【推荐1】When I was about 12 years old, I really wanted a new bike! I told my parents my birthday wish, but I knew there was little hope because my family was not ______.

On my birthday, my parents told me they put my ______ outside in the backyard. At once I rushed out to the yard. There was my bike, but it wasn’t the bike that I thought it would be. This one was pink, ______ and worn(磨损的) with age. It was so disappointing! I thought I hurt my parents’ feelings ______ I was sure they could see the disappointment on my face. I ______ the old bike and rode it, feeling ______ that I had made my parents feel this way. So I put on a smile, rode as ______ as I could and didn’t look back.

As time went by, I began to understand that my parents ______ me much more than just an old bike. They taught me a life ______ about love. When you give something out of love, it doesn’t matter what it is. What matters is the love that is in it. Giving a gift is not about money. It’s about ______ love you can feel from it. Remember this: a gift that costs $2 isn’t any less valuable than one that costs $100.

【推荐2】It’s Sunday today. David and Jenny _________ to   buy   a   birthday present. It’s _________ mother’s birthday.

“What does she _________?” David asks Jenny. “I don’t know.” Jenny says, “We bought (买) _________ some chocolates last time.”

“Yes, ” David says, “and we ate (吃) them! We mustn’t do that _________. ” “Let’s buy her a book. She likes _________. ” Jenny says.

“What kind of books _________ she like?” David asks.

“I don’t know.” Jenny says, “Let’s go _________ ask her.”

The children go into the _________ room. Mrs. Wilson is watching TV.

“We want to buy a book __________ you, Mom.”Jenny says. “What book do you want?” “How much money do you have?” Their mother asks __________.

“We have twenty-five yuan.” David __________.

“Good. That’s enough (足够的) for the book I want. It is Quick and Easy Cooking. ”

The children buy their mother __________ book for her birthday. They __________ her present this time, but they often eat the food she cooks __________ it. They are very happy.

【推荐3】“Never give up!” It is my law(法则) of life. It has brought me _________. I learned the law from my father’s _________ story.

My father was _________ in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, China. When he was a young boy, he went to school in the morning, and then _________ in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework _________ midnight. Life was hard, because they had no _________!

At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States of America. It was the land of gold, the land where _________ people can become rich.

“_________ don’t I go to America?” he thought to himself, full of hope.

So, my father came to America. “I had thought it was easy to _________ money in America,” he told me. “But when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire(雇用) me because I spoke __________ English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, __________ the dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was __________ for the first few years. I worked from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn’t __________ the tuition(学费).”

My father __________ working hard, and reached his goal.

“Alan,” he often says to me, “if you want something, you have to work for it and never give up.

Things do not come __________ in life.” That is what I learned from my father.

How are you? I just had a wonderful week in St. Petersburg with my parents. It’s the second biggest city in Russia. We really enjoyed our ______.

It was a long way ______ our home in Los Angeles. Disneyland, a famous park in LA, ______ big buildings and castles. But in St. Petersburg, the Winter Palace is much taller and bigger.

Have you ever ______ the Winter Palace? It has a history of more than 200 years. Every year, lots of tourists from all over the world come to ______ it. It is about 200 meters ______, 160 meters wide and 22 meters high. Now it’s a part of a world-famous ______, the Hermitage Museum.

We visited the Peter and Paul Cathedral the day before we left the city, ______ my aunt also got there on that day. She liked the Peter and Paul Cathedral best. She told me it was the oldest church(教堂) in St. Petersburg. She also told me it was a ______ place, and people couldn’t speak loudly there.

Have you eer been to another country? Would you like to travel ______ and visit some places of interest in other countries? Please e-mail me when you’re not busy.

                                                                                                            Yours,

                                                                                                            Tom

【推荐2】I’d been worried about the task ever since Mrs. Lockwood said we needed to share something that no one else in the sixth grade knew about us.

“You’re _______ Esha, “Mrs. Lockwood told me.

Within seconds, Esha was standing at the front of the class with her poster(海报) turned backward. She said, “One thing about me you may not _______—I have a black cat, named Sultana. She has five toes on her front left paw(爪子). Sultana is truly the best cat, ever.”

Then Esha _______ turned the poster to show a photo of herself and... The cat on the poster was exactly _______ Shadow. Shadow, my black cat. My cat! Mine! _______ was Esha doing a presentation(展示) on Shadow?

After Esha returned to her seat, I stood up slowly. This was going to be even _______ than I had imagined.

I went to the front of the room and held up my poster, “I have a pet named Shadow. She’s a black cat with five toes on her front left paw...” My voice shook like there was an earthquake inside of it.

The whole class was looking at me like I’d lost my mind, and I couldn’t _______. I ran back to my seat. “Jessie and Esha, see me after class, “Mrs. Lockwood said.

Minutes later, I stood side by side with Esha, who kept looking at my poster and then back at her own. “It’s rather _______,” Mrs. Lockwood said, “that someone here copied someone else. You have the weekend to _______ who should come up with a different topic. Monday, I expect one of you to give a ________ presentation.”

I followed Esha into the hallway. She said, “Why don’t you come to my house this Saturday morning, ________ we can see for ourselves.”

Bright and early Saturday morning, we ________ Sultana when she left Esha’s house. Then we discovered she climbed onto the wall and went straight into ________ yard.

“She’s been living two lives,” Esha sighed, her voice filled with ________. She threw her arms around me and I hugged back because I understood. We were going to ________ our cat. She’d be Sultana with Esha, and Shadow with me. Nothing had to change.

【推荐3】Mr. Yorkwell was blind when he was seven. He had seen many doctors but none of them could do _______ for him. He could never see the world _______. Now he has a seeing-eye dog. A seeing-eye dog can help a blind man _______ along the streets. He is called a seeing-eye dog _______ he is the eye of a blind man.

One day, the bus was full of people when Mr. Yorkwell _______ the bus with his seeing eye dog. There were no seats for Mr. Yorkwell at all. He stood _______ so many people before a few bus-stops passed. Then, one man got up and left his seat and got off the bus. The dog took little room there. The dog began to push the people on each side with his _______. He pushed and pushed until the people around moved away and there was enough place for _________ people. Mr. Yorkwell sat down and the dog got up on the seat beside Mr. Yorkwell’s.

He lay down and put his head on the blind man’s leg. Soon he fell asleep. People around were not _______ with him and all __________ at this.