【推荐3】When I was a small child, my grandparents would take me to blackberry_________. It was usually late August when the blackberries were fully _________. Grandpa would _________ us in his old truck. Being seven or eight at the time, I always enjoyed the trip as we bounced along to our _________.

My grandparents always chose the same _________. Wild blackberry _________ stretched along the roadside as far as the eye could see in both directions. Several hours of picking berries followed.

Nana _________ me not to eat any until they had all been washed but turned a knowing blind eye while _________ some anyway. I also helped myself to the occasional unripe red berry as I had a particular _________ for anything bitter. The fully immature green berries were too much even for my taste and were just __________.

When at last we were finished, the bright scenery had __________ long shadows and the afternoon had become evening. Grandad __________ a bag half full of berries back to the truck. Juice __________ slowly onto the ground. Nana would later make blackberry pies and fill several jars with jam. When I reached the truck, my __________ hurt from too much fruit and my hands were __________ dark purple. I always enjoyed those days.

【推荐2】One day, I logged on to Facebook and realized that I was very close to having 700 online “friends”. Not bad, I thought to myself,_______of how many online pals, acquaintances and even _______ I had managed to sign up.

But I had _______ with some of them, for the usual reasons—jobs in other cities, family life, limiting social time, etc. I had fewer friends to hang out with than I’d ever had before.

So I decided to have a Facebook party at my neighborhood bar. I used Facebook to invite my _______ friends. After a week the _______ stopped coming in. I figured that about 20 people would show up. That sounded pretty good to me—twenty _______ new friends.

On the evening of the party, filled with_______ I headed to the bar and waited. And waited. And waited. _______ , one person showed up.

I _______ with my new potential friend, Paula, doing my best to ________ that I wasn’t frustrated (沮丧的) and embarrassed. We made small talk, but eventually we ________ things to say. When I watched her stride out into the night, I wasn’t sure if our friendship would ________.

After she left, I stayed and waited for someone else to show up. It was nearing midnight and my ________ were disappearing. I finally realized that no one else was coming. I ________ myself and promised that I would spend less time online. Then I took a gulp of the beer. It was delicious but ________ —seven hundred friends, and I was drinking alone.

【推荐3】In high school, I did a scientific experiment. The experiment made me _______ that science could teach us a lot. It teaches us the _______ so we know where we are from. That day, I firmly _______ to be a scientist. Ever since that day, I have studied harder _______ in all my science-related subjects. After school, I do much research on how I can become a _______ scientist in the future.

One of my _______ in becoming a scientist is Barbara McClintock, who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. At 25, she already had her PhD in botany. After that, she started her _______ as the leader in the development of maize cytogenetics (玉米细胞遗传学) and she _______ herself to that research for the rest of her life.

If I am lucky and given the _______ to achieve my ambition as a scientist, I want to be like Doctor McClintock. She ________ something that helped the other scientists ________ the things about genetics (遗传学).

I know I will be able to achieve my ________ as long as I put my heart and perseverance into it. If I achieve my goal, I will share my ________ of success with all the kids who also love science and want to become scientists. My future will be as ________ as the stars in the night sky. However, my future is still far. I will make the most of the ________ to achieve my greatest ambition of becoming a scientist.

【推荐2】Tina was a seventeen-year-old girl who always wore a bright smile. She suffered from a disease and had to use a walker most of the time. People didn’t speak to her very often. Maybe it was because she looked _______ and people didn’t know how to _______ her. Tina usually broke the ice with people she met with a big “_______”.

In one class, I gave the students an assignment (作业) to _______ a poem. I only made the assignment worth a very small part of their total grade since I knew most of my _______ wouldn’t do it anyway. In the class, one by one each student   _______ to correctly recite the poem. Finally, annoyed and half kidding, I said that the next student who   _______ recite the poem had to do three push-ups(俯卧撑). To my _______, Tina was next. She used her walker to move to the front of the class. _______ she recited, she made a mistake. Before I could say a word, she __________ her walker and started doing push-ups. I wanted to say, “Tina, I was just __________!” But she stood up, continued the poem and she finished the rest perfectly.

When she finished, a student asked, “Tina, why did you do that? It’s not an important assignment!”

“Because I want to be like you guys! To be __________.” Tina said.

Silence fell on the whole room when another student cried out, “Tina, we’re not normal! We are teenagers! We get in __________ all the time.”

“I know.” Tina said as a big smile spread across her face. The rest of the students laughed, too. Tina got only a few __________ that day, but she got the love and respect of her classmates. To __________, that was worth a lot more than a grade.