【推荐1】Mr. Jackson is a teacher. He is thirty- five ________ old. He has brown eyes. He works in a ________ club(俱乐部). His job is to teach(教) the students to ________ basketball. He lives far from the club. He has a ________, but he doesn’t drive his car to work. He often goes to ________ on foot. He thinks it is good exercise.

Every morning, Mr. Jackson ________ at 6:30. Then he has a good ________. At 7:40, he ________ to the club. He arrives at the club at 8:40. “I don’t ________ tired(累的). I think it is ________ to walk to the club,” says Mr. Jackson.

【推荐2】Mr. Hill is fifty-two. He comes ________ London. Now he is working in a big ________ in China.

Mr. Hill ________ working in China. He can speak ________ Chinese but not too much. He often talks with other people ________ Chinese. But he wants his students to talk with ________ in English. He works very hard all ________. He comes to school early in the ________. And he goes home late in the afternoon. All his students love him very much ________ he is very friendly to his students.

Mr. Hill has ________ children, a son and a daughter. The children are in England, with ________ mother. ________ Sundays Mr. Hill often goes fishing in a river near his school. He often ________, “Chinese people are very friendly and the food is very ________. I love China. Let’s be good ________.” He often writes to his children and wife and tells them about China.

【推荐3】―Sixteen, I said. I have forgotten the math question my second-grade teacher, Joyce Cooper, asked that day, but I will never forget my answer. As soon as the number left my mouth, the whole class started laughing. I felt like the     _________________ person in the world.

Mrs. Cooper___________them with a firm look. Then she said, ―We’re all here to learn.

Once Mrs. Cooper asked us to write a report about what we hoped to do in the future. I wrote: ―I want to be a teacher like Mrs. Cooper.

She wrote on my report, ―You would       ___________an outstanding teacher because you are determined and you try hard. I was to carry those___________in my heart for the 27 years.

After I graduated from high school, I got married and had children.

We needed money just to get by. College and teaching were impossible.

Then one day I thought of my dream. I talked it over with my family and_______to attend college classes in the mornings before work. And when I got home from work, I would study. Finally, after seven years, my dream had been realized and I became a teacher.

Not long after I started teaching, something happened that brought the past rushing back to me. I had written a sentence with grammatical errors on the blackboard. Then I asked students to come and_________________ the mistakes.

One girl got halfway through, became _________ and stopped. As the other children laughed, tears rolled down her cheeks. I gave her a hug and told her to have a drink of water. Then, remembering Mrs. Cooper, I fixed the_____________ of the class with a firm look. ―We are all here to learn, I said.

【推荐1】My name is Tang Yong. I was born in a poor family on July 22, 1996. My parents are _________ farmers in a small mountain village. In my family, there _________ also my grandparents and my younger sister. _________ life is not so easy for such a big family, we are still enjoying a happy life. With the help of many people, I became a student in a middle school. My teachers and classmates are very _________ to me. I like my computer science teacher most. I learned a lot _________ him. When I grow up, I want to become a teacher like him. I will try my best to help poor students.

【推荐2】My husband’s grandmother, aged 75, has been living with us in Beijing for a month now. Full of energy, she ________ to cook meals for us every day. The food she prepares is very delicious. That’s not all. Granny helps us with chores in our house. When we go out for a walk, I try hard to keep up ________ her.

________, what surprises me most is how excitedly she accepts the latest progress in high technology life. Mind you, she had received only primary school education.

When she joined us, we bought her a Beijing transportation card ________ she could use city buses and subways. One day, she came back with ________ e-card fixed on her smartphone. “It’s far more convenient. I saw others walk into the subway station just by scanning (扫描) their ________. I asked one for help to set it up on my phone,” she said with a big smile.

Later, we taught her how to watch videos, buy clothes and vegetables on smartphones, and even play mahjong (麻将) online. It quickly became her ________ smartphone app (应用软件). Though she was unable to understand well at first, our ________ help a few times and some encouragement helped her overcome the troubles. Most importantly, such communication has made ________ family relationship deeper. As for me, I’m very ________ to play mahjong online with Grandma. this is my granny’s happiness.

The first day of school, a new classmate touched my shoulder, “Hi, handsome! I’m Rose. I am 87 years old. Can I give you a hug?” I turned around and found a(n) ______ lady with a warm smile. I said heartily: “Of course!”

“______ are you in college at such an age?” I asked.

She joked, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get ______, have children, and then travel around.”

“No seriously,” I asked.

“I always ______ of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me.

Over the year, Rose became an icon（偶像） and she easily made friends. She loved to dress up and she enjoyed the ______ of the others. At the end of the term, we invited Rose to our football party. I’ll never forget what she said.

“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. Here are the ______ to staying young. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You’ve got to have a dream. When you ______ your dreams, you die! There’s a huge difference ______ growing old and growing up. Anybody can grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability. But ______ requires finding the opportunity in change. Have no regrets.”

One week after graduation that year, Rose died peacefully in her sleep. She taught us by example that it’s never too ______ to be all you can possibly be.

I used to give much money to the homeless around, feeling sorry for their poor life. But later I became a single mom ________ no home, a huge debt (债务) and hardly any income. As a result, I stopped giving and became very ________.

Several years later, things started to ________. I became rich enough to have a home, and ________ a garden. And I started to pull myself out of debt. One day we saw a homeless person with a ________ “Will work for food.” I passed him. My daughter asked why I no longer helped the people in ________. I replied, “Honey, they just use that money for ________ or other bad things.” She didn’t answer. But when I said that, it didn’t feel right.

Three days later, I was ________ to pick up my daughter from school. A man was standing on the corner and something deep inside drove me to help him. So I stopped my car, and he ran over ________. He said, “God bless you, I only need 77 cents.” I reached into my ashtray (烟灰缸) and it was ________ enough that there was just 77 cents.

Greatly shocked by this coincidence (巧合), I ________ him all the money in the ashtray. He became ________ suddenly with tears in his eyes, “You just made it ________ for me to see my mom for Christmas! The bus offering this great sale is ________ right away!” It was a moment that I’ll never forget. I think that man won’t forget it either, but I am the one who ________ the best gift in my life. It also reminds me that nothing is a coincidence, and everything has its meaning.

Xian Xinghai was a very famous musician in China. He wrote one of the greatest pieces of music of the 20th century. In his short life he wrote ________ 300 songs.

Xian was born in Macao, China in 1905. Because his father died before he was born, Xian moved from place to place with his mother. He began learning to play the violin when he was 13 years old. ________ , his violin was so cheap and badly made that he ________ not play it well. His friends laughed at him. Xian did not ________ practicing and soon showed his talent. In 1934, he was ________ of the first Chinese students who studied in a special music school in Paris. Before he ________, Xian became the school’s best student and won several prizes.

In 1935, he returned to China and helped fight against the Japanese army. Later, he came to Yan’an to ________ music at a college. There were no pianos in Yan’an at that time, but Xian still wrote some of his most important music there, including the Yellow River Cantata, his most famous ________

In May 1940, Xian was sent to a foreign country to write music for movies. Life was very ________ then. Xian got sick and later died of a lung illness ________ October 30, 1945, aged only 40. Xian’s music, however, lives on in the people’s hearts.