【推荐1】Skiing: An unforgettable experience

by Vanessa

Last year, my parents took me on a very special holiday.

My dream was to _______ some real snow, so during the Christmas holiday, we took our passports and flew _______ the Pacific to Calgary, Canada. We took a bus to a ski resort in the Canadian Rockies.

As the bus climbed through the mountains, we saw the thick snow on the trees. I was _______ to get out and play with it! At last, we reached the resort and _______ jumped out of the bus. This was our first experience _______ snow. We were like little children—we made snowballs, and threw them at one another! Then we checked in at the hotel. We could see the ski slope opposite the hotel. We could not _______ to get out and ski.

The next day, we put on our ski suits and gloves, took our skis and went outside onto the snow. _______ skis for the first time made me feel strange. Suddenly I found _______ unable to walk! Then we had a skiing lesson with a young couple. Our instructor took us to a gentle slope, and showed us some basic skills. To be honest, that first lesson _______ a great success. I kept on falling over, and I had to hold on to a rope to keep my ________.

However, the next day, I only fell over a few times, and I managed to do a few rapid runs. I felt ________ with myself, and my instructor told me I was doing much ________.

________ it was very cold, I spent most of my holiday skiing. I had a wonderful time.

It was all over too soon. It was a shame, but we ________ leave. I wish my parents would take me back for ________ wonderful skiing holiday this year.

【推荐2】A Swedish couple on holiday were traveling around Italy, and wanted to go to Capri. Capri is an island in the south of the country,_______ for its beautiful coastline and a popular tourist destination (目的地). The couple put their destination into their car’s GPS (全球定位系统), _______ they made a spelling mistake. They _______typed CARPI instead of CAPRI. There is a real place called Carpi in Italy, but it is a small town in the_______of the country.

The couple followed the GPS directions. Although they were traveling to an island, it didn’t_______them that they didn’t even cross a bridge or see the sea. When they arrived in Carpi, they went to the tourist office. They asked _______ they could go to the Blue Grotto, a well-known sea cave in Capri. Of course, the office worker there couldn’t _______ them. He thought they wanted to go to a _______ called the Blue Grotto for dinner.

When the man realized that the couple thought they were in Capri, he _______ their mistake. The couple got back into their car and started driving south. The office worker said, “They were________, but not angry.”

It was a spelling mistake that took the couple 600 kilometres from their destination.

How are you these days? I’d like to tell you something _______ my trip.

My parents and I have _______ in Guilin for three days. We are having a good time here. We came here by _______. After a long trip, we _______ Guilin Railway Station.

Unluckily, it was _______ heavily when we arrived. Then we went to a famous park that day. I thought the view (景色) was much more beautiful in the _______ than usual.

On the _______ day of the trip, we went to Lijiang River. We saw many different mountains _______ the river. Some were like people and some were like a few animals sitting together. The most interesting thing was a big rock. You may think _______ a horse if you look at it carefully enough. The mountains around were green and the water was clear. I was so ____________ that I couldn’t stop taking photos.

Today we went shopping. We bought some souvenirs and beautiful clothes made of silk. We are busy packing our bags so that we can get things ready before we leave. We will be back home this time on Sunday. I’m looking forward to visiting Guilin again.

I hope you are enjoying your trip to the World Park too!

Yours,

Jim

【推荐1】One sunny day, I decided to go for a walk with my husband. I was wearing a special _______ ring that day. It was my 20th birthday gift from my grandmother.

As we were walking in the park, I just looked _______ at my hand and found the diamond on my ring was missing. I was really _______, so I went back to look for it. I knew how small the chances were of finding it, but I still wanted to give it a try.

As I was fixing my eyes on the ground, I bumped into (撞到) an old gentleman _______.

“What’s the matter, love?” he asked nicely.

“Sorry that I bumped into you,” I said. “But I lost something important. I’m really nervous.”

I explained about the missing diamond and showed him the _______ in my ring.

“That’s not going to be easy to find it,” he said. “Tell you what, love, I take a walk here every day. I’ll _______ my eyes open for it.”

I thanked him, expecting _______. However, a few days later, my husband and I met the old man again in the park.

“Guess what,” he said. “I found your diamond!”

I couldn’t believe what I saw when the gentleman handed the diamond back to me. Then my husband _______ him money for his help, but he refused.

As the diamond is worth several thousand dollars, the old man could have easily kept the diamond _______ sold it, but he did neither of these.

Now thanks to this man, I always look at my ring and remind ________ that there are still kind and generous souls out there. I’ll spend more time trying to do something equally nice for other people.

A little girl thought she was not as beautiful as other girls, and nobody liked her. So she was _______. She always stayed at home by herself and didn’t talk to _______.

One day, her mother bought a beautiful hair clip (发夹) for her. When she wore it, she thought she looked _______ beautiful than before. She decided to go to school in the beautiful hair clip.

On her way to _______, she found that everyone smiled at her. Most of her schoolmates said hello to her, _______ this never happened before. She thought that the beautiful hair clip brought them all to her. She was so happy _______ all of the wonderful things.

When she went back home after school, her mother asked her, “Did you know you _______ your hair clip at home? I found it near the door this morning.”

She was _______ to hear what her mother said. She realized(意识到) that she didn’t wear the _______ to school at all.

In fact, it’s not important what we wear or how we look. The most important thing is how we think about ourselves. _______ we want to do a thing successfully, first try to be confident(自信的). If we think we can, we can.