【推荐1】I’m Kate, and ________ sister is Gina. I’m tidy, ________ Gina is not. In our room, my books and tapes are in the bookcase. My keys ________ in my schoolbag. I have a clock. It’s on the desk. Gina’s books are everywhere—on her bed, on the sofa and under the chair. The white model plane is ________. It’s under the desk. “Where are my keys? Where’s my ruler? Where’s my schoolbag? “Gina always ________.

【推荐2】Hi! I’m Mary Smith. Let me tell you something about myself. My ________ name is Mary and my last name is Smith. I’m ________ English girl. My parents are ________ in the same school. Their students like ________ very much. We live (居住) in a big house. In my room, a pencil box is on the desk. It’s mine. It’s white. What other (其它的) things are in it? An eraser and a pen ________ in it! The eraser is white. It’s ________, too. The pencil is red. It’s my ________. Red is her favorite color. My phone number is 679-1231. If you want to be my friend, you can ________ me.

Cindy is my sister. She ________ her schoolbag. She can’t find it. If you   find her schoolbag, please call her ________ 890-5429.

【推荐3】A girl told her father about her hard life. She was always ______ because she has many problems in her life. And she didn’t know what she had to do.

Her father smiled and took her into the kitchen. He ______ three pots (锅) with water. And he put some sweet potatoes in the first pot. In the second one, he put some eggs. Sugar was in the third. Then he boiled (煮) them. The girl ______ why her father was doing that. She watched him and ______ without saying a word.

Twenty minutes later, her father took out the three things and put sweet potatoes on a ______, put eggs in a bowl and put sugar water in a glass. And then he turned back to his daughter and asked, “What do you see?” “Sweet potatoes, eggs and sugar,” she answered.

Her father told her to close her ______ and touch them. She did and she felt the sweet potatoes were soft (软的). Then she touched the eggs. They were ______. Finally, her father asked her to taste the sugar. “What do you mean, Dad?” the girl asked.

The father ______, “Each of the three things met with the same bad experience—they were all in the same boiling water, but they had ______ results. Sweet potatoes became soft, eggs became hard and sugar changed into sugar ______. Which one will you want to be, a sweet potato, an egg or sugar? You decide.”

【推荐1】Father’s love

As a young man, Jack was an excellent artist with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son had a serious stomachache. Thinking it was only some _________ disease（疾病）, Jack and his wife didn’t take the boy to the hospital. But the boy _________ suddenly that night.

Jack realized that if he took his son to the hospital in time, _________ serious could happen. So he always felt guilty（内疚的）. Even worse, a short time later his wife left him, _________ him alone with his six-year-old younger son. The hurt and pain of the two situations were more than Jack could _________, and he turned to alcohol（酒精）for help. Soon Jack became an alcoholic.

Soon, his health and life became _________ and Jack began to lose everything he owned-his land, house, etc. _________ Jack died alone in a small bar（酒吧）. Hearing of Jack’s death, I thought, “_________ waste of life! What a complete failure（失败）!”

_________ time went by, I began to change my earlier simple judgement（评价）. I knew Jack’s now adult son, Bill. He is one of the kindest, most caring, most __________ men I have ever known. I saw the love between Bill and his children. I thought that Bill’s kindness and caring must come from __________.

I didn’t hear Bill talk much __________ his father. One day, I asked him what on earth（究竟）his father had done so that he became such a special person. Bill said quietly, “ As a child until I left home at 18, my father came into my __________ every night, gave me a kiss and said, ‘love you, son.’”

Tears came to my eyes as I __________ I was a fool before. I had ever thought Jack was a complete failure. He didn’t leave valuable things behind, __________ he was a kind loving father, and left behind his best love.

【推荐2】Do you know that the “Happy Birthday to You” song is the first song sung in outer space? Apollo IX astronauts _________ it _________ March 8, 1969. It is one of the most popular English songs of all time. Here is the story behind it.

The song was written by two sisters from Kentucky, Mildred and Patty Smith Hill. It was first published under the _________ of “Good Morning to All” in 1893. It was used as a classroom _________. Teachers sang it each day to welcome their students to the classroom.

The composer (作曲家), Mildred Hill, was a concert pianist. Her sister Patty Smith Hill wrote the original (最初的) lyrics (歌词) for the song while she was a teacher in a kindergarten (幼儿园) in Louisville, _________ Mildred also taught in.

The Hill sisters copyrighted (取得版权) their song on October 16, 1893. However, _________ appeared without their agreement in Robert H. Coleman’s songbook on March 4, 1924. Coleman changed the part of the lyrics to say, “Happy Birthday to You”, _________ the song still had its original title. The song was then published several times over the next ten years, often with small _________ in the lyrics. In 1934, when the song was sung every night in a Broadway Musical, another Hill sister, Jessica, went to court (法院) over the copyright problem of the song. She was _________ about the theft (盗用) of the song. Finally, she won her case (案子). The Hill family owned the rights to the melody (旋律) and had to be paid every time when the song was part of a commercial (商用的) production.

The Hill sisters, who devoted (把……奉献给) their lives to educating children, could never imagine that the simple little song would continue __________ about $2 million every year.

【推荐3】It was about ten years ago. It was ________ heavily. And I was walking over to visit my parents. Their house was only a ________ walk from mine, but I was already wet. As I was ________ about the rain entering the house, I closed the door immediately. A warm steam(热气) was flying out from the kitchen. It touched my nose and ________ many happy moments.

Dad was making Mom’s special sauce(酱汁). He was good at cooking, so he could ________ every step of making dinner. We sat on the ________ and laughed over the memories both good and bad. Now the sofa has already become shabby(破旧的). Although my clothes were still wet from the rain, my ________ was warm.

Dad and Mom have cared about me for years and I love them all the time. Although I know how to make special sauce, I am ________ to cook the same taste. I think that maybe I need the special ingredient(配料). I can ________ get it 100% right. Or maybe it is just the love that makes it so delicious. This winter I am going to make some again. I need it to help me forget my ________ experiences. I need its warmth. I need its goodness.

May all your meals be cooked with love. May your whole life be filled with love.