【推荐1】I grew up in a military family. When my parents retired from the army after eighteen years of _______, I had to study with those twelve- year-olds who shared no_______ life experience with me.

Most of my new classmates had grown up together and they had no room to_______ for a newcomer. I wore different clothes and spoke with a different accent. I had little_______ of making friends. I_______ for the first few weeks in my new school.

To deal with it all, I began_______ in my diary every day. I wrote as if my life depended on it. I could not stand the loneliness_______ I wrote it down in my diary.

One day, my teacher, Mrs. Bush, asked why I always sat there writing. I lied that I_______ writing to playing. One week later, Mrs. Bush gave us a writing assignment (任务). I was_______that I could now participate in something I knew I was good at. So I worked on the essay__________ and handed it. I thought it was the best chance for me to be__________ by the class.

The next day, Mrs. Bush called me up to the__________ of the classroom. I stood before my classmates and I got__________. Was I in trouble? Did I do something wrong?

Then Mrs. Bush told the class how much she__________ all the work that went into the essays and everyone had done a great job. But, she said, one student__________ as an excellent writer. That student was me!

The class clapped their hands wildly and Mrs. Bush handed me my paper, with the following__________on it,“You are a very excellent writer. You__________ your essay with your true feeling and creativity. Please keep on writing and share your__________ of writing with the class.”

Mrs. Bush helped me feel a sense of__________and a way to go through the hard transition (过渡) in my life. She helped me gain__________ in myself that stayed with me beyond my school life.

【推荐3】It was a Saturday evening in March, just before sundown. I was out walking with my wife, Melissa, and our golden retriever (猎犬), Kira, beside a lake when the _________ was broken by a woman’s voice, calling out two names over and over.

We _________ her, almost immediately, three or four hundred feet away across the _________. Spring had come, but the layer of ice on the water had just started to _________. Two big red Labradors (拉布拉多犬) were walking out across it. As we watched, the ice _________ beneath one dog and then the other, plunging (使...下落) them into the water.       

We arrived at the _________ a few minutes later, but the dogs were already showing the _________ of the cold as they struggled weakly to _________. We realized that calling 911 would be _________ — neither of them would stay afloat long enough for the __________ services to arrive.

Besides, I’m convinced I was __________ to carry out the rescue myself. And I wasn’t __________ —Kira swam alongside me. Having __________ a path, we were able to lead it quickly back to the __________.

The second dog was further out and I had to __________ before I went back in. There was more ice to __________ this time. As we approached, I __________ eye contact with the dog. With Kira’s encouragement, it __________ us back. Back on shore the dogs looked tired but were __________ OK. The owner was emotional and __________, “I’m the luckiest woman alive!”

【推荐1】It is getting hot. It’s time to put on _______ clothes and open up the windows.

Yesterday brought a(n) _______ visit to the kitchen during the brief time we were out. Two daring sparrows had _______ into a dangerous land — our kitchen.

When you come across such sudden callers, you are _______ to sense it as an action of intruding (入侵) into your comfort zone, or you might _______ it as a lovely shining moment of life. We decide on the_______, with no hesitation. After all, we’ve never stopped feeling urgent to strengthen the relationship with our sparrows more and more each day.

We can’t stop _______ and celebrating their dance from our window. We fed them with the leftovers on our tablecloth after every meal. And we have_______ them with every kind of bases and stands on our terrace (露台).

_______, they feel at ease in our backyard. And that has led them to ________courage to get into our house. Perhaps because they have the feeling that we don’t consider them________ , but friendly neighbors, who only leave some wastes from time to time.

The presence of our dear sparrow holds magical consistency with real life. And we’ve been having lovely sparrows ________ lately, whose presence ________ us out of our dull daily routines and shows us the hidden beauty and charm.

Like different human beings, these sparrows often take on different ________. We’ve met sparrows like those, of all shapes and colors. And they’re everywhere. Perhaps all of them are willing to call our attention, making us know they are there. They only ask from us not to be afraid of them or feel uneasy to their ________.

【推荐2】As 17-year-old Toiri’ell Norwood drove through St. Petersburg, Florida, last February, the laughter from the four teenage girls inside her car quickly gave way to ________. To avoid a truck, their car ________ into a tree.

As smoke rose from the car, a bystander shouted, “It’s about to ________! Get out!” But Norwood’s driver’s side door was jammed shut by the strong impact. She ________ out through the window, along with two of her friends, who’d also ________ to free themselves, and ran for her life.

________, halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, Simmons, wasn’t with them. Norwood ran back and found Simmons ________ in the back seat. “She wasn’t moving,” Norwood told Inside Edition. She threw open the back door and pulled her friend out, ________ avoiding the broken glass. She dragged Simmons a few feet to safety and laid her on the ground. “I checked her pulse.” Nothing. “I put my head ________ her chest.” No sign of life. “That’s when I ________ CPR.”

Norwood, who wants to pursue a ________ in medicine, had earned her CPR certificate just the day before. Kneeling on the lawn and looking down at her dying friend, Norwood knew she had ________ little time to practice what she’d learned.

She started pumping Simmons’s ________ with her interlocked fingers and breathing into her friend’s mouth in hopes of filling her lungs with the kiss of ________. And then, Simmons began ________ and gasping for air. The CPR had worked!

Had the accident happened a few weeks earlier, she might not have saved the life of her best friend.

【推荐3】Every year, the fifth graders at Brookstone Elementary School went on a field trip to Washington, D.C. Terence ________ the exciting trip, and was dying to go the next year.

Terence asked his parents ________ if they would pay for half of the trip if he earned the other half of the money himself. His parents agreed. He had almost a year to earn $150. His first ________ was to earn money by babysitting, and he typed a nice letter saying that “he would babysit during his neighbours’ ________ ”. He named a few afternoons available and said he would ________ $1 per hour per child. After five babysitting ________ , he earned $45.

When the ________ weather arrived, Terence knocked on his neighbours’ doors to ask if they needed help with yard work. He helped with mowing and weeding gardens. After the summer was over，he earned $75. When the fall arrived，he counted his money and ________ that he still needed $30 for his trip. Soon his mom saw a(n) ________ for a job for him. He got a job ________ newspapers every Wednesday afternoon, making 5 cents for every paper, $10 in total each Wednesday. It wasn’t long before he had ________ money to go on the trip to Washington, D.C. He was ________ in time. The class trip was on October 15. His mom and dad gave him a check for the $150 they ________ him. What a great feeling! He helped ________ the cost of his trip.

This experience ________ Terence in many ways, making his dream a reality with great efforts.