【推荐1】My color television has given me nothing but a headache. I was able to______it because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday______a lot of clothes. I let a salesclerk______me into buying a______model. I realized this a day later, when I saw newspaper advertisements for the set______seventy-five dollars less than I had paid. The set worked so______when I first got it home that I would keep it on until stations______for the night. Fortunately, I didn’t get any______showing all night movies or I would never have gotten to bed.

Then I started______a problem with the set that______static (静电) noise.______,when certain shows switched into a commercial, a loud noise would sound for a few______. Gradually, this noise began to appear during a(n)______and to get rid of it, I had to interchange the channels. Sometimes this______would not work, and I had to pick up the set and shake it to______the sound. I______began to build up my arm muscles shaking my set.

When______of these methods removed the static noise, I would sit helplessly and wait for the noise to go away. At last I ended up______the set with my fist, and it stopped working altogether. My trip to the______shop cost me $62, and the set is working well now, but I keep______more trouble.

【推荐2】On a cold afternoon in January 2015, Yesenia Diosdado, 11, got off a school bus in Lenexa, Kansas, near the apartment building where she lives with her family. When the _________ pulled away, Yesenia saw police and emergency workers attending to _________ of a three-car accident that had happened at a busy crossroads nearby. Yesenia _________ a small crowd of onlookers across the street.

She noticed that a(n) _________ woman was trying to _________ with an Emergency Medical Service worker using sign language, but he couldn’t understand her. “I heard him _________ an interpreter (翻译员),” Yesenia says.

She ran over to the paramedic (护理人员) to _________— her mother, a former sign language interpreter, had _________ her and her sisters how to _________ (no one in the family is hearing-impaired).

“She said, ‘I sign. Can I help?’” says EMS captain Chris Winger. “I was __________.”

Yesenia was able to __________ to the emergency worker that the woman’s neck was injured and tell them the name of the local hospital she preferred. “She looked really __________,” says Yesenia. “I’m proud that I got to do something to help.”

When her mother, Susan Milidore, 36, heard about Yesenia’s brave actions, she wasn’t surprised. “It’s in her __________ to help,” says Susan. “I was impressed that she recognized the __________ of the situation and took charge. Most adults wouldn’t have done that.”

A few weeks later, paramedics __________ Yesenia with a gold coin and a certificate (证书) of appreciation at her elementary school.

“My mom always says that you never know when sign language might come in handy,” says Yesenia. “That day, it did.”

【推荐3】My mother's parents came from Hungary（匈牙利）. My grandfather preferred German to all the other languages he spoke, _______ Hungarian was his native language. Every morning, before going to work, he read the German language newspaper published in New York.

My grandfather was the only one in his_______ to settle down in America. He still had relatives（亲戚）living in_______. When the First World War broke out, he felt_______ that my uncle, his only son didn't go to the war field. If that had happened,_______ would have been cousin fighting against cousin._______ the early days of the war, my grandmother requested him to_______ reading the German newspaper. He agreed and finally he gave up the German newspaper.

One day, my uncle received a command to join the army. My grandparents were upset, but my mother, his sister was_______. Then she could be proud of her brother's going to the war field. When the_______ came for him to leave, his whole group left together from the same station. There was a________ playing and my mother and her friends came to________ him off.

The soldiers got on the train. Then the train slowly left the station. It had gone about one thousand meters________ it suddenly stopped. The band stopped playing, and the crowd stopped cheering. Everyone was in________ as the train slowly backed up and returned to the station. There was a dead silence________ the doors opened and the men started to come out. Someone shouted, "The war is over." For a moment,________ moved, but then the people heard someone shout________ at the soldiers. The soldiers lined up, formed into two lines,________ down the steps, and paraded（游行）through the street,________ returning heroes, to be welcomed home. My mother said it was a great day, but she was a little________ that it didn't last a little longer. The next day my uncle returned to his job________ my grandfather started again reading the German newspaper.

【推荐1】Millions of young people grow up with a deep love of Disney. ______ by the studio’s fairytales, they dream of becoming a prince or princess.

Cori Borgstadt, however, has a slightly different ______. Instead of ______ to be a princess like Snow White, she wants to become Disney’s CEO and has been ______ the company’s shareholder(股东)meetings since she was three years old.

Borgstadt, now 18, has ______ Disney for as long as she can remember. As well as collecting dolls and toys ______ her favourite films, she owns ______ in the company.

She is studying economics and film and media studies at Texas Tech University, and has ______ Bob Iger, the Disney CEO about how to eventually ______ him, at most of the meetings she has attended, Iger, now 72, replied: “Well, one thing you can do is keep coming to our shareholders’ meeting.”

The love of Disney has always been in Borgstadt’s ______. Her grandmother bought her and her younger sister a single share when they were children. It was her mother, Jan, who suggested she attend the shareholder meeting ______.

Borgstadt ______ that her dream of one day becoming the boss will not be easy to achieve, and would require a ______ similar to the ones Disney has been creating for a century. But she is ______ to work her way up, from making her ______ felt in the meetings.

【推荐3】Christy was helping Mum sort through boxes they’d found in their new home. “Look,” she held up an old photo, “It says Mabel beside Dream Lake, summer 1910.” It existed for a long time but was well ______. Christy asked if she could ______ it. Mum agreed, adding that Mabel was once the ______ of the house, but she didn’t know about the ______.

Now Christy had a puzzle to ______. Where was Dream Lake? The next morning, Christy went to the ______ library, where she looked through ______ of the town. They showed streets, businesses, but no lakes. Back home, while she was ______ out her bedroom window, a ______ feeling hit her. Christy quickly ______ Mabel’s photo and ran outside. In its ______, a steeple (尖塔) rose above a border of ______ trees. It looked much like the one now visible above the line of trees of her backyard. “Mum!” shouted Christy. “It’s the same steeple. This picture was ______ in our yard!”

Mum hurried outside to look. “Yeah, the trees have ______ grown, but it’s the same steeple. But where’s the lake?” They finally ______ the historical society. ______ no one there had ever heard of such a lake. And all the ______ proved useless.

“I don’t ______ it, ” said Christy in confusion.

That night, ______ came down and cooled the air. Early the next morning, Christy woke up and looked out of her window. “Dream Lake!” yelled Christy. “We ______ the puzzle, Mum!”