【推荐2】When I was little, I showed great interest in the TV show Bob the Builder. I was _________ by how Bob helped people by designing and constructing everything they needed. It was all I would _________.

However, as I got a little older and understood the show more, I _________ that Bob wasn’t actually that good at fixing things, _________ Wendy, Bob’s co-worker, was always the one to fix his _________. Bob would be nothing without her wisdom and talents. I sensed an _________: Why was Bob getting all the credit? Why didn’t Wendy have her own _________? I really admired Wendy and decided I would _________ anything it took to be like her when I grew up.

Now, I’m a senior in high school taking three science _________, including engineering. Not much has ____________— I still have a strong desire to be like Wendy. The best part of Wendy’s ____________ is that she meets and talks to the people she is working for. She builds ____________ and produces a positive effect on the lives of those she is helping. My interest in ____________ others led to my decision to study engineering, which ____________ my love of math and science with my love of helping and working with others.

Recently, I was talking to my parents about my childhood and they ____________ Bob the Builder. I thought that I should give Bob a ____________ chance to win back my heart, so I watched an episode（集）. I admit Bob might be a little ____________ than I remembered, but I stand by my opinion that Wendy ____________ significantly more credit. I will always think of her as the ____________ of Bob the Builder. She has made me feel more than ____________ to be a female on a construction site of males.

【推荐3】My mother often asked me what the most important part of the body is. When I was young, I thought_______was very important, so I said, “My ears, Mommy.” She said, “No. Think about it and I will_______you again.”

Several years passed before she asked me again. After carefully thinking, I thought I got the　_______answer. So this time I told her, “Mommy, seeing is very important, so it must be our_______”.She looked at me and told me, “You are learning fast, but the answer is not correct_______.” Wrong again! Mother asked me a few more times and_______her answer was, “No. But you are getting cleverer every year.”

Then last year, my grandpa_______. Everybody was sad and crying. My Mom looked at me when it was our turn to say our last goodbye to grandpa. She asked me, “Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear?” I was surprised when she asked me this now. I always thought this was a　_______between her and me. She saw the confusion (迷惑) on my face and told me, “This　_______is very important. For each answer you gave me in the past, I have told you that it was wrong and I have given you an example why.” She looked down at me as only a mother could. I saw her eyes filled with tears. She said, “My dear, the most important part is your__________　.”

I asked, “Is it because it can__________　my head?” She replied, “No, it is because it__________hold the head of a friend or a loved one　__________they cry. Everybody needs a shoulder肩膀 to cry__________　sometimes in life. I only　__________that you have enough love and friends so that you will always have a shoulder to cry on when you need it.”

【推荐1】I was born with a misshapen(畸形的) lip, and when I started to go to school, my classmates—who were constantly teasing—made it clear to me how strange I look. Then I entered second grade, Mrs. Leonard’s class. Everyone adored her. But no one _______ her more than I did. And for a(n) _______ reason.

The time came for the annual “hearing tests” given at our school. I was barely able to   _______ anything out of one ear, and was not about to _______   yet another problem that would single me out as _______ . So I cheated.

Each child would go to the door of the _______ turn sideways, close one ear with a finger, and the teacher would _______ something from her desk, which the child would _______ . I had discovered in the kindergarten nobody checked to see how tightly the untested ear was being _______, so I merely pretended to block mine.

________ , I was last, but all through the ________ I wondered what Mrs. Leonard might whisper to me. My ________ came. I turned my bad ear to her, cover the other solidly with my ________ , then gently backed my finger out enough to be able to hear. I waited, and then came the words, seven words that ________     my life forever. Mrs. Leonard said ________, “I wish you were my little girl.”

【推荐3】One day, a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin. The professor _________ the question papers, with the text facing down as usual. _________ all the students got the papers, he asked them to _________ the page and begin. To everyone’s surprise, there were no _________, just a black dot (点) in the center of the page. The professor, seeing the expression on everyone’s face, told them the following:

“I want you to write what you _________ there.”

The students, _________, got started on the inexplicable (令人费解的) task.

At the end of the class, the professor _________ all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of all the students. All of them, with no exception, _________ the black dot, trying to explain its position in the middle of the sheet, etc. After all had been read, the classroom was silent, and the professor began to explain:

“I’m not going to grade this. I just wanted to give you something to _________. No one wrote about the __________ part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot, and the same happens in our __________. We have a white paper to observe and __________, but we always focus on the dark spots. Our life is a __________ given to us with love and care and we always have __________ to celebrate: nature renewing itself every day, our friends around us, the job that __________ our livelihood and the miracles we see every day.

__________, we insist on focusing only on the dark spots: the health issues that bother us, the lack of money, the __________ relationship with coworkers, the __________ with a friend, and etc.

The dark spots are very __________ compared to everything we have in our lives, but they are the ones that pollute our minds. Take your eyes __________ the black spots in your life.”

【推荐3】A Special Christmas Gift

Even though it was only October, my students were already talking about Christmas plans. With each passing day everyone became more _______waiting for the final school bell. Upon its ringing everyone would run for their coats and go home, everyone except David. David was a small boy in ragged clothes. I had often _______what kind of home life David had, and what kind of mother could send her son to school dressed so_______for the cold winter months, without a coat, boots, or gloves. But something made David _______. I can still remember he was always wearing a smile and willing to help. He always_______after school to straighten chairs and mop the floor. We never talked much. He would just smile and ask what else he could do, then thank me for letting him stay and slowly _______home.

Weeks passed and the_______over the coming Christmas gradually _______restlessness (不安) until the last day of school before the holiday break. I smiled in_______as the last of them hurried out of the door.________I saw David quietly standing by my desk.

“I have a gift for you.” he said and pulled from behind his back a small box.________it to me, he said “Open it.” I took the box from him, thanked him and slowly unwrapped it. But I saw nothing. I looked at David’s smiling face, saying, “The box is nice, David, but it’s ________ .”

“Oh no it isn’t,” said David, “It’s full of love. My mum told me before she died that love was something you couldn’t see or touch________you know it’s there.”

Tears filled my eyes as I looked at the proud dirty face that I had________ given attention to. After that Christmas, David and I became good friends and I never forgot the meaning________the little empty box set on my desk.