【推荐1】My friend Michelle is blind, but you'd never know it. She makes such good use of her other 4_______,including her “sixth sense”, that she rarely gives the impression she's _______ anything.

Michelle looks after her children pretty much like the rest of us, _______ that she doesn't push too hard on them,_______really benefit a lot from her relaxed attitude.She knows when to clean the house; she moves around so fast that often _______ don't realize she's blind.

I _______this the first time after my six­year­old daughter, Kayla, went to play there.When Kayla came home, she was very _______ about her day.She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects.But she was _______ excited about her finger­painting project.

“Mom, guess what？”said Kayla, all smiles “I learned how to _______ colors today! Blue and red make purple,and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle ________ with us.”

To my great ________,my child had learnt about color from a blind friend!

Then Kayla continued, “Michelle told me my ________ showed joy, pride and a sense of accomplishment. She really ________ what I was doing！”Kayla said she had never felt how good finger paints felt ________ Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.

I realized Kayla didn't know that Michelle was blind.It had just never ________ in conversation.

When I told her, she was ________ for a moment. At first, she didn't believe me. “But Mommy, Michelle knew exactly what was in my picture！”Kayla ________ . And I knew my child was ________ because Michelle had listened to Kayla describe her artwork.Michelle had also heard Kayla's ________ in her work.

We were silent for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Michelle really did see my picture. She just used my __________”

Indeed, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.

【推荐2】With great beauty comes great pain. Lauren Lovette is one of the New York City Ballet’s lead dancers. And her ______ are killing her. She has injured them many times. She had an operation to ____ a bone abnormality. ______, even with daily ankle exercises, ice baths and soft creams, the 25-year-old still hasn’t made ______ with her feet.

Lovette ______ this struggle with many dancers. Their feet are seriously ______. They may ____, jump, leap and turn around like any NBA basketball star, but they do it without any foot-comfort features ______ shock absorption (减震). Most athletes get to wear shoes that are ____ of their feet, but not dancers.

Dancers ______ around the stage barefoot, in heels or in thin slippers (软鞋). Or, if they’re ballet dancers, they wear tight-fitting pointe shoes (芭蕾舞鞋). Pointe shoes may look ______, but there’s a seriousness to their purpose: helping the dancer do what no human is ______ to do.

“Generally, dancers are just as ______ as football players, ______ not stronger,” says Lisa M. Schoene, a Chicago ______. She’s also an athletic trainer who treats dancers and Olympians. Ballet dancers must ______ all of their weight on the tiniest tips of their toes, known as dancing “en pointe” (足尖舞). “______ on pointe is one of the most athletic things you can do,” Schoene says, “The feet are holding 10 to 12 times of the body weight, going up and down on that pointe shoe.”

____ a ballet dancer treats her feet is important. And it’s true for any of us. Our footwear is an essential tool no matter what we do. “Some shoes, ______ too often, can cause more pressure than pointe shoes,” the doctor ______. Wearing long lip-flops (人字拖鞋), high heels and what few dancers would ever wear outside the studio---ballet flats, does more harm than good.

【推荐3】Did The Earth Move For You?

Eleven-year-old Angela suffered from a disease involving her nervous system. She was unable to________and her movement was restricted in other ways as well. The doctors did not hold out much _______of her ever recovering from this illness. They ________she‟d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. They said that ______, if any, were able to come back to normal after catching this disease. But the little girl was brave and confident. There, lying in her hospital bed, she would ______to anyone who‟d listen that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.

She was then sent to a specialized rehabilitation hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. Whatever therapies(治疗方法) could be ________to her case were used. Things didn‟t work as the therapists expected. Still they were charmed by her _________spirit. They taught her about ____________—   about   seeing   herself   walking.   If   it   would   do   nothing   else,   it   would ______give her hope and something _______to do in the long waking hours in her bed. Angela would work as hard as possible in physical therapy, in whirlpools and in exercise sessions. And she worked just as hard lying there ______doing her imaging, visualizing herself moving, moving, moving!

One day, as she was twisting with all her _____to imagine her legs moving again, it seemed as though a _____thing happened: The bed moved! It began to move around the room! She _________out, “Look what I‟m doing! Look! Look! I _________it! I moved!”

Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming, too, and running   for ______. People   were   screaming,   equipment   was _______and   glass   was breaking. You see, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake. But don‟t tell that to Angela. She‟s _________that she did   it. And now only a   few years   later, she‟s back   in school.

______her own two legs. No crutches(拐杖), no wheelchair. You see, anyone who can shake the earth between San Francisco and Oakland can conquer a little disease. You never know what‟s around the corner until you take a _________step.

【推荐1】_______ to us all, Martin Luther King was the black leader in America, who devoted his life to the racial equality, and died for his beliefs. The following is a(n) _______ from his famous speech delivered in the large audience of American people. The speech is called “I have a dream”.

I say to you today, my friend, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I will have a dream. It is a dream deeply _______ in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this _______ will rise up and live out the true meaning of its belief that “all men are _______ equal”.

I have a dream that the sons of _______ slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of _______. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis(绿洲) of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation _______ they will not be judged by the color of their skin _______ by the content of their character.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. This is our hope and faith. __________ this faith, we will work together, pray together, struggle together, go to jail together, stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

【推荐2】At the doctor’s office, first I log onto a computer to announce my presence. Then I wait until a robotic nurse _______ me into the examination room. Soon, in steps the doctor, who also is a robot. He records my _______, does a few calculations and then _______ out a prescription（药方）. Having swiped（刷）the credit card at a machine on the way out, I return home without having come across another human being. This scene is my horrible _______ of the future, which hasn’t come to pass- _______ not yet now.

I really do like many aspects of _______. I have no desire to write my columns on a hand-operated typewriter or wash my dresses in the stream. I’m a big _______ of air conditioners in summer and heat in winter. But I don’t want machines to _______. When I call my dentist’s office and on the line actually get a human being, I am _______. When I call the airport and get the lady-computer who ________ asking me to report myself, I want to scream. When I see the slow occupation of self-service check-out stations at the supermarket, I feel like shouting, “When it ________ cashiers（出纳员）, make mine humans, please!”

After all, a human cashier might ________ that a bag of flour is leaking and get you a replacement. Real-life cashiers may have a ________ word for an elderly person struggling to get that last penny out of her purse. Even more than that, they often take an interest in particularly cute children, which can ________ a young mother’s day. I don’t want to go back to the Stone Age, but I’m also ________ about a completely computerized world, where face-to-face communication is ________ by swiping credit cards and feeding numbers. Self-service check-out stations and computerized voices can be efficient and they often get the job done just fine. But they lack a(n)________ so vital to everyday life. It is something that urges us to ________ others a smile, a hug or a prayer, which may be ________ what they need at that moment. Call it the spirit, the soul or the heart. It is something that no ________ will ever have.

【推荐3】What will man be like in the future? How about in 5,000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make a________, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from________he is today, for man is slowly________all the time.

Let us take an example. Man, even 500 years ago, was________than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. 500 years is a relatively short period of________, so we may guess that man will________to grow taller.

Again, in modern world we use our________a great deal. Even so, we still________only about 20% of the brain’ s capacity (容量).As time________, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more --and finally we shall need even larger ones! This is likely to________a physical change, too. The head,________, the forehead, will grow larger.

Nowadays our eyes are in________use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become weaker and we have to wear________. But over a very long period of time it is likely that man’s eyes will grow stronger.

On the other hand, we________to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time,________our fingers will grow more sensitive (敏感的) because they are used a great deal in modern life.

But what about hair? This will probably________from the body altogether in course of time because it does not________a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald(无发或少发的).

Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very________creature to look at! All the same, in spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in________with us. He will still be a human being, with________and emotions similar to our own.