shop a man was_______. “It’s all right, officer,” he said. “I’m Bryan and waiting for a friend. Twenty years ago we agreed to_________ here tonight.”

Bryan appeared wealthy with a large_________ jewel in his necktie(领结). “Jimmy Wells and I _________together here in New York, like two_________. The next morning I was to start for the West. I was going to find a _________ and make a great success. We agreed that night that we would see each other here again in twenty years.” “I hope your friend comes all right.” the policeman said to Bryan and then_________.

About twenty-minutes he_________, and then a tall man in a long coat came across the street .He went _________ to the waiting man. “Is that you, Bryan?” he asked, uncertainly. “Is that you, Jimmy Wells?” cried Bryan at the door. The new man took Bryan’s__________ in his. “It’s Bryan!”

The two men started walking along the street, arm in arm. Bryan stopped suddenly at a shop bright with lights and __________his arm away. “You’re not Jimmy Wells,” he said.

“You’ve been under arrest for ten minutes, Bryan. Are you__________ with me quietly? That is __________. But first here is something I was asked to__________ you. You may read it here at the window. It’s from a__________ named Wells.”

Bryan opened the little piece of paper. He began to__________ as he read.

“Bryan: I was at the place__________. I saw the face of the man wanted as a(n)__________ by Chicago policemen. I didn’t want to__________ you myself. So I went and got another policeman and__________ him to do the job. JIMMY.”

【推荐1】A year ago, when my siblings（兄弟姐妹）and I left home, my parents moved to the other side of the country. They had built a beautiful house and they love their new and pleasant _______ . My dad still works, but mum _______ early last year and is now _______ and becoming increasingly unhappy and _______ . She has tried joining clubs, _______ people and integrating（融入群体）into her new community but without any luck.

She still knows no one despite her best _______ . The area they have moved to is closed and _______to strangers. She is many miles from her old friends and family, _______ all day, every day with only pets for company. She is very intelligent, artistic, loyal and funny — a truly amazing person. She has always had lovely friends and been _______ and busy. It is breaking my heart to watch her ________ loneliness and so many knock-backs （挫折）.

Recently, when I chat to her, I have noticed her low ________— she jokes that she feels as if she is ________ a bit of craziness from the quiet and ________ . After many years of working and ________ a family, she should be finally free to enjoy herself________, my siblings and I do not live nearby so we cannot visit her frequently — we all keep in contact with her by phone. My dad doesn’t understand her ________ as he is out at work all day. He is busy with his job and cannot understand how she can be so unhappy when living in such a beautiful place and without the ________ of work. He doesn’t know how he can ________ things and feels guilty and sad for how she feels. It has got so bad that they are ________ moving again to a different area. Of course, I am in favor of that.

Friendship and ________ are far more important than a fancy house.

【推荐2】The person I call my hero is my twin disabled elder sister named Tiffany. Yet as I reflect back on _________ I can undoubtedly say, “It was partly a(n) _________ journey!” People would always _________ me that they wish they had a twin, but to me I never felt that way at the time.

My sister is blind and deaf and is in a wheelchair. Growing up _________ me because I seldom had that twin experience. I was told as a _________ never to question life but at that time I was young and just didn’t _________. There were times when I couldn’t play with friends when I wanted to, and _________ missed out on potential jobs _________ having to help look after Tiffany. _________, I never felt my childhood was being swept away.

I saw my __________ deal with many health issues but still find a way to face life challenges with a __________. It wasn’t until we got older __________ I truly realized my sister was a __________. She gave me the strength to __________ my sufferings. When I was on the point of __________, I would always think of her and build up confidence to make it. In fact I did so many things not just for myself __________ for my sister as well. When I graduated from college, I asked for permission to let my sister attend the __________ because I knew if she were able to walk and talk, she would have achieved the same __________ as I have.

I __________ the moments with my sister. I just want my sister to know that she brings __________ to my life and I hope that I can bring the same thing to hers.

【推荐3】This is a true story of Mother’s Sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake. After the earthquake, the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house. They saw her dead body through the cracks. However, her _______ was strange as she knelt on her knees; her body was _______ forward, and her two hands were supported by an object. The collapsed house had _______ on her back and head.

With many difficulties, the leader of the rescue team put his hand _______ a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was _______ that this woman would be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away _______

He and the rest of the _______ left the house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reason, the team leader was _______ by a force to go back to the house for the dead woman. This time, he carefully passed his hand through the _______ cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with ________, “A child! There is a child!”

The whole team worked together. They carefully ________ the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a three-month-old boy ________ in his mother’s body ________, the woman had used her body to protect her son when the house collapsed. The little boy was still sleeping ________ when the team leader picked him up.

The medical doctor came quickly to examine the little boy ________ he opened the blanket, he saw a cellphone inside the blanket. There was a text ________ on the screen. It said, “If you ________, you must remember that I love you.” This cellphone was passed around from one hand to another among the rescuers. Everybody that read the message ________. As is known, it is mother’s ________ love that protects us from cold and hunger, but at certain ________ points, it is mother’s love that shelters us from danger and death.

【推荐2】Six weeks before his 97th birthday, Giuseppe Paternò realized the dream of a lifetime. That is, he got a university _______.

Mr. Paternò’s graduation has _______ news coverage around the world, _______ because of his age. But he has also drawn _______ because his life story _______ commitment. It’s a theme that has been _______ to what people think as millions of schoolchildren in Italy and elsewhere face extraordinary _______ during the coronavirus pandemic (新冠疫情).

Born in a very _______ family in Palermo in 1923, Mr. Paternò was the first of seven children. He began to _______ soon after finishing elementary school. It was only after he retired, in the mid-1980s, that he returned to his ________.

“His story is a ________ that dreams can come true and that you can remain ________, if not in age at least in spirit, if you develop ________,” said Rossella Cancila, his adviser and a professor of history at the University of Palermo.

Italy’s university system is based on a three-year degree, followed by a two-year master’s ________. University officials are hoping that Mr. Paternò will ________ his studies.

Mr. Paternò isn’t so ________. “I have to admit that in this moment, I don’t know whether I would ________ it with the same spirit,” Mr. Paternò said, ________ that all the attention had been a bit tiring. ________, Mr. Paternò said, he would probably register ________. “I want to keep my options open.”

【推荐3】Dad loved children. And he always wanted a_______ family. Eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. Without fail, he would show us all to visitors.

Once, Dad_______ presented the first three children in the family, Ann, Mary and Ernestine, to some visitors. Then he picked up a fourth child, and said, “And this is our_______model, complete with all the improvements. And don’t think that this is all, we are _______ the 1953 model some time next month.”

But what he_______ most was taking us out for a drive. On one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted _______ that he had seen eleven people in our car, not_______Mum and Dad._______, Dad called out over his shoulder, “You _______ the second baby up from the front here, Mister.”

Another time, Dad told us this joke, though we were not sure whether he was telling us the________. Mum, who was a psychologist, once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the ________. When Mum returned, she asked him if everything had been OK. He said everything was________ except that one of the children had been taught a lesson because he had been ________. When he pointed at the child that had been ________, Mum looked at him calmly and said, “That’s not one of ours, dear. He ________ next door.”