【推荐1】Little George lived in a poor village with his mother. One summer day, he ________ to pick up some dry wood for the fire by his mother.

George looked for it very hard. By noon, he felt very hot and hoped ________ a cool place to rest and have some food. As he walked along, he found some shade(阴凉处) and some fine, wild strawberries next to it.

He picked up all the strawberries ________. As he was lifting the first strawberry to his mouth, he remembered his sick mother. He wanted to save some for her, because he knew ________ she loved strawberries so much.

“I will eat half, and save the other half for her,” he thought. Then he divided them into two ________. However, each half looked so ________. He put them together again.

“I will only eat one,” he thought. However, as he again lifted one to his mouth, he saw that he had taken ________ finest one, and he put it back.

He felt happy that he had saved all the strawberries for his mother. ________ he came home, he heard his mother calling him in a weak voice. George ran to ________ mother and happily offered the wild strawberries to her.

“You saved them for me, didn’t you?” said she, with tears of joy ________ her eyes.

Could eating the strawberries have given George half the happiness he felt at this moment?

【推荐2】One day, before setting off for school, my 7-year-old son Jason broke my roses and asked, “_______ I take them to school today?” After saying goodbye, I turned my back _______ he wouldn’t see the tears in my eyes. I loved that rose bush. I was sad most of the day. Then I hurried to pick up Jason _______ 2:30 p.m.

“I want to talk to you about Jason,” the teacher said after _______ me into the classroom. My son was _______ drawing a picture when I came into the classroom. I prepared _______ for the worst. In my mind, there was a voice saying _______ would have surprised me.

“Did you know Jason _______ flowers to school today?” she asked. I nodded, thinking about the rose bush _______ I planted years ago and trying to hide the sadness in my eyes. “Let me tell you about yesterday.” the teacher continued, “See that little girl?” I saw ________ bright-eyed child who was looking at a picture on the wall and laughing. I nodded.

“Well, yesterday she almost lost control. Her mother and father are having a quarrel. She worried about ________ her parents would leave her forever and said loud enough for the class to hear, ‘Nobody loves me.’ I did all I could ________ her up. However, it only seemed to make matters ________. Today your son walked to that child. I watched him give her   ________ pretty flowers and say, ‘I love you.’”

I felt my heart filled with ________ for what my son had done.

【推荐3】When I young, I was very proud. I liked to show off (炫耀) in front of others. But after one ________ experience, I came to understand that it’s important ________ modest (谦虚的).

One day, my friend and I ________ our bike in a park. In fact, I had just learned ________ to ride for a short time. ________ this, I was asked to wear something to protect myself. “No, I won’t wear it!” I said, looking at my ________ elbows and knees. “She doesn’t wear it ________!”

“It’s dangerous,” my friend said. “You need more practice.”

“I might have learned later than you, but I can ride even ________!” I said loudly.

She replied, “Let’s wait and see!”

I saw a path (小路) leading into some woods. “I will race you!” I shouted. Then we rode to the woods. However, ________ path wasn’t as good as I thought. I kept bumping up and down (上下颠簸), and then suddenly. .. bam! I fell ________ my bike, I felt my elbows and knees bleeding. “Ha-ha!” My friend made a face and helped me up. “Be more careful next time,” she said. Tears ran down ________ face. “Sorry,” I said.

All in all, this experience made me realize that we ________ be modest. A fall into a pit, a gain in my wit.

【推荐1】I have been to London twice. ________ October 2010, I went there for the first time. I learned English in a language school and lived with a host family for six ________. My host family were very ________ to me. They helped me learn a lot of interesting things about Britain. I had meals with them. I ________ different kinds of English food. I also did some activities with them. We often watched TV, went shopping and took a walk in the park together. On weekends, I usually went out ________ different interesting places in London, such as the National Gallery and Buckingham Palace. During ________ stay in London, I found many people enjoyed DIY. They grew vegetables in the garden, made cakes ________   made different kinds of food themselves.

In September 2013, I went to London for the ________ time and stayed there for a year. I taught Chinese in a middle school. In my class, the pictures of some interesting places in China ________ to the students. They all felt interested in my class. Many of them hoped that they ________ come to China one day.

My friend Peter was kind and lovely. But as ________ 11-year-old student, he was bad at math, English and science because he didn’t have a talent for that kind of study.

One day we ________ football and the ball got stuck in a tree. Peter ________ climbed the tree to get it. A teacher ________ was looking out of the window found that he was a talented climber. The teacher is Mr. Marston. He was ________ in climbing. He climbed many mountains.

One weekend, Mr. Marston invited Peter ________ out for mountain climbing. Peter really enjoyed climbing, and he thought climbing was very interesting. Mr. Marston told Peter he was a very talented climber for his age and taught ________ to practice climbing every day. Peter learned so much about climbing ________ Mr. Marston. Peter left school three years later, but he kept ________ until he became very good at it.

In his early twenties, he became a very good climber. And he ________ climbing star in his university. He said, “I’ll always remember Mr. Marston. ”

【推荐3】Peter was a sensitive(敏感的) boy. You only had to touch his hair a little bit and he would begin to laugh. And no one could make ________ stop.

As Peter ________ up, people started to stop him from going to certain places. Some activities are serious, and cannot be done in the laughter. Peter wanted to just be a normal boy. But nothing worked. As time went on, he began to feel sad for being different.

One day in the street, he met a special clown(小丑). The clown was very old and could ________ walk. Peter asked the clown ________ he could go on being a clown.

“I can’t ask someone ________ the job instead of(代替) me,” said the clown, “and I have a very serious job.” Then the clown took Peter all over the city to have a visit in many hospitals. All were full of sick children ________ very serious problems. But ________ they saw the clown, they smiled.

When ________ visit came to an end, the old clown said, “Now do you see what a serious job it is? That’s why I can’t retire(退休), even at my age.”

“It’s true,” answered Peter. “Not everyone ________ do it. You have to have a special gift for laughter. And that’s so hard to find.”

And that is how Peter ________ a clown and took the place of(代替) the special old man at last.