【推荐1】David was a young boy who had a talent for _______. He was always trying to find someone to compete with. He was _______ for success. For him, winning was _______.One day, two young boys accepted his challenge. A large crowd of students got together to watch. David’s P.E. teacher Mr. Smith was also _______ them. The race began. With strength and power, David won without any difficulty. The crowd cheered loudly. David felt proud and excited. However, Mr. Smith kept quiet.

“Another race, another race!” shouted David. Mr. Smith stepped forward and asked him to have a group competition. There should be a boy and a girl in each group, but the right leg of the girl and the left leg of the boy _______ be tied together. The race started and David tried his best to run fast, _______, both David and the girl in his group fell down because the girl didn’t run as fast as him. The crowd went silent. David lay on the ground, looking at other groups passing by. The girl cried sadly. David helped the girl to _______ and said, “Cheer up! We may _______ the race but we shouldn’t give up! Let’s work together to finish the race!” As they continued running to the finishing line, the crowd cheered loudly. Mr. Smith smiled. _______ David’s group didn’t win the race, David was happy because he learned a lot from it.

We need competitions in life. But being a real __________ doesn’t always mean being the first. It also means never giving up even if there is no hope to be the first.

When I was about 12 years old, I had an enemy (敌人), a girl who liked to tell me about my weak points. Week by week her list became _________—I was very short, and I wasn’t a good student, I talked too much, and so on. I tried to stand all of these as long as I could. Finally, I became very _________. I ran to my father with tears in my eyes.

He listened to me _________, and then asked, “Are the things that she said true or not? Jane, have you ever thought about what you’re really like? Now you have that girl’s _________. Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things that she said.”

I did as he told me. To my great _________, I found that half of the things were true but the others I couldn’t agree with. Some of them I couldn’t _________, like being very short, but many of them I could. I wanted to change the bad things. And for the first time I knew something about myself in a very clear way.

I brought the list back to my father. He didn’t _________ it. “That’s just for you,” he said, “You know the _________ about yourself better than everybody else, but sometimes others’ words are also important, so you have to learn how to _________ and not just close your ears in anger and feel hurt. When something that is said about you is true, you’ll find that it will be helpful to you.” I have remembered my father’s __________ at many important moments. Now I don’t think that girl is my enemy any longer, because she made me to be a better one.

A boy guarded (看守) the barrels (木桶) in his father’s winery (葡萄酒厂). Every morning, his father gave him a ________ of brushing the barrels and putting them in order, but the wind blew the barrels here and there overnight.

The boy was so ________ that he wrote a letter to the wind, “Please don’t blow down my barrels.” After seeing that, his father asked the boy with a smile, “Can the wind read your ________?” The little boy said, “Sorry, Dad. I just don’t know what to ________ the situation.”

The next morning, when the little boy ran to ________ the barrels, he found that the barrels were blown here and there again. The little boy felt very unhappy and cried. His father came and said ________, “Son, don’t be sad. We may not change the ________, but we may have ways for you. We can have our own ways to ________ the wind.” Then the little boy ________ his tears and thought over and over. Finally, he thought of an idea. He ________ the empty barrels with water. After that, he went home worriedly.

The third morning, the little boy ________ his clothes in a hurry and ran out. He was ________ to find the barrels were placed in good order (井然有序). The little boy smiled happily and told his father, “It’s a very ________ way, that is, to make the barrels heavier.” The little boy’s father smiled and ________ his head.

We can’t change many things in the world, but we can change ourselves. To add you the ________ is the only way not to be knocked over.

【推荐1】The first day of school a new classmate touched my shoulder, "Hi, I'm Rose. I'm 87 years old. Can I give you a hug （拥抱）?" I turned around and found a little _______ lady with a warm smile. I replied, "Of course!"

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

She joked, "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married （结婚）, have ________   , and then travel around."

"You're not seriously expecting me to believe that?" I said.

"I always _______ of having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me.

Over the years, Rose became an idol and she easily made friends. She loved to dress up. At the end of the term, we invited Rose to our football party. I'll never forget what she ______.

"We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. Here are the _______ of staying young. You have to laugh every day. You have to own 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 ________ needs finding the chance（机会）. Have no regrets（遗憾）."

One week after graduation（毕业）that year, Rose died peacefully in her sleep. She taught ________ that it's never too late to be you can possibly be.

【推荐2】Chris is 12 years old. He _________ in a village in England. The school in his village is not far _________ his home, so Chris often goes to school on foot. Chris usually gets up at about 7:00 in the morning. It is not very _________. So he has to have a quick breakfast. He _________ for school at about 7:50. It takes him about 10 minutes to _________ to school. He gets to school at about _________ o’clock. Sometimes Chris rides his bike to school. School starts at 8:10. His favorite subject is math. He thinks numbers are _________. Chris has a _________. He wishes to go to a big city like New York some day. So he can take the subway. “I _________ take the subway. It must be really fun,” he says. Can his dream __________? “Sure, It can.” says Chris.

A simple honk (喇叭声) from the bus is one part of a secret code (秘密代码) between the driver and ______ living in a far-away village in Wanzhou district, Chongqing.

Seeing a ______ hanging from the doorknob of an old house along the road, the bus driver drives towards the roadside and makes a honk to answer the “code”. Then a boy runs outside, takes the schoolbag, and gets on the bus ______.

The boy’s parents work far from home, leaving him with his grandmother. He comes home every Friday and goes back to school in the city every Sunday. To make the journey ______, he and the driver, Cheng Lin, have made a special “code”. ______ the boy’s schoolbag is hanging outside the house, it “tells” Mr Cheng, “Today, it’s time to go back to school. I need to ______ the bus.”

The parents of the boy are greatly touched when they know this. They show their heartfelt thanks to Mr Cheng and feel happy that there is someone ______ their son while they are away.

Mr Cheng has been driving the Luotian to Wugiao Nan Station bus for many years. There are many left-behind children (留守儿童) on this bus line. Realizing the importance of his role in ______ lives, he has paid more attention on Fridays and Sundays.

The ______ driver touches the hearts of many people. One wrote online, “He is a good driver. The schoolbag is their code,______ love inside.”