【推荐1】I have lived in Keelung for over twenty years. Before 20, I had not traveled abroad. The _____ places I had visited were scenic spots in my hometown. I was always told to come back home right away after school. My two schools were very _____; it took less than fifteen minutes to arrive at the schools from home.

_____ I was a junior-high-school student, after a final exam, a few classmates _____ me to visit Taipei. Needless to say, I was full of _____ and asked Mother for _____ to join this hike. But to my _____, my mother refused my request because she was worried about my _____. In spite of(尽管) the fact, I tried to ____ her, telling her about our destinations and my classmates’ _____ experiences of visiting Taipei, but she just said, “Unless parents _____ you, you can’t go.” I did my best to _____ her but it was all in vain. I faced a dilemma. On the one hand, I knew that Mother’s firm disagreement was because my brother was injured in an accident when he was traveling. To be a considerate son, should I _____ my desire? On the other hand, I didn’t want to _____ a valuable opportunity to grow up and to be _____. Filled with sadness and anger, I _____ a cold war with Mother. I neither talked with her nor did I go out of my room. Two days later, my mother not only _____ my classmates about the visit but also called their parents to _____ safety problem. Through a number of phone calls, finally she agreed. Before I left, _____, she once again talked about her concern. I listened carefully and patiently and gave her a thankful embrace because I knew that was the way my mother’s _____ went.

【推荐2】Two brothers, Ruby and Harry lived in Spain. They _______ for years to buy their mom a very special Christmas present this year: a BWM 3 Series.

“Showing _______ to our beautiful Mum who’s worked so hard to _______ us everything in life,” Ruby, 30, told the media. “Compared to the _______ she has made for us over the years, this is nothing.” He said the _______ had been in the works for years.

“My mother wanted a BMW ten years ago, which we never _______,” he said. “We said that one day we would get her one and we _______ a little each week knowing one day we would be able to get her _______ car.”

Ruby and his brother Harry saved for about five years _______ they bought the car. Their mother appears ________, saying “no” over and over again as the two brothers ________ her to the garage to have a look at a silver BMW.

“She was just very surprised and couldn’t ________it,” he said. “We were sure she ________ loved it.”

They gave her the car as an early Christmas gift, but also as a ________ to say thank you. It will ________ their mom’s current one.

“She ________us two brothers and worked two jobs for most of her life to ________ us in school and give us everything we ________,” Ruby said. “We watched her go from her ________ job on Friday, get changed and ________ the weekend at a restaurant.”

He added, “Maternal love is the most selfless love under the sun and we just thought it would be nice to show how grateful we are for everything and remind ourselves that thankfulness is a virtue.”

【推荐3】People in the world sometimes are affected by natural disasters．When Hurricane Harvey hit Texas，Reader’s Digest wrote about impressive rescues．The spirit of serving can be incredibly ____．Here is a story from Annalysa Longworth，a survivor of Hurricane Maria，in her own ___ ．

“The total 36 hours of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was ____ the scariest event we’ve ever gone through．Our house sits on the north-west coast of Rinc6n．In the ____ ，over 100 mph winds changed direction causing a great amount of water flooding our ___ ．The only place left dry and safe was our kitchen floor，where we were ____ to ride out the rest of the storm．It has been 50 days since the   ___ ，and we are still without power and water．During our regular afternoon showers，we are glad to ____ rainwater but are quickly reminded of the people living without roofs，and how ____ it must be for them．Our emotions are consistently in a state of ____．

Recently，our good friends told us about a video interview they were doing with Watts of Love，a solar light company．The company generously gave us a headlamp for our personal   ___ and a box with 50 headlamps to distribute throughout our town．Rincón was completely blacked out，so making a simple walk through a parking lot to our car is ___ ．We used to rush to get things done before ___   ，but now I continue daily chores in the dark．What ____ our lives most was being able to share this gift with others．We ____ the lamps house by house to the people in the mountains who needed them most，as even batteries and candles are ____there．Even though ____ have come slowly，people have been out of work and can’t afford to ____ their electric bill．I’11 always be ____ to Watts of Love for allowing us to pay it forward and be witnesses to the smiles that ____ can bring．”

【推荐2】The people you work with are driving you mad and you’d love nothing more than to_______ at them at the top of your lungs. Sure, you’d feel better, but obvious anger remains a taboo（禁忌）at the office. In some cases, it could get you fired. _______, most of you keep a tight lid on your anger.

Office life is increasingly _______ and many workers feel powerless with little control. According to a study, 83% of us have seen a colleague lose their temper at work and 63% of us have lost our temper. The worst office irritants（刺激物）are computer crashes,_______printers, lazy colleagues, inconsiderate bosses and after-hours work email.

But there might be a better solution, one that lets off steam and keeps you _______. “Enter rage rooms”, a trend for a space where you can release your anger with the help of a baseball bat or by smashing items and leaving someone else to clean up the mess. You are given _______ to get angry in a safe environment.

“People are always told not to break things, to control anger, to be well-behaved,” says Stephen Shew, co-founder Battle Sports in Canada. “But in the rage room, they can do just that and not get in trouble. They love to smash printers, as it’s the typical _______ of an office environment, and destroying one is quite _______— think printer destruction in the 1999 comedy Office Space.

The service packages typically cost between $20 and $100 for sessions lasting 10 to 45 minutes. Some clients book a longer one so that they can arrange their chosen items in a particular _______, such as building them into a pyramid.

Then is this really a(n) ________ remedy for stress? Shew says there’s a(n) ________ customer base, from people as young as 19 years old right up to those over 50. Women make up about 60% of rage room participants. “But the room is not a cure-all for your anger,” he warns, “We always tell people that were neither therapists and nor doctors. We’re not saying we’re going to control your anger. These rooms are simply a(n) ________ for dealing with stress.

Professor Brad Bushman of The Ohio State University published a study in 2002 showing Catharsis Theory—acting aggressively or viewing aggression is an effective way to clear anger away-just doesn’t work. It is like using gasoline to put out a flame, which just ________ the flame. It keeps aggressive thoughts active in memory and even   ________     them if people dwell on what made them angry. Indeed, doing nothing at all or doing something irrelevant with anger is more effective. He suggests ________ yourself, such as watching a non-violent funny movie.

【推荐3】Last year I went on holiday to Spain. But _____, after two days in Madrid, I started to get severe __pain. I was in such suffering that I went to the local hospital for a(n) __.

No sooner had I arrived than I was __to a small room, and I had not been waiting too long __a surgeon came to examine me. He didn’t speak English and I only spoke a few words of Spanish. He ___that   I   had to   remove   my   clothes   and he   gave   me   one of   those funny hospital gowns( 罩衣)which hardly __anything.

He then asked me in Spanish if I was embarrassed. “Si, unpoco (Yes, a little)”, I replied   with my face turning red. You see, not only did I feel embarrassed at __my clothes in front of a stranger but also this   __stranger was an extremely handsome man. He looked at me as though I   was out of my ___and then he quickly ___down the passage.

I was beginning to ___what had happened to him when he suddenly reappeared, this time with a group of ___students, and again asked the same question in Spanish. Now I was feeling ___, and shouted in English, “Yes, I’m extremely embarrassed. I think you would ___too if you had to talk to a crowd of strangers with almost no clothes on.” Then a female doctor in the group held my arm gently and ___in perfect English, “I think I see the problem. My ___wants to take a photograph of your back—an X-ray—so he wants to know if you are ___a baby. You see, embarazada means pregnant in Spanish.”

No sooner had she told me this than I realized the ___of the misunderstanding. We all had a __, although I must admit that I felt rather stupid as well.