【推荐1】There’s being a good neighbor，and then there’s going the extra mile.And in one Massachusetts neighborhood，the neighbors are pulling out all the stops.

Two years ago，about a ____ after Samantha was born，Glenda and Raphael Savitz learned their daughter was ____.“She was the first deaf person my husband and I had known，”Glenda，33，told the Boston Globe.“So it’s a surprise.____ .But I think I'm someone who’s ___ :OK.What do we do? She’s a week old.We’re going to be learning sign language.There was no ____ that it was going to be important to her development and her   __ .”

But the Savitz family weren’t the only ones who learned how to sign.Over 20 residents of their neighborhood in the town of Newton are   __   learning sign language.The residents   ___ an instructor on their own and ___   gather together in a living room to learn the language.The neighbors’desire to learn to ____ with Samantha is something that the Savitz family finds extremely ____ .

“One of the most emotional   __   having her is that I really learned about how much support and how much love there is here，”Glenda said.“People are ___   so much time and energy to learn a(n) ____ language because they’re dying to ____ my little girl.I don’t have   __   for that.”

Baby Sam already has friends all over the neighborhood.Henry Marshall，a 19-year-old Harvard freshman，told the Globe that Sam ___   with her child-size basketball hoop ____ he shoots hoops on his adult-size one.While he plays，she copies his movements and ____ the words for“play”and“friend.”

“It’s a special neighborhood，”Raphael Savitz told the Globe.”It’s just a really ____place.”

【推荐2】The year I went to college was a very difficult transition(过渡期)for me． _______is probably true with many people，I got quite homesick and_________thought about going home．

Although the_________time for many students is getting_________from home，my mailbox was frequently _________．One day when I went to the mailbox，there was a postcard_________out at me．I sat down to read it，_________a note from someone back home．_________I became increasingly puzzled as_________ postcards were like this：It was a full news report about a woman named Mabel and her newborn baby．I took the card back to my room and__________about it．

Several days later I__________another postcard，this one__________news about Maybelline，Mabel’s cousin．Soon after，another card arrived and then another，__________full of news of different people．I began to __________ look forward to the next one，__________to see what this author would come up with__________．I was never__________．

Finally，the cards__________coming，right about the time I had begun to feel__________about college life．They had been such a happy distraction(调剂)that I have__________all the postcards and still bring them out to read whenever I need a lift．

【推荐3】Johnny lived with his mother and father in a small town in the mountains. One day there was an earthquake near the _______. Many houses were _______. Everyone thought that there would soon be another earthquake.

They were _______ that the second earthquake would be worse than the first. “We _______ send Johnny to a safe place,” Johnny’s mother said to her husband, “Many of our friends are sending _______ children to relatives in other towns.”

“We’ll _______ him to my brother, Peter,” Johnny’s father said. “He lives a long way away. Johnny will be _______ with him.”

He telephoned Johnny’s uncle Peter and asked him _______ he would let Johnny _______ with him.

“He is a good boy,” he said. “He won’t give you any ________.”

“________, Johnny’s uncle Peter said. ________ I’m not ________ to children. I ________ a very quiet and peaceful ________.”

“You won’t know Johnny is in the house.” His father told him.

________ Johnny, ________ was five, went to live with his uncle.

Two days ________, his mother and father ________ a telegram from Peter.

It said, “I’m returning the child. Please send the ________.”

【推荐1】There’s being a good neighbor，and then there’s going the extra mile.And in one Massachusetts neighborhood，the neighbors are pulling out all the stops.

Two years ago，about a ____ after Samantha was born，Glenda and Raphael Savitz learned their daughter was ____.“She was the first deaf person my husband and I had known，”Glenda，33，told the Boston Globe.“So it’s a surprise.____ .But I think I'm someone who’s ___ :OK.What do we do? She’s a week old.We’re going to be learning sign language.There was no ____ that it was going to be important to her development and her   __ .”

But the Savitz family weren’t the only ones who learned how to sign.Over 20 residents of their neighborhood in the town of Newton are   __   learning sign language.The residents   ___ an instructor on their own and ___   gather together in a living room to learn the language.The neighbors’desire to learn to ____ with Samantha is something that the Savitz family finds extremely ____ .

“One of the most emotional   __   having her is that I really learned about how much support and how much love there is here，”Glenda said.“People are ___   so much time and energy to learn a(n) ____ language because they’re dying to ____ my little girl.I don’t have   __   for that.”

Baby Sam already has friends all over the neighborhood.Henry Marshall，a 19-year-old Harvard freshman，told the Globe that Sam ___   with her child-size basketball hoop ____ he shoots hoops on his adult-size one.While he plays，she copies his movements and ____ the words for“play”and“friend.”

“It’s a special neighborhood，”Raphael Savitz told the Globe.”It’s just a really ____place.”