【推荐3】I've been farming sheep on a hillside for 54 years. I use a small tractor   (拖拉车) to get about. My dog Don always sits beside me in the passenger seat.

One morning I _________ a lost lamb when I was in the top field, near where a motorway (高速路) cuts through my land. The lamb had become separated from its _________ , so I jumped out of the tractor to _________ it while Don stayed in his seat.

Lamb and mother _________, I turned back to the tractor only to see it move suddenly away from me. This was so _________ because I had put the handbrake on when I jumped out. _________ Don had somehow made the _________ move.

My heart _________ in my chest as I saw the tractor heading towards the _________. I ran desperately but failed to __________. It crashed through a wooden fence and disappeared. The __________ thing I saw was Don's face, looking calmly back at me.

Heart in mouth, I __________ the fence and looked over. The tractor was __________ against the crash barrier in the central reservation, having miraculously (奇迹般地) crossed the __________ road with fast-flowing traffic. I couldn't see Don, but as I __________ the tractor he jumped out onto the road, apparently __________, and dashed back to me.

The police __________ and the motorway ran normally again. I couldn't quite believe my __________ -it turned out no one got badly hurt, but the outcome could have been __________. Don was given a special __________ that night--I didn't want him thinking I was angry with him.

【推荐1】My son has been in hospital again, this time with an emergency admission. He was_________in an ambulance from our local health centre to the children’s hospital.

In this country, all ambulances are_________and manned by firemen and it was no_________this time. While one fireman drove, the other was in the_________with me and my son. He started_________my son as soon as he was carried in, _________him whether he’d prefer English or Portuguese.

When my son_________either of them, the fireman requested speaking English so that my son could_________it with him. Of course, that gave him plenty of _________to draw my son’s attention to offering “tuition (学费)”-It was just a joke. The__________of them chatted for the full hour. __________, he had been assigned the task of keeping my boy__________. He did so skillfully that our son didn’t__________that I was tearing along with lights flashing.

Actually, the back of an ambulance is a__________place for me, and then I got sick and had to__________the window a little. It was cold, so this absolutely wonderful guy took his own jacket off and__________it around our son’s head and neck.

These excellent guy__________with us during check-in procedure, and finally__________when I made sure that my husband was on his way in the car.

I can’t be __________enough to the firemen. They’re our firemen, and they are all__________, of course.

【推荐3】Helen Keller was born in America in June, 1880. _____ was all right when she was born. _____ when she was nineteen months old，an attack of fever _____ her blind and deaf for the rest of her life. She became blind so _____ that as she grew older, she did not _____ being able to see; and she became deaf _____ she had any idea of the importance of human speech.She lived in darkness and silence.

As she grew older, she, too, wanted to express her ideas and feelings. But she understood that she was _____ from others.

Her parents greatly worried. How could anyone get in touch with Helen’s mind, intelligence in darkness and silence without _____? Helen was _____ seven before a teacher was ______. Her name was Sullivan.

Miss Sullivan had a lot of ______ in teaching Helen Keller. As the child could neither see nor hear, she had to use manual alphabet (手语). But Helen’s energy, intelligence and strong spirit ______ all the difficulties. As Helen grew up, she became an able student, passed examinations and finally took a university degree ______ English literature. She then ______ all herself to helping the blind and the deaf. She ______ many books and The Story of My Life is a remarkable (不寻常的) one.