【推荐2】After their business trip, John and Mary returned happily, hoping to see their lovely _______. As they drove into their home town, they noticed a lot of _______, and they went off their usual way to see what it was. They found a house _______ fire. Mary said, ＂Oh, well, it isn’t our fire, let’s go home.＂

But John _______ closer and screamed, ＂That was Fred Jones’ home. He wouldn’t come home from work yet, maybe there is something we could do.＂ ＂It has _______ to do with us,＂ Mary disagreed.

But John drove up and stopped. A woman on the lawn was _______, ＂The children! Get the children!＂ John shouted at her, ＂Tell us where the children are!＂ ＂In the _______,＂ answered the woman loudly, ＂down the hall and to the left.＂

Though Mary disagreed, John _______ into the bathroom that was full of smoke and terribly hot. He found the door and two children. As he left, he could hear some more crying. He passed the two scared children onto waiting arms and _______ how many more children were down there. They told him ________ more and Mary caught his arm and cried, ＂John! Don’t go back! It’s dangerous! That house will fall down any second.＂

But he ran into the smoke-filled hallway and at last he found both children. As he climbed up the stairs, the thought went ________ his mind that there was something strange about the little bodies next to ________ , and at last when they came out into the ________ and fresh air, he found that he had just ________ his own children.

The baby-sitter(保姆) working for John and Mary had left their children at Fred Jones’ home ________ she was doing some shopping.

【推荐3】The Sweetest Sight

I was in the most beautiful city in the world, yet I only wanted home.

It was an amazing week for my husband and me - the trip of a lifetime. Months ago, when my husband told me that he would have a meeting in London. I told him about my ________ to go to Europe together with him. Then we asked his mother to ________ our two children and started off.       

In Europe, ________ visited London and Paris - as much as we could, Big Ben, the Louvre and so on. All these were nice ________ we looked forward to seeing before. We really had lots of fun.

On our last night in Paris, after we enjoyed the night view of the Eiffel Tower, my husband called home. His mother ________ the phone. In a second, my husband’s face fell and he looked so worried. I could feel something ________ happened.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

He didn’t answer and went on to listen. A few minutes later, he said ________ to me that Tony, our seven-year-old son, had fallen off his bike and broken his leg. He would have to stay in bed for a few days.

At that moment, Paris suddenly ________ its charm（魅力）.

“I don’t want to be here! I shouldn’t be here! I should be home ________ my kids!”

We hurried back to our hotel and then to the airport…

Finally, we got home. We rushed into our children’s bedroom. Seeing our two children, suddenly I realized the truth: There is no ________ sight in the world than your children’s faces that greet you at home.

【推荐1】A girl complained (抱怨) to her father about her bad life. She felt tired. She didn’t know what to do and wanted to _________.

Her father took her _________ the kitchen. Then he poured water into three pans and boiled (煮) it. After boiling, in the first pan, he put some carrots, in the _________, he put some eggs and in the last, he put some coffee. He just _________ for a few minutes without any words.

The girl was surprised. She didn’t know _________ her father was doing that. After about 20 minutes, her father turned _________ the stove (炉子), took out the carrots and put them in a bowl. He took out the eggs and put _________ in another bowl. After that, the _________ was poured into a cup. Finally, he asked, “What do you _________?” “Carrots, eggs and coffee,” she answered.

Then her father told her to __________ the carrots. She did it and felt that the carrots were soft (软的). After that, he asked her to take the eggs and __________ them. She got the boiled eggs and found it hard to do that. At last the father asked her to smell the coffee. “What’s the meaning, Dad?” the girl asked. Then he explained that each thing had the __________ unlucky experience—the boiled water, but a different __________. The strong and hard carrots became soft in the boiling water.

The eggs became hard __________ being cooked. The coffee was very special because it changed the water. “Who are you?” asked her father. “When __________ unlucky knocks at your door, what’s your reaction (反应)? Are you carrots, eggs or coffee?”

【推荐2】At the age of 16, Einstein failed in several exams because he often played with some bad kids. One weekend morning, Einstein carried a fishing net and prepared to go fishing with those kids, his father stopped him and said to him calmly, “Einstein, you were spending too much time____________, so you failed in the exams. I'm____________about your future with your mother.”

“What are you worrying about? Jack and Robert also failed, but they went fishing as usual.” “My boy, you can't think so,” Looking at Einstein, his father said lovingly, “There is a____________in our hometown. I hope you can listen to it carefully.”

There were two cats playing on the roof.____________, they fell into the chimney(烟囱). When they climbed out of the chimney, one cat's face was dirty____________the other's face was clean. Seeing the dirty-faced cat, the clean-faced one thought its own face was also dirty, so it quickly ran to the riverside and washed its face. The dirty-faced cat saw the clean-faced one, thinking its own face was clean as well, so it walked happily in the street.”

“Einstein,___________can be your mirror(镜子). Only you are your own mirror. Some of the kids are not strict with themselves. If you take them to be your mirror, even a____________person may become stupid.” Hearing this, Einstein's face turned red. He put down his fishing net and returned to his   small room.

After that, Einstein often took himself as a mirror to be strict with himself and kept telling himself.

“I am special, so I needn't be as common as others.” This was why Einstein__________in his career. 1,000 people have 1, 000 kinds of wishes in life. Different wishes will produce different ideas about life. You can learn from other people, but you can___________follow others completely.

You must see yourself clearly, and know what you want to get. You future doesn’t____________how others act, but on what you are going to act.

【推荐3】Paul was a rich young man. When his father died, he left it Paul a beautiful forest manor ( 庄园). Unfortunately,_________ Paul could sell it fora lot of money, a big fire broke it._________ the beautiful green trees turn into waste suddenly, Paul felt his heart was broken.

After a period of time, Paul tried to borrow money_________ a bank to bring back the forest manor's beauty. But the bank_______ him, for the bank didn't believe he could pay it back. Then he felt so _______ that he didn't want to eat and drink anything. His wife was worried about him and advised him to take a walk outside.

Paul went out for a walk. When _______ turned the first corner, there was a store with a huge crowd. “It could be holiday discounts( 优惠),”he thought. Finally, it_________ that people were waiting to buy charcoal( 木炭) used for winter heating. Then an idea came to Paul and his eyes were bright suddenly. He ran home and planned to make the forest's burnt_________ into charcoal.

As soon as his charcoal went to the market, it sold out_________. Soon, he sold more than 1,000 boxes of charcoal. In the spring of the following year, the money was used to__________ a large number of small trees. After a few years, the forest manor that everyone thought had disappeared came to life again.