【推荐1】I developed a crush on a cute woman I met in a pet store. She led a very___________lifestyle and we did not have much to talk about. But somehow none of this seemed to_________. I enjoyed being with her and I felt a sparkle in her presence. And it seemed to me that she enjoyed my_________as well. When I learned her birthday was coming up, I decided to ask her out. On the threshold of calling her, I sat and looked at the phone for about half an hour. Then I dialed and hung up_________it rang. I felt like a high school boy, bouncing between_________anticipation (期待) and fear of rejection. A voice from hell kept telling me that she would not like me and that I had a lot of_________asking her out this Saturday. But I felt too enthusiastic about being with her to let the_________stop me._________I got up the nerve to ask her. She thanked me for calling and told me she was not_________on that day. I felt shot down. The__________voice that told me not to call advised me to give up before I was____________embarrassed. __________there was more inside of me that wanted to come to__________. I had feelings for this woman, and I had to express them. So I bought her a pretty birthday card on which I wrote a__________note. I walked around the corner to her pet shop. As I approached the door, that same disturbing voice       ________me, “What if she doesn’t like you? What if she__________you?” Feeling vulnerable, I stuffed the__________under my shirt. I decided that if she showed me__________of affection, I would give it to her; if she was cool to me, I would leave the card__________. This way I would not be__________and would avoid rejection or embarrassment.

【推荐2】One day, I went to my favorite café for lunch. I ______ a hamburger and went to the outdoor seats. While waiting for my meal, a homeless man on a bicycle stopped to ask if there was a grocery store nearby. After I gave him ______, seeing me wearing a SCU T-shirt, he asked if I had ______ from Santa Clara University. I told him, yes. Little did I know that this _____ response would lead to a 90-minute conversation. The man, Michael, told me he was very intelligent. ______, drug use had ruined both his formal education and his pursuit of ______ in his work. He switched from one topic to another, ______ the fact that I was ready for my lunch.

He clearly had more of a ______ to talk than I did. I made every ______ to give him my full attention, never _______ our talk would go on and on.... Eventually, I did eat my meal, bite by bite between ______ in our conversation. Michael was a bit strange. ______ his interests and viewpoints, we had little in ______, but he was fascinated with talking with, as he ______ it, “intelligent people.” I have to admit, I wish our conversation had been ______ to ten or fifteen minutes, but when Michael finally ______ off, he thanked me for listening so ______ to him as well as for my ______ to talk with him for so long. It was then that I ______ that, just maybe, that was my purpose in life for today… to be there, in that place, at that time, to ______ that conversation.

【推荐3】I wanted to be a journalist. But my parents_________that math makes money, so I went to an engineering school. In my post-university young-adult life, I've managed to become_________successful. As a female_________, I worked for a big oil company and owned a home. My life was _________ in front of me, and I didn't like what I saw.

So, I did what any respectable 24-year-old would do and left my_________behind. I said goodbye to my job and_________my suitcase. I_________myself into the world with the grace and beauty of a baby deer taking its first step with a skateboard under its feet.

My knees _________ when I was riding a mountain bike through the red rocks of Utah. I partied at a spring bath party in Budapest. I spent four days_________through Yellowstone National Park with 50 pounds on my back. I took a __________ along the Danube River with someone from the hostel.

They were just small everyday__________that happened abroad, leading me to realize that the true value of my flight tickets were not the__________but rather becoming a(n)__________participant in my own life.

I now spend less time online shopping and more time__________alone on the floor listening to an album cover-to-cover. I ask my friends how they're doing; sometimes, I__________them with flowers to see them smile. I tell everyone to have a good day.

Maybe I'll continue to be__________for the next five years and touch down in more countries.

Maybe I'll stay grounded in my home city, but the idea no longer__________me.__________with new wisdom earned in a year of travel, I know with complete__________that there's adventure hiding in any aspect of my life — as long as I'm__________enough to look for it.

【推荐1】It's my first time travelling overseas. The airports are huge and crowded, requiring my full _______ in order to navigate (导航). I'm travelling with my mother from my home in Kigali, Rwanda to Portland, US. My mother got a fellowship opportunity in the city and I'm going with her for an entire year.

Once _______ , I’ll be off to start my first day at Beaverton High School. My first class is literature. I enter the classroom and _______ discover that many of the students are also from different countries and cultures. It's interesting to get to know my fellow students and what we can teach each other about our customs, cultures, traditions and beliefs.

The teachers also _______me. I find them down-to-earth and to be truly_________in their students—dealing with     _______both in and out of the classroom. In Rwanda, I never had a _______ with any of my teachers _______ it was about classwork.

Over lunch, Pm equally surprised to be having a hamburger and milkshake with friends from Mexico, Iraq and other countries. We talk about the different foods from our countries and foreign foods we would like to_________. Then, we talk about how we __________ holidays, our traditional activities, family gatherings and different places we've visited within our countries.

Later on, I visit one of the public libraries for the first time. I'm overwhelmed by the thousands and thousands of books. I get lost walking among the aisles. And everything is so ____________. I can quickly find a book on any subject I want. When you find a good book, you seem to learn without realizing you are learning, because you become so ____________

Soon the____________changes and it's winter. I'm so excited to see snow for the first time. On the day of the first __________ , I wake up early in the morning to run outside. "So this is what it's like,“ I think to __________ as I feel the falling snowflakes on my face.

But the snow begins to lose its __________ as the cold days drag on, forcing me to wear multiple layers of clothes to keep warm. I have never experienced such __________ before.

As the year ____________ , I find myself truly lucky to be ____________ people from all over the world; to be learning to have my own voice; to be seeing a part of our big world with fresh __________ .

【推荐3】Shortly after a father-and-son fight, my twelve-year-old son, Marlon, asked me if I was up for a basketball game of one-on-one. Without _________ much, I accepted his _________ which only goes to _________ how naïve (天真的) a dad can be. The moment he _________ onto the court, I realized this was not a friendly game, but a challenge.

There comes a time when sons _________ their fathers as a symbol of _________. The test maybe _________ or intellectual, but sooner or later the young man is to defeat the old one and becomes a real man.

When playing _________, my son is all the things I’m not; quick with a deadly shot. And I know the day will come _________. Just not today.

It’s a man thing, I guess. As a father, I need to __________ my impatient son an important lesson of __________, courage, and pride. Therefore, I wouldn’t __________ on the court or wherever.

We played for quite a long time that day. I won a narrow victory and told him that he played for the wrong reasons. He __________ as if he understood. A few weeks later Marlon __________ me to a friendly round of videogame. Beat me __________. And laughed while he did it.