【推荐1】I looked out of the door of my 100 year-old house and saw my newly built garden. I realized nothing is rubbish. I was full of_________and appreciation.

I_________to look at the things that we usually think of as_________—plastic bags, polluted water, rubber bands, and newspapers, clothes and furniture we_________. I also began to think, act and live according to a belief that all things have the_________of being reused as long as we try to_________it. And I explored the worth of_________. I mean recycling isn't just about_________rubbish like putting glass and paper in_________bins. It also requires creativity, commitment and even love.

My neighbors would put the autumn__________by the roadside to be picked up by the garbage truck. This didn't__________with my newfound concept of recycling trash, so I made a new__________with moving boxes and put up a__________saying, ''Dump（倾倒）leaves here". I watched carefully through the autumn as my neighbors__________the leaves in the new garden and I also watered the leaves__________with rainwater and collected dogs' waste as fertilizer, Then I__________flower seeds. Finally, I had a new__________garden, full of colorful flowers.

Nothing has to be really__________. If you try hard enough, everything can be recycled. I even used my bath water to water my garden, though it might be a little__________for my friends. But I think if we all can turn waste, sometimes a little dirty, into__________, the world will be a much better place.

【推荐3】The person left a deep impression on my childhood memory was an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t behave like other doctors I had ever familiar with. He never_________at us for playing in his yard loudly, who had a friendly and gentle_________. Whenever Dr. Gibbs wasn’t on his duty, his hobby was planting trees, and his entire life’s_________was to make a forest. The kind doctor had some interesting_________concerning planting trees.

Never did he water his new trees, which was in contrast to_________opinions. I was so confused that I asked him. He explained that watering plants would_________ them, and each young generation would grow weaker, _________shallow roots. Thus, you had to make things_________for them and their roots would penetrate deeply into soil in _________of water down.__________watering them every morning, he’d__________them with a rolled-up newspaper “Slap! Slap!” to cause the tree’s__________.

Dr. Gibbs__________a couple of years after I left hometown. The other day, I wandered by his empty house, staring at the trees that he planted when he was alive. They are big and robust. However, the trees in my garden under two years of sheltering, they turned into very weak. Whenever a cold wind blew, their branches __________. Hardships seemed to__________Doctor Gibbs’s trees in ways; comfort and ease couldn’t.

Every night before I go to bed, I__________my two sons, standing over them and watching their little bodies. I often pray for them that their lives will be__________. But lately I’ve realized that it’s time to__________my prayer, because life is full of __________, whether we want it to be or not. All the time we pray for comfort, but that’s what we seldom encounter. What we need to do is to pray for deep roots, so when the fierce winds blow, we won’t be__________away.

【推荐1】I grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it. I was born with a cleft lip (唇腭裂). My classmates often ________ me. By the age of seven, I ________ that no one outside my family could ever love me. Then I entered the second grade, Mrs. Leonard’s class. Everyone loved her. But no one ________ her more than I did for a special reason.

The time came for the yearly “________ tests” given at our school. I was ________ able to hear anything out of one ear, and was not about to tell people another problem that would make me ________. So I decided to ________.

I had learned to ________ the other children and raise my hand when they did during group testing. The “hearing test”, however, required a different kind of trick. Each child would go to the door of the classroom, ________ one ear with a hand and the teacher would speak something from her desk very ________, which the child next to her would ________. Then the same thing was done for the other ________. I had discovered before that nobody ________ to see how tightly the untested ear was being covered, so I only ________ to cover my good ear.

My turn came. I turned my bad ear to Mrs. Leonard. I ________, and then heard the words that God had surely put into her mouth; seven words that changed my life forever. Mrs. Leonard, the pretty teacher I adored, said softly, “I wish you were my little girl.”

【推荐2】I am 49 now. Reader’s Digest has been a(n) _______ part of my family since even before I was born. My father, a planter who _______ a tea estate in Sri Lanka, has _______ Reader’s Digest since the late 1950s. And then he naturally changed from a tea merchant to a writer for it.

In an era with no television or the Internet, the evenings were spent _______ the magazine. By the time I became literate, there was a cupboard full of Reader’s Digest _______ by me, which my father bought for me. With its _______, my knowledge was gathered too. At first, it was the real stories that were most _______ for me, where I learned some life lessons.

I read through them all over my school holidays. One thing I learned from Reader’s Digest is how to reverse (倒车) a car, which still benefits me today. I _______ reading a small piece of news about the tips on _______ a car up to a space in a short time, and to date, I can make it with the ________ effort and the most relaxed mind than most people.

I’ve ________ had to spend much time getting trained how to reverse a car fast. Every time I need to do it in one ________ step, I thought of the textual ________ and the vivid diagram from the Reader’s Digest. Who would have thought Reader’s Digest could be a “________”? I hope that the next generations will continue to enjoy reading and gain something ________   like me.

【推荐3】Craven, 26, had to get around the world to be at the hospital for his wife was going to give birth. He was in Afghanistan. He _______ to Kuwait and then to Philadelphia, where matters grew _______. Storms caused a cancellation so he was _______ to stay in a hotel overnight. He was scheduled to fly out the next morning.

While sitting on the plane on Thursday morning, they experienced repair issues. After about 30 minutes of remaining seated on the plane, everybody had to _______ the plane and went back inside again. After that was delay after delay.

“They just kept pushing it,” Craven said. “If they had _______ the plane from the beginning, I would have found another way home somehow.”

“Because of the bad _______, there were not rental vehicles at all from the airport,” he said. “The _______ flight didn’t work until 10:30 a.m. the next day. So I would have _______ all of it.”

_______, word of Craven’s plight (困境) started spreading among ________. His story reached Charlene Vickers who was also on a deadline. She needed to ________ Charleston by noon on Friday.

She ________ herself to Craven and said, “I’m going to drive to West Virginia tonight. So are you willing to join this ________ party of ours?” Craven didn’t even wait to get his suitcase. The group arrived at his house just past midnight. His 9-pound, 8-ounce boy, Cooper, was ________ the next morning.

“If it hadn’t been for Charlene, I never would have made it,” Craven said. “All she wanted ________ was pictures of the baby.”